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 Pre-Orders start on the 24th of March! Don’t miss it !!! 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
Anbox is in, but it’s not starting up… flashed Beta7 to eMMC just an hour ago…
Update: starting anbox in terminal gives an error saying: error while loading shared libraries: libprotobuf-lite.so.23
Update2: libprotobuf-lite.so.26 exists in /usr/lib… but has breaking changes… so a simple symlink libprotobuf.so.23 → libprotobuf.so.26 doesn’t work… I guess anbox needs to be rebuild against the new libprotobuf…
Hmm that’s concerning. I just finished flashing Beta7 to eMMC and I’ve initiated the software update process. Hopefully it should work. I’ll update once I’ve checked it.
Edit 1: Just updated the OS. Anbox refuses to start (just show the wallpaper). I guess you’re right about the need to rebuild.
I personally appreciated a lot the community challenge run by Pine64 for 5 distros, Manjaro ARM included, so that at the end, the winner takes all…Manjaro took all
I am proud honestly to be part of Manjaro community.
Now, sooner or later there will be Manjaro for Android and Apple devices, that’s a lot of achievements guys.
Congrats !!!
Be aware though that this is only possible via an emulator running in a browser… there might be no way to install Manjaro on physical Android and/or iOS devices. The announcements on social media made some days ago may refer to this: GitHub - copy/v86: x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser, which can run emulated x86 OSes in a web browser… just to keep the expectations and hype around the original post to a healthy level…
I updated this morning, with a reboot thereafter. Unfortunately I am having major issues with the modem getting lost after a while, approx 5x on a 3h walk, each time a reboot inbetween. None of that happened with beta6. I really appreciate the great development of manjaro, just now I would prefer to be able to revert back, like it is possible with opensuse on btrfs (desktop, not phone), as manjaro had become my beloved daily driver.
Cannot connect TWO Bluetooth inputs at the same time.
Manjaro Phosh Beta6 and Beta7. I can connect a Mouse OR a Keyboard, but never both at the same time. In contrast, I could in Beta5 (clean image, before upgrades). Mouse is Logitech M535, Keyboard is Anker A7726 - although the mouse must always be paired first for some reason. main.conf etc. all look textbook.
I have spent a considerable amount of time searching through logs and checking via bluetoothctl etc. Both devices appear happy in their bluetooth settings etc.
If I connect the mouse first, it works but there is no keyboard. The same
occurs in reverse if I connect the keyboard first - no mouse pointer appears.
Is this a kernel issue? (between 5.10 and 5.11) Has anyone else experienced this behavior?
BTW Loving Beta7, full marks to all concerned. Your work is much appreciated and admired. And it’s better than Plasma
I am enjoying using beta 7 on Pinephone CE (manjaro edition) as daily driver (boot from sd card); however, my most critical apps are the phone, sms, and contacts. My nice to-have apps are web browser, email, podcast client, clock/alarm, image viewer, music/video player, maps, file browser.
Wishes for future release
ability to delete podcasts from within the podcast application
ability to import contacts directly from sd card
I find it strange that I am unable to delete a podcast from within the application.
IMHO users shouldn’t have to populate contacts list by syncing to a cloud service.
Let me know if I should communicate the two wishes upstream; however, I need instructions on how to do that. Otherwise, I will be patient for a software update that adds these features or adapt by figuring out a work-around.
What works (the essentials):
calls (t-mobile in USA), including number pad for conference calls
but everything has a begining, when i see JingOS, i feel like this is the very begining for more and more devices with Linux
