I’ve looked for postmarketOS, but the sound and camera appears to be broken, and I need these on a daily basis. could manjaro work on a fp4 ?
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No support.
Unless you like to torture yourself with a dysfunctional piece of hardware - I suggest you don’t experiment with your phone
I have pinephone pro - I am willing to sell of to someone who actually appreciate such toy.
You sound like you did not like it one bit. Is there a reason? I on the other hand am totally fed up with the “restricted” google and apple phones. I was always thinking that a “free” device like a pinephone would suit me better.
I’m very happy with my Pinephone with postmarketOS. The only problem I have with my phone is Telstra, when they turned off 3G, we basically lost our service, as 4 G is exceptionally spotty out here, and Telstra appears unwilling to fix the problem. /rant
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I do - I just don’t have the time - the same goes for the pinebook pro.
I have them for development purpose but simply don’t have the mental surplus to fiddle with ARM - except for raspberry pi - which I use for small servers.
The whole point in using atomic updates and a restricted system is stability.
The Manjaro Immutable Summit edition will do just that (not for ARM though).
You can unlock it but then you miss out on the benefit of of having the operating system encapsulated - which is what android and apple do - thus providing a certain stability - predictability which a rolling release can never provide.
The pinephone pro is currently a royal pain where I live. I like to think it is a carrier issue as mobile broadband and WiFi work - but phone call and text - I cannot make it work with my current carrier.
I read that Telenor carrier will work - but been to lazy to buy a sim 
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I think it’s the same with Vodafone in my area, yeah the 3g shutdown was a Nightmare for rural areas.
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Still is, our Local Fed guy has a very long list of complaints, and, if you complain to Telstra, they pretend you are the only person who has complained.
The have said, in so many words, they will do nothing about the problem, because, they claim, the tower in our area is fine, and [us ungrateful people] should be happy with the ‘better performance’ from 4G.
The problem is two fold, but Telstra trys to gaslight us, that it isn’t. 1. 4G is a higher frequency than 3G, and 2. the tower in our area is too low. As a consequence the town gets good coverage, but get 6 KMs out of town and the signal drops. We’re 12 KM and on the wrong side of rolling hills. If it wasn’t for Starlink [cough cough] we would be in the dark.
Yeah i know about the 3g decommissioning in certain countries. I would imagine it would be disastrous in rural areas where there are no cell towers or base stations. People living in such areas would lose all service even if they have 4g phones. We still have 3g and i sometimes turn off 4g to get a better reception while i am on the road. One would imagine mobile operators would be aware of that and plan ahead before revoking all the 3g network service but yeah, “companies caring about their customers” is not a very realistic expectation i presume.
Has anybod sued them? In a country with concrete laws, a service provider stopping its provision of service for paying customers would mean a lot of monetary compensation.
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I have not heard of any class action, and I certainly can’t afford the cost of Lawyers, it seems most of us in this area at least are hoping for some action from our Government. It is after all Federal Election time.
Not this bod.
I imagine they are too busy safe-guarding their collective annual bonuses to give it much serious attention.
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