How are you all enjoying your new Pinetabs?

The good:
- Nice onboarding proces, decent double box packaging.
- Nice port selection. Full USB A is great. It even seems to offer 2 amps output.
- The Pine logo on the front looks rather classy.
- The back cover has a nice pattern making the entire device easy to grip.
- Decent key travel on the keyboard, and the dock's touch pad is easy to glide on.

The bad:
- Dragging my finger over the screen doesn't feel great, and it creates noises. Is the display made out of plastic?
- My keyboard is slightly damaged, with some exposed soldering wire. I suspect the back of the keyboard wasn't glued to the faux leather properly. - or at all. To be clear: it was like this out of the box.

The expected:
- It's chunky. Where the pinephone is just as thin as other phones, the Pinetab is much thicker than other tablets.
- Having all the ports on one side could be interesting for a dock that holds the pinetab in a vertical position.
- The keyboard dock has a plastic feel. The faux leather isn't fooling anyone :-)
- It comes with a barrel plug in the box, but it charges from micro usb just fine.

The unexpected:
- I thought the back cover would be removable, but it doesn't seem to be.
- There's a big silver sticker on the back with text on it, such as its FCC ID.
- It's surprisingly heavy.
- The SD card slot cover is big. This could be an advantage for people who want to mod it. It could also house more dip switches (microhone - hint hint)
- The back speaker cutout is literally that, a cutout. It's a deep crevise, with a speaker at the bottom of the well. Or did my speaker just come loose?

I had to reboot the tab before the system software update became available.

Overall: it's a pure Linux tablet! I own a Samsung tablet that I needed for work, but I never use it personally because it makes me feel tracked and profiled. Now I can finally enjoy a tablet for some relaxing surfing.

I have a PP CE UBtouch , and i'm running Mobian from SD card - 20200821 with latest updates


mobian@mobian:~$ uname -a
Linux mobian 5.7-pinephone #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 4 14:55:26 UTC 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux
mobian@mobian:~$


During a call today i wanted to turn up the volume (it's rather low).
The slider showed max volume , and i tried to turn it down,then up - Mobian (crashed) rebooted.

And now i dont have any reaction to volume up/down - No slider is shown , and no volume change is heard.

Any hints about what have happened ??

Or is it a rewrite of latest nightly on the SD ??

/Bingo

So Sunday my PMOS Convergent Pkg phone was working satisfactory.

This morning I was having trouble calling out,   when it did call out there was no ring-tone on the handset,   and when I called in from another phone there
was no voice audio in ether direction.

I checked in the Software store and there were updates available,    I downloaded those, and tried again  ...  Nothing
>> But after a reboot,   there is now ring-tone again on the handset calling out,     and audio is once again working.

Not sure why it quit,  after it was working ?
But the "Updates"  Did bring it back to life.

 Thank you PMOS Developers for those updates !

Factory install,  running from the eMMC    (TracFone/AT&T PrePaid sim card)

Is there an elegant way of doing a hard reset on the phone when it becomes unresponsive?  I have been removing the battery but it seems like a clumsy way of resetting the phone.

I'm have been having lots of fun tinkering with my Postmarket OS edition Pinephone.  I noticed that I am not able to make phone calls from my address book.  Text messages work just fine but not phone calls.  It's a minor nuisance and overall I'm still enjoying the experience.

Hi guys. Had a very unpleasent experience with pipephone delivery. Was waiting for two months for phone after it was produced and its never been sent. And irder was canceled only after few weeks after i wrote to sales team. Thats the background. Is there any chance to deliver to Russia as finaly last batch never went to our country. Also if there is a problem sending with batery maybe its better to send without battery as its standard size and could be bought at any phone service point.

Hi there,
Got my new pinephone and I am very new to the concept, I have a good understanding of linux but I am still new to it. I set up the pinephone out of the box with post market OS and chose the full disk encryption option. I then flashed a micro SD card with ubuntu touch and attempted to install it on the device but immediately it comes up with an error and saying it can't access the disk as it is denied. It then boots right into ubuntu touch and i can use it just fine but when i remove the sd card it goes back to the post market OS.

I basically want to reformat the device and have only ubuntu touch on there so how would i go about this? Also on post market OS the root password does not work and neither does the pin number i put in. Not sure if this is a glitch or if I input it incorrectly.

Also I have been doing some reading on here and seeing people have been running their phone OS straight from the SD card? Is that a better option? Is it possible to do full disk encryption on the Ubuntu touch install disk? And if I was to install ubuntu touch on the device and then had a seperate sd card, could I encrypt the sd card using LUKS via desktop and then still access it via ubuntu touch once it is in the phone?

Sorry for all the questions, I am just excited about my very first linux smart phone and i want to do it right and have it fully encrypted and secure.

I remember contacting the Pure OS team and they said with pure OS it won't yet offer full disk encryption, but the home folder is encrypted and you need that password to start up the device in the future and USB is disabled until the password is input as to protect from brute force attacks and also the removal of the Keys from the device for brute force attacks.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me with this. Just tell me what to do and I will try it!

Will the 3GB/32GB 1.2a board be available as a separate order? I got an ubports edition, so 1.2 with the broken USB, and I am both very interested in getting a fully fixed board that supports HDMI, as well as the upgrade to more eMMC since I find it really hard to make any use of flatpak without running out of space immediately. But I don't really want to order an entirely second phone, even though I understand a new board with shipping might possibly be already in the 100-130$ range, because it just seems too wasteful in terms of physical stuff that I don't really need to have lying around here. And while ordering the board alone wouldn't save me that much money, it would likely still be a significant amount.

So any plans on offering those boards separately?

I have hooked up my PinePhone 3GB PMOS CE and do not get output. I'm trying to figure out if it is the dock that is the issue or is it PMOS? Ultimately just trying to see if anyone else has been seeing the same and if anyone may have any ideas or workaround/solutions. So far has been an excellent device and a lot of fun!

Anybody else desecrate the pristine logo-less lids on their Pinebook Pros?




What looks like sunglasses on Rick was supposed to be 2 stripes, but they peeled off right away. Ordered a new decal, but we'll see, I kinda like this.