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  HDMI Degraded and now Bad Quality
Posted by: jamforlunch - 02-13-2023, 08:51 PM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - No Replies

Hi,

When I first plugged in my Rock Pro 64 it was quite happily using the HDMI port to a 4k monitor. I then switched to using eMMC rather than an SD card boot of Armbian, and at the same time I installed RDP so I could remote desktop from windows. But now when I use teh HDMI port I get a really bad fuzzy picture, and the monintor losses sync and goes black for a second then copmes back etc. What could this by ? Is the HDMI port broken ? I tried a different monitor, and cable but still the same.


  Possible Solution for Microphone Not Working
Posted by: Ferriah - 02-13-2023, 01:09 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - No Replies

hey all,

when I go to install any of the newer images (tried as far back as august) I get no volume on my microphone during calls. I recently came across this, https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pine...ETTINGS.md and found that the setting for the microphone volume was not in the alsa ucm config file at all. I wrote it in there, and it did fix the volume until the next reboot. as the phone was booting up there was an error on the screen saying that the audio file was corrupted or wrong, something like that. while the line I wrote didn't change the phone went back to no volume on the mic. 

is there anyway to get the volume settings to stick? 

if there's no way to fix this currently, does anyone know of an image that doesn't have this issue? I'm supposed to set up two phones this month, and need at least calls and texts to work

any help is greatly appreciated!

Edit: updated the phone today, and now the microphone works. it updated some things with pipewire.


  PinePhone Pro battery life at the beginning of 2023?
Posted by: dante404 - 02-13-2023, 02:28 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (14)

Hi there,

just a short question to the PinePhone Pro owners:

How is the battery life today?

I've often read it is very bad (worse than normal PinePhone) BUT this statements were all from 2021, and I guess things have changed a bit (like they did for the normal PinePhone earlier) - So how it is today?
Is the battery life at least as 'good' as on the normal/classic PinePhone (non-Pro)?
My normal PinePhone today just manages to get me through a work day (which is not great but OK... but shorter battery life would be a problem), would be the Pro be comparable today?
(And please add your operation system in the answer, perhaps it makes a difference.)

Thanks for any reply!!  Smile

Best Regards,
dante404


  Soquartz-cm4io emmc with usb host
Posted by: louisvinc - 02-12-2023, 12:20 PM - Forum: Quartz64 Hardware and Accessories - Replies (6)

Hello all,

I'am trying to use a soquartz module on a cm4-io board, with a emmc chip on it (mmcblk1). I'am able to install, manjaro, armbian, pleb. I'am able to boot on the emmc, but the usb port won't work except when I have a sdcard inserted in my cm4io board.

Is there a way to get usb working without sd card?

Here's some informations:
Without sdcard:

Quote:lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


With sdcard:
Quote:lsusb
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0424:2514 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub



Here's the udev event on card insertion:
Quote:udevadm monitor
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent

KERNEL[6269.749066] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa (mmc)
KERNEL[6269.753961] add      /devices/virtual/bdi/179:0 (bdi)
UDEV  [6269.769249] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa (mmc)
KERNEL[6269.771594] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa/block/mmcblk0 (block)
KERNEL[6269.772159] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 (block)
UDEV  [6269.772502] add      /devices/virtual/bdi/179:0 (bdi)
KERNEL[6269.772893] bind    /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa (mmc)
UDEV  [6269.901933] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa/block/mmcblk0 (block)
KERNEL[6269.934898] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
KERNEL[6269.969263] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
KERNEL[6269.969411] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.033728] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.034182] unbind  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.034503] remove  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.034771] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.056507] add      /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 (block)
UDEV  [6270.059122] bind    /devices/platform/fe2b0000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa (mmc)
KERNEL[6270.129216] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.129397] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.193638] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[6270.193788] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.197201] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.201544] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.205151] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.208560] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.211622] unbind  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.213159] remove  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.217478] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.221733] change  /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.225214] add      /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.228709] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [6270.232849] bind    /devices/platform/fcc00000.usb/xhci-hcd.9.auto/usb1/1-1 (usb)


Thank you in advance for your answers and solutions.

Best Regards.


  unsuccessful re-install of OS for PineBookPro
Posted by: Valiance - 02-12-2023, 08:10 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

14" PineBook Pro, purchased in late 2022

I stood up the desktop and had it just starting working
I wanted to upgrade to the latest Manjaro ARM kde Plasma for PBP v22.12 
as I followed the directions, my system only gets to green power LED, no screen, no sound  - I'm stuck.
I do not recall interrupting the process, although at this point I am not ruling it out.
I would like to get the PBP laptop stood up to a desktop environment for Plasma/Manjaro


  Pinebook Pro won't turn on after flashing image
Posted by: Idaho - 02-12-2023, 02:41 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Hi folks

I think I messed up pretty bad after trying install the latest version of Manjaro to my laptop, I downloaded the latest generic image from the website, I flashed it onto my SD card I did the setup and then flashed the image to emmc with the following command:

Code:
xzcat Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-generic-22.12.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync

After turning off the pinebook pro and removing the sd to boot from the emmc, it would just not turn on again, the LED does not even blink red or green...

Is there anyone around who knows if I did anything wrong and if there is some way to fix it?

Thanks in advance for your answers  Big Grin


  Broke Screen and fix it - Up Swipe not working.
Posted by: iwm - 02-11-2023, 04:29 PM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (2)

Dropped it on the corner and broke the screen.  

Replaced it and the "slide up to unlock" is not working now (will not slide up!).

Any suggestion or recommendations?


  experience: pinephone keyboard drains pp battery faster?
Posted by: tuxcall - 02-11-2023, 04:29 AM - Forum: PinePhone Accessories - Replies (2)

Hi

i've had some weirdness with my pinephone keyboard. (might be my fault but just reporting/checking)

and i don't know if its because i did something wrong or something else.

Here is my experience:

with the keyboard attached the battery drains faster then without.

-without the keyboard my pp is still alive after a nights sleep
-with it's usually almost dead, the main battery completely drained and the keyboard battery very low

other things:
-the charging seems very slow through the keyboard
-pp also seems to run hotter more often with the keyboard attached (warmer to the touch then normal)


Now i have to admit, when i got the keyboard i was excited and hooked it to the pp and attached the dock + charger via the pp's usb-c (yup didn't read the manual lol)
Not sure if that is what caused this. but it could be.

has anybody else had this experience? is there a way to verify that i messed up the hardware? or any fixes?

thanks!


  reset wifi hardware/driver when it dies through console on pp?
Posted by: tuxcall - 02-11-2023, 04:17 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Hi

question:

My wifi sometimes just dies, and i was wondering is there a way to reset the hardware/driver or something? like the modem reset command?

thanks!


  Is my PinePhone Pro dead?
Posted by: jlioret - 02-11-2023, 02:32 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (2)

Dear community,

I really feel stuck with my Pinephone Pro Explorer Edition, purchased last year and abandoned for almost a year, after so may unsuccessful attempts to have it working.

Today, the only way I can have it showing sign of life is connecting it in MASK ROM mode and havind a lsusb command in a terminal on my Linux PC.

All the attempts that I have made to power on my device have failed.

To discard the drained battery issue, I have purchased from Pine64 a battery charging station.

So now what?

Thanks to Staytuned a post that I wrote last year had received a solution that does not work any more.

Since last year, it seems that things have changed, with regards to multi-boot possibilities, using tow-boot or u-boot.

I would be so grateful if someone could describe in detail a working process to bring my Pinephone Pro back to life, whichever the os distribution used.

Looking forward.

Best regards,
Jerome Lioret