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

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

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

For anyone interested I can confirm it works. I definitely notice quicker response and boot time, now is there a way to use screen rotation?

@AppLee thanks. I'm quite familiar with the DD command as its what I've had to use to write to my SD cards because etcher isn't available for manjaro on the PBP. Theres a utility on the KDE bistros that show the separated block devices so its fairly easy to figure out which one to write to.

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

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.