Pinephone support for these two features may be more critical than anticipated.  According to the following article, T-Mobile has announced they will be turning off their 2G and 3G networks in 2021. Verizon is already doing so, AT&T apparently is accelerating their plans to shut down their 2G/3G to this year.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/cdma-vs-gsm-w...difference

I was doing some research in the UBPorts forum and discovered why a certain phone (Nexus 5) is not capable of doing VoLTE and wondered how the Pinephone compares in this regard.  Basically, it's because it cannot transmit and receive on both 3G and LTE networks at the same time due to no second diversity antenna. So support was never built out for it.

Can the Pinephone transmit and receive full duplex on both the  3G and LTE bands at the same time?

Hi everyone,

I just hoped someone can point me in the right direction please? I'd like to experiment with getting a couple of linux distros running on my Pine A64 which dont have any official images, are there any instructions available on how to build an image for this? I have 1 of tge original boards from the kickstarter campaign if this matters. I thought if there are any steps that need to be taken and things I should know then I can apply the build process to diffeent distros I use to see what I can get working well on my Pine.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

I'm wanting to install scrcpy and it's not available in Synaptic. It is available in snap packages and both show installed but when I go to run either I get command not found.

Any ideas or is it a situation where snaps dont work with arm processors?

i just received my pine phone today. it booted to android 7.1.1. i was under the impression that this wouldn't ship with an operating system. the system is in chinese and i try to goto setting to try to change the langue and the phone freezes i have to remove the battery to turn the phone off. also i notice that the phone gets really hot when its on the charger. is this normal?

Hej guys,

I finally got my pinephone and I am stoked by how much has been achieved so far!

Obviously I was super intent to flash my pinephone and get it to work asap (at least, what "working" currently means). I chose pmOS.

Unfortunately, I have, so far, been unable to get pmOS to work when flashed to a microSD card. Whenever I insert the SD card, which I flashed on my linux desktop, in the pinephone, the pinephone boots into the factory image. Am I doing something wrong, have I missed something?

Here's what I did:
1) Install pmbootstrap and pull
2) pmbootstrap status
2) Insert SD Card with adapter (it is /dev/sdc)
3) pmbootstrap init (tried several times, both with "phosh" and "plasma mobile"
4) pmbootstrap install --sdcard /dev/sdc
5) pmboostrap zap && pmbootstrap shutdown
6) insert sd card in pinephone, start pinephone

Before I did these steps, I already tried flashing the sd card with the newest (04/10) image using etcher. The same did happen, that is, it did not boot into pmOS but brought me to the factory test image instead.

Any help is greatly appreciated :-)

very nice ,it seems to be more definite in operation ,responding to touch etc .,few extra apps (nice).
it shows Terminal in the list of installed apps , BUT no icon appears ?  (again ).

  the link also ,does not identify what you are downloading   plasma/phosh/gnome ?

I see that for the model B, there is Android 9.0. Why there isn't Android 9.0 for H64 model A?

Hi all,

I'm looking to purchase a PBP in the UK. With the current wait on shipping times im looking to see if anyone has a new/lightly used PBP they would consider selling.

Please drop me a PM or reply here and we can work out a deal.

Thanks

Sam

To whom it may concern,

Since the shipping date of April 10th just passed  and I didn't receive a shipment confirmation, I looked up the next shipping date and saw that it's now the 17th of April. Have there been shipments sent out on the 10th or was the date just quietly adjusted by a week?
If the second would be true, I don't mind that at all (especially because of COVID-19) however I would have liked a quick heads up to the community that the shipping date was postponed.


Thank you for all your work you put in this community!

Best regards

Tharadash