Yesterday I received a Mobian update on PinePhone (one of the community editions) that included the swipe up (access application icons) and swipe down (access shortcuts to various settings) instead of tapping on the screen to access these features. The swipe up and swipe down is working very well for me and I like it a lot.

Overall - Mobian OS has steadily improved over the past 18 months to a very usable state for me. I use the PinePhone as a daily driver phone. The battery life is 8+ hours, which is enough for me.

I hugely appreciate libhandy, which I think adapts non-optimized applications to be usable on the PinePhone. I have a PinePhone Pro with Manjaro on it; however, I don't use it because (a) the original PinePhone is working so well and (b) too many applications installed by default that I don't use and applications that I do like to use don't adapt to the screen (i.e., not very usable).

One day I may try installing Mobian on the PinePhone Pro for a super experience; however, I will do this when the PinePhone hardware becomes usable. When the day comes to switch from the PinePhone I am using as a daily driver and I cannot get Mobian to work acceptably well on the PinePhone Pro, then I may order PinePhone because I like Mobian so much (it just fits me).

Thanks goes out to all of the developers of the entire software(s) stack that brings continued and improvements to Mobian on the PinePhone devices.

Cheers!

Is is possible to use a program like gtkterm or similar on PineNote to communicate via RS232 / USB Adapter with an other device.

Mostly working outdoor with a Laptop to read out sensor data over RS232 is painful if the sun is shining.... Being able to run a terminal program on PineNote and read the  output on the e-ink display would be great....

Thanks for any information on this topic.

Hi! Regardless of a battery %, my PinePhone v1.2a won't start charging - unless I shutdown it before connecting a USB cable ; then, PP auto-starts when you connect it to a charger, and could be further booted & used fine while still successfully charging in this way. I tried the different chargers, and even installed a CameronSino CS-SMJ700SL (perhaps the best alternative battery) - but I can't get a PP charging if it's already booted to an OS.

My favorite charger (a dumb 5V 2.4A without "Quick Charge" features) - shows the charging current on its' LCD display, which helps to ensure that a device is really charging. If I connect it to the PP while it's already powered on, it will only eat ~0.3A - which could be enough to support the current power consumption, but not to charge! However, if I connect it to the PP while it's off, it will auto-start and eat ~1.3A - enough to both charge a battery and power a CPU/LCD/etc.

Regarding the software: I'm running the latest PostmarketOS. Although I upgraded the ANX7688 firmware ( see Pine64 Wiki ) , I think I've had this problem out-of-the-box with the default ANX7688 firmware and Mobian. These "charging quests" are really annoying, because I have a FDE enabled and each time I'd like to charge a PP - I need to turn it off, plug it into a charger and input two lengthy passwords while booting. Is there any way to fix this?

What’s the lowest achievable power consumption on a Quartz64 B with basically everything shut off (Wifi, BT, HDMI, CSI, ... all OFF), but the system still listening to/waiting for GPIO inputs?

Does it make a difference whether the system runs on Android or on Linux?

TIA!

Bonjour à tous,

en France et à Toulouse, l'association Toulibre organise un événement de deux jours, le Capitole du Libre, autour du logiciel libre et de la culture.
Il aura lieu cette année le 19 et 20 novembre prochain et comme à son habitude, dans les locaux de l'école d'ingénieurs INP-ENSEEIHT.
Conférences, ateliers et village associatif sont présents tout au long du week-end.
Pour le moment, nous n'avons pas de conférences ni d'ateliers dans la langue de Shakespeare.
Mais une présence de la communauté Pine64 francophone au moins dans le village associatif serait intéressante pour présenter les projets en cours et à venir.
Si une conférence en français est possible, ce serait formidable.

Merci de votre attention et nous pouvons démarrer les échanges via le forum.
A bientôt,

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Does anyone know where to buy the pad that is underneath the emmc on PineBook Pro to have it level? I have the Rockpro64 sbc and the emmc is just hovering in the air on one side and need something to stabilizing it so it doesn't come off easily. Thank you.

Hi, I have local/danctnix-phosh-ui-meta 0.2.2 installed and local/phosh 0.17.0-1.

I have been unable to upgrade phosh to 0.20.0-1

Is this possible? When I run 'sudo pacman -Syu' it replies that there is nothing to do. Must I re-flash a whole new image? Or is there some way to upgrade my current installation?

What if we could drag-and-drop NuttX Sensors to create IoT Apps for PineCone BL602? This article explains how...

Visual Programming with Zig and NuttX Sensors

Is anyone else having issues updating the Pinebook Pro Manjaro ARM GNOME 22.06 image?

I attempted to update the system on SD card (and internal eMMC) via "Add/Remove Software" (pmac?).  It locks up at "Checking Integrity...".  Then after shutting down, the OS won't boot.

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?