PinePhone Pro silver lining, it’s fast, real damn fast

[ashoka232]

There’s been a lot of grumbling the last few days among my friends about PPP and various power issues. Frankly, it makes a person a bit paranoid to enjoy their new device. As soon as I got it I mentally made note:

1. don’t even attempt to upgrade packages
   
2. take out the battery the instant you are done
   
3. find some way to prevent deep sleep
   
4. keep plugged in at all times https://www.fuelly.com/forums/f8/loose-g...22996.html
   

All that worry aside, a small little part of my brain is smiling about how fast it is. I knew as soon as I got it I would have a gut check about whether it’s speed would be tolerable or not. I can safely say yes.
Web browser loaded up Reddit just fine and scrolling felt good.
I’m eager to get to work with some gesture control phone experiments I want to do. This phone is going to be a winner.

[dchang0]

Which OS are you running?

I have tried several, and some are really sluggish (factory Manjaro was one, Arch was another) while others are very speedy (factory SailfishOS).
I'm currently trying Mobian and it's right on the edge of feeling a bit too slow. Boot-up and first login seem too slow to me for sure on Mobian, but afterwards is okay.

SailfishOS was awesome, but the camera app didn't work (it does in Mobian) and I had some trouble with cellular data in SailfishOS too.

[DrYak]

SailfishOS was awesome, but the camera app didn't work (it does in Mobian) and I had some trouble with cellular data in SailfishOS too.

The official camera app doesn't work (because it relies on an API of SailfishOS that normally calls into an Android firmware's driver).

Shutter works.

The main (back) camera has troubles waking up from sleep. But if you reset it, it springs back to life:

Code:

echo ff920000.isp1 | tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/rkisp1/{unbind,bind}

(Run first "devel-su" to get root).