4 ms·

I have a Pinephone, briefly tried KDE as I bought the KDE edition. It is a pretty design but what made me change from it is not detecting external display. Also

I have a Pinephone, briefly tried KDE as I bought the KDE edition. It is a pretty design but what made me change from it is not detecting external display. Also I was not a fan of the "package manager" it was using. Arguable that's the OS (might have been Manjaro). I ended up going with Mobian and Phosh. I even installed ARM VS code on it but it was so slow like 5 second lag per click. Anyway problem right now is the modem doesn't detect my TMobile micro sim card. I don't know why, it worked before. The battery also dies too fast even in airplane mode sitting on my desk. And then of course the lack of apps and the Phosh UI is not that great imo, I don't know why they went with the design of the vertical split when finding apps. Maybe they can't match the gestures and what not that Android/iOS has. Still it's neat, motivation to learn C++/GTK when I have the time. As far as your actual question there are a couple of people on Reddit that are using it as a daily driver. [1] this is a little old though. As for why VS Code my fantasy is the Samsung Dex idea however I'm not going to drop $2K on a flagship cellphone. The Pinephone is not that strong but I was looking to get a Qemu VM running on it that would neat. https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/kxgtlu/pinephone_as_a_daily_driver_a_nonpredetermined/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/kxgtlu/pine...

TheFreim 5y ago
I don't have cell service and just basically use my phone as a glorified text editor (reminders, emails, low end browsing), would appear the pine phone would be perfect for me. I miss the ipod touch days, they did everything I needed.
- jcun4128 5y ago
  The WiFi works fine I'm just miffed the modem doesn't. I don't know how to get it to work again. I was going to force myself to use it every other day so I would be more inclined to develop for it. I don't know up to you the hardware is bad compared to a modern phone for the same price. Granted for what it is and comparing to say Librem, it is cheap. In the end I want to believe in it, would suck to only have two OS options.
kop316 5y ago
> Anyway problem right now is the modem doesn't detect my TMobile micro sim card. Hm...that is odd, assuming you are still on Mobian/Phosh. Assuming you tried standard debugging, this page gives you some avenues for help: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php The matrix channel for Mobian is very active, and there are plenty of folks there who can help debug that.
- jcun4128 5y ago
  Thanks for the link I will look into that. I tried to join the purism Gitlab group or something ha don't know what happened there.
  - kop316 5y ago
    > I tried to join the purism Gitlab group or something ha don't know what happened there. Purism to my knowledge uses that for development, not tech support. They also tend to not give accounts to their gitlab unless they know who you are (i.e. a Pinephone dev, active on their Matrix Channel, etc.) I think your best bet, depending on the underlying issue, is to hop on the Matrix channel for help.
    - jcun4128 5y ago
      > not give accounts to their gitlab unless they know who you are Yeah I was trying to get in there to develop but I will admit I would be pretty useless. Thanks I will get this phone working again, good to know there is a community, I have posted on the Pine64 forums a few times, got some info there.
      - kop316 5y ago
        > Yeah I was trying to get in there to develop I do a majority of my Pinephone related development on Gitlab. It hasn't stopped adoption for my work at all. Others use Github/Sourcehut. The nice thing is that developing for the Mobian is nearly identical as it is for Debian (I use the Modem quite extensively for my apps, so I have to use the Pinephone for testing). > but I will admit I would be pretty useless. Everyone starts somewhere! The Pinephone is really my first dabble into open source development, and now one of my apps are on quite a few distros. The community is incredibly welcoming and helpful. > Thanks I will get this phone working again, Good luck! If the Mobian channel is a dead end, you can also find me on Matrix too.
gary17the 5y ago
> Still it's neat, motivation to learn C++/GTK when I have the time. You might want to have a look at libhandy[1] for GTK/GNOME, to "build GNOME applications scaling from desktop workstations to mobile phones". [1] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/ https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/
- jcun4128 5y ago
  Thanks I'll put it on my list of resources. I was aiming for a low-resource UI and things like Sway came into mind. But yeah I'm a JavaScript kid at this time so this kind of development is not easy for me at this time.

TheFreim 5y ago

I don't have cell service and just basically use my phone as a glorified text editor (reminders, emails, low end browsing), would appear the pine phone would be perfect for me. I miss the ipod touch days, they did everything I needed.

jcun4128 5y ago
The WiFi works fine I'm just miffed the modem doesn't. I don't know how to get it to work again. I was going to force myself to use it every other day so I would be more inclined to develop for it. I don't know up to you the hardware is bad compared to a modern phone for the same price. Granted for what it is and comparing to say Librem, it is cheap. In the end I want to believe in it, would suck to only have two OS options.

kop316 5y ago

> Anyway problem right now is the modem doesn't detect my TMobile micro sim card. Hm...that is odd, assuming you are still on Mobian/Phosh. Assuming you tried standard debugging, this page gives you some avenues for help: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php The matrix channel for Mobian is very active, and there are plenty of folks there who can help debug that.

jcun4128 5y ago
Thanks for the link I will look into that. I tried to join the purism Gitlab group or something ha don't know what happened there.
- kop316 5y ago
  > I tried to join the purism Gitlab group or something ha don't know what happened there. Purism to my knowledge uses that for development, not tech support. They also tend to not give accounts to their gitlab unless they know who you are (i.e. a Pinephone dev, active on their Matrix Channel, etc.) I think your best bet, depending on the underlying issue, is to hop on the Matrix channel for help.
  - jcun4128 5y ago
    > not give accounts to their gitlab unless they know who you are Yeah I was trying to get in there to develop but I will admit I would be pretty useless. Thanks I will get this phone working again, good to know there is a community, I have posted on the Pine64 forums a few times, got some info there.
    - kop316 5y ago
      > Yeah I was trying to get in there to develop I do a majority of my Pinephone related development on Gitlab. It hasn't stopped adoption for my work at all. Others use Github/Sourcehut. The nice thing is that developing for the Mobian is nearly identical as it is for Debian (I use the Modem quite extensively for my apps, so I have to use the Pinephone for testing). > but I will admit I would be pretty useless. Everyone starts somewhere! The Pinephone is really my first dabble into open source development, and now one of my apps are on quite a few distros. The community is incredibly welcoming and helpful. > Thanks I will get this phone working again, Good luck! If the Mobian channel is a dead end, you can also find me on Matrix too.

gary17the 5y ago

> Still it's neat, motivation to learn C++/GTK when I have the time. You might want to have a look at libhandy[1] for GTK/GNOME, to "build GNOME applications scaling from desktop workstations to mobile phones". [1] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/ https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/

jcun4128 5y ago
Thanks I'll put it on my list of resources. I was aiming for a low-resource UI and things like Sway came into mind. But yeah I'm a JavaScript kid at this time so this kind of development is not easy for me at this time.