Beta 33
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
- default firmware uses FOSS TF-A
- we added uboot-pinephonepro-rockchip using proprietary Rockchip TPL/TF-A to have optimized power-management which saves 0.5W of power.
- 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.