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Advice for anyone considering it:

* There are rough edges, but the basics are there: calling/SMS/4G/WiFi/audio/browsing/suspend.

* If you want to try it, put https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ on an SD card and plug that into your PinePhone. That has a bunch of different distros and UIs on it.

* To keep up to date, follow https://www.pine64.org/blog/ and https://linmob.net/

I'm excited to use a community driven phone!




Did they ever fix the modem disappearing on suspend? I have the latest kernel (as of a month ago) and a build of bitkorgii's modem firmware from last year but I still need to reboot the phone every time I pull it out to check my texts.

EDIT (I'm throttled and can't reply): I already have a script/service/runlevel that handles periodically waking the phone for notifications (I wrote it fall 2020 when I got mine.) I'm talking about the bug that causes the modem USB device to disappear and not get probed again after a random number of wakes from suspend. It's not an issue if you're only on WiFi and use VOIP but some people get annoyed that they can't call me while I'm driving.


Yes. The state of the art is:

* biktorg's firmware (now flash able via GNOME Firmware or fwupdmgr)

* NetworkManager with --test-quick-resume-suspend flag.

* Crust/ATF as platform firmware (e.g. Tow-Boot)

* eg25-manager to manage the modem

This will be available transparently to most users, but some distros might not be there yet.

PostmarketOS and Mobian are safe bets.


Yes, it works, but I think the situation is fluid at the moment depending on distro, config, etcetera. Latest Sxmo on pmOS it works OOTB. You can find many other reports in the wild, for example https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/rp3c14/deep_slee...




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