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Features:

  • Camera app with access to back and front camera, including autofocus
  • Auto-Rotate function and manual rotate
  • Welcome wizard for easy setup of the device
  • We have now a working Torch in the quick-access-menu
  • Prime phone functions working, including resume from deep-sleep and free speaking
  • Recording of audio works
  • Most applications got added to scale-to-fit
  • Haptic feedback functions are given
  • Optimized keyboard layout for terminal
  • Maps working with geolocate
  • Volume buttons working
  • Sensors fully functional
  • Easy access to Bluetooth, Wlan, Rotate and Mobile functions via quick settings
  • Default branch is arm-stable. This can be changed by editing /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf
  • usage of callaudiod for better audio experience with calls
  • This image uses a Crust enabled uboot (Pinephone only)

Changes since Beta 32

  • Kernel got updated to 6.3.5
    • fixed regression in Pinephone power consumption during sleep (touchscreen was not disabled properly, consuming a lot of power)
    • added DRAM reclocking support to Pinephone Pro (needs Rockchip TPL/TF-A which is provided by uboot-pinephonepro-rockchip)
  • updated uboot for PinePhonePro to 2023.07-rc2 from megi-branch
  • Gnome Shell and Mutter got updated to 44 series
    • most applications are now ported to GTK4
  • alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.9 included a broken PP UCM config.
    • We are using the working from Mobian still
  • Firefox is renewed to 113.0.1
    • mobile-config-firefox might not work with it in portrait mode. remove the package.
  • Megapixels now supports newer kernels and got updated to 1.6.1
  • Python got updated to 3.11
  • Systemd is now at 253.4
  • Phoc got updated to 0.28.0
  • Phosh and Phosh-Mobile-Settings got updated to latest git-master commits to match phoc
  • Gnome-Control-Center is at 43.6
  • Phosh got updated to 0.28.0
  • Phosh-Mobile-Settings got renewed to 0.28.0

A detailed list of package changes can be found here.

Currently broken:

  • GPS may not work as it should

Known issues

  • xdg-desktop-portal-gnome gets installed as a dependency when you updated from Beta32. Remove it as applications may start slower than needed.
  • During a Call the Mic can't be muted on Pinephone and PinephonePro
  • UI becomes unresponsive after a while.
  • Doing a recording may result in noisy audio savings
  • Lots of apps are still missing or are not mobile friendly yet.