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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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pinephone? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was gonna buy a pinephone, but i want to know if this is really the best choice. I'm a real fan of the hardware switches. Any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@ambitiousslab @urheber > either one side can’t hear the other, or the audio quality is too quiet, or not very good

Which OS are you using? I haven't had call audio issues for ages on PureOS (I'm not a heavy caller though 😜)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm running postmarketOS v24.06. I could easily have messed something up though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@ambitiousslab It's probably PipeWire. AFAIK nobody adjusted the audio pipeline to work there with echo cancellation and noise reduction yet. I wouldn't consider it suitable for phone use until that happens. It's not rocket science, PipeWire is actually more flexible than PulseAudio for this kind of stuff, but... someone has to do it. Switching back to PulseAudio and reproducing the config from PureOS (including ALSA UCM profiles) would likely give you much better experience right now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@ambitiousslab (I have to admit that it's partially my own fault; I have reworked L5 UCM profiles from the ground up long time ago, but neglected upstreaming them and now there are flawed profiles in upstream repos ☹️)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for explaining some of the history, it makes some sense and gives me some things to try. Thanks for all the work you've done on the mobile stack as well. It's made my life a lot better. And maybe one day I'll be able to ditch the backup nokia too :)