I went for a bike ride this morning, with my fully-charged phone. I had it in my pocket, playing music through my headphones. The modem is switched off at the hardware level. Wifi was off, bluetooth was off, the screen itself was off, and the phone was doing nothing but playing mp3s. When I got home, 45 minutes later, my battery was down to 47%.

I bought a second battery, and I will charge that when it's out of the phone. even so, if the battery goes dead in less than 2 hours, that's not even enough time for the other one to charge on the wall. I could start carrying around 3 or 4 batteries, but that seems a bit ridiculous.

I'm guessing that the phone itself just consumes a lot of power, and that no update to Mobian is really going to fix this problem. If I'm wrong about that, let me know. But if the PinePhone is always going to have this issue, it seems my options are:

• To find a ridiculously high-capacity battery that will fit in my phone;
  
• To find some kind of low-profile charger that I can attach to the phone, artificially extending the battery life. I currently have a charger about the size of the phone, but three times as deep, which I can keep in my pocket. It's a little clunky, though.
  
• Upgrade to a PinePhone Pro, if that device has a better battery life;
  
• Figure out some software hacks/tweaks to improve battery life.
  

Just updated (sudo pacman -Syu) and everything seems normal, or rather the same as it was before.

So... is there something I should have noticed, but didn't?

Last week I recieved a pinebook pro. 2 days ago and was able to boot into manjaro. I then tried tried to install slackware as per the slackware aarch64  install instructions which seem relevant to earlier pbp's but not to the latest production run. Switch 24 is now a dip switch in a different location and it appears that the slackwareaarch64 flash-spi-pinebookpro.img does not work.

On the slackwarearm forum I was told by one member that he also has a pbp from the most recent production run and that the slackware installation would not work one the new pbp and that he installed by first using these instructions Which gave him tow-boot. I gave that a go but couldn't boot from the sd card. Used a brand new 32g class 10 card and a 16g class 10 card from pinestore. I also tried a couple of sd cards I had previously used to boot bananapros but could not boot from the sd card.

I have checked the ribbon cable sd slot connection and its good. I've tried the dip switch in both positions and with/without emmc installed. I've used the restore/reset buttons as well. 

As it turns out I can no longer boot into manjaro with dip switch 24 in its original position (see below) or indeed switch in the opposite position. I'm at a loss as where to go next. I've read some posts about this problem but without being able to boot from an sd card they weren't much help. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

I have been using my PinePhone for several years now, having come from Android, and I wanted to simply thank the team for their hard work.

Specifically:
A) Thank you for not gluing this phone together. I am clumsy and have had to replace the LCD several times now.
B) Thank you for the availability of spare parts and the prompt shipping of the ones I have ordered in the past.
C) Thank you for the affordable price point. I'm not rich.

This device finally gives me a decent PDA again, after the iRevolution killed that market. I've been living with this device for years now and I cannot imagine going back to a proprietary ecosystem.

I was reluctant to post this, as it may be considered spam, but I see threads saying to avoid the company and I just wanted to report that not all of us are unhappy.

Put simply, this device rocks. I'm beyond pleased with it.

Thank you, Pine64 team.

Does it actually have neon support? I notice that it's not listed in /proc/cpuinfo. If it is supported does anyone have a good way to identify it in a configure script so I can actually build a project that supports neon? 

Thanks

Chris

i want to drive an edp screen with the rockpro64 under linux 
is it possible if yes then how
if not then why

I tried stock and when updating with pacman it bricked.. I tried reinstalling the PBP ISO from Manjaro and it worked for a while then bricked again while updating..

Then tried Armbian and the Public Key has an error when being verified during apt update, but better than Manjaro as in no bricking, can even shut the PBP lid and go into sleep mode without bricking unlike in stock. Armbian forums are not supportive, the developer in the thread has the "You should pay me to explain how to fix" attitude.

Any suggestions for a next distro in my quest to make my PBP usable?

Hi,

On the shopsite there is some information on the SOQUARTZ but on the forum and normal website the information is not that clear.

As anyone knows the Raspberry PI's are hardly available and the SOQUARTZ looked like a decent alternative. Be it that I am not a Manjaro fan. (I have it on my pinebook pro as it came shipped with it.) So I was more looking ltowards Debian/Ubunto to run on it and see I could make a study cluster of a number of SOQUARTZ modules on a DeskPi Super6C

Are there more person willing to investigate the options and team up to make that process easier? (I did find some notes out there that seems to indicate it is possible but not exactly straight forward.

Let me know which forum group here matches that the best?

Regards, Hugo.

where would i find instructions on how to create a .img.xz  for a OS file to use with tow boot?

will tow boot use any img file?   i downloaded a .img file that wasn't on the pinephone pro wiki,  it was on the pinphone and it did not work when trying to run it from the sd card.  

im a newb and maybe asking the incorrect questions...., so thanks for explaining what i may not be understanding.

specific question: how do i take one of the os's from this page : https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...Kali_Linux and use it on tow boot from SD card while holding down the down volume button during startup?


thanks

Hello, I have a Pinecil V2 in the mail and am thinking about ordering a new power bank that can power it to its full potential. The product page lists the maximum draw at 20v 3A, but the official wiki page lists 28V as the maximum input voltage and 88w being the corresponding wattage for USB, with EPR being required to get over 60w. I was just wondering which one of these I should trust, and if EPR is supported now or was planned to be included in a future firmware update? And it it is or will be supported, why isn't that power supported over the barrel plug? Basically I wanna know what specs I need on my power supply to get the full power output, and preferably over USB, but I would like to know if I can pump 28v to the barrel jack too. Thanks for y'all's time!