Would just like to say I just tried Plasma mobile (dev image 201119) again for the first time since beta 1 and it just amazing how far it came in comparison. Thanks for all the hard work Manjaro and Plasma Mobile dev teams! Where beta 1 felt like a big step back from the alphaās, this feels like a huge step forward! GUI feels much smoother, applications load faster, much less crashes and bugs overall. The new app switcher is a huge (and very welcome) improvement and the virtual keyboard is much better as well!
Edit: Previously there was a paragraph here stating the virtual keyboard did not show up any longer. After a few reboots it now pops up again, donāt know why because I havenāt changed anything. Glad that itās now working again anyway!
I till think that itās a good idea to have a button somewhere (like in the bottom right corner in Phosh) through which you can force the virtual keyboard to pop up.
Sorry for the late response! Iāve actually switched to 201122, running from an SD-card. After writing the image to the SD-card I did the same as I described earlier; switch to unstable branch, update software, reboot (also changed passwords for root and manjaro users).
Running that my SIM works fine and network is detected perfectly! Calls work fine, SMS (Spacebar) also works fine!
Some new observations:
Firefox now makes the virtual keyboard pop up (yay!), however Firefoxās application window starts to ātwitchā almost immediately after starting, making it unusable unfortunately.
Also, I seem to be having some problems with charging. Iām wondering if the phone goes into deep sleep properly when pressing the phoneās power button?
The progress Plasma makes is great, kudos to Manjaro team.
Some notes about things that donāt work (tested after running update):
Firefox flickers so much it cannot be used. Also makes the keyboard pop up and stay up hiding the 3 interface buttons and blocking the bottom half of the screen.
Phone book starts multiple copies of itself even if already opened. Other apps switch to the running version though, an example where it works is Phone.
Bluetooth audio seems to crash when you start playing music. Music is heard for <1 second and then the bluetooth connection with speakers is lost. I was only able to test this with one app though since neither the Vvawe or Elisa seem to work. Vvawe wont start and Elisas ui isnāt properly scaled to the phone. Elisa seems very unstable as well.
Pressing the power button to wake the phone seems quite unreliable, sometimes it doesnāt wake up at all and you have to press it again all other times it takes quite a while to wake up.
This is probably something for KDE to fix but a power setting section in the settings app would be great to control screen timeout, right now it is frustratingly low, which is made worse by the unreliable wakeup when pressing the power button.
Desktop widgets donāt remember their size between reboots. The clock widget is gigantic and you can make it smaller but it resets on next boot. Funny enough, if you rotate the screen back and forth once the widget corrects itself returning to the size that was set manually.
Looks good, and runs smoothly on my pinephone, but certainly still a WIP. Some critical features are MIAā¦modem is pretty unstableā¦updates are pushed frequently, but often interrupt things like the modem and calls. Some apps arenāt scaling well to the screen, including modem manager and vlc, installed through discover. maybe a qt vs gtk thing, or wayland thing, not sure. All in all, I think that this is close to daily-driver, once the gps is figured out, and calls/sms are stable.
Im using 15th of december dev build. It has been all pretty damn nice, but my mobile connection does not work. Finland Telia. It shows APN internet internet and the tab there is greyed out so cannot press it and do anything.
It shows in up left that Telia and that it would be connected, but when i go to Angelfish there is no internet connection, same with terminal and other apps. With Wifi it works. I can help better if someone tells me how.
Of course some other stuff as well as dark theme not applying all around etc., but dev build so understandable. Keep up the good work guys.
Edit:
It is still a bit finnicky though, as sometimes when ofonoctl.service starts it insists that there are no modems. I guess systemd is choosing to run it before ModemManager.service, hence the problems. In such a case you can restart the ofonoctl service manually and itāll get the modem up and running again.
I just got my KDE Pinephone. Does anyone here run Vivaldi browser? Is there a way to get Firefox or Vivaldi to run in a mobile mode?
Also, anyone else having issues with things actually fitting the screen? For example, if I run Vivaldi/Firefox, its as if its in a desktop mode, but all the page runs off the phones screen. Some programs had this issue as well. Anyone dealt with this?
Phosh dealt with that. Their installation of Firefox works great.
I donāt know. Something about Scale-To-Fit. You should find something if you search for it in this forum.
You can install the mobile-config-firefox package to have a better experience with firefox. Vivaldi might come later, as they donāt have yet the Pinephone as target. However, KDE will recommend to use Anglefish, as this will be the only fully supported browser by upstream. Also they prefer to use their KDE Gear Apps and keep using their software, than installing other GTK apps or programs of other sorts.
Only thing is clear: more apps will get developed with adaptive in mind.
For a entirely new Linux user like myself, how does one then delete an app from a kde pinephone? I would like to delete Vivaldi since its not mobile supported atm. But I am a total newb at Linux.