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Easily upgrading the PinePhone (Pro) Modem Firmware
Note, 2025: As outlined on the https://themodemdistro.com/, the recommended install method is no longer via GNOME Firmware. In fact, newer releases are not even available on LVFS. Please follow the official instructionss instead. This post is kept as is for historical purposes.
If you are a PinePhone owner and have not been living under a rock, you will know that there's an exploitable vulnerability for the PinePhone Pro's Quectel EG-25G firmware that's been supplied with your PINE64 phone.…
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Weekly Update (8/2022): Phosh 0.16.0, Nemo Mobile's February Report and adding Kodi to Megi's multi boot image
Another boring week with just a few releases, I even had to reach for Steam Deck content to fill this one up.
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Weekly Update (7/2022): Call and chat with +015550199999 or put Ubuntu Touch OTA 22 on your libhybris phone!
A rather boring week: People love handhelds with keyboards, an unofficial PinePhone battery case, a translucent backcover and a little bit of software news. Oh, and PINE64 shared another community update!
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Weekly Update (6/2022): Plasma Mobile Gear 22.02, postmarketOS v21.12 SP2 and a lot of FOSDEM!
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.02, Maui 2.1.1., SailfishOS make progress on the PinePhone Pro, booting the Librem 5 from microSD, help UBports to test OTA 22, Signal Desktop as an unofficial Flatpak for ARM64 and a lot of FOSDEM 2022 videos!
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Weekly Update (5/2022): Tow-Boot, GStreamer 1.20, PinePhone Pro Unboxings, an UBports departure and don't miss virtual FOSDEM!
Tow-Boot for the PinePhone Pro, two PinePhone Pro development progress reports by Megi, PINE64 PinePhone Community Poll results, mixed news around JingOS and JingPad and plenty PinePhone Pro unboxings!
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Weekly Update (4/2022): New releases of Phosh, phoc, Squeekboard and Chatty (with MMS), suspend on the PinePhone Pro and GStreamer 1.20 RC1
In the fourth week of 2022, we're having an overhaul of the GNOME on Mobile stack delivering important features like MMS or arbitrary (as in non-numeric) passwords, a report on what Nemo Mobile accomplished in January, and three PinePhone gaming videos!
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Weekly Update (3/2022): First PINE64 Community Update and first Ubuntu Touch Q&A of 2022, some PinePhone keyboard videos, news on OpenBSD and Genode on the PinePhone.
The third week of 2022 has the release of postmarketOS 21.12 Service Pack 1 and many smaller stories – a comparatively quiet week.