Had a seal failure on my Pinetime.
Backlight not turning off when the display blanks and flickering when display is on and later some scanlines not drawing correctly.
Cleaning the PCB and screen connector hasn't fixed the problem and the display has started showing dimmer blotches so I figure there must be moisture on the display side.
So is it possible to non-destructively remove the LCD from the front case and if so how?

Hello ! I received my pinetab a few days ago, after some testing  and installing some apps, the battery indicator
stays at 100 %. In settings shows discharging but is after an hour still at 100 %.
Would be great if someone has an idea how to solve this

Hello! I'm having a bug with the PineTab2 virtual keyboard (Maliit) with two different Flathub packages (ungoogled-chromium and Xlog).

When I press a number with the virtual keyboard, the "shift" version of that number is actually entered into the UI. For example, when pressing 3, # is entered, or 4, $ is entered, etc.

I've left the state of the PineTab2 largely unchanged since receiving it — no major OS changes, etc.

Is anyone else able to reproduce this? If yes, where's the correct place to report this bug? Thanks!

I need a fleet of low cost laptops for a factory floor and am evaluating the PineBook Pro.

I received my unit today, booted it up, set up the user account and was happy with how painless it was. Then the software updater in Manjaro said there were a bunch of updates available so I hit the button to update. The computer rebooted as a part of this process and now it will no longer boot. I get the power LED and nothing on the screen.

Where do I go from here? Are software updates on this thing generally a dicey proposition?

How to install Plasma Mobile with the original factory Archlinux from danctnix.

Install Plasma

First off, there is a meta package danctnix/danctnix-pm-ui-meta for plasma-mobile, hoever when installing it I got errors:

Quote:error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
plasma-mobile-settings: /etc/skel/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /etc/xdg/kwinrc exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-powerdevil.hook exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /usr/share/maliit/keyboard2/devices/plasmamobile.json exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
error: could not set install reason for package plasma-mobile-settings (could not find or read package)
-> error installing repo packages

• kclock (clock)
  
• kweather (weather app)
  
• qmlkonsole (mobile terminal)
  
• PlasmaTube (youtube frontend)
  
• AudioTube (youtube music app)
  
• Vvave (music app)
  
• Fractal (matrix client, works so so with mobile)
  
• NeoChat (matrix client, works so so with mobile)
  
• Edit: Tokodon (Mastodon client)
  
• Edit: Index  (file manager)
  

Hello community,

since I realized yesterday that adding new contacts or create/join groups doesn't work anymore in Axolotl (development is dead for months now, so it's good that at least sending/recieving messages in existing conversations STILL works for me... at least for the moment... ):

How does the community use Signal today (if you use it) on your PinePhone?

- Still using the not further developed Axolotl like me?
- Using Signal-"Desktop" for Linux (self-compiled or pre-compiled like here)?
- Using Flare?
- Using something different?

Every Linux compatible Signal client (also Flare) I'm aware of NEEDS a Android/iOS device (which I don't have) with official Signal client for linking... except Axolotl... which was awesome but doesn't work completely anymore (and without developement it will becoming worse and worse for sure).

How do you use Signal (if you use it)?
Are there any alternative Signal clients I'm not aware of?
(Please don't mention stuff like Telegram, I'm the reason a few of my friends use Signal now, I can't come up with something different again now... )

Best Regards & thanks for any suggestions,
dante404

When I try to watch a video on udemy I am getting the following message: " We tried several times to play your video but there was an unforeseen error."

I ran into this problem on my desktop a while back, but I can't remember what codec I needed to install to fix this issue.

Hello all. I got my PineTab 2 last week and it's been pretty fun so far. It's definitely not a replacement for the PineBook Pro.

I'm typing this on the PineTab 2 right now, pretty cool.

Questions:

1. Does anyone know of a case or device that makes this tablet "feel" or work more like a laptop? Meaning, I want to put it on my lap and I don't want the keyboard flopping around. I want it to open and work more like a real laptop. I've been looking and I can't find anything.

2. Is there a such thing as a supported WiFi and bluetooth adapter which is combined into 1 device? I use bluetooth pretty often. I have an adapter that should work, I just don't want to use a hub so I can have both devices active at once.

3. Is there some way to get packages from elsewhere? For example, there is no qemu package in the default repository. I don't know Linux well enough to know if I get packages from somewhere else if that will fundamentally break this. From BSD, an architecture is pretty much an architecture and the packages work on everything that has a given CPU.

Thoughts:

It's not super duper fast, but pretty reasonable for light tasks. I'm enjoying it. It's only just a bit slower than the PineBook Pro.

I had issues with Plasma when I pinned programs to the task bar. For example, if I pin Firefox to the task bar Plasma has issues when I log out and log back in. I don't know if that's a Plasma problem or a PineTab 2 problem.

I wish the battery life was longer but maybe this will get better over time with better hardware support.

Kinda wanting the RISC-V one now...

Has some played around with smartphone-specific USB-C gamepads? I don't mean classical wired PC/Game console controller (e.g.: anything my Logitech). I mean the one specifically built for smartphone, where you dock the phone inside and the controller wraps around, reminiscent of Nintendo Switch's joycons (e.g.: Gamesir, .

The reason I am asking is that the one I've tried is a bit more complex that your garden variety PC gamepad.
They usually show up as two different USB HID device: A game pad and a touchscreen, and use an Android app in order to map inputs and gestures to the various buttons (this makes it possible to support games that only work with on-screen taps and swipes and don't support a controller) - (e.g.: the one I've bought by default maps one of the analog sticks as screen swipe).

So did someone try such gamepad and find a good way to map them on Linux?

Step one: If you don't have alsamixer installed do so with the following command: