Hi,

As it might help...

This is a decent 5V 4A barrel charger for the Pinebook Pro (European plug) that is much better than the original piece of crap :

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07L63Q66R/

At least I now can use the Pinebook Pro and get it to charge simultaneously, with a decent length cable as well.

(My original provided crappy “charger” died on me after less than a month...)

what is everyone's preference between these two OS's?

currently it seems plasma is just too slow for the phone and it takes forever to do anything.   i don't see plasma as useable.  Phosh appears to be much faster/better for my needs.

so that said,  can anyone explain some differences between manjaro and arch?  why you'd chose one over the other?   what's the difference between manjaro with phosh and arch with phosh?

thanks

Ahoj,

I try to buy some Pinecil-Stuff from the webshop at https://pine64.com/. I want to pay via Credit Card.

But I cannot succeed:

* Whenever I want to use my VISA card (and also my other VISA card) (real credit card, not a debit card, issued by the German bank "DKB"), it says "The card was declined.". I can try again and again.
* Whenever I want to use my MasterCard (real credit card, not a debit card, issued by the German bank "Commerzbank"), it says "bad gateway" and on a second attempt "Sorry, your session has expired. Return to shop", then the shopping cart is empty.

Both cards have some SMS TAN set up, so if my bank needs additional authentication, I should be forwarded via the 3DSecure intermediate to my banks site to enter the security information. But nothing like this happens either.

So, what is wrong? When can I order and pay with credit card? (and not PayPal)?

Browser: Firefox and chromium.

Or, can you make the conversion from USD to EUR? PayPal gets really expensive in doing currency conversions.

Regards!

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EDIT, a bit later: I now got two confirmation emails of two orders with two differing order numbers. So not sure if the order made it through and I just got an error message? And I just wanted to place one order, because of the error message I tried again, so maybe there was an error message despite sucessful payment? I will see soon ... (I already did reply back to the order confirmation email about that issue.)

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EDIT2: Now the customer service of Pine64.com did confirm and did cancel one of the doubled orderes. And they charge me a 5% cancellation fee, although all the behaviour of their website did make me think that there was an error with payment, which was the only reason that I tried again.

Hi

I recently decided that I want to install Debian on my Pinebook Pro but the script that I've used in the past doesn't seem to work anymore and there aren't any other instructions out there that I can find, anyone know how I can get this to work?

Thanks

Hello,

I recently got myself a PinePhone and intend to use it as my everyday phone.

I learnt there is an alternative, open-source firmware available for the Quectel modem.
Are there any downsides of using it instead of the original firmware?

I read a lot about its benefits (improved security, lower operating temperature, etc.) but nothing about possible issues with it.
Is there something which is known to work better with the original firmware or am I basically loosing nothing by ditching it?

Thank you!

Cannot make or receive calls now

Arch fully updated: Linux pinephone 5.19.8-1-danctnix
Phosh

Hello. Although I ordered a new Pine Phone Pro that included Manjaro by default I received a Pine Phone Pro with a dead battery and no OS. 

I wonder if anyone has tips on dealing with the distributor from Hong Kong that fulfilled my order?

Please no replies from people that have never had to return a phone to Pine Store.

Thanks

Is there a easy way to back up the emmc to the sd card that i installed in the phone?  and then be able to re flash this if the main os gets corrupted ?

im relatively decent in finding my way around ubuntu on pc's in VM's, but the arch system i installed on the phone is a bit different and making some mistakes in the file os seem a bit easy to do and break the os.

this possibly/probably has been asked before but im looking for someone who's done this and can give step by step advice on the process.  I'd like to back up my os while its' in good working order now so i can experiment and then easily reload it if need be.

thanks

I am having an odd issue.  When attempting to install the latest version clear back to 20220925 I have been getting an error calamares initialization failure.  I am presuming it states failure because all I can see is Fa.  the error states, "Mobian can not be installed.  Calamares was unable to load all of the configured modules.  This is a problem with the way Calamares is being used by the distribution.  The following modules could not be loaded:  mobile@mobile  mobile@mobile.
I have tried redownloading the file 4 times.  I swapped usb cables.  I can install version 20220327 and it will boot up. However nothing works on that version.  I try to update and get an error.  I go to use the curl -s https://repo.mobian.org/mobian.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mobian.gpg but when I install curl it gives me a bunch of weird symbols.  At that point I reinstall the OS. cur I am attempting to install to the eMMC.  I have installed tow boot but I have also tried using jump drive.  I am really out of options and nobody has seemed to put up this issue.  If they have I am sorry I didn't see it.

I just bought an pinephone and I am still learning. I recently flash mobia with full disk encryption. While updating the system using "apt full-upgrade" the system screen turn black. After line the whole day I restart the phone and I endup with no graphic. mobian login from console.