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Post n°78 pubblicato il 12 Ottobre 2023 da taichung
Tag: pinephone, sailfishOS
SailfishOS revealed itself as a nice surprise to me
The bluetooth works, although sometimes finding another device seems to take a long time and disconnecting/reconnecting the BT. Wifi works and is quite stable, but sometimes after suspension it doesn't reconnect to the network. Moreover when you turn it on, although the desired network is already memorized in the phone, it doesn't connect. Turn it off, then on some times, then it works again. GPS doesn't work yet. I sometimes experimented a freeze But now let's talk about the good news SalifishOS actually shows the best performance for battery consumption There's a script for updating the OS without Jolla account (by the way, you'l be asked to create it during the installation process, but don't need it if you don't want: only if you want to access the Jolla store) Custom ringtones. Yes! You can use your own ringtone for calls, notifications, sms, etc. I suggest you to install Storeman, an app store with more apps available respect to the default ChumGUI. Among the others, an UPNP player (but Already said about the GPS, I can't get the signal. GPSInfo from Storeman is an app to check the gps signal. Anyway, there are few wannabe apps as navigator. So far Pure Maps looks the best choice. Interesting looks modRana too, similar to the old, glorious Navit. Last, SouBirdIME is an input method app (from Storeman) which allows you to type in Chinese Hanyu PinYin, which I personally use. It is probably the only OS for PinePhone with such possibility, so far.
Post n°77 pubblicato il 25 Agosto 2023 da taichung
Installare i seguenti pacchetti:
Per una stampante usb digitare nel terminale: # ink -p usb
Post n°76 pubblicato il 01 Agosto 2023 da taichung
From Pinephone's Wiki :
As an advanced user ( The bad news is, there isn't a phone module. Therefore, no calls, no sms. Lol... "...when investigating we quickly found that the Ubuntu repositories utilised to create Rhino Linux currently ship a broken Phosh package, so we came up with an alternative. Turns out, almost all of the mobile environments aren’t working on Ubuntu right now, so we fell back to what we knew worked soundly: XFCE. To do this, the environment utilizes onboard as the system keyboard, a slightly modified version of the Rhino Linux XFCE dotfiles, and a special patch for XFCE to allow for auto-rotation. It currently uses X11, but we are looking into moving to Wayland when XFCE 4.20 comes around." The GUI is beautiful, but not finger friendly: difficult to type on the keyboard, buttons on the screen are too small, even closing a window can be difficult. Using a pen for touchscreens won't solve the problem, the cllickable area is too small. It is a bit questionable that the default XFCE Plank dock provides a button for an editor among the few available buttons (editing on a phone isn't for sure the main task) but hey, it's a desktop distro... I also would improve the look of the buttons, Imho they arent clear; I mean, you don't know what it is for until you click on it and the window appears on the screen. The dock also provides uLauncher, to start applications and search in the folders. The grid of applications is provided by Lightpad; here too, some problem: you have to slide the grid to see all the available applications, and to do that, there are 3 (it depends on the number of apps) microscopic white buttons at the button, and clicking on them is very problamatic. To switch form one virtual desktop to another, there's xfdashboard Again, you can see that the main target is the desktop pc, those are problems you won't experiment there. A gesture to close the windows would be very nice, in my humble opinion... Also setting up different session/ desktop profiles would help to improve the experience on small screens. All those considerations, as you have red, are about the GUI / DE. Since the phone doesn't work at the moment, I only could focus on other aspect of this disto. I quickly explained some of its problems on the PInephone. Said this, I believe it has a some potential. If you can contribute, I think devs would be happy for your help. The distro is a bit heavy for the Pinephone, but it seems to be quite stable, although still in beta. I didn't experiment crashes or freezes during the half day of test.
The language support isn't complete. You can find common European languages, but for ex, no Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc... Wifi and bluetooth work. The camera works too, but there is no button to close the preview window! Updating the distro works too. Battery consumption, as usual, is one of the week points of the Pinephone. Don't expect to play with it for a long time. At the end, considering that it is still in the beta stage, Rhino Linux looks promising. Like many others. Let's see if the developers will have enough time (and money) to go on on the Pinephone too
Post n°75 pubblicato il 29 Luglio 2023 da taichung
After testing the beta 30 version of Manjaro, gave another try with the newest version, the beta 34, still with Phosh. Respect to the review for the older one, this time I installed it on the EMMC memory. I didn't notice much difference in speed respect to the old installation on a microsd card. The boot is very fast, quite impressive; the shutdown takes more time. I take the chance to open a braket about a common application by Gnome: it's Geary, an email client. Before removeing PostmarketOS from the EMMC, it was working with my own email server and self signed ssl certificates. I then noted it didn't work anymore on Manjaro (Geary 40.0) Calls, SMS work as expected, with good audio quality.
