While reading the data from the magnetometer I have noticed weird/inconsistent values between a BH edition and CE edition.

Weird: Laying the phone on a table and turning it 360 degrees I would've expected the reported values to be in an interval [-MAX, MAX]
But as it turns out the values never cross 0.
I assume I'm picking up magnetic fields induced by flowing currents inside the pinephone itself?

Inconsistent: Doing the same kind of measurements in the same environment (same room, same position on the table) I get different readings for the v1.1 and the v1.2 phones.
I assume changes in the PCB could be the reason for this discrepancy.

Does anyone have an idea of what might be going wrong here?

See this issue.
If some of you could provide some readouts from the script I linked in the gitlab issue I would be much obliged :)

Background: I thought about making a compass app, but for that I would need to be able to find the north/south pole

Mobian, latest nightly:

If there is an incoming call, the sreen flickers on time and then the incoming call was rejected.

Any hints?

Greetz

Uwe

tl;dr - what are the limits on multi-touch for the PinePhone?

I'm interested in supporting braille input on a PinePhone. Ideally, the user should be able to activate every possible dot in the braille cell. For six-dot braille, this would use three fingers on each hand; eight-dot braille would use four fingers on each hand. So, how many simultaneous locations can the PinePhone support?

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Hi,


I wasn't sure the best place to post this, but I wanted to mention that I'm having issues with eye-strain reading through the main news posts, like this one:
https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/24/all-ab...ab-update/

It's a really light-grey font that is used, on a white background. The contrast ratio seems really poor.


Jumping into the Firefox inspector, I'm seeing color is #7a7a7a; - coming from the global.css file

I just got my CE PinePhone last week. I enjoyed UT and now I tried Debian.

Man, the temperature of the phone using Debian is very scary.  I read in the forum that was before but now it shouldn't be that hot.  I assume I have the last release of Debian since I just installed 2 days ago, and the temperature is very very high. It wasn't like that using UT.

If I can get a video frying an egg on mobian I will post it 

So, something wrong here

Best

Would it be possible for some of the community members who are actively testing the latest iterations of each OS to actively post their opinions here as to the best current OS at any present time. Rather than listing all the features of each, a simple updated live vote or ranked order of OS based solely on Functionality, stability and Maturity.
The objective being to give other members a solid chance at running a daily driver at any point. I for one wouldn't mind switching OS every few months when one surpasses another if the phone ultimately works better, so lets focus on current specs as opposed to potential.

I know many of you were disappointed by the lack of PineTab news in the Community Update earlier this month.
I am therefore pleased to inform that I have just posted a dedicated update for the PineTab, which details what has been going on with the PineTab manufacture and what the shipping process is looking like.

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Since the phone and tablet have the same processor, could you remove the motherboard from the tab and just use the phone with the tab screen & keyboard? Keep the battery, and maybe some storage in the tab, but main storage and processor runs in phone... The biggest challenge would be a clean interface (i.e. not just the phone laying on the desk with a cable) that was upgradable. (Maybe a clip-on mount) That way when the next gen phone is released you could still use the tab.

I've been wanting something like this for years, but every option has been poorly executed.

Hi

I got the pinephone UBports community edition but its terminal app was way too slow!

I decided I would rather start with a minimal as possible pinephone (just a console) and work my way up from there. So I have been exploring postMarketOS. 

So far I have flashed both the "None" and "Fmbootstrap" options of the pinephone, but the screen doesn't turn off when I tap the power button. This is a tremendous waste of battery. It should suspend when I press the power button (like ubuntu's Suspend function).

Also, changing the system volume with the volume keys would be ideal on these installations. But only the volume down button seems to input [^26] to the phone as if that were a key people needed to type.

It would be nice to know how to change these buttons to run custom commands too!

For me, the phone has to have a fast terminal to code on the go. The battery life should also be long! As far as I'm concerned, a GUI would be nice, but on such a small screen, it isn't going to do much anyway.