With all the concerns raised about charging difficulties,
I wonder if the PinePhone's hardware is still being improved,
or whether it was a "one and done" operation.
Is Pine working to fix hardware problems?

Hello, I got a pinebookpro two days ago and it was not booting, I would press the power button and nothing would happen, neither a red nor green light anywhere nothing was happening neither with a short or long press of the power button.

I read the troubleshooting guide about the emmc switch, but I didn't have the tools to open the computer. Today I got the screwdriver and as I was opening it (so not even touching any switch or anything) I heard some noise coming out of the speakers I checked the screen and the manjaro initial setup screen was there. I closed the computer back and went through the manjaro setup and I checked that everything was working (speakers, microphone, wifi).

I then prepared a SD card to install devuan on the pinebookpro (https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dist...rd-images/) and I was able to boot from the SD card and go to the installation process. I arrived to the part when it tells you installation is over please remove the SD card and reboot and I did, but it did not reboot.

At this point I am in a similar state that I has at the beginning I press the power button and nothing happens, no orange or green light, no reaction from the computer at all, it does not boot from the emmc cardm and it does not boot from the SD card (I even disconnected the emmc to try to make sure uboot is takn from the SD card)

Any ideas on what I could do?
Thanks!

Hi,

I've had a Rock64 from back in 2017 when they were first launched, I ordered it with an eMMC 32GB chip which has been working flawlessly, however....
I now regularly run out of storage space and I'm running bare minimum resources to keep storage low.
I have spare, 64GB and 256GB MicroSD Cards, I was wondering if it was possible for me to somehow clone the eMMC onto one of these MicroSD cards, plug it in and boom, I am back to where I was but with more storage?

I know this isn't going to be that simple however, any guides or tips would be most welcome.

Thanks.

I tried Cheese and my webcam is not recognized. Here's the output of starting Cheese from the command line:

I've got a Pinephone that is giving me some trouble. The microphone has caused problems since I got it, causing staticy noise and making my voice unrecognizable. Now, it completely fails to pick up anything-- complete silence. I want to A/B test using bluetooth or plugin headphones, but with every OS, nothing shows up when scanning for Bluetooth devices. The issue with the mic also goes across all OSes. This strikes me as broken hardware. Opinions?

Hi all, I just got my pinebook pro and it’s really interesting, but I’ve run into some issues installing software I had intended to use. I’m planning on using this for mobile writing and I need a reference manager and writer installed. I usually use zotero but it’s missing arm64 support, I also use obsidian and zettlr which both have arm64 app images I can use but app images seem less “good” than a full install but I don’t really know better or much about them!

I’ve finally managed to get twisterOS running on the SD card and honestly it feels pretty fast but the ram footprint is huge though it could be that it’s running from ram because it feels really fast.

I’m looking for suggestions on what I should install for software and systems, I need word processing so I’m thinking libre office but is it worth my time to fudge around with Debian systems? I’m more familiar with Debian based Linux but manjaro is what mine came with and it seems to work fairly well but I can’t run zotero or mendeley as a second choice.

Lastly, to get twisterOS to boot from the SD card I have to go in and switch off the EMMC and then hold power for 20 seconds every time I boot and as far as I can tell this is something called a uboot issue but I’ve been unable to find a clear answer.

Lastly, since I’m looking for lightweight and efficient and I’m not afraid to learn and try new things, I’m tempted by i3/sway but I haven’t found a good resource for learning that either yet.


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Hello

Since the latest update today, I can't minimize a window in Phosh. It drives the Pinephone very difficult to use. I don't even know a shortcut to minimize the current window. The widget in the bottom no longer works

Do you know a solution or a workaround?

My PinePhone became nearly unusable after apt upgrade today (mobian), because new phosh freezes and then crashes all the time IF you have disabled animations in phosh!


So if you have disabled them in the past (like I did), beware! Enable before updating! 

Sources:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/818

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...s-in-phosh

Is there a way to set permissions on the gpio pins so you don't have to be a root user to use the pins?

First, let me explain what has happened. I have had my pinephone (not pro, this one https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-bet...e-package/) for almost a year. Most of that time I haven't used it. About 3 weeks ago, I brought it back out of storage because I wanted to play around with it again. It still had the manjaro kde-plasma default install on it. Took an upgrade to get it actually functional, but no big deal (although it was rather clunky and laggy, but its a pinephone).

About a week ago, it crashed, and I tried to reboot it (I think it was the same screen that I'll mention below, but I can't remember for sure). However, the phone would not reboot. The led would come on (i.e. a mixture of green/yellow/red, and depending on the angle you're can isolate each color of the led), the screen never turned on, and I never got the vibrate that has accompanied the phone when it turns on. I messed with it for a couple hours, decided I needed to get off of the garbage factory install, and planned to install a new os.

Two days ago, I tried it again, just to see what would happen. . . and it turned on. So I'm thinking, oh, it was never a problem to begin with. However, yesterday morning I try to turn it on and . . . it doesn't turn on. I fought with it most of the day yesterday and couldn't turn it on. Spend several hours on the irc chat with no results (trying to install manjaro phosh, but the phone wouldn't boot at all). So I gave up and went to work out.

When I came back last night I COULD TURN ON MY PHONE AGAIN. In fact, I was actually able to install manjaro phosh. I couldn't make calls or send texts like I could with the factory install, but I had to mess with the settings on the factory install to get calls, texts, and data working too. However, after about a half hour or so the phone crashed (i.e. the screen mentioned earlier). The screen turned mostly white but had these very thin, fine black vertical lines. I tried to turn the phone off and back on again, but it won't turn on. I haven't been able to get the phone turned on since, but I'm sure it'll work here shortly. . .

Here is what I've tried, both through my efforts and the irc:

1) I have a pinephone (not pro) https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-bet...e-package/
2) I've tried charging it through my computer and a 5v/2.4 amp charger (this charger has been working in the past, but maybe something happened?)
3) I've installed a new distribution (manjaro phosh https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/pho...a24.img.xz is the image I installed)
4) I've begun to take the phone apart to look for loose connections. I did think to use a multimeter on the battery. The battery is outputing 3.63 volts (says its rated for 3.8) so maybe the battery is dead? But if that were the case, then why won't the phone boot up when connected to the wall without the battery?
5) when I plug the battery in and check the contacts opposing the battery on the phone, I'm still getting 3.63 volts on the battery. It does indeed appear to me that when plugged in the phone does not charge at all, but I have absolutely no clue why.
6) I have created an SSD with pine64-pinephone-charging.img.xz. Apparnetly, this image isn't for booting, but only for allowing your phone to charge. The led is supposed to turn red when the battery is under 5%, yellow when its >5% but <%50, and green when >%50. However, when I put the charging image sd card in and then plug the phone to a charger (I have used several different chargers and my computer, none of them works) in the led does not come on. I cannot get the led to come on by pushing the power button (when the charging sd card is inserted). The led will come on (as described above) when I take out the charging image sd card and either try to power on or plug into a charger.

What am I missing? The fact that the phone will work after sitting idle for an unspecified time (but not all the time, because I let it sit overnight) tells me that there's some issue with it, but it potentially remains functional. I have not seen any loose connections from taking it apart, but I could be missing something (if someone would have a better idea of where to check). I'm going to do another visual inspection tonight when I get home from work.

Anyway, thank you for any help that anyone has to give. I'm at a loss at the moment. Sorry if I'm too detailed here, but since the problem seems nebulous I figure no fact can be determined to be irrelevant at this point.