PinePhone

[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)

[ricardo65]

@PINE64 I would like to know when the pinephone can be purchased again and with which capacities of 2gb-16 or 3gb-64