(04-14-2022, 07:35 PM)brb78 Wrote: It makes calls, sends and receives SMS (and MMS now!) and can connect to cellular data. For a device with software that has a total development budget that is likely negligibly above zero, I'd say that's rather impressive for less than 6 months.
Help out or be patient. Filing (relevant and informed) bug reports is a form of helping if you can't muster anything more technical.
I wish the battery lasted more than 4 hours, but I'm also not paying Goopple 100 bars of gold pressed latinum and all my data forever. I'm pretty confident enough other people also want more than 0.75 on-hold sessions with their cable provider that, this too, will eventually be fixed.
My PPP phone is borked and will not make calls as it once did. The cause, I believe is due to sd/sim card holder failure after countless reinstalls of sd cards trying new software since the actual memory installed in the phone is not usable without major tweaks. There is no movement from pinephone to make this part available for purchase as I have requested from them for 2 months. There is a start of some program where you take your phone to a repair shop and they are to send pictures to pinephone and then they will send you a FREE $0.30 part. This is no forward motion.
I have put 125 messages on this forum providing info on what I have figured out and describing the problems I have found to, hopefully, solicit comments. I have worked with unix and linux for 60 years. I see no concise rational set of instructions that would help anyone with setting up or troubleshooting a new PPP phone. The forum is a total mish-mash of misleading, out of date, and erroneous comments and needs to be restarted.
Good luck with your battery on a phone that discharges your battery when you put it on the charger. I use my PP (where all works, even the camera) to charge the battery to put into my PPP.
(04-14-2022, 06:38 AM)lot378 Wrote: Drop off in activity? Almost every post on this forum nowadays is exclusively either about the PP or the PPP. Other Pine64 products sometimes get a mention but that has become a rarity (probably because they are unobtainable even the LTS).
No, the forum needs neither a "purge" or a "new beginning".
Like life, you need to make your best judgement on the information available then make your choice to proceed or not. The old threads may contain out of date information they are still a valuable record and can be learned from.
Yes, drop off in activity. There used to be half a dozen comments per hour and now there is one per day.