What's working

• Everything
  

• You tell me.
  

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I am interested in the story of pine64 --- who are the people behind pine64, how did it get started, how many people work there, etc?

Does that story exist somewhere?  I can't seem to find anything related to that on the website,

Candidly, it seems amazing to me that a group of people could build the PBP, the Pinephone, a watch, etc given that such broad skills are required to make all of this stuff work.  

Ultimately, I am impressed and want to learn more.  

Hi everyone, 

Just wanted to check in and see what others have found with the cable received with the PinePhone. Mine is red, I thought it was a standard USB-C cable but it turns out it only works for charging. I tried plugging in this cable to an android phone and linux PC, the lsusb command comes up with nothing/can't find device. Switched to another cable to find that it does work as a standard usb cable, data transfer/charge capable. 
Hopefully it is as designed, just for charging. 

Thanks

If you are experiencing serious trackpad issues, manifesting as severe input delay and/or slow response, then the following two threads are worth investigating.

I suggest reading Thread 2 first.

Thread 1
Thread 2 [reddit]

So now that I've gotten it working how I want, I'll post the daemon I'm using on Fedora XFCE to handle power management, CRUST, etc.
It's written with the following assumptions:

• You're on an Xorg desktop-oriented GUI on a real Linux distro
  
• You don't wanna have to set up essential apps to use wakelocks and all that stuff
  
• You can run something as root
  
• You have the Xorg utilities xset, xinput, and xrandr installed
  
• You have set your DE's power manager to ignore the power button
  
• You have Python 3.6 or above. Fedora 32 etc use 3.8 by default.
  

• Hit up then down volume keys to rotate screen from portrait to landscape, including touchscreen input (in sequence, since hardware doesn't allow vol up+down at same time)
  
• Hit power button to 'soft lock', leaving the phone running, e.g. if you're playing music but keep the phone in your pocket. This shuts off all but 1 core and scales the remaining one to 600Mhz, in addition to shutting off the screen and touch input. It sets monitor inactivity to 5 seconds (changeable in PPConfig.py) to prevent battery wasteage, since it seems the modem is 'chatty', sending random events quite often, which light up the screen.
  
• Hit vol down + power (at same time) to 'hard lock', this does everything soft lock does, but puts the phone to sleep as well. It should wake on incoming calls and texts if you've configured your modem properly. You are given (changeable in PPConfig.py) 30 seconds to hit the power button, then the phone sleeps again. 
  
• In any case, you can always wake the phone fully using the power button.
  

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: