I know the modem has already been picked out, that is was designed for machine to machine communication, and that it has a fairly large range of acceptable power input(not relatively but just by the numbers it seemed to me to be the case). I know lots of companies these days(Samsung and maybe LG) direct the radio waves away from the head(decreasing the head SAR ratings but seemingly increasing the body SAR ratings) and lower the power to the transmitter when the proximity sensor "senses" it is near to someone's head(seemingly as a way to get around FCC guidelines: bad stuff). My questions are simple and I hope there are answers.

1. How will the Pinephone radiation levels compare to popular phones today?
2. Does the chosen modem allow control over transmitter power levels?
3. Is there foreseen support for limiting transmit power in any of the supportive OSs?
4. Is there atleast foreseen support for disabling certain bands?
5. Is there atleast atleast foreseen support for disabling protocols(2G, 3G)?
6. This is a bonus question for anyone who can help me: why does it seem like phones who score well in the FCC SAR tests seem to do poorly on the EU SAR tests and vice versa?


Note: I would love control over the transmitter. As in a setting to stop trying to connect to cell towers if there is less than 'x' bars. This would be good for battery as well so the phone is not screaming areas with low coverage.

Note 2: I asked in Q1 how they compare because I know hard numbers are hard and that the US/CAN/AUS have different tests you have to do than in the EU(they both have head and body tests, but the watts/kg or whatever is different).

Note 3: My current laptop's touch-pad is such an EMF offender my fm radio picks up a horrid buzzing noise from 87.5 to ninety-something(if the antenna is close). Hopefully the PBP(or just a RockPro64) contains its current better and doesn't constantly make high pitched noises.

Hello,

Like many of you, I've received my dev kit yesterday, and I'm looking forward to run some code on the PineTime.
For now, I'm creating my dev environment with the nrfSDK52 and CMake, just the basic thing (if you're interested : https://github.com/JF002/nrf52-baseproject)

But hey, I'm more a software guy, and I do not want to break the device while trying to connect the SWD pins on the board.

Could you share some photos or videos of your debugging setup so that people like me can see how more experienced people are working?

Thanks!

I've used mkusb to make persistent Ubuntu on USB to travel with. Are or can any of the the many distros Ayufan is generously providing be persistent, as in a removable contained system on SD or USB with persistent files and prefs?
I realize we're early in the process here, and getting stabilized is the highest priority and i support that 100%.
Just a thought

zaius apparently answered my question in another thread:
The SD is now your system drive. So any changes such as passwords, settings, updates, etc. are going to be written to it.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7920&page=6

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

In the PineTime schematic v1.0, the main button (J6 KEY) is connected to the nRF52832 MCU pins P0.13 and P0.15, both circuits are pulled-down externally and receiving VCC33 when key is pressed.


I can not figure out the motivation to use  2 MCU pins to control the key. May be is it intended to detect whether the key is there, in the case?     



Regards,
Rafa

Yesterday afternoon my PBP arrived and today i tried to power on it. Seems like everything works but the backlight. Display is black but with some external lights, i can see the login screen.

I tried to open it, but i didn't find any cable or hardware problems. There is onlythe plastic near the eDP cable that is damaged.

Any idea how can i try to fix this? It's quite frustrating to have finally PBP but no being able to use it...

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Correct way of disassembling, reassembling and handling a disassembled Pinebook Pro.

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Hi,
first I want to say thank you for this great piece of laptop. I received it yesterday and the hardware is really nice.
Only minor glitch is that it seems to be a bit light and so it's feet are lifted when the screen is fully opened. I think, I can attach a tiny weight and this would fix it.

BUT: Did anyone manage to change the session in lightdm? I tried to set user-session=i3 in lightdm.conf but it won't pick it up.
I also selected i3 from update-alternatives --config -x-window-managers, but also, no result. Even worse, my rock User won't login anymore.

What is the proper way to select the WM-Session in Debian? I never had any issues in Ubuntu. To I have to set something in the .xresource file?

It would be nice to be able to buy the 14" pinebook chassis with it's 10 A battery to plug in the pine phone. 

Or as an alternative a way of plugging the pine phone charge from its battery and be able to use it - even it has less power -.

Also the 11.6 pinetab chassis it's 4.5 A battery or a way of plug and play.

As an alternative to all this, there are some external big screens with batteries as the 15.6" 1080p 269 USD https://www.trytaihe.com/ or ASUS ZenScreen 15.6" from 233 USD that (with some earning for the project) can be offered at the Pinephone accessories shop too.

I would love to have at least 2 USB-A (big ones) slots in a phone.

That way cheap pen drives can be plugged in to increase the storage, or watch films // series or listen to music previously recorded from your main computer. Backups would be also great.

Also can let you use your phone as a desktop computer plugin a wireless adapter or cable keyboard and mouse. Or gaming with a lot of USB game controls. And of course, using a bigger screen.

I know you can plug a USB hub, but having at least 2 for storage - and copy - on the go would be a great differential feature and for security purposes, a USB hard key.

Last but not least the phone with HDMI out will also be able to be used as a TV box and or a NAS (OMV) once a new model will be purchased with cheap USB-A pen drive storage.

As the battery is going to be a 3A one (3.000 mA)

Having the ability to change it, and a device to recharge the external/s one/s would be a great deal.

Even the chance of purchasing the same format but with higher density batteries, with 4.5 A or even 6A in a near future would be interesting.

Also, it would be great to have it tested about the average duration with every OS, and how much it spends in idle, with the screen on, and playing some cross-platform or emulated game.