Hi all,

Things continue to move on quite quickly, so I guess it's time for a new status/progress update (I'll try to post those on a monthly basis).

Over the past month we added or improved a whole bunch of exciting features:

• Thermal management is now working, decreasing the CPU frequency under intensive load so your phone doesn't get too hot (and the "Usage" app now properly reports temperature)
  
• Latest crust build greatly improves battery life (now ~20hrs idle with the modem on)
  
• Updated phoc & phosh which bring in lots of improvements, including automatic scaling for apps which would otherwise overflow the display (enabled by default for Calendar, Maps & Geary)
  
• Camera and flashlight are supported out of the box
  
• Driver for the ANX7688 USB-C controller is now included in the kernel build (requires a HW fix to be able to actually use USB-C peripherals)
  
• More mobile-friendly software have been packaged for Mobian (not all are installed by default, but they're just an "apt install" away):
  • Cawbird (Twitter client)
    
  • Flashlight
    
  • GNOME Metronome
    
  • Pinhole (Camera app)
    
  • Tootle (Mastodon client)
    

On other phones, paying for 4GB vs 6GB or 6GB vs 8GB is not really worth it.

I'm not interested in desktop computing (giving the dock away to someone's storage), but I would be running quite significant tracking.

As the Pinephone probably isn't optimized as much as it could be. Would it be worth it on getting an extra GB of RAM for 60$? I don't have the biggest wallet, so it's somewhat of a significant amount, but simultaneously I don't want to have a phone I'm not going to use because it's constantly out of RAM and having to use swap.

I have noticed that if I enable the privacy switches for microphone (Pine + F10) or camera (Pine + F12) and leave them for 2 weeks or so, they lose their state and revert to being disabled. Does this mean I have buggy keyboard firmware flash memory?

Also I have noticed the following:

1. Activation/deactivation happens instantly rather than 3 seconds after pressing the required key combinations
   
2. When the camera (Pine + F12) privacy switch is enabled, there is a high-pitch whining sound (not from the speakers; maybe a stray capacitance thing?)
   

Hi,

I'm new to the PinePhone community, but I decided to jump in and buy a PMOS community edition today (with convergence upgrade).

I was looking round the Wiki and think I may have found some misleading information in the FAQ:

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...Edition.3F

Quote:Will there be a newer revision after the Community Edition?
That's unlikely for the near future [...]

Will there be hardware differences between the Community Editions?
No, only the logo on the back panel will differ.

Hi,
I recently installed Arch Linux on my Pinebook Pro. /dev/mmcblk2p1 is my boot partition and p2 is my root partition. The problem is that sometimes Linux cannot detect /dev/mmcblk2p2. Sometimes, it works fine. Here is the output:

Quote::: running early hook [udev]
Starting version 245.6-8-arch
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mmcblk2p2 ...
ERROR: device '/dev/mmcblk2p2' not found. Skipping fsck.
:: mounting '/dev/mmcblk2p2' on real root
mount: /new_root: special device /dev/mmcblk2p2 does not exist.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#

Quote:echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/unbind

echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/bind

(07-15-2020, 08:50 PM)decisivedove Wrote: Hi,
I recently installed Arch Linux on my Pinebook Pro. /dev/mmcblk2p1 is my boot partition and p2 is my root partition. The problem is that sometimes Linux cannot detect /dev/mmcblk2p2. Sometimes, it works fine. Here is the output:

Quote::: running early hook [udev]
Starting version 245.6-8-arch
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mmcblk2p2 ...
ERROR: device '/dev/mmcblk2p2' not found. Skipping fsck.
:: mounting '/dev/mmcblk2p2' on real root
mount: /new_root: special device /dev/mmcblk2p2 does not exist.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#

It was working fine a while ago, it only happens sometimes. Using UUID on the extlinux config also results in the same.
I had recently soft bricked my PBP and had to switch off the emmc but it is fixed now, if that is relevant.

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Apparently running:

Quote:echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/unbind

echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/bind

As suggested by randomuser987987 in the thread Pinebook Pro dead after updating u-boot works in getting the partition to show in /dev. The question is will the changes persist forever?

I ordered a few types of Pogo Pins from Tindie and Taobao. Once I have tested them on PineTime, I'll share more details...

Tindie - PogoProg Model C Pogo Pin Programmer SWD - 2 Pack
https://www.tindie.com/products/electron...wd-2-pack/

智能仪器 - 烧录 探针 烧写 PCB 2.54 2.0 1.27 下载编程测试 弹簧 单排双排
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a21...9323749230

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(My apologies in advance if I've posted this in the wrong forum. I think this is the right one, but...)


I just found out about the PinePhone and I'd love to try one and see what it's like.

My main question is "Can the PinePhone run android apps?" Is there some way to do that?

(I realize this probably isn't a straight yes or no answer to this and that it's probably been asked a thousand times. I searched the forum a bit but couldn't find a clear discussion on this, so I'm sorry if this is an oft-repeated question.)

If the answer is just plain 'no', that'll tell me something and I can go from there.

If the answer is 'yes' or 'sort of yes' or 'maybe' or 'it depends', then great- anything you can tell me along those lines would be welcome, or maybe point me to some discussion threads here that I can read through.

Thank you in advance.

I'm selling my braveheart edition phone for 150$ CAD or ~105$USD and no tax. Please PM if interested. Phone is in great condition. Have been using it to distro hop. I can flash it to any os you prefer.

For a few weeks now I have been running through some simple QA on my pinephone. Things to note:

I am running on the development channel.
I only test after a successful OTA update.
I have limited my scope to what I consider requirements for a daily driver.  (SMS, Calls, general sound quality, wifi, clock accuracy, etc. etc.)

Here are my results for today:
Wifi: seems fairly stable after reboot.
Boot time: No noticeable difference compared to day before. (~1 minute)
SMS in: Works as expected
SMS out: Works as expected
Calls out: Call failed
Calls in: Connects. no audio either direction.  (iphone and android)
Camera front: Black screen
Camera back: Black screen
Loud speaker: distorted audio from web browser

Noticeable issues:
Lockscreen wakes up without notification or interaction periodically (3-5 times per hour)
Lockscreen clock lags behind until unlock then corrects itself (over the course of the day by over an hour)
LED stays engaged after hitting the lock button multiple times. Requires another click or a full unlock to disable LED.
After hours of idle phone unable to send texts or receive calls until reboot. (warm reboot)


Results of manual QA: Fail.
Phone not ready to trial daily driver.


If you would like to see more simple manual tests, or if you test something different feel free to post your reports.

Hello!

I just bought the new batch of the PinePhone with the convergence kit.
My payment went through but on the page I was redirected to there was no shipping info nor anything else really - the site was overall working very slowly too.
I also got no confirmation e-mail except the ones from my bank and from PayPal.
I am worried my order didn't actually get through somehow, or rather got through partially, hence my question.

Thanks for any help!