Hello,

hopefully this does not sound too weird.
I purchased a 3 pack of sealed Pinetimes shortly after it became available.

Last summer, I noticed horizontal stripes under the display and asked here what that might be and where it came from. We didn't find an explanation but others having this phenomenon themselves.




Since I got a 3 pack, I used the second watch after some time because I found those stripes annoying. Summer was over by then.

Everything was perfectly fine for months until summer started a short time ago. After having been outside for one or two sunny days, my second Pinetime suddenly also had exactly those stripes.

Now I came along thinking of some UV radiation issue.

Is that nonsense or might there be a connection?

Best regards

Where's the blog post?

Hey all,

Are multiple eSIMs support on the Pine Phone?

Thanks.

PinePhone 1.2 - Linux mobian 5.15-sunxi64

I just recently reflashed my PinePhone with Tow-Boot and the mobian-installer-pinephone-phosh-20220508 and since then the keyboard battery is not being charged.

The fully charged battery was completly drained and remains at 0%, in Gnome Settings --> Power under Devices kb151 is listed with 0% charge and the Powersupply app has the Keyboard Case listed as well with Capacity 0%, Voltage 2.601V, Status flickering between Discharging and Charging (0.02W) and Health Good.

demsg returns --> kb151 2-0015: Charger read failed - MCU returned 0xff

Before the switch to Tow-Boot / Mobian I had U-Boot / Mobian and the battery in the keyboard case was working just fine.
It was keeping my phone charged and was a nice companion as it extended the usable life of the phone to a fine 24hrs.
Since the switch to Tow-Boot / Mobian, the once full battery in the keyboard case was completly drained by the phone, but never recharged.
As soon as I plug in the power supply it starts charging the phone (charge current alternates between 1.2A and 1.7A) once the phone battery is charged it stops charging (charge current drops to 0.3A) and the keyboard case battery remains at 0% charge, i.e. it does not charge the beyboard case battery.
Power is connected directly to the keyboard case and the top-right corner of the keyboard case gets warm indicating that the electronics inside seems to be working.

Any ideas on how to get the keyboard case battery back to working order?
I do updates on a daily basis via apt, so should have the latest version of mobian and software, and I am using the PinePower 120W Desktop Power Supply to charge the phone.

Pinephone won't boot from the SD card.
I put in Tow Boot formatted SD card and turned it on.
The flashlight turns on and the phone doesn't turn on.

I flashed the Tow Boot image with Etcher and also with dd.

I just got this phone yesterday so I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem and I should contact Pine64 support.

I am downloading a PostmarketOS bootable image to try that out.

Any suggestions? Anyone experienced this?

I am working on a new baseboard for the SOPINE.  I want to use the original source file as a sanity-check, especially as I intend to support the Pine64 EMMC module on our board.  I downloaded the .tar archive file that is posted at the Wiki page.  This archive contains one .brd file.   This file seems encrypted with SafeNET.  

I have tried to import this file using recent versions of Altium, OrCAD, Cadence, and Eagle.  All of these say that the .brd file is corrupt in one way or another.

I need a file that imports to Altium.  Altium requires an ASCII file, so the extension should be .alg I think.   If we can only get a binary file (.brd), then please post one that works or tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I am interested in buying a used but good working PinePhone for daily usage.
Is someone selling here?
I am located in Europe/Austria/Vienna or near Oberwart

Thank you.

--
Greg

Hi All,

I have an interesting problem with my PPP whereby certain wifi networks stopped showing all of a sudden, even across multiple OS's on the phone (where they previously did show). I have other devices that can still see and connect but for the PPP these networks have vanished? No configuration changes, has anyone else experienced this?

Hi,

I don't recall ever having this problem with my pinephone. I'll get a call and the phone will ring (not really a pleasant experience either). Along with this ring the phone continuously vibrates. Not like a small keyboard vibrate, but like like a vibrate that you can hear from another room. I would think that this is not a desirable  function in general. A ring is good enough, no need to wake up the neighbor ;-). Certainly, it has it's uses. For example, if you're in a theater and want to be notified when a call comes in, but that should be a silent type of vibrate (without a ring) that you feel in your pocket, just you.

Is there a way to turn off the vibrate for incoming calls, or at least reduce the vibrate "volume"? Is there some setting that controls the vibration characteristics for certain events? Same for the ring?

TIA for helping.

I'm having an issue updating to the current version.  I started out using NRF connect using DFU transfer to the most current release.  As soon as the transfer begins, the PineTime restarts itself and loses the connection.  NRF then tries to restart the DFU, and this loop continues until NRFConnect finally gives up.  

Here is the resulting log file.