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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 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.

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 wish you success!

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

Sorry, I didn't realize confinement was that tight for Morph.

It seems Morph only has access to the 'Downloads' folder, so this should work:
file:///home/phablet/Downloads/index.html

I wondered about that when I first got my OPO and flashed it.

Now, 3 months later I have flashed my nexus 5 back to android and I keep forgetting about the navigation buttons. I feel the well designed UI of UT leaves nothing to be desired and you will soon forget the need. It also makes sense why no one spends their time enabling the extra buttons. why bother.

This is tangential, but I feel it relevant to the discussion of apps.

I feel this is what @3arn0wl was getting at:
I think the current app that best represents what the community at large is in need of is Pure Maps. It is well designed, runs natively, and has been portable to multiple OS's. If there is a gold standard, it involves these criteria. I know there are others, I just don't know them off-hand.

If the Linux mobile ecosystem had enough apps like that we wouldn't need Libertine and Anbox. At least in a philisophical way, to avoid derailing the discussion.

@theare27 better than I!

I once poked around the code and all of it meant nothing to me.

I found some h264 reference files and those play on my 1+1 but not my nexus 5. Seems reference spec is .mp4 wrapper, mpeg4/mov encoding, 48khz aac audio, and that works.

See: http://www.dvdloc8.com/clip.php?movieid=12167&clipid=1

Armed with that I was able to convert and play the files. Weird thing is the files are the same spec from above but in a .mkv wrapper, but that seems to be unsupported.

I'm dreaming of VLC for Android ported to UT at this point

I switched over to dev channel when the edge channel was merged, and at first I felt that emptiness you speak of. The new Unity8 is a continued evolution of the UT interface, and does feel different.

I felt this same sense of something missing when I first switched to UT from the android back/home/recents interface. I kept reaching for those functions, despite them being missing; like drivinging an automatic after a long time in a manual shift car.

However in time I have forgotten the Android way, as the UT ui is extremely well designed and really those buttons are not necessary. The same is now happening with the new scope-less ui. I imagine some will miss the old way, but I have quickly forgotten about the scopes system and no longer miss it.

I think the only time I feel the emptiness now is after installing an update and rebooting the phone. For a new user to the UT experience I could see this being cold as well as empty feeling. But having used the new Unity for a short while now, I find the idea of a desktop cluttered, and the lack of a home screen as a convenience.

Indeed! Morph just keeps getting better.

I know 18.04 offers it as a basic system setting so it can't be impossible.

Back at it.

After pondering the aforementioned issue and the work-around, I stopped trying to understand that which I don't, and did what I know.

I just made the appropriate folder in system-data, copied the existing libs there and added the libGLESv2S3D_adreno.so

mkdir /userdata/system-data/vendor/lib
cp -a /vendor/lib/egl/. /userdata/system-data/vendor/lib/egl

Then added to fstab:

/userdata/system-data//vendor/lib/egl /vendor/lib/egl none bind 0 0

then

mount -a

And the error disappears from logs... no idea if it makes a difference yet.

When can I buy one! Lol.

Hopefully it means the Ubports edition is selling well.