Manjaro ARM Beta7 with Phosh for PinePhone

Manjaro developers announced the release of a new version of Manjaro ARM Beta with Phosh for PinePhone. This image is running the 5.11 kernel from Megi 1, which is designed for the PinePhone.

Features:

• Firefox uses a dedicated configuration and plays videos on Youtube pretty well
• Camera app with access to back and front camera, including autofocus
• Auto-Rotate function we had to remove
• Welcome wizard for easy setup of the device
• We have now a working Torch in the quick-access-menu
• Prime phone functions working, including resume from deep-sleep and free speaking
• Recording of audio works
• Most applications got added to scale-to-fit
• Haptic feedback functions are given
• Optimized keyboard layout for terminal
• Maps with working GPS
• Volume buttons working
• Sensors fully functional
• Easy access to Bluetooth, Wlan, Rotate and Mobile functions via quick settings
• Default branch is arm-stable. This can be changed by editing /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf
• usage of callaudiod for better audio experience with calls
• This image uses a Crust enabled uboot

Changes since Beta6

• phosh is now at 0.9 5 series
• update calls to 0.3.1 2
• chatty got more fixes
• more fixes to modemmanager, networkmanager and eg25-manager to stabilize the modem even more
• pipewire is now at 0.3.23 1
• fixed Headphone/set jack detection
• screen fades to black for 5s before it turns it off on proximity. It won’t lock the phone, only on set timeout!
• firefox is at 89.0.1
• some fixes for gnome-contacts and gnome-control-center
• regular upstream updates

A detailed list of package changes can be found here 3.

Currently broken:

• Mic-Mute function in calls not working
• GPS may not work as it should

Known issues

• Megapixels might not show your back camera unless you had switched cameras once
• it may take longer to wake up from deep-sleep mode when a call is incoming. Most of the time that call will vibrate only.
• UI becomes unresponsive after a while.
• Lots of apps are still missing or are not mobile friendly yet.

Download:

Download the image/xz file from the download location. Verify that the download completed successfully.

After that, install Etcher (sudo pacman -S etcher if on Manjaro) and burn the to an SD card (8 GB or larger).

The PinePhone should recognize the SD card as a bootable device and boot from it.

The premade users are:
User: manjaro
Password: 123456

User: root
password: root

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