Just received my PINEPHONE - “Community Edition: UBports" Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone today and have a few questions.

What is the procedure to update the operating system? (see below)

I removed the plastic that covers the connections of the battery during shipment then booted up the phone.

I played around with the phone got the WiFi setup and connected.

Noticed the camera does not work just starts to a black screen, is there a fix for this, my first thought was to update the phone

The app store thing also never loads.


Thanks in advance.

Since I have a Braveheart v1.1 phone and can't used it due to known issues of excessive power drain (even when turned off), I created an Electron application using React to display a clock and my electrical provider's rate.  The app checks the electrical provider's rate every 5 minutes and when the cents/kilowatt hr is over 6.0, the screen turns red from green.

I will most likely ship the phone off to my father when I can get the USB CC and power drain components fixed.  This depends on Pine hooking up a person to solder/desolder the respective fixes.  Until then, it has become a mini screen on my entertainment center.

ps. don't judge my mess


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Hello,

today I got my Pinephone64. Unfortunately, the SD card cannot be used. It is recognized but is not automatically mounted. The camera is also unusable. I think this is due to the incorrectly integrated SD card. The SD card is displayed under External Drives. I can only format it or remove it safely. An error appears during formatting: "Format Error. There was an error when formatting the device". I can also mount the SD card in the terminal and access the files. Only it is not automatically integrated. I could solve this problem by integrating them into the terminal. However, the camera remains unusable. The trigger button is greyed out.
Does anyone have the same experience? What can I do to make the camera usable?

The device is not really usable for me.

Thanks in advance
Pavel

I did a apt upgrade yesterday evening (about 24h ago) and saw that the only package to update the kernel was. After the update was done I rebooted the phone and it only showed a black screen.
I was running off of EMMC but I still had an older version on my SD. So I put that in, updated it and it wouldn't boot either. 

I have an unmodified Braveheart. When I try to boot the phone I see the green LED, the screen lights up black for a few seconds, it turns off, I hear the clicking from the camera and that's it. When I leave the phone running it gets pretty hot. I cannot reach it over WiFi.

Tomorrow I will try to put the latest image on the SD and see what happens then.

For the past few updates, I noticed that on wakeup the clock shows the time the phone went to sleep.

Has anyone else seen this?

I have received my UBports edition phone this week and that up powering on and setting up that it is buggy. Cellular did not work for me and the menus where a bit slow, did not want to go to previous page and did not save settings for cellular apn and carrier. I notice too that the back of the phone gets too warm and quickly over this Quectel EG25-G component too, which is not a good sign. Another thing is that the auto update over wifi almost froze the phone up.

For cellular I use T-mobile here in the USA that uses a micro sim card. The sim card adapter that came with the Pinephone is flimsy and didn't work so I used one I got from T-mobile. Upon updating the UBports It did not fix the cellular issue as well.

If this is the current state of UBports is there an alternative OS that works close enough to be a daily driver? I heard of this Mobian os but what is it exactly and will it do better than what I have now with UBports?

I've been having issues with my Pinephone detecting my music files from my Micro SD Card. I ended up buying a 256GB Micro SD card just so I can take all of my music with me on the phone, but for some reason the Music app says 'no music files detected'.

Does anyone know how to get the headphones to work on UBPorts edition?

I have the switch in the ON position, but the sound still comes out of the speakers.

Hi all,

I did a LTE max bandwidth test, on a good place for being alone on the carrier's antenna (LTE 2600, 20 MHz, 1 out of 3 panels directed right into a big forest.
Reached 140 Mbps few seconds and was moving from 125 Mbps to 135 Mbps at low CPU usage (around 20%)  half of the time : seems to work really fine, as the maximum possible value of LTE cat 4 is 150 Mbps 


However, when using modem, the phone has lots of "seizures moments", during few seconds it lags a lot, freezes a lot, and then come back to normal during few seconds before becoming mad again. It's 50/50 of the time.
When doing the same tests on WiFi, the issue does not exists : it only exists when using modem.

It's not due to temperature as CPU and GPU temperature shows approximately 50°C or even below when the problem already occurs. When the problem occurs, the download bandwidth falls back to almost 0 to few Mbps, and goes up again after the CPU behavior goes back to normal.

Viewing CPU usage on "top" command, within and outside "seizure" moments, the order of which program was using the CPU (aria2, bwm-ng, lxterminal etc) and proportions were the same, but during seizure moments, every usage value is just strongly multiplied.


Is this a known issue? Is there some software workaround about it?
It looks a little bit like CPU power issues, as for Intel/AMD CPU and VRM, in case of insufficient power supply or too hot VRM, CPU is repeatedly doing short freezes waiting things to be normal again, giving similar symptoms.

Also, when enabling modem with low backlight intensity, the backlight intensity is lowering.

But in the others hand, when doing uplink bandwidth test, the problem does not occur (while according to lm-sensors, uplink is consuming more current, 1.2 Amps instead of 1.0 Amps).

I'm using Mobian kernel from here https://gitlab.com/mobian1/devices/pinephone-linux, downloaded and built on 2020/07/19, on Pinephone UBports community edition (1.2 if I'm right - at least I'm using 1.2 DTB).

How to go further in the understanding of this issue?

When trying to open an exFAT formatted drive in Mobian's file manager an error message pops up saying: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

I tried installing exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, but still get the error message. Are there some additional things missing that are keeping this from working?