I was going to try out PostmarketOS on my RockPro64 today. Burned the image to an SD and it boots fine. It doesn't have a DE installed by default, which is fine, so I installed Mate. Question is what command do I use to get it to use Mate instead of booting into a console ?
Forgive me if this has already been addressed but I have been searching everywhere for a week or so and haven't found a solution that was provided that works in my case.
Got my PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition and have been excited to try it outside of some funkiness as to be expected with a phone in this state of its like. The frustrating thing is everyone apparently can easily swap SD cards with new distros and explore! I can not.
I installed balenaEtcher and downloaded Ubports/Arch Phosh/Jump drive to various SD Cards. Tried this process from a Windows machine and also a Linux machine. When inserted into the PinePhone Pro the device doesn't boot/light up/vibrate or give any indication it is being turned on.
It appears to be turning on because to get the PinePhone Pro to turn on after the SD card is removed I have to remove/reseat the battery then press the power button.
When the card is inserted after the phone is booted I can run "sudo lsblk" and I can see that any of the test drives are available.
Posted by: Scary Guy - 04-22-2022, 08:12 PM - Forum: General
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My train of thought here is that if a device has a battery then by definition it has a UPS built in. I'd like to get this running on the PinePhone but I figure it applies to almost all products with a battery. I also think it'd be cool to see them over on the list at https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html as well.
My goal is to get NUT-Monitor on my main Linux box to show my phone's battery information. I just have no clue about how to do that, so any help or advice is appreciated.
Possibly using the dummy-ups "driver" to read the battery info directly might work. Though I don't know where that information is stored or how it would even parse that data.
I'm using Postmarket OS PhoSh though and have NUT installed on that. I can at least make it work as a client, which is still cool.
I'd like to be able to take a short maybe 10 second video using the Pinephone's camera. There seem to have been a few individuals who figured out how to do this, but they used very different methods and none of them seem to be currently functional:
Reddit post by UJC_theguy, who was able to use ffmpeg to record a video. Trying his method (with /dev/video2 since that's what my camera shows up as), I get the following:
Edit: Atticus83's method actually does work, but the "ugly" gstreamer plugins are needed. When I wrote this post I thought I had already installed them, but upon trying to install all of the gst-plugins-* packages in pmOS, gst-plugins-ugly got installed and now it works. If anyone knows of a better method though, please post it here.
So ... I ordered two of the WIRELESS CHARGING ADD-ON CASE, one for my original PinePhone and one for my Pro.
My "Qi" compliant charging base has an indicator light that tells me something has successfully engaged the field, both of the charging cases will light the light, and I can measure 5VDC on a couple of the pins of the "flexible fanout" (that's what we call the Kapton with traces in the aerospace industry), however neither of the phones will charge.
Am I doing something wrong? My concern is that the flexible fanout is not indexed, not held down, it just sort of flops around in the breeze and may not be engaging the pogo pins correctly.
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.
