I've been waiting to buy a PinePhone as soon as a good out-of-the-box plasma mobile device comes out. I know I can install it on a device after I get it, but considering this is the first generation and I still have a lot of adapting and other things to do to get all of the things I need on my phone to work....I just want the OS level stuff to be already working when I get it to minimize headache. Anyway, I've since come back and done more research to try to place an order or figure out when/what I should order and I can no longer find any community editions planned that default to using KDE (Plasma Mobile).

Does anyone know anything about this? What PinePhones will be shipped with KDE (Plasma Mobile) by default?

I recently got my PinePhone and installation of Postmarket OS was easy.
However I did not find a solution for the following problems:

1. When booting, the min. 8 characters of the password for unlocking Luks must be entered. Very often the correctly entered password is only accepted after up to 6 trials. Since I typed it very carefully, there must be a bug in the software.
   
2. When the screensaver got activated, there is another password required to activate the system, and there too often several attempts are necessary.
   
3. The phone allows calling and rings when calls arrive. However the sound is not usable. There seems to be kind of automatic gain control which results in a loud noise, more intensive than arriving voice.
   
4. I was not able to use the SMS&Chat app. When started it prompts "Chose a contact". When pressing the "+" key in the top left corner, the stored contacts are shown. However, when I select an entry with a mobile number,  the program drops back to the previous screen asking again "Choose a contact".
   
5. When switching off Bluetooth it gets activated upon next booting. This kind of settings should be permanent.
   
6. Sometimes the screen of an application (like chat) gets locked and wiping up the bottom "^" sign does not put it in background. The only way out is switching off the phone and rebooting.
   
7. I did not find sufficiently detailed instructions to install an email client and a file browser supporting cifs.
   

Today I can't seem to turn off my Pinephone.  It has worked just fine the last two days, but for some reason now when I choose "Power Off" it doesn't do anything.  Tried holding down the side power button too. 

Is there another way to do a hard shut down?

Hey there,

I am currently attempting to port FreeBSD (With a DE) to the pinephone and I came across some images here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/pine64. I realised that if it was possible to port Pine a64 (or other pine64 allwinner a64 devices) images to the pinephone, it would make porting freebsd images far easier. After a bit of googling, I couldn't find anything related to porting operating systems from one device to another. Basically, what I am trying to say is: How would I go about porting an OS image from another a64 based pine64 device to the pinephone? Is it even possible? Anyways, thanks in advance for your time.  

Hello, I'm new to UBPorts and had acouple of  questions about it. I have heard that the base system is immutable. 
What does this entail for the use of the OS for the user?
What is the difference of this type of OS vs something like Mobian?
Does it support flatpaks? If so is there a way to make the applications fit the screen size?
Lastly, what is the pros and cons of this type of system?

I installed an image (SD card--thanks for the 3gig support!).  Booted OK, got into the SW center and let it update everything.  Rebooted, looks OK, maybe even runs a bit faster.  But no tap on any text field results in a screen keyboard any more?

To start I'm a complete newb. I downloaded Android tools from the store. Adb works but I have to select file transfer on the phone first otherwise adb devices doesn't list the phone and gives a permissions error. Then in order for fastboot to work I have to type $(which) fastboot. Which doesn't work exactly right because fastboot reboot recovery just rebooted the phone to the os. Additionally I couldn't find a folder for the tools though I thought it would have been /use/bin. What I normally do is keep my platform tools folder on my desktop then I drop my files I want to flash in that folder so all I would do for example is type fastboot boot twrp.img. So I saw Arch wiki had some stuff on platform tools but honestly it's above me at this point. Any pointers, easy instructions or general help I can use? Thanks.

Forgot to say, I'm on Manjaro.

The Pinetime has a build in heart rate sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIo2-djNR48&t=118s

But what is the accuary of it? If it has only one or two green lights, it can deviate arount 10 percent of an ECG heart rate sensor which is the most accurate. External sensors are affordable and of much higher quality. The Polar OH1 for instance has six green lights and ECG accuracy, and costs about 80 USD.

The Stryd is the most accurate foot pod and costs about 300 USD. But the Zwift Runpod when calibrated has the accuracy of a Stryd foot pod, and is about 40 USD. Foot pods are very accurate, more accurate than GPS, and step counting from a foot pod is more accurate than from the wrist.

Why not to choose the most high quality from the beginning, when it is affordable? Both sensors can be paired over Bluetooth low energy. I don t know how to control these sensors from the Pinetime, but here you find software to control these sensors on the Pinephone:


https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...e+computer

Hi there,

To my understanding, pine book pro is using battery when it needs to even if I plug in the laptop to AC. I wouldn't mind about this behavior; it is happening even if I just do web browsing; I see the battery suddenly dropping to 91% but charging while I am on AC.

However, the issue is when I try to compile heavy programs. With sagemath, it seems impossible to finish the compilation without draining the battery. I have also tried to compile a linux kernel using pbp-tools, which narrowly finished before the battery dropped below 15%. I was flipping coins and making bets whether the kernel will compile first or the battery will drain first.

My question is: Is there any way that I can compile these kind of software without concerns on draining the battery? Also, is there anything I can do to prevent pbp using battery even when I browse?

You give a carrier or MVNO your IMEI, where the first 8 digits are a TAC that identifies the EG25-G, and the next six digits are just some sort of serial number (I think), and then a checksum digit, and rather than saying “Oh, the Quectel EG25-G! A fine piece of hardware! It’s been certified by the carrier, has a VoLTE profile, etc., so you’re all set, and enjoy your service!”, they say “Sorry, we can’t help you.” — so most people having to activate their SIMs in other phones.

What am I not understanding?

And is the situation likely to improve in some way over time, or is this just life for PinePhoners?