What instead I appreciated is that it seems to me that the consumption of the battery is lower respect to PostmatrketOS and Mobian. If it just could let the phone work for a whole day without draining... but in Pinephone we trust!
Post n°74 pubblicato il 03 Maggio 2023 da taichung
I tested Arch Linux with Phosh on a microSD.It fits an 8GB microSD too, the Phosh image is only 4GB wide. Arch for Pinephone provides small images, generally speaking, therefore you can try them in smaller (and slower) cards too. The SXMO image uses only around 3GB of space. The experience is similar to the one of Manjaro. Wifi works, calls in & out too, and I found the phone very responsive for the calls. I mean, respect to other distros, I get the phone ringing immediately after the first waiting tone on the calling phone, and vice versa too. SMS not tested. Bluetooth works. The GPS test made with Gnome Maps sets my position at first about 100Km far away from the real one. Later it moved closer, only 2-3 Km wrong...
Usual localization problems of Phosh with languages like Chinese. No encryption offered during the installatio process. GUI is quite responsive, one of the best I tried with Phosh. Imho this is the best feature of Arch on the Pinephone. A minimalist setup, but a phone side which works, and works well, at least for what I tested. Currently there are images of Arch Linux for PInephone with Phosh, sxmo and KDE Plasma.
I then decided to give a try to SXMO, for the first time. It's a really geeky GUI. Too much for me. You definitely must give a look at the user guide here: https://man.sr.ht/~anjan/sxmo-docs/USERGUIDE.md By the way, sxmo works both on Wayland and Xorg. Learn to use the gestures: how the hell do I close a window? Fast, well it is. I took a picture with the camera, but then I haven't been able to open it from the "button" on the app itlself. Ok. Enough for the first quick impact
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. I already had seen it on an Xperia before, therefore I already have had a first impact with the GUI. I installed it on a microSD. Til a year ago, in the installer for the Pinephone there was an annoying bug which prevented the install script to install the OS (both microSd & flash mem), therefore I only could test it a bit as a live system. Now fortunately the installer works, and also lets you encrypt your FS during the installation process, which is very important for me. On the Pinephone, Sailfish suffers some major issues. First at all, the audio for the calls. In the past it wasn't working, now it works, but the voice sounds very "metallic"... On the other side, when somebody calls, I always get it (well sometimes the volume of the ringtone is almost inaudible, although I set it to a higher volume, when I reboot the phone it's low again). I recived some SMS, but when I try to send a message, it seems that it doesn't work... 
I suspect some issue when I rely on 4g network, when it falls back to 2g calls look more stable and maybe also the SMS could work. Further investigations needed.
The camera doesn't work yet.
when disconnecting the usb cable after charging the phone, but nothing else.
.Resuming from suspend usually is fast, 1 or 2 seconds after clicking the power button. The battery in stand by lasts about 24 hours.
SailfishOS also offers the possibillity to download themes with a good level of customization.
can't find my own server), apps for Telegram, Signal, Mastodon, XMPP. The default email client works with my own IMAP server. Moreover you can syncronize the default Calendar app with your caldav server. Also the contacts of the phone with your carddav server (for reference, I use Radicale).
Condividi e segnala 
), I downloaded the image and installed it on a microSD card. The boot isn't the fastest at all, at a certain point I also doubted it was working, the screen was completely dark, but after a minute, the pointer of the cursor appeared. The pointer? Yes, exactly. Because Rhino Linux is primary a desktop distro, which has been adapted for Pine's devices too.
I can speculate they didn't had time yet, or some problem to adapt the phone part to the customized DE. No KDE nor Phosh here. The DE is Unicorn, a customized version of XFCE. Btw, if I remember well there are already other distros with working phone, using XFCE as DE (PostmarketOS, I think). I've been asked why XFCE and not Phosh or others on Rhino Linux. The answer of the developer is:
A plus for the logo of Rhino Linux 
Later I tested it on Mobian Bookworm and Ubuntu desktop... no difference, it still doesn't accept my certificates (which btw work on Kmail). [As I found out later, you need to manually install gnome-keyring on your distro to let Geary work with the SSL certificates].
Although what prevents me to keep as default OS on my Pinephone is the lack of the chance to chose to encrypt the FS, Manjaro is still one of the most stable distro on the Pinephone: in one week I never experimented a freeze, just some slowliness when resuming from sleep, occasionally it took several seconds to show the keyboard to input the PIN and unlock the screen.
same old story. The camera works.
Not many apps installed as default: no app to download / update sw 
Inviato da: cassetta2
il 23/08/2019 alle 12:59