I have the original pine . Can you put manjaro on this board?

Hello all!

 I got this PinePhone about a month ago, and so far, Arch has been the fastest on it! However, I have noticed that there is now an exclamation mark on the cellular signal on the top bar. I would have put the picture here, but I don't understand how to do that in this forum. Here is the link to the picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWJKroX...sp=sharing I tried Manjaro Phosh on a microSD and after updating, it too had the exclamation mark. In Arch, I tried another sim card (the first was AT&T, the second was Verizon), but it still showed the exclamation mark. The only damage I know of on the sim card slot is that one of the prongs is a little bent after trying to use the included SIM card adapter (that is a whole different story). However, the sign didn't show up before and calls and texts worked and still work even with the mark (though I haven't tested it thoroughly). Also, the modem details seem fine in Arch, but they sometimes go blank if I mess around with the cellular settings. Any information is welcome! Just ask if you need more information.

I've received the Pro for doing some light dev/messing around with, and to use as a daily sms unit. I got time to pull battery contact protector strip, and plug the unit in last night, all much like the 'regular' pinephone. I did notice that the battery was at 50%, which I thought would be expected, it needing a top off. I also noted it was draining, slowly, as I set up wifi et cetera -pretty much wifi and the pine64 arm wallpaper. Weird, but I can swap batteries if need be was my thinking, were it the battery. I started the update process, and let it do its thing, not checking it again until this afternoon, leaving the phone connected to a vanilla wall power usb plug that is surge-protected. There is now no response to button presses, no change if I swap to the battery from the non-Pro model, no friendly red/green led when the usb cable is connected. My first thought was, hell, failure to update, any number of reasons, I can install the OS myself, not a big deal. Upon further examination, this may be the case, or there are any number of other possibilities that I can think of. The older pinephone will boot up with either battery, so I am going to fully charge both, leaving the Pro unpowered overnight, and see what happens in the morning. Honestly, the battery shouldn't, in my mind, be the issue, if the unit is connected to external power, be it PC or wall plug. I hope I've given a detailed enough description, I am doing my best to not work on other things while typing this. Battery troubleshooting aside, does anyone have any thoughts?

if you are interested in support for Polish and Ukrainian languages in the notifications on your PineTime running InfiniTime,
and you do not want to use transliteration option provided by the companion app (e.g. Gadgetbridge on android),
than you can search for the latest release on this page, download and install "pinetime-mcuboot-app-dfu-x.x.x.+.UA-PL.zip" like for regular InfiniTime update.

i'll try to maintain the support for that feature till the InfiniTime will support it natively,
or... till my PineTime will stop working preventing me from builds verification 

Got my Pinephone with beta convergence package yesterday and flashed it with the newest (i guess?) Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-factory-20220311.img

phone calls - Work to make/receive calls.

sms - Works to send/receive sms. To send a sms you have to include the IDD (International Dialing Prefix) of Sweden witch is +46 or 0046 if you want to, otherwise the sms just won't make it's way to the receivers phone. A phone number that's for example 0762 93 ** 32 would have to look like +46762 93 ** 32 to be sent to the receiver. Otherwise it's just laying in your phone and seems to been sent, no errors etc so it's hard to know that it's not been sent as the phone don't tell you that.

mms - Don't work, not out of the box. Don't know if there's an easy fix to this? Get's a 'No MMSC selected'.

cellular data - Works fine with 3G. You have to manually activate a APN thou, which the phone auto detect itself while at it. Settings > Cellular network > SIM 0 > Modify Access Point Names > and then click on 'autodetect APN'. I've got three APNs and that's Halebop, Multicom Security and Telia and the phone automatically select Telia for me. After that the cellular data worked.


One thing i noticed is that sometimes when the pinephone is working with opening some applications i can hear a click-sound from within the phone of the same type of like a broken hard drive? Don't really know what that could be? It can be like three to four clicks in a row with like one and a half to like two seconds between each click and then it stops. Doesn't seem to do anything with the phone itself thou, at least nothing that I'm aware of.

It's kind of buggy here and there but that's not that big of a problem for me and i hope to get rid of much of that when switching to the i3-WM instead of the KDE plasma that would be the regular VM for the phone. I must just wait for the pinephone keyboard to be restocked.

