Hello, Postmarket os 22, pinephone daily driver now for over a year now. Plugged in my phone, while the phone was running, this morning to a USB-A to USB-C charge cable and the usb connector started melting down. Melted the back cover, the battery is ok, but the cable and usb-c side board is toast. The cable and power brick are both anker brand. Voltage and ripple on power brick seems more than reasonable, so I am ruling that out. Is this a common failure? Any idea on cause? I have never had anything like this happen before with any phone. Any guidance would be great

Cheers!

I received my Quartz64 a little while ago and have been experimenting a bit. The network is extremely slow when receiving data, but does the usual 940 Mbit/s full saturation for 1 gigabit when sending. Please see below iperf3 outputs. 10.0.0.201 is my Quartz64 model A and 10.0.0.4 is a pretty powerful amd64 Linux workstation.

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Server listening on 5201 (test #1)
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Accepted connection from 10.0.0.4, port 32952
[  5] local 10.0.0.201 port 5201 connected to 10.0.0.4 port 32954
[ ID] Interval          Transfer    Bitrate
[  5]  0.00-1.00  sec  110 MBytes  926 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  1.00-2.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  2.00-3.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  3.00-4.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  4.00-5.00  sec  112 MBytes  942 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  5.00-6.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  6.00-7.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  7.00-8.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  8.00-9.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  9.00-10.00  sec  112 MBytes  941 Mbits/sec                 
[  5]  10.00-10.00  sec  308 KBytes  885 Mbits/sec                 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval          Transfer    Bitrate
[  5]  0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes  940 Mbits/sec                  receiver
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Server listening on 5201 (test #2)
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Accepted connection from 10.0.0.4, port 54688
[  5] local 10.0.0.201 port 5201 connected to 10.0.0.4 port 54704
[ ID] Interval          Transfer    Bitrate        Retr  Cwnd
[  5]  0.00-1.00  sec  1.17 MBytes  9.81 Mbits/sec  41  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  1.00-2.00  sec  827 KBytes  6.78 Mbits/sec  23  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  2.00-3.00  sec  1.37 MBytes  11.5 Mbits/sec  48  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  3.00-4.00  sec  2.42 MBytes  20.3 Mbits/sec  53  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  4.00-5.00  sec  1.24 MBytes  10.4 Mbits/sec  37  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  5.00-6.00  sec  2.25 MBytes  18.9 Mbits/sec  102  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  6.00-7.00  sec  1.12 MBytes  9.42 Mbits/sec  95  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  7.00-8.00  sec  3.08 MBytes  25.9 Mbits/sec  234  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  8.00-9.00  sec  3.11 MBytes  26.1 Mbits/sec  73  2.83 KBytes     
[  5]  9.00-10.00  sec  3.48 MBytes  29.2 Mbits/sec  72  2.83 KBytes     
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval          Transfer    Bitrate        Retr
[  5]  0.00-10.00  sec  20.1 MBytes  16.8 Mbits/sec  778            sender


Look at all those retransmits! I've verified that the cable and switch port and everything else in the setup are otherwise fine. This happens in both Arch and Plebian. Did I receive a bad board, should I submit an RMA? Or is there something else going on here?

Hi!

I've ordered a PineTab2 a few days ago. The article title says shipping will occur mid-may, which we've passed. Will the order be included in the next planned shipment, or would I have to wait until next batch is produced? And if so, what time frame should I be expecting?

Strange power behaviour of chain: Baseus 100W GAN Charger + Pinecil V2(+short tip).
After pressing button to heat up the solder tip, Pinecil starts heating, and in some moment Charger resets TypeC output, I press again it tries to heat up again and resets again, and after several tries, it reach threshold temperature and after that I can solder easily. Seems not enough power, and charger detects power peaks and resets output.
This is 100W charger from Baseus:  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003117435688.html , I am using 100W TypeC cable.
I tried other cables, doesnt help. I tried to limit power in Pinecil's "advanced seting" to 65 to 50 W to 40W - doesnt help.
I tried to disconnect all other consumers, and remain only Pinecil connected to this Charger - doesnt help.
This Baseus charges my 65W Lenovo laptop easily.

Is there ideas what to check? Maybe some other advanced settings to try?

I would like to use the Pine Phone auxiliary microSD slot with a memory card as external storage for data files. I would like to access the auxiliary microSD card from a laptop to transfer and manage files. Is there an easy way to do this with the card in the phone? I can take the card out and use a card reader, but from a typical user perspective that is not good workflow. When i use the tow-boot like functionality in Mobian at boot i only see the internal eMMC memory as a storage device from a Mac or Windows laptop, the auxiliary microSD is not shown. The Mobian Phosh Portfolio app can see the auxiliary microSD which is formatted as FAT to be compatible with Mac and Windows. I am unable to connect the phone to a Linux virtual machine so cannot evaluate things using Linux. Any help is appreciated.

Hi folks,

I'm using the latest 1.2 version of the Plasma distro provided by Fishwaldo.
I'm finding that many applications crash within a few seconds of launching them, or simply do not work.

- The web browser, maybe called something fishAngel? I forget the name. It crashes within seconds of visiting any web page.
- The web browser Konqueror is unable to bring up any web page. It just remains a blank page.
- The Settings app frequently crashes within 1 minute of launch.
- The "unicode" terminal app (not Konsole, the other one), has extreme graphics corruption and is unusable.
- After some hours of running, the window manager completely crashed, leaving only the Konsole running.

Is this just me (which might indicate a bad board) or is everyone seeing these problems?

Thanks.

Hello,

I am looking for information about developing applications for the pinephone.

As far as I understand, from the software layer point of view,
the Pinephone should behave like any multipurpose desktop computer.

But I wonder if there is a development kit for accessing the pinephone's devices:
cameras, microphone, gravity sensor, etc.

Thanks for any information,
Lagrang3

Hi,

I am trying to reproduce coresight-trace, a CoreSight ETMv4 trace decoder utility, on RockPro64 running vanilla 6.3.1 Linux kernel and dtbs (https://github.com/RICSecLab/coresight-trace).

The utility depends on a library called CSAL (upstream: https://github.com/arm-software/CSAL, fork: https://github.com/RICSecLab/CSAL/tree/f...dd5e7a744e) which is used to configure CoreSight registers.

I found that the helper script, csscan.py (https://github.com/ARM-software/CSAL/blo.../csscan.py), is supposed to print the topology of CoreSignt components given the address of the ROM table, but it ends up halting the whole machine when trying to access CoreSight components within Big core cluster. Here are the failing output:

So I have this very basic question:

Is it kind of "blasphemy" to run KDE apps in a GNOME environment and vice versa? Is there something like an unwritten law that says KDE apps belong to KDE only and GNOME apps to GNOME only?

I understand this is possible since everything ends up at the X server (or Wayland), but since I have to install large packages like e.g. "org.gnome.Platform" etc. to use GNOME apps in a KDE environment, I just wonder, if that is legit...?

Thanks for clarification for a non pro

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, maybe it's the KDE subforum or the developer site.
On my Pinephone (KDE Community Edition) I installed Watchmate to manage and update my Pinetime.
The Pinetime is found by the app but when I try to connect it I get the error "device rejected by app".
I had Watchmate running on other distros on the Pinephone without any problems. What could be the reason for this behaviour?

Thanks!