Anyone know of U.S. carriers compatible with the Pinephone that have access to voicemail via a computer using a web browser? So far the only one I've come up with is T-Mobile which is a bit pricey. (T-Mobile does have inexpensive pay-as-you go plans but it looks like you can't bring over your existing phone number. I've had my cell phone number since 1992 and don't really want to change it.)

The reason: Just a few days ago my carrier AT&T discontinued their voicemail notification feature which I have used for decades - it notified an external device (pager) when a new voicemail arrived. This was a legacy feature from the early 1990s that probably nobody provides any more. However I would still like a way to check for voicemail that does not involve turning on and using the phone. (I leave the phone off most of the time for privacy as I have no wish to be tracked 24/7). Although possible to retrieve voicemail from a land line that is an increasingly rare thing to find when not at home.

AT&T has made some unwelcome (at least to me) changes to its basic voicemail service. Now the simplest way to check voicemail from one's phone is to hold down the "1" key on the dialpad to issue a long tone. However this does not work on the Pinephone, at least not running Mobian Bookworm+Phosh.

It is not clear whether this long tone triggers something proprietary in a phone provided by AT&T or whether just sending the tone out over the phone network is sufficient. (It does work if I put my SIM back in the flip phone AT&T sent me when 3G service was discontinued in the U.S. but I did that just for test purposes, I don't want to actually use that stupid Google-infested thing.)

Anyone know if this can be made to work on the Pinephone? I can still retrieve voicemail by dialing my own number so am not dead in the water but it's necessary to enter a security code each time which is a bit of a PITA.)

So i have a pinephone pro here and i tried turning it on after like a year of not using it. The battery was obviously drained so i charged it for 6 hours on maskrom mode to my mac. After trying to turn it on, the led turns red, then yellow, but then stay there. Ive tried flashing oses to the EMMC and a 16gb SD card and also tried reinstalling towboot using the exact instructions provided, ive tried both sp.installer.img and shared disk methods for that. Ive already followed these instructions:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18216

Please help!   

Quote:But with a $400 price tag, it was also twice as expensive as the original PinePhone and never generated as much interest from buyers or developers. And now Pine64 says it’s ceased production of the PinePhone Pro and has no plans to resume selling the phone.

Привіт усім, я з України і щойно приєднався до спільноти. З нетерпінням чекаю можливості дізнатися більше про продукти Pine64.

Hi everyone! I’m working on a basic outdoor weather station using a Pine64 board, and I want to feed it real-time temperature, pressure, and humidity data from an ESP32 + BME280 sensor over the network. I just followed this helpful tutorial using an ESP32 with BMP280 to upload weather data to ThingSpeak it’s a great blueprint for sending environmental readings wirelessly:
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2...erver.html
I’ve also seen a Random Nerd Tutorials guide for building a standalone ESP32 + BME280 mini weather station, and skimmed Pine64’s docs on setting up services via their community Linux image. Does anyone here have experience aggregating sensor data this way? I’d love tips on best practices for handling connectivity, lightweight data ingestion, or small dashboards on Pine boards.

A user on the armbian forum figured out how to get armbian to work. I was able to follow these instructions and update my machine. This requires tow boot on the spi. My system is on an nvme. 

The forum pst is here:https://forum.armbian.com/topic/50474-ex...ebook-pro/

Hello all.

I'm having a problem with my Pinetab2 here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19908

I'm trying to boot another OS from the MicroSD card using the UART adapter, but it just won't boot. Not with one or the other or both plugged in. I'm following this:

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2#In...structions

Am I doing something wrong?

I also noticed that if I plug in the UART adapter and get a serial console on my broken OS that boots to the login GUI, I start to see emmc errors on the serial console.

What can I do? I want to either:

1. Fix the OS on the internal emmc
2. Boot another OS on the MicroSD

I'm beginning to doubt the hackability of this hardware.

Hello!

I would like to know can I use Libre Office Writer etc. on Pinetab2? I don't mean review versions because I want to use writer version. I don't have yet Pinetab2 but I'm considering to buy it.

I'm currently testing a #Mobian kernel patch to improve battery life on the #PinephonePro and it's looking promising (about 3 hours of continuous use instead of 1 hour). If you'd like to try it out, assuming you are running Mobian, download the linked deb file onto your phone, install it, then shutdown your phone and remove battery, wait 10 minutes (to reset the battery meter), then boot into the new kernel. I recommend using this with Megi's uboot bootloader as you can then choose which kernel to boot into (6.16 is my patched one, 6.12 is the current Mobian one).

Note that suspend doesn't work in this kernel, I am looking into this [UPDATE: Suspend works now]. One additional bonus with this kernel is that if you uninstall the default Camera app, then install Camera from Flathub, it should work fine with both front and back cameras, you can take photos and scan QR codes and the image is not inverted on the back camera.

Let me know if you try it out.

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