(08-25-2025, 02:51 PM)Jite Wrote: ...I can see you are on mobian. Have you tried danctnix arch linux arm? I have found that the most consistent and best for me and I have tried all the major ones including mobian...

Quote:- I can't get the audio on calls working properly. I can hear them, but they can't hear me.

(08-22-2025, 11:58 PM)teekay Wrote: For those who have a PPP gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, what's stopping you from daily driving it? When I got mine earlier this year, I tried it out and made a list of things that stopped me from ditching my Android for it, which was:

• Need physical protection (cover). I looked around for other phone covers that could work for the PPP, but eventually got the PPP TPU cover. I wish it had the corner bumpers as well as extending over the front screen for better protection, so I'll keep looking for alternative covers.
  
• The biggest issue was battery life. Using Mobian, suspend worked, which helped, but I could barely browse the web for 1 hour before the battery meter dropped from 100% to less than 30%. YouTube went from 100% to 5% in under 30 mins! Luckily I discovered this is a software problem rather than hardware, hence my efforts to patch the kernel to fix the battery meter (see other threads), which is now working quite reasonably for me.
  
• A semi-working camera so I can document things or scan QR codes (not worried too much about quality). This is working now.
  
• Less of an issue: an offline GPS app for my camping/hiking trips. There are some options now (not all mobile optimized yet) like Organic Maps.
  

After the battery fix (still WIP), I've been able to daily drive the PPP for more than 2 weeks now without once reaching for my Android. I am surprised at how many things I use that works great:

• Calls and SMS
  
• Bluetooth audio playback
  
• Bluetooth keyboard for some terminal usage
  
• Software updates (and some great apps on Flathub like Foliate, Cozy, Papers, Telegram, Delta Chat)
  
• Web browsing with Firefox + uBlock Origin
  
• Media playback (videos, audiobooks, podcasts)
  
• Reading e-books
  
• Contacts/Calendar sync with my Nextcloud
  
• Alarms work even when the phone is suspended
  
• General reliability, i.e. phone doesn't randomly reboot or heat up in my pocket, etc.
  

There are still a few bugs I'm logging and hoping to either file an issue or fix myself, but nothing too serious. So the PPP might be discontinued, but I feel like it's just come alive for me! I ordered a USB-C dock so I can try out the convergence feature (there's a YouTube video of a guy doing web dev on this PPP like this and it has me excited!)

So if you've got a PPP and you aren't using it, what's stopping you?

(10-29-2025, 10:38 PM)teekay Wrote: I think it is a kernel regression, I too get the crash on suspend sometimes (and others have mentioned it in the chat). The phone gets a bit hot and does not wake up, requiring a hard reboot. This has definitely made it that I cannot daily the phone anymore. I might try going back to an earlier kernel version to see if it becomes stable again.