My Linux Phone Broke - What am I going to do?
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- My linux phone broke. I tried to insert a new sim card and it broke the pins. It looks like I can still install OSes by using tow-boot and booting in mass storage mode. I cannot believe how badly made the sim card and SD card insertion is. It is like it is designed to break, forcing you to buy a new board for $200. I think most people are better off buying a Pixel 3a. It should have similar specs, a better build, better OS support, and be cheaper.
I will try again with Ubuntu in my next video, as this put me a week behind.
Chapters:
00:00 The problem
00:49 A look inside the phone
02:13 Next Steps
02:28 My thoughts on the Pinephone Pro
03:41 Ubuntu Touch Rocks
04:41 Conclusion
#pinephone #linux #broken #towboot #phone 
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That sim card adapter (not tray), just get correct size sim card Micro-SIM not Nano-SIM.
Usually I move the SIM between phones so I use what I have. The Pinephone gets a lot of free passes for being a Linux phone and designed for developers. However, It should also be obvious that most owners will not get a phone plan specifically for this phone. It's going to have a lot of cycles where the SIM card is removed and reinserted. The design here will fail fairly quickly for a mostly likely highly common use case.
They fixed this problem in the newer models (I had this problem as well with the non pro and I got a free replacement motherboard)
I do want alternatives to google and apple in phones and tablets, but I am not personally willing to be a beta tester for a phone, unless I were going to have two phones.
@@Guishan_Lingyou I don't think anyone currently looks for beta testers. What is needed are developers. For instance mobian on the non-pro pinephone is virtually stalled, as it was depending on a single person.
Your editing is very good! Voice fits well too. I can see you becoming a bigger youtuber.
It's been a slow progression on improving my content. Thank you so much for the support!
the only thing i dislike about ubuntu touch is QT is used for the apps which i do like and i like the designer for the UI... but there is no good way i know of to work with that using C# or typescript which are my prefered languages... there are ways to run other stuff though... but if i had better options then that then i would enjoy the OS more...
i am gonna have to do a bit of extra work to get someething working.... but i have a plan...
fairly good os otherwise... could use more apps...
Up to now I took it for granted that they must have spare parts in the Pine64 store. They don't. That's a disappointment. I own a non-pro pinephone, and I have to agree that the experience isn't great. The performance is horrible, battery life is very very poor, build quality is mediocre at best, and development of most distros for the Pinephone is going at an extremely slow pace if it hasn't completely stopped.
Did u thought about read specifitication first?
I bought a Pinephone pro just a week before they screwed the development community. It was very disappointing. I've used it as a Linux computer, not as a phone, and that was interesting.
Interestingly, both the Librem and Pinephone brands imploded nearly simultaneously, indicating something bigger behind the scenes.
@@noam65 what do you mean by "they screwed up the development community"? Was there a single event where it all blew up?
@@jochannan7379 they contracted with an OS developer. They stopped supporting the others. Development slowed to a crawl, ever since.
A similar downward arc happened with the Librem-5. I don't know the cause.
Did you try Plasma touch?
Yes. I plan on doing an update video this year as well.
isnt andoid a linux family?
Sort of? It doesn't have the same userland and it has special patches so you can't run genral Linux software on Android easily. But since it is a linux kernel at the core, it technically is linux.
Take a look to OnePlus 6t, is the android device with the widest support of Linux mobile distros
Thank you for the heads up!
@@bitterepic Or the OnePlus 6 if you want a headphone jack.
At the intro, you might have missed it in editing, it says phonephone Pro
Thank you for pointing that out! Late night editing....