Manjaro ARM Beta24 of Phosh for PinePhone!
The Manjaro ARM project is proud to announce our twenty fourth BETA release for the PinePhone running Phosh!
Those images run the 5.18 kernel from Megi.
Features:
- Firefox uses a dedicated configuration and plays videos on Youtube pretty well
- Camera app with access to back and front camera, including autofocus (only PinePhone)
- Auto-Rotate function and manual rotate
- Welcome wizard for easy setup of the device
- We have now a working Torch in the quick-access-menu
- Prime phone functions working, including resume from deep-sleep and free speaking
- Recording of audio works
- Most applications got added to
scale-to-fit - Haptic feedback functions are given
- Optimized keyboard layout for terminal
- Maps working with geolocate
- Volume buttons working
- Sensors fully functional
- Easy access to Bluetooth, Wlan, Rotate and Mobile functions via quick settings
- Default branch is
arm-stable. This can be changed by editing/etc/pacman-mirrors.conf - usage of callaudiod for better audio experience with calls
- This image uses a Crust enabled uboot
Changes since Beta23
- Kernel is now at 5.18.0
- Chatty got updated to 0.6.4
- We updated the ALSA UCM profile for PP
- Pipewire is at 0.3.51
- callaudiod got updated to 0.1.4
- gnome-calls is now at 42.0
- most Gnome packages got updated to 42.1
- Firefox is at 100.0.2
-
Pamac got updated to support Gnome 42
- libpamac got needed AUR fixes
- Phosh and Phoc support now gestures
- Mesa got updated to 22.0.4
- Systemd is at 251
A detailed list of package changes can be found here.
Currently broken:
- GPS may not work as it should
Known issues
- Cameras are not accessible to users on PinephonePro
- UI becomes unresponsive after a while.
- Doing a recording may result in noisy audio savings
- Lots of apps are still missing or are not mobile friendly yet.
Download:
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.
Order
Pinephones Beta Edition are still on stock. Visit the Pine64 Store
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
User: root
password: root
Donate!
Please consider supporting Manjaro ARM directly via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Open Collective.
You can also donate to our upstream, which is Arch Linux ARM.
Bugtracker
If you face issues with this editon, please open a new issue on our bug-tracker
Development Changelog
We will list our progress to Beta25 here
- Beta24 (2022-06-05) Download
- based on stable branch
- Dev (2022-06-20) Download
- based on unstable branch
- Pipewire got updated to 0.3.52
- Chatty is at 0.6.6
- Firefox got renewed to 101
- Gnome packages are now at 42.2
- Kernel is now at 5.18.3
- Mesa is at 22.1.1
- Pamac and libpamac got renewed
- Phosh gets its second beta release of 0.20.0
- Phoc is at 0.20
- systemd is updated to 251.2
- xorg-xwayland is at 22.1.2
- Dev (2022-06-28) Download
- based on unstable branch
- Chatty is at 0.6.7
-
Kernel got updated to 5.18.6
- this includes also fixes for PPP cameras to make them work with ppp-cam testing app
- update of glibc-locales including C.UTF-8
- Gstreamer is at 1.20.3
- Networkmanager got updated to 1.38.2
- PulseAudio is renewed to 16.1
- Megapixels is at 1.5.0
- Mesa got updated to 22.1.2
- Phosh got renewed to 0.20.0-beta2 and Phoc to 0.21.0-beta1
-
Squeekboard bumped to 1.18.0
- introduced a regression with Terminal App (kgx/gnome-console), or not …
- Dev (2022-06-29) Download
- based on unstable branch
-
Kernel got updated to 5.18.7
- PPP: Add support for applying Type-C plug orientation correctly to Rockchip Type-C PHY from the DWC3 USB driver.
- PPP: Enable processing the highest resolution of the IMX258 sensor via RKISP10.
- Phosh got more MRs added
- Gnome-Console replaces kgx
- ModemManager got updated to 1.18.10
- MegaPixels is at 1.5.1
- js91 may break Gnome-Weather, so we have to see on how we deal with that
- Dev (2022-06-30) Download
- Dev (2022-07-02) Download
- based on unstable branch
- Phosh got MR1079 removed.
- eg25-manager gains udev support for the custom firmware
- modemmanager got fix for sms added: fix spliting messages into chunks in gsm7 encoding
- phosh-antispam got updated to 2.1.1
- Dev (2022-07-07) Download
- based on unstable branch
- Pipewire got updated to 0.3.53
- gjs update fixed the js91 issue
- more packages got updated to Gnome 42 series
- some Gnome packages to renewed to 42.3 release
- Mesa is at 22.1.3
- Phosh and Phoc gained more fixes
- wireplumber is now used for audio management. Report back any issues due to that!
- Dev (2022-07-09) Download
The new phosh gestures are nice on the pro, and its generally overall very smooth. There notification bar swipe down is a bit glitchy in landscape mode though, for PPKB users, its going to be difficult. Seems like it doesn’t adjust to the change in height correctly, making it hard to swipe up, and cutting off notifications.
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