Drop your PinePhone just once...

It wasn't a big fall, just a minor nick on the shell and no effect on the screen. Now there is no calling or texting, in or out.

Place a jumper across two test points to force the modem in to a download mode. Motionless for two minutes while it boots up? Forget that, solder a jumper on the test points. No joy, the modem still not showing up in lsusb.

At least, the Pine has replacement parts available. It took longer to find the micro-screwdriver kit than it took to swap the main board. (The kit was on my desk.) Load the latest Mobian build, and we are back up and running.

The Pine is also the absolute easiest phone to develop an app for. It starts like this:

#!/usr/bin/python3<br>

import tkinter

That's it! In less than a month, I had an app ready for my Well Well project. Much of that time was  learning to use Python.