PinePhone Pro Dev Edition - day 1

[brb78]

PinePhone Pro arrived today, and I was happily surprised to see it came with an included nano sim adapter and glass (?) screen protector. Having previously only owned a Braveheart I had expected to be on my own for any "add-ons". Otherwise still the just about the same packaging.

Played with the installed AOSP 9 until I realized it was without gps. Didn't check cellular, but that may also be isolated from the factory installed AOSP.

Nuked factory AOSP as directed in https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...stallation
"The phone will freeze and then the screen will go blank", I expected the screen to actually blank, instead the apps disappeared and the status bar time froze but the screen remained on with wallpaper displayed. 10 minutes later rebooted into Arch. Greeted with what seemed like a much longer and stronger vibration than the PP.

15W charging is a major upgrade and the battery is 3000mAh which is an improvement over Braveheart's 2800mAh.

Everything runs super smooth and responsively. However, having tried Arch, pmOS, and Mobian, only Mobian was able to power on and connect the EG25. Seems like there may be a bad config in Arch, didn't dig into pmOS.

Sms and phone calls work on Verizon (although without audio), and with the added hardware improvements the PPP is well worth it. If the PP was just barely useable as a DD, the PPP will be very useable as a DD once call audio is worked out.

[bjawebos]

Phone arrived a day early, and was happily surprised to see it came with an included nano sim adapter and glass (?) screen protector. Having previously only owned a Braveheart I had expected to be on my own for any "add-ons". Otherwise still the just about the same packaging.

Played with the installed AOSP 9 until I realized it was without gps. Didn't check cellular, but that may also be isolated from the factory installed AOSP.

Nuked factory AOSP as directed in https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...stallation
"The phone will freeze and then the screen will go blank", I expected the screen to actually blank, instead the apps disappeared and the status bar time froze but the screen remained on with wallpaper displayed. 10 minutes later rebooted into Arch. Greeted with what seemed like a much longer and stronger vibration than the PP.

Everything runs super smooth and responsively. However, having tried Arch, pmOS, and Mobian, only Mobian was able to power on and connect the EG25. Seems like there may be a bad config in Arch, didn't dig into pmOS.

Sms and phone calls work on Verizon, and with the added hardware improvements the PPP is well worth it. If the PP was just barely useable as a DD, the PPP is very useable as a DD.

Sounds good. 1 question: Do you have boot arch from sdcard and do you have try to flash this to the eMMC?

[dukla2000]

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Seems like there may be a bad config in Arch, ...

For us sad gits awaiting the Explorer Edition all news is welcome, thanks for report.

Occasionally on my dual boot pinephone setup Arch on the SDcard fails to register the modem - usually when the device tree is wrong for the kernel. Would imagine the @Danct12 releases are coherent but at this early stage could be a snafu?

[Danct12]

A64 PP: Arch on the SDcard fails to register the modem - usually when the device tree is wrong for the kernel

Supposedly, U-Boot auto detects board revision and then use the correct device tree for that board revision. Maybe your device is a v1.0? 

Would imagine the @Danct12 releases are coherent but at this early stage could be a snafu?

Yup, we're slowly moving forward.. in fact the latest rc3 kernel should now work with eg25-manager. With that aside, there's still things people in the community had to work on, like audio profiles, deep sleep and various other stuffs.

[brb78]

Yup, we're slowly moving forward.. in fact the latest rc3 kernel should now work with eg25-manager. With that aside, there's still things people in the community had to work on, like audio profiles, deep sleep and various other stuffs.

rc3 kernel does work with eg25-manager. Audio profiles and deep sleep, actually are the two current issues I'm now facing.

Now that I can make an receive calls its become apparent neither the mic nor speaker work (on Arch at least). It would seem to be at a lower level than "calls" since I also get no audio playback on web and sound recorder records a flat line.

Have had to

Code:

systemctl restart NetworkManger

to get wifi back after at least one deep sleep now that the phone has been left on long enough to go into sleep

But this is the first week of the Dev edition release, so all in all, its a rather impressive start.

[Saliency]

Everything runs super smooth and responsively. However, having tried Arch, pmOS, and Mobian, only Mobian was able to power on and connect the EG25. Seems like there may be a bad config in Arch, didn't dig into pmOS.

Do you just use the regular Pinephone Mobian distro or is there a Pinephone Pro distro somewhere?  (I don't see it anywhere.)

[brb78]

https://ci-images.mobian-project.org/

There are Pro images available for Phosh under the timestamped build folders

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Audio/mic doesn't work on Arch or Mobian for me. Didn't even get that far on pmOS since cellular radio didn't work.

[dukla2000]

A64 PP: Arch on the SDcard fails to register the modem - usually when the device tree is wrong for the kernel

Supposedly, U-Boot auto detects board revision and then use the correct device tree for that board revision. Maybe your device is a v1.0? 
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It is because I use Megi's p-boot: if there is a device tree upgrade then I have to retrieve it from /boot/ and build it into Megi's magic file format boot partition. Which is fine as fine as long as I remember.

Anyway, OT for this thread - was just an idea for the OP.

Exciting to see the progress, keep it up!

[brb78]

Soundrecorder, audio playback, and sound tests in the settings menu works on Arch now. Arch has come a long way in the ~48 hours I've been running it.

[brb78]

Call audio/mic works on Arch under 5.16.0-rc3-2-danctnix