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It feels like there needs to be a consolidated thread to discuss the Pinephone Braveheart development and since it is tacked under 'Community Ports' on GitLab this seems the best place for now, so here goes. I am in no way an expert so don't expect me to know much, but I am willing to collate information and update this first post as things evolve.

Feel free to suggest information to add.

SD Card Installation:
@UniSuperBox said in Pinephone tutorial:

1. Download the rootfs image from https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/rootfs-pinephone/
2. Extract and write the image to an SD card
3. Plug SD card into phone
4. Boot phone

That should do it.

Emmc Installation:
flashing OS to emmc

Updating:
Go to: Settings -> Updates

Sources:
Kernel
rootfs Download

Issue Tracking:
GitLab Repository

Other Threads:
Pinephone Tutorial
How can we help with the Pinephone?

Misc Links:
setting-the-record-straight-pinephone-misconceptions
Pinephone @ pine64.org

Status:
Pinephone Repository Readme

I am feeling brave and my OPO has been dropped too many times for comfort, so I decided why the heck not...

It'll be my first new phone since I bought a Nexus 5 back in the stone ages!

I hope this isn't out of place, but I'm curious if there is some sort of roadmap for UT development. Is there a strategic plan, so to say, that after 'x' we will work on 'y'?

What comes after Unity8+Mir for example?

I'd just like to know what the Foundation's vision is for where this ends up and how we might get there.

Once you start using the ui you will never see that empty space again.

Trust the developers, this is good.

@Marathon2422
I would assume that is the plan, but I doubt it will happen until the port is past initial testing.

I wish you success!

When can I buy one! Lol.

Hopefully it means the Ubports edition is selling well.

Indeed! Morph just keeps getting better.

Time should sync automatically, but time zone does not update automagically.

I don't know if Gitlab is using reCaptcha, but this might work to bypass it for you:
bypass google recaptcha verification

I like it as a solution as it essentially has Google solve it's own captcha.

However I fail to understand why this captcha thing is offensive (beyond being annoying) as it is simply proving you are not a bot... it doesn't seem to require a Google account or anything.

If you click 'refresh page' does it work?

I've been seeing that regularly since ota-12, then I click to refresh and everything is happy. It seems to be related to pages being push out of memory in the background.

Have you tried simply rebooting the device? Problems with wifi and auto brightness are common for me after an update, but rebooting always fixes it.

If you can create a group with the same recipiants, you should start receiving the messages. There is a trouble where if an mms arrives and a group does not exist, the message never shows up in the ui.

@mikhael that's a fair point, and I think more than anything consistency could be important. Maybe just sticking with the two icons like the file browser, the top right one is clearly settings which only leaves so many things the hambuger could be (a file browser in a coding app seems logical).

It could be worth asking the famous @CiberSheep for ui advice. But it is not like there is a problem as is, it doesn't take very much poking around to find a file and you only need to do it the once to learn.

A tangential though related feature request would be two things:

1. Connecting with the content hub to allow opening files with Seabass from the file browser
2. The ability to view system files in a read-only mode (ie navigating to / and exploring) - as a newbie to linux os's in general I spend a lot of time reading and viewing system files just to learn. Currently uText works for this, but something with syntax highlighting to view qml and bash scripts would really be great for UT. On desktop I use gedit happily, but that's not going to work for us here.

I have done it before... but cannot say I remember which device it was. I recall the trick being you need to mount to a folder in your home directory (ie ~/sdcard ).

The command was simple:

sudo mount /dev/{xxxxxxx} /home/phablet/sdcard

I will see if I can duplicate the process this evening.

I can't use the search as everything I enter only gives me US results. To the point where I wonder if the database (wherever, whatever) simply does not have Canadian data...

Searching google maps, and manually locating the address in PM is the only way I find an address.

I can't help, but I encourage you to keep digging. There is a running history of vague issues with mms on UT with no resolutions. There is probably something wrong that is not obvious, so you might be on to something.

I've played with Seabass2 a little bit and I'm impressed, it seems to work better that the original already and the syntax highlighting is a nice feature.

The save button is a nice change as the autosave was a bit opaque, and everyonce in a while I'd exit and saving would not happen.

My desired feature would be to be able to select a file and 'open with' Seabass via the content hub.

I have to agree about the hamburger menu not being clear. If that is meant to be the file dialogue maybe change the icon to something folder'ish. Or if it will contain more items (say options and an about page) the hamburger is fine for the moment.