Pinephone (braveheart)

Marathon2422

@AppLee the first time /emmc/ #7 on my pc ,extracted, and jumpdrive on sdcard , connected to pc then started pinephone, and used Balena-etcher to install ,takes 18 minutes ,because of the size.
2nd time #8 onto sdcard using Balena-etcher , because i couldnt get the sim / apn to work and didnt want to mess with the emmc

used OTA function to upgrade #7 on emmc to #9 ( worked a treat ),
whilst changing sources ,it started downloading ,i could not see the download indicator immediately, once i did , i left it alone.

if you use jumpdrive for another OS, may be better to adjust the size, before you start

Marathon2422

@Giiba
have you tried a sim yet ?

Marathon2422

just curious, version numbering gitlab #9 shows download version 19 on the pinephone , ?

Giiba

@Marathon2422 said in Pinephone (braveheart):

I have not due to the poor battery life. I need a phone so my OPO has the sim card.

This switch to OTA updates makes me more willing to try as I didn't want to reset my settings every update.

Marathon2422

i just got phone and messaging working, the screen that asks if you want 2g/3g .or 2g/3g/4g/ i left that alone ,did not set anything - checked the reseller/reseller- apn without changes and entered apn for internet/mms . and checked that. now it works" sometimes the signal strength meter is empty with a cross / or is completely full, but still works.
i usually get about a third strength reading
but it works now
i have not tried pics yet.

BH and # 13 on sdcard

Marathon2422

todays update to sdcard (#14 ) failed to install. tried a reboot after being stuck at 1/3rd of install indicator for a long time , black screen only now .
download #14 and reflash now.
anyone else ?

Fla

I just tried to flash #17 to emmc using JumpDrive (as explained on the pine64 wiki) and BalenaEtcher. Balean checked the image and said everything went fine but I have a black screen with only the led turning red when I power on. @mariusbfs are the current builds for pinephone broken?

AppLee

@Fla
I had this behavior with the led staying red.
Holding the power button 5s turns the phone off.
Then I tried again several times and at some point I had the phone booting.

As a scientist I don't believe in voodoo, but I don't get the dark magic behind this behavior ???
I look crazy when I try and retry the exact same thing expecting another outcome

Fla

@AppLee wow, after reading your message I tried again to boot the phone and... it is booting indeed!

The flash on eMMC made the phone very hot, maybe it just needed to get some fresh air? At least one day without touching it made it boots the first time I pressed power on.

AppLee

@Fla
Yes that's a bit strange and I cannot figure out what is the problem.
For me, boot got stuck even after a night with the phone off...

Giiba

I regularly find myself needing to power off and back on again, but it does seem to fix most things...

I have yet to find something repeatable though.

uriah420

I've been testing the Braveheart PinePhone for quite some time now, but still have one problem that won't go away: While I can receive a phone call, I can't place one. (It always returns: Call Failed). A number of times recently I've downloaded the latest image and given it a try, only to get the same result. I'm using T-Mobile, which is alleged to be a good carrier for the PnePhone. Is there a trick to placing a phone call?

Thanks

Vartojas

Hm. I couldn't find any better thread...
I received my Pinephone from China today (Yeah! - and that me being in Germany). As I understood, it was recommended to update the phone upon arrival, as the factory image (May 5th) is not the newest built. But neither on stable nor on rc the new pinephone could find any update available.
What is to be done? Thx.

malditobastardo

@Vartojas You are not seeing any updates yet because the day-one OTA Update is not out yet. It will be ready tomorrow. Anyway I suggest you to stay on Stable and don't change the channel because you may break your phone.
Also please join the UBports main telegram channel to stay up to date.

Giiba

Well I sat on my OnePlus One the other night rendering the touch screen unusable, and forcing the Pinephone into daily driver duty. Here goes nothing.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the progress on power management, the phone is no longer perpetualy hot and even cools down if left alone! That modem is still a problem under any actual use but I can get half a day between charges while having voice, sms, and data while out. As I don't go out much this is working fine.

I'm curious if anybody knows whats what with the update channel selection? Why are all of the channels listed numerous times?

And, what is the status of the various channels? Is there a stable-rc-dev cycle happing yet?

trainailleur

@Giiba said in Pinephone (braveheart):

I'm curious if anybody knows whats what with the update channel selection? Why are all of the channels listed numerous times?

It's a bug. If you want to switch to the developer channel, it's usually the first one listed from the top down. I think Dalton said he had found a fix for it, so maybe it work soon.

BTW, I'm impressed by your bravery in taking the DD plunge so early with the PinePhone. Truly Pine64 sold a Brave Heart to the right person!

Giiba

@trainailleur pandemic 2020 kinda makes it possible, lol. I'm never out more than a few hours.

stux

Can we safely install Ubuntu Touch through Jumpdrive on eMMC?

Marathon2422

@stux
Yes, I have done this.
When you extract ubports , it will expand to the required size, ( so you need room for that on your PC).

sintrastes

Hello all. I recently acquired the pinephone community Manjaro edition, but after trying it out, I much prefer using the ubports image, which (at the moment) seems a lot smoother and more stable to me.

I know there are hardware issues with the actual ubports ce pinephone that procent desktop mode from working properly, but as my pinephone is running the new 1.2a hardware revision, I would expect convergence to work. However, so far I have not been able to get my pinephone dock to work at all on ubports.

Has anyone else had success using ubports convergence with the latest pinephones running on the 1.2a hardware revision?

I wonder if there needs to be additional software support to make this work properly. I'm not sure if desktop convergence is supposed to work automatically with a dock and hdmi out, or if I have to enable that somehow (on Manjaro phosh there is a setting to toggle "desktop mode", but no such thing on ubports).