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  PinePhone wireless charging?
Posted by: soyrunner - 10-27-2019, 02:04 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (9)

Will this be possible with an adapter?  Or is there some inherent flaw in wireless charging, e.g. excessive heat ruining the battery?


Lightbulb Future device suggestion: smaller form factor
Posted by: MotoFufu9k - 10-27-2019, 12:15 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (6)

Hello

I personally am very interested in the PinePhone and would actually buy it as soon as possible, if there wasn't one thing that made it unsuitable as my daily driver; That thing being the width.
The PinePhone is 76.6mm wide according to the wiki.
The highest width that I can comfortably hold in my hand is 67mm.
Which makes the PinePhone far to wide for me to somewhat comfortably use it with one hand.
I personally would be willing to sacrifice in some other aspects like thickness.

I am adding a poll to this thread to hopefully get some vague info on how demanded this feature actually is.


Information My dev environment for NRF52, with NRF52-SDK, NRF52-DK, J-Link, CMake and CLion
Posted by: JF002 - 10-27-2019, 09:20 AM - Forum: PineTime Tutorials - Replies (1)

Hello!

Coming from the STM32 and ESP32 world, I'm a total beginner as far as the NRF52 is concerned. For now, I'm still learning the MCU, the tools and the SDK.


The first thing I want to do is to create my development environment that'll allow me to write code, program the chip, debug,... It's based on CLion/CMake, it uses the NRF52-SDK and the tools from J-Link to debug and program.

This is not directly about the PineTime, but I intend to use this when I'm ready to work on the watch directly.

So, I created a little "base project" which contains the bare minimum to build, program and debug a simple blinky application. The project is here and the wiki page that gives more details is here. It might be useful for anyone who is just starting with NRF52.

For now, the master branch contains a simple blinky app, and the branch freertos is the same but using FreeRTOS.

Have fun Smile


  My PCIe disk controller works with Linux 5.3.6
Posted by: guannais - 10-25-2019, 04:53 PM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - Replies (1)

As said in the title, I have a disk controller LSI 9208 8i that needed some patch (pcie_rk_delay_bus_scan) to work with kernel Rockchip line 4.4 (the patch is in ayufan's kernel since april). I tried again the mainline and, finally, it works out of the box with the version 5.3.6. By the way, I have not tested Panfrost graphic driver, and I could not make framebuffer console to work.


Question lsblk devices
Posted by: tsago - 10-25-2019, 07:59 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (9)

I can recognize mmcblk1 / ...p1/p2, but I wonder, what are:
mmcblk1boot0
mmcblk1boot1
mmcblk1rpmb
?

Given the 16M size, I assume the last one is the SPI flash? What about the others? (both showing 4M size)
fdisk -l doesn't give me any interesting information.
Are these supposed to be interact-able in any way? 
Or am I just dumb and these are actually still the eMMC?


  Make SD Card to read-only mode
Posted by: rahulsharma - 10-25-2019, 01:42 AM - Forum: RockPro64 Hardware and Accessories - Replies (1)

Hi all experts,
According to my project that needs to be run 24x7 on my rockpro64, there was issue with OS corruption as due to power shutdown the devices was on unexpected power cycle. So i was trying to make the OS to read-only mode.

I followed this link-
https://medium.com/@andreas.schallwig/ho...c0f7be7353

I successfully done that but some system services and my docker service stoped working now.

OS -
Armbian ver5.98

Requirement-
1) I have made one app that needs to be run 24x7 and that is a docker process. So i need to access docker in RO mode.
2) I have also made a system-service(in /etc/systemd/system/my-service) that keeps on monitoring that docker app.
3) There are some file write operation need to be done in "/opt" or any other folder.

Please suggest me way to make the OS to read-only by keeping above 3 requirements.

Thanks.


  Pinephone SAR
Posted by: vituous - 10-24-2019, 08:36 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (3)

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.


Star How to get started ? Share you development setup!
Posted by: JF002 - 10-24-2019, 12:47 PM - Forum: Development Discussion on PineTime - Replies (19)

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!


  Persistent Linux system on USB and/or SD?
Posted by: Watercourse - 10-24-2019, 11:14 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

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!


  2 pin connections to control the key
Posted by: caligari - 10-24-2019, 09:15 AM - Forum: Development Discussion on PineTime - Replies (5)

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?    Confused  



Regards,
Rafa