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  Pine.org very poor review
Posted by: rma00 - 06-28-2023, 10:33 AM - Forum: General - Replies (9)

Hello,

Im  new to all of this.

I have visited pine.org in the aim to
purchase a pinephone (and maybe)
a pine laptop. I wrote twice to sales
to get some information, never got an
answer. i consulted pine.org reviews 
which confirmed that i was right about
to try and contact them beforehand.
All i found was complains.

Can some explain what's the problem
here ?


  KOReader - ebook reader
Posted by: frtodd - 06-26-2023, 07:05 PM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (3)

So I'm not sure if this is exactly what this forum was intended for. But it says "Software" so here's something interesting I found:

KOReader (github) is a FOSS document reader intended for E-Ink devices, but also supporting color documents on color devices. It seems pretty snappy on the #Pinetab2. Reading is the main thing I use devices of this size for, and I've been frustrated with the UI (especially for touch!) of evince/okular. KOReader seems to hold some real promise!

I installed with `flatpak install rocks.koreader.KOReader`. 

(I had to run it twice because my ancient wifi dongle seems a little flaky.)

Happy reading!


Sad Bluetooth Alternative?
Posted by: erikzoltan - 06-26-2023, 04:24 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - Replies (4)

My son has a sealed PineTime watch with PineTime version 1.5 software installed. He wants to upgrade the software, but we can no longer connect to the watch with Siglo. I suspect that the bluetooth is no longer working.

So I can connect to another PineTime watch on the same computer, but not this watch. I don't believe there is any other way to connect, for example using the USB charge adapter to connect to the laptop USB port doesn't seem to be a viable way to communicate with the watch.

If the bluetooth stops working, is there any practical way to save this watch? It is set to 1970, and my son has installed a version of the software (1.5) that doesn't appear to support updating the time.

He has autism and is love with the PineTime watch. He spends endless hours upgrading and downgrading the software on it, because he wants to experience every version number. I guess the watch has been loved to death.

Any advice is apprciated.


  Mobian Boot Problem
Posted by: rogerwegmann - 06-26-2023, 09:47 AM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (14)

Hi,

I followed the instructions on https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2_Releases and https://github.com/Kwiboo/u-boot-build#s...mmc-module to install Mobian. But the pinetab2 doesn't boot from the prepared SD card. The screen stays black.

What I did:

Code:
dd if=mobian-pinetab2-phosh-20230619.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync
dd if=u-boot-rockchip.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=32k seek=1 conv=fsync

What did I wrong and/or how can I debug?

Best,

Roger


  Download new plasma widgets error
Posted by: Corconegre - 06-26-2023, 01:52 AM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (1)

Hi,
i was trying to explore if i could add some new widgets to the desktop looking for something i could use.
So i did right click on the panel--> add widgets-->get new widgets-->download new plasma widgets
When i do that i get a popup window with an error that reads:
"loading of providers from file: https://autoconfig.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml failed"

Is this something happening only to me?
Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!


  Moving to trixie
Posted by: user641 - 06-25-2023, 06:06 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (7)

Hello,
Anyone already using trixie without problems? I want to pass to trixie, but not sure yet if it's the right time. I just saw that phosh 28 pass to testing, so i wanna try it:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/phosh


  UBports on pine phone?
Posted by: robb777 - 06-25-2023, 02:56 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (16)

hello everyone, I have a question, why ubuntu touch by UBports can not install on pine phone ?

Thank you Dodgy


  Figuring out a NAS setup around a Quartz64A
Posted by: yukijoou - 06-24-2023, 08:04 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Quartz64 - Replies (1)

Hello,

For the past few weeks, I've been trying to theorise a setup for a NAS around a Quartz64 A SBC, and would like to get some feedback!

I'd like to run a 2×4TB hard drive configuration (with data replication), mostly for a Nextcloud home server.
I'm thinking of getting the PCIe to SATA III card, and powering the drives directly from the board with the power cable for dual SATA drives. To have enough power for all this, I'd use the 12v5a power supply.

I was somewhat inspired by this blog post and would like to know if anyone has done anything similar…? I went for another setup for powering the drives, suggested on the Quartz64 matrix channel, because I don't have a PC power supply laying around, so that set up would be a lot more expensive for me.

I'm not yet sure if I'd go with the 4 or 8 GB model for the Quartz64, so I'd appreciate feedback on that too, if you have a Nextcloud server!

Thanks to anyone for their help or input! I haven't bought anything yet, so I'm open to any suggestion on how to improve this setup


PS: I am from the EU; does anyone know how import stuff works? I've never ordered anything from overseas, is there a way I can figure out an estimate of how much import duties I'll have to pay?


  Screen stay black unless power key pressed short
Posted by: freelectro - 06-24-2023, 01:55 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - No Replies

Hi all,

Few times the screen stay black when i short pressed power key.

The first situation let thinking about SWAP problem.

Code:
juin 24 07:51:53 mobian kernel: get_swap_device: Bad swap offset entry e80000cbfd8f


The problem appear line 6694 until the end of file 700038.

https://debian-facile.org/paste-D2EF27DD...8e0853f531

The second situation, you can analyze the journalctl log at the end line 8074.

This is at this step i tried to press power key short to wake-up my pinephone.

https://debian-facile.org/paste-867262EE...32f07ffd6d

I have seen this two lines, but maybe it's not their.


Code:
juin 24 15:30:34 mobian gsd-xsettings[1224]: Failed to get current UI legacy scaling factor
juin 24 15:30:32 mobian kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks


If you have an idea about this problem ! Thank you a lot


  Haven't seen updates in a while
Posted by: Zebulon Walton - 06-24-2023, 01:10 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (3)

It's been at least a week since I've seen any Mobian updates. Just tried again, but there's still nothing.

Code:
[root@mobian apt]$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://repo.mobian-project.org bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done           
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Does something need to be changed in /etc/apt/sources.list? Currently mine looks like this:

Code:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free contrib non-free-firmware

There is also a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_mobian.sources which contains:

Code:
Uris: http://repo.mobian-project.org/
Components: main non-free
Types: deb deb-src
Architectures: amd64 arm64 armhf
Suites: bookworm
Signed-By: /var/lib/extrepo/keys/mobian.asc

In a sense I'm not really complaining since the phone is working pretty well for my purposes and updates can go wrong. I'm just hoping that they may eventually fix some of the rough edges.