Dear all, I try to regularly check the pine64.org blog page for community updates. Since the ironic august post about you guys keeping us waiting there seems to be no new community updates posted at all. Also the forum pages seem way out of date. What is happening? Is Pine64.org still alive?

Good day folks,
I now use my PPP as a daily device. This replaces my Blackberry Classic as a main device.
The only true requirement is the wired headset which is something most of us do regardless.
Arch Linux Phosh 2023-09-25 version.
To fix the dark theme issue I installed xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

To get the Gnome Weather App to work, I copied the user binary file from an older April image of Mobian - /home/mobian/.config/dconf/user .

Maybe this relates to the btrfs file system. But I installed the June image of Mobian instead.

Hello team!

I try to evaluate the platform based on:

• Sopine Baseboard model A
  
• Sopine A64 compute module
  
• Armbian 23.8 Bookworm
  

One of the gold prongs is missing off the board, and it's extremely finicky picking up a sim now or if one is picked up it eventually drops signal.

Currently, there is no cheaper way to get a new modem, is there? Unless I found a cheaper pinephone altogether on ebay used and removed it myself and replaced it.

Basically I had a micro inside a mini and that grove caught hold of the prongs one time and snagged up and out from the board, really wish we could just upgrade the slot all the way from a mini to a standard micro.

Okay so it bluetooth pairs with my phone (Motorola ThinkPhone Android 13) but Bangle.js Gadgetbridge doesn't want to discover it.

What am I forgetting to do?

Still running just regular InfiniTime vrs 1.11.0 fosdem edition bootldr 1.0.0

At present I am using my PPP as a daily driver in all capacities. What I have noticed is in order to keep heat to a minimum and also maximum battery life I tend to shut certain things down when not required. For example if I'm on wifi and shut down the modem, when done with BT and wifi I shut down BT and enable modem. Both cameras are shut down on dip switches always. 

Something else I have noticed is that certain sim cards even from same carrier may operate differently. My Blackberry uses my main sim card and works perfectly. When I place that same sim in the PPP the connection is up and then drops and this cycle goes on and on. However when I place my newer sim card in PPP it works perfectly and never drops. That same sim in my Blackberry also works perfectly. The signal strength of my Blackberry sim is slightly weaker than PPP sim and I wonder if sim cards 'get tired'? 

Also I use a Blackberry ear bud set with a 3.5mm jack for comms as nothing else seems to work. The sound is very good. I tried my son's gaming headset with 3.5mm jack and the sound was excellent.

Has anyone tried the PinePhone or PineBook USB-C docking station on the PineTab2?

I've thought of buying an ethernet adapter, but if one of the Pine64 docking stations works, I'd love to to support Pine64 rather than someone else.

bookworm vs trixie discussion for mobian in pinephone pro.

this is a discussion of bookworm vs trixie and maybe staging. so like possible problems and how to fix them. which one is better, and how well it works. here are some generic arguments.

arguments for bookworm:
- stable.
- basics work.
- do not have dependency problems, or broken packages.
- smooth security updates.

arguments against bookworm:
- gets outdated.
- some features are missing, because pinephone is a beta product.
- stuck to the older kernel.

arguments for trixie:
- newer packages.
- features, which are missing in older versions.
- newer kernel.

arguments against trixie:
- dependency nightmare, broken packages.
- some thing do not work, because of unstable packages.

in both cases users have the choose between which audio routing they use, i don't know which one is default.
"pipewire-pulse"
"pulseaudio"

because pinephone pro is beta product, it practically means that users usually need to go on trixie. i recently updated pp pro into trixie, and it seems ok. however, there was dependency issues, so update is not smooth. more information later, how it goes. pp pro is not stuck to lts kernel, unlike pp regular (might be temporary issue though).