Hello,
I bought the new Pinebook Pro back in August. A few days ago, while browsing the internet with Firefox on the standard Manjaro installation (no recent updates), I closed the lid to say goodbye to someone and forgot to charge it.

The next day, it wouldn’t turn on at all. I tried various key combinations in case it was a screen brightness issue, but I figured the battery must be drained. I charged it with the supplied charger all day, and the blinking red light indicated it was charging, but it never turned steady. Still, the laptop wouldn’t power on.

The following day, I charged it all day using USB-C, thinking the charger might not be working properly, but the same blinking red light persisted. The laptop remains unresponsive. I even tried USB booting with Tails, but nothing happened.

Today, I'm planning to open it up to check if anything has come loose.

Any suggestion is appreciated!

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been building called RoutineHero — a customized version of InfiniTime for the PineTime smartwatch, designed specifically to help young children follow daily routines.

Why I built it
My 3-year-old was struggling with basic daily routines like getting dressed, brushing teeth, or going to bed. I wanted to help him build independence without needing constant reminders — but I couldn’t find anything out there designed for that.
So I created RoutineHero: a non-distracting smartwatch that helps young children understand and follow their day.

• Custom OS based on InfiniTime, made for young kids
  
• Routine alerts with kid-friendly icons + gentle vibration feedback
  
• Companion Android app lets parents configure tasks, icons..
  
• Super simple interface — no distractions, games, or messages
  

• Is it okay to sell PineTime-based devices with a custom OS, as long as I don’t present it as an official Pine64 product?
  
• Can I purchase PineTime devices in bulk directly or through official distributors?
  
• What are the best practices to respect the spirit and licensing of InfiniTime, PineTime, and the broader community?
  
  

Hi guys,
I got my Pinebook Pro out of the cupboard again after a few years. Since the updates didn't go through, I decided to update it with a current Manjaro via the SSD card and then wanted to write the system to the eMMC.
It seemed as if everything had been transferred cleanly to the eMMC. Finally I entered "sync" and wanted to reboot.

Since then nothing works anymore. Pressing the start button shows no reaction. Even flipping the internal switch to start manually via the SD card was unsuccessful.

The system is completely dead.

A question for you: Is there anyone here who can reflash the eMMC for me? Or can I order an eMMC including operating system somewhere?

best regards
Karsten

Hello,
I made a mistake and accidentally erased the SPI flash in the Tow Boot menu on my PinePhone Pro EE. I had Kali NetHunter Pro flashed to an SD card and to the eMMC, and everything was working fine until yesterday when I mistakenly hit "Erase SPI Flash" instead of "Power Off." After erasing it, I was able to boot into my eMMC Kali one last time before powering off. However, since then, the phone has shown no signs of life, except when I connect it to my PC, where it appears as an unknown device instead of being recognized as a PinePhone Pro like it used to. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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€599 for a broken PinePhone Pro and a lot of trouble without any warranty...
It's been about a year since I bought a device through Pine64EU that stopped working after just a few days. The seller, who promised a 2-year warranty, is completely unresponsive. Mediation through the European Consumer Centre (ECC) is also ignored by him. Pine64 (Global) claims to be in no way responsible. About six months ago, on the advice of the ECC, I filed a lawsuit in Poland, which has still not been resolved... It now looks like a scam...

Meanwhile, I bought a Fairphone 4 with e/OS and a lot of freeware through Murena for €500, which works perfectly. The Fairphone is also disassembled for self-repair. In addition, the cameras, 8GB/256GB of storage, battery, and warranty with updates for 5 years are excellent.

