I'm aware that chances of meeting Japanese users here is very small, but one unfortunate thing about Japanese providers is that you must not only change to a completely different SIM card upon switching to a different phone, you also have to provide them the IMEI of the phone in advance, or the SIM card won't work with that phone at all.

I don't have the PinePhone yet, seems like it's going to be shipped in early November if I order now, the US elections/covid19 will be over from then on, so whether it can be shipped is not a problem.

But my question is, once I get the PinePhone, is there a way to know the IMEI?
Like a menu option? Or written inside the battery cover?

Thank you.

alright so my phone was in its box for a month while I focused on other things.. Now I ran a whole apt upgrade, fixed some broken packages (hopefully fixed), and rebooted my pinephone only to be greeted with no boot splash screen, no lock screen, just  blank. When I press the power button to turn the screen on, instead of the lock screen I see a sad face and a message:

"Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't revoer. Please log out and try again"

Pressing the log out button however blanks the screen again and no other user interaction can bring anything on the screen.

Thankfully I still have ssh access...

I feel like this should be added to the design if the focus is on privacy and security. From my understanding, speakers can be turned into microphones through software and so can the gyroscope (to a MUCH lesser extent). I only found out about this stuff recently, but I think research was done on this back in 2014, if I recall correctly.

The ov5640 series is a pretty well known sensor but it's not a great one.  There's obviously other choices like the sony imx179/166, but even the ov4680 series would be a better choice (higher framerates to match the S3's capabilities, hdr options, slightly larger pixels). 

I'm looking forward to playing with my cube when it arrives, and hoping you find a way to make an even better one for the future.  

See also https://www.goprawn.com/forum/allwinner-...on-cameras

Has anybody gotten calling working in Lomiri? If so, by what dark magic?

On the battery is written rated capacity 2800 mAh, typical 3000 mAh
See image in the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone#...dition.jpg

I also saw this document from Pine64 wiki:
http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pi...cation.pdf


From the factory document:
rated 2800 mAh
type (?) 2820 mAh

So, I also read 'rated' means that comes from the factory description.  Not sure what is 'Typical' or 'Type' capacity.

What is a typical capacity? why is higher than the rated? who and how is measured? Why 'Type' and 'Typical' are different?

Just curiosity in case someone knows...

thanks

I was going over the OS PP can run and saw 'Replicant' and /e/

From their websites, 'Replicant' looks Android version for free software and /e/ an OS for private data?
Not clear if they are Linux or what OS?
I thought Android was a Linux made private by Google, so how it can be free?

Can anyone shed some light here?

I would like to start Chatty remotely. I would like to handle text messages on a desktop computer.
Tried with ssh and X11Forwarding, but only starts Chatty on Pinephone, not on the computer.
Maybe via VNC? I just don't know if it's not too big a cannon

There's currently a minor issue that came up in the PineTime chat - that there isn't an affordable, nicely available and open platform for building a Bluetooth LE mesh network. It would be a very nice supplement the PineTime, but BT Mesh wouldn't be limited to just it.

The idea in general was that it would be nice to have something similar to the Sonoff S26/S20 - a hackable mains-powered home automation device. But with the ability to build a Bluetooth mesh. If the device were to use e.g. the nRF52840, it would also make it possible to build ZigBee, 802.15.4 and Thread networks which might appeal to even more people. Having the ability to attach a few sensors to the board or having a few (optionally?) built-in (like humidity/temp/motion/illumination) would be a cherry on top.

A visualization for those that aren't familiar with the Sonoff S20:


If the price were on-par with the Sonoff S20, it would very certainly appeal to a rather considerable amount of people. 

What do you think? @tllim, do you think this idea has any merit and that it's doable?

I have seen the news blog on the new Pinephone. the wireless charging stuff seems great but the foldable keyboard looks amazing!! will the phone just slide into the clam shell design? or will the phone come in that form factor? 

and does anybody have any recommendations on what glue to use to close my pinetime watch? 

thanks guys