Hello, folks... I've been reading https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinebookPro.html to attempt installing Tow Boot to the SPI. I wrote spi-installer.img to an SD card, but when I boot the PBP with that SD card installed, Tow Boot doesn't show anything.

It just boots into the OS I have installed on eMMC. I can insert another OS, written to an SD Card and the PBP boots into THAT, but it won't boot into the spi-installer.img written to an SD Card.

Am I missing a step to tell U-Boot to boot from that spi-installer.img SD Card? Or am I not grasping something else???

Hello everyone. I need to do a fresh reinstall of Mobian. Rather than ask just for my own benefit now, I thought it might be useful to have an ongoing thread where we can confirm the latest reliable builds. The Mobian Team continues to make great progress but sometimes updates go sideways for reasons no one could have predicted. Thank you in advance to everyone for your contributions.

Hi,

I recently purchased a PinePhone Pro. Initially, not much seemed to work properly, but this was greatly improved by changing to Arch Linux with Phosh.

That worked well until an update about a week ago, when I lost outgoing audio on phone calls. In subsequent updates, I've also lost incoming audio and then regained that in further updates, but never regained outgoing audio.

I've tried using the Sound Recording app, and that works, so the microphone must be working.

I'm fairly new to this. My experience with Linux has been with Raspberry Pi over a number of years. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I'm trying to use this as my daily phone, so phone calls are very important!

Thanks for any help you can give.

I can't set the default apps in settings; they're all grayed out. Also, text files are not even recognized when I click on one in Portfolio.

Anyone know the secret to getting this stuff working as it should?

[edit] I should clarify that this is on Phosh.

Hi,

when I plug in the pinecil in the pinepower, the latter shows 5.1V 0.0A and the pinecil stays off.
Worried the pinecil was bricked, I tried a regular usb-c and the pinecil comes on like no problem (except for the DC-LOW message)
I updated the firmware for a laugh, succeeded, but the pinepower fails me again.

I tried another cable, but that changed nothing.

Any help, tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated !

thx  S

Hello there,



If you haven't updated EG25-manager today, I recommend to wait for it. Phosh is crashing frequently after the updates from today and the Pinephone is nearly unusable in this state.



It might have been another part of the latest updates today (20220922), but EG25-manager seems to be the obvious origin of the crashes.



I'm trying to get logs...



Cheers



Edit2: logs are posted.



Edit3: Fix posted by @jsch

Edit4: Fixed.

It seems that there is a patch from dylanvanasscge for Bluetooth HFP ready for pluseaudio. Is this available for arch yet, and if not when can we expect it?

Hello, I am strugling to use jabber on my pp, for my use chatty would be enough, but omemo is not working yet, is there a way to fix it or it depends on software updates?
Another solution would be dino, to use dino, should I just install the standard version on arch repos or it needs some package to make it mobile friendly? How's about gajim, anyone using it, is it mobile friendly?

After a couple of years of use, my pinebook pro won't accept my root password. It's okay in the UI, and okay to sign in,  but not in the terminal. Can I either reset the entire computer or fix this problem?

Hi,

I have a serious trouble with my Pinebook pro. There is no boot possible even on SD card.


Initial state : Pinebook pro boot well on emmc with Manjaro  (there were conflicts for updates in this older version of Manjaro, that’s why I wanted a new installation )

1) I boot on SD card with a Manjaro.
2) I update manjaro-flash on the SD card and run it.
3) I put a USB key that contains the image  Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-22.08.img.xz
4) I tell arm-flash the location of the image and click on install. It runs and indicates a progress of the installation on the emmc (several gigabytes).
5) I turn off the machine and remove the SDCard.
6) I turn on the Pinebook pro, and absolutely nothing is happening, no LED lights up, everything stays off.

So I decided to remove the emmc memory and boot on the previous SDCard.
I did several tests by pressing the power button for a long time or not.
I also pressed the reset button on the motherboard.

The computer seems dead because there is not even a light that turns on (I specify that it is plugged into an electrical outlet).
Can a reinstall be forced with UART mode and serial cable for example?

Thank you if you have an idea.