This week I've also received PBP. Many thanks to dev team for this great device!


It seems to me that I've found a problem that wasn't mentioned before: power led (the green one) is randomly blinking. 


Does this only happen on my device?
What could be the reason for this?

I've got an order number, but wanted to make sure my order went through and is on it's way to being processed.  Is there a way that I can check for that?

Thanks!
-Josh

Hello,

What is the plan for achieving carrier registration in the US?  This is required amongst US carriers to enable VoLTE.

Thanks!

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but how does compatibility work when installing packages? I've been able to install packages on my new Pinebook Pro (Ubuntu MATE) using either apt or the .deb package manager. Every now and then, some of these installs fail. My question is what is required for an Ubuntu application to be able to run on the Pinebook Pro? Did someone have to specifically compile it for the right CPU architecture? And if that is the case, are we significantly limited then on what can run on the Pinebook Pro?

If there is a good reading material that explains this in detail, I'd appreciate a link or if you point me in the right direction.

Thank you!

This morning I found that both plastic spacers at the hinge corners had fractured. These are part of the physical design of the laptop and should be replaced.

I measured the spacers with digital calipers and found the height of each to generally be 1.3 mm, with the inner diameter of the hole to be about 2.2 mm. A request in the #pinebook IRC channel for the design dimensions did not get a response, so I am using the dimensions as measured.

I sourced two different sets of spacers from the local hardware store. Each set had these characteristics:

Material: black nylon
Height: 1.5 mm
I.D.: 3.4 mm

Material: fiber
Height: 1.4 mm
I.D.: 3.9 mm

I selected the black nylon spacers. Although slightly taller than the original, the inner diameter is slightly smaller which should result in slightly less stress to the magnesium case should the screws be slightly over tightened.

I installed them by applying silicone adhesive to one side of the spacers and attaching them to the metal hinge assembly, centering the opening over the screw holes.


UPDATE: 26 DEC 2019

The ethyl cyanoacrylate adhesive (think super glue) is definitely the better choice for mating the spacer to the metal surface of the hinge. The spacers are staying put.

UPDATE: 07 DEC 2019

The nylon spacers are working great. The silicone adhesive was not that effective, the spacers did not stick very long. I have cleaned them and the metal mating surface with isopropyl alcohol and am testing an ethyl cyanoacrylate adhesive now.

Started thinking about this when the IR Chat turned to distros just now. I am pretty much distro agnostic - hope my contribution to Braveheart will be to get it towards being a daily driver. At least for me!

My prejudices include:

• - despising big corporates (Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, IBM ...)
  
• - a dislike for any kind of eye-candy that soaks the resources I cherish (memory, bandwidth, ...)
  

• - able to make/receive calls
  
• - able to send/receive SMS
  
• - a workable browser (ideally Firefox) to cover the few Android apps I actually use
  
• - able to send/receive Signal messages - calls would be a bonus.
  
• - able to tether the mobile broadband to other devices, ideally via the USB-C
  

I think it would be rather nice to get an indication on how many phones that has been preordered. Exact numbers is less important but ballpark figures to get a feel for how much demand there is for a device like this one.
Does anyone else care about numbers like that?
Would that be at all possible or is it corporate business secrets?

...the phone run down the clock.

There I was at 8pm, but it seems Braveheart is still in the dressing room.

I will keep looking and hope I won't miss out on the chance to order one.

Hi PineTime Community: Here's my new article to get us hacking the PineTime faster... I'm happy to take any questions since this is very familiar ground to me... nRF52 on Visual Studio Code 

Sneak Peek of PineTime Smart Watch… And why it’s perfect for teaching IoT

UPDATE: Pine64 has just sent me the Hynitron Touch Controller Reference Code. Very useful for coding the touch controller!

Other relevant articles:

My port of Mynewt OS and Rust to PineTime is based on an earlier nRF52 article...
Coding nRF52 with Rust and Apache Mynewt on Visual Studio Code

You can run Bluetooth Mesh on PineTime. The code should be similar to this article...
Bluetooth Mesh with nRF52 and Apache Mynewt

Is Visual Rust useful for PineTime? If you think so, I'll port it to PineTime...
Visual Embedded Rust Programming with Visual Studio Code

Check the rest of my articles on IoT, Embedded Rust, STM32 Blue Pill, Visual Studio Code, GD32 VF103 on RISC-V, ...
https://medium.com/@ly.lee

If the Medium paywall blocks you, use the free access links from my resume...
https://lupyuen.github.io/