Hello,

I bought my phone 2 or 3 years ago, but back then it didn't really work out for me.
I want to try again since the software has been updated.

Problem is I really don't remember my password.

So it's impossible to sudo or root.

Which I why I would like to format the phone and do a factory reset.

Any idea how this can be done ?
I could not find it in the documentation.

Thanks in advance.

Hi!

I brought an "open box" pinephone (convergence; default OS - Manjaro KDE Plasma Mobile) last week. 
It turned out the seller fiddled around with it and entered a PIN #s.  He does not remember the PIN
#s, thus I can not unlock the phone.  Is there a way to get in and unlock the phone other than
reinstalling Manjaro KDE Plasma Mobile?  Is there a way to factory reset - will that work?  If
I use another bootable iso and change some #s, will that work? 

Bottom line: what is the most easy way to "login".  All I did so far is charge the phone, power it
on, and find I cannot unlock the phone.  There is nothing in the phone - no SIM or micro cards, no
nothing.

Thank in advanced for your help.

Sheng-Chieh

Hi Pinephone users,

Has anyone found a way to manually import a .csv file into contacts? I don't want to have to install a cloud-based server for my phone numbers.

Wellwishes,
food

I am trying to operating a pbp with a system booted from an encrypted NVMe drive, but I stuck at the same step and would appreciate any help:

•  I use an unencrypted partition on the eMMC acting as boot partition that holds the kernel and an initramfs. The latter was build taking among others the hooks `plymouth`, `plymouth-encrypt` and `lvm2` into account.
  
• I am trying to boot a Manjaro (22.12) system which is located on a btrfs filesystem within the encrypted container on the NVMe.
  
• As bootloader I use Two-Boot (on 1st partition of eMMC), which works and allows me to interrupt the foreseen boot process in order to boot from SD. If I do not interrupt it and try to boot via eMMC from the NVMe, the image file is provided (which is the only thing I get since a dialogue is shown just very shortly). Then it stucks with a black screen and a green power led.
  

I recently reflashed the latest stable image of Manjaro/Plasma Mobile on my pinephone, and now pretty regularly when it goes to sleep there's a pretty solid chance it wont wake up until I hold the power button and reboot.

I did some looking online and saw this: https://xnux.eu/log/#077


it's saying that some linux distros are improperly using the latest version of megi's Pinephone Linux Kernel, resulting in the CPU IDLE functionality is broken. Is anyone else having this issue?

My Quartz64 model B just arrived today.

Sorry for the dumb question, but I really struggle to find the SD card slot. M.2 is there, eMMC is there but no SD.

Are there models without a SD slot? Some older pictures of model B look pretty different from mine.

TIA

Hey there,
since I bought my PPP I've never managed to get the internal earpiece to work. Whenever I set pipewire to use the earpiece, no sound can be heard, even at maximum volume. Same thing in the phone-call configuration (What is that even for)? The connections exist, so I have no idea what else it could be.

I'm currently running a reasonable up-to-date Archlinux ARM (DanctNIX) installation using megi's kernel.

Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Is this a known problem? I have not heard of anyone else with this problem

Thanks!

[UPDATE: TL;DR: The resolution is that the hardware is faulty (in fact, not just the modem, but the entire USB subsystem except charging), and that I just bought a new PinePhone which works.]

Since late December (so for the last 3 weeks or so), I have been struggling with a strange issue on my PinePhone (Beta Edition). The modem keeps going down for some reason, making it just "disappear" from the PinePhone's point of view. eg25-manager tries to restart it, and sometimes it succeeds, but often the restart also fails, or eg25-manager gets stuck waiting for a long time and does not even try a reset even though the modem device is not visible to ModemManager or anything else (I cannot even see the device node). Sometimes, the modem does not even come up on boot, and even rebooting several times does not necessarily fix it.

It did happen in the past (before December) that the modem had to be restarted, but that was around once a day, and the auto-restart (in eg25-manager and ModemManager) had been just working for weeks now. (And I believe that was a known issue, which is also why the auto-restart had been implemented.) But now, the modem often goes down every 5 minutes, and the auto-restart does not reliably work anymore either. (Sometimes it does, often it does not.)

