02-09-2023, 11:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2023, 11:48 AM by silverwing.)
I received my Pinephone Manjaro Edition in November 2020 and I used it until in summer 2021 I broke the screen. At the same time PPP was announced so I decided to switch to using my old Nokia E5 device while waiting for it. And at some point I switched to using my android tablet as my primary phone due to needing a more modern device, and not wanting to buy anything.
At that time I tried different distributions and environments, but Mobian + Phosh worked best for me: The biggest problem was with modem disappearing sometimes.
On that setup I was successfully doing nearly everything I needed from a phone: calling, smsing, reading email, telegram, listening to music and reading books. The only thing that was missing is navigation(I could not find any good offline map). Battery life was horrible though -- the phone lasted for couple of hours, no more if it was active. But left alone it could stay more than a day(especially if it lost the modem :|). One of the best things was connecting to phone via ssh and performing maintenance tasks and kicking files via scp(still are with PPP).
After I received PPP in October, I ran into issues with calls(mic seemed to not be working), but at some point I found the solution to this. Now of all environments I've chosen Plasma as the one that seem to work best for me. And of all distributions I stopped on PostmarketOS. I have had no issues with SMS whatsoever, but had some issues with call audio(do not have that many "real" calls to test this properly, but of test calls I get about 90% successful). And Plasma keeps true to it's name and crashes a lot(at least once a day I have to reboot my phone due to this).
I am also looking on SXMO, but there I have another issue with call audio -- this time, it seems like both mic and output are sent to peer, causing awful feedback. I did not have time to resolve that yet.
Currently I only use browser(angelfish), telegram, sms and calls on my phone. I also use my password manager on it(keepassxc). For everything else I carry a secondary device(aforementioned android tablet).
I hope to find some time soon and try to resolve some of the issues I have with my PPP now, so that I can avoid the need for a secondary device.
And I hope to get rid of Android entirely soon.It's too limiting for my workflow.
At that time I tried different distributions and environments, but Mobian + Phosh worked best for me: The biggest problem was with modem disappearing sometimes.
On that setup I was successfully doing nearly everything I needed from a phone: calling, smsing, reading email, telegram, listening to music and reading books. The only thing that was missing is navigation(I could not find any good offline map). Battery life was horrible though -- the phone lasted for couple of hours, no more if it was active. But left alone it could stay more than a day(especially if it lost the modem :|). One of the best things was connecting to phone via ssh and performing maintenance tasks and kicking files via scp(still are with PPP).
After I received PPP in October, I ran into issues with calls(mic seemed to not be working), but at some point I found the solution to this. Now of all environments I've chosen Plasma as the one that seem to work best for me. And of all distributions I stopped on PostmarketOS. I have had no issues with SMS whatsoever, but had some issues with call audio(do not have that many "real" calls to test this properly, but of test calls I get about 90% successful). And Plasma keeps true to it's name and crashes a lot(at least once a day I have to reboot my phone due to this).
I am also looking on SXMO, but there I have another issue with call audio -- this time, it seems like both mic and output are sent to peer, causing awful feedback. I did not have time to resolve that yet.
Currently I only use browser(angelfish), telegram, sms and calls on my phone. I also use my password manager on it(keepassxc). For everything else I carry a secondary device(aforementioned android tablet).
I hope to find some time soon and try to resolve some of the issues I have with my PPP now, so that I can avoid the need for a secondary device.
And I hope to get rid of Android entirely soon.It's too limiting for my workflow.
