I just received my PineTime yesterday, and tried to turn it off for the night by holding the power button. However, I believe it rebooted, then stayed in the bootloader (I held it for some time after it rebooted, too). I've tried letting the battery run out, but it still stays in the bootloader. I've attempted to flash a more recent version of Infintime, but I'm not sure it went through. If it did go through, it still isn't turning on after draining the battery. What do I do to fix this?
Ideas:
Re-flash the bootloader
Flash a new bootloader (I'm wanting to switch to Wasp OS, so that might work)

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to fix this?

Note: If I hold the power button, it shows the green, blue, and red cycles. I looked at the wiki, and don't understand exactly how to use these.
I also can connect to the watch via Bluetooth.
It's a sealed watch.

I have a Beta edition PinePhone which had the default Manjaro OS installed, but things started breaking after I pacman -Sy && pacman -Su-ed it. The first warning sign was the on-screen keyboard not showing up on the SDDM lock screen, and after a reboot, SDDM outright failed to start. sshd was still working, so I installed and started LXDM (after stopping and disabling SDDM), and although it started succesfully, the on-screen keyboard still failed to show up. 

Next, I tried replacing the contents of /etc, /usr, /var, and /opt on the eMMC with a fresh copy from Manjaro's PinePhone image by copying them over without flashing the entire drive (which was a horrible idea in retrospect and wouldn't have saved any time vs. reflashing from microSD), but something went horribly wrong because sshd went down almost immediately, and I can't tell if the phone is on any more.

Just now, I dd-ed JumpDrive onto a microSD card and booted my phone, but the only difference seems to be that a green LED in the upper left corner of the front of the phone turns on; the screen itself is off, and I don't see any new block devices from my PC. I think my immediate questions boil down to these:

1. Is my host PC missing a driver? dmesg doesn't seem to have picked up any plugging/unplugging events while the phone is on and ostensibly booted into JumpDrive. lsusb likewise doesn't change with the phone connected or disconnected. If the kernel driver needed to detect a PinePhone running JumpDrive isn't installed/loaded by default on a typical Arch system, this could be a quick and easy fix.
   
2. Is it normal for JumpDrive to start with a blank screen? If not, how should I troubleshoot it? I've already downloaded the image twice with cache cleared, and the checksums match.
   
3. If all else fails, is there a way to have the eMMC reflashed more "manually?" I don't have much in the way of appropriate tools/equipment, though...
   

Hello,

I was wondering if XMPP will ever be a direct option for joining the joined chatrooms.

I'm currently joined via an IRC transport, but that might require a bit too much setup for newcomers. Joining via a bifrost bridge (matrix.org or aria-net.org) are options, but they tend to be unreliable

Matterbridge (I assume that's what you're using) supports XMPP, but I understand it's not that simple. The Pine64 team seems to prefer self-hosting where possible, so they'd need a team member willing to set up the XMPP conference server, maintain it, and moderate the MUCs

I understand if it doesn't happen, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Thank you for your time and the awesome open-source hardware!

Hi there,

Does anyone know what can be the problem with the controller below?

I tried to SSH into my PinePhone with PostmarketOS on it, according to the following guide:

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Guide:Conne...e_with_SSH

and others.

I connected my PinePhone to a WFI router with SIM card, on with another PC is attached with a Ethernet cable.
Typing ifoncig into the terminal of my PinePhone resulted in:

Lo Link encap: Local Loopback inet addr. 127.0.0.1
….
which is a strange inet addr. I was looking for the IP adress of my PinePhone. Setting these values into PuTTY resulted in a Network error, connection refused.

Then I checked my WIFI router. There where three wireless clients listed, I suppose the last one is my PinePhone with 192.168.1.103

I typed in 192.168.1.103 into PuTTY
result: Network error, connection refused.

How can I solve this?

Hi,

since the shop does not mention compatibility between cases for the Rock64 and Quartz 64 Model B -> are they compatible? If not, what case options are available for the Quartz64 model B?

Thank you!

I am exploring my newly purchased PinePhone, and I have encountered what looks like quite a big problem for me. I live in Korea, and when I insert a Korean SIM card into the phone, the phone says that the SIM card slot is empty. (Precisely: home screen -> up arrow (all apps) -> settings -> cellular network -> there it says that the SIM slot is empty.)

With any of the other SIM cards I have (I have them from several countries and from different carriers, both expired and working, more than 10 in total), it always says "SIM 0", like the SIM card is there. And when I insert any of the two Korean SIM cards I have (one expired and one working), it says that the SIM slot is empty.

I want to underline that I am not talking about network registration/rejection of my SIM card, I am talking about the modem "locally" reporting the presence of a SIM card, before any network registration. All other phones I have say that the SIM card is there when I insert it, but with the PinePhone I have this issue. I've tried to boot the PinePhone from a microSD card, the same result: sees foreign cards, does not see Korean ones.

I don't know what happens on a deeper level, I don't know if it is actually a hardware issue or a software one, but on the GUI level it looks like this. And this makes the phone almost unusable for me.

Finally I got Signal Desktop working! But one thing, when I press the textbox to write, no keyboard is showing up! Is there a fix for?

I have a couple questions about Android.

1. It looks like the latest image for Android 9, SD card is from 2019. Have there been no updates since then? Or has support dropped off?

2. Is there any reason to choose an older version (7, 8)?

It looks like I have to do some work to install the Playstore, whichever version I use. I don't normally use Android but there are a few apps I would like to try. I might be able to set something up with a Linux distribution but it would probably be a lot more work than installing a couple of apps.

Hi,

has anyone successfully moved an eMMC 128 GB from a stock Pinebook Pro into a Pinebook 1080p to replace the stock 16 GB drive ? Are connectors compatible and would the older Pinebook recognize the full capacity ? According to specs, the Pinebook 1080p supports only up to 64 GB. New OS installation expected, that for sure, fine. 

Help appreciated, Peter