I followed the advice to do an upgrade on my newly received PinePhone(EU).  Previously it was showing KDE plasma version 5.21.2, kernal: 5.11.3-1manjaro-arm.

'sudo pacman -Syu'

I had to plug in a physical keyboard to be able to type 'Y' at the various prompts for the upgrade.  But now the process has stopped with a message that I cant fully read:

I have created multiple videos on setting up a PinePhone and/or PinePhone Pro with DanctNIX Arch Linux Arm.

PinePhone (1of5) - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNF8zuIE...99&index=8
00:00 Intro
00:20 Insert SD card
01:00 Download jumpdrive
02:00 unzip jumpdrive
03:00 umount SD card
04:10 flash jumpdrive to SD card
05:50 remove SD from computer
06:30 Download Arch Linux
06:45 Turn off the phone
07:30 unzip Arch Linux
08:00 install Jumpdrive SD into phone
09:00 plug phone into computer
09:10 turn on the phone
09:45 umount the emmc
11:15 flash Arch Linux to emmc
12:45 turn off the phone
13:45 remove SD card
14:15 turn on the phone
15:30 Password 123456

PinePhone Pro (1of5) - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBGVUq3D...99&index=3
00:00 Intro
00:20 Download image
01:05 uncompressed image
02:20 Turn on phone
03:30 unmount phone
04:25 dd the image
07:10 Reboot the phone
08:40 DONE!

PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (2of5) - Phosh - Setup - Updates - Packages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbUXABJ...99&index=4
00:00 Intro
00:25 enable ssh
02:38 Change password
03:45 remove "show all apps"
04:18 Screen Scaling
05:45 Update Arch
10:30 Remove unused packages
11:05 Mount Network drive
12:45 Packages
13:05 Install gedit
13:30 Install pcmanfm
15:40 Custom Packages
17:45 Install wayvnc-git
20:20 Install aspell aspell-en
20:40 Configure gedit (spell checker)
22:15 Install gnome-screenshot
23:15 Configure pcmanfm
28:00 Change desktop Icon

PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (3of5) - Phosh - Setup - Syncthing - Squeekboard - Online Accounts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esOT5PhC...99&index=5
00:00 install Syncthing
03:00 Start syncthing
03:55 Add network computer
04:48 Share the Downloads folder
06:10 add a syncthing desktop icon
10:30 G o o g l e account
12:30 Set key ring password
14:15 calendar sync
14:40 email sync
15:00 Local contacts and calendar sync with syncthing
16:00 Should have just restarted the phone...
19:00 install evolution to trouble shoot.
20:50 just restart the phone
21:30 update the squeekboard layout

PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (4of5) - Phosh - Setup - Biktorgj - osmin - brave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgFtFzPh...99&index=6
00:00 Intro
00:10 Log into phone
00:28 install gnome-firmware
01:00 run gnome-firmware
01:00 run gnome-firmware
03:20 Fail, Run again
04:20 Downgrade again
05:55 Biktorgj is loaded
06:30 verify the ADSP version
08:00 ... Thinking
08:05 DanctNIX tweaks app
08:10 Power
09:05 Set a background image
11:45 install wrong app...
13:55 install phosh-mobile-settings
14:40 phosh-mobile-settings
15:45 set the calendar on lock screen
17:15 Looking for power profile to sync calendars...
22:30 PinePhone verse PinePhone Pro Power
24:30 phosh-ticket-box set the folder to look in
26:15 Restart phone to see new lock screen
28:00 install osmin - Navigation app
29:40 running osmin
31:00 Try to copy already downloaded maps...
32:30 install sayonara-player
32:45 run sayonara-player
38:15 running osmin again with maps
41:25 install brave - browser
42:30 run brave browser

PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (5of5) - Phosh - Setup - Chatty - SIM Card - SMS - MMS - Bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i10sj2WK...99&index=7
00:00 ssh
01:20 Copy Chatty files to phone
02:30 All conversations are on Chatty
03:00 Pull SIM card out of OG PinePhone
04:15 Pull apart PinePhone Pro
05:50 Service???
07:00 It Works!!!
07:40 APN settings
09:30 4G data works
09:55 Test Chatty SMS
10:30 Test 4G data
11:45 APN again???
12:50 3rd time is the charm!
13:30 SMS setup EDIT: MMS setup
15:00 Test MMS
16:00 MMS work!
16:20 bible_gui (Bible App)
18:45 run bible_gui
19:20 Download bible translations
23:00 Add translation
24:00 "~/share/net.lugsole.bible_gui/translations"
25:30 Play the Bible
26:10 Remove unwanted "desktop" icons
27:30 LEAVE A COMMENT!!!

I have both a PinePhone and PinePhone Pro. Are there any videos you would like to see?

Hi,

a quick question about the KDE CE:

It runs Plasma Mobile based on Manjaro ARM which is based on Arch ARM which is based on Arch.
I hope, I'm right so far.

