Manjaro ARM Beta9 of Phosh for PinePhone

The Manjaro ARM project is proud to announce nineth BETA release for the PinePhone running Phosh!

This image is running the 5.12 kernel from Megi, which is designed for the PinePhone.

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 working with geolocate
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

they use now 5.12.2 kernel series with patches by Megi. This extends also battery-life once again
uboot got updated to support 5.12 kernel
Megapixels is now at v1.0.1
Siglo is at 0.7.0 1
fixes to atinout
updates to callaudiod, calls, chatty, phosh
feedbackd supports more fine theme adjustments
pipewire updates
mesa updated to 21.0.3
Pamac 10.1 1 is now mobile ready
they switched to Qt5 with KDE patches
eg25-manager got enhanced gps management
more Gnome 40.1 updates including Shell 40.1 and Mutter 40.1

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

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.