Hi all, two out of three of my Pine64 devices are usefully employed. The Pinebook Pro gets most use. It runs the Manjaro kde desktop and has been a really useful tool for all sorts of things. Frequent updates come through from Manjaro - bringing improvements all the time.
The Rock64 works quietly away in the corner. It runs on Armbian Bullseye and has be very reliable, including periodic loss of power. It runs the postfix email server.

Anyway to the point. Pine64. I have seen frequent blogs and how-to's about using the Raspberry Pi for an Audio wireless connection to any speaker.
Can we use the Pine64 for this purpose. I would probably need a dac on it, and power supply. Has anyone done this? Do you see any problems?

The Pine64 is no cost while the Raspberry Pi would be an additional cost for this idea.

public service announcement. do not do these, it will harm your pinephone (pro).

like this:

or this:

especially this:

also, this is not a good idea either:


do not put nano-sim on sdcard slot. do not put sdcard on sim-slot. do not put sim-adapter alone on sim-slot. pinephone takes micro-sim.

what kind of an .... something would do something like this!?

Here's how we run the Sitronix ST7789 SPI Display and LVGL Graphics Library on PineCone BL602 with Apache NuttX RTOS...

ST7789 Display with LVGL Graphics on Apache NuttX RTOS

So far I've made no changes to my PinePhone Pro Explorer edition.  I received it back in January, got super frustrated and shelved it until last week when I got it back out and started fiddling again.

On a surface level, I see, booting consists of:

Pressing the power button
6 seconds go by
Vibration for 1 second
Red light for 2 seconds
White light for 1 second
blank screen
boot screen
[    0.232045] rockchip-usb2phy ff770000.syscon:usb2phy@e460: failed to create phy
[    0.429706] imx258 1-001a: failed to read chip id 258
[    0.745578] bootsplash: Failed to initialize.
Warning: /lib/modules/5.16.2-2-MANJARO-ARM/modules.devname not found - ignoring
Starting version 250.3-1-arch
ROOT_MNJRO: recovering journal
ROOT_MNJRO: Clearing blah, blah, blah, blah .....

Several places provide instructions for bypassing the eMMC by "hold the RE button underneath the cover for a few (or multiple) seconds, while powering on the device" and "holding it too long will cause the eMMC to not get initialized after the boot".

I have a PNY256 GB microSD card with postmarketOS flashed to it in the microSD slot under the back cover.  I have verified the phone sees it by loading Manjaro and checking for /dev/mmc* and looking with the gnome disks utility.  Gnome disks shows it as mmcblk1, partition 1 pmOS_boot, partition 2 pmOS_root, Partition Type Linux (Bootable).

I've pressed the RE button before, during and after the power button, the 6 second interval, the vibration, the red light, the white light, the blank screen and the boot screen.  I've pressed the RE button it quickly, I've pressed it for a few seconds, I've pressed it for several seconds during all the various power on events.

Any of the combination described result in either the boot sequence freezing where it is, Manjaro booting normally, or I get dumped into an emergency shell.  At no point have ever been able to boot from the microSD.  I've also tried different operating systems on different SD cards.

What am I doing wrong?  If someone could literally spell it out for me I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks.

I switched my OS from my SD card to my eMMC and am trying to figure out how to get my backed up home folder on the eMMC. Any ideas?

This is a heads up really.

I noticed my drives were spinning up for no reason over the past week, on investigating the problem I found that one of the drives wasn't responding to commands and was marked as damaged in the ZFS pool. I thought it was the drive. After getting a replacement, the replacement drive didn't show up. Odd. After some messing about I tried the power cable from HDD0 and HDD1 then span up.

So the culprit in this case was the twin SATA power adapter that comes from the board, on each path it has something like an MP1584EN encased in heatshrink which converts the 12V to 5V for one of the SATA pins. Upon inspection this was outputting 3V.

I've ordered a replacement buck, hopefully one that has a bit more longevity.

So if you think a drive has failed on your NAS case, might want to check that first.

Ashley

I'm really impressed with the improvements made between Infinitime 1.6 and 1.8. The latter was published in early January 2022. I figure we're about due for another update. Does anyone know what new features or enhancements we can expect? I thought about asking via Github/Infinitime, but "enthusiasm" isn't really an "Issue".   

I've made a few feature/enhancement requests myself, so I'm hoping to see some implemented down the track. The storing of files/data to the 4mb external storage will enable many exciting new possibilities, and I see that progress is being made on that front.

Hello all,

I wanted to reach out and see if there is a known solution to my issue.  I have the Pinephone Beta edition, purchased during the summer of 2020.  Since near the beginning, at random intervals, the screen would severely flicker whenever the backlight is >30% or so.  This happens at random intervals regardless of battery or charging status.  I have also noticed occasional ghosting on the display that persists after reboot.  I've reseated the display connector to no avail.

My distro is stock Postmarket, although I suspect this to be a hardware problem (perhaps with the display controller?)

Has anyone else experienced or resolved this issue?

Hello everyone,
I recently got my pinephone pro and have had fun trying the different os's available and I've setteled with latest modian posh, I found that in every os that everything is working but the camera isn't working. I checked the dip switches and even turned it on and off, then I started to look in terminal using the sudo lshw command and I can see everything else but the camera or their title OV5640. Am I doing something wrong or do I have hardware issue, I have been looking through the forum but can't find anyone with the same issue.
Any suggestion would be greate

Hey, Is it possible to logout out as mobian and login as a different user? For example on boot?
I like create a user that has controll of ex. keepassxc but one other user can access it. Similiar to what
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Simple_sandbox does.