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Notes on PinePhone and mobile GNU/Linux systems
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At the end of last year, I bought the PinePhone KDE Community Edition; but due to me being too lazy,
I had not tried it out until several months later. I used a few distributions, namely (1) the manjaro
with Plasma Mobile it comes with, (2) Plasma Mobile development version, also based on Manjaro, and
(3) openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma Mobile. The first two are not really usable, as I got blackscreens
after a few reboots -((.
Experience with openSUSE
What's working
Messaging and calls. Had a call with my girlfriend for about 30mins without interruption. Although she said my voice is a bit strange.
NeoChat.
Web browser.
Setting locales. I see some translations in Mandarin as Simplified Chinese are there already, but
there are a lot of places without translations (namely those specific to Plasma Mobile).
Problems
Data does not work. Plasma Mobile does not give me an option to change network settings either.
Sometimes laggy.
Due to 2, pushing the power button does not always immediately wake up the phone.
Input method does not work. At least for the openSUSE distribution, it (maliit) does not come with Chinese input.
Even after I installed
maliit-keyboard2-lang. The screen keyboard is implemented using IM modules.
Setting QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx will just prevent the screen keyboard from showing up.With earphones there are electrical current sounds from time to time.
If I click an app, and switch to another app, or the desktop, before that app window
shows up, the app window will pop up afterwards instead of being pushed to the background.
Privacytools search reports "Rate limit exceeded1" [sic] when I search in Angelfish.
The screen keyboard sometimes responds to key pressing with word suggestions, which can
be never inputed to the input box desired.
Other notes
I have a nano sim card and it will need the adapter that comes with PinePhone to install it properly. I
pushed it in without the adapter, and had to disassemble the phone to push it back out from the inside.
The Manjaro distribution the PinePhone comes with has Telegram installed by default. Telegram can only
connect to a non-free server, and forces users to provide a phone number in order to use services that
does not need one. This is a serious privacy concern.
I strongly oppose to the use of Telegram in any cases, and suggest everyone uninstall
it upon receiving your PinePhone.
The Manjaro distribution the PinePhone comes with cannot be waken up by an alarm clock. I have not yet
tried with openSUSE.
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