I like to be on the edge of developement but most development releases made the Pinephone less usable when I hoped for more. That's why I've been using the RC builds for some time. Still buggy but not strange-sounds-meet-reboots-and-the-clock-is-not-updating-anymore-buggy ;-)

Now Ubuntu touch 6 is available on the RC channel and we've got a working camera out of the box! A working camera, not two. And not working well. The preview picture is reversed and updates very, very slowly. Like point, wait, wait, wait a little more and there is what you're pointing at. The pictures are quite noisy but at least they are the right way around.

Otherwise I don't see big changes. Morph browser still has no private taps, the dialer can't use the + to replace the 0 or 00 in front of the country code and the sound in calls isn't really good. I've included the mounting of my SD card in /lib/init/fstab and the upgrade from 5 to 6 didn't revert this like previous updates did.

Nothing to do with the update content, but im noticing lately several recent updates havent gone all the way through the proper reboot/install process. Many have just crashed, or frozen, and the started upon hard reboot. Probably not too healthy...

I mentioned part of this somewhere before, but it seems to be a recurring problem. However it's gotten more complex. A few times now, after updating im noticing apps ive installed have gone missing. This has now happened 3 times.

Im also noticing every now and then after a fresh boot my phone says its running a previous build from a few days ago even if i just updated a more recent one.

Now I'm starting to wonder if sometimes im booting from SD and updating/installing apps there whereas sometimes im getting booted to eMMC and updating/installing there. 

My understanding is this shouldn't technically be possible, but i also understand that if there's a flip flop in the circuit, previous state could be affected by random conditions which could trigger a decision to boot from one or the other. That said, i haven't found some of my apps that have disappeared regardless of the version it shows im running

Hey everyone,

I'm loving my PBP but one thing I'm struggling with (when switching from my MBP or XPS) is not having a backlit keyboard in the evenings.

I wonder if anyone played around with any kind of mods to make a "backlit keyboard effect"... I was thinking something along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJoHfzQNK3k but for a laptop.

I know there are these bendy USB LED lights than can stick up on the side of your laptop but I'm wondering if my hands would cast a shadow over most of the keyboard.

Thanks and looking forward to hear your ideas!

Results:ubports/2020-08-25-TMobile
             ubports/2020-08-25-Verizon

Conclusion: This OS is not ready for the pinephone to become a daily driver.

Notes: Verizon struggled a little bit. Looks like something with texting is broken. Could be an incomplete implementation of 4G based texting. According to the Verizon rep, 3G is no longer supported. This is consistent when I try to force the phone to 3G. (No lights, nobody home).  3G calls had no audio on TMobile. 4G unable to call out. I noticed today that the camera image is reversed; probably has been this way since it started rendering, just making a note.

Results: Mobian/2020-08-25-Verizon.html
               Mobian/2020-08-25-TMoblie.html

[b]Conclusion: [/b]OS is not Ready for pinephone to be daily driver.

Notes: Much improvement from yesterday. Clear phone quality. Stable wifi. SMS on point. The UI is more responsive. Camera is still lagy. Phone is still a bit slow overall. All tests except MMS messages are passing today!!

I'm running the Manjaro which shipped with my ANSI Pinebook Pro. Sound works fine BUT every time I reboot I must open a terminal, run alsamixer (which, I confess, I don't understand very well), hit F6, choose rockchip, es8316-codec, and increase the first "Headphone" meter (there are two! Why?) from 0 to (usually) 100 -- since it seems to increment only from 0->28->56->100. This setting usually serves me fine until shutdown. So I have two questions

1. Is there any way to save this "Headphone" setting so I don't have to reset it each time? Alternatively, is there any config file I could edit with Vim to edit this setting (provided I can identify the proper setting name)?
   
2. Is anyone aware of ALSA documentation readable by mere mortals where I can read up about how it works so I can figure out questions like this myself, in the future?
   

I ordered two PineTimes and according to tracking have been "Cleared and awaiting international departure SHENZHEN (CN)" since July the 17th.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I am guessing given the current situation there is reduced freight capacity to Australia. I am glad i used DHL when ordering the upcoming PinePhone.

I created a table comparing the specs of 12 phones that can be bought with Linux preinstalled:

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/comparing-linux-phones/

It is striking the difference between the amount of information that is publicly available for the PinePhone and Librem 5 compared to all the rest of the Linux phones that use Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek Helio processors, which require NDA's to view their datasheets and don't allow the publication of schematics, because they are based on copyrighted reference designs.

Hello-- I've decided to sell my PBP, it's listed in eBay here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pinebook-Pro-Ma...4697508424

I'm including the (unused) NVME adapter, the EMMC USB adapter, and a UART cable. Shipping in the US only.