We have released amazfish for Ubuntu touch recently. I have wrote down my thoughts:

https://blog.mlich.cz/2023/10/pinetime-experience/

I have a stupid UI question. I am using PPP with Manjaro/phosh-dev (currently retrieved 2023-10-11), but this applies to all the Gnome-ish versions I have tried.

How do I stop an application using the GUI?

The app windows don't have a little X in the corner. The only ways I have found to stop an app is:
- "Force Quit" using the "usage" task manager. But some of the apps seem to hide from the task manager
- Hook up a keyboard and send a <CONTROL-Q> to the application, but some of the apps seem to ignore it.
- kill -9 pid 

I feel I am missing something obvious.

Or, how do I configure the app windows to have a little X in the corner, so I can stop them using the GUI?

For years, I have used KDE or XFCE. So, this might just be a stupid Gnome question.

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30...t-dilemma/

Well, I ordered my trusty PBP back in March 2020, and it's been my trusty every-day driver (for non-work-related) for the last three and a half years.  It's been a journey!

I upgraded to a 1 TB EMMC using the M.2/NGFF NVMe SSD Interface Adapter.  I updated the old trackpad drivers.  Many, many OS updates on Arch (Manjaro) 

I keep hearing rumors of a newer PBP coming out some day, but I don't think that's happened (did I miss anything)?  I would like an upgrade, preferably in CPU and RAM.  What recommendations do you all have?

• Will there be a newer model?  (Or did I miss a big upgrade somewhere?)
  
• Any tried and true ways to speed up the CPU or save the 4GB of RAM?
  

(10-11-2023, 07:39 AM)Phillip Bell Wrote: Update to add I have the Pinephone as well, but I don't really use it.  It's just not a good everyday phone - maybe the Explorer edition would be an improvement.

Hi fellow PinePhone users,

I am using this shell script to handle cyclical suspend:

https://gitea.privatedns.org/xavi/pineph.../sleepwalk

However, a few times a day my phone fails to wake up from suspend, forcing a hard reboot. Failing to wake up usually means either:

- The screen remains black (and no backlight is shown). When this happens, the A64 runs particularly hot.
- The screen turns on, but the system is completely unresponsive (might be able to do *something*, but it is then unable to load any program, file, etc. until it freezes completely).
- The phone reboots itself.

This is a serious stability issue that is affecting my phone at random times, and it never happens when suspend is disabled (for example, when the phone is charging). Because of this issue, it is very hard to get >1 day uptime, and sometimes not even >6 hour.

However, I have no clue at how to debug this issue, or whether other people are having it, too.

Any pointers?

Best regards,
Xavi

How can I get the permissions to write to the external SD card on my Ubuntu PC which I have pulled out from my Pinephone running postmarketOS and sticked into my Ubuntu PC with an SD card reader?

I’ve installed postmarkedOS on the external SD card of my Pinephone as well as Abiword. I have created a file with Abiword and saved it. Then I’ve plugged it into a PC running Ubuntu. I can open the Abiword file on my Ubuntu PC. But when I want to save it a get an error, that I have no permission to write this file onto my SD card from my postmarketOS Pinephone. How can I get this permission?

Putting all in a thread what has taken me like a week to gather from various other threads, lots of frustrating trial and error, and stupid mistakes on my part.

In my opinion, the OG Pinephone is not daily-driver ready unless you're ready to have all your friends laugh at you like you just drove up in a clown car. So please don't buy one just because you could get Verizon MMS on it. But that's my opinion, I'll save that for the end. First, the facts as I've seen them.

1. I had a micro-sim put in it at my local Verizon store (it was a Verizon reseller, not a Verizon-owned store, because it's closer and I'm lazy). I did not tell them it was a pinephone; I just made up some story that I got it from a friend. They probably wondered if it was stolen. They put the sim card in and the bars showed up at the top after a minute. Point being, you can get a micro-sim put in at the store. (I'm on Verizon proper, not a MVNO/reseller/whatever they're called.)
   
