Feature request - it would be nice to have this to reduce the strain on my eyes at night

@Andrisk Sounds like it got stuck on the update. Try this https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10130

For Nexus 5 PolarCell.

I've put a lot of work into it, and other than doing the Nexus 5X battery mod, no battery works better.

Would it be possible to incorporate a Swype style keyboard action or hand writing recognition into Ubuntu Touch?

@nebulom Replace it with the PolarCell LG Nexus 5 D820/D821 battery. Best aftermarket battery i've found

@GizmoChicken Pine64 forum says LTE with GPS optional if using EG25 module that is in the Pinephone - using the expansion board they have made.

I do hope they recommend the best place in the case to place the antennas.

@doniks Thanks for adding 64 bit support!

Maybe some of these ideas will help?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209121

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/droidcam/

Apparently there is a group already working on a solution to access the camera from the android HAL and present it to Linux:

"provides a set of interfaces to libcamera for existing applications; they will include a V4L compatibility layer, an Android HAL interface, and a GStreamer interface. The intent is to make libcamera suitable for all Linux-based devices." https://lwn.net/Articles/794555/

https://libcamera.org/docs.html

@jjconstr The Nexus 5 is a great phone, soon to be better with a halium upgrade. The main complaint about it is finding a good replacement battery. I've tried a couple and found the best battery is from a German company - PolarCell Battery for LG Google Nexus 5 D821 D820 BL-T9 EAC62078701 2450mAh. It is available on eBay if you are not in the EU.

It's a good quality after market - which means new, not old stock sitting on a shelf for half a decade, nor is it a cheap knock off rebranded. I've had it for a year now and still holds a full charge just like it used to when I bought the phone from Google.

https://www.xda-developers.com/ubports-gsi-brings-ubuntu-touch-to-any-project-treble-supported-android-device/

@makeixo There have been problems with Lomiri for other distros. But it is still being worked on.

Plasma is shaping up nice. But it still has some quirks. The choice of which desktop gets finished first is a simple matter of who's working on it. The current persons are phosh fans.

It takes time for patches to be accepted into the mainline kernel. A lot of things come as a patched kernel before it becomes mainline.

@John-Wolf Happy you got it working. Enjoy.

Polarcell has an excellent battery replacement for the N5

The counter argument would of course be that it would be simpler to keep everyone on four cores, and could prevent a fire or two. This thing runs quite hot using Libertine or anything processor intensive. And most "dead" N6Ps can be revived on 4 core. So, 4 core keeps everyone running.

So, considering whether to go four core only is something the community should discuss.

@Flohack No!.... Let me burn it until it's dead!
.... or at least until it gets twitchy enough.

Seriously, I do think most will likely need to go to 4 cores at some point. This thing gets hot under load running all 8. It wasn't designed to have all 8 running all the time. But as long as I still have 8, might as well use them.

@sagrotan high power consumption is also normal. Hopefully, Florian, or someone else, will figure out what triggers the performance cores to sleep.

Or, just wait until the majority of N6Ps turn into 4-core devices....

@sagrotan That is normal because the bootloader is unlocked. N6P doesn't have it's own boot screen yet

@sagrotan No, no adb after succesful flash is normal.

In both these cases, I would suggest to load TWRP via recovery, wipe everything, then flash android 7.1.2 from the google factory builds. Run android once being sure to to enable usb debugging, file transfer mode in usb settings and click the always allow this computer prompt. Reboot to recovery, load TWRP, WIPE DATA and CACHE, then reboot to bootloader and try the installer again.

@augustblake The kernel is already installed on the N6P. You only need to install adb and anbox tools. But there is a problem opening apps that I believe has to do with egl not enabled for software rendering. But, I have not been succesful in finding a solution

@plexfex Let me see if I can explain this better. Think of UT using Halium as a three layer cake:
The lowest layer is the hardware. The middle layer is the android drivers and software that interacts with the hardware to make it work, but is not "android" the UI and apps you know. The top layer is that UI or user interface.

With a halium build, we remove the top layer known as android, and replace it with UT (or another system such as Lune). Because the android drivers are proprietary, UT must keep the middle layer to interact with the hardware. But, that middle layer is locked down and cannot be altered by a virus. I guess theoretically someone could write a linux exploit that could somehow mess with the hardware driver layer, but it would have to be a linux virus because what you know of as android is no longer present.

The Pinephone does not require that middle layer, because all the parts are as open sourced as possible and linux drivers are available. So the UI can talk to the hardware directly. It's weak spot is the modem, which is proprietary, but is well isolated from the rest of the hardware. Both devices could be compromised by a linux virus, the chance of that happening though a linux security type will need to answer.