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  Weird call...
Posted by: Eugo - 09-14-2022, 04:55 AM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (3)

In the last two weeks, since I played with Mobian for a while and a few others and eventually settled on Manjaro Phosh, things began working more or less fine, except two weird things (and more came as I was writing).
- if I don't close all apps, the phone may need to be rebooted. Doesn't happen every time, but does often.
- when I boot it, it sometimes takes two or three reboots until it shows the desktop
- today when I tried to call someone, it reported that she was calling me (three tries, did so each time); worked around it by sending a SMS and then she called me, which went fine. On next boot, called someone else, that went fine
- just now someone called me, and during the call the screen went black (as I assume should be normal), but then when I turned it on and tried to enter the passcode, after three digits the digit buttons just flowed away to the right, as did the indicators on top, leaving me with just the background picture with nothing on it. On next suspend/resume it shows the top row controls, and they work, but the passcode digits and the bottom arrow to show them didn't appear.
- one reboot later it's back to normal.


  Postmarket os printer setup
Posted by: Chief - 09-13-2022, 07:50 PM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Hi folks,
Has anyone set up a printer in Postmarket os Plasma? I installed printers config and cups and I can't seem to get Pinephone to see the printer.


Exclamation Quartz64 model a wont boot
Posted by: AndyNZAUS - 09-13-2022, 06:35 AM - Forum: Getting Started - No Replies

Hey all

I'm new to the pine world, have used other sbc's multiple times. I've got the quartz64 model A, installed a 32Gb emmc module and using a power adaptor from the pine store (https://pine64.com/product/12v-5a-us-power-supply/). When I plug in the power supply I get the green DC light, I've followed the instructions from this link: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Installing_...e_Quartz64

I have a 16Gb SD card in my laptop, run this command (SD card is mounted as sda): 

Code:
sudo -i; xzcat images/rk3566-quartz64-a.dtb.img.xz > /dev/sda


Terminal then shows "[root@fedora ~]#"
I enter "sudo sync"
I get no errors but also get no output just goes to the next line showing "[root@fedora ~]#"
Am I suppose to get some output? When I go into the device in file explorer it shows as empty, In terminal after the sync command if I run LS I see anaconda.cfg, eclipse, eclipse-workplace, rpmbuild, snap and another directory named with Asian characters

I've put this SD card into the pine, plugged in the power and no output on the screen, I pressed and also tried holding down the power button, still no output, tried the same with the reset button and still nothing. I've tried removing the emmc module and retried the buttons and removing repluging in the power, still nothing. and also with the SD card unplugged too, still nothing on screen

What else can I try? or have I missed something?
I've tried searching online but unable to find further resources


  How to install fbkeyboard on PostmarketOS?
Posted by: Ulfnic - 09-12-2022, 02:51 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

I'm trying to find simple instructions for how to compile and implement fbkeyboard so it's running at TTY when it asks for login/password on PostmarketOS.

Repo: https://github.com/julianwi/fbkeyboard
Example of it running at tty login on a Pinephone: https://youtu.be/npKwMWr1F_0?t=1099

I've searched around a while but can't seem to find much. The repo's readme is somewhat helpful but i'm not used to Alpine's musl compiler or how to auto-start a program so it's runs at the TTY prompt.

Much thanks for any suggestions and if I find the answer i'll post it here.


  Dist-upgrade and Chatty vs Gnome-Contacts
Posted by: biketool - 09-12-2022, 04:46 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (9)

Like the title says, I did an apt dist-upgrade and now I can install gnome-contacts and loose chatty(SMS and some IM) or install chatty and loose installed gnome-contacts.  No matter what gnome-contacts is broken or gone so I choose installing a working chatty and use the phone app for contacts short term.
More of an FYI as I expect it to be fixed in a few days unless anyone has a slick fix.


  Archlinux - missing firmware for wifi adapter
Posted by: RudderDuck - 09-12-2022, 03:51 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (9)

I have successfully installed Arch Linux on my Pinebook Pro using the following wiki article:

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Installing_...nebook_Pro

However, I had to use the Pinephone dock to enable networking because the wifi adapter does not work out of the box.

dmesh output shows:

brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio for chip BCM4345/9
brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio.pine64,pinebook-pro.bin failed with error -2
brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin failed with error -2


I tried some suggestions from the friendly people on the Pine64 Telegram channel but until now I cannot get it to work.

Here is what I tried:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic...7&t=291688

This is a thread on the Raspberry Pi 4 which seemingly uses the same hardware? I tried copying the suggested file but that did not solve the problem. Note that the file was not there in the first place so renaming failed.

Copied the files found here:

https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/p...6-firmware

Also this did not solve the problem.

Another suggestion is to see whether the alarm repos have a firmware package for this but I'm a bit at a loss as to how to do this.

A usb wifi dongle works without any problem so I have a workaround but I would be happy if the on board wifi would work.

Any help/pointers are appreciated.

I know that some people have it working so it is just me not having found the solution yet.


  Sending Pinephone SMS from Desktop
Posted by: biketool - 09-12-2022, 03:33 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (5)

Back in the N900 days we had an app which used rendezvous auto discovery IM protocol to bridge the phone's SMS to LAN instant messenger.
While HeySMS could probably be ported or cloned with recent libs https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84705 I think that there is probably a quick ready to get a basic SMS send.

Is there an easy way to send a command line trigger or AT command followed by the text to at least write a SMS and then send it over SSH.


  Camera Calibration
Posted by: nroth - 09-11-2022, 04:40 PM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Hardware - Replies (1)

According to Megi's 6/23 blogpost, the PinePhone Pro is missing camera calibration data.

Any chance PINE64 has the equipment to get professional camera calibration for the hardware they ship?


  Megi's Kernel and Battery Life
Posted by: biketool - 09-11-2022, 01:37 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (3)

I am an everyday driver pinephone 3-32gb w/mobian user.
The reboots and modem cutouts during the day are survivable, but the battery life is difficult at best.
If I rent a car and the poser or USB port is dead it means only satellite navigation at the end of a trip.  No video or surfing on the train unless there is a USB port or mains jack.  Even listening to an audio book can easily knock me to below 50% after two-three hours and will continue to until the hardware audio acceleration and buffer is improved.  Even 10 minutes checking webmail can easily burn 15%.
Most often the answer is Megi's kernel, but as this is an everyday driver phone I want something at least as stable as I already have.
If Megi's kernel is better why is it not adopted by Mobian or other distros?
What is the downside aside form being outside the normal software upgrades?
Back in the Nokia/Maemo days the testing repos for Maemo5 had the power kernel with all of the extra community tweaks to turbocharge the distro and it included missing hardware optimizations, all just an apt-get install away from a reliable alternate to the Nokia kernel.

To those already running Megi's kernel and other tweaks what is your difference in battery life as well as system performance, what about system reliability?

https://xnux.eu/howtos/build-pinephone-kernel.html

https://github.com/megous/linux/tree/orange-pi-5.16


  which emulator is it possible to install on Pine64 Lts
Posted by: Paulo Capel - 09-11-2022, 12:28 PM - Forum: P64-LTS / SOPINE Projects, Ideas and Tutorials - No Replies

Eu professor me presenteou com um pine64LTS, e sou noob com essas coisas.


É possível instalar algo semelhante ao "Retropie"? Instalei o Armbian e executei o . mas o que fazer com este pinho 64lts ?