10-08-2020, 09:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2020, 09:26 AM by firefox-58.)
(10-08-2020, 05:23 AM)fsflover Wrote:(10-07-2020, 03:33 PM)bcnaz Wrote: occasionally it will quit and go back to the log-in screen. That can be frustrating, yes
but I just sign back in and continue texting.
The audio/talk works on some Distro's now, good enough to use, though quality is still improving.
For data, I prefer using hot spot to my laptop over the web browsers for sure, but some of the on phone browsers are getting better.
YES, the data works, at least for me it does. Using with both AT&T and T-Mobile carriers. (GSM)
The phone/modem did not see any of the 4 different Verizon sim cards that I have tried.
Not sure how Mobian can work on your Braveheart, but does not work on my UBIports CE phone. Mobian often logs out and I cannot log in back. When I enter the password, it asks for the password again, forever. Only reboot helps.
My SIM card is recognized without issues and data works, but after some time it suddently stops working until I reboot. After reboot, I have to wait for maybe 5 minutes before it finds the data connection again. It also goes to "airplane mode" all the time by itself and when I switch it off, it switches on Bluetooth for no reason.
Firefox suddenly stopped fitting the screen when in vertical mode (horizontal mode works fine, but keyboard takes 2/3 of space). Telegram only work fine in vertical mode, so I have to rotate the screen all the time. The horizontal mode rotates differently every time, so I have to adjust myself.
Calls work, but can the phone reliably wake up from suspend when it gets a call? When charging, the phone does not switch off the screen automatically and even sometimes switches it on by itself.
It's all frustrating. Many of these issues look quite simple and important for everyday use. I am not asking to fix them ASAP for free for me. I am asking what are the actual problems, what is to be done and how long it could take at all.
The problems seem to be GRAVE...... no implementation of PHOSH runs properly. Only in plasma-mobile incoming calls are ringing also when the phone sleeps. But you cannot accept the call.. The lockscreen brings up nothing that looks as an phone interface. Sou You cannot receive/take the call. This bug is old but nobody can or will fix it.
Maybe the networkmanager of KDE is some more sophisticated. But plasma-mobile itself is far far from being usable.
So NONE of the available operatings systems on the PinePhone work usable. And this after a lot of months. I fear that the modem will never be functional. And it is NO excuse that the devs for the modem driver need backward disassembling. I think Pine has bought the modem chips and not stolen it. So I cannot imagine that there will be no documentation available for it. If there are firmware bugs they must also appear in the products of other customers of the modem producer. They also would need an firmware update if so.
Sometimes I think that most devs are proud about what they habe newly implemented in various builds. But have forgotten that this is a at first a PHONE
