PinePhone Pro Software State

Presently the PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition is aimed at Linux developers with an extensive knowledge of embedded systems and/or experience with mobile Linux. It will take time for all the PinePhone Pro’s functionality to reach software parity with the original PinePhone and for mobile operating systems, in more general, to reach a higher degree of maturity.

Bear in mind that the software for these smartphones is still in a very early stage, with most of the software being in alpha or beta state. That's especially also the case for scalability of applications, their availability and practicability, any hardware function implementations and the firmware. The software is provided as is. There is no warranty for the software, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

The following table lists the feature functionality status of the unaltered pre-installed factory image of the current shipping batch and as comparison an up-to-date reference image (no responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of this information, the list is provided and updated by the community). If you have any questions regarding the current state of the software or of specific features working, please don't hesitate to ask in the community chat before buying the device:

• Discord: #pinephone under https://discord.gg/pine64
• IRC: #pinephone on irc.pine64.org. Note: please consider Matrix, Discord or Telegram due to the volatile nature of IRC
• Matrix: https://app.element.io/#/room/#pinephone:matrix.org
• Telegram: https://t.me/pinephone

The software is written by the community, any contributions towards the community projects are greatly appreciated! Please see "How to Contribute" to learn about how to contribute to the software projects and "Where to Report Bugs" to learn about where to report bugs.

Functionality	Component	Status (factory)¹	Status (updated)²	Notes
Bootloader	U-Boot	Critical bugs		Some critical software bugs currently not fixed yet: A drained battery causes U-Boot to bootloop (cause is known and currently being worked on);Workaround Occasionally the eMMC fails to initializeReport
	SPI	Unfinished		SPI memory is currently empty in the Explorer Edition batch, a corrupted installation on the eMMC has a higher boot priority than a fresh microSD card installation, leading to a involved recovery procedurePlanned
	Boot GUI	Not implemented		Currently there is no graphical boot selection implementedPossibly planned
Operating System	Stability	Critical bugs	WIP	The pre-flashed and outdated operating system on the eMMC often gets corrupted after updatingExample
	Suspend	Not working	Experimental	Without suspend the phone will drain very fast! Suspend only available in specific more recent imagesNews Audio is often higher pitched after waking up from suspend due to a bugReport
	Updates	Critical bugs	WIP	The pre-flashed and outdated operating system on the eMMC often gets corrupted after updatingExample; Pacman database lock preventing updatesSolution; Keyring bug[Solution is to run "pinephonepro-post-install" script as root]
Modem	General	Critical bugs		The modem connection crashes frequentlyReportAlternative firmware; Slow wakeupReport; Some carriers blocking specific TANs in their networkPinePhone Carrier Support; Note: Proprietary firmware
	Phone	WIP		The modem connection crashes frequently, which can lead to missed callsReportAlternative firmware; Slow wakeupReport; bad call audio qualityReport;
	SMS	Working		SMS functionality is expected to work. In certain cases the functionality might be blocked by a clogged modemReport; Some bugs
	MMS	WIP		MMS functionality is integrated into the application "Spacebar", some bugs remaining and expected
	Push notifications	Not implemented		Receiving push notifications while the phone is suspended is not implemented
Components	LCD	WIP		Hardware issueDetails; Under certain circumstances it is difficult to wake up the screen[Citation]
	Touch	Working
	Rear camera	Not working	WIP	Camera works with DTS fix; userspace still needs to do some catching up (see debugging article)
	Front camera	Not working	WIP	Camera works with DTS fix; userspace still needs to do some catching up (see debugging article)
	Camera flash	Critical issues		Hardware issueDetails; Note: /sys/class/leds/white:flash
	WiFi	Working		WiFi is expected to work. Some remaining tasks, such as "monitor mode". Note: Proprietary firmware
	Bluetooth	WIP		Bluetooth not necessarily working for calls yet due to missing audio routing[Citation]; Bluetooth in general dodgy under Pulseaudio.Info Note: Proprietary firmware
	GNSS/GPS	WIP		aGPS to be implemented[Citation]; long loading times to get a GPS fix[Citation]; No preinstalled application[Citation]
	Sensors	WIP		"3 Axis Magnetometer" (lis3mdl): Not present in hardware (it's an alternative chip to af8133j due to component shortages) "Geo Magnetic Sensor" (af8133j): Working (at /sys/bus/i2c/devices/4-001c/iio:device1) "Accelerometer / Gyroscope" (mpu6500): Working (at /sys/bus/i2c/devices/4-0068/iio:device2) "Ambient light / Proximity" (stk3311): Working after updating
	Vibration motor	Working
	Notification LED	Working
	Buttons	Working		Power buttons and volume buttons are working.
Accessory compatibility, spare parts	Keyboard Add-on	WIP and critical hardware issue		The keyboard add-on compatibility is work-in-progress. Hardware issue: USB-C port of the phone must not be used while the current keyboard revision is connectedWarning; Top row symbols not implemented as designed[Citation]; Keyboard hot-plugging not supported[Citation]; Battery state not exposed in the pre-flashed operating system state[Citation]; general driver bugs[Citation]
	LoRa Add-on	Not implemented		No software support implemented
	Qi Wireless Charging Add-on	WIP		Wireless charging with the add-on case is expected to work to some degree. Certain software functionality and a driver is currently missing[Citation]
	Fingerprint Reader Add-on	Not implemented		No software support implemented
	Spare parts	Not available yet		Spare parts currently not available yet in the store.Store
Software notes	Waydroid	Software rendering only		Waydroid is an Android container used to run Android applications. Currently can only be started using software rendering due to a bugReportReport

¹ Status of the features at the time of the last factory installation without updates

² Status of the features with an up-to-date reference image