(06-08-2020, 02:11 PM)UNi Wrote: Hi all,
my Pinephone UBPorts Ed. has arrived today.
I tried to check the camera with the app built-in, but the screen stays black!
Maybe it is a stupid question, but: Is there a hint to activate it?
The hardware switches in the inside of the phone are all in the state of delivery, I have not changed anything.
Regards
Udo
As the ubports blog post mentioned when you bought the pinephone the phone is not daily driver ready for everyone (there are some that might be willing to put up with these bugs and missing features and use it daily, and there's others that wont be able to and should wait for more updates). There is not camera support, power management is a work in progress, GPS might not always work, there is not support for direct media transfer over USB in ubuntu touch right now, no MMS (multimedia SMS messages) support, and there's still lots of bugs.
Despite the hardware being production ready, the software is still essentially in beta.
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/...e-open-271
Quote:The Ubuntu Touch image that will ship on the PinePhone will be highly functional, but not necessarily 'daily driver'ready - depending of course on your requirements. It will support all core phone functionality, such as outgoing and incoming voice calls, SMS texts and LTE. In addition, it will have GPS location and GPU hardware acceleration for the system and its apps. That said, some features - notably camera support, battery life conservation and USB Host [that means plug and play for perhipherals such as mice] will still be under active development at the time of shipping.