hello,

I recently purchased a pinecil v2 and provide power to it with a new 21v tool battery at the barrel jack and it has been working great.  I have a spare battery always ready and it has never had a battery connected to it with less than 21 volts.
I used the pinecil and suddenly the pinecil would just drop in temp for no reason (that I know of anyway, I am new to the tool).
I found in the advanced settings the ability to do a factory reset, and did so.  then the tool went back to working the way I prefer.
I like to just heat the tip to between 350 and 400, do my solder, then shut it off to prep for the next one.  very basic.  I have been cutting off the electric at the battery to shut it down because my efforts to shut it down with the pinecil were in vein.  it would stay at 10 degrees celsius according to the display.
I looked through the settings and was overwhelmed by how much is in there.  a high percent of that, are terms that I am unfamiliar with, so I'm worried that I will screw something up just by going there.  it's a good thing I know how to do the factory reset.
I've checked youtube and google and can't find any documentation regarding the settings, the selections within, and hopefully explanations of them.

is there any documentation for the settings and/or menu's for the pinecil v2?

thanks.

Thanks to the great series of educational tutorials from @lupyuen , and following the same reverse engineering journey, I finally managed to boot my PinePhone as far as LCD and drawing to screen last night   No Linux, just Zig! and a bit of assembly for boot header.  The code is a disaster scene, but buying a 3rd party serial debug cable this week was the final key to fixing the many register value typos I had scattered throughout my code.   It is a shame with the tariffs into EU, because I should have also bought an SD card extender, the number of times I have to switch the SD card between tests is crazy!

If anyone else takes this journey, I highly recommend to buy the serial debug cable first!!  I dont know how I managed without for so long, flashing LEDs to monitor progress hehe.

Anyway, I just wanted to post here to thank the community, what is left of it   but especially thanks to Lupyuen for the huge amount of work he has spent on adding the missing documentation to get these devices working as part of his NuttX work.  Well done!

3 questions sent the 17/7/2025.

In the order of importance:

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pi...ssions/706

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pi...ssions/705

I sent by email to x@xnux.eu (https://xnux.eu/rk2aw/ , Author / Distribution):

No eMMC over USB if no partition

Hi

My PinePhone Pro has rk2aw on the SPI.

If its eMMC is empty (no partition, all partitions deleted by KDE Partition Manager), on the U-Boot menu (the 2. in https://xnux.eu/rk2aw/ , How rk2aw works) if I select eMMC over USB , it not works:

** Invalid partition 1 **
Couldn't find partition mmc 0

So I booted https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/pla...a14.img.xz on a microSD card, Terminal:

sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk2
n



w

to create a new empty partition on the eMMC, now eMMC over USB works...

Why should there be a partition?
Maybe can you update rk2aw to eMMC over USB an empty eMMC?
Or should I complain to U-Boot?

Thanks.



I'm blocked by the 1st question, for https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pi...ktop-Arch) ,
ssh alarm@10.15.19.82
works for anyone?

Hi All,

New PinePhone Pro, put Mobian on it right away because I'm already using Debian on several R Pis, so its familiar. I put it on an SD card and BEFORE first boot it was a little tricky to get it to boot. Someone who knows more than me should capture that for us, I just stumbled into how to get it to boot the very first time. But once it had been through the first boot it shows up reliably in the U-Boot choices, so all good there.

And it comes up just fine and you can look around and see the apps and so forth. BUT, when an app is selected, you see it starting with appropriate looking visuals, but then when you expect the app to be open and ready to do something for you, all you get is the default screen background! 

I tried four or five apps, including settings and the tour/tutorial, and you can see that they're running because the higher-level window manager works fine. So you can swipe this way and that and see stuff. BUT, you can't actually get into any app!

HELP!

Thanks,
RT

Hello all.

I was doing some package upgrades on my pinetab2 running danctnix and I started noticing some errors with the shell:

-bash: symbol lookup error: -bash: undefined symbol: rl_completion_rewrite_hook

Recklessly, I rebooted and now I can't log in.

It boots up to the graphical login screen. I authenticate, and something happens and I come back to the graphical login screen.

If I try to log in via ssh, I get the error above.

How can I boot into single user? I'm not finding much.

I'm thinking I should try to boot into single user and try to fix it, but I don't know how.

Any other advice?

Thanks!