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  Can't add micro SD card to Pinephone
Posted by: thorensjubilee - 02-10-2023, 10:50 AM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (7)

Hello Friends,

I can't add a micro SD card to my pine phone. I've had my pine phone for 2 years and I've just flashed Manjaro Phosh on it and it all works well. Except that I cannot add the SD card to give music via Lollipop. I've tried using both Windows and Ubuntu computers to format the disc, but when I put it in the pine phone it doesn't boot. What am I doing wrong, please?

Chris


  fully functional keyboard with Debian/Mobian
Posted by: wigan - 02-09-2023, 07:07 AM - Forum: PinePhone Accessories - Replies (1)

I had a fully functional keyboard under Arch/Monjaro w/
linux-image-5.17-sunxi64 using Megi's tutorial, but not having any luck w/
Megi's Debian/Mobian tut using the userland driver and vmlinuz-6.1-sunx64.

The userland driver doesn't seem to do anything, and loading the i2c-dev
module kills the native keyboard support. 'ppkb-i2c-inputd.service' shows up
in '>systemctl status' as enabled, but fails cause it 'can't find /dev/i2c-2
device', wh/ looks like a clue, but I read that those are loaded at boot time
and manually creating one doesn't seem like the solution.

I've also tried 'https://wiki.mobian.org/ppaccessories'.

I read that a fully functional keyboard w/ Debian/Mobian has been achieved
(year+ old reports and maybe a different kernel), yet it eludes me.

Soliciting suggestions/clues.


  Can't install Manjaro
Posted by: thorensjubilee - 02-08-2023, 07:42 AM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hello Friends,

I can't install Manjaro. I loaded the SD card with jumpdrive and then flashed the Manjaro image using Balena Etcher. When it's finished it dosn't get beyond an initial screen of text. What am I doing wrong?

Chris


  Accelerometer replacement
Posted by: brb78 - 02-07-2023, 11:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - No Replies

Seems my accelerometer has died. Has anyone successfully replaced this part that cares to share?

Pine has a datasheet available for the BMA421 (although some post indicate this part may have been changed, my PT is from 10/21)
https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/p...-FL000.pdf

AliExpress seems to have them available for $6.50 shipped, and I'm willing to attempt a repair
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/325680381...IDTyuGcxfT

Although its tempting to just replace the whole unit for under $40 shipped, I'd be more interested in that route if I knew when it failed again I could replace that part.


  Video: Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System for PinePhone
Posted by: lupyuen - 02-07-2023, 07:35 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - No Replies

This video explains how we download and boot Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System on PinePhone...

Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System for PinePhone

Download the video (1.4 GB)


Question Disk encryption
Posted by: tom64 - 02-07-2023, 10:31 AM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hi,

I installed PostmarketOS Phosh on eMMC with disk encryption, it worked fine for a month, then it suddenly turned off and says incorrect passphrase when I input it (I made sure I typed the correct passphrase). I charged the phone for a couple hours but still doesn't let me in. What's happening? What went wrong?


Exclamation Impossible to login since the latest update
Posted by: anonymous - 02-07-2023, 06:50 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (12)

Hello

I've just run

Code:
sudo apt update
and
Code:
sudo apt upgrade
, I can no longer login. I get an almost black screen just after entering my PIN code. Please can somebody help me? I still use my Pinephone as a daily driver and I would really prefer not having to reinstall everything once more.


Question Can't Boot from MicroSD (What Am I Missing)
Posted by: falken - 02-07-2023, 12:34 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - Replies (10)

Been banging my head against a wall for like a week now trying to install different things like Armbian, PostMarketOS, and DietPi.

None of them boot. I've left my Pinebook Pro on for like 40 minutes watching the light flash.

Following the generic instructions of burning an img with Etcher and powering on with the SD card leads nowhere.

Tried two different MicroSD cards.

Tried using DD.

Nothing yet. Does anyone know what my next steps should be.

I feel like I'm missing something that everyone knows but somehow I can't find in any of the wiki pages, youtube videos, or forum posts.


  Recover LUKS volume, rpmb, "Replay Protected Memory Block"
Posted by: regivanx - 02-06-2023, 12:35 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Hi,

For the record, I have two pinebook pro, pbp1 and pbp2, and they both crashed at the same time after an update and/or a reinstallation with manjaro-arm-installer.

pbp2 was fixed thanks to this thread.

pbp1 couldn't boot to emmc at all, even abnormally, but could boot normally to SDcard. It is from pbp1 that I repaired pbp2.

pbp1 is older than pbp2.

On pbp1, after booting on the SDcard:

Code:
$ ls /dev/mmcblk2*
mmcblk2
mmcblk2boot0
mmcblk2boot1
mmcblk2p1
mmcblk2p2

According to lsblk, mmcblk2 mmcblk2boot0 and mmcblk2boot1 are of type "Disk". mmcblk2p1 mmcblk2p2 are partitions.

mmcblk2p1 contains the /boot partition and mmcblk2p2 the root partition of the emmc, and was a bootable operating system before the crash.

mmcblk2p2 is an encrypted volume, usable with cryptsetup.

Since the problem of pbp1 and pbp2 seemed similar, I installed Tow Boot on the emmc of pbp1.

However, that didn't solve the problem: now Tow Boot informs me that the emmc is not bootable, but can still boot an OS on a USB stick or sdcard.

However, after installing Tow Boot on the emmc, the presentation of devices is different:

Code:
$ ls /dev/mmcblk2*
mmcblk2
mmcblk2boot0
mmcblk2boot1
mmcblk2p1
mmcblk2rpmb

and mmcblk2rpmb does not appear under the lsblk command.

However, testdisk says:

Code:
Disk /dev/mmcblk2 - 62 GB / 58 GiB CHS 1908480 4 16

The harddisk (62 GB / 58 GiB) seems too small! (< 803 GB / 562 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...

The following partition can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> Linux filesys. data 500001 1178983610 1178983610

[ Continue ]
LUKS 2 (Data size unknown) 603 GB / 561 GiB
  • Is mmcblk2rpmb another name for mmcblk2p2, or does it have nothing to do with it?

According to wikipedia, the initials "rpmb" stands for "Replay Protected Memory Block", a volume requiring authentication before it can be accessed (authentication in addition to LUKS?)
  • Do you think it is still possible to access the mmcblk2p2 encrypted volume?
  • Do you think installing Tow Boot on the first few sectors of the emmc made mmcblk2p2 permanently inaccessible?

I ask these two questions beforehand because if mmcblk2p2 is permanently inaccessible, I have to reinstall everything.


  Metis package can't update
Posted by: Mangustis - 02-06-2023, 10:18 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Hi,

I have pinebook with Manjaro OS. I have metis version 5.1.0.p10-2 and notification for available update to 5.1.0.p11-1. But when I try to update it I have result below:

Code:
reparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Cloning metis build files...
Generating metis information...
Checking metis dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Download of inetutils (2.3-1) started
Download of inetutils (2.3-1) finished
Checking keyring...
Checking integrity...
Loading packages files...
Checking file conflicts...
Checking available disk space...
Installing inetutils (2.3-1)...
Running post-transaction hooks...
Reloading system manager configuration...
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
Updating the info directory file...

Building metis...
==> ERROR: metis is not available for the 'aarch64' architecture.

What's a problem, how to fix it?