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Pinephone
What's working with Mobian
| 3D Acceleration | glx 1.4 / OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 |
| Accelerometer/Compass/Rotation | Works only at low-level (4) |
| Audio | Works |
| Battery | Works |
| Bluetooth | Audio tested and working |
| Calls | Works with exceptions (1) |
| Calls (VoLTE) | Works on some carriers (7) |
| Camera | Works with exceptions (5) |
| Convergence | Works |
| Display | Works |
| Full Disk Encryption | Works |
| Flashlight | Works |
| GPS/GNSS | Works with exceptions (2) |
| LED Indicator | Works for notification |
| MMS | In Beta, needs work (6) |
| Mobile data | Works |
| Pine Phone Keyboard Case PPKC | Works for pinephone with minor issues, not yet Pine Phone Pro. 2022-feb-06 |
| SMS | Works |
| Touchscreen | Works |
| USB Networking | Works (8) |
| USB OTG | Works on board revisions above 1.2a (10), no security on it (11) |
| Vibration motor | Works |
| Volume switches | Works (9) |
| WiFi | Works with exceptions (3) |
| Xwayland | Needs work |
Exceptions
- Phone takes a long time to wake up when receiving a call.
- GPS/GNSS only works with web apps using GNOME Web. More information in location. (Editors note: Is this still true? I think it works in general now)
- WiFi is not working reliably when there are more than one hotspot on the same SSID. The only known workaround is to reduce this to only one hotspot per SSID.
- Low-level access can be accomplished by using the shell and looking at files in /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device*. The file names give you a sense of what kind of data they provide.
- The camera works with megapixels, but for a different user language the file /usr/share/megapixels/postprocess.sh in line 20 has to be adjusted to store the images in the picture folder:
line 20 old: TARGET_NAME="$2" line 20 new: PICTURE_DIR=$(cat /home/$USER/.config/user-dirs.dirs | grep PICTURES | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d\" -f1) line 21 new: TARGET_NAME="/home/$USER/$PICTURE_DIR/${2##*/}" # for all user languages For more information see there: https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels#post-processing https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels/tree/master/postprocess.sh - See https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12491 for upstream discussion. For now, if you recieve a bunch of MMSes and they clog up the SMS,
mmcli -m any --messaging-list-sms
lists all of the SMSs that are clogged, and
mmcli -m any --messaging-delete-sms=(message-id)
deletes specific ones.
- VoLTE works out of the box. You should not need to do anything to make it work. Output of
mmcli -m any --command='AT+QMBNCFG="list"'response: '+QMBNCFG: "List",0,0,0,"ROW_Generic_3GPP",0x0501081F,201901141 +QMBNCFG: "List",1,0,0,"VoLTE-ATT",0x0501033C,201909271 +QMBNCFG: "List",2,0,0,"hVoLTE-Verizon",0x05010141,201911251 +QMBNCFG: "List",3,0,0,"Sprint-VoLTE",0x05010205,201908141 +QMBNCFG: "List",4,1,1,"Commercial-TMO_VoLTE",0x05010505,201811231 +QMBNCFG: "List",5,0,0,"Telus-Commercial_VoLTE",0x05800C43,201912031 +QMBNCFG: "List",6,0,0,"Commercial-SBM",0x05011C18,201904021 +QMBNCFG: "List",7,0,0,"Commercial-DT",0x05011F1C,201905311 +QMBNCFG: "List",8,0,0,"Reliance_OpnMkt",0x05011B38,201910161 +QMBNCFG: "List",9,0,0,"TF_Germany_VoLTE",0x05010C1B,201909201 +QMBNCFG: "List",10,0,0,"TF_Spain_VoLTE",0x05010CFA,201909261 +QMBNCFG: "List",11,0,0,"Volte_OpenMkt-Commercial-CMCC",0x05012071,201904281 +QMBNCFG: "List",12,0,0,"OpenMkt-Commercial-CT",0x05011322,201911081 +QMBNCFG: "List",13,0,0,"OpenMkt-Commercial-CU",0x05011505,201807052 +QMBNCFG: "List",14,0,0,"Telstra-Commercial_VoLTE",0x0580079E,202006101 +QMBNCFG: "List",15,0,0,"Commercial-KDDI",0x0501071D,202004041 +QMBNCFG: "List",16,0,0,"Commercial-DCM",0x05010D17,202006101 +QMBNCFG: "List",17,0,0,"Commercial-SKT_VoLTE",0x05012724,201907221 +QMBNCFG: "List",18,0,0,"Commercial-KT",0x05012C0D,202005071'
If the last 5 entries are not displayed at your PP, you need to update the EG25 modem firmware, following these instructions https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery. VoLTE improves also audio phone quality in general over 3G.
- https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9016&pid=64038#pid64038 (Note: Putting this in tweaks with a step by step would be good? One editor could not independently get this to work)
- There's no notification of it happening, but if you open up the top bar and press it you will see it change!
- Issue on older boards is due to a hardware fault. Pine64 Wiki.
- USB-OTG is very permissive . The MTP service currently has no security whatsoever; if the phone is plugged into a computer, even with disk encryption, the computer will have full R/W access to your /home dir, and full read access to /. See Services on how to disable and enable only when needed.