I haven't used the usb-c dock station that comes with the phone yet but it sure looks and feel pretty awesome.

Some of the applications that I've downloaded thru pacman are Visual studio code, KeePassXC, Firefox, Gimp, Hexchat, Transmission and Thunderbird.

Okular works pretty well with reading epub's. It's a long wait at the beginning of each page but on the other side you don't have to scroll as soon as you get to a new page this is just something I do, if you just start reading and start scrolling down when you have read whats on the screen you're not going to be aware of the very long loading times on each page at all..

Thunderbird and Firefox in my opinion works very well at the pinephone in horizontal view (I'm at 125% zoom). Transmission also doing what it's supposed to. The phone is buggy as hell (imo) when it comes to switching between the horizontal and regular mode and the zooming etc and often crash but a reboot seems to fix that, it's not very often you're doing that either (if ever?).

The battery time i couldn't really have any opinions at right now because I've been constantly using the phone and to tell the truth my phone before this one was a Samsung from 2011, don't really know what model. So I don't really know what to expect and so on. But i do know that it's way better than my old phone..

This is for sure my phone of choice for daily use and I'm for sure are going for the Pinephone Pro in a near future. I Don't use any (A)social media's and so on so the lack of all of those shitty apps doesn't bother my at all the only thing i can feel like I would like to have that you have on the android/iphone is the app 'Mobilt Bank-ID' which didn't worked on my old phone either thou..

apt offers me to remove u-boot-sunxi. It's probably not a good idea?

I did an update this morning and rebooted and after logging on to the system noticed that there was no GUI for SETTINGS. Makes it difficult to change any settings like wifi or Accessibility and the like.

Hopefully someone higher up the food chain at Mobian will learn of this and fix things.

I have had other programs, like vi, disappear and then reappear with updates.

Any comments or suggestions welcome.

Running Mobian bookworm with updates as of 4 April 2022.

I am trying some baremetal project.



And stuck with two problems:

1st RAMWR does not work for me in code below. ST7789V accepts the data, but ignores it: display stays black. I can't find why.

2nd might come from first problem. I use STLink V2 and flash like:



1st window:

openocd.exe -s ..\scripts\ -f interface\stlink.cfg -f target\nrf52.cfg -c "bindto 0.0.0.0"

2nd window:

arm-none-eabi-gdb --batch -ex="target extended-remote 127.0.0.1:3333" -ex "monitor program c:/pine/mbr.bin 0x00000000" -ex "monitor reset"

arm-none-eabi-gdb -ex="target extended-remote 127.0.0.1:3333"

and in gdb I need to issue "r" command to have any effect.

I.E. reboot after flash does not happen by itself, also after program exec instead of reboot I have HardFault.



Display is not dead: latest infinitime works for me on that device.



Any hints?

Needed to do some debugging that would interrupt ssh.  I didn't feature
typing long arcane systemctl commands on the touchscreen so I looked around
for a keyboard. Two full-size keyboards crowds my cluttered desk.  I
remembered a weird little 8"x10" Logitech keyboard I bought at a yard sale
for about $5 so on a lark I dug it out.  It has a microUSB socket but
neither the Pinephone nor the pc see it.  Oh, well.  Before pitching it
back in the junkbox I took a long shot and looked up the part number
(Y-R0023).  Turns out to be a Bluetooth keyboard for an iPad and it pairs
up just fine with the Pinephone!  Not only that, but the Pinephone fits
perfectly in the slot where the iPad would go!  Of course, being from the
Apple world it has no escape key, but that's fixable.  Some of the
special-purpose keys it has instead of function keys even work.

I'm getting my first pinephone with the convergence package tomorrow and i wonder if there is any possibilities to use i3 as my window manager on the pinephone? If yes, Is it anyone here that use that as their own setup today or at least have used that?

I'm planning on using it with the pinephone keyboard and not the onscreen-keyboard :O.. I'm using Fedora and also Manjaro with the i3 window manager today already so adapting to the i3 wm on the pinephone wouldn't be that hard i guess..