03-10-2022, 10:38 AM
I have found in the recent weeks that Plasma Mobile has become quite useful, and works quite well.
If WiFi is disabled, MMS messaging works well, though I do not like 'group chats ' and have not tried one.
The half black screen issue still occasionally crops up, though rotating the phone fixes it. Phone screen rotation seems to be controlled in 2 separate places the top tray button 'Auto-rotate' as well as 'Settings->Display Configuration->Orientation' I have found that using 'Automatic' with 'Only when in tablet mode' *unchecked* works correctly.
The on screen keyboard works really well, though the emoji portion shows small emoji, making some unclear.
The three biggest issues I have found are:
1) not being able to hook up to my computer via USB cable to use sftp/ssh connections, and it must be done using a wireless connection.
there is an open bug about this, and indicators on how to fix this, with those fixes purportedly in the kernel + the manjaro tweaks package, though I have yet to dig deep enough to fix it.
2) playing music and locking the screen make the phone become unusable. the preinstalled 'wave' program nearly crashes it, while audacious continues to play fine, though the phone becomes inaccessible, being a black screen no matter what button I push.
3) The phone rings through the ear piece, though this can be mitigated by switching the audio to come from the internal speaker, however this makes all phone calls on speaker, with no way to adjust it, unless you switch the 'Settings->Audio->Playback Devices->Port' back to 'Internal Earpiece' once the call has started.
Any tips for how to fix the music/lock screen issue would make this much more usable.
Another issue is using retroarch with the overlay display gamepad. It does not register input.
If WiFi is disabled, MMS messaging works well, though I do not like 'group chats ' and have not tried one.
The half black screen issue still occasionally crops up, though rotating the phone fixes it. Phone screen rotation seems to be controlled in 2 separate places the top tray button 'Auto-rotate' as well as 'Settings->Display Configuration->Orientation' I have found that using 'Automatic' with 'Only when in tablet mode' *unchecked* works correctly.
The on screen keyboard works really well, though the emoji portion shows small emoji, making some unclear.
The three biggest issues I have found are:
1) not being able to hook up to my computer via USB cable to use sftp/ssh connections, and it must be done using a wireless connection.
there is an open bug about this, and indicators on how to fix this, with those fixes purportedly in the kernel + the manjaro tweaks package, though I have yet to dig deep enough to fix it.
2) playing music and locking the screen make the phone become unusable. the preinstalled 'wave' program nearly crashes it, while audacious continues to play fine, though the phone becomes inaccessible, being a black screen no matter what button I push.
3) The phone rings through the ear piece, though this can be mitigated by switching the audio to come from the internal speaker, however this makes all phone calls on speaker, with no way to adjust it, unless you switch the 'Settings->Audio->Playback Devices->Port' back to 'Internal Earpiece' once the call has started.
Any tips for how to fix the music/lock screen issue would make this much more usable.
Another issue is using retroarch with the overlay display gamepad. It does not register input.
