My pinephone with Beta11 always keep loosing 4G Data and asking you to enter a password every time that tryes to reconnect, this bug is really anoying. Maybe has something to do with the migration to ModemManager?
Am I right that GPS does not work?
I do get location data when connected via wifi, but this is not GPS.
With trying: sudo mmcli -m 0 --location-enable-gps-nmea
I get: error: modem not enabled yet
So inserted a SIM card (to kind of enable modem), but then location is only via 3G,
since mobile data often fails as @paju1986 mentioned, location is currently not usable.
also:
hotspot does not seem to work under KDE plasma (while it does under Phosh).
when phone is in sleep mode, it will not wake up from emmc, only when its connected to a charger.
Do we have some kind of comparison chart on what is working with which OS combined with which user environment?
Installing Tow-Boot helped solving the sleep mode issue, now I am able to wake up the phone with a click onto the power button.
Music playback (via headphone jack) stutters a lot and is currently not usable.
Anyone a trick on how to solve this?
It feels like sleep mode is fighting with music playerā¦
Which application are you using for music playback? Elisa (elisa-qtmm) works fine for me. Though my installation is upgraded many times, not a fresh Beta 11 install. And I am using a regular (non-pro) PinePhone.
Thanks for the info, I am using āvvaveā since āElisaā is not able to search and play files from SD card (my whole library is on a SD 400GB card)ā¦ I will try āElisaā again, but need to figure out a symlinking route so it does not realize that the SD card is an external mediumā¦
If youāre using a Pinephone Pro, then the constant stuttering on the Hi-Fi profile through the headphone jack may be solved by lowering the output volume.
I have to keep my output volume below ~60% on my PPP, otherwise music playback will stutter awfully.
Hopefully an update someday will actually solve more of the audio problems present on the PPP.
@brennana
Lovering the Volume to 50% solved the stuttering!!
Thank you very much for mentioning this workaroud 
Any news on GPS support (without wifi+mobile data) on Pinephonepro?
Any hacks/workarounds to make GPS run?
Location stays greyed out in Plasma mobile, thought I get location over wifi which is nice at home but not in the woods 
I just saw on in the PostmarketOS wiki that GPS is working there (not sure if this is really true).
Mobian provides a guide that describes how to get GPS working on the Pinephone.
Since the PinePhone Pro has the same modem, it should theoretically work the same way as with the PinePhone.
However, there are a few commands(like apt) that need to be adapted to Manjaro. I have never followed these instructions myself, so I canāt say for sure if it works.
As far as I can see thereās only 1 apt command in that guide, and itās just for installing gpsd. So you could just replace that with sudo pacman -S gpsd and follow the guide from there.
Just to add to @Strit comment. gpsd has a gpsd.service. Debian based systems will usually automatically enable/start the services when installing a package. You will most likely have to manually enable/start gpsd.service after installing gpsd.
[ray@pi4 home]$ sudo systemctl enable gpsd.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/gpsd.service ā /usr/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/gpsd.socket ā /usr/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.socket.
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Thanks for the hints.
However, after installing gpsd I try to get info with:
sudo mmcli -m 0 --location-get
which throws the error:
error: modem not enabled yet
when typing:
sudo mmcli -m 0
I see:
Status | state: failed
| failed reason: sim-missing
So I tried to enable the modem somehow:
sudo mmcli -m any -e
but getting:
error: couldn't enable the modem: 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.Core.WrongState: modem in failed state'
Do I need to install custom kernel from megi?
and if yes, how would I do thisā¦
ā¦guess its a known issue.
Specs:
PinephonePro, ManjaroDev, Modem firmware 0.6.5
Is your SIM inserted and detected correctly?
no sim inserted.
I need to use the PinePhonePro without SIM since travelling all over the globeā¦
Looking for a script to enable modem even if there is no SIM.
Edit:
Just inserted an old, deactivated SIM and this does not throw a modem errorā¦ so I can start digging on GPS stuff with this workaround
Yeah. As GPS is a modem feature, it needs a SIM inserted to function.
ok, GPS seems to work now, will do some outdoor tests coming weekend, thanks for all the hints!
Something else: How can I install megis custom kernel ?
want to use the camera app but struggling with installing the kernel (did copy all the files to /boot and /lib).
The Pinephone and Pinephone Pro kernels in Manjaro are based on Megis source. So you already have Megis kernel.
So I could test the GPS with a āoutdatedā SIM card and it works well.
But after deep sleep the modem is not running anymore and I have to reboot to get coordinates again.
Can someone confirm this with an active SIM?
Not sure if this is a Manjaro/Plasma issue or an issue to be reported on the modem firmware (0.6.6)
So I could test the GPS with a āoutdatedā SIM card and it works well.
But after deep sleep the modem is not running anymore and I have to reboot to get coordinates again.
Can someone confirm this with an active SIM?
Not sure if this is a Manjaro/Plasma issue or an issue to be reported on the modem firmware (0.6.6)
same issue please someone test it with active sim so I know.