Pinebook Pro only started once, after that  I got black screen and see green power light on. 

I don't know what to do.  I have no other  linux machines.  but I do have working windows machines. 

Advice in discord  did fix it  since  no one  knows exactly  how to make a micro SD card in windows work.  I tried but it's not working. 
I'm not even sure I'm using rigt file.

some people in discord said to use SPI  file, then other people would come into discord and say no SPI file can't be made in windows.  at this point It has been many hours and screen is still black .   

people in discord seem to disagree on metod.   some will say to make a tow - boot but I can't make it work in  Etcher. 
some say don't do that.   I'm not sure which  are the correct steps  since I'm getting conflicting  information. 

All I know is  Pinebook  doesn't work, black screen and only every booted  up into Manjaro One single time.

I've been following this guide on how to connect my Librem5 to my Pinetime via bluetooth. It's reasonably recent (October 2022) and from the comments it seems to have worked for a number of people.

The issue I am having is I have been unable to detect my Pinetime from my Librem5's bluetooth. I have also been unable to detect the Pinetime from other devices I have like an iPhone.

Is there an obvious step I am missing? Also I don't know a great deal about blue tooth, is there instructions somewhere on how to troubleshoot detection issues with the Pinetime? I feel like I don't know what the right thing to search for to help resolve this is.

Hi.

I came across this article from the Genode team. They have analysed various power settings for the PinePhone and came to a impressively low standby power consumption.

This Article might be also of interest for people who wrestle with Linux-PinePhone driver ?

Pine fun - How low can we go...
(Sep. 2022)

There is also another thread here on the forum to discuss the progress with the PinePhone version of Sculpt-OS, the OS based on Genode.
Genode OS

I'm trying to build InfiniTime.  I can build InfiniSim but when I try to make it to flash to a watch, it has an error.



I've tried everything: copying the src folder from InfiniSim, installing lv_font_conv in a bunch of different directories, running the command in different folders, but I always get this error.

Hi,
When i unboxed the phone, tried to update, nothing.  Followed these instructions (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12459) got it working and updated via terminal. 

Upon rebooting, everything working except settings app, terminal and a few other programs i don't use.

Any advice?

Hi Whonix dev here. We are a privacy and anonymity distro project that have been around for a decade and privacy focused open hardware is a big deal for us. Your projects are a fantastic example of what is possible in the FLOSS space.

I'd like to share with you extra research we've been gathering on privacy attacks through clever misuse of hardware so you take this into account when adding hardware switches in future iterations of your products.

They are neatly summarized in the link below, but I will go ahead and mention them here:

* Speakers can be converted into auxiliary microphones to eavesdrop on the user

* accelerometers and gyroscopes may also be abused to reconstruct speech from sound wave vibrations.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Surfing_Post...Mitigation

I've been using chatty with xmpp, but my xmpp messages that arrived after the phone goes into suspend mode cannot be decrypt while using omemo. Is there a workaround to make it work?

Hi all.

I have a Pinebook pro with SPI tow boot flashed.

I'm trying to install Debian 11 on eMMc from the official stable release. At the end, GRUB installation ends with an error.

After this failure, the installation media stops loading, and I flash it again every time.

I tried installing rEFInd on the ESP partition, but it doesn't seem to work, all drivers say "program has returned 0" and then reboot.

Installing GRUB from chroot doesn't work either.

I know the new release of Manjaro boots in uEFI mode using GRUB, how can I get Debian to do the same?

When I first installed Ubuntu Touch many moons ago, the voice in calls was just fine. I really don't use the phones for calls, but I got a call the other day, and noticed then that was no no audio at all.

Upon further testing, I see now there is no audio at all coming to, or being sent from the phone.

Anyone know what has happened?

in Beta 13 the desktop will always be configured with Halycon Layout after a restart and the wallpaper will always default to what beta 13 came with. You can change your settings but after restart they will be gone.