PinePhone image 2023-04-06 (wifi, software-add tab, Jitsi preset)

[John J. Karcher]

Hello,

Sorry for the late response.  I have been playing with this new 
PinePhone image on-and-off for the last couple of weeks, with mixed results.

To recap my situation, I have the 3GB Developer edition, but had 
problems with my SIM card (which I haven't had the time to dig deeper 
into yet), so I didn't have voice connectivity with the first image.

Here are a few observations on the new image:

- Wi-Fi does work most of the time.  Sometimes it gets stuck scanning, 
but most of the time it's OK, and I can connect fine with password.

- I love the on-screen keyboard - for my tastes it's better than Apple's 
or Google's!

- I had some initial problems with the Storage functionality - basically 
it was unable to write (e.g, the Default button and expanding didn't 
work).  This may have been my fault, since I wrote over the previous 
image without writing zeros first.  When I mounted the SD card in Linux, 
it complained about the partition table, and offered to fix it.  Once I 
did that, the Default button worked, but Expand still locks up.

- In the Software section, in the "Add" and "Update" tabs, there is a 
message saying "missing public key for verification".  I wonder if there 
is still a write problem, which might cause cascading problems like this.

- Sometimes after booting, the phone goes into a mode where everything 
is very sluggish (i.e. unusable), and the screen flickers.  The screen 
looks like it is flipping between two framebuffers, for example, one 
with all sections closed and one with the Devices section open.  The 
current mode is predominant, but the other one is faintly visible behind it.

One quick thought - is it possible to add a scrollable Log view in 
Leitzentrale, since getting log data off the device is challenging?

If you want to put out another interim release, I'll try to respond 
faster.  :^)

  Thanks!

   John J. Karcher
   devuser at alternateapproach.com