PinePhone keyboard experiences (part II)?
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Here is PinePhone keyboard experiences (part I)
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/8067/pinephone-keyboard-experiences/10?_=1718704203016
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Pinephone keyboard. When I bought a Pinephone keyboard some time ago, I had Ubuntu Touch on it, but it was not supported yet, so I had to install postmarketOS in my PP where it was supported. So if I understand you correctly it is now supported also in Ubuntu Touch?
Thanks for sharing the specialities of the Pinephone keyboard. What I personally experienced with it that it is a bit difficult to charge the Pinephone with it. The PP keyboard has a built in power bank for the PP and the keyboard, but no charging indicator.
Which connector to choose to charge both the PP and the keyboard? Whatever I tried, the indicator never showed that the PP is complely charged, either with 1 or 2 usb-c charging cable connected to both the PP and the PP keyboard.
The only way I managed so that the charching indicator of my PP showed after some time that the PP is completely charged was to seperate the PP from the PP keyboard and charge those separately.
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P Peter Gamma referenced this topic
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@Peter-Gamma I only ever use the charge point on the keyboard to be honest which does show up on UT as charging. That is with a keyboard that is only a few months old and on the PPP running UT. I need to put UT back on the PP to check but it should work with the latest images. Will let you know when I put UT back on, it currently has PM on it.
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@Lakotaubp Thanks for the answer. I have also postmarketOS on mine. I would prefer Ubuntu Touch. But a feature I urgendly need is to write to the external SD card, and I have not tested it but as far as I know this works easily with postmarketOS and is somehow limited on Ubuntu Touch
A only solution which I could imagine is to install Ubuntu Touch to the external SD card and save my Abiword files also there, and then pull it from the Pinephone and stick it into my PC. But this is somehow a work around which does not convince me, so I will stay with postmarketOS where the PP keyboard works fine.
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@Peter-Gamma Good place for discussion and info is here https://t.me/utonpine if your not there already.
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@Lakotaubp thank you for the invitation, I will have look at it.