hi,

1. just ordered a sealed version as i saw people on youtube (likely the leader from wasp-os) could still use bluetooth to flash OS, flash software to pinetime.

2. this post from lwn also claims that unless doing very low level development, otherwise it's not necessary:
PINE64 does sell a developer kit, which has the same hardware as the PineTime but is not sealed, allowing access to pins for resetting and reflashing the watch. Developers who want to work on the bootloader will probably want a developer kit, but, because of the watchdog, it should not be necessary for other development. The developer kit is currently out of stock, but it appears that this is temporary. It is also possible to break the seal and open the watch, but there is a risk of damaging the hardware.

3. i knew sometimes if the watch freezes, having the kit could instantly reboot it and it is more reasonable than wait till it drain, but the kit is semi...either you drill a hole, solder some wires and cover up the watch,
OR it would be one that easily tear away. so, in addition to money (which i could afford next month), there still a lot of DIY to do.

So, i just write some simple programs, esp with help of gpt4 for application. if it freezed once/twice per month, i am ok to wait till it drain.
then can i avoid the dev kit? avoid the soldering and drilling as i dont have these DIY tools myself.


thanks

ref:
https://lwn.net/Articles/941796/

So my pinetab2 doesn't seem to have a working screen in some capacity. I've gone through the https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2#In...structions I used disks to make a sd card that had the factory default danctnix on it and when I plugged it into uart and press power a little under 2 seconds I get using minicom 

DDR Version 1.13 2022018
In

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or what this means. Initial googling of the above text doesn't seem to help. I'm not sure if I need to add a boot flag to any partitions. I may try something other than dancnix on the sd card and see if that gives the same or different results. I'm also using xubuntu and raspbian to run the minicom.

(09-18-2023, 04:58 PM)bluemage Wrote: So my pinetab2 doesn't seem to have a working screen in some capacity. I've gone through the https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2#In...structions I used disks to make a sd card that had the factory default danctnix on it and when I plugged it into uart and press power a little under 2 seconds I get using minicom 

DDR Version 1.13 2022018
In

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or what this means. Initial googling of the above text doesn't seem to help. I'm not sure if I need to add a boot flag to any partitions. I may try something other than dancnix on the sd card and see if that gives the same or different results. I'm also using xubuntu and raspbian to run the minicom.

So after the recent upgrades I notice that the screen goes black and there's the blue led blinking as where there is a notification, the notification is that the system will suspend soon, and it keeps bringing the lockscreen every few minutes without going into suspend....and it's eating my battery fast. Anyone else noticed that?

Hi Folks,

I am looking for help/service on my 3 Pine Phones. Can these be remotely serviced and updated? Does anyone provide this service? Basically, I would like to pay someone to update and service my Pine Phones. Looking for some superstars. 


Thank you,

Jeff 

Hi Folks,

I am looking for help/service on my 3 Pine Phones. Can these be remotely serviced and updated? Does anyone provide this service? Basically, I would like to pay someone to update and service my Pine Phones. Looking for some superstars. 

Thank you very much,

Jeff

Hi,

is there a way to reset the PineTab V without having to power it down? That would be quite convenient for OS development – I'm currently porting the xv6 OS to the JH7110 (also for the VisionFive 2 and the Star64, which are easier to reset...).

- Michael

Does the Pinebook Pro have anything like a TPM or other component offering persistent storage that can be locked from writes until resetting the platform? Chromebooks use this feature of TPM NVRAM to store anti-rollback counters.

Hi,

I own a Pine-phone Pro handset. I have concluded that the firmware packages I have tried on it so far, do not bring it up to day to day usable status. I bought it in the knowledge that its still on the bleeding edge, and some time will be needed to fully develop all functions. It rankles however, to see it still in the box and my old phone still in my pocket..  

Any recommendations on best current firmware, to expect to be able to reliably use the hardware at least for phone, text and camera functions?

Thanks,

Brian H.
Uxbridge Ont.

Is it possible to encrypt the entire drive? I am assuming that ecryptfs will work so I can encrypt my home directory, but would feel safer if I can encrypt everything to stop data leaking through /tmp etc.

Alternatively, any tips on how to ameliorate the risks with just /home/[me] encrypted? I thought of putting swap in zram (which i do on my desktop) anyway which solves one problem.

I have lost a tablet before... it is a risk that bothers me.

Offering my PPP + keyboard addon for sale.
Bought late December ‘22. Received in January. Has not been used much since then due to lack of time.

Ships from EU/NL 
Asking price had in mind, 400 incl shipping. 

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