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  MMS Carrier Settings
Posted by: biketool - 10-20-2024, 09:19 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - No Replies

There are four fields in Mobian Trixie SMS/MMS settings
Phone Number - Your Modem's Phone Number ????
MMSC - correct
APN - correct
Proxy - correct

I have not seen a modem phone number on any GSM phone I have ever used.
I ask because I am still not able to view 9 MMSs even though the APN, MMSC, and proxy are verified correct.
I have tried my phone number with local area code and international country code too, phone number is not mentioned on my carrier's internet nor MMS settings.


  Inexpected reboot during watching youtube video
Posted by: regivanx - 10-18-2024, 02:14 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Good morning,

I was quietly watching a video on YouTube with Firefox when suddenly my pinebook pro restarted. The problem recurred three times.

The computer is not hot and restarts ~20 minutes after the start of the video.

The battery is charged and the computer plugged in.

Here are some diagnostic elements:

Code:
root@mmc-pbp2 /h/regivanx# journalctl -k -b -1
-- No entries --
root@mmc-pbp2 /h/regivanx# journalctl -b -1 | grep shutdown
root@mmc-pbp2 /h/regivanx [0|1]# dmesg | grep -i error
[    1.355108] rockchip-pcie: probe of f8000000.pcie failed with error -110
[   23.905498] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,pinebook-pro.bin failed with error -2


Do you know what this could be and how to fix the problem?


  Delivery within China
Posted by: Zdorenko - 10-16-2024, 10:20 PM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (2)

Hello. I would like to order a Pinecil V2 with a delivery to an address within China. Wrote an email to "Sales" 2 days ago, but no any response.
Anyone knows how I can manage with that?


  cpupower-gui profiles and battery life
Posted by: biketool - 10-16-2024, 02:18 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (5)

Code:
sudo apt install cpupower-gui
For most of us on most PP distros install is as easy as that, desoite being built with a PP mobile GUI scaling look in non-mobile apps for the launcher.  https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui
It makes tweaking CPU use pretty easy, back in the Nokia N900 days this was done more for performance ie:overclocking the CPU and GPU, but on Rockchip and Allwinner I feel like we are more interested in battery life.
With some experimentation I think we can come up with some great battery life saving while still having a phone awake enough to catch phone calls, you can put the GUI in favorites when mobile apps only is enabled to have quick access.  I am enabling balanced mode and will give it a week or so of trial on my Rockchip CPU PPp daily driver phone.
What is nice is with a long press from the desktop you can choose presets without launching the app.


  PineNote hardware dreams
Posted by: bills2002 - 10-15-2024, 10:41 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineNote - Replies (2)

Any ideas if:
USB 3.x where hopefully x=1?
SD card slot...of decent speed.
HDMI output.


  Modem Issues with the Pinephone
Posted by: Temmie19 - 10-15-2024, 09:19 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (3)

Now part of this was probably my fault, but I'm having some odd issues with the modem.

I got my Pinephone used from a friend, and when I tried to use my SIM card, it could recognize the SIM card was inserted and the towers it could connect to, but it would never be able to connect. So I thought "Okay it's a driver issue" so I went and used the script available at https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk but I was tired and didn't think to check the current firmware on the modem and that also didn't work. So then I thought to try to load all the old firmwares until it was fully updated, but now the modem still exists and TRIES to function (it'll show me the settings, the lack of bars, and that there's no SIM inserted or that there is inserted) but I can't see it with

Code:
lsusb
or
Code:
adb
and I'm wondering if it's irrecoverable or not?

I did try connecting the two plates on the back of the board to each other, but perhaps that didn't short them out. When I did that, the modem just disappeared and still didn't exist with any command.


  Crypto-Currency app and service request thread
Posted by: biketool - 10-15-2024, 02:18 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (6)

There was a deleted thread today where I posted some crypto-currency services I have seen requested, let's contribute wish list items, I will try to edit every request into this top post.

The old(unfortunately deleted) Mobian app status/catalog pages on showed usable Bitcoin-Electrum and Monero official clients from flatpak( https://flathub.org/setup/Debian ).  It would be useful for you all to post your use cases and what is working for you on any and all platforms mobile and desktop so the community can also suggest solutions. If you are looking to interact with online services for research or where your crypto is held in an account for you by some company(custodial wallet) it is usually easy enough to make a webapp for that sort of thing.

