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Post #3986508

2026-07-19 14:49 UTC

For some reason I have decided that daily driving the PinePhone Pro for a month is a good idea. With encouragement from the PINE64 community chatrooms, I am prepared to endure this potential pain. For science!!! Before we get into things, here are some ground rules and boundaries that I wish to lay out for potential readers. 1. My employment requires an app that doesn’t work, even with MicroG. I will have my Android device with me for this reason, but my primary SIM will be in the PinePhone Pro. 2. No Android apps, Waydroid or Android translation layer. I must use native and Flatpak Linux apps. 3. My primary SIM must be in the PinePhone Pro for the duration of the month. (rules subject to change, I think) This thread will continue to get updated every day/few days when I can. Hopefully this goes fine /s #pine64 #pinephone #pinephonepro #mobilelinux #linuxmobile

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@carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-19 14:53

Beginning day of daily driving my PinePhone Pro (1) – 18/07/2026 Today I start my journey daily driving the PinePhone Pro for a month. I started by asking abcde and xmn from the PINE64 chatrooms which distro I should use. I personally wanted to use something different so I was personally thinking either Mobian or Arch Linux/DanctNIX. In the end we decided that I will use Mobian with Phosh as the distro I will use for the month. After I finished installing Mobian to the internal storage, I had switched some settings around (pin, timezone, etc). While doing that, I accidentally disabled cellular networking in Gnome settings. Around five minutes after this I tried calling the PinePhone Pro from my main phone and it failed as both devices went to voicemail immediately. I fixed this by rebooting the device, I tested on both PostmarketOS edge and the latest Mobian weekly image afterwards and calls worked no problem. Some initial observations is how hot the device gets from doing nothing. The RK3399S found in the PinePhone Pro is a binned variant of the SOC in the PineBook Pro (less power usage and better thermals). Even after binning, the power usage is high (3.0W-4.0W idle) and the device is constantly hot. While I was setting this all up, it had been around 35 minutes. Battery life went from 70% to 17% within that time. The performance however is good, I am happy with how web browsing and general navigation feel. Web browsing hitches a little bit, but once the page loads scrolling is smooth on Firefox. So far I have installed Tuba for managing the PINE64 community Mastodon on the go, Telegram for online messaging, Speech Note for voice to text notes, Pure Maps for navigation, LocalSend for file transfer and FreeTube for watching stuff. That’s about it, I’m going to bed. See you next log! #pine64 #pinephone #pinephonepro #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #mobian #phosh

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