Hello everyone,

Yesterday, in the late afternoon, I have gotten on my PinePhone Manjaro's "Software" application a notification that an OS update is available.

I did not download it yet, after reading some comments here and there that the update is fragile and even bricks the phone.

Should I do the update?

Additionally, a suggestion (I hope somebody from the Manjaro-arm team is reading here):

It would be super useful, if when releasing an OS update, a relatively detailed description will be added.

I mean, "performance and security improvements" is good to be used at the first line of the description, but it does not contain enough info for an OS update IMHO.
 
Well - sure, it is impossible and unnecessary to mention every single file or lib that is being updates / replaced / removed etc.. but I'd say it is quite important to also include important details such as:

1. if the kernel is being updated (and to which version exactly)
2. if any core library is being updated (incl. versions etc.. as well) 
3. if any important feature of the phone is being updated (e.g. "Screen lock functionality improved", or "xxx was replaced by yyy" etc..)

My 2 cents 

And once again, a big thank you to the manjaro-arm team, for working relentlessly on improving Manjaro for the PinePhone, I feel that it has huge potential and I that we are not too far away from having a phone that has an almost acceptable stability to be used as a daily driver.

* I would like to mention, that even though I do it anonymously (and wish to keep it that way) - those of you who can, please donate to the Manjaro-arm team, you can donate as low as $1 / €1. those guys are working on this project using their own free time, the least we can do is support the costs of the basic test equipment, hosting, etc..
I have used this link: https://opencollective.com/manjaro-arm/donate  (I am in Europe)

Hoping there is someone that can shed some light on these connectors for the cameras. I popped off the hinge (on a braveheart edition) to remove the ribbon connector, but I'm having problems getting it to clamp back down on the new main board revision.

In the video with Martign Braam installing a new board, he conveniently has the cameras preinstalled yet this is the part that I'm having the only problems with, and of course that is the part the factory did for him (probably because it's a pain).

They appear to be just hinged and not the ones you have to flip then slide it in to lock but I'm putting a lot of force and it has started to flake off some of the plastic so I'm afraid of going further.

Video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GbMoZ_zuZs

Hi!

About 4 days ago, I received my new ME Pinphone and I'm very happy with it!
I've been playing with it and it looks awesome! But today, I installed a SIM card, which I bought for the Pinephone. The PP asks me the PIN and unlocks it, but I am not able to call or send SMS and I don't know what can it be... Any ideas??

I tried the SIM card with my other phone and it works correctly, but with the PinePhone I do not see any phone coverage, and I tried to activate the mobile data and it does nothing...

As said by @kern707 the uname -r gives me the following:
5.9.1-9-MANJARO-ARM

All the help will be appreceiated! Thanks very much!

EDIT 2: I bought 2 Pinephone, one for a colleague of mine. So, I tried to install SIM in this Pinephone and it works without any issue!! The only difference between both pinephones is that mine was updated, when I type uname -r in the other pinephone the response was: 5.9.1-4-MANJARO-ARM. it is possible that the problem had been the update?

I will try to reinstall the image of the Pinephone to get mine to 5.9.1-4-MANJARO-ARM.

Back cover fix for the dev kit :
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4651462

Been lurking on these forum since getting my Manjaro convergence PinePhone. I've been around linux for a while but am definitely a novice with no significant programming or IT skill.

With that in mind, I gotta say, I am impressed with where Mobian stands right now. Maybe not a daily driver, but it feels like it's a bit undersold on the forums as to how close Mobian is to getting there.

Just want to call that out and say thank you to everyone who has been working on this. Great work and I am excited to see where this heads.

I had some issue but finally got my 3/32 GB mainboard upgrade working.

I loaded the Manjaro build.

I have Docker, Docker Compose, TMux, WGet loaded.

I can create and edit a multi container deployment, access it via Firefox or WGet and do it all while working on a bluetooth keyboard with trackpad using a full screen monitor.

This is awesome!!!!

I just wanted to share and thank everyone who made this possible!!!!



Walt

Hi all,

I received my Pinephone a few days ago, installed mobian on it, and noticed I could not get the battery to fully charge while plugged to a USB3 port.
"Power supply" was showing me "Current limit : 0.5A", although I know an USB3 port can deliver much more.

So I went looking for a solution and ended up simply tweaking this current_limit by putting

on manjaro phosh, after updating (pacma -Syu), libwlroots version got updated.
leaving me with a broken device, because phoc seems to require the previous version of the lib:

Today on my sdcard with Manjaro I ran pamac upgrade. Although I saw a few doubtful messages it seemed to run to a successful end.
However, after rebooting I can no longer unlock the screen. ssh is still working but I have no idea how I could repair that situation?

Hi!

I want to install package pure-maps, which some sources say should be updated in alpine repository.

Still "sudo apk add pure-maps" gives "not found" error.

Should I add some additional repository on PostmarketOS?

I would rather avoid installing pure-maps via flatpak.
"flatpak install flathub io.github.rinigus.PureMaps" gives "flathub not found" error.

Please, how could one install pure-maps on PostmarketOS?
Preferrably in "apk add" way, or at least via flatpak?