Hello,

It's been some time already that Pine stopped selling PBP's with an ISO keyboard.

I couldn't find any separate ISO keyboard in the Pine shop nor something similar on Aliexpress. I'm not interested in a used PBP.

Anybody knows if the ISO keyboard can be purchased separately and if so where?

After flashing an OS to my 16GB micro SD I find that it erroneously reports in, for example, parted as 4GB.

From the Star64 wiki

Quote:The 4-pin 12 volt JST-XH-4A connector found on the Star64 is incompatible with the dual SATA power adapter intended for the ROCKPro64. The connector on the Star64 is rotated 180 degrees to the one on the ROCKPro64, resulting in the cable receiving +12V where GND is expected and vice versa. The cable's internal circuitry ends up shorting in this configuration."

In this tutorial I will document what components i desolderd, to fix the flaky USB3 Port on the Quartz64.

To fix the issues with USB3 you need to disconnect the sata connector, it is messing with the USB3 connection.
This will disable the sata connector and you will only be left with a USB3 Connector (a working one tho).



WARNING: THIS CAN BREAK YOUR DEVICE AND THAT WILL BE YOUR FAULT
Only proceed if you have advanced soldering skills, the components are very small.



You need: 

• A hight power soldering iron (my Pinecil strugglet a faire bit)
  
• A fine tip for the iron
  
• Flux Paste
  

GPU firmware loading fails on armbian:

I'm looking for suggestions for good USB audio interfaces for the RockPro64. I'm encountering clipping at low volumes with the 3.5mm jack and would like something more capable. I won't be connecting a TV or anything like that to the RockPro64, so HDMI isn't an option. I'd love something like the Focusrite Scarlett Solo I have connected to my workstation, but without the ports I don't need :)

I always make sure there is no residue or anything but for the life of me I can not get any feet to stay on the pinebook pro. Anyone have any tips?

Per the booklet, I got the largest SD card compatible with the Pinebook Pro. I can successfully format, check it for errors and mount it. As soon as a write attempt is made, even just a mkdir, errors occur (invalid block bitmap). I've tried both ext4 and ext3.

Has anyone had success mounting and using that large an SD card? Thanks.

Hi,

My pinephone is no longer getting calls or texts, and I'm trying to understand why. A while back I had a similar problem, wherein the model seemed clogged:

forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16939&page=2

But, I never actually got the bottom of that. I've tried using mmcli to see the stored messages:

mmcli -m 0 AT+CPMS?


But it just returns information about the modem (copied below). Does anyone know what might be going on?

-----------------------------------
  General  |              dbus path: /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0
          |              device id: b6df770f2cdf2a32fe9b70af378e85fcc9b3e3b8
  -----------------------------------
  Hardware |            manufacturer: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
          |                  model: QUECTEL Mobile Broadband Module
          |      firmware revision: EG25GGBR07A08M2G
          |          carrier config: hVoLTE-Verizon
          | carrier config revision: 05010141
          |            h/w revision: 10000
          |              supported: gsm-umts, lte
          |                current: gsm-umts, lte
          |            equipment id: 860195051746581
  -----------------------------------
  System  |                  device: /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c1b000.usb/usb3/3-1
          |                drivers: qmi_wwan, option1
          |                  plugin: quectel
          |            primary port: cdc-wdm0
          |                  ports: cdc-wdm0 (qmi), ttyUSB0 (qcdm), ttyUSB1 (gps),
          |                          ttyUSB2 (at), ttyUSB3 (at), wwan0 (net)
  -----------------------------------
  Numbers  |                    own: --------
  -----------------------------------
  Status  |                    lock: sim-pin2
          |          unlock retries: sim-pin (3), sim-puk (10), sim-pin2 (3), sim-puk2 (10)
          |                  state: connected
          |            power state: on
          |            access tech: lte
          |          signal quality: 52% (recent)
  -----------------------------------
  Modes    |              supported: allowed: 2g; preferred: none
          |                          allowed: 3g; preferred: none
          |                          allowed: 4g; preferred: none
          |                          allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: 3g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: 2g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 4g; preferred: 4g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 4g; preferred: 2g
          |                          allowed: 3g, 4g; preferred: 4g
          |                          allowed: 3g, 4g; preferred: 3g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 3g, 4g; preferred: 4g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 3g, 4g; preferred: 3g
          |                          allowed: 2g, 3g, 4g; preferred: 2g
          |                current: allowed: 2g, 3g, 4g; preferred: 2g
  -----------------------------------
  Bands    |              supported: egsm, dcs, pcs, g850, utran-1, utran-4, utran-6, utran-5,
          |                          utran-8, utran-2, eutran-1, eutran-2, eutran-3, eutran-4, eutran-5,
          |                          eutran-7, eutran-8, eutran-12, eutran-13, eutran-18, eutran-19,
          |                          eutran-20, eutran-25, eutran-26, eutran-28, eutran-38, eutran-39,
          |                          eutran-40, eutran-41, utran-19
          |                current: egsm, dcs, pcs, g850, utran-1, utran-4, utran-6, utran-5,
          |                          utran-8, utran-2, eutran-1, eutran-2, eutran-3, eutran-4, eutran-5,
          |                          eutran-7, eutran-8, eutran-12, eutran-13, eutran-18, eutran-19,
          |                          eutran-20, eutran-25, eutran-26, eutran-28, eutran-38, eutran-39,
          |                          eutran-40, eutran-41, utran-19
  -----------------------------------
  IP      |              supported: ipv4, ipv6, ipv4v6
  -----------------------------------
  3GPP    |                    imei: 860195051746581
          |            operator id: 311480
          |          operator name: Verizon
          |            registration: home
  -----------------------------------
  SIM      |              dbus path: /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/SIM/0
  -----------------------------------
  Bearer  |              dbus path: /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Bearer/

Anyone else seeing high memory usage with rkvdec/rockchip_vdec? I am seeing high memory usage with both GStreamer and FFmpeg (https://github.com/jernejsk/FFmpeg) clients so, if other people are also having issues, it seems like it might be an issue in the kernel driver. Performance is quite good until it starts swapping however. I see 3.5 GiB of shared memory usage before it hangs/starts swapping. I'm using kernel 6.1. It's also possible that it is somewhere else like Panfrost or Mesa and I guess I would need to use Kmemleak to confirm but I'd like to know if this is a known issue before I test further.