The first thing I would have suspected would be the latest software updates. (I run Manjaro Plasma Mobile, the one that was preinstalled on the Beta Edition, but continuously upgraded from the stable repository using pamac-gtk. FYI, Discover is just broken for system updates on Manjaro, so I gave up on using that one long ago, but that is not the issue here.) But if that were the case (i.e., if it were a software regression), the issue would have hit more users, would it not? Yet, I have not seen any other report of this happening. Or does anybody else see the same thing?

The behavior looks a lot like a wrong contact on the USB connection, but the modem is soldered onto the mainboard, is it not? So how can it possibly make a loose contact?

The remaining suspect then was the battery, also considering that the PinePhone modem is connected directly to the battery on the PinePhone. So I bought a replacement battery (a Samsung EB-BJ700CBE, which is documented as fitting) from a local retailer today. And well, yes, the battery fits, and yes, the battery works in principle. But the modem issue is the same whether I use the replacement battery or the original PinePhone battery (that I have now put back in), it makes no visible difference.

So at this point, I am stuck. I am completely out of ideas.

I am pretty annoyed at this point because I was using the PinePhone as my daily driver just fine, but now this issue makes it extremely unreliable (since without the modem, it is really just a tablet!) and I have no idea how to resolve the issue.

Some Pinephone Users Mentioned Uaving Trouble w/Tor Browser fork.... And Since Some Pinephone Users Have Shown Interest In Security / Privacy...

Some May Enjoy Trying I2P on Pinephone / Pinetab / Pinebook (video features Netsurf lightweight browser):

https://youtu.be/JEaJs8A0P6E

For those unfamiliar, I2P is a "hidden" peer to peer (p2p) network, known as "The Invisible Internet Project" (unique p2p benefits like in "freenet").

Another common usage is torrents (Linux iso img etc)

One thing less mentioned is I2P not only benefits "privacy", but offers strong security enhancements (.i2p) not available for standard https internet .com addresses.

I2P enforces end-to-end encryption between you and the I2P network (as well as e2ee for all .i2p websites).

This prevents attackers from performing MiTM attacks on .i2p sites / servers (outproxy is another story: you rely on browser built in https for encryption for visiting standard internet (clearnet) websites using outproxy).

It's another option (in addition to Tor .onion H.S.) to streamline layering secure connections (e2ee) for various client / server applications (resistant to MiTM), while also protecting user / server identities in the process. Making for more difficult attack surfaces (limiting access to service you specify, and only accessible to those you share the .i2p address). 

Making this equally security, as much as it is privacy enhancement.

Using "Garlic routing" (similar to onion routing, but in contrast to Tor) each user becomes an I2P router / node on internal I2P network (note: this means if you try this, you do connect to other users, but only transport (encrypted data) inside the I2P internal network tunnels - as is case with other p2p networks).

You may like to try this as another option for adding end-to-end encryption to various client / server applications without encryption (for .i2p "eepsites"), without the trust required for https cert auth.

As a user / router, you don't connect to normal (.com) internet sites of users (acting only as internal p2p node, passing encrypted traffic internally, through "tunnels").

You can even use I2P to view standard internet websites (maintain https), and for this I suggest first trying I2P+ https://i2pplus.github.io/

What Do I Need?

Should work on any available Linux operating system for Pinephone (you need Java/jdk installed)

INSTALLATION:

Download I2P+ onto your Pine64 device: https://i2pplus.github.io/index.html#download

Next Run:

 

Some days ago I noticed I cannot play videos anymore using mpv as it have become choppy even with low resolution videos (Firefox isn't affected). Downgrading Mesa to 22.2 fixed the problem. https://alaa.ad24.cz/packages/m/mesa/mes...pkg.tar.xz


Edit: After another Manjaro update, KDE Plasma regressed to software rendering so I had to update Mesa to 22.3. The solution was to put "vd-lavc-dr=no" to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf as described here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/video-playba...k/130967/6