Hi back,

These last month I was stuck with a Pinephone Pro not working (Manjaro would not update and could not connect to my phone company...)

Today I lokked at it again, installed Tow-boot and flashed Mobian instead - and made my first call.

So far, so good. The funny thing is I can't change Mobian's password (at least from GUI). Whatever i try, the password is not accepted. Should I do this from the command line? Sudo passwd <user>?

Thierry

I have a Pine Phone ... somewhere in between.
It isn't a pine phone beta, nor is it a pine phone Pro.
It has 3GB of RAM and 32GB emmc.
I can flash any flavor of Arch linux on it, but if I try to flash Mobian to either the emmc or a microsd, the phone refuses to turn on/start. It never even makes it to the point where the power light blinks.
The minute I put arch on it, it works like a charm.

Any ideas on how to get mobian working? 
I've used the following images: 
mobian-pinephone-phosh-20220731
mobian-installer-pinephone-phosh-20220717

Hello, Is there or will be be someday a native telegram app for mobian, to set up an account from the pp?

We changed architecture of Settings plugins, Camera application was updated (on virtual machine so far). Translations are getting better. We are moving packages into Manjaro repositories.

See http://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-july-2022/

Is anyone having issues with phone calls being on the wrong audio profile and because of that you cant hear the person who called. At first I thought it was modem related as I am running the community firmware for the modem but it seems when I answer sometimes it stays in "Play HiFi quality music" sound profile and if I go into sound settings and change the sound profile to "Make a phone call" it allows me to hear the caller and be heard proper.

Is there a faster way to change audio profiles via command line so maybe I can make a script to switch fast as it seems inconsistent sometimes when I answer the phone the profile changes properly other times it does not and I need to open settings and change the profile.

This issue seems to be newer for me.

Hi,
as soon as the Quartz64 Model B 8GB will be available I will finally enter the SBC world.

One of the medium/long term project would be to have it solar powered with a battery.
The aim is to learn more about electronics (I know that is quite silly for only 5-10 W).

Ideally I would like to be able:

- power it via solar + battery 24/7
- be able to monitor the power consumption and generation

I have noticed that for the Raspberry Pi there is already a solution https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/pijuice-solar.

I am not looking for an end-to-end solution, more for a guide, what to buy, some sort of explanation.

Do you have a suggestion on where to start from, especially for Pine64 products?

Thanks

I own a PinePhone. It is basically a toy, I was happy to see a new phone with a removable battery, unlockable, runs Linux, SD card, etc. And the price is OK, not great but OK. It's fun to play around with, and it's nice to know it will receive new distros and features for years to come, and I never have to worry about it being bricked by a dead battery. The SD card gives so much flexibility to installing OSs and moving data around.

I'm in the market for an E-Reader, so I was excited to see the PineNote listed. My excitement has dropped to 0 after seeing the specs and price. Non-removable battery? No SD card? Who is your target audience?? No Linux enthusiast wants a throwaway device that's locked to internal memory only. $400? That is totally uncompetitive with existing Android E-Readers. And without removable battery and SD card the PineNote has nothing that sets it apart.

The stated reason why SD cards cannot be included is that the case does not allow it. So use a different case? Do you really think your customers care more about a flashy metal "premium" (your words) case than having a device that lasts more than a year or two and has an SD card? I'm disappointed that Pine would even put their brand on a device like this.

Dear Pine64,

Same question I've asked in the blogs:

Any chance of selling only the board separately?

Given that it's 100% compatible with V1 accessories, and given that some of us already have replacement case, replacement tips, etc. we're really just one V2-board swap away from building an extra V1 iron with all the left over component.

When I plug into PPP's USB-C port a storage device (microSD card via USB-C adapter), it's not detected at all (under ArchLinux + Phosh or SXMO).  journalctl -f   does not react when pluggin/unplugging the external storage.  The LED on the microSD-to-USB-C adapter blinks briefly when plugging in, so some power flows there.  Also, my PPP is connected to the keyboard case while testing the above.  Anyone had any luck using external storage via PPP's USB-C port?

Due to https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1645 my phone and keyboard case both discharged to the point of shutting off while I was out on the run for barely a regular day's length. Afterward I ran into some really annoying apparent keyboard case charger bug, where if it's beyond a certain level of discharged, even if it's plugged into a powerful charger it will lead to the phone inside to discharge further because it somehow can't manage to charge itself and the phone properly at that point, at least not in combination. Now I know the charger is adequate, because I ran the phone non-stop on this for durations like a week or more with the phone staying on high charge and the keyboard case also never turning off with the phone actually busy as a hotspot, so the charger obviously can and WILL provide enough power to charge and supply both items at least if the phone isn't on max cpu usage.

So I was hitting above bug where the phone would still discharge in idle even though charged through the keyboard case (and a connected charger!). Last time that happened I eventually gave up on this weirdness and just charged the phone and the case both separately and only then combined them again. This time, a kernel dev was in the PinePhone matrix chat so I thought why not try to collect some useful info first. This of course prolonged this bugged state.

And then, during this, the case just went dead. My only guess is that not only did it mess up bad enough to somehow no longer charge the phone or even provide enough for its idle power, but maybe at the same time also discharged itself further despite being plugged into an up-to-small-laptop 60W rated charger??? This would be pretty disastrous because now it won't even charge again, seemingly, it just doesn't seem to react to anything anymore. It's not getting warm, the phone isn't automatically booting when pressed into the case once it gets its charging connection, it's just acting like a dead weight basically.

What is going on? Also this seems like a pretty severe firmware or charger bug if it actually managed to discharge itself to dangerous levels under these kind of ridiculous circumstances (I mean, the charger was both proven to support it fine in the past and has a ridiculously overspec'ed max rating too, and was non-stop plugged in during this).

I would prefer to not just dump this entire case into the trash and maybe never buy one again since this and other issues have been pretty rampant for me, but I'm not sure what my other options are. Sadly I don't possess any electronics tinkering tools or knowledge. Any ideas?