When creating a desktop application
For example to login to a place or email account
THe virtual keyboard is not present and cannot
Introduce credentials. Maybe it is not ready for aarch64
Even when it works por simple pages

Hello,

My PBP has been sitting idle for a while as I've been busy with other things, blown the dust off and looking to get back into learning ARM, I want to bring the keyboard & touchpad up to date as they are sill in the original shipped state but my machine has the SH61F83 with the limited reflash capability. My machine dates from jan 2020 (date of receipt, ordered Nov 2019) Can somebody point me to the correct firmware updates and procedure since I don't have the reflashes to play with.

Thanks 

Ray Sutton

My new PineTime watch arrived last week and I'm keen to update the firmware to v.1.8 to take advantage of the secure Bluetooth pairing and a few other features, including the ability to manually set the time. Manual time setting on the Pinetime itself is not available on v.1.6.

I'm having trouble with companion apps, and find their diversity, limitations and OS-dependencies frustrating.

The companion app NRFConnect appears to have the potential to send a file to the device from an Android tablet, but I'm yet to find a clear step-by-step tutorial for the process. This makes me reluctant to try, for fear of bricking my watch. Where do you upload the file? And do you send the .zip or the .bin file?

To get to this point, I had to resort to installing NRFConnect for Mobile on a friend's device, as the Windows version complained that a debugging kit from NORDIC needed to be connected before it would allow me to connect to any Bluetooth devices. I don't have one of these, so that was a dead end.

I also had a play with Gadgetbridge, which I obtained via the F-Droid app store... but can't see an obvious way to upload/flash firmware using that app on Android. Gadgetbridge seems to be for syncing, but not flashing. Is that correct?

I also tried installing Siglo on my Pinephone, but the installation was unsuccessful. The app opens, but won't connect with my Pinetime via Bluetooth. Maybe I'm missing some dependencies..?

Ultimately, I'd like to pair my Pinetime watch with my Pinephone. Can that be done at this time? Can I somehow get Siglo running properly on my Pinephone to facilitate notifications, music control etc?

In "good news" I see huge potential for the device and I was able to load the correct time/date onto the phone by following this tutorial video and using the HTML file its creator provides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFk_K53U_Oc 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

• Install F-Droid on an Android device
  
• Install Gadgetbridge via F-Droid on the same Android device
  
• Pair your Pinetime watch with the Android device
  
• Download the firmware file from Github (in my case, Infinitime v.1.8.0). Note: make sure it's the .zip file, NOT the .bin
  
• Open File Manager (or similar) on your Android device
  
• Select the downloaded .zip file
  
• "Open With" and select "Gadgetbridge"
  
• Follow prompts, and check status bar on Pinetime for progress
  

Hi,
Downloaded files from https://github.com/LibreELEC/brcmfmac_sdio-firmware
and placed them in /lib/firmware/brcm/

BCM4345C0.hcd 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt

dmesg |grep firm
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[  13.956292] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db
[  13.976156] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db.p7s
[  14.174721] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
[  14.174838] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.0.txt (-2)
[  14.175925] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[  14.176891] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.0.txt failed with error -2
[  14.256595] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt
[  15.507776] bluetooth hci1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/BCM4345C0.hcd

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Well yes because brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt  was renamed from brcmfmac43456-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt
as I cound not locate the correct file.
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checked armbian too but it looks like there is nothing applicable in /lib/firmware/brcm

Did anyone solve this problem?
location of the correct file? or maybe another way to implement the firmwre?

I have a RockPro64 and am looking for a distro recommendation. My two hopes are to find one that supports full disk encryption during install and that allows me to install to an NVME or SATA drive from the installer. Does anything meet those criteria yet ? I am using Manjaro ARM on an SD card in the mean time but miss those two features.

So I got waydroid (sort of) working on my phone. I installed the GAPPS image, but Play Protect won't even let me install apps through the play store. Not a big deal if you use outside images, but I am assuming that the app I want specifically (Google Voice) is going to need GAPPS functioning. Any ideas?

What is the state of the keyboard and its power management/capacity reporting for you guys?

On my original PinePhone everything works fine, it reports the capacity, the buttons work (short press, double press and long press) but on the PinePhone Pro it's a completely different story. The power button powers the phone and then it's all downhill from there. It does not report the battery capacity at all, the power button works when it feels like it (having to long press multiple times to try and stop it from charging the phone so I can turn it off). I should mention that typing on it works flawlessly.

Is anyone else having these issues?

debian bullseye
setup: 32Gb SD-Card for the debian-installer
32 GB emmc for the OS

tried the official debian iso via usb-stick. The problem is known since 2020. The iso wants to boot with grub and this - of course - fails due to EFI.
OK did the debian-installer on SD-Card and installed on emmc.

Result: rockpro is not booting any more and the white led is flashing.
Recloned the debian-installer on the sd-card again ... same result
removed the emmc - same result
inserted the previously working armbian emmc - same result.

I am confused!
Futhermore, the rockpro64 wiki did not feed me with informations about the default LED-Status.

Thanks for input...

I still have 2 kickstarter pine64 (2Gbg) boards.
One one of them I have mounted a small self adhesive cooling block on the processor.

Is it possible to connect a salvaged ventilator to the board ?
It has 4 wires, but 5 pins to connect to:
Image: https://imgur.com/k2lOsQx

Ventilator model: nidec Ta225DCM

Hi, does anyone know how to change the functionality of button presses on standard 3.5mm jack devices?

I have some headphones with a volume up/down and play/pause buttons that all work as expected. What I want to do is to copy the behavior on android of enabling a double or triple press of the play/pause button to skip forward or back in what I'm listening to. This alone would turn it into a real daily driver for me