(01-06-2023, 09:45 AM)britelite Wrote: the inability to transfer files besides an awkward workaround of pulling out a microsd card (I couldn't figure out proposed SSH or syncthing or other solutions, although they apparently work for others - I think this is solvable but I saw even a recent post where someone was struggling with it and I couldn't follow along with their solution. This was a major use case functionality failure, as I wanted to type things up and transfer them over off the Pinephone and was unable to do so - I had expected I could just plug the device in to a computer or a usb stick to transfer files back and forth);

(01-06-2023, 09:45 AM)britelite Wrote: I think maybe software development momentum dropped off more than expected?

(01-06-2023, 09:45 AM)britelite Wrote: I saw someone made a backlight for the keyboard which I think is a good idea.

(01-06-2023, 09:45 AM)britelite Wrote: the inability to transfer files besides an awkward workaround of pulling out a microsd card (I couldn't figure out proposed SSH or syncthing or other solutions, although they apparently work for others - I think this is solvable but I saw even a recent post where someone was struggling with it and I couldn't follow along with their solution. This was a major use case functionality failure, as I wanted to type things up and transfer them over off the Pinephone and was unable to do so - I had expected I could just plug the device in to a computer or a usb stick to transfer files back and forth);

• First check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the phone to make sure it is reasonably secure. In particular, you want these:
  
  Code:

  PermitRootLogin no
PasswordAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
  because, considering how trivial the PIN-style user passwords normally used on Plasma Mobile are, you definitely do not want to rely on those for authentication. Instead, put your desktop/notebook's public key in the PinePhone's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. (Only if you cannot figure out a way to set this up without using SFTP, copy the file over SFTP with password authentication temporarily enabled and then immediately disable it. But it is more secure if you transfer the public key using a USB stick or a MicroSD card.)
  
• Enable sshd with
  
  Code:

  sudo systemctl enable --now sshd.service

• Make sure both your desktop/notebook and your PinePhone are connected to the same WLAN (wireless local area network, i.e., WiFi network).
  
• Run
  
  Code:

  ip addr
  on the PinePhone to figure out its current IPv4 address. (If you are on your home network, you can probably get your WiFi router to assign a static IP address that you can then, if you cannot or do not want to remember it, give a static name through the /etc/hosts file on your desktop/notebook.)
  
• Point your favorite GUI file manager on the desktop/notebook to sftp:// + the IPv4 address you got above. (Pretty much any GNU/Linux GUI file manager supports SFTP out of the box.)
  

(01-26-2023, 11:17 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: I usually use sshfs and it works OK. NFS (Nightmare File System) or Samba might be other options. It's still convenient though to just be able to hook up the USB cable with the Pinephone becoming a USB drive. I'm running Mobian and it does not support doing that directly, but with tow-boot it's easy to boot into a mode where you can at least get to the eMMC that way.

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: @topic: I used my Pinephone with Mobian for over 1 year (I think) as my daily driver and was most of the time really happy with it, it was definitely not perfect (low performance, sub-optimal battery life, bulky, have to use usb stick to transfer files, a crash once every few weeks or months, a strangely dis- and reconnecting modem since a few months, I have to start pulseaudio manually after boot since a few months, ...)... BUT it was usable and still absolutely ok for me for staying away from Google/Apple!

Since a few days I think about ditching my two PinePhones for the first time and get something completely different*, for a current combination of three main reasons:

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 1. Since about 2-3 weeks my main phone crashes (sometimes) OR completely freezes (very often) OR the touch screen "gets stuck" (less often) multiple times a day (at least twice, sometimes more) and needs a hard reboot. It happens while phone is in use at least twice a day - but happens also nearly every night while it's on the charger, in the morning the phone is "on" but you don't get to see more as the screen backlight. Perhaps it's this "flipping frames bug" I've read about here on the forum, but then I don't understand WHY it happens now multiple times a day and last year only once a few weeks or even months (I don't use my phone more or different now!). Therefore I think it has more to do with an Mobian update OR (more likely) the hardware is just dying...

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 2. I wanted to switch to my back-up-PinePhone as my new daily driver to check if it is more stable (nearly unused, newer revision) and updated it, but it still has this problem https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15076 which I was never able to solve. And you HAVE to reboot your PinePhone sometimes, and it should take 1-2 minutes maximum then and not 10 minutes if you need your phone right now...  

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 3. Axolotl (Signal) (which of course already had some bugs before) is nearly unusable for me since a few days ( https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12047&page=21 ), but these days I really need it. I'm afraid I will have to use a device which can run official Signal client or an other Axolotl build wich is technically different to the Mobian one (UBports AFAIK?).

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: *Not easy to find a replacement for a PinePhone user: A Volla Phone with UBports? No Mobile-OS without Full-Disk-Encryption for me, that's a No-Go! A PinePhone Pro? Not really usable at the moment AFAIK! A expensive Librem 5? That would be only remaining option I know of (beside a de-googled-Android-Thingy of course... ) and would hopefully at least successful boot and don't crash (that often), but official Signal Client also won't work there. Don't know what I should do/get...

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: It's sad, I love it to have a real Linux on my smartphone and I had a good time with my (main) PinePhone after switching to Mobian (except some upgrade, dependency and audio problems Mobian had a few months ago, but they were all fixable)... but I don't really want to by a THIRD PinePhone (non-pro) in less than 2 years and just HOPE it doesn't have fundamental problems like "not booting 9/10 times" or "freezes 2-4 times a day"...

(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 1. Since about 2-3 weeks my main phone crashes (sometimes) OR completely freezes (very often) OR the touch screen "gets stuck" (less often) multiple times a day (at least twice, sometimes more) and needs a hard reboot. It happens while phone is in use at least twice a day - but happens also nearly every night while it's on the charger, in the morning the phone is "on" but you don't get to see more as the screen backlight. Perhaps it's this "flipping frames bug" I've read about here on the forum, but then I don't understand WHY it happens now multiple times a day and last year only once a few weeks or even months (I don't use my phone more or different now!). Therefore I think it has more to do with an Mobian update OR (more likely) the hardware is just dying...

2. I wanted to switch to my back-up-PinePhone as my new daily driver to check if it is more stable (nearly unused, newer revision) and updated it, but it still has this problem https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15076 which I was never able to solve. And you HAVE to reboot your PinePhone sometimes, and it should take 1-2 minutes maximum then and not 10 minutes if you need your phone right now...  

(01-27-2023, 03:07 AM)alaraajavamma Wrote: I am using this:
https://github.com/viveris/uMTP-Responder

And my setup is working like this:
- I have to be logged in
- I plug USB to computer and I can see my Home folder as external drive
(I have disabled all hidden folders and everything outside Home folder but that is not mandatory)

Not sure does it work with Mobian but with Manjaro it works.