(02-10-2021, 05:13 AM)acrux Wrote:(02-10-2021, 03:56 AM)Basic Wrote: When I did I noticed I could not "x" out of applications, in order to exit from an application I had to either restart or shut down the phone.
It helped if the only application you opened was Discover and you performed an full system update with it. Then the screen bottom buttons appeared and the phone was sort of usable. Similar reports were in Manjaro subsection of this forum.
Not Exactly, the phone was from the latest batch of Manjaro KDE Plasma. It was not working out of the box.
I flashed with Jump Drive to the latest Manjaro Plasma Mobile. Then it sort of worked ( no SMS) , crashed just plugged it to charge, no applications running that I know of...
Now same issue on Mobian, and neither swiping or toggle keys do not work.
(02-10-2021, 09:07 AM)The3DmaN Wrote:(02-10-2021, 03:56 AM)Basic Wrote: I got my KDE Plasma edition pine phone in early February. Took me a day or two to open things up...
When I did I noticed I could not "x" out of applications, in order to exit from an application I had to either restart or shut down the phone.
(Just for the record: I alerted Pine to this issue at the support e-mail with photos of the original OS not working properly on February 5th, got an e-mail reply ( automated?) that if I needed to open a ticket...which I did last night...I was trying to avoid making a deal about something that I thought should be able to be fixed with an OS flash)
So I figured it was a bad OS flash, and downloaded the jump drive from the link kindly provided by Pine at the wiki page...
I flashed the phone with the latest release of KDE plasma Mobile...some things seemed "OK", The "x" at the bottom of the phone appeared, and my sim card worked ( yay) and the only problem was sending SMS that did not work. There were some issues...some lags some screen flicker as well at times, then a few days later while plugged in to charge the phone crashed....it would not start back up again...Wifi toggle switch was in the "off" position, mobile data was on...
Well that was enough of KDE Plasma for me , so I decided to flash the Feb 7th build of Mobian to the phone. Guess what, SAME ISSUE as originally came with the factory KDE Plasma! I could only open applications, not close them...very, very weird. No updates helped with this issue
any suggestions? I cant be sure if it's a hardware ( eMMC ?) or software issue...
Some UI's (Phosh) have swipe to close, but your screenshots look like Plasma Mobile which from my testing is still pretty buggy. With that said, all the distros and UI's for the phone are still largely a work in progress. Plasma Mobile specifically still has some bugs to work out, and is really not ready for daily consumer use. Probably the closest UI ready for daily use is Phosh, but even that has some bugs. SMS (not MMS) works on most but not all distros, and the wifi and mobile data can be glitchy depending on the distro as well. At this point the PinePhone was really released for developers who are trying to get software running on mobile as well as the devs that are trying to work out all the bugs in the distro, UI, modem, etc. For early adopters, patience is the key. The OS will get there eventually, but for now try out different distros and UI's to see what works best for you.
One pic is Manjaro KDE Plasma Mobile, the OTHER is...Mobian. The phone came with Manjaro just this month... I put Mobian on it and it has the same issues!
Swiping to exit applications does not work on Mobian for me, I just tried it every way I could, but to no effect...in any case thank you for the suggestion. Mobian says I am Up to date....
Wifi works great on Mobian BTW, both Mobian and Manjaro read my SIM card. I wonder if it's bad /"unlucky" RAM, or some other hardware issue.
