I'm just going to do a fresh reinstall but wanted to post in case this is a common issue or someone else has it.

My battery died so I tried to charge it back and when I booted, the GUI wouldn't boot up but it booted to a shell with a "PostMarketOS loading" screen. 

Some commands work after logging in but not all, is there a command to launch the GUI?

edit: possible help here but I didn't find anything to make use of - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:boot

have a Rockpro64 with OpenWrt

I try to use the output jack, but I have no sound output detected

I'm used to seeing an update around the 15th of each month on the Pine64 blog. Are those not happening anymore?
Are the updates somewhere else?

Finally got Android 9 running on RockPro64.
It was a lengthy process as the dd commands given in the pine forums repeatedly did not work.
I managed to get an install of Android 9 http://files.pine64.org/os/ROCKPro64/and...8GB.img.gz
using Balena Etcher to write the file to SD.

I also erased the SPI Flash with the "erase" file at https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u...f9f19116f1

Installing Armbian was much easier, using the "UBoot" at above address.

What is the best distro to run SXMO on Pipephone Pro?

Hello everyone, I just got my pinephone pro, and i started it up, created an account and all that jazz. I go to update it through the discover app, and im having trouble doing the update, so I went to the terminal and typed sudo pacman -Syu and let it do its thing, it updated and all that but when it came back the background had changed (figured it came with a new update) and it said add your favorite apps so I attempt to go into the terminal and it opens but nothing is there but the back ground. You there's no black screen, there's no keyboard just the tabs at the end (even if i rotate the phone). Settings will not even open. I've restarted it but I don't know how to fix the issue. when it rebooted it did go to a screen and i changed something to see what it was about but now i don't know how to go back to it to change it back.

Does anyone have any idea what "oem" stands for.

I keep getting login screen for oem and have no idea what the password could be.  

Won't let me go any further until I get it.

I needed to reflash an image of mobian from february 5th, I just noticed that there's a new repo from debian bookworm security, previously there was only the the bookworm main:
before:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
now
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
deb http://security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main

I would like to know why, and if we users need to to something in regards to the coming debian freeze of bookworm, how to proceed? What's recomemed, stick with stable once it's released or stay in testing?

Hey. I'm playing around with some stuff on my pinebook and I've noticed that if I'm in a tty, or don't even have X installed at all, the screen still dims after a few minutes regardless of whether or not I'm plugged into power.  I will just be sitting at a command line typing something and the screen goes dark.

/sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight/brightness changes from 4096 to 2047.

If not X, what is controlling this and how do I prevent it?  Is there a kernel setting I can configure or something? 

I also don't want to force max brightness 100% of the time, I would still like to be able to control brightness manually

Thank you

I was promptly reminded to contribute this info
( to the Pinephone community,)
 after posting my success at
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229


Why is this relevant to Manjaro and Pinephone?

I bought a Mobian Pinephone when it came out.

After slogging my way through a number of distros
 I ended up nailing Manjaro Phosh into place and
 abandoned further attempts to find a better distro.

The struggle to keep Phosh running has gotten easier,
 thanks mostly to other people posting here for 
 the quiet folk like myself to read and benefit from.

I have simply been trying to keep a linux console access
 to do simple tasks, like checking on servers and whatnot.

My use case is for Zero participation in the Apple/Google prisons.
----------------

The idea of e2e mesh comms like Briar and FireChat 
 always seemed to be a natural for a linux phone
 instead of a "walled garden" like Android or iOS.
I have, yearly,
 watched for anything that would mesh on linux
 without wild joyrides of moving target suite-package development.


A few weeks ago I stumbled across a reference to Reticulum
 which not only aims at meshing over WiFi and Bluetooth
 but includes something I have years of work in hacking:
 data over radio modems.
I used serial stream data for monitoring various
 geophysical exploration data acquisition equipment
 along with maritime environmental data packets.
Across vast regions of jungle, mountain and shallow marine projects.
Building and running such meshes was bread-and-butter 

Along comes Reticulum which
 proposes to build long-arm meshes
 which could possibly sustain data flows across vast regions.

Reticulum is not an application orgy.
It is a protocol the rest us can build upon.
I hope it does not, as many such projects do,
 evolve into a "moving target" that requires mandatory updates
 on a monthly basis rendering users to holding abandonware.

It also looks like a 'holy grail' because it ditches the entire
 DNS-ICANN prison overlords.
That, almost in itself,
 raises interest toward integrating with global reach of things like i2p.

Anyways - Nomadnet installs and runs well enough 
 as "betaware" on PinePhone.

My personal bet is that without any lingering bloatware (Electron  ),
 it could be a screamer on Pinephone Pro,
 so I guess I need to buy one of those and test it.

Reticulum is very primitive at the moment
 but collecting interest+participation in a parabolic learning curve.

If you want something that should eventually put
 naked emperors like Telegram/Session/.etc/++ to shame,
 you might try this out and see where it is headed.
And you could be a part of it.

Visit the github because that is where most of the real interaction takes place:
start here:
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/229

My perspective is that this is a welcome and timely development,
 in context of much of what is happening in the word today.