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  Bricked Pinetab 2
Posted by: vatin - 01-17-2025, 03:07 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - Replies (6)

Did a routine pacman -Syu, and halfway through, the terminal spit out some error message. Then the tablet shuts itself off and could never turned back on again regardless the duration of time I hold the power button. No led blinking. No slightest hint of backlight turning on. No text on screen. Nothing. As solid as rock. So off it went to the recycling center.


  compra
Posted by: eules - 01-16-2025, 08:17 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

boa noite  gostaria  de  compar  ROCKPro64 4GB  estou no brasil  e  nao  estaou achando  alguem pode me ajudar.


  wasp-os bluetooth dev documentation?
Posted by: vrtigo - 01-16-2025, 03:43 PM - Forum: Development Discussion on PineTime - No Replies

Having a bit of a time trying to develop bluetooth on the PineTime under wasp-os 0.4.

There is little documentation about this from what ive seen, but Ive figured out that I need to use ubluepy, and set up and advertise a service. I can do this, but it nukes the Nordic UART Service, leaving development from that point problematic. Ive tried adding the NUS service and characteristics using the UUID's found in pynus, but the app fails to load when I do so with very little information about whats wrong.

Any ideas on how to move forward?


  What is the package manager?
Posted by: Deckard - 01-14-2025, 07:10 PM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (3)

Hello, All

Could you please name the package manager that comes w this port of Arch Linux that comes w pinetab2? I searched for "pacman" and "pamac" but to no avail. How can I alleviate this issue?

Many thanks,

Deckard


Exclamation Impossible to login, bottom right corner of the touchscreen not responding
Posted by: anonymous - 01-14-2025, 08:56 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (2)

Hello

The bottom right corner of the touchscreen doesn't respond, I cannot enter the password. I highly suspect an hardware defect, I had the same trouble on my very first Pinephone.

Could it be caused by a software problem?

Is there a workaround in the meantime so that I can login? For example, can I force the Pinephone to enable the screen rotation very early? Can I use the dock?

Does someone have some experience on replacing the touchscreen? I will probably do that and if it works on my current Pinephone, I will do the same on my previous Pinephone.

P.S: I can login by using the dock but half of the user interface doesn't appear on the screen and the keyboard starts working correctly only after entering the password. Note that I use full disk encryption.


  mobian phosh on screen keyboard not popping up for Chromium/Electron apps
Posted by: grump_fiddle_reinstall - 01-14-2025, 03:06 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (1)

I use Vivaldi browser (stable and snapshot) on my PinePhone and FreeTube to watch YouTube videos. I also have Chromium installed on my PinePhone. Vivaldi is based on Chromium and FreeTube is an electron app.

When I place the cursor in the URL field of Vivaldi or Chromium or in the search field in FreeTube, I would expect for the on screen keyboard to appear as it does with Firefox thus allowing me to enter a URL/search term into the field. 

This does not happen with the Chromium/Elecron apps. Is there a way round this ideally so that the on screen keyboard will appear automatically?


  Filen.io(and others) a useful backup, cloud storage, and sharing tool
Posted by: biketool - 01-12-2025, 11:25 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - No Replies

Having some  cloud storage for my barebones VPS as well as a virtual "sd card" that I can share links from seems like a cool idea. I could also set it to sync my /home and SD card though a network share is all I want for now. I have not used cloud storage before except for linux servers where I could mount via sshfs maybe dropbox when it was first available for free.  Filen.io are all about privacy and e2e encryption but they seem to be home brewing all of the interfaces.
(edit) after buying a lifetime 100GB package I now have the extra storage and I also figured out the missing part to get it to mount

./filen_cli --skip-update mount /home/mobian/filen

I am sure I am just tired or something, or the CLI client is broken

https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli/

Code:
./filen-cli-v0.0.27-linux-arm64 mount --skip-update /home/mobian/filen
<edit-snip>

since the filen-cli self-updates it is probably smart to run it without arguments including --skip-update every now and then.

They sometimes have a lifetime 100mb for €30(stackable) so that is pretty cool too, 

If anyone wants to play with filen.io there is a free 10gb service available.

<edit>
I tried out the Filen GUI on PPpro, it actually scales pretty well by itself, in landscape it is easy enough to read file and dir names, this is probably what most people will want to use if they want some cloud storage, the website has a .deb for arm64 full GUI client. 

The shareable links include a web-player for some video and audio formats and even if just downloading links it makes a very easy way to share large files or bundles. 

