Hi all, I've been experimenting with PostmarketOS on my PinePhone and wanted to share some findings regarding power management. After tweaking the suspend settings and disabling some unused services, I noticed a significant improvement in battery life—up to 20% in idle usage. I'm currently exploring better ways to manage modem power states and GPU frequency scaling. Has anyone here implemented a custom udev rule or kernel patch to further optimize standby consumption? I'd love to collaborate or hear about your setups. Let's make PinePhone even more efficient together!

I left my PinePhone in a drawer too long and now the battery is almost completely dead.

I don't have an external battery charger and if I connect a wall charger to the phone, the battery charges for a few seconds then tries to boot and dies after a few seconds tries to boot again, diess, over and over.

I did an amazon search on the replacement models in the wiki and the one I bought turned out to be about 6mm short in bothe diemension. Is there a specific battery that I can buy on amazon that will work in a PinePhone?

Is there a way to keep the PinePhone from trying to boot before the battery is charged enough to boot and run with a charger connected by USB?

I had to get a new phone and switched from Android to iPhone. I didn’t really want to, but because of budget, my old phone dying, and the only thing my carrier had that I could do a payment plan on that didn’t have AI crap was an older iPhone. 

I was using gadgetbridge and everything worked perfectly on my old phone. With InfiniLink being the only app for iPhone I can’t seem to get texts to go to my PineTime. Am I missing something or is that option not available? It seems weather isn’t available either.

Thanks!

I have a pinephone community edition running mobian.
Most of the time it sits, off, because we're not allowed to have phones at work, and I don't have a lot of people to talk to (when I'm at home, I use my desktop, anyway).

I've noticed lately that plugged into my computer, it seems to lose about 1% power every 3 minutes or so.
Plugged into the power outlet, however, it seems to lose about 1% power every 3 minutes or so.
The only way I seem able to charge it now is to turn it off and plug it in.

I've set it as power-saving as I can figure out. It sits in suspend mode with the screen off.
I have wifi, bluetooth and cellular on.
The battery icon shows the thunderbolt, and I get the message that its charging... but it's draining faster than it's charging.

There's nothing wrong with the cable; I've used it to connect an android tablet that charges just fine.

I've flipped the usb-c end in case there's a frontwards/backwards way to insert it (hey, I'm desperate).

It does not get hot. Plugged in or not, it only gets *slightly* warm.

Can anyone help me with this? I haven't seen this specific problem anywhere in the forums. I love my pinephone and don't want to give it up.

Hi,

Could anybody advise DeskPi case alternative for ROCK64 ?
Need case with simiral formfactor and functionality...

B.R.
Viktor
https://vm-project.pro

Where do you get a debian 12 image for the rockpro64? Thanks.

Hello all,

I unfortunately dropped my PinePower the other day and broke the earth pin on the UK plug adaptor. Does anyone have any suggestions of where I could get a replacement?

Thanks!
Stuart

Hello,
I recently bought a Pinecil V2 to learn how to solder. I'm using the USB-C cable from the website along with a Samsung EP-T6530 power adapter. When I connect the Pinecil to the top 65W port and power it on, everything works fine, showing 20V without issues. However, as soon as I start heating it up, it shuts off when it reaches the desired temperature.

I tried using the 25W port, and while it didn’t shut off, it only shows 11V, making it difficult to melt solder. I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong or if my adapter isn’t sufficient. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

I'm on postmarketos on a ppp and I lost audio on calls. Not sure why. When I run AT+QDAI? The output is just a empty line then 'OK'. Does anyone know what value I should set this to? Or better yet, how can I lookup the value it should be.

Hi musicians (or speakers, or...)



this is mostly a quick note for those who may think about getting such a gadget for playing sheet music.




Although the PineNote may be a little to small it works for lyrics and chord sheets (I tweak the pages to get more on one screen).



And it's good to have the backlight, e.g. for a dark stage. Unfortunately I find the flickering of the backlight distracting. But in the lower positions (not at 100% backlight) it works.




The PineNote (Debian) with KOReader works perfectly fine with following page turners:

- Airturn PED 500 https://www.thomann.co.uk/airturn_ped_500.htm


- Airturn BT500S-2 https://www.thomann.co.uk/airturn_bt500s_2.htm


- Joyo JSP-01 https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_jsp_01_pa..._pedal.htm






I had them all and they are connecting fine and instantly via bluetooth with the PN.


Page turning works out of the box with all of them in KOReader (Attention: it starts in "scrolling" mode, but you most likely want the "page flipping" mode).





I didn't like the PED500 - it's very compact, usb-c, but the haptic feedback wasn't good for me.





The Airturn BT500S and JSP-01 both are nice, but have their pros/cons:




Airturn BT500S:


- Made in USA (might be a pro argument?!)


- expensive (~80Euro)


- no USB-C (that was the main reason I decided against it. It has a round power jack, like you would find in a E-Guitar pedal case)

- has a plastic shell, but still looks/feels nice and sturdy


- the switches have a good feedback - like those of a normal effect pedal


- switching of page turner mode works by holding a button. Not obvious at first, but it works.




JSP-01:



- I decided for this one because of the price (<30Euro), the surprisingly good quality and USB-C power

- Made in China (might be a con?!)

- although it's all plastic it feels well manufactured

- the feedback of the plastic flaps is good enough

- changing the mode is easy and clear






But as I said they both work well with KOReader:



- in a multi-page document (and if you are in page-flipping mode) the right switch flips to the next and the left switch flips to the previous page.



- If you configure KOReader to go to the next file at the end of the document, you can click through a whole set of songs/documents if the filenames are numbered in a specific order (I tried with collections, but I wasn't able to find "go to next file in collection" or something like it.)



- the only things that doesn't work (or at least I didn't find out how) is to go back to the previous documents. (I put the "go back" function in one edge of the screen and configured it to go to the last position. Thats a workaround to at least go back to the previous song in case it's needed. But it doesn't work with the left pedal and you can only "go back" to the "last used" document - it will not cycle back to the first document in your set list)



App-wise: Making notes is not completely straightforward. Okular can be used as a workaround, to make an edit fast. But Okular annotations may be cropped/cut off by KOReader.

A solid workflow was:

- I put the original PDF-files in one folder (together with the original odt files from which I exported the PDFs with libreoffice)

- Editing them with Xournalpp and:

    - saving the Xournalpp files in a separate xopp folder

    - I export the annotated PDF files in a separate folder where I number the filenames like they occur on the setlist







If anyone has a more convenient approach/idea on how to setup documents, or other apps to use - I'd be glad to read about it.





adios