UT on Pine 64
This
is the very latest update news from Oren for all Pine 64 devices
running UT. If you want to follow developments even closer or get
involved there is the Ubuntu Touch on Pine 64 group https://t.me/utonpine
These
are our images, ready for your usage, building daily. I’m still
figuring out how we will have these distributed. I’ll be updating the
pine64 wiki and the ubports wiki in the next few days pointing to this
link, most likely. You
can select Last Successful Artifacts or click on the [+]View button,
then click to download the .raw.xz file of your respective device; then
flash it in the same way as our downstream images. Please
note: these are still r/w and still have to be upgraded through apt.
However, you should notice multiple improvements with ContentHub, the
modem, and even GPS support. We are actively working on r/o and
system-image updates, you can follow the progress on the Ubuntu Touch on
Pine64 Telegram. For this, we will need to set up the images to be in
tarball form as well, which can be uploaded to a system-image server,
and have a new 20.04/arm64/mainline/devel channel to access. Issues/other comments: - network + modem seem to die on the PinePhone Pro when put to sleep. sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager ofono will get them back on, but we believe this is a problem with the kernel. We are actively working on this too.
- external monitor support is still poor, and camera is not working yet. Again, we are working on this.
- almost all of contenthub works. However, some things seem to require apparmor profile updates. For example, you can now correctly upload images to telegram, and you can download them from telegram, but trying to have telegram open the downloaded file will still fail. You have to locate it manually.
- GPS should be working OOTB, but in reality it seems to be acting slightly funny. If it does not work right away, we have found switching to our branch that fixed it (sudo ubports-qa install focal_-_PR_location-service_27), then right after removing it (sudo ubports-qa uninstall focal_-_PR_location-service_27), it seems to bring GPS online right away. Weird. (note - GPS is only available on the phones. It requires the modem to use, but does not require a SIM - it just requires an internet connection of any kind.)
- PineTab2
WiFi has new, safer one-liners! sudo systemctl start
pinetab2-wifi-enable + reboot to turn it on, sudo systemctl start
pinetab2-wifi-disable + reboot to turn it back off. These are not
persistent, so you can’t systemctl enable them.
Finally,
I could not have got this far without @Luigi311 + @fuseteam, huge
thanks to both of them for helping me take this project on 😁
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