Hello,

The wifi has been particularly bad with the PBP in my house, but not my other devices. I've been having issues with dropping connections and very slow connections here. Someone explained to me on IRC that the regulatory domain (CRDA) may be set incorrectly on the wifi so the signal levels and frequencies may not be lining up correctly.

So, this is what I did to get the regulatory domain set correctly to Canada with Manjaro:

1) Install the wireless-regdb package with 'sudo pacman -Syu wireless-regdb'
2) Edit the /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom uncommenting the line with the correct two letter country code for your area
3) Reboot

You can confirm the regulatory domain of your wifi by running 'sudo iw reg get'

If it shows "Country <your_two_letter_code>: ..." then it is now set.

However, if it shows "Country 00" then it is set to a worldwide default, which may not be optimal.

I hope that this helps others to improve the wifi on the PBP.

Chris

Goodmorning everyone. I have a question. I received the PinePhone in the past few days and I immediately removed the film that is provided in the packaging. But looking at the cell phone carefully there seems to be a second film to protect the display. It's possible?

Hello!

First I want to say thank you for the alpha 5 image- this is a nice implementation of plasma. 

I'm most excited about the pinephone as a convergence device, and I feel like this is one of the most likely projects to realize that goal. I've thus been trying to install desktop apps and had some success and a lot of failure.

I've managed to get xorg-xcalc to work so well it might be my default calculator from now on. I got the simple text editor Leafpad to install and all mouse actions work great, but I can't get the plasma keyboard to input info to it. I can't get Libreoffice to load at all.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks, or is this just a crazy use of the pinephone where it's at right now

Thanks

Hello everyone, I have some questions.

1. I know that the camera is not yet supported by ubports. Do you know when this will happen?

2. I am unable to receive files via bluetooth even if the connection between the two devices is successful

3. Can't change APN settings. Is there a guide on how to do it? Thanks so much.

4. I can't activate the speaker during calls. How you do it?

Hi there!

I know we don't have a working camera yet, but there's no reason we shouldn't be able to use the flash LED, right?
So I've hacked a small app to do just that: turn the flashlight on and off.

You can install it with:

Hi Everyone,

I received my new Pinephone yesterday and was very impressed with the build quality.  despite watching the videos, I was really expecting something more brick-like and not the nice form factor it arrived in.  The OS experience is pretty similar to what I had seen in the videos.  Its very early days and needs some work.

This is where my questions come in.  I'm not very good at coding so can't really be of use there.  However, is there any testing that I could be doing that would help the project?  I get that it's not ready as a daily driver but I want to help this succeed and want to know how I can help out.

Second questions is around donating.  I know that Ubports has a donations page and I plan on doing something there.  Is there something similar for Pine64?

Thank you!

Jmasters

One of my major annoyances with the PBP right now is that sound doesn't work after deep sleep.

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, the 5.7 kernel from Manjaro/tsys with the hwaccel patches, and the BSP uboot (as the mainline uboot/ATF don't support deep sleep yet, and I consider this an important feature).  If you're following along, you're on your own if you're doing something different.

Coming out of deep sleep, the system simply doesn't have sound.  If you run the proper incantations, and things aren't using the sound devices, you can, with a bit of fiddling, get sound working again.

Experimentally, playing with modules, I traced the issue down to module snd_soc_es8316 - coded up here: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/tsys/linux-pi...s/es8316.c

Compare this with, say, the es8328 file: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/tsys/linux-pi...s/es8328.c

You'll notice, if you look in the ops struct, that there's a suspend and resume function in the 8328 codec - but NOT in the 8316 codec!

My theory is that the reason there's no sound after deep sleep is because the 8316 driver simply doesn't know how to properly reset the codec after sleep.  When the module is re-inserted, the device is re-initialized, which is why sound comes back - but there's no need to do this, if the module can simply perform the proper actions on resume.  Right?

Let's implement that set of functions and try it out!

Hi.
I received this message:
EPERM: Operation not permitted, open '/dev/rdisk3'
Any ideas what to here?
Thanks
Ilan

Hi everyone.  Just wondering if anyone has any experience in having a PineTime watch delivered to Canada.  Trying to determine what the import taxes or duty might be for delivery to Canada.

Thanks in advance!

support for slarm64 for Pinebook Pro (aarch64 unofficial port slackware)

the system can be assembled as armhf and aarch64, assemblies are made under aarch64

links: