Hello all, I'm curious as to whether anyone has been able to use an optical drive such as a USB DVD drive with a Pinephone or Pinephone Pro?

My use case is - my preferred way to acquire music is to buy a CD. I would like to set up a Pinephone as a one-stop shop for listening and ripping CDs. I have been able to do this before with a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G under Android.

My Pinephone running Postmarket OS recognizes USBdevices and can also run with a Nexdock. It can read flash drives too. If I use an optical drive, including powered variants, it shows under lsusb but not fdisk -l.

Before I go down a complete rabbit hole trying to get this to work, I wanted to ask if anyone had used this setup with any success? Or if it works on a Pinephone Pro I can upgrade. I'm wondering if the hardware supports it but there's something missing at the Linux kernel level, or need certain drivers.

Happy to post logs etc. but mainly wondering if anyone else has made this setup work previously?

Hoping someone here can aggregate the info on the bes2600 wifi/bluetooth driver in development and offer a step by step set of instructions to at the very least, download the  from gitlab and get it compiled. Currently, as of kernel version 6.4.2 it does not build using 'make.'

There is some info about applying a patch, but the info is presented in such a way that the newbie (who just bought the device and wants to download a driver) could do it.

a note for the Devs: please provide setup and install info of the driver that is free from insider jargon and assumptions. Yes, I know it is a development release tablet, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to patch a file (what file?) to get a kernel module to build with make.

My pinetab 2 keeps on moving sporadically without any sort of input. I have tried removing packages and configuration with the -Rn option. So far I have removed xorg, wayland, libinput, and qt5. I even tried running clamscan, but I didn't get any hits. Please assist.

I love KDE Plasma it's beautiful and functional but it is fairly resource intensive and tends to bog down on the PineTab2. If you don't need the features, switching to LXQt can make things feel a lot snappier. The installation is pretty straight forward but it doesn't work exactly as the documentation suggests it should. So, let me lay it out for you.

First install LXQt with the command :

Hello, I installed pmos on my pp yesterday, the phone recognizes battery empty at 15% and sutsdown, tested on 3 cycles. What can i do to fix it?

I'm thinking of getting a Star64 to do some practical learning about operating system development and I haven't been able to find some clear/simple information about compatible equipment and the process for setting up a jtag debugging environment. Please note that my experience is mostly with software and I am really, really new to working so close to the hardware.

The Star64 schematics show GPIO pins 0 to 4 for debug trace and pins 9 to 13 for jtag HIFI4 (audio DSP). From the very little that I know about jtag this is the minimum number of pins - so minimum amount of jtag functionality.

I have been looking at the Segger J-Link Edu because it has support for the U74 and E24 SiFive cores in the Star64, but I'm not sure if it is a good choice.

Has anyone setup jtag debugging for the Star64? What hardware/software are you using and can you recommend a beginners guide that can get me started?

I just pushed an experimental update to My Waydroid Manager that added a Gtk 4.0 / libadwaita ui, along with options to install on Mobian, ubuntu, and manjaro currently.

I'm not a senior developer, so it's kinda hacky, and any help polishing it would be definitely appreciated!


https://github.com/MadameMalady/My-Waydroid-Manager

Has anyone tried to replace stock eMMC (16Gb or 32Gb) with a bigger eMMC (in a phone repair shop for example)? Is it possible? What models are compatible?

I got my pinebuds yesterday and out of the box they didn't work correctly. They continuously cut out making them unusable. I tried resetting them and they wouldn't even reset. I hit the reset button in the middle, the charging LEDs flash, close the lid and nothing.  

I tried flashing new firmware in a docker on my pinebook pro and couldn't because its not arch64. Which I find ironic that I have to have a windows machine or a different type of computer other than a pine64 product but I digress. 

I'll try it on my desktop later but has anyone else been able to successfully reset them?

Right after I got my PineTab2 one of the first things I did was to run a sudo pacman -Syu to update the system. But after that I bricked the thing. Luckily it comes with the UART board and I saw that the kernel wasn't working (I think it was not finding it? Don't remember exactly).

I reinstalled the factory image and it's all good. But now I'm afraid of updating the system again. Is updating everything with pacman like this not recommended? Anyone had the same issue or I just got unlucky that time?