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 should be soon in stock after CNY. 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
Yes, probably the update in the stable branch didn’t correspond to the release image. Now seems that all is OK. After reflashing I caught no modem losing during several hours and 6-7 resumings from sleep. Also I’ve got 1 call and 2 SMS with correct notification and without delay. I’ll continue testing tomorrow, but hope that the only problem remains - permanently shining LED. Is it possible to turn it off completely for now?
PS. Great job!
Thank you for this great release of Manjaro ARM (Phosh) I use this next to the Manjaro ARM (Plasma Mobile) edition. Manjaro ARM (Phosh) I use for when I really need to run something stable, and Plasma Mobile is just for playing and bug-hunting. Hopefully PM will just get as stable as this in time. At least haven’t encountered any problems with this release so far. Also I do not have the same problem as Xeno. Maybe edition dependend somehow? Don’t know which edition you have, mine is the KDE CE. Keep up the great work!
There is a strange Bluetooth behaviour on this release which hasn’t been reproduced earlier. If Bluetooth was turned off using Settings dialog and then turned on again, all Bluetooth controls will be still disabled. The only way to turn them on again is reboot. Can anyone else reproduce this?
I’ve been using my phone SIM in the pinephone since beta 5, and calls/sms are stable enough for me that I didn’t felt the need to switch back to my backup phone. Great work!
Just curious… I’ve installed a microSD in the PinePhone and afterwards the boot process is blocked. The microSD card is formatted with extvat and works properly on the Pinebook Pro…
…is there a limitation of file formats for the microSD on the PinePhone?
Yes, it is the blue led. But it turns on each time before going to deep sleep even if there were no active notifications. In the bugtracker there was described possible cause of such behaviour and possible solution - but it hasn’t been implemented yet. Currenyly I’ve decided to use systemctl suspend command instead of power button to avoid this problem because permanently shining LED reduces battery life even more while it was too short initially.
Beta 6: so far so good! Installed yesterday and this morning I received the first OTA update.
The call quality is good for the caller and the receiver. Tomorrow I will try the BT with different devices. If I make a comparison with the latest Plasma version available, I must admit that there is no comparison: now the phone is usable at least in its main functions.
The phone notifies you “due to inactivity the phone will suspend soon” this message might be the one causing it if you don’t check it. But checking would stop suspension, so might be a pretty weird design decision to introduce that message recently.
Just wanted to mention that twitch via streamlink and vlc is running perfectly and much better then via a browser…if you’re curious install both streamlink and vlc and from terminal: streamlink webadress/streamername 480p as example, enjoy !!
When I load up maps and press the locate button(bottom left), it says location services must be turned on, which they are(also shows no apps have asked for permission). I turn the service off and on, but I get the same result. It never asks for permission and keeps throwing the same error. I am missing something simple here?
ETA - I have tried with mobile data + wifi and without wifi(mobile only).
