Tested the latest #GNOME #Snapshot on #postmarketOS on my #PINE64 #PinePhonePro! It's been a while since I revisited the PinePhonePro but with cameras and camera utilities coming a long way on newer devices I wanted to revisit #libcamera on the PinePhones. I installed @NekoCWD's cameractrl and it successfully controls focus, but the PPP camera seems to have autoexposure that reduces the utility of cameractrl's exposure slider. Anyways, here's a picture of some other postmarketOS devices.
Working on the @PINE64 #PinephonePro camera using @libcamera . Progress is slow but steady!
Just a reminder about the meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand on February 26.
The topic is Linux Mobile and I (Dan) will bring 4 devices:
#OnePlus6
- OS: #postmarketOS | Environment: #plasmamobile
#PinephonePro
- OS: postmarketOS | Environment: #gnomemobile
- OS on SD card: #Mobian | Environment: #phosh
#Pinephone (braveheart + upgraded motherboard)
- OS: #Archlinux | Environment: #sxmo
Pinephone (braveheart)
- OS/Environment: #UbuntuTouch
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#ArchLinuxARM for @PINE64 #PinePhone / #PinePhonePro / #PineTab2 (2024/12/23) has released.
Release Notes + Downloads: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20241223
This will be the last release of 2024. See you next year! :)
#digitalemuendigkeit with #debian on smartphones, aka #mobian . I was suprised that over 20 people joined yesterdays meetup and some brought their #linuxphones with them. People played around with #phosh #kdeplasma #mobian #postmarketos #Fairphone5 ..
Also thanks @awai for the #pinephonepro rental. It was used to present the slides and was flashed with #mobian trixie. People could choose between #lomiri, #phosh and #kdeplasma in the login manager.
#SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #pinephone and #pinephonepro have had a kernel bump to 6.12. Was a frustrating few days as I figured out a particular failure, 6.12 deprecated memory cgroup v1 which we require, so that had to be adding into the defconfig, but all is good now. zypper ref && zypper dup
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (39/2024): ARM Gaming Edition
would anybody else be interested in an 18650 battery case for the #pinephone / #pinephonepro? i did the math, you could fit at least 6, probably 8 cells on the back without covering the cameras. 3500mah cells * 9 (including internal) would get you over 30000mah, or about 100wh with a standard 3.7V cell. that's several days of screen on time.
sure, it might be a bit chunky, but i think it'd be awesome. theoretically it could charge with the phone's builtin port too thanks to the pogo pins.
the pinephone pro works pretty well when docked - https://youtu.be/Sa783HQ5ZUU
#pinephonepro #linuxphones @linuxphones @linmob @linux #sxmo #sway #waybar #arch
Outgoing call quality is terrible. "Sounds like you are standing next to a waterfall". Tried following this and this advice and modified /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/PinePhonePro/VoiceCall.conf:
cset "name='IN1 Boost' 0"
cset "name='IN2 Boost' 0"
cset "name='IN3 Boost' 0"cset "name='ADC Capture Volume' 0"Trying to set up location services on the #pinephonepro, using satellite I can get a fix and everything looks good but using #gnomeMaps, #PureMaps or google maps through firefox, they can’t find my location.
#linuxhelp #pinephone #postmarketos
This thread will be about my experiments with my new #pinePhonePro.
I got it yesterday and had a few minor hurdles out of the gate. I followed instructions on the wiki but couldn't get it to boot into #sailfishOS. I don't remember what I did differently but after a few attempts it booted fine. I immediately wanted to replace sailfish but first checked that sms and calls worked fine and it did (though took a while to receive the first call).
I flashed #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile to an sd card and tried booting from it but quickly realised I had missed a step 
. The wiki said I had to install #towboot to the SPI so I did that. After following the instructions properly this time I installed the OS successfully. I found Plasma extremely sluggish and unresponsive so quickly moved on. The next OS I flashed was postmarketOS again but this time with #sxmo and I immediately fell in love with the interface.
After that I went to sleep as it had been a long day and was getting late. This morning I flashed postmarketos with sxmo to the eMMC and will be tinkering with it today. Ill update this post with comments about my progress.
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #FOSSphone #FOSS #OpenSource #tilingWM #pinePhone #pine64
Note that with all of this in place, camera support on a lot of other devices is in close reach. For example the #OnePlus6 and #SHIFT6mq should only need kernel patches enabling the camera sensors. The softwareISP should then - at least in theory - "just work". Well, fingers crossed :)
P.S.: the one device where this already worked is the #PinePhonePro - but until recently it broke audio. That was also fixed in the process.
P.S.S.: maybe I'm a bit too optimistic regarding QC devices, see below
What's happening in the world of #PinePhone and #PinePhonePro development?
I was (and still am) super excited to see a new update. As many cool new things are in there, what I was really hoping for was info on the phones development.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (04/2024): #UbuntuTouch OTA 4 + #FOSDEM preparations
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (47/2023): SIP calling on #Genode and a #FOSDEM stand
I have published on Github procedure for #Qt 6 cross-compilation using #Mobian for #PinePhone.
I have also written a #Qt6 cross-compilation procedure for #pinephonepro
However, I have not tried it as I do not have it.
If anyone tries with #PinePhonePro, please report back.
Fun fact: This Weekly Update was mostly composed on the #PinePhonePro (with keyboard accessory) running @postmarketOS edge with #Sxmo:
#shotonlibrem5
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (46/2023): #DanctNIX domain changes, an #UbuntuTouch Q&A and #Android14 on #PinePhone
Find out how we ported Apache #NuttX Real-Time Operating System to #PinePhone @PINE64 ... Plus NuttX updates for #PinePhonePro and Star64 #JH7110!
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