Hello,
Sorry if something was already reported. This smartphone is my first smartphone.
I’ve received my Pinephone ‘Community Edition Manjaro/Convergence edition’ with the USB-C Docking bar and PostmarketOS installed. Following the @Luke’s advice on the Pine64 forum (announcements.php?aid=42), I’ve installed Manjaro-ARM-phosh-pinephone-beta1-20201104.img.xz with Jumprive. All updates are done - 11-10-2020.
A call phone is little noisy but usable
Keyboard layout : I’ve tested many French definitions. The display is always QWERTY. With the USB-C dock, an AZERTY keyboard is usable as an AZERTY. But the accented letters are absent.
A bug or there is a way to add the missing displays to have the accented letters displayed on the Pinephone
The size of Gnome’s dialog box is not adapted in many cases. The close or back button is out of the display.
The response display for a touch is better than the PostmarketOS’s response installed on the Pinephone received.
Hard to wake-up of the Pinephone when is set in standby mode. Battery removed one time.
The unlocking goes strange. In one case, I must push two times on each touch to unlock the phone, but after the boot there is no problem to unlock the SIM card. After a while, one touch/tap is enough to unlock the phone. Sometimes, two tries is necessary to unlock the phone.
Portrait/Landscape mode : the screen flash two or three times.
Scenario : go to Landscape mode, go to standby mode and try to unlock the phone → nothing. The screen as a black color : no shut off, only black color, I can see the little back light. When I push rapidly the power button, the screen is shut off. So, the transition between active mode and standby mode is good but the display is problematic. Reboot needed.
HDMI with the ‘dockbar’, I see the background. In some case I can see a very little part (few millimeters) of an application in the left border of my monitor.
In this situation, go to Landscape mode after that the the phone is locked alone and after the display is in portrait mode when is unlocked.
How to display something in the monitor connected to the USB-dockbar
SIM cards : the contacts are not retrieved from the SIM card, nor the SMS stored in it. With an other distribution (which ? I’ve tried PostmarketOS and the "PinePhone multi-distro demo image of @Megous), they were retrieved.
There is a way to set the contacts from the SIM card or to use the backup made of my SIM card with all ‘*.vcf’ files
With the Calculator, I found that to show/hide the keybord it’s necessary to tap/touch not directly on the keyboard icon on the corner but more inside the screen, true for ‘Terminal’. Surprising, that’s all.
USB connection to my computer Debian/Buster (stable) : a pair of beeps continuously emitted by the Pinephone and I see this in my ‘dmesg’ log on Debian with a connection to the USB-2 and USB-3 ports :
[112380.747763] usb 1-11: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[112380.875832] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112381.111784] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112381.347765] usb 1-11: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[112381.475787] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112381.711790] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112381.819832] usb usb1-port11: attempt power cycle
[112382.471774] usb 1-11: new high-speed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd
[112382.492106] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112382.620135] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112382.855795] usb 1-11: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
[112382.876067] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112383.004069] usb 1-11: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112383.111853] usb usb1-port11: unable to enumerate USB device
[112407.727971] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd
[112408.131974] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[112408.367970] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112408.603957] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd
[112408.732005] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112408.968009] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[112409.076029] usb usb1-port3: attempt power cycle
[112409.727982] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd
[112409.748305] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112409.876286] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112410.111967] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 20 using xhci_hcd
[112410.132315] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112410.260263] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/8, error -32
[112410.368035] usb usb1-port3: unable to enumerate USB device
The phone is accessible by SSH with the Ethernet connection, I’ve shut off the Wifi and the Bluetooth.
There is a way to access to the Pinephone directly by the USB port
The battery is quickly drained
General question : I’m not familiar with Gnome, so how to delete some files with Nemo on the Pinephone Sorry if this is a too simple question. I’ve tried the ‘DEL’ key without success ans there is not ‘Trash’. A SHIFT+DEL can be done because the two keys aren’t in the same layout.
I hope this could help.
Kind regards.