01-27-2023, 05:05 AM
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: @topic: I used my Pinephone with Mobian for over 1 year (I think) as my daily driver and was most of the time really happy with it, it was definitely not perfect (low performance, sub-optimal battery life, bulky, have to use usb stick to transfer files, a crash once every few weeks or months, a strangely dis- and reconnecting modem since a few months, I have to start pulseaudio manually after boot since a few months, ...)... BUT it was usable and still absolutely ok for me for staying away from Google/Apple!
Since a few days I think about ditching my two PinePhones for the first timeand get something completely different*, for a current combination of three main reasons:
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 1. Since about 2-3 weeks my main phone crashes (sometimes) OR completely freezes (very often) OR the touch screen "gets stuck" (less often) multiple times a day (at least twice, sometimes more) and needs a hard reboot. It happens while phone is in use at least twice a day - but happens also nearly every night while it's on the charger, in the morning the phone is "on" but you don't get to see more as the screen backlight. Perhaps it's this "flipping frames bug" I've read about here on the forum, but then I don't understand WHY it happens now multiple times a day and last year only once a few weeks or even months (I don't use my phone more or different now!). Therefore I think it has more to do with an Mobian update OR (more likely) the hardware is just dying...does ssh respond, ping or ttyescape?
even i got few total jams on a pinephone (mostly manjaro), which i think is different issue than "flipping frames bug". however, some case flipping frames jams system totally and it's visible on a screen some way, usually gray.
i still recommend those "flipping frames" preventions.
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 2. I wanted to switch to my back-up-PinePhone as my new daily driver to check if it is more stable (nearly unused, newer revision) and updated it, but it still has this problem https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15076 which I was never able to solve. And you HAVE to reboot your PinePhone sometimes, and it should take 1-2 minutes maximum then and not 10 minutes if you need your phone right now...
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: 3. Axolotl (Signal) (which of course already had some bugs before) is nearly unusable for me since a few days ( https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...47&page=21 ), but these days I really need it. I'm afraid I will have to use a device which can run official Signal client or an other Axolotl build wich is technically different to the Mobian one (UBports AFAIK?).
i was able to install waydroid on a x86_64 computer and "signal" in it. i needed it for simple thing. serious caveat, no camera support, forget linking to desktop programs. waydroid requires wayland, running wayland on x11 might be tricky. some cases desktop environment has support by itself or could be added, if not, then "weston" (or similar) could be used.
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: *Not easy to find a replacement for a PinePhone user: A Volla Phone with UBports? No Mobile-OS without Full-Disk-Encryption for me, that's a No-Go! A PinePhone Pro? Not really usable at the moment AFAIK! A expensive Librem 5? That would be only remaining option I know of (beside a de-googled-Android-Thingy of course...) and would hopefully at least successful boot and don't crash (that often), but official Signal Client also won't work there. Don't know what I should do/get...
i have a backup plan, volte capable basic phone. in this case it is NOT android based. i'm not going to advertise here, but no north american frequency bands.
(01-27-2023, 03:21 AM)dante404 Wrote: It's sad, I love it to have a real Linux on my smartphone and I had a good time with my (main) PinePhone after switching to Mobian (except some upgrade, dependency and audio problems Mobian had a few months ago, but they were all fixable)... but I don't really want to by a THIRD PinePhone (non-pro) in less than 2 years and just HOPE it doesn't have fundamental problems like "not booting 9/10 times" or "freezes 2-4 times a day"...
i hope some good comes from this pinephone train. i didn't go on this on a quick fix. i'm quite pissed about android. what i have learned from android, its bootloader (fastboot) is too much controlled, thus less user control. android is too much tied to google's components, even if you de-google that android device. many apps rely on "google play services". even aosp development is on the hands of google. ios is totally controlled by apple directly.