One note if used on a machine where you use the filen_cli inside a script be sure to give it enough time to reset, I was transferring a file too fast and it crashed the high CPU/RAM filen_cli on an underpowered VPS which then unmounted my virtual drive, the limited speed transfer script then wrote into the mount point(filen has to be run in user not su/root) which then caused the remount to fail and my script to spam the filen API and fail and I got a slowdown(ban) for something like 20-30 min.  below is what worked for m to have a tweakable transfer speed copy command to not over RAM/CPU my wimpy server and crash the mount failing the transfer partway through.
Code:
rsync --bwlimit 17000 -ahr --progress FILENAME /home/user/cloud/
if your rasberryPi on someone's DSL line or wimpy shared server crashes when you try to cp files this should fix the problem by slowing down the transfer with the option --bwlimit setting the speed in k/s; my datacenter has astounding bandwidth for the VPS price so unlimited can go up to around 2.5GB/s.

(edit) since the latest update to the filen-cli client I have been able to utilize the Filen directory directly via normal CLI transfer tools like cp and midnightcommander without needing to limit the bandwidth, it still will sometimes crash the mount after moving several 10s of GB so the above is still useful for large transfers, tune to a speed below what crashes the mount script. If anyone knows a way to tell the OS to limit throughput I feel like that might be the way to go for filen-cli on a limited system.


  Touchscreen usability patches
Posted by: johnwa - 01-11-2025, 02:35 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (1)

Hi all,

I got my PinePhone a couple of months ago, and since then I have come up with a few small patches to some of the applications, mainly to improve usability on the touchscreen. These include:

  • Automatically add extensions to downloaded MMS attachments in Chatty
  • Track selection and touch scrolling in Audacious MP3 player
  • Quick switching between fullscreen and gallery view in Eye of GNOME image viewer
  • Fixed position tracking and added "track up" mode in Marble mapping app.
I have also documented some resolutions to a few other issues that I encountered. Further details are at http://loopgain.net/pinephone/

I hope that these patches and information are of some use. I'm planning on trying to contribute these patches back to the respective projects, though I'm not sure how well they will be received for the apps that are mainly used on desktop systems. Is there anyone from the Mobian project who is able to assist with integrating things upstream?

Regards,

johnwa


  BOOT ERROR: Failure to read device ID
Posted by: drh - 01-10-2025, 05:38 AM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Hardware - Replies (1)

Hello,

I have a Pinephone Pro device. It is one of the early models with the microSIM slot.

Note: If I do not have a hardware problem, I will repost this thread in one of the other PPP form categories.

The device has tow-boot installed with Mobian (Bookworm) for the operating system, which worked quite well for me (only problems were poor battery life and inability to switch between external speaker and phone speaker without a reboot).

Mobian is installed on the internal eMMC storage. The microSD for extra storage is empty (not used).

The battery drained fully and upon recharge the PPP booted to this error message.

Quote:[1.260681] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[1312821] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[2.094416] OF: graph no port node found in /i2c@ff3d0000/typec-portc@22
[3.269239] pinephone-keyboard 5-0015: Failed to read device ID: -6

The "pinephone-keyboard 5-0015: Failed to read device ID: -6" error is mentioned in this forum thread titled The Case of the Vanishing EMMC; however, I do not have the knowledge to confirm from the thread that the root cause is an inoperable hardware.

The pinephone-keyboard 5-0015: Failed to read device ID: -6" error is also mentioned at this git-hub thread two-boot installed on PPP/ EE. USB mode works, but can't boot from SD; however, I cannot decifer the fix.

I followed the directions to revive a PPP with a fully drained battery described at Troubleshooting; however, this did not restore the ability to boot.

I did a reinstall of Mobian to the eMMC storage and on boot up, the same boot error message appears...

Quote:[1.260681] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[1312821] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[2.094416] OF: graph no port node found in /i2c@ff3d0000/typec-portc@22
[3.269239] pinephone-keyboard 5-0015: Failed to read device ID: -6

I did a reinstall of Mobian to an sdcard and on boot up, the boot error message is...

Quote:[1.259126] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[1308292] dw-abp-uart ff180000.serial: Failed to creat device link (0x180) with 0-001c
[1.460453] mmc1: tuning execution failed: -5
[1.465354] mmc1: error -5 whilst initialising SD card
[1.592567] mmc1: tuning execution failed: -5
[2.077685] OF: graph no port node found in /i2c@ff3d0000/typec-portc@22
[3.269239] pinephone-keyboard 5-0015: Failed to read device ID: -6

Is there sufficient information above to diagnose the root cause is hardware related?

Is the root cause a busted eMMC device, pinephone-keyboard, or something else?

If the root cause is hardware, what is the replacement?

Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

DrH


  Wifi dongle issues
Posted by: Deckard - 01-09-2025, 01:29 PM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (2)

Hello, All

I tried connecting my wifi dongle to a USBC adapter before plugging into the pinetab2. No results. The dongle came with drivers but I have no way to use a cdrom disk. Should I get a plug n play dongle? Is it a problem w the USBC adapter?

Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

Deckard