Arch is a Rolling Release as Arch ARM is, right?

The current Manjaro ARM release is numbered "23.02".
The fact, that there is a release number like that makes me think, it's versioned and not a rolling release.
If so, why?

I searched the web for an answer, but either I wasn't able to find/see it or it is that clear to everybody (but me), no answer is necessary...

Thanks for helping out

I want to know if I'm going to burn my house down with what I've made lol.



This is a hardware fix for the PBP not waking from sleep.

My intent is to just have it plugged in most of the time but this will have a python script running on pbp to check battery voltage eg. between 20-80% and then tell the charger to stop charging or to charge.

This whole thing works. I was just concerned with the temperatures... maybe there is an obvious reason you should not do this.

With a bench top power supply it pulls 5V at 2.58A when the battery is in 50% range... maybe it pulls more when battery is near 0%.

I measured 106F bottom of the PBP case and 122F on charger surface. It was 80F in the room (AC broken).

This is a very junior question but I am just trying to get the backlight going using Zephyr, VS Code (with nRF Connect for VS Code Add-In), the PineTime DevKit0 board in Zephyr, and a PineTime DK.

I am trying to figure out how to do the backlight from the button example (which replaced the board specific example). I have not been able to get it working. It uses code like this:

I have a Pine64 from the original Kickstarter (2016.) It boots from a 32GB SD card, which I've imaged from an Ubuntu16 Pine64 image file. 

I've created a full disk backup of this 32GB SD card using AOMEI Backupper, and then restored the entire disk to a new 64GB SD card. The restore is successful, and the disk looks OK, but the 64GB card won't boot. Putting it in the Pine64 and powering on simply remains at a black screen (the original SD boots as soon as I plug the Pine64 in. I don't have to press a "Start" button or anything.) 

I have also tried this with a 256 SD card, with the same results. 

I have tried copying the entire 32GB SD card with DD in linux, and restoring via DD. Same problem. 

What am I missing. Does the new disk have to have a boot sector activated or something?

I absolutely can't see the difference (see image for full details about the drive and copy)...



https://ibb.co/6rXMvv3 (If image link is broken)

   

Hi guys!
Does anyone know when new BXE-4-32 GPU drivers will be available for Linux Kernel 6.x?
Thanks for reply.

Hello,

I've been using the PinePhone regularly for about half a year. Calls and SMS have been reliable, with the notable exception of the following problem that I would like to understand, and hopefully solve:

If I send a SMS to a phone that's offline, the expected behaviour of any SMS service is that the message is temporarily stored by the carrier, and when the receiver phone is later brought online, it gets the message delivered. For some reason, this isn't the case for the messages I send from the PinePhone. Messages are delivered properly when the receiver is online, but they never reach their destination if it was offline at the time of sending.

I tried with two different carriers and both 3G and 4G networks for each: the problem is systematic with the PinePhone, while messages are delivered properly when the same SIM card is used in another phone. The problem also persisted across various upgrades of the modem firmware, including ADSP.

When logged in to my user account on my carrier's website, I can see that the messages were successfully sent.

To me, this looks like the PinePhone sends its messages together with some kind of metadata meaning "do not attempt later delivery, instead discard the message if the receiver is unreachable". Could anyone confirm this? Can it be changed and how? I couldn't find any information on that matter and to be honest I'm quite surprised to be the first one to bring this up.

Alpinelinux in QEMU

I have used the introduction from astr0baby and a few other internet sources and came up with a working solution to boot Alpinelinux in QEMU on the Pinebook Pro. The settings are relatively simple and should work with other target ISOs in a similar way. There is no graphics support, yet. The host distro used here is Manjaro. There might be some differences with other distros. Mind you, this describes how to run an arch64 ISO on an arch64 system.

Install Qemu and create a folder to keep all files together:

• maybe set your timezone
  
• you will be asked which drive you want to use: vda
  
• what kind of installation you want: sys
  

• add -accel kvm
  
• you can switch [backcolor=#f6f8fa]-cpu[/backcolor] to host
  

Quote:qemu-system-aarch64: kvm_init_vcpu: kvm_arch_init_vcpu failed (0): Invalid argument

okay, so my new PinePhone arrived, yay! and after a tricky challenge to get past the user registration screen, I am now ready to do some app development.  I have previous experience with iOS and Android, and currently playing around with Zig.  However I am new to Linux development, and from my brief bit of research I can see GUI options using SDL or GTK...  Do we currently have a 'getting started' as an App developer type resource?  maybe a template very basic GUI App? responding to orientation events, life cycle events etc, or is someone able to give me some pointers please?  Something low level like single header C libs linking into my Zig would be ideal.  i.e. I have no interest in giant frameworks with dependency hell.  Alternative approach would be something like a unikernal template with a framebuffer starting point?  I am open to suggestions