Just wanted to say thanks to the support team because they gave great support fast, so thanks.

When I first ran the Pine64+, using Debian, I had a couple of distribution supplied shell scripts that I would execute when updating the software.

/usr/local/sbin/pine64_update_uboot.sh;
/usr/local/sbin/pine64_update_kernel.sh;

Those scripts don't seem to be supplied with Armbian.

Is there a different way in Armbian that boot and the kernel get updated?

Thanks

CVBruce

I got my phone yesterday and it seems to be working per the various caveats I've been reading about online.  So I decided I might as well turn off the cell modem since it seems it will be a while before it's ready to use.  This seemed sensible since it devours the battery and the software toggles on the radios still seem a bit flakey.  However, when I turn the cell modem (sw1) off, wifi no longer appears functional in that I no longer see any access points.  I toggled sw2 off and back on thinking I might have accidentally flipped it too, but that didn't seem to help.  When I turn sw1 back on, I again see wifi access points and can connect.  I've been powering down the device before changing switch settings.  I'm (possibly incorrectly) assuming this is a software issue as it seems like something that would have been noticed if it were hardware... or it could be a problem with my device?

So I've posted about this issue here before; tried some things, still having same problems.

The short of it is that the wifi sucks on this device (or in Debian). I received the Debian 9.12 release early this year, having pre-ordered I believe around October of last year. Did all the related update stuff, etc. to get it running.

The only way I can keep a consistent connection on the device is that I have created a bash script that starts automatically at login, running an ongoing ping to yahoo.com. It runs in the background and when it is running, wireless works good. If that ping dies for some reason, soon the wifi drops and will not connect again. It was the only solution I could come up with to just get this thing to stay on the network.

I specifically ping the domain name (yahoo.com) to verify DNS resolution, which is odd. If I run a regular IP ping, it will work, but not as quickly as when I resolve DNS first; even pinging on my own network. However, opening a browser and going to yahoo.com or another website doesn't seem to pull off the same "kick-start" that the ping is doing; it won't resolve and display the page.

So, I'm open to any suggestions about a better OS to run, or something to make this thing run as it should. Love the hardware, I just think that the release with Debian 9.12 has been ....whatever.

Does anybody know a way to transfer files from a Linux desktop (POP OS 20.04) to the PinePhone using Mobian? The desktop doesn't recognize the PinePhone when connected through USB and I haven't been able to figure out how to transfer files.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I saw people installing different icons, which is a pretty cool bit of customization.
I was wondering, is there a way to set a different icon-sets from UI or does that have to be done from CLI?

Hello, I'm interested whether anyone here managed to successfully connect an LTE adapter to the PBP via NVMe.
If not, is there anything that would prevent it from being possible?

I am not sure when this stated working.
I checked yesterday and the menu entry was enabled, so I gave it a try.
It worked flawlessly. I connected three debian devices and did apt-get upgrades. Not once the connection was dropped and speed was around 1Mb/s. With my previous android based phone this was a nightmare: connections were dropped randomly, download speed was sluggish.
Again thank you for making this real.

Going off into my thoughts in the flashlight app thread I have been trying to see where the proximity /light sensor is being monitored to blank the screen if covered. I have not yet found where this is but suspect it is programmed within phosh/phoc. I was hoping to add a section to this where if the light level is above the threshold to blank the screen but below another threshold it would change the gtk theme to a dark variant.

After spending some time looking and not finding, I thought it might be done with an udev rule like:

I am on T-Mobile here in the US. It is actually a bit hilarious. I can make calls on 3G and texts on 4G. I have to move back and forth to use either function. Does anyone have any ideas getting my phone to use each function on the same setting?

I was able to get a Gmail app installed finally. The settings still will not allow me to set up any portion of my google account. I have installed version 75 of the software.

I want to see if anyone has any remedy to my above mentioned issues.

Also, please let me know what other issues you may be having.