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  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 a cloud "sd card" seems like a cool idea when I can access it from my laptop too, 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.  Filen.io are all about privacy and e2e encryption but they seem to be home brewing all of the interfaces.
(edit) after buying the 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.


  Touchscreen usability patches
Posted by: johnwa - 01-11-2025, 02:35 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - No Replies

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 - No Replies

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


Exclamation Pinecil is working with 5v but nothing else!!
Posted by: MizterPink - 01-07-2025, 09:31 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinecil - Replies (1)

My Pinecil has finally arrived and is turning on when powered with 5v via the USB-C on my laptop but when connected to QC there is nothing displayed. I've gone through both troubleshooting pages for this issue. I've reflashed it twice and it doesn't heat when I press the + button. I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet but I did buy the breakout board so more is possible but it has been years since I've experimented with this stuff(LED does display on the breakout board when connected to QC and I've tried 2 different bricks so far) ASUS ROG 65W HDMI CHARGER DOCK - Best Buy (along with the included wire and an Anker wire) and the OE one for the ASUS ROG Ally(with the unremovable wire)..I've flashed with 2.23e.dd4a5500 and 2.22e.c308fe8c with no luck still and I did find the pd debug function while trying to flash and that doesn't do anything with it either!!  I haven't gotten my 5525 ports yet so I can't try it with that... any help is greatly appreciated!!!


  can rock64 4gb ram run entirely on free software?
Posted by: heocb - 01-07-2025, 03:04 AM - Forum: Linux on Rock64 - Replies (1)

Free software is software you can use, share, modify and redistribute. Can the computer
run entirely on a free software system? If the computer can run
partly on a free software system, then which devices on the
computer will not work if you decide to not install non free software on
the computer? Thank you.


  freeBSD is booted on pinephone pro with console output
Posted by: zetabeta - 01-06-2025, 03:57 AM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - Replies (4)

freeBSD is booted on pinephone pro with console output.

this is very initial achievement, but i welcome this move. i think pinephone models should have other operating system options than linux based ones.

https://mastodon.social/@tobykurien/113779792572310611