I bought a Pinebook Pro recently, and I've been using it with Tow-Boot installed and dual-booting Ubuntu and Manjaro. I've been having problems with excessive battery drain, even when powered off. I just did a test, and in six hours, the battery dropped from 99% to 59% after shutting down Ubuntu 22.10.

Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround or fix? I'm quite able to compile a custom kernel, if that's what it takes, although a pointer to a suitable config file would be helpful.

Thanks!

Just got new in box Pine Phone Pro, i pulled tape off battery.  reinserted, used usbC cable supplied and different chargers.

However, no matter what I try, the phone just vibrates endlessly and has a solid red light when connecting cable.

Weeks ago we talked about porting Apache NuttX RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) to PinePhone, and how we might turn it into a Feature Phone.

But to make phone calls and send text messages, we need to control the LTE Modem over USB. Thus today we’ll build a USB Driver for NuttX on PinePhone…

1. What’s USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI)

2. Why it’s simpler than USB On-The-Go (OTG)

3. How we ported the USB EHCI Driver from NuttX to PinePhone

4. Handling USB Clocks and USB Resets on PinePhone (with tips from U-Boot Bootloader)

5. And the NuttX EHCI Driver boots OK on PinePhone!

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Simpler USB with EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface)

I previously posted about having broken suspend/resume by installing tow-boot to the SPI flash.  My workaround was to just not use tow-boot and erase the SPI flash.  However recently I got an NVMe drive and installed Slackware on it.  I'd like to be able to boot from the NVMe drive directly, which I gather requires a boot loader on the SPI flash (I'd like to keep Manjaro on the eMMC if possible).

My questions are, what boot loader does the PBP/Manjaro use by default when it comes from the factory?  What is it doing that allows suspend/resume to work while other boot loaders break it?  What setups do people use to boot from an NVMe drive and have working suspend/resume?

Hi!
My PinePhone Pro does not read the micro SD card at all.
I tried booting from SD card as indicated here: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#Boot_from_microSD_card_temporarily.
I also tried holding the RE button.
Nothing works and the operating system does not detect any SD card.
The microSD card is inserted all the way...

Hi there,

has someone else experienced such weird behaviour?

I couldn't use my PinePhone Pro for months now because the reported battery level immediately crashes to 0% at some point between 50% and 70%, leading to a forced shutdown. Support says it has to be a software problem but I actually doubt that. The battery itself is working flawlessly in another phone and the issue persists even if I boot up the factory test build.

Any help leading to fix this issue (besides buying a new mainboard) is appreciated.

Thanks

With PP Beta/Manjaro Beta 30/kb, I use Alt-Tab to cycle programs. So the Swipe Up arrow just takes up screen real estate.

Through gsettings or elsewhere, can the Swipe Up arrow be hidden or disabled?

I'm trying (and in vien) to find a case that supports the rock64 but has space to include the POE hat inside the case.

Has someone come across a case that supports this?

According to this video, different usb-c adapter work with the PinePhone pro, keyboard, mouse and HDMI:

https://youtu.be/NrOwj2JVlBU

Liliputing wrote on 10/23/2020 PostmarketOS brings HDMI update. But we tested 3 usb-c adapters with the Pinephone, all where usb-c  and powered, but mouse, keyboard and HDMI did not work with none of them. What could be wrong?

Hey folks,

Recently I decided to install an update on my PinePhone, but something went wrong in the process and the phone just shut down.

Now when I try to turn it on, the yellow LED lights up, the phone vibrates and then hangs on the screen with the logo (the letter K and a gear wheel) and the mouse cursor appears.

I have tried connecting the phone to the computer (but nothing happens), pressing the volume buttons when turning it on, etc. but the result is always the same.

Could anybody help me with it?