We’re pleased to announce that the next PinePhone Community Edition will feature Manjaro. 
Two variants available: 
* Regular CE - 2GB RAM/ 16GB eMMC
* Convergence Package - 3GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC bundled with a USB-C dock.

Pre-oders open mid September.

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Hi everyone, over the weekend I did the ub ports update on my pinephone. Finally the camera started. However, it is extremely slow and jerky. I was wondering if it's just my problem or if it happens to everyone.

Love my Pinebook, setting it up with my favourite apps, then ran into a problem with Darktable. It appears to need a font that's missing, because all of the characters are little squares. I ran sudo fc-cache -vf, but this did not help. I wonder if anyone else has ran into this, and if so, what's the solution?

In the July Update, a solution to the USB-C issue was offered to Braveheart and UBports Community Edition owners.

However, the solution to the 'battery discharging while the phone is powered off' issue was not mentioned.


@Luke, would it be possible to offer this fix in the same chain?

Many thanks.

Recently flashed an SD with Mobian and noticed that it isn't charging. Anyone else have similar issues? For what it's worth, I am on the most recent nightly build.

Could we get an easy to copy to sd card version of Debian in a '"Mobian style"'
placed in the wiki for Pinebook Pro users ?

Will there be any September Pinephone sales, or will Pine64 wait for feedback from the
last batch before they offer them again ?

Are there any more main board revisions planned ?

Thanks

 Answered by Luke,
                 Thanks Luke

  They will be opening orders in " mid - September " !

  They have decided to ship it with Manjaro installed from the factory.

  They are still considering which of 3 desktops to use, 
               Currently the Phosh desktop gets the best battery life.

        Phosh would definitely be my first choice as a phone desktop !

Is it still not possible to change the ringtone under Mobian to something that will actually get your attention?
Whenever an SMS or call comes in, I still just get that little "bweep" noise.
I want to set it to  something obnoxious and preferably louder.
Also, do the volume buttons actually work with the volume of the ringtone?

Afternoon,

I ordered my first Pine-phone recently and am looking for a compatible SIM card that will work with the device. Canada's phone plans are expensive as heck and don't offer much- so I am looking to use a pre-paid SIM instead for the Pine-phone.

Have any Canadians had luck with Lucky Mobile? Are there any ways to determine the compatibility with the new Pine phone before activating a SIM card?

Any information is appreciated!

 
Trying to follow the Jumpdrive flashing instructions on the Mobian Wiki and have run into a wall.

Once I run "blkid" to list the devices, I get a list of 10 devices in the phone.

Which one do I direct bmap to?

I was told to flash to, for example, /dev/sde rather than /dev/sdeX  as in:

sudo bmaptool copy mobian-pinephone-20200805.img.gz /dev/sde

This gets an error that the dev is busy... and I can't unmount it.  I'm afraid to just pick one of the partitions because I don't know what will happen if I use the wrong one.

These are my options:

sde      8:64  1  14.7G  0 disk
├─sde1    8:65  1   1.9M  0 part
├─sde2    8:66  1      1M  0 part /run/media/binky/b93cc654-5b81-4149-b3d2-b37e
├─sde3    8:67  1      8M  0 part /run/media/binky/62f503f8-03ae-477c-9ca1-908c
├─sde4    8:68  1    64M  0 part /run/media/binky/ceb00a06-e590-4426-8072-71cf
├─sde5    8:69  1  64.3M  0 part
├─sde6    8:70  1  63.9M  0 part /run/media/binky/6c7b502b-e5af-4ede-8b76-8dcb
├─sde7    8:71  1  63.9M  0 part
├─sde8    8:72  1    2.4G  0 part /run/media/binky/cache
├─sde9    8:73  1    2.4G  0 part /run/media/binky/db17074a-eb35-43cc-b22d-bce9
└─sde10  8:74  1    8.6G  0 part /run/media/binky/userdata

Is anybody able to help me?