Hello everyone,

I am just checking in after a month or two of having my PBP, from the 6/22 batch. Please feel free to skip to the TL;DR.

Currently, I am running a Gentoo system, with TowBoot and then systemd-boot to boot. Initially, it was quite painful getting used to ARM64, as I have only installed Gentoo itself a couple of times, and that alone can be a bit tough. But, as all Gentoo users know: once you get settled into your installation, not much can go wrong. I really can't complain about this laptop (except for 2 things, which I'll get to later, but you can probably guess from the title of this thread), I love the battery life, and the build quality of the laptop as well. The laptop is also the right shape and size and weight to be travel worthy.

Besides the PinePhone, I haven't really got any experience with ARM, but my impression of it is very positive. I really like my PBP!

However, things are not perfect in my experience. I have to keep the sound off because of the issue with the speakers that is documented here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8242

And I also haven't been able to get hibernation completely working. I am not sure of the cause of that issue, though.

I was hoping maybe somebody here would be able to give some insight to those two problems, it seemed like at least the speaker whine was able to be fixed a little, but I am not very hardware-inclined, so I'd ask for any fix to be dumbed down for me.

TL;DR very happy with the PBP running Gentoo, but I would like some help with the speakers and hibernation situation

Hi, are there any apps that you are missing on pinephone? If so maybe I will write a web application using your idea Cheers

I have a new pinephone keyboard that I am using with Manjaro (5.19.8-1-MANJARO-ARM)

The keyboard works and the phone says that it is charging the internal battery, but often the battery meter on the phone slowly drops to zero.

I have a script on boot to update

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?