I'm trying to get two separate pine64 LTS boards to boot for the first time. Previous troubleshooting attempts here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17961.

I was hoping to monitor the serial port of each board to find some some helpful errors. I couldn't find a post specifically for the pine64 LTS but I did for the rock64: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5029. I connected to pin 6 (GND <-> GND), pin8 (TX -> RX), and pin10 (RX -> TX). As a sanity check I switched RX and TX to make sure I hadn't mis-connected something. I've tested the serial console on another dev board so I know it's working. I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm using the following command to read messages: 

Team,

Somehow Ive been buried in life and missed the info on the pinetab2 until today.

So Ive searched everywhere I can and cant find out what SOC they are planning to use?

I have a pinebook , pinetab and pinebook pro (unsing that now)

Unfortunately my pinetab stopped working a few months back abd havent had a chance to troubleshoot it.

SO Iam very excited abouyt the pinetab 2! Like to be first in line if I could.  But asIm still in a job transition I have to make a smart decision not just an enthusiastuuc one.

Does anhyone know what the SOC or CPU will be?

That would really help me  determine my purchase decision, like to get a pinecil as well, but thats a different conversations eh?

Thanks for everything

J

Hi,

just got my Pinebook pro a few weeks ago. I'm having some wifi troubles.

The wifi seems to be working well except it does not show my wifi network. It shows several other networks and I can connect to a hotspot on my phone without problem.
Anyone experiencing similar issues? Any idea what might be causing the adapter to miss a single network?

Some more info:
The router is emitting on both wifi 5 & wifi 4, i.e. there are two wireless networks with different SSID but pinebook pro can't fine either of them.
I'm running Manjaro-ARM 23.02

Mods, if this is more appropriate to move to either Hardware or Accessories, please do so. I figured since the solution can be either base phone or accessory, best to put it under general.

iPhone since 8th gen has had NFC-F / FeliCa support and Android phones typically ship support if there's heavy usage in the region: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa

This is must have feature in Japan, and in other metro areas in SE Asia and US that have adopted it for transit. Being able to use your phone as a transit card and easily recharge it anywhere w/o having to use a special machine and cash is a killer feature.

It would be great if the hardware side support was there either within the phone hardware itself, or as add-on accessory if Pine64 wants to keep the base PinePhone as cheap as possible. Then either someone could maybe develop software Linux side or at least use Waydroid to use the card operator's app to recharge the 'card'

Just recieved my pinetime sealed fresh in the box.

However it seems to not do much
I've tried to boot it straight out of the box and nothing happened, so I left it to charge for a few hours in the cradle but still no response

is there something I can do here?
it also doesn't seem to be recognizable by any bluetooth

Sometimes, when pressing the power button to un suspend the phone, the screen stays black.

I noticed two different cases:

- Swiping from the top of the screen sometimes "wakes it up" (try it if it happens to you, can save you a reboot).
- Nothing can get the screen to display something, I have to hard-reboot (not just boot, I have to stop it first by an ~8s press, then to boot it with a ~4s press).

So yes, Mobian is still running when it happen, I "tested" it only once as I was listening music, the screen was staying black while the musing was playing. I had to hard reboot this time.

Does it happen to you too?

Can you please give me a list of Pine64 single-board computers that don't have Wi-Fi nor Bluetooth on the board itself?

Question about whether I buggered my PBP up at a deep level, far beyond my abilities to repair...

Received my new PBP and it booted up fine for the first time. As expected, Manjaro prompted me to update it, so I went ahead with it. Straightforward of course but it took awhile as there seemed to be quite a few updates, but nothing unusual. However, at the end the process the screen went to what looked like a terminal screen, with a warning about "knowing what you are doing and the potential consequences”. I didn't pay too much attention as I figured doing the update through the GUI would keep me out of any serious trouble, so I didn't make any detailed notes. Anyways, it hung on the terminal screen for 15-20 minutes doing nothing, so I pressed <enter> to see if it needed the " OK" to proceed. Nothing happened for a long time again. So, I thought the only other option (which was probably a bad decision!)  was to force it to reboot using the power button.

After it shut down, I powered it on again. The screen just went black (no visuals at all), with the power light blinking on and off every few seconds.

I then started to hunt through the forum messages for solutions.

I tried letting it sit for a long time in case the boot was just really slow after the update, but no luck. I can force it off with the power button. I have cycled it on and off quite a few times, but nothing has changed.

Eventually, I loaded Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-23.02.IMG onto an SD card. The PBP booted up from the card and seems to function fine. I have removed and reinserted the card and rebooted and it all seems good.

So, my question is, can I somehow safely load Manjaro onto the eMMC (I think that's how it works?) instead of running off the SD card all the time? Or did I mess something up on the eMMC that needs work?

I think the fellow forum members can tell by now that I'm pretty green at this and bought the PBP to learn on. Unfortunately the learning started without even getting to use it once before I made it go kaput. However, it is a bit sketchy that the update function can end up with the process going sideways.


Thanks for any thoughts. I just want to see if it is OK to try installing Manjaro on the PineBook.

Hello all,

My Pinebook Pro said the other day it needed to go on powersupply, so I plugged the jack in. After some 10 minutes the sceen turned grey of the series I was watching (Homicide - life on the streets; highly recommended btw!). Sound lasted for a few more seconds and then everything went down.
On reboot it showed the Manjaro welcome screen asking for a login and then everything just went down again. The battery indicator is at 0%.

The led is actually indicating that there's some voltage coming in when I plug in the adapter that was delivered with the laptop, but apparentely it's not reaching the battery. The bottom of the laptop used to get really warm, but nothing is heating up when plugged in.

So I'm wondering if this is a common problem with a common solution.

Any help much appreciated!

Noticed significant impact of Bluetooth connection established on WIFI 2.4 GHZ speed:
-BT audio enabled would decrease WIFI speed from 20MBits to ~10 or less Mbits  Download speed
Impact not observed on Wifi 5G connection speed.