Hi! I’ve just received my Pinephone CE Manjaro. Can I just update using the software center to get the latest changes? Or I need to flash latest image (Beta1 2020-11-04) in order to get them?
Is anyone else having problems connecting to WiFi on Phosh? Can’t connect to either my main or guest network. I can see them in the gui and via nmcli.
This thread is missing the “Pinephone” tag. Please advise.
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This is normal behaviour for most phones. As far as I know the phone will switch to 2G when in a call and this switching causes the antenna to be occupied thus disabling the data connection. My OnePlus also did this until a recent update. Since a few months it prefers to use Voice over WIFI or Voice over LTE instead of switching back to 2G.
Huh? What? How can I be of service?
Someone suggested that the ‘pinephone’ tag be added to the original post, but it looked like it’s already been done.
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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.
I’m running Beta2 now but my phone shipped with Beta1 and configuring Nemo was one of the first challenges I attempted. It’s challenging because the popup menus don’t scale correctly and some things are hidden. Switching back and forth between portrait and landscape allowed me to make the changes. I had to use “preferences” to switch from single tap to open to double tap to open, because I could not reliably just select a single file with the default setting and selecting a video file with a single tap caused the file to open and play in Firefox. I also changed some scaling factors but don’t know if that helped.
Once you have selected a file, the “Edit” menu provides “Move to Trash” and “Delete” options as well as the other common tasks (“Rename”, “Copy to”, “Move to”, etc.).
Thank you Calinb,
But the dialogue box is too wide, impossible to select the “Trash”.
There is an interest to continue to test the Beta1
If this is as an interest, because the Beta2 is an improvement of the Beta1 version, how to update my Beta1 to Beta2
sudo pacman -Syu should suffice.
I suppose, that I’m already with Beta2 …, but I have not some of the problems described in the Beta2 thread. After the installation I’ve upgrade the Pinephone with your command.
Any idea about how identify the version used
Thank you for the solution 
Nemo Trash and Delete are only visible on my phone while in portrait display mode, because the menus are truncated in landscape mode. Also, sometimes the windowing doesn’t work correctly and popup frames with menus are too large to display all their options (not just with Nemo either) and I must close the ap and re-launch it to obtain a smaller popup…
The Nemo Edit >> Preferences settings might be different between our two systems too and they might be the reason you can’t see the Trash or Delete menu options. Preferences are difficult to change, due to truncated or non-visible selections. An USB keyboard is useful to change preferences, because you can use the arrow keys to move between items. An external monitor would probably help to display all items and configure preferences too. Without an external monitor, you can try switching between back and forth between portrait and landscape display modes. Maybe there’s a Nemo configuration text file that can be edited to change preferences too.
I’m considering going back to Beta1 to get my headphones working again. I gained video with Beta2 but lost the audio from the headphone jack.
I’ve been saved by the external keyboard and a monitor 
And I confirm the problem with the audio output for headphones.