Dear PineTime community.

I have been in the shadows following the progress of Pine64 for quiet some item. Several years since the AOBs.

I am interested in acquiring a pinetime watch. How ever I follow a strict.. "time system"? If you would call it. 

I need "my watch" to display 'Day of year/week of year'. Example - Today March 9, 2022 would be W10 / D68. Also, an option to set the initial Week Day to Monday/Sunday would be great.

What would I need to do inorder to facilitate this type of feature? I can't code or anything the like of it. 

many thanks.

Buongiorno,
sono nuovo.
Dopo aver riavviato il Pinebook Pro, non si è più acceso.
La batteria era ormai scarica. Ho provato a attaccare l'alimentazione ma rimane rosso ma il Pinebook non si accende.
Ho provato ad unire i due cavetti senza la batteria ma non si accende, togliendo la batteria senza collegare i cavi la lucetta rossa inizia a lampeggiare ma in entrambi i casi non si accende. Ora lo sto tenendo in carica da circa 3 ore ma continua a non accendersi.
Potete aiutarmi. Grazie per un qualsiasi aiuto.

 Hello, I'm new. After restarting the Pinebook Pro, it no longer turned on. The battery was now dead. I tried to plug in the power but it stays red but the Pinebook won't turn on. I tried to join the two cables without the battery but it does not turn on, removing the battery without connecting the cables the red light starts flashing but in both cases it does not turn on. I've been charging it for about 3 hours now but it still won't turn on. Can you help me. Thanks for any help.

Sorry for the language I'm using a translator.

I just bought it 2nd time to use it while I was using it , it turned off. wont restart. please help

Hi,

in the pine phone manual that came with the phone it says the phone can be charged with up to 3 ampere.

I bought a 3 ampere phone charger but the 'Power supply' tool says this about the usb charger:

'Current Limit: 1.5A'


Can I do something about this?

The phone is charging just as slow as with my old 1.5A charger, so as of now I just wasted my money on the new charger

Does anybody know how to remove
Koko, Weather Clip etc ? 
I do not know where to find the package
Even reading the list of installed

On my android smartphone I had an 'always on' VPN. Has anyone configured their pinephone in the same way?



I would like it to start a wireguard VPN before bringing up the wifi or mobile interfaces, as well as a kill-switch if the VPN disconnects somehow.

Edit: This is what I ended up doing:

I used wg-quick and the iptables rules @tophneal suggested (I didn't use the ip6tables commands).

This is a howto, from following the arch wiki, on how to encrypt the root partition with LUKS.

I'm using a Pinephone Pro with a keyboard, but you could probably explorer other methods if a keyboard is not available.

The SD card will contain the boot partition and the LUKS header. If it is removed, then there should be no way to access the phone or see what kind of data is present.

The internal eMMC will contain the encrypted LUKS volume.


Boot the phone from Manjaro SD and then fill the eMMC disk with random encrypted data

Hi,

I submitted a ticket on 29/30 January about this issue, but I have had no response there so I am posting my problem here in hope. All I need is a new part or where I can get it.

Date: 29 January 2022

Dear Pine64 Support,

It need a new circuit board for the keyboard.

I think the charging circuit has gone faulty, the 5208 gets extremely hot, too hot to touch.
The battery appears okay and is fully charged.

Also noticed the there is no power being supplied to the phone via the pogo connections if there isn’t a charger cable plugged in. This might be related to the above.

I can use Megi’s tools to still read the i2c bus, but the charger readings show only 2 volts and 0 mA, however the battery is measuring 4 volt directly.
Keyboard still works if a USB charger is plugged into the keyboard.

How it all started:
Keyboard was working just fine ever since I got it a couple weeks ago. No problems. I have been careful to follow the guidelines concerning charging and peripherals.
The charger I use is the PINE64 PinePower 65W.

I left the pinephone and keyboard overnight maybe logger but not plugged into charger.
In the morning I picked it up and it was dead, no power coming form keyboard.
So I plugged the charger into the keyboard USB port and left it for sometime.
Returned and discovered that keyboard power not working, nothing going to phone.

Previously when everything worked you could press the power button on the keyboard and power would d go to the phone.

Some points.

[] keyboard battery is at full charge, so it did charge or kept its charge?
[] there is no power going to the pogo pin connector unless usb cable is plugged in.
[] the i2c tools show the button is registering, but that says the battery has only 2 volts but when in charge mode shows only 0 mA and doe snot indicate sending current to pinephone.
[] the 5208 get really hot, so much so that you can burn your finger on it.
[] I2C bus is working, Tools do read from it, and keyboard works, as long as there the USB charger cable is plugged in.

Would I be able to get another circuit board? 

Yours Faithfully,

André Skarzynski, M0JEK

Hi Guys,

I've been on Linux on my laptop for about 2 years now and have never looked back. I recently bought a pine phone for my wife because I am sick of her iphone eavesdropping on us constantly. Apparently, Ubuntu Touch is the 'best' operating system to use on the pine phone so I flashed it to an sd card. It's great but when the phone goes to sleep, I can't bring it out of sleep without restarting the phone. Maybe it's because the system is not installed to the internal phone? Any way t bring it out of suspend without a reboot?

Any advice appreciated

Best Wishes

Matt

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