I bought a second hand Ubports PinePhone. When I boot the phone, it asks me for the password. The seller told me, I had to reinstall Ubports to solve this problem. Is there no other option to solve this problem?

I let my PPP battery die completely, and then after I charged it from dead with the RE button the screen was extremely dim. I couldn't even unlock the phone because I couldn't see the on-screen keyboard clearly. I powered it off and put in a micro sd with Mobian on it in and booted it up again and I am pretty sure it turns on, but now the screen is completely black, even when I boot from the emmc. What should I do?

The product page for the H64 mentions "802.11ac" wifi. However, the datasheet for RTL8723BS found in the wiki only mentions b/g/n and 2.4 ghz only.

So, which is right? Does the H64 support 5 Ghz and 802.11ac?

I observe it is fascinating that there is a pinebook 64 to buy yet am feeling that it would be great to have a better quality arm based Pine Mini based freely as something almost identical to a macintosh smaller than expected or a Nuc PC as a task scaled down work area. The overall thought would be a usable smaller than expected arm PC of numerous utilizations suck as a Media box, enormous screen television web surfer, programming advancement gadget and different choices, for example, a media community. So not exactly a pc work area yet way further developed than an arm media focus and usable as a PC for say Arch Linux for pine arm advancement with a top of the line arm framework with a more current arm processor as they are cutting to the chase to be cutthroat with a X86 framework.

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?