I ordered the following on june 10th:


PINETAB - 10.1" Linux tablet with detached backlit keyboard


I still don't have any info on shipping. The only e-mail I ever received was when I ordered it. After that there was full radio silence. I haven't received anything from DHL, no e-mail, no text message, nothing. It seems like everyone else has received it already, but I don't have a tracking number, nothing.

Hi, I’ve recently gotten my PinePhone in the mail.  At first glance all appears to be working, but I’ve soon realized that the Firefox that came bundled with it isn’t as mobile friendly as I thought- most pages don’t fit on the Pinephone screen when used vertically.  Well, that isn’t a big issue in and of itself, so I tried using the phone in horizontal mode.  As I tried typing in a link and made the most minuscule of movements near the speaker grill, the proximity sensor kicked in, dimming the screen and temporarily disabling all touch input.  Now, I don’t have particularly large hands, but my palms do cover the proximity sensor from time to time.  This is normally fine on every other phone as the dimming only occurs during a phone call, but doesn’t seem to be the case for my Pinephone.
I suppose this is more of a software issue that can be solved by tinkering around some settings, but I have yet to see any setting that disables this.  With how trigger happy the proximity sensor is, I can’t envision myself typing on that thing, which kills almost all of the functionality I have in mind for the phone.
I have another problem that I suspect to be hardware related: none of the physical volume buttons are working.  Controlling the volume via software works fine, so this isn’t that much of a dealbreaker.  I’ve tested this briefly with xev and nothing turns up when the buttons are pressed.
Now for the stupid question: how do I get a dark themed keyboard?  And has anyone riced this phone?  While theming seems pretty straightforward in i3, I have no idea how to do it with a DE in the way.
My apologies if these questions clutter the forum / are incredibly stupid, the Pinephone is my first ever venture into these sorts of things.  I’ve never used a DE or wayland before :3. Thanks in advance.

After a week of absence i came back and flashef the 9 8 image onto my pinephone ubport CE. At night all seemed fine. The mobile network still drops out and need a.reboot to wakeup . Being out in broad daylight though i was having problem (i enabled auto screen adjustment) i was having the screen gradually fade on me even when i was typing or trying to navigate the screen. It was a.bit comical as i could never select fast enough to get to the Settings to disable the auto function.

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!