Hi there,

I hope everyone is doing well. While replacing my screen on my Pinephone pro, I inadvertently tore the ribbon cable to, what looks like the external speaker and possibly the vibration motor. I was wondering if the pinephone and Pinephone pro share the same USB-C side board?

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it.

Hi!

I have a similar problem which was described in the topic "PBP booting but stops at flashing power led".

1. history

1.1. PBP worked fine after arrival, Manjaro booted.
1.2. Installed a nvm ssd (with x86 linux boot image from my other laptop, planned to format) I could read the files from it from the booted Manjaro
1.3. Shortly after I started up the ~3rd time I tried to update the OS with the official update tool
1.4. From this point the machine looked dead. I read forums and blogposts and I was able to install Tow-boot to SPI
1.5. Tow-boot works reliably but unable to boot anymore to any OS not from emmc nor SD

2. symptoms

2.1. tow-boot boots every time, reliably
2.2. when booting from emmc it's always start booting but rarely boot up
2.3. newest images (2022 summer) never worked since the update attempt
2.4. void linux console only image sometimes booting up and I can log in and machine looks good but wifi/bt never found
2.5. when switching to SD boot in tow-boot (or disabling/removing emmc) it starts booting exactly every second time
2.6. when it "starts booting" (regardless of success) there's a digital noise image flashing up (will attach it if I can figure out how, but similar than the lower part of the image attached to the PBP booting but stops at flashing power led topic)
2.7. I was able to boot up a Manjaro release from 2021 once (tried ~20 times one was successful)

3. recovery attempts

3.1 ordered second emmc (same size 64) -- no luck
3.2 ordered serial cable, not much help, when it starts booting and the garbage screen flashes, it is in "starting kernel" state
3.3 tried to remove ssd (read about potential power issues) -- no luck
3.4 ordered usb emmc and tried to flash images to that with rpi Images -- no luck that way either
3.5 tried to "hard reset" with the button inside, no effect
3.6 tried various images manjaro/ubuntu/void/etc on SD and on emmc
3.7 tested two SD cards, sandisk 16 (which I learned that not supported) and an other one

What should I try next?

We are currently using UART on pins 8,10 for serial console. Based on the pin diagram, there are 2 more UART's available. One set on pins 15,18 and another set on pins 33,35 which is currently used for SD card slot. We are using Ayufan's Linux kernel release-4.4.167.
We are using EMMC and SD card slot is unused. So we want to disable it and use the UART functionality instead.
How can we configure these pins to be used as UART's. Is it possible to do with dtb overlay ? Is there any User guide or manual which could guide us with this configuration ?
 
Also what is the max baud rate that can be achieved on these UART's ? The one used for console port is 1500000 bauds.

I am porting a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 project over to run on Pine64 under Armbian due to the unavailability of Pi hardware. This app absolutely must be able to use lvds displays. It doesn't matter to me about mipi being "better", losing the ethernet port or any other of the valid reasons to not enable lvds.  Many of the posts about lvds on the forum just say "don't do it". Is there anyone out there who has made lvds work on a recent release of Armbian?

I bought one of the Pine 7 inch mipi-dsi displays just to get an idea of how a flat screen would be enabled in Armbian. It works fine, but I can't glean much information from the configuration that gives me any hints about how to make changes to switch to lvds display output. They have a device tree overlay for the dsi screen, but it mostly deals with power/backlight/etc. There's nothing in the .dtob file about dsi pre-se. I also can't find anything about how the display resolution of communicated to the software. It looks to me like the things I want to change are baked in to the driver and not supplied by device tree information, which was my previous experience with using Raspberry Pi hardware. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We are using one of the serial interface - UART_2 on the GPIO header pins for console. We wanted to use one more UART to communicate to another device. 

From the pin diagram, there are 2 more UART's available. One set TX-RX on pins 15,18 and another set of TX-RX on pins 33,35.

We are only using EMMC and not using the SD card slot. Is it possible to disable SD card and configure it to be used for the UART.
We are using the Linux kernel from Ayufan - release-4.4.167.

How can we configure to use them appropriately. Is it possible to make the changes using dtb overlay.

Also what's the maximum baudrate that can be achieved on these UART's ? Currently the one used on UART_2 (console) is 1500000. Is this the maximum speed supported ?

Hello,

is there a way to check, which version of mobian I am exactly running?

I mean if I take the list of weekly builds as reference, is it possible to see, which weekly build I am running?

The information delivered by e.g.

Hello,
Playing with Pinephone I have just realised, that the only way to receive real time communication like calls and messages is over GSM service. VoIP and internet messengers will not work, because when phone gets suspended - operating system goes offline and if you disable power saving feature - keeping the system all the time online, the battery will be consumed within a few hours. 
What i have researched is that the only ability of crust is to wake up the system, being triggered by GSM call or SMS and in the best case you can manage periodic wake up for syncing services like email. Does this mean that there is no way and there is no view for the future that pinephone will be usable for real time internet communication, for example push service awakes the system and let the app to pickup incoming VoIP call or IM message ?

Hi all, regarding the general narrative here around android, it seems like everyone thinks android is some closed source software...well, it's not. there is no google  in AOSP

What is in your opinion the difference between running GloDroid and Ubuntu on pinephone? Glodroid is also open sourced system that uses linux kernel, called android.

Basically, android is a linux derivative specialized for mobile devices.
To me, saying android bad, linux good  sounds like people who say Linux is crap, unix is the best. FreeBSD is the only OS for real men, forget about linux.

Hi,

Last week, I took off my Pinetime (sealed version) to wash the dishes and stored it in my pocket. When I took it back to wear it, the watch was in a bootloop (attached video).



After trying the different reset/recovery options and letting the watch battery drain, I managed to recover the watch.

But after at least three episodes of bootloop, there now seems to be a screen/display issue (see attached pictures).

Anyone knows if this might be either an hardware or software/firmware trouble? Or is there an easy way to test that?

I really like my PineTime, it's a bummer that it's now unusable after only about 13 months.

Thanks

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Hello
couple of months ago I ordered PinePhone Pro with keyboard.
it came with plasma as usual but actually I couldn't update or install any app.
some guys looked at my log and found out that the keyrings are broken and thus update was not possible.

now I would like to install Mobian instead of plasma but actually I don't have the required skills to do that.
thus I am willing to pay for a step by step help to do the following:
 
1 - install Mobian 
2 - ensure that the keyboard drivers are ok and working
3 - install releight reloaded with phosh (https://github.com/WebFreak001/raleigh-reloaded)

please PM me if you are interersted

thanks