PinePhone

AppLee

My PinePhone arrived few minutes ago.
I can't wait to go back home and test it.
It's a total surprise as I still don't have received my tracking number, but I was starting to figure this out as Pine64 stated that shipping was OK while tracking may be bumpy

[Edit] @Invy I think that answers your question

kugiigi

@AppLee Wow that's cool. It was delivered to your door?
I got my tracking number but it's stuck to the same status for almost a week.

AppLee

@kugiigi
Yes it was delivered to my door.
My GF was home to receive the parcel.

Marathon2422

@AppLee
I know you're going to make a pictoral diary of all you do ... have fun

AppLee

@Marathon2422
That was confirmation from my GF, but yeah I already started shooting this little baby.
Now it's time to prep a sd card for my new born :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Marathon2422

@AppLee
Mine has departed Hong Kong 12 hrs ago
Thursday it shows this on USPS tracking

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getting closer
(for those struggling with the waiting )

PINE64

Looks like today's build has some solid elements going for it: https://youtu.be/pc2bxRBt3NY

PINE64

Another quick video of the phone running UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_BjKicTAk

Marathon2422

updating my PHP to #216 i got hung at the "timezone page" it would not highlight ,New York est, so i picked another ,Texas worked to get me past there . is there a better place to put the little " things"

admsjas

How can I flash UBPorts to the eemc? After testing pmos, KDE neon, and manjaro neon I see UBPorts as having the most promise and ebung the furthest along in development. predictive text, a functioning app store, theres an app to connect to my self hosted nextcloud server, theres just a huge list of positives I'm seeing. Next task will be to see if I can get verizon service going on it. In the mean time I really want to run this from the speed of the internal flash storage.

Some other things I'd like to do; screen rotating, test the camera, test headphones and I'm sure I'll think of more with time.

admsjas

@Marathon2422 I haven't been able to change time via GUI either (EST) I had to do it via CL

Lakotaubp

@admsjas See @AppLee answer at the bottom of this thread https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3334/pinephone-tutorial/31

Marathon2422

Updated to #217 got hung in setup with demo screen " pull down" , quick off/on, got past that.
it is very slick and good looking in operation.
Re the time zone function ,I guess thats related to location etc .

AppLee

@Marathon2422
About the timezone, Bearded1 on UBports TG channel send this :

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

You can set the timezone using either command and even by choosing Manually in the settings...
Changes may take some time to be visible.

admsjas

I tried manually in settings but it didn't work, thanks for the CL setting

Marathon2422

@admsjas Rob Braxman on YouTube, how to install and use all available memory, or in Open Store , Brax.Me app , look for pine64 room.

Marathon2422

ignore this one, battery died on me

trainailleur

My PinePhone arrived!

Marathon2422

UT_# 221, redownloading #221 , to see if i had a bad download , could not get past the ubuntu start screen

Marathon2422

Feb 20th 9pm ish -- made my first pinephone call (on plasma OS 02/20th) :- ringing and talking was very tinny ,but it worked , so it can and has been done , it won't be long now , well done all you guys working on this ,all the little bits are coming together now.