debian+phosh running on PinePhone

[laserbeamh]

Thank you both for your replies!

@buffer I've just had the images page open and haven't looked at the Pinephone wiki for a while, I had looked through the Chatty Gitlab though, so thank you for pointing that out! Outgoing texts seem to work now, but no dice on incoming at the moment. I looked through the thread you pointed to. The only Verizon mentions were about calls and a post I made, but I'll add one there for visibility! I'll also open an issue on the Chatty Gitlab about the UI issues.

@bcnaz I haven't tried hot spot, but data seemed to work okay when I switched on wifi. I'll try data and hot spot and report back!

[bcnaz]

For attempting to connect to the AT&T data network I have attempted with the wiki suggested settings without any signs of connecting.
While using the following, That I found after looking online, I did connect, but received the AT&T message that I "Do Not have a Data Plan"

Name : NXTGENPHONE
APN : NXTGENPHONE

SO I did connect to AT&T data, but was not able to "USE" it.
I am not certain this is "correct" but just reporting what I have experienced.


Remember : wifi will 'turn off' when you go into data mode

[johns]

4) for apps not scaling properly, temporarily you can :

https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-...he-screen/ has worked for me to be able to change the scaling factor on the fly without rebooting (and usually without having to restart phosh even). I don't have the desktop launcher button working yet, but it works to run it from the terminal.

[parkerwb]

I mean... I love this distro for the PP more than anything, but word of warning... I apt upgraded from the 3/29 image and... you know.... walked away for a bit until it did its thing... and came back to the smell of burning "silicon" and an EG25-G that was so hot to the touch that it burned my finger and I'm honestly happy there wasn't some sort of fire up in that case. Yoikes. No idea why, but watch your upgrades. :-)

[rico]

Thanks for the advice.
I build everyday, so i don't really use update/upgrade.
Maybe if you can post your last /var/log/apt/
Just to have a look.

[Concrete_panda]

I am using "Chats" for Telegram messages. But voice messages come in format "ogg", which I cannot open in Chats. Any advice on that? Is it possible to open it within Chats?

[anjanmomi]

If anyone is looking for a two factor authentication solution on debian, I wrote a blog post with my solution:

https://momi.ca/2020/04/09/totp-pinephone.html

[nas]

Anyone tried installing anbox?  It looks like it should be possible but the current linux header prevents ashmem and binder modules from building.

https://superuser.com/a/1464899
https://github.com/anbox/anbox-modules/b.../README.md
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8576&page=5
https://salsa.debian.org/zhsj/anbox/-/bl...DME.Debian
https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonw..._on_wsl_2/

[a-wai]

I am using "Chats" for Telegram messages. But voice messages come in format "ogg", which I cannot open in Chats. Any advice on that? Is it possible to open it within Chats?

tbh I wouldn't recommend using Chats for anything other than SMS and XMPP (the app is actively developed, but still has major stability & performance issues, not to mention the occasional regression)
imho, fractal (for Matrix) and telegram-desktop (for, well, Telegram) are much better alternatives for the time being, I use them on a daily basis on my PP.

If anyone is looking for a two factor authentication solution on debian, I wrote a blog post with my solution:

https://momi.ca/2020/04/09/totp-pinephone.html

Thanks for sharing! I got a request for gnome-authenticator, I hope I can package it in the coming weeks.
(if anyone wants to learn Debian packaging this can be a good starting point, and a much appreciated help )

Anyone tried installing anbox?  It looks like it should be possible but the current linux header package prevents ashmem and binder modules from building. A generic header succeeds but then modprobe complains about the version mismatch.

Please report this issue to gitlab with detailed logs of the modules' build failure, probably a few kernel config options missing.

[anjanmomi]

Thanks for sharing! I got a request for gnome-authenticator, I hope I can package it in the coming weeks.
(if anyone wants to learn Debian packaging this can be a good starting point, and a much appreciated help )

No problem.

I wrote the issue to request packaging gnome-authenticator. I learned how to package debian programs and wrote some packages for gnome-authenticator's dependencies. I got gnome-authenticator to compile. I need to read up on how to send the packages I made to you though. If you have a quick and dirty way, maybe I can send my work to you for you to build off when you have time.

I never got gnome-authenticator to run with my .deb packages. Spending the day messing around with flatpak kind of ruined gnome-authenticator for me but it mightve just been flatpak sandboxing issues.