About the device: PinePhone:
Perhaps you’re in a line of work where security is a must, or a hard-core Linux enthusiast, or perhaps you’ve just got enough of Android and iOS and you’re ready for something else – the PinePhone may be the next Phone for you. Powered by the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit SOC used in our popular PINE A64 Single Board Computer, the PinePhone runs mainline Linux as well as anything else you’ll get it to run.
The purpose of the PinePhone isn’t only to deliver a functioning Linux phone to end-users, but also to actively create a market for such a device, as well as to support existing and well established Linux-on-Phone projects. All major Linux Phone-oriented projects, as well as other FOSS OS’, are represented on the PinePhone and developers work together on our platform to bring support this this community driven device.
How to install:
Download the image/xz file from the download location. Verify that the download completed successfully.
After that, install Etcher (sudo pacman -S etcher if on Manjaro) and burn the to an SD card (8 GB or larger).
The PinePhone should recognize the SD card as a bootable device and boot from it.
The premade users are:
User: manjaro
Password: 123456
If I set the connection to 2G / 3G all works. But this is not sticky. After an reboot or deep sleep the setting changes back to 4G / 3G … And then the connection is broken again.
Is there something i need to do to enable automatic login, or is the feature implemented in gui only and disabled for now? It is greyed out and does not respond to click.
Alpha 2 is coming along very nicely. Seems to be the fastest and most stable pinephone build for my needs. Any chance a 3g/32gb uboot version will be made available for PMos CE CE devices? Also curiously, will you guys post any news or updates on the lomiri build? Anxiously awaiting that juicy looking combination of goodness.
I’m also having issues on the modem side. It’ll work for about 5 minutes, then it’ll drop off. Miles ahead from where it started, I’m over the moon right now. Is there a command I can send or something to reset the modem without restarting the phone?
Thank you for the response! The alpha 3 upload from 9-03 is booting and working pretty well on the 3gig device. I’ve had a few more lockups than usual, not really sure if its new alpha stuff or related to the memory situation. As soon as i narrow it down, Ill send info to the bug tracker.
Should we avoid updating the system with pacman between releases? Also, if I’m on Alpha2 will a pacman -Syu take me to Alpha3 or do I need to install? Apologies if I should have started else where I heard about the Manjaro Pinephone project and this is where the Google searches lead.
How do I get the interface language to change? I changed both /etc/locale.conf and switched the language settings in Phosh, and still, all is in English. There aren’t any separate localisation packages to install, are there?
For me the language changed by simply selecting it from the welcome wizard. But the changes are very small, like the text on lock screen etc. small snippets here and there.
So there is something broken here. If you run Mobian, Phosh is fully localized, if you run PostmarketOS, after installing the -lang packages, you also get a complete localisation, and of course, with GNOME on the desktop, you also do.
