Pinephone

[jesica]

Hallo all,
Sorry to bump in like this, I am struggling to connect my phone to my pc, it is not picking it up, what must I do
My camera is also not working
And it does not pick up my sd card
Any url that might assist with the issues please
regards

[fernando_c_m]

Hello,
We don't know which OS you are using.
I would suggest trying out mobian.
https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=install
Back camera works.
Connection to a PC using an USB cable is more trickier, though.
If you haven't modified your phone, it won't work. See:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10255

[jesica]

Hello,
We don't know which OS you are using.
I would suggest trying out mobian.
https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=install
Back camera works.
Connection to a PC using an USB cable is more trickier, though.
If you haven't modified your phone, it won't work. See:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10255

Thanks for the reply
I am using UBports 
I dont mind if the front camera is not working as yet
I will test my Carrier connection today to see if it is working, if not I will swicth to Mobian then
regards

[fernando_c_m]

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9796
Also check this link. The update channel you are using could make a difference.

[wibble]

Connection to a PC using an USB cable is more trickier, though.
If you haven't modified your phone, it won't work. See:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10255

That's not entirely true. Connection to a Type A port with the supplied cable (or a similar one like the one supplied with the Pixel) will work - it's how you'd typically use jumpdrive to flash to the eMMC. It's host mode, and maybe connection to other USB C ports, that won't work.

[fernando_c_m]

Connection to a PC using an USB cable is more trickier, though.
If you haven't modified your phone, it won't work. See:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10255

That's not entirely true. Connection to a Type A port with the supplied cable (or a similar one like the one supplied with the Pixel) will work - it's how you'd typically use jumpdrive to flash to the eMMC. It's host mode, and maybe connection to other USB C ports, that won't work.

You're right. Jumpdrive certainly works.
As it was implied, that it didn't work, I thought it was meant connecting the PP running one distro to a computer using the supplied USB cable, which in my case does not work given I haven't made any hardware modification.
lsbus does not report any new device having been attached when I connect the PP to my laptop running debian. You can imagine what will happen on other non linux based OS. : )