So i was hoping this might be handled by the OS and my sim, but i figured why wait, i'll just manually update my apn settings. Im with freedom mobile (canada), so i looked up freedom mobile apn. Couldnt find anything official, but found many blog sites with affiliate ads and such providing info on the matter. I typed in the apn settings and i DID get a data connection! But my browser was acting all glitchy and everything seemed to have overlays trying to adjust to my screen. Not something that happens on wifi. Wondering if APN hijacking is a thing, could an APN be set up to piggy back on my carrier but route it through a third party? Not to be paranoid, but the behaviour was bizarre. Didnt help that the APN settings came from an unofficial site and not my carrier.  Anyway, i cleared it out and went back to wifi. All good for now. Might call my carrier tomorrow and ask. Otherwise it would be interesting if it was all fine and thats just how my pinephone acts on data.

Followed the terminal instructions to set up gps and got it to work! However i toggled location off in the drop down menu and back on again. Cant find location again. Do i have to manually go through the terminal each time for now? Or will the toggle on turn it back on at some point? Does it for anyone else?

I lost all sound about fifteen updates ago and now when I go back to release candidate I still have no sound. Get the odd keyboard tone when I unlock but very seldom and no other sound works. I’ve used the phone maybe a week total. It seems like hardware failure and that should not happen after a week of use. Pretty disappointed

I received my SIM card from Mint Mobile SIM card today. (based upon the IMEI number on the Pine Phone it showed this carrier would work).  I activated the SIM card online with a new cell number and rebooted the phone.  The carrier didn't show up so went into the carrier preferences and the Pine Phone is showing the Mint card as an option.  I click on it and then back out of the sim preferences but that screen shows "No Carrier."  I've done this numerous times with the same results.  There is also the option to to use the "Automatic" for the carrier, but with the same results when you back out to the prior screen "No carrier."  Since there isn't a save option in the carrier select area I guess it does a save automatically?  Is anyone else using Mint Mobile and if so how did you get it to work?

I managed to get the Archlinux image to boot both from the USB and microSD but no dice with any of the Manjaro images I tried so far.
I tried with an older 32GB microSD and a very recently purchased 64GB microSD (the same one that works with the Archlinux image) still nothing.
My goal is to do a fresh install (preferably the XFCE variant of Manjaro) on an NVMe SSD, I recently installed the NVMe adapter and an NVMe SSD, once booted in Archlinux I can see the nvme0n1 device.
I updated the SPI flash with the latest version provided by pcm720 that changes the boot order and allows to boot directly from an NVMe SSD.
I physically removed the eMMC from PBP as I don't intend to use it (assuming I can actually get it to boot directly from the NVMe SSD).

Is the reason why Manjaro won't boot from MicroSD because I removed the eMMC module?

Thanks.

Got the latest dev build 113 from updates. Attempted to enable gps after that but missed one line in the terminal. Restarted phone. Ever since then it randomly starts vibrating unstoppably and hangs the phone. Have no choice but to force shut down when this happens.

Seems like something that should be patcjed ASAP by ubports team

I preordered the new PinePhone as soon as I heard about it. Fast forward a couple weeks, and I find out about cases and screen protectors. Is it possible to add these to my order to reduce shipping costs and carbon footprints alike?

Hi, I just wanted to confirm that the NVMe adapter must be a separate order, as the Cart seems to have no problem accepting it in the same order as the Pinebook Pro.

When i got my phone out of the box, calls and texting were working perfectly. Had an issue where i soft-bricked the phone on day 1; one of those hrowing pains. Flashed the latest version of UB touch (build 70 from the current repo) and recovered the phone, all else is good. Now the calling is very intermittent though. Ive successfully made and received one call each way, but most of the time calls fail. Considering the norm prior was stable and now its intermittent there must have been something done right before. Also noticing this is a very frequent problem. Ive seen several potential solutions but im not sure which is current. One comes with a warning its no longer current, the other seems to be a way to call through the terminal. 

Hoping somebody could point me to the best known current solution. Modem shows signal and detects my network. As mentioned 1 successful outgoing and 1 incoming have been made since the new OS flash. Just fails 99% of the time. Successful calls were 100% prior to reflashing...


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Update! 2 more successful calls but only after 2nd restart. Not sure if ill always need to restart phone for this to work.

Update 2.... So it appears the 2 additional successful calls, making it 4 since the update were flukes, and its completely intermittent. Sometimes i randomly succeed, but mostly i dont.

Hello

I know that the PinePhone doesn't have the hability to receive FM radio natively.
I am wondering if this is something that could be done using the pogo pins.

What I have in mind is something like a case with dedicated hardware to decode and then send the signal to the phone via I2C.

Note that I have no experience in hardware thinkering. This is just a thought.