View source for PinePhone

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone PinePhone] is supported by [https://mobile.nixos.org/ Mobile NixOS]: https://mobile.nixos.org/devices/pine64-pinephone.html

This guide is discusses how to use [https://phosh.mobi/ Phosh], the GNOME-derived UI used by Librem and Mobian.

== Requirements ==
This document assumes you have set up NixOS on your PinePhone, as described in https://mobile.nixos.org/getting-started.html

Beware known issues:
* [https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/342 boot.growPartition has no effect]
* [https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/373 how to cross-compile]

== Status ==

=== Phosh ===
Working with:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
xserver.desktopManager.phosh = {
  enable = true;
  user = "alice";
  group = "users";
  # for better compatibility with x11 applications
  phocConfig.xwayland = "immediate";
};
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Battery ===
Wake-on-modem works.
Wake-on-WiFi is not supported. Something like https://gist.github.com/Peetz0r/bf8fd93a60962b4afcf2daeb4305da40 is needed.

=== Browsing ===

* GNOME Web is installed by default.
* `pkgs.firefox-wayland` works but doesn't scale down the UI well. https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox is needed for that.

=== Sound ===
Working. Settings -> Sound ->Output -> Configuration -> HiFi

=== Calling ===

Working with:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
programs.calls.enable = true;
# Optional but recommended. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/162894
systemd.services.ModemManager.serviceConfig.ExecStart = [
  "" # clear ExecStart from upstream unit file.
  "${pkgs.modemmanager}/sbin/ModemManager --test-quick-suspend-resume"
];
</syntaxhighlight>

Known issues:
* incoming calls don't trigger music to be paused. Likely need something like https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-base/-/merge_requests/170/diffs

=== SMS ===
Working with:
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.chatty ];
</syntaxhighlight>

=== MMS ===
Unsupported. See https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30

=== Camera ===
{{ic|pkgs.megapixels}} is the only known application to [https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels#linux-video-subsystem work with Pinephone]. Does not always start correctly, retrying might help.

* Front camera works out-of-the-box.
* Back camera works, but autofocus does not ( https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/393 )

=== Mobile internet ===
Working via gnome-control-center ("Mobile Broadband" section), or:

{{Commands|$ nmcli c add type gsm ifname cdc-wdm0 con-name $PROVIDER apn $APN}}

=== GPS ===
Working with GNOME applications with:
* {{pull|129630|allow Phosh to use geoclue}}
* and the following:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
services.geoclue2.enable = true;
users.users.geoclue.extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" ];
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Sensors ===
The acceleration, compass, and ambient light sensors provide working auto-rotation, compass, and auto-brightness, when you:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
hardware.sensor.iio.enable = true;
hardware.firmware = [ config.mobile.device.firmware ];
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Disk encryption ===
The boot process supports opening LUKS volumes. Creating an image to use LUKS is unsupported, but possible. The idea is to write an encrypted LUKS volume to the root partition, as described in  https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/tree/master/examples/testing/qemu-cryptsetup.

=== Hardware acceleration for video ===
See https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/398.

=== Torch ===
Working, per https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/379

=== Bluetooth ===
Working with:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
mobile.boot.stage-1.firmware = [
  config.mobile.device.firmware
];
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Modem firmware ===
Per https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineModems#Upgrade/switch_firmware_via_fwupd , fwupd can be used to flash the FOSS Modem firmware. To enable fwupd:

<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
services.fwupd.enable = true;
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Alarm clocks ===
Not working:
* GNOME Clocks will not wake up the phone: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-clocks/-/issues/100
* https://github.com/Dejvino/birdie looks good, but is not packaged.

== Recommended applications ==

See https://linmobapps.frama.io/ for a list of applications that behave well on small screens, and in particular https://apps.gnome.org/.

== See also ==

* [https://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html xnux.eu ("megi")] is authoritative on hardware capabilities
* [https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ PinePhone multi-distro demo image] is an easy way to see which functionality works in other distros.
* [https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch Arch Linux's Pinephone config]
* [https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=pinephone Mobian's Pinephone docs]
* [https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone) PostmarketOS's Pinephone docs]
* [https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/main/device-pine64-pinephone PostmarketOS's Pinephone config]

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