After I received it, it worked 3-4 times, and the same day it died: No more screen, no reaction when I plug various LiPo battery or USB, doesn't heat up...
The only thing that work is when I plug to my PC I still can uptade it lmao
That's annoying to have bought such a bad product...
It's optimized for Phosh with 175% magnification in Gnome Settings (I wonder why the Settings give only coarse values of 100%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200% - I'd prefer to be able to fine tune screen magnification).
It works best in Portrait mode.
If rendering gets affected, I just kill conky and restart - takes a second to do (I placed Conky in Phosh's Favorites).
I'm gradually moving towards an all-Wayland setup, so I wonder how the X-based Conky will transition there if at all.
I think I have broken the PinePhone I got for my 17th birthday. But I don't know, I'm not good at systems stuff, I'm just a simple programmer.
What I did:
I wanted to boot from an SD-card, but it didn't let me boot; it just booted from the internal storage. So I did something I now extremely regret: I tried to make the OS that I installed on the internal storage un-bootable by writing from /dev/random to the /dev/*Whatever the eMMC was*. At least, it doesn't boot the Manjaro ARM with KDE Mobile (which I didn't like), which the Desktop of has just... gone away... some time ago ?!
But the problem is: It doesn't boot anything anymore.
What happens:
Nothing. Nothing at all. The LED on the outside doesn't light up, it doesn't boot, it does as much as a clay brick that I could buy in a building supplies store.
I purchased my Pinecil back in April, and it was useful one time in the field.
The other day I wanted to upgrade to IronOS from 2.15 (stock) to 2.18, and the device appeared to not boot but would DFU.
After some digging, I discovered the issue was with bad soldering on the OLED connector. Sure enough, after a reflow, I was able to upgrade.
Unfortunately, it appears the LCD is dead after a few minutes use.
I expect that the Pinecil is out of warranty. Does anyone happen to know the part# for the OLED LCD module? I'd like to try to replace it if possible.
I'm really disappointed with the build quality on the Pinecil, and this really leaves a negative impression of the Pine brand. I buy a *lot* of commodity electronics from CN/TW and even when the build quality is questionable, it usually will function reliably. Not so with the Pinecil.
I nominate that a mod please put a sticky at the top of the mobian forum that directs users to the Mobian wiki https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=start
and the IRC channel #mobian on irc.oftc.net
I received my pine phone pro a couple of weeks ago
got it charged and working then left it until yesterday
now it will not charge
it is completely unresponsive
what can i do
My PineTime is stuck on the InfiniTime triangles after trying to install the latest update 1.9.0. That got to 1% install and dropped the connection. The first restart got back to the normal watch screen so I tried again with the same result. Now holding the power button in gets the green Pine then just boots to InfiniTime screen. Have tried oldr updates which get to 2% before the connection is dropped, have left it for a couple of days tom drain with the same result. Holding the power button for longer just cycles through red green amd blue pines but ends at the same place. This is a sealed version and the hard reset has always worked before when stuck on InfiniTime screen. All update had been validated. Any hints on what to try next.
I have notice there have been no specific updates to UBPorts for PinePhone in a while. I have seen generic updates which would apply to all UBPorts supported device like language for the OS and keyboard.
As time goes by Pine64 will be coming up with next generation designs, one feature which would be inexpensive and easy to implement is software definable buttons.
How would you like to have one, two, or more buttons which can trigger a scrip or other action, for example pop up a camera app or flashlight; maybe a coded key combo starts a script to quickly wipe and overwrite your entire flash memory and SD card.
Additionaly I would like to see larger hardware switches and an option for a battery cover that would allow me to use an external switch slider to toggle one or several of the dip switches without taking the back off.
From a privacy standpoint I could see oppressed minorities, investigative journalists, even technology experts carrying trade secrets appreciating easier access to both hardware and software quick actions like these. For most users there is probably a fast access app you would like a button for.
