Does convergence dock have to be 'activated' in software?

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You may freely disregard the "undocked" icon/title in the Phosh pull-down menu.  There are quite a few open issues in Phosh, but the Ethernet port and charging will work regardless of the displayed docking status.

What kind of charger do you use?  The official dock seems to be limiting chargers that conform to the Battery Charging 1.2 specification, so at most 500 mA (or so) can reach the phone.  If you use a charger that conforms to the Power Delivery specification, the dock should pass most of the power available from the charger to the phone.

ah! OK, thanks about the icon... needed to reconfigure some things with my ISP, my pinephone was barely operating (needs OS flashed) so combined with that I wasn't sure what was going on. When on my ISP account page it showed that the Pinephone had indeed connected through the ethernet (good!), but I wasn't able to do anything with it because it kept locking up.

I will look into the charger situation.
thanks again!
PS I'm subscribed to this thread but not getting email notices, just happened to check in manually and saw your post. I'll have to see what's up with that...