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.

Are there any VPN's that work on PostmarketOS ? I would be using on the Pinephone CE; Pinebook Pro and Rock Pro 64. I usually use Proton VPN or Mullvad but i'm not overly picky.

Hi all,

When my pinephone wake up after sleeping period, i have noticed this problems.

-network manager in app parameters disappear.
-network icon not present on left top side

After Few seconds of wake up, all reappear and my SIM is locked.

This logs can be the cause, particulary "06:30:48" line "couldn't query SIM slots: QMI protocol error (94): 'NotSupported'".

I have recently got PostmarketOS setup on my Pinebook pro and am enjoying it. I am missing a few programs from my desktop though and was wondering if there is a way to get them on PostmarketOS. They are Plank and Psensor. If Plank is a no go is there a way to adjust Gnome Dash to always be visible ?