Dear all, 

I was hoping to brain storm the community on how to fix the pinephone keyboard mainboard rather than just replacing it when the charging chip overheats and gets fried as it seems to do every 4-9 months for me. 

I must have at least 6-7 mainboards in my possession now (only one of which is working sadly). 

I have never soldered before, but would be willing to learn, particularly if the replacement charging chip could be bought for very cheap and it just needed desoldering the old one and soldering on the new one. This would be a good reason to start my soldering journey...

Glad for anyone's tips on this. 

BW

So i have a pinephone pro and i have tried every thing provided here https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18216 and gotten assistanve on discord which still did not help. Ive charged for approximately 10 hours on Maskrom, tried using a sd card, flashed directly to EMMC, attempted to reinstall Towboot, Used a gui tool and dd, and still it will not work. Whenever i turn it on with a working os installed it will flash red then yellow then stay stuck, the screen wont even show anything. If i try without an os on the phone it reboots as the it knows there no os installed. Sometimes too when i turn it on it will stay red and just vibrate as soon as it is turned on. It will not even boot to an SD card if i use either the RE button or the volume down button. I can however boot into mass storage mode by holding volume up and connect it to the computer, im not sure how much this can help but if anyone can help pls do.

Anyone know of U.S. carriers compatible with the Pinephone that have access to voicemail via a computer using a web browser? So far the only one I've come up with is T-Mobile which is a bit pricey. (T-Mobile does have inexpensive pay-as-you go plans but it looks like you can't bring over your existing phone number. I've had my cell phone number since 1992 and don't really want to change it.)

The reason: Just a few days ago my carrier AT&T discontinued their voicemail notification feature which I have used for decades - it notified an external device (pager) when a new voicemail arrived. This was a legacy feature from the early 1990s that probably nobody provides any more. However I would still like a way to check for voicemail that does not involve turning on and using the phone. (I leave the phone off most of the time for privacy as I have no wish to be tracked 24/7). Although possible to retrieve voicemail from a land line that is an increasingly rare thing to find when not at home.

AT&T has made some unwelcome (at least to me) changes to its basic voicemail service. Now the simplest way to check voicemail from one's phone is to hold down the "1" key on the dialpad to issue a long tone. However this does not work on the Pinephone, at least not running Mobian Bookworm+Phosh.

It is not clear whether this long tone triggers something proprietary in a phone provided by AT&T or whether just sending the tone out over the phone network is sufficient. (It does work if I put my SIM back in the flip phone AT&T sent me when 3G service was discontinued in the U.S. but I did that just for test purposes, I don't want to actually use that stupid Google-infested thing.)

Anyone know if this can be made to work on the Pinephone? I can still retrieve voicemail by dialing my own number so am not dead in the water but it's necessary to enter a security code each time which is a bit of a PITA.)

So i have a pinephone pro here and i tried turning it on after like a year of not using it. The battery was obviously drained so i charged it for 6 hours on maskrom mode to my mac. After trying to turn it on, the led turns red, then yellow, but then stay there. Ive tried flashing oses to the EMMC and a 16gb SD card and also tried reinstalling towboot using the exact instructions provided, ive tried both sp.installer.img and shared disk methods for that. Ive already followed these instructions:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18216

Please help!   

Heyy
New to this but


How does one find a manufacturer for something like a mind link or else something to be used in conjunction with a prosthetic limb or anything else like that 


Nerve related or cranial but not surgically implanted
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Also love pine64 

I'm here. Would like to build new things and learn to better networking systems .

Quote:But with a $400 price tag, it was also twice as expensive as the original PinePhone and never generated as much interest from buyers or developers. And now Pine64 says it’s ceased production of the PinePhone Pro and has no plans to resume selling the phone.

Привіт усім, я з України і щойно приєднався до спільноти. З нетерпінням чекаю можливості дізнатися більше про продукти Pine64.

Hi everyone! I’m working on a basic outdoor weather station using a Pine64 board, and I want to feed it real-time temperature, pressure, and humidity data from an ESP32 + BME280 sensor over the network. I just followed this helpful tutorial using an ESP32 with BMP280 to upload weather data to ThingSpeak it’s a great blueprint for sending environmental readings wirelessly:
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2...erver.html
I’ve also seen a Random Nerd Tutorials guide for building a standalone ESP32 + BME280 mini weather station, and skimmed Pine64’s docs on setting up services via their community Linux image. Does anyone here have experience aggregating sensor data this way? I’d love tips on best practices for handling connectivity, lightweight data ingestion, or small dashboards on Pine boards.

A user on the armbian forum figured out how to get armbian to work. I was able to follow these instructions and update my machine. This requires tow boot on the spi. My system is on an nvme. 

The forum pst is here:https://forum.armbian.com/topic/50474-ex...ebook-pro/