Hello,

I have a PineTime purchased in March 2023. When I first used it, the touchscreen was working perfectly.

I then left the watch unused for approximately 2 years. When I powered it back on, the touchscreen was no longer responding correctly, it feels like it is miscalibrated: inputs are not registered where I tap, or swipes are not recognized reliably.

I just updated the firmware to 1.16.0 (from 1.11.0), but the issue persists.

My assumption is that this may be a hardware degradation issue (deep discharge during storage) rather than a firmware problem, but I wanted to check here before concluding.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue after long-term storage? Is there any known fix or workaround short of hardware intervention?

Thanks and cheers !

Volumio is back on Pine A64

Image of Volumio tested on a working Pine A64+.

Volumio-3.999-2026-05-03-pine64plus.zip

Tested OK

- USB DAC
- Headphone jack

What remains to be tested:

- i2s DAC

**********Progress************

Volumio-3.999-2026-05-12-pine64plus.zip

- Jack output correction is now working.

- i2s ES9023 and Hifiberry DAC Plus (PCM5122) are available.




in progress ...

Hello,

I have a PinePhone 64. I’m desperately trying to figure out which Mobian image to use for the PinePhone.
I can’t find the image for the PinePhone on the Mobian website. And I don’t want to make a mistake.
Thank you for your help.

Hello,

My Pine time is dead. It won't charge from its cradle. Is there anything I can do to make it work?

Chris

Hello,
If I connect to a power supply, the display only shows calibrating, and not work. If I push the + switch under connecting the power,
it shows PD debug State 3 No Vbus. After push the - switch, only shows calibrating...
Under firmware update there are handshake errors. So I cannot step through the "calibrating" word.
The display orientation is changes, as I turn the pinecil handle to other direction....
How do I reset the unit to a working state?

Hello, everyone! I’m looking for engineer for customized PPP. I need to create an MVP based on PPP. I need to create a physical qwerty keyboard, replace display with touch screen with a smaller more. Replace the cameras. Anybody can help with it?

        I bought a crashed second-hand Pinebook Pro for a rock-bottom price.After some thinking and several attempts, I finally managed to get Kali Linux up and running properly on my Pinebook Pro.

What worked for me:

• Switched to USTC (University of Science and Technology of China) mirrors
  
• Used a command to bypass the command-not-found hook error.
  

Occasionally when booting up the PBP, charging does not start up. The PBP can then totally discharge its battery. This happens when the battery is full, having been on charge all night. It is not predictable!

I have been investigating and think I have found what  is happening - hence how to trigger charging. But I don't know why! 

Anyone else have the problem?

Are there any experts here who know the power / charging system? I can use help understanding the  schematic...

For a while I was without PineNote tools on the tool bar (refresh, screen mode, ...).  Also due to hacking, it wouldnt survive a reboot without SSH fixing...all me on that one.

Anyway with the latest update...Im finding it very useable.
- Liferea for RSS feeds.  Read the news, 3 pane window landscape...very functional.  Cant remember how I imported them but have 100s of feeds.  Update all takes about 5 minutes and then there is more articles than I can consume.
- KOreader with OPDS / Project Gutenberg gets me tons of reading material.
- Xournal++ for notes and drawings

Set the screen mode to BW:1 (or dither) and turn off automatic screen updates.  No flashing, smooth scrolling, clear as day.

Still wish:
- X11 was available for more panel options.
- faster writing response in Xournal++
- Some form of Libby / overdrive for checking out books from libraries.

Just wanted to say that it is beoming a daily need now.

Fingers crossed for a PineNote 2 with more cores, more mem, expandable storage.

Bill

Hi!

I have decided to try out Voidlinux on my Pinetab2, replacing the factory Archlinux I had installed until now. When I finished, I found that the same Plasma 6 desktop is much more responsive, with a significantly lower memory footprint. Maybe this is due to musl vs glibc, but it also might be that I have missed some memory-intensive services. Also note that I am using my old Archlinux home folder on the new Voidlinux system, and everything works.


So, here is my experience with this migration. I hope it will help others that want to migrate or try Voidlinux, so you can avoid bricking the Pinetab2 in the process, like I did.


First, I followed the installation instructions on the Pinetab2 releases page, which wrongly state that the Voidlinux image there is suitable both for the SD card and for the eMMC. The SD card worked, but flashing the eMMC bricked the device, so I had to revive it using the UART debugger. Do not do that!

The resources I needed are as follows:

• Pinetab2 Software Installation instructions: https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab...tructions/
  
• Pinetab2 Software Releases: https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab.../Releases/
  
• Voidlinux-pinetab2 readme: https://github.com/sini6a/voidlinux-pinetab2
  
• Voidlinux handbook: https://docs.voidlinux.org/about/index.html
  

• Pinetab2 Tutorials and FAQ: https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab...s_and_FAQ/  (mistakes)