2. The MMS settings for Verizon are very wonky, because they're different depending on what you want to do.
   For MMS: 
   

•      In Chats (chatty), select "Preferences", then "SMS and MMS Settings"
  
•           MMSC is http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
  
•           APN is vzwapp (note that every other reference will tell you vzwinternet - that doesn't work for MMS on Pinephone)
  
•      In Chats (chatty), select "Preferences" then "Purple Settings"
  
•           "Enable purple accounts" is on (I think this is needed, can't even be sure anymore)
  
•      Under regular Settings, select "Mobile Network"
  
•           Make sure that Mobile Data is on; Data Roaming might be needed too
  
•      Under "Advanced", choose "Access Point Names"
  
•           Choose the one that has vzwapp (note this matches the APN that you set in Chats)
  
• You can use https://interpage.net/cgi-bin/freepage to send yourself up to 5 test MMS messages in a week.
  
  

• Yes for $200 it's a sweet POC, and a huge tip of the cap to all who have been involved. I actually bought this over a year ago and put it away for a while. The progress has been amazing.
  
• Remember, this is a reference implementation for developers to work on, with intentionally inexpensive components to get it out in the wild. The people that can do something with it have done a lot. It still has components that are relatively ancient.
  
• The phone works but you sound like you're in a fish tank. I used the speaker phone once, and my colleague on the other end immediately said "holy crap, what is that noise?" The alarm in his voice was palpable. Headset is the only hands free option, and even then you still sound like you're in a fish tank.
  
• The camera is potato quality. It works, but you will never actually take a photo and show it to anyone unless you're an expert in tweaking digital settings for photos, and you want to spend hours doing so.
  
• Browsing ranges from impressive, to super aggravating. Switching between apps is slow and wonky. The processor gets overwhelmed with various tasks, or switching tasks. I've found it fairly common to have to restart, just while browsing with a few apps open.
  
• You have to use flatpak to get a bunch of apps, or privacyshark, or Waydroid, or do without.
  
• There's lots of other stuff like that.
  

I have been using the Mobian Phosh partition for a while now. I count three reinstallations of it. But it has not faltered since the spring.

The latest news is that I installed the pinephonepro_support and pinephone_tweaks packages instead of the pinephonepro_tweaks package. The audio playback is not chancy now.

The installation gladly accepts a Bluetooth mouse, so a screen magnification of 100% is usable instead of 200%.

I was able to fix the missing keyboard symbols for the Linux consoles, but not for the Wayland windows.

The Web app still has a memory leak. My modified Megapixels  works, but it has lost its auto exposure capability. And the rear camera does not recover from suspension. The Camera app  works, as does the Voice Recorder.The Mpv app plays even vob video files when they are opened in the Files app.

In order to recover from the unmaintained Manjaro Plasma distribution for the Pinephone Pro, I attempted to convert the Manjaro distribution to use the DanctNIX Arch repositories. But, although I found a cookbook list of steps to convert from Manjaro, the cookbook did not specify correctly how to renew the Arch keys. And I am not sure if the DanctNIX repository is included.

So I did not persist, and then gave Rhino Linux a tryout.

The keyboard symbols became a priority for me, so I tried to fix the issue on the Mobian Phosh partition. I could only manage to fix the missing symbols on the Linux console screens.

Next, I installed a btrfs image of DanctNIX SXMO for the Pinephone Pro. The main partition needed extension using gparted on a USB connection, and the btrfs format had to be explicitly extended. The complete re-installation of the Arch keys was needed. The required Zathura package was not preinstalled, and Megapixels and Surf do not work. The btrfs snapshots are not preconfigured. A bluetooth mouse will not install, but it is kind of an alien idea to SXMO.

But the keyboard symbols work!

Hi all!

When reading this (thanks Peter):
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-39-2023/
My attention was caught to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvI6Qp5qXN8

And that triggers an idea that has been in my mind for a long time.
Why we do not have simple way to record videos with PP because first video recording scripts have been available for a long time?

Well now we have (no video preview because PP will choke to that but it is really fast and enjoyable to use - even child can use it)
https://gitlab.com/Alaraajavamma/pinepho...-recording

I put some thing together with ducktape and glue but biggest work for that repo is done by luigi311 and in general, really many other than me xD.

But now it works.

TLDR: Run this command in terminal:
git clone https://gitlab.com/Alaraajavamma/pinepho...-recording && cd pinephone-gui-for-video-recording && sudo chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh
And start recording videos with your PP.

Issues etc. are welcome - I have tested this with pmos Phosh but it should work with most distros.