Hi - I am a very new owner of a pinephone and have been trying Mobian.  I have not installed a sim card and I am running Mobian from an SD.  I can connect to home WiFi and the UI is easy to understand and use.  My trouble is that apps seem not to be able to use the WiFi.  For example neither browser can connect to any website and Geary can not connect to email servers.  It seems as if there is some setting that I am missing or that a sim card is required.I have checked the Mobian gitlab issues and have found nothing. Any insight? Regards and thanks.

Received new PBP first week of May. I am now having what appears to be keyboard logic failures.
These include what appears to be some key transpositions and several keys that emit multiple characters - always the same.

Is there some format for providing the specifics which is pseudo standardized or at least that multiple folks could understand?

Also, I didn't expect to see this kind of what appears to be H/W or driver flaws so I didn't pay much attention to how to obtain support for this kind of thing.

Here's how we create PineTime Watch Faces with InfiniTime and preview them... With only a web browser!

Preview PineTime Watch Faces in your Web Browser with WebAssembly

Has anyone recovered from an unlit power LED state? I've seen plenty of posts with people fixing their amber LED boot problem, but this is different. Also, can somebody tell me what it looks like when PBP is in maskrom mode? Does the laptop screen display anything? Should the power LED light up?

• microSD Manjaro OS
  
• USB ARM Arch Linux OS
  
• eMMC Manjaro OS
  

Results: ubports/2020-08-18


Conclusion: UBPorts is not ready for pinephone to become daily driver.


Notes:

I tried testing a couple of issues today, caught wind that there was an issue on 3G calls and connecting out only once. I didn't get any audio on any call but I was able to call out on 3G multiple times. No luck for 4G though. All call audio had issues inbound and out. No MMS. Texts are stable in and out. Camera not really showing any major improvements from yesterday. Ultimate result. It failed QA. Good news, the phone now keeps time correctly. 

I opened a new thread and will continue to do so moving forward.

I discovered Linux phones by finding pinephone. However, I see that UT has been before than PinePhone. So, if UT is installed on another phone (e.g. Oneplus one)  is that already a Linux phone? Or does it still need some android software?

If so, what makes PP so special? or it isn't?

Is anyone kind enough to share some thoughts?

thanks!

I am trying to recover from a broken SPI flash that I did yesterday. I found recovery instructions here [1] and here [2], however, I can't figure out how to remove the metal shield on the Printed Circuit Board.

Below is a photo of my board. The black tape doesn't come off easily and I'm not sure if it will still stick after I pull it off.

Could someone point out how the metal shield is released? as400 mentioned that there are "micro clamps" on the board but I can't find them.

[1]: Wiki page on SPI - https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro_SPI
[2]: Forum post by as400 about SPI - https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9059

Any tips on being able to get armhf libraries to download via apt-get?

If I add the architecture, it still can't locate them

Thanks!

I just installed Mobian on my Pinephone SD card, and the first application I try out is usually the web browser. As a new user the experience isn't exactly stellar, but after fiddling around a bit I've found some things that takes Firefox some way towards being usable for me.

So I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where we can share our experiences and tips on how to get the best browser experience on Mobian!

• First of all: script filtering. This is essential for me and I run NoScript on my desktop. I noted that Firefox on Mobian comes with uBlock Origin installed by default, which seems like a great idea! I'm not exactly sure yet how this compares to NoScript, but kudos to the Mobian developers for having this out-of-the-box!
  
  
• Next up: screen rotation. Tap the top bar to swith to landscape mode. I think I actually prefer this manual selection of orientation to an automatic one; I almost always lock the rotation anyway if it's automatic. But with Mobian the screen is rotated so that the buttons ends up on the bottom, which is very inconvenient! I hope this is a bug and that it will get fixed.
  
  
• Screen estate: With the screen in landscape mode pretty much half the screen gets eaten up by Mobian's black bars on top and bottom and by Firefox's menu bar, to the extent that landscape mode becomes unusable. However, if you open the "three-bar" Firefox menu there's a "Fullscreen" option, and this removes all the clutter so that the whole screen is usable! Tap the bottom-right corner to get the Mobian bars back. However since fullscreen mode hides the fullscreen option, I have not been able to figure out how to get out of full screen mode to reach the address bar and tabs again! If I could figure this out, Firefox could be quite useful for me on Mobian. Any ideas?
  
  
• My previous smartphone (a HTC Desire - yes, from 2010), has a great browsing experience: the browser is automatically full-screen; the address bar is reached by scrolling the web page to the top (it's effectively stacked on top of, and "part" of, the web page); and perhaps most importantly, the width of all text fields is automatically adjusted to be no wider than the screen width! That means that no matter how you scale the page, free-flowing text fields never overflow the screen width sideways, so you can scale the page (images and font size) to your preferred size without ever having to scroll sideways back-and-forth to read all the text in a field! I'm a bit saddened that this is not the obvious way to do things today, 10 years later... but maybe we can get it on our Pinephones some time in the future?
  

this is my preliminary view and mostly likely will change.

i pre-ordered pinephone. this is some kind of testing purchase and i hope open platforms will become serious possibility in the future. i have some ...uhum... opinions about two dominant platform at the moment.

pine probably should introduce improved pinephone, which is similar to pinebook pro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ . particularly i'm concerced of following issues: small battery, lack of wifi ac (5GHz), small mmc, lack of fullhd and small ram. of course price would go higher but pinebook pro is selling at ~200$, so i don't think it would be much higher. most likely physical size will increase as well. with current pinephone specs i don't think pinephone is usable for long time.

edit: 2020-09-30

after using pinephone for little while, little bit manjaro and postmarket. maybe the specs of pinephone should be left at where there are now. slight exception of wifi n, wifi ac should be considered. o.s.'s are too immature for more expensive model.

plus model could be considered in around next year, when o.s. (o.s.'s) matures.