I have just received a new PinePhone, and the first time I connected it to the Internet, it immediately showed me that (software) updates are available. The phone didn't install the updates before I asked to do so, but still, I was actually quite disappointed with this behavior, especially in a privacy and security oriented phone. I don't want the phone to do anything on the Internet before I explicitly request to do so. Even if it does not install the updates, just checks for them, this still transfers data over the Internet, which may be undesirable in certain cases.

This time I installed the updates (which also created quite a severe bug, see below), but I don't want to have any automatic update checks in the future.

So, my first question is: how do I disable automatic checks for updates on the default OS (if I understand correctly, this is manjaro)?

Second, more details about the bug: sometimes, when I turn off the screen using the button on the side, and then turn on the screen again, instead of a PIN prompt, I see a text message (that does not fit on the screen in full also) and no interface elements at all. I don't know how to continue working with the phone from that point except for removing the battery and inserting it again (which is not good for the OS, I guess).

Some pieces of the message that are visible on the screen:
"... and unlocking is ..."
"... to a virtual ..."
"... and execute the ..."
"... unlock-session ..."
"... session by ..."
"... running session ..."

I had purchased a PPP and used it a few times before coming from the conclusion that I'd rather just sell it and buy a regular Pinephone for a number of reasons. I won't bore you with them, just saying the quality is at least B+ Grade. Has Towboot installed, which makes choosing to boot from SD or MMC easy as holding volume + or volume - during startup, and the battery lasts so much longer. Has a screen protector installed perfectly and really has no problems whatsoever.
Comes with the cable, and the original box.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/374102692338

(First of all, I don't know the differents between PinePhone 1.0 or 1.1, but I choose 1.1)

I run the flash-it.sh script and typed 'raw' to write image to the folder containing flash-it.sh script. What I have now is;
u-boot-sunxi-with-spl-pinephone.bin 741KB
sdcard.img 32,7MB

But when I flash image to eMMC, nothing seems to happen. Did I do something wrong in the Terminal? Or do I have to use the Terminal inside the phone?

Hi all,

I am a blind Linux user and developer. I want to create my own smartwatch and was looking around and found the pinetime.
I have the following queries.
1. Can I update the pinetime without interacting with the screen? The watch does not appear to have any accessibility options at all. I did read the getting started section and that is where I found references to interacting with the touch screen of the watch.
2. Can I connect a speaker to the pinetime? I am not referring to a Bluetooth speaker but something small that I can enclose in the watch case. My idea is to have synthetic speech on the watch.

Regards
Pranav

Hello, I am considering a PineBook Pro as a laptop for basic web browsing and watching videos. I have seen lots of conflicting information about youtube playback, with some saying its unusable and others saying it is pretty decent. What can I expect in that regard? It would not be my primary machine so performance is not that important, but it would need to have good battery life (>6 hours) and be able to play at least 1080p youtube smoothly for me to consider it.

Hello, after updating Mobian three days ago wifi and bluetooth ceased to exist.  I have the convergence dongle so was still able to connect to net.  Pinephone does not have a SIM at this time.  I have reflashed with Postmarket Phosh, Postmarket Smxo, (both are snappy but did not help with the wifi), and am now sitting with Manjaro Phosh.  Hitting the wifi icon does nothing in Manjaro.  Hitting it in Mobian would toggle but would not find any network.  Manjaro just sits there greyed out.  I am not familiar with Arch commands but have done the following:
inxi -n results in wlan0 state: down
nmcli g (and r) results WIFI  enabled
ip a results in wlan0 DOWN

I have toggled the hardware micro DIP switch at the back on the Pinephone.

Bluetooth in Mobian and Postmarket said to insert a dongle.  It's the same chip and switch, but I would just like wifi up.  Do I have a wifi brick?

Any ideas anyone?

While not officially supported, OPNsense is now able to be built for the RockPro64 using the OPNsense tools - https://github.com/opnsense/tools


I've been using it with a 4 port PCI NIC for about a week now and it's been great.


If interested, more info can be found here: https://one8three.xyz/2022/05/25/OPNsens...Pro64.html

Hello,

I usually use PBP with Manjaro and everything works great.  I recently flashed Kali on SD card but for some reason it's not connecting to wifi.  I'm still very new to Linux.  I tried searching online for the answer but can't seem to find it.
I ran airmon-ng command and this is what I got:

phy0      wlan0     brcmfmac        unable to detect for sdio 0x02d0:0xa9bf


Does anyone know what's wrong and how I can connect my wifi?

Hello,

if you want to install ttyescape on manjaro, this should get the job done : https://framagit.org/lolgzs/ttyescape_manjaro_pinephone

Today I had was on a call using the Pinephone and a second call came in (a scam/spam call). What happened is the call I was on was disconnected and the vibration motor came on - and stayed on, would not turn off. Even when the legit guy called back and I picked up the vibration motor just kept going. It did not shut off until the phone was rebooted.

So... when this happens is there some way the vibration can be turned off short of rebooting the phone? (I'm using the "002" factory firmware if that makes a difference.)