Hello Genodians
My first tests of Sculpt OS on the PinePhone.
The startup time of the Operating system really impresses me. Not to wait for the phone for a minute or so after powering on is super cool.
The GUI is really functional and lets me change settings really quick. It may not be as pretty as the one in slowly booting operating systems, but navigating around is much more logical IMHO.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to do any calls. When I turned the power on for the Modem, some steps were counted up (four if I remember correctly), but after that a Message (unknown pin starte) was printed. for some time (maybe 15 Seconds). After that the dial-pad was displayed.
After entering a number and pressing "Initiate Call" the status "Dialing xxx xxx xx xx [cancel]" was displayed, but nothing happened.
I was able to cancel the call, but I wasn't able to torn off the modem again.
I was able to download the morph browser preset, but did not do further testing yet.
One thing I noticed, when lowering the brightness to the lowest setting, the screen seems to turn completely off. I was still able to set the brightness back to a level where the screen is visible. So this is only a minor issue.
Am I right to assume, that keeping the settings persistent over reboots isn't yet implemented? As I prefer longevity above performance for my phone, I did set "economic" and a relatively low display brightness, but after each reboot they are back to the defaults.
I did set the first partition of mmcblk0 to default after expanding it. This worked as flawless as on the PC platform.
Regards, Pirmin
Hello again
On 2/10/23 18:44, Pirmin Duss wrote:
I was able to cancel the call, but I wasn't able to torn off the modem again.
After some more testing I was able to turn on and off the modem multiple times. So I'm not sure, why this wasn't working on my first try.
Unfortunately I still wasn't able to do calls.
Regards, Pirmin
Hi Pirmin,
thank you for testing the PinePhone image.
After some more testing I was able to turn on and off the modem multiple times. So I'm not sure, why this wasn't working on my first try.
Unfortunately I still wasn't able to do calls.
The modem_pinephone.run script at the Allwinner repository [1] might be helpful to solve this mystery. It allows you to interactively talk to the modem using AT commands. You can find the commands for placing and receiving calls documented at the beginning of the run script. More detailed information is available at [2] in Section "LTE module information".
I wonder, are you able to unlock your SIM and issue/receive voice calls using this manual procedure? If yes, I would very much appreciate a log of the AT commands that work for you. So we can extend the AT-protocol driver [3] accordingly.
[1] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode-allwinner/blob/master/run/modem_pinepho... [2] https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Datasheets_for_components_and_pe... [3] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode-allwinner/tree/master/src/drivers/modem
Cheers Norman
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Norman Feske -
Pirmin Duss