(12-08-2021, 05:55 AM)Smeegle Wrote: TLDR; anbox keyboard is unusable so it is not possible to run android applications on the pinephone, which makes pinephone unusable as a daily driver.  If this is resolved I think it can be a daily driver (within reason)

(10-19-2021, 09:23 AM)Barugon Wrote:

1. Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?  Yes.
   
2. If yes: What distribution do you use?  Mobian (Bookworm).
   
3. Which desktop environment/interface do you use?  Phosh.
   
4. Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need or is something missing?  Mostly. Some way to silence the ringer and an alarm clock that actually wakes up the phone and alarms would be nice.
   
5. Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third party applications or customisations?  Not that I know of.
   
6. Which customisations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?  Just change to dark theme and install a couple of needed apps.
   

[edit] It would also be great if the notification light wouldn't blink when the phone is entering low power mode.

(12-08-2021, 07:58 AM)kqlnut Wrote:

(12-08-2021, 05:55 AM)Smeegle Wrote: TLDR; anbox keyboard is unusable so it is not possible to run android applications on the pinephone, which makes pinephone unusable as a daily driver.  If this is resolved I think it can be a daily driver (within reason)

I haven't tried it myself yet, but take a look at Waydroid. It seems very promising for running Android applications on (Wayland) Linux and apparently runs much better than Anbox.

• The keyboard layouts work, I've got both serbian layouts (cyrillic, latinic, vertical and horizontal) working.
  
• Downloading pictures and (probably) sound recordings from the phone just works, if I boot into Jumpdrive, it appears as a mounted disk. Have to sudo mount it to be writable, though.
  
• Flash doesn't work in Megapixels, though the button is there, but it does nothing. However, I can turn the flashlight on, take a picture - that works, and is actually quite nice, as I can see what I'm doing
  
• My provider has the USSD menu, to which I should reply with a SMS containing just the digit of the option I choose. However, no button appears on the dialog showing the message. Looking for USSD codes on wikipedia (!) I noticed that the number dialed can have trailing components, so instead of dialing *100# to get my status, and then sending a message with just a "2" inside to get a SMS with details, I call *100*2# and get the same SMS. This may help someone, I hope.
  
• Looks cool with all serif fonts everywhere  
  
• On maps, can't get rid of keyboard after I type the locations, so the visible portion of the map is about two postage stamps.
  
• There's the Tweaks app and I've supplied two .mp3 files (also .ogg versions) to be my ringtone and incoming message tone, but it doesn't work. I'll have to dive into some config editing.
  

(09-21-2022, 09:59 AM)cone99 Wrote: The modem still disappears occasionally and calls and texts are still a little hit and miss but... all in all, happy days

(09-21-2022, 10:25 AM)zetabeta Wrote:

(09-21-2022, 09:59 AM)cone99 Wrote: The modem still disappears occasionally and calls and texts are still a little hit and miss but... all in all, happy days

for that disappearing modem, i recommend the following setting. it wastes more battery though. it is recommend for almost opensource modem, but i recommend for both stock and almost opensource modem.

Code:

## Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-modem-eg25.rules
## Look at the first line where it says
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2c7c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0125", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
## And change it to ON
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2c7c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0125", ATTR{power/control}="on"

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SETTINGS.md