I was spoiled by other cheap battery-operated irons that had LEDs so I decided to add a pair of spare 5mm white LEDs to Pinecil iron. I had them from a reverse backup camera and they were already prewired with a thin wire. 

- Vcc can be easily tapped from the leg of capacitor C8 or inductor L1.  (Vcc measured 4V for my Pinecil.) 

- I added a 22 Ohm resistor to achieve about 22mA per LED:  (Rs = (Vbus-Vf)/If = (4V-3V)/20mA = 40 Ohm. )
- I positioned the resistor right above the tip core and glued it to the ground tab while avoiding making short anywhere (use insulation)

- LED anode (+) is soldered to the resistor and cathode (-) to the ground tab. 
- I drilled two small holes under the rubber sleeve for the cables and 3Dprinted a bracket to position the LEDs. Here is the file in Fusion360 (with Manufacturing Environment for slicing and final tolerance adjustments )


- Final result:

Like nearly every office worker, I'm spending too much time sitting, and I often notice that only when it's quite late, and my legs are cramping. I bought a Fitbit, thinking that idle time tracking and notification is a basic use case for fitness trackers,and hence it's richly configurable, but it seems it's not. And neither for other trackers I've checked so far, in fact. The Fitbit accumulate data in every hour between :00 and :50, and if there was not enough movement, there is a gentle vibrating reminder. But if you miss that, there is no new reminder for 60 minutes. Plus if you do your 250 steps e.g. at 8:01am, and then you sit down,there is no reminder until 9:50. It's easy to see this is quite flawed.
Before I spend a lot of time studying the code, I would like to ask people who are more familiar with it: is the following is possible with PineTime? :
- wake up every 3 minutes, and check how much movement were made in the past 30 minutes (the numbers here should be configurable)
- if not enough (again, number of steps is configurable), vibrate
- do this only in the configurable time window, your work time
Could someone with a good overview give me a first hunch estimation whether this is feasible or not?

Any ETA for when the open acrylic case for the model A will be back in stock?

I dropped my phone a couple times and now the microphone is dead. Is the microphone just part of the USB-C sideboard? I can't tell because there's no real description on the page: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-usb-c-side-board/

Or is it a more generic part I can just order like it is for the earpiece? There's nothing listed on the wiki about it

The wiki indicates real time clock (RTC) support under "Expansion Ports" [https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64], but I'm not sure where to connect the coin cell battery holder.

Anybody know where to connect this?

Thanks!

Hi All,

The battery on my PP keyboard is recognized by Mobian as a power source in Settings --> Power on my PP (not pro edition); however, there five (5) power sources are listed, which are: unlabeled (Discharging), Main (0%), Extra (0%), Extra (0%), Extra (70%).

The button on the right side of the keyboard does not activate/deactivate charging status. Does not work when I do a double press or a long press.

Note: I can use the keyboard for typing.

I have never used the usb-c port on the PP to charge the PP while it was in the PP keyboard, so this isn't the cause. I wonder if a possible cause is a software update (I use mobian).

The PP keyboard battery did charge the PP battery when I first received it, but stopped recently, which is when I noticed it not working. I don't know when this issue first began because I only plug in the keyboard for testing progress of optimizing the operating system power consumption/compatibility with the PP keyboard. When the PP keyboard battery was working with PP, the PP keyboard battery increased the duration of use of the PP by about 50%, hoped it would be more.

Wondering if others have experienced similar issue.

Thanks in advance for any helpful information.

Stay well.

If you have avahi running, then you can run

Hi, I just received a Pinephone and I am having trouble removing the SIM adapter from the phone. Before I did anything and after taking out the battery tape, I simply put the adapter in without a card inserted as a test, but now I can't seem to get it out. I can sort of pull it lightly but it stops at a certain point and I don't want to break anything. I should also mention that I am legally blind, so I might be missing something. What can I do?

Well, that sounds dramatic, but here in the US 2g and 3g service is all but gone with T-Mo dropping the last (maybe . . . mostly . . .) of theirs last week and ATT's going offline last February. As far as the rest of the world, YMMV, but if GSM and 3g are set to be phased out where you communicate this might be interesting.

I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out why (and when) my pinephone stops receiving calls. I found this thread which provides an interesting "watchdog" work-around for the pinephone modem falling into a coma and never waking up again. User @kebab (thanks, kebab!) describes using the modem manager to reset the modem and bring it back to life. Unfortunately, that never worked for me . . . but it can sometimes fix two other issues that will knock the pinephone offline on my all-LTE network.

kebab's service checks the results of mmcli -m any for the phrase "No modems were found" and calls for an eg25-manager restart (using the appropriate system service manager for your OS. This problem -- the modem not waking up -- will definitely interrupt your service regardless of location, technology or network provider. However, I found my device not working at other times too, and I started logging the output of mmcli

As the title says, the keyboard is only drawing tiny amounts of power, regardless if it has a phone in it, if it's on, and of the constant current sysfs setting.

I did plug the phone in while docked before I read the warning, did I fry the charging chip?