Hi guys, I got my Pinecil v2 a few days ago; just transplanted the guts into the clear case and thought I'd try updating to the latest firmware. Running into a problem.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 - it won't recognize the Pinecil in flashing mode/won't install a driver. In Device Manager it shows up as "CDC Virtual ComPort" and says device drivers are not installed.

I followed the instructions to the letter: held down the "-" button when connecting and held it for 15s after, along with all the PowerShell and blisp instructions. Executing blisp results in "Device not found". I tried three different cables (one generic, and two Anker USB-A to USB-C. All three work fine flashing my backup TS101) and every USB port on the laptop.

Guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

P.S. When I hook it up without holding "-", it does boot up with the screen active as expected, and Device Manager shows it under USB Controllers as "Unknown Device", but also says "No drivers are installed for this device."

Hello,

Every time (during the last months) since kernel image 6.1 appeared when I try to update the system from Debian 11 to 12 (Mobian) I can't find wifi adapter and I have to go back to my backup version where everything works. How much time will it take additionally? What do I do wrong? Is there anyone having the same problem?

hi,

since the last commit flahtub (8dc9021ed54dcc035f6fd1429404c58a097e7e535d3f961f5dd31c78e073dde1)

the text of the messages is invisible and when writing a new message.

I was forced to return to the previous commit (907235648f3bc8fe7117c185c7b58061db4c11d823cd16e48cead4240e6403cf)

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On Manjaro Phosh Beta 30 and PP Beta, I can install gnome-screenshot, start it, but the actual "Take Screenshot" button is missing and scale-to-fit produces "false" in Terminal.

Any workarounds to this?

As best as I can tell and recall, I unfortunately ran "sudo apt dist-upgrade" in the wrong terminal session, and now my pinebook no longer boots. I get a green power icon, but nothing else - no bios(?) or splash screen, no caps lock light - just a blank, black screen. So, no options to select a different boot media or the other options I have found while searching the forum.

Any advice or guidance, or forum posts or other resources I should reference to get this laptop back up and running?

Thank you.

I've been using my PPP as a daily driver now for quite awhile and utilizing the S20 Ultra battery case mod.   The combination of 3000mAh internal battery and the 6000 mAh case battery gives me enough for my normal usage.  

Now, I have a strong electronics background but have little experience in lipo batteries, so my question is this:

I've looked at the schematics and it looks like 3 of the 4 pins on the J7 battery slot are connected: +, GND, and TS.  + and GND are self explanatory.    TS looks like its a thermistor connection to monitor the temperature of the batteries.   If that is correct, then there are several larger "3 wire" lipo batteries that I could utilize, or make my own with individual cells and the appropriate balancing circuit. 

So, my questions. 

Can I install a custom battery into the pinephone using the same battery connectors, and will the software/hardware be able to deal with the larger capacity of the batteries?  

For those with experience with lipo batteries, is it really that simple, or is there more to consider other than temperature and balance?

Thanks in advance.

Edit - I linked to the PP schematics, not the PPP. Fixed.

Hi,

I've tried to get a quartz64-A up and running with numerous images (manjaro, plebian, gentoo), and I'm not getting any response from it. The power LED comes on and some of the images light the heartbeat LED, but I don't get a video output, my router doesn't detect a new device on the network (I've attached it via ethernet), and I'm not able to get a response from the uart/usb interface (I'm new to uart, so I'm not 100% sure on this point). I've tried booting off a eMMC and microSD. I checked the microSD with badblocks to see if it was corrupt, but it checks out.

Any recommendations?

I have trouble getting pine phone pro to boot after flashing the eMMC.  I am using towboot.

Using the published instructions below from the wiki, I boot from the SD card using Kali.   Downloaded a two images Mobian and Ubuntu touch .  used dd without issue while booted from SD card.

On reboot, it fails to boot. Tried both Mobian and Ubuntu touch images. I did extract to the .img file and not flashing the .xz or the .gz version of the image.

OS

1. Flash an OS to the microSD card (and optionally resize the partition, see below)
   
2. Insert microSD card and boot the phone
   
3. Download the desired OS' image on the booted OS or transfer it to the microSD card
   
4. Extract the image file if it is archived
   
5. Flash the image file to eMMC using 
   
   
   Code:

   dd if=IMAGE.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync

Is it possible to reuse the SoC debug UART as two independent GPIO pins that can be controlled from Linux? If so, how?

Near the connector for the keyboard ribbon cable, there is a set of three though-hole pads labeled Rx, Tx, and Gnd. Is this the debug serial port from the SoC before it is multiplexed with analog audio on the 3.5mm jack?