Between here, Reddit, and other forums I recall people wanting more non-custodial wallets and zero-trust p2p exchange services ie: litecoin-electrum, electrum-doge, WoWnero wowlet client, btc-xmr UnstoppableSwap, Havano-Reto XMR market, BTC Bisq market, Etherium, among other FOSS apps preferably with tweaked UIs for mobile though the Mobile Settings - Compositor can probably fix the scale to be useful.

It is useful to know is  how we imagine we and other future users will want to actually use crypto on their PP; are we talking about buying coffee and pizza directly, through the gift card bridge, or bridging through bitpay, using a crypto wallet as a savings account, managing a mining farm, buying a used laptop on moneromarket.io, trading and investing on Kracken or robinhood, or... other? (I am not sure how I feel about the mentioned commercial services vs zero-trust FOSS solutions they are just possible usage examples)

I am running Mobian but all PP distros including libhybris such as Ubuntu-Touch are included.


  Kill switches for Wifi/Bluetooth does not work
Posted by: luxgiammi - 10-14-2024, 03:34 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - No Replies

Hi everyone,

When I flip the second kill switch on the pinephone I cannot get the WiFi or the bluetooth to turn off. Is this normal behaviour? Am I missing something?

Thanks a lot


  DDC Support / DesignWare HDMI Controller
Posted by: rotdrop - 10-14-2024, 06:31 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Quartz64 - No Replies

Hi there,

it seems that by default only the internal I2C-controller of the DesignWare HDMI controller is enabled. However, it is known that this is sufficient to retrieve the EDID, but the internal I2C controller of the HDMI module is not suitable for full DDC support, see the discussion here:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri.../#22771979

However, the driver supports using an external I2C-controller, and reading through the schematics for the Quartz64 model A

https://files.pine64.org/doc/quartz64/Qu...210427.pdf

it shows that the I2C-5 pins are even connected to the HDMI plug (search for HDMITX). So things are correctly setup in hardware, what is missing are the proper settings in the device tree. This can be cured by the attached device-tree overlay. The overlay

  • enables the controller for i2c-5 with the m1 pin configuration (see schematics for the board)
  • removes the respective pins from the pin-control entry of the HDMI controller to resolve conflicts
  • adds "ddc-i2c-bus = <&i2c5>;" to the hdmi controller section

Afterwards DDC just works, on Linux "ddcutil detect" will succeed and, e.g., "ddcui" can be used to control the settings with a GUI.

Best

Claus



Attached Files
.zip   ddc.zip (Size: 310 bytes / Downloads: 114)

  Uboot says bad image magic - mainline kernel
Posted by: lash - 10-13-2024, 01:17 PM - Forum: Linux on PINE A64-LTS / SOPINE - Replies (3)

In an attempt to troubleshoot failing to get generic alpine linux to run on PA64-2G-LTS, I've tried to reduce the problem to the smallest steps that are legible to me. 

When booting the kernel, I get "Bad ARM64 Image Magic" I can't figure out what this means, and why it is happening. Sources I have searched seem to be board specific, and found nothing on this board. I've arrived at a point where I cannot find a way to reason further about it, so thus I am reaching out.

I am currently loading the kernel and dtb manually at the uboot prompt:

setenv bootargs loglevel=7 earlyprintk
fatload mmc 0:1 0x42000000 boot/vmlinux
fatload mmc 0:1 0x4a000000 boot/u-boot.dtb
booti 0x42000000 - 0x4a000000

My current configuration is:

        - linux 5.14 from mainline (git:7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f)
        - u-boot v2024.10 from https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot (git:f919c3a889f0ec7d63a48b5d0ed064386b0980bd)
        - dtb from the u-boot build
        - bl31.bin from PLAT=sun50i_a64 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tru...ware-a.git lts-v2.10.6 (git:f2aebf361050d69176d60016170291efa9e08a68)
        - scp.bin from https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust 0.6 (git:ffe9f1ac9c675e6e67db9084bd19fbdeffd8e162)
        - u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin written to offset 8k
        - tried sd and emmc vfat single partition (whole disk) with
                * boot/vmlinux
                * boot/u-boot.dtb

Files:
    - uboot defconfig: https://g33k.holbrook.no/c36cab0e6a15127...7b25f71bdd
    - uboot environment (saved from soc): https://g33k.holbrook.no/1c4d93e6510eb49...2329468b73
    - linux defconfig: https://g33k.holbrook.no/5bde4487e333f5a...19beb3382f