Does the BH mainboard upgrade (https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-com...ts-owners/) fix the USB PD issue with docks and hubs, or do we also need to replace the USB-C side board?

Manjaro edition Pinephone was not shipped yet, but it gives me time for some questions:

1. Is Plasma Mobile more or less buggy than Phosh?
I can see videos of Phosh mostly, and videos of Plasma Mobile are mostly old (August or before).
I prefer KDE since it runs more smooth on my PC, but I am willing to contribute to both.

2. Does Phosh or Plasma Mobile have a 10-key keyboard option?
I know that Ubuntu Touch has, since I'm using it on an old Nexus 5.
Probably not used much in western countries, but here in Japan we usually prefer a 10-key keyboard over a qwerty keyboard since it's more familiar if you come from a garake, keys are bigger, and keys are sorted conveniently in the way Japanese syllables are sorted like.

For those who don't know, garake or ガラケー are what you guys would call "flip phone", modern garake are running a de-googled Android under the hood, plus super restricted to make it feel more like a traditional pre-smartphone era garake.
However, now with the push of smartphones, popularity of Twitter and manga apps, and the slow killing of LINE support on them (all 2020 models come without LINE at all!), garake phones started to slowly become less and less used over the past 2 years.

3. I know about Anbox to run Android apps on a Linux phone, but does voice calling over LINE (or a different chat app like WhatsApp or Telegram, I don't think it really matters which one) work via Anbox?
And is it reliable?

I don't expect the best from a phone that is still under development, and I'm willing to help in the development (mostly language support, Japanese translations in KDE are often either lacky or weird, or adding a 10-key keyboard if it doesn't exist).

But my provider requires everything to be done over the phone as of late, which has operators who keep looping over a question for 40 minutes that can easily be answered within 40 seconds, so I prefer to not get a second SIM card from them, or at the very least get a second SIM card from a different provider.

And unlocking my SIM card can be done only once per 101 days, so as soon as my SIM card gets activated on the PinePhone, I'll be stuck with it for at least 101 days.

   



The console is dead, especially on a phone.  Right?  It is Halloween so lets bring it back to life



One of the things I want to have is the ability to keep a small BT keyboard around and be able to remote admin, instead of always having a laptop on hand.  Well none of the graphical terminals work well on PinePhone so what to do?  How about the console?  With a little attention it can be made usable!  That pic is ssh into a remote system and editing a PHP file with vim.




Install the kbd package first.  Then we need to make the text readable and landscape mode.  Easy enough.




Modify /etc/init.d/consolefont:

Hi All, I'm trying to read the BMA421 on my P8 but all I get from it on I2C is all zeros. Reading chip id gets zero, reading acceleration gets zero. I checked the SDA and SCL lines with logic analyser and they look good. Anybody seen this before?

Hello. I’ve had the PBP for a little while now and I’ve used Manjaro and Kali. I like both of them a lot, but I want to go in a little deeper and make a fresh Arch Linux so that I can learn more. I’ve tried installing Arch before but I failed and I had booting problems. So I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to help me install it. Like give me a step by step guide to how to install up to a point where it is functional and I can install my own stuff. I know there is an official Arch release now, I just don’t know how to setup everything properly. Thanks for the help!

Hi, first of all I apologize because my broken, Tarzan-like English...

The point is however that today I got the PinePhone, which is a

PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: Manjaro with Convergence Package” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone

and when it was switched on in first time, it asked me to type in password. There was no any possibility to give username, no any alphabetical character, only numbers to press on the screen. I emphasize that this was an absolutely new phone, ordered from the company. What do I do? What is the "default" password in this circumstance, or whatever shall I do?

Actually, why the heck is there are ANY necessity for ANY password in the FIRST OCCASION, in the case of a perfectly new, "fresh-ordered" phone which are just now gotten by the official company?! I cannot deny that I am now rather disappointed, because I feel this is a perfectly unnecessary "ballast", which has no any advantage but it causes extra "pain", angryness and annoyance!

I tryed to search for answer in the wiki, and Google, but vainly.

Thank you guys for all helping reply in advance!

I've written a program to get -- though not send -- MMS. In addition, it's an easy way to clear out your modem to receive SMS (to fix https://gitlab.com/mobian1/issues/-/issues/89 and similar issues)

The code is inelegant in a lot of places, so its name reflects that: it's called Janky MMS. My hope is that soon we won't need Janky MMS because we'll have real MMS support on the Pinephone by default (fingers crossed!).

I've been using and developing it for 2 months now on a phone that's my daily driver, and although the implementation is slightly janky, it works great. And socially it's been a lifesaver to be able to get photos and group messages again! ?️

Please enjoy. Code, more details, and install instructions are here:

https://git.sr.ht/~amindfv/janky-mms

(Disclaimer: this is software I trust my own data and daily driver phone to, but I can take absolutely no responsibility for anything bad that might happen. No warranty or fitness for purpose implied, etc etc.)

Just got the phone today. I removed the plastic tab between the batter and the pins.  I hit the power button, I see the red led come on for a few seconds and then nothing.  I left it plugged in for a few hours and attempted it again and nothing.  Anything else I can try?

I use colemak so I switched my keyboard layout to it on my pinephone. It doesn't do anything though, the keyboard stays qwerty. It's the same for dvorak. The terminal and emoji layouts do change the keyboard, though. Can anyone else reproduce this?

Hello,

i might have a stupid question which had most probably already been asked, but basically whatever version of Libreelec i tried to boot on on my rock64 on SD card, It is never booting.

I am flashing it using Etcher on my MAC.
I off course used a Rock 64 compatible version of Liberelec.

Thanks