For people carrying the phone with them, is this something that you noticed?

Context
- pinephone used as an sms server through ssh
- modem and wifi experiencing multiple crashes that are worsening
- incoming sms are sometimes (but rarely) delayed from 2 hours up to more than 24 hours (received time and dates are correct)

Crashes in the past 45 days
- 80 for the modem
- 12 for the wifi card/wifi connection
- more than doubled since the last 15 days compared to previously
- modem and wifi checked every 30 minutes

Phone information
- pinephone beta edition ordered in 2021
- on 24/7 + plugged in

I have had this setup for the past 3 months, but I started logging the crashes in mid December as I started to see the pinephone going down more frequently.

Software
- sxmo + postmarketos edge
- not directly exposed to the web, it is only accessible through another server that runs a secure bsd OS

It seems to be worsening and I have not changed anything on my setup since I started logging the modem and wifi crashes.

I do not expect 99% uptime as it is targeted for testing and I have the beta edition, but these crashes seem rather high.

My friend gave me their old Pinebook Pro 14" after not using it very much.
They do not remember the password, so I would like to put a fresh install onto it.
They got this one in 2022 I believe.

I have a couple of questions I have not able find answers to on the forums.
firstly I have seen this: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_So...0181028.5D

but I am not sure what the standard OS on pinebook is. I do not want to do anything fancy just get the original OS and flash it on.
So what is the standard OS for the Pinebook Pro?

Also is flashing that OS on through micro SD the best method for a fresh install.

Thanks for reading, any help is appreciated!

I'm about a week in with my PineNote and mostly really enjoying it, figuring out one little issue at a time. But one thing has remained confounding: I can't get the on-screen keyboard to work with KeePass XC.

My usual go-to is KeePassXC. However, when I open it on the PineNote, I can't get the keyboard to come up to enter my password. I can use it with a Bluetooth keyboard, but not without that. I imagine this is because it isn't GNOME-native enough (whatever the terminology is). But is there a trick to get XC working? This would be great as it would integrate with the browser.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi everyone,

I'm selling my brand-new PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition. I initially planned to use it, but between work and recent health issues, I barely have any free time. So rather than letting it sit unused, I'd prefer it to go to someone who will actually enjoy it.

I purchased it from Pine64EU, and it's in pristine condition, preloaded with Manjaro OS (with only a few extra packages installed). The default passcode (123456) is still unchanged.

To ensure safety for both the buyer and me, I'm selling it through Vinted, where we both have purchase protection.

If you're interested, here's the Vinted Link.

Feel free to reach out to me on Vinted if you have any questions!

Thanks!

OK, so I have had an older PinePhonePro (mini SIM rather than micro SIM) for a while. I had flashed Biktorg's fw to it and used to be able to chat to the modem fine. A while back I had a problem 1 night setting a wakeup call (can't remember, power fail, think trying to flash 0.8.0) and since then I cant SMS the modem. I have tried everything I can think of, flashing back to stock, trying fwupd to flash, pmOS, arch, mobian, 30.006, 01.003 ADSP firmware, ...

So as I write this I have my PPP which has a "Frankenstein" firmware (it seems half FOSS but with stock artefacts) and my old PP in front of me which is FOSS and behaves like I expect.

The basic problem that is the subject of this thread - I can't send SMS to the modem:

Hi, 
does anyone have step by step instructions on how to install android on the Soquartz? I have already found this:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/SOQuartz#Android_SDK
But we can't get Android to run with this short guide. Does anyone have more detailed instructions?
many thanks
Lenzer

I decided to try with manjaro arm again. I've got it running but recently my device seems to be unable to most needed hardware. It seems to think it has no wifi, or blutooth and I can't see the battery status(seems to think it's always on wired power)


Has anyone encountered this issue before? I've currently got this issue when I boot from sd card(with Manjaro-ARM-gnome-pbpro-23.02) or from the emmc.

Hello,

On a Pintetab2, Arch Plasma (default system) I tried to install a user kernel module with dkms functionality. Looking for the needed header files, I installed the linux-aarch64-headers package with Octopi, and I installed also the dkms, ntfs3-dkms and asix-ax88179-dkms packages.

Problem now with the kernel modules, if I use the command lsmod, not any module is listed ...
And no way to reach the internet ...

Do I need an other header package ?
How can I restore de default modules ?
Do I need to rebuild the kernel ?  How ?

thanks for any advice !

Hi,

I am following this post:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10403

to install current Manjaro on the ponebook. So far, I have successfully installed Manjaro 23.02 on the sd card.
But from the new sd card installation, I cannot use wifi to download an image for the emmc install:
wlan0 is forever hanging in "connecting"/"setting network address".

ip link shows the interface as dormant. NetworkManager is running, and the nameserver setting is correct in /etc/resolv.conf. I can also ping the nameserver.
But ip route does not return anything.

Would anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Many thanks in advance!!

Hi. I have installed rk2aw and primary/fallback bootloaders from https://xff.cz/kernels/bootloaders-2024.04/ppp/ with spinor-flash-initial-setup.sh script. Then, I have installed mobian to emmc with installer image booted from SD card. Mobian does not load when just turning on the phone but if I enter rk2aw LED based menu and select primary (2 flashes) or fallback (3 flashes) bootloader, then selecting mobian option from uboot will actually load the OS. Looking at https://xnux.eu/log/098.html I was hoping that EFI stuff will work but I'm getting invalid elf header magic errors.
So I have few questions:
1. How to diagnose what is preventing booting with "Perform a normal rk2aw boot." option (1 flash)
2. What are the differences for ppp between floss and rkbin bootloaders? (menu looks the same for me).
3. Maybe primary bootloader does not work for me and I'm always taken to the fallback bootloader, so how can I verify which uboot bootloader menu is being shown?