PinePhone

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.

Eric

@PINE64 I would like to know how to access, take photos using the integrated cameras.
I have had no luck sofar getting either of the cameras to return an image. Post a tutorial or something.
Im using either postmarket OS, or Ubuntu touch, depending on which has fewer kernel stability issues at the time.

AppLee

@Eric

@PINE64 provides the hardware, the community (hence you/us) provides the soft part.
Plus this forum is not the best place for your request ; https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=121 is more suitable.

To try and answer your question, you can find a way to take pictures with postmarketOS here (never tried though) :
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)#Cameras

For UT I didn't search more but couldn't find how to do it.

Giiba

For now cameras are listed under 'not working' for UT.

See the readme here:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone

admsjas

i just loaded 233 build and flashed to the emmc. when i went to change the password i get the error:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

AppLee

@admsjas
I don't see a question here and this is not the thread purpose.
Please check the gitlab for opened issues and post yours : https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone/issues?scope=all&utf8=✓&state=opened

And try to give more details and check for reproduction.

As much as I can, I force myself to reflash with another build which I think worked ; then test.
Then reflash with the build I suspect is not working and check again.

Sometimes flashing errors occurs... Or I was the problem

admsjas

i thought this was the place to discuss thing regarding UT on pinephone if not my apologies. the issue was the same running from sd card and from the emmc

PINE64

Today's build brings many new improvements to the PinePhone, including performance and the modem automatically starting at boot (as well as auto-rotating the display - although I haven't gotten that working just yet).

AppLee

@PINE64
Oooh nice
I can't wait to go back home and test it

Marathon2422

@AppLee
#244 I had the wifi disconnect after making a call.
#246 ,,i had to move to a strong signal area to connect cell, after that ,it worked in usuall locations.
Sound quality is good
Screen brightness , set about 3/4 ,( in bright light , difficult to see )
Now to put it on the emmc

darkeye

If this would help anyone i made a small script to decrease the power draw of the pinephone until it would be adjusted in th main repo....

#!/bin/bash

loadAVG=$(cat /proc/loadavg  | awk '{print $1}')
threshold=1
highthreshold=3
status=$( echo "$loadAVG > $threshold" | bc )
highstatus=$( echo "$loadAVG > $highthreshold" | bc )

echo $status

if [ $status -gt 0 ]; then
        if [ $highstatus -gt 0 ]; then
                echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
        else
                echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
        fi
else 
        echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
fi

I've placed it in crontab at adjust the governor every minute not ideal but it does help alittle...

(you do have to install 'bc' for it to work : sudo apt install bc)

Marathon2422

i checked mine recently , about 30% in 2 hrs , (not being used)