Hello

I started having frequent crashes more than a month ago when the Pinephone was on for more than half a day. Recently, I tried to rerun Gnome Clocks, Megapixels, Gnome Control Center, etc after such crashes but in command line and I always obtained a first error message complaining about a failure to allocate memory and a segmentation fault. Is there a known memory leak in Phosh or Mobian? Am I missing something obvious?

After replacing my Pinephone's sideboard again (dead microphone for the 2nd time) and the coax cable, my Pinephone can no longer connect to the cellular network (US Mobile T-Mobile MVNO). While I was waiting for parts, I successfully used the SIM card in my old rooted Moto G4 phone while I waited for the parts to arrive.

I can no longer connect to the cellular network. No calls. No SMS. No Internet. Signal strength bars are normal, network is scanned but it will not register. Using ModemManager GUI, it briefly says  "Connecting to US Mobile (Success)" but then vanishes. The symptoms are as described here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...ug+mode%22

My wife's Pinephone still works on the same network, but I don't dare swap her SIM card out and try it!  

So after trying all the stuff in the thread above, I'm ready to flash my modem again (now running . Unfortunately, looks like I now need to activate "debug" mode--either than or boot an older OS from back when my experimental phone was not "secure" or protected from being repaired  .

In the beginning of ppp sales, I was very active in trying to get phone going to make it usable (over 125 threads).  I worked diligently on the issues of memory, battery life, sms, mms, OS/desktop software etc. In the course of this my phone got borked due to sim/sd card holder wearing out due to excessive uses.  Wouldn't even make calls any more due to sim card not connecting.  Also, I never received the replacement card holder that I applied for and pinephone promised. I put phone away for 6 months into the "about to be discarded pile".

I noticed recently that there is available a replacement motherboard that says it has a new card holder.  I am seeking advice on whether to try the new MB or just permanently disengage from the pinephone pro effort.  My old plain pinephone at least makes calls and I use that occasionally and runs for a good while.

Assuming that, if I install a new motherboard, the phone will work, where is the system performance at now? Is this the same MB that was originally installed or have some changes been made?  If MB changes were made, what is best OS/desktop software anyone has had success with?

If no changes were made and phone is back to original, am I back to all the problems that people were banging their heads against before or is there now a workable combination of OS and desktop that works well enough so that phone is usable.  If so what are the suggestions as to "current best" software combination?

I was so hoping to get a linux phone working but I am nearly burned out on this effort.

tom kosvic

Hello,

finally I got aware of the modem firmware, that makes an exploit possible.
So I upgraded the firmware (which was 01.001.01.001) doing the following:

1. cloned giit repository https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery
2. sent test sms -> modem in working state
3. run "./qfirehose -f ./" (-> new firmware version: 30.006.30.006)

After the upgrade the modem came up again working. Everything worked fine (Calls, SMS).
After a reboot, it still worked.

I put the phone into airplane mode overnight. Since then, the modem is in disabled state. It asks me for the SIM pin and unlocks the SIM card. But it does not show or connect to any network. It only tells me "modem in disabled state".

I switched the modem off by using the kill switch and restarted it with "systemctl restart eg25-manager".
I rebooted several times, tried airplane mode... but nothing helps.

Since it worked after the update for while, the firmware itself should be ok, shouldn't it?
I'm not sure if this is platfor specific, but I am running Manjaro with Plasma mobile (KDE Community Editiin).

So what am I supposed to do?


EDIT:
I found this, which could help me:

"To get adb access to the modem:
Get adb key via AT+QADBKEY?"

How is this done? How do I retrieve the adb key?


EDIT2: Got the key, but unfortunately, it doesn't work though

I have tried to order to the Czech Republic and it says that there are no shipping methods available. I wonder where does it ship to and if it is still possible to order somehow from the China store?

When I access the datetimecontroller

As datetimecontroller.seconds() ;

In heartratecontroller. Cpp file it only gives me a static value as 32 always

Any solution?

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Hey everyone,

So here's the issue:

TLDR: Shipping here from Pine64 is way too expensive, even for small items.

I put in an order for the USB-C pine phone adapter. They told me they wanted more money, on top of the $30 shipping fee initially charged.
I paid for the item and the shipping. I got an email from them asking for an additional $35 for a remote delivery fee. 
My town is an hour out of a major city up here in Canada. By Canadian standards, I'm not remote. 
I've decided to cancel my order and take my money elsewhere. 
The adapter is normally around $27. With shipping and the remote fee, it was going to total to around $100. 
I'm not spending that on a $30 adapter, no matter how good it may be. 
I'm going to keep looking for other companies to do business with.

Regards

Cptantiles

Hi all,

While attempting to re-install Mobian, I believe I may have deleted ALL partitions on my PP64. I had previously installed Tow-Boot to the eMMC and all was well. Now, holding the <VOLUME UP> button while powering up and releasing the volume button after the second vibration, the blue LED illuminates for a second, followed immediately by the red LED which flashes 10 times (along with a vibration for each flash), then the phone powers off. The battery is fully charged, but this also occurs when trying to start the phone without the battery installed (USB cable only). The same thing occurs when holding <VOLUME DOWN> and power to attempt to boot from an SD card. I can't figure out how to do anything to correct this since the phone no longers stays powered on. TIA for any suggestions offered.

Specs: PP Beta/Manjaro Phosh Beta 29/PP keyboard

The icons of open apps on the home screen take up half the screen. Is there a way to reduce their size?

Also, rather than store the entire home directory, is there a way to backup custom settings i.e. custom keyboard shortcuts?

Thanks for any help.