My Pinephone Pro doesn't start and it seems like the bootloader itself is not working. 


Whether I press or hold the power button or connect the charging cable or combine the former with holding any of the volume buttons, nothing happens - no vibration, no LED light, no display output. 

The battery does not seem to be the problem - it works reliably in my older Pinephone. 

I tried flashing a fresh Manjaro image to an SD card and booting it in the PPP by holding the RE button during the startup. Again, no visible response. 

The following output from the PPP console is the only response I am able to get. It is shown right after a startup attempt.


U-Boot TPL 2021.10 (Oct 04 2021 - 15:09:26)
sdram_init: LPDDR4 - 50MHz failed!
rk3399_dmc_init DRAM init failed -22
Missing DTB



After this the console remains mute. However, the device seems to be "running" - for lack of a better word - the chipset cover is slightly warm and to replicate the former console output again, the power button needs to be pressed for a few seconds - just like in regular reset.


Could you please help me with an advice? Is the device dead for good? Have anyone encountered a similar behavior?

Hi all,



I've been having problems getting the on-board SATA port on the Quartz64 Model A working, and I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.  Thanks in advance for any help.



Hardware

• Quartz64 model A
  
• Current generation HDD
  
• SATA cable
  
• 5A power supply
  
• Pine64 board to 2x SATA power splitter cable
  

• Latest Manjaro image for the quartz64-a, running kernel 6.1.12-1-MANJARO-ARM
  
• Manual edits to the device tree as per the wiki: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64#SATA_on_model_A
  

• Tested SATA cable in another system, confirmed good; tested with other known-good SATA cables
  
• Tested a 2 port SATA to PCIe adaptor card (the Pine64 one), which works perfectly on this board
  
• Tested multiple known-good HDDs one at a time; all work via the PCIe card, none appear on the on-board SATA port
  
• Tested running 3 drives simultaneously; those plugged into the PCIe adapter work, but not on the on-board SATA port.  Have cycled which drive was plugged into which SATA port, for the same result
  

Hello, I have been using a pp for more than a year and never had this problem, I got this SIM card from kena, a virtual operator that uses tim network.
It displays the 4G signal with "!" I have tried the automatic depection of APN simpydoing nothing, then the recommended by the operator, then some other possible combination, none work. On a degoogled phone it works without any problems or need of manual setup. Any tips?

Im receiving empty SMSs from this number: 86101114121427711198105107101
Maybe its a bug... but could it be a messagge like to trigger something in the modem ?

I live in the USA and own a Pinebook Pro.  After my experience with that I look forward to experimenting with the PinePhone Pro. 
My cell provider of choice is TING.  They have a compatibility tool that requires the ESN, MEID, or IMEI  of the phone.  Since I do not HAVE the phone yet, I cannot provide that. 
My questions then are:
#1 have we an example number that would give me the information I need to test/predict if the PinePhone Pro will work with TING? 
#2 Is anyone else in the USA using TING with this phone?  If so, can you tell me a little about your experience?

Has anyone ever been able to get this to work? I've seen several questions about it, but no clear, specific answers.

I've got a bluetooth device that reports bluetooth version 2.1 and "Handsfree" capability so it should support hfp (handsfree protocol) version 1.5. It works perfectly fine with an Android phone.

On the pinephone (original) I've got Mobian with wireplumber 0.4.13 and pipewire 0.3.65-2. I swtiched from pulseaudio some months ago because I couldn't get anywhere with it.

I can initiate and end a call from the handsfree device but audio still goes through the pinephone built-in earpiece or speaker and the internal microphone. For incoming calls the pinephone properly causes the handsfree device to ring, and I can pickup and end the call with it, but again no audio goes through it so that I have to use the pinephone built-in earpiece or speaker and internal microphone. This tells me that at least the AT commands are being properly exchanged between the pinephone and the handsfree device.

Under the GUI settings/sound I see the handsfree device listed as an option for both the output and input devices but selecting it only results in a noise on the handsfree device that sounds like noise from an old-style acoustic phone modem.

My guess is that either the pipewire/wireplumber configuration is not correct, or there is still something missing elsewhere in the software. I've been administering Linux systems for more than a decade but haven't needed to mess with sound or bluetooth and I can't find enough pipewire documentation to figure out how to narrow it down further.

If anyone has got this to consistently work with Mobian using pipewire/wireplumber, pulse audio, or something else, I would appreciate knowing about it. Alternatively, if there is some other OS where it works, I would appreciate knowing about that. For me, and from what I've seen a few others, this seems to be the only thing standing in the way of completely adopting the pinephone for daily use.

Hi there,

when updating Manjaro on my Pinebook Pro (pressing that red shield with the exclamation mark in the Plasma taskbar) the update crashes with the following remark:
"

Quote:could not satisfy dependencies:

- removing nerd-fonts-terminus breaks dependency 'nerd-fonts-terminus' required by manjaro-arm-i3-settings

Hi all,

When i want to do a video call with a another guy, the GUI display this message : "Missing GStreamer plugins: videoconvert"

Packages installed are :
-nheko ; Version: 0.11.1-1 ; APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages
-gstreamer1.0-gl
-libgstreamer-gl1.0-0
- ... and all dependencies

Here my full logs.

Hey,

I am open source developer, who has been doing software for Pinephone. It's gaining traction and there are now commercial entities approached me and they like to ship Pinephone with my SW in volumes. I said go ahead, get Pinephones and install SW.

However,

They have been contacting with Pine64 sales, business developers and such. But with little luck. They tell me that Pine64 sales is not responding to their inquiries about volume orders and communication with Pine64 is generally hard!

I just cannot believe this is a case, please DM me an email to some North American business development contacts at Pine64 so I can pass it to these pretty serious actors. Backup plan for me of course is to look into Librem5 or something.

I'm following like 6 guides at once, I've tried bflb-mcu-tool, bouffalo-loader, etc., I have my ox64 wired up to a Raspberry Pi Pico and the machine itself appears as a serial port on my computer. But I can't figure out how to actually flash the 3-layer bin files that [1] lists. Every "official" piece of documentation says to use DevCube, but DevCube's linux binary is completely broken (it isn't marked as executable, and when you mark it as executable and try to run it, it craps out asking for some paleolithic version of glibc; the package released for my system's package manager is also named wrong, which is fun). I'm on day 3 of trying to get anything to write to this board and so far have made exactly 0 progress.

This thing is really making me miss by pinephone or rock64 where you just throw in an SD card with an image written to it and it just works.

[1] https://github.com/openbouffalo/buildroot_bouffalo