# PinePhone Pro support status in Mobian

DevFeed: [PinePhone Pro support status in Mobian](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pinephone-pro-is-here-and-it-runs-mobian-34223.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-pro/>)

Author: Mobian team

Published: 2021-12-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mobian's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobian-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Linux Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux-kernel.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [4g lte](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/4g-lte.md>), [Bluetooth](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bluetooth.md>)

Tags: [4g-lte](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/4g-lte.md>), [bluetooth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bluetooth.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [linux-kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux-kernel.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [modem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modem.md>), [patches](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patches.md>)

## AI overview

This article reports early Mobian support for the PinePhone Pro. It describes hardware enablement, Linux kernel and boot patches, a Mobian image that boots into Phosh, working 4G connectivity with SMS/MMS and mobile data, and remaining challenges with phone-call audio routing.

## Source excerpt

Pine64 recently announced the PinePhone Pro, a significantly upgraded version of their PinePhone. As developers started receiving their devices earlier this month, significant progress have been made already to get existing mobile distributions, including Mobian, to run on this new Linux phone. Keep reading for the latest status updates on the PinePhone Pro support. Initial hardware enablement The PinePhone Pro was designed in such a way that it is an easy device to work with: it is based on a Rockchip RK3399 SoC, for which mainline kernel support is really good, and switched to a Broadcom/Cypress WiFi/Bluetooth chipset, supported by the mailine bcrmfmac kernel driver. Moreover, the modem is the same model as the one used in the OG PinePhone: despite its numerous drawbacks, it is a well-known unit and we can already provide workarounds for its most significant issues. @megi and @MartijnBraam, which both had access to early prototypes of this device, did an awesome job at bringing up the device and providing patches for u-boot and the Linux kernel. This allowed distribution developers to boot the PinePhone Pro with very little effort and start improving on an already solid basis. As a matter of fact, only a few hours were necessary to craft a Mobian image able to boot into Phosh on the PinePhone Pro! Making the notification LEDs, flash light and orientation sensors to work as nicely as they do on the OG PinePhone was only a matter of few more hours (if not minutes) of additional hacking. Getting 4G/LTE connectivity As mentioned above, the PinePhone Pro uses the same exact modem as the OG PinePhone. As a consequence, only a limited amount of software changes were necessary to get it to work on Mobian. Using the latest versions of both ModemManager and eg25-manager, the modem is automatically powered on and able to connect to 4G networks, with both SMS/MMS and mobile data being fully functional. Giving and receiving phone calls Phone calls are another problem, as those