What operating system is currently the best, meaning what OS has the most features working and more stable? I need to get my PinePhone operational to replace my Samsung S3.

Thanks in advance.

Would that be a worthy project..?
Comparing 2 Community Edition Post Market Convergent Package Community Edition phones
First one would be running the factory installed Post Market/Phosh OS
Second phone to be running Mobian/Phosh OS Stable release

Compare 2 identical Pine phones, running slightly different operating systems, running side by side.

May take a day or 2 to set it up.

Before ordering PinePhone PMos edition, I studied this forum and the details of the ordering page. There Pine64.org wrote:

Quote:" ... while core functionality of the PinePhone – such as telephone calls, SMS messages, LTE, GPS, GPU acceleration, etc. – is operational ..."

I figure I have to be doing something wrong, but the virtual keyboard doesn't show the $, though it shows plenty of other symbols.  Makes it hard to punch in environment variables if I don't run the ssh connection from a regular computer.

Input sources = English (US)

I was afraid to mess with the Language (Unspecified) as US English is not listed, only UK English.

Any suggestions?

Thank you for any input you may provide.

Hi, 
Today I received my pinetab and started to use it.
First I switched on and connected to Wifi, a new firmware was downloaded and installed. (firmware update was only once.)
After rebooting, I updated all applications that are already installed. That's all I did today.
However, I found that I can't use bluetooth. That is, even if I switched on BT on pinetab and tried to connect BT mouse., it couldn't find any BT devices including a BT mouse that was in pairing mode.
I need further firmware update or something?

Hi everybody,

I tidied up the hardware compability table in the wiki to divide into sections. I'm really pleased that we have a long list of devices for people to choose from. Please check if any hardware you have is listed there:

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...patibility


It occurs to me that we might need another column, indicating the kernel version and even distro, since a device might work fine with one and be brick-like with another?


thanks

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a working version of retroarch for Linux on any "distro" of the Pinephone; I believe this phone can become a great retroconsole with a standard bluetooth controller that you can find on Aliexpress for 20$ (like this one for example). Has anyone tried? I don't have a Pinephone to try this at the moment (I am waiting to buy the next community edition).

Cheers!

I noticed there did not appear to be a default iptables configuration nor any firewall configuration applet (like Mint) on the PostmarketOS load...

So, as I haven't hand jammed policies in years, anyone have a recipe built to leverage iptables (which is installed, just doesn't have any rules configured) to protect the phone?  I haven't tested with my regular SIM card from my Android phone yet, just WiFi testing so far...but when I go on the vendor's network, that's more or less like being naked online without something to protect me. 

Not criticizing.  I know the devs are furiously working on the phone features as we post...just curious.

Why am I posting the following on this forum?



Because, apparently I cannot seem to get this issue resolved. I am not certain if the different departments of Pine64 actually communicate with each other when there is a problem or an issue, but it does not appear that they do from my perspective.



The last response I received from Pine64 Sales on 8/25/2020.



Dear Douglas Kitchen,



Both orders have been submitted and pending on 4PX response. We will resolve the undelivered packages as soon as 4PX response us.



Thank you and will keep in touch with you!



Regards,

Pine64 team





On 8/13/20 2:02 PM, Sales Pine 64 wrote:

Quote:Dear Douglas Kitchen,

Thank you for contacting us. We will contact 4PX service to follow up consignments of order 130041 and 130046 to deliver soon.

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Pine64 team

I just flashed the 9/06 dev release of the Manjaro KDE Mobile edition and my phone wouldn't even turn on. The red light came on and the screen light turned on for a moment then it went black. Anyone else have this issue? Also tried the Alpha7 version and got the same result with 2 different sd cards.