Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver
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Project: Using PinePhone as my daily driver smartphone, running Linux fulfilling Goal:Technology.
(!) All the current OS images are crashing (apart from Megous' kernel on Arch Linux ARM) on my PinePhone.
It seems they have DRAM frequency set way too high: 624 MHz instead of 552 MHz. See this thread.
Contents
Hardware
- PinePhone
- Initial testing is done with PinePhone 1.1.
- Once PinePhone 1.2 becomes available, this will be the daily driven device.
- Battery
- Factory-provided at first
- Replaceable with any Samsung J7 form-factor battery[1]
- TODO: Find out more and look for a shop selling this (once needed)
- Screen protector
- Factory-provided at first
- Replacement source
- Pine64 store? Currently doesn't seem to sell it.
- Supposedly some iPhone screen protector is usable
- TODO: Find out more and look for a shop selling this (once needed)
- Protective case
- TODO: Temporary solution: similar form factor of other devices on the market?
- TODO: Source from Pine64 store
Software
Wishlist
- Solid base Linux distribution
- lightweight, customizable
- community-supported with continuous updates
- large package repository
- One day of battery life
- ability to enter power-saving mode and leave it in a matter of seconds of user request
- automatic power-saving after a period of inactivity
- Convenient and efficient UI
- switching between the apps
- turning the screen on and off
- ability to kill apps
postmarketOS
Pros and Cons
- [+] Alpine Linux
Next Steps
- ☆ Flash a prebuilt image
- [+] ?
- [–] ?
- ☐ Build and flash from the repository
- ☐ Try the custom image
- ☐ Try customizing the image
UBports
Pros and Cons
Next Steps
- ☆ Flash a prebuilt image
- [+] ?
- [–] Crashes during boot.
- ☓ Waiting for a better build... (couldn't use a bootloader with lower DRAM frequency)
- ☐ Build and flash from the repository
- ☐ Try the custom image
- ☐ Try customizing the image
Mobian
Pros and Cons
- [+] Debian (almost as good as Arch Linux)
- [+] Aims to be as upstream as possible, built from source
- [–] Phosh
Next Steps
- ☑ Flash a prebuilt image
- [+] Boots, serial shell works
- [–] Bootloader needs to be replaced for lower frequency of DRAM
- [–] Phosh
- You can install Gnome, but it is not polished for the device and it is slow.
- ☓ Waiting for a better build...
- ☐ Build and flash from the repository
- ☐ Try the custom image
- ☐ Try customizing the image
Arch Linux ARM
Via Arch Linux ARM for PinePhone Installer.
Pros and Cons
- [+] Arch Linux
- [–] Relies on Megous' kernel image and updates
Next Steps
- ☑ Update to kernel 5.7
- ☓ Try again the current status and progress
- [i] Tested, boots and works, but the USB network seems broken as of 2020-05-11 --> Reverting to 5.6
- [i] Kernel 5.6.13 works with USB network as of 2020-05-17
sxmo
Pros and Cons
- [+] Based on pmos, i.e. Alpine Linux
- [+] Tiling WM is nice to use on a phone.
- [–] Tiling doesn't work completely with all the apps.
- [–] Hard to learn the controls
- [–] No real power saving.
Next Steps
- [i] Waiting for a future release.
