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Rainbow What unofficial power adapter should I buy?
Posted by: Mercadona - 04-03-2025, 09:57 AM - Forum: Pinecil Hardware and Accessories - Replies (1)

Hi,
The official power adapter is too expensive...
Can you recommend a 65W PD charger from AliExpress?
Thanks!  Cool


Rainbow Delivery to Spain
Posted by: Mercadona - 04-03-2025, 09:51 AM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (2)

I want to buy a soldering iron, but I don't know which shipping option to choose: Global or EU.
Global is cheaper.
If I choose Global and enter a Spanish address, will I have to pay anything to customs?
Will it cost the same in the end?
Please help. Thank you!

Cool


  Possible solution to boot and/or eMMC failures
Posted by: sanctimonious_spoon - 04-01-2025, 11:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - No Replies

After attempting to flash an image to the eMMC, my Pinetab 2 would not boot from the eMMC, and when I booted from the SD card, I saw an error similar to the following

Code:
mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card

I tried flashing the eMMC with the factory image multiple times, but none of the attempts succeeded.

Based on my experience with Xilinx SoCs, I suspected an issue with the SD Host Controller (SDHC). I poked at some of the internal registers on the SDHC in U-Boot, but while I noticed some possible patterns, I couldn't pinpoint a definitive issue or find any magical reset sequence that fixed the issue. I was able to observe that some of the low-level SD commands were timing out due to lack of response. Off a hunch, I removed the back cover and disconnected the battery cable form the main board (I also disconnected the other connectors so I could examine the main board, but given that both the SDHC and the eMMC are located on the main board, I wouldn't expect the removal of any of these to have an impact). When I reinserted the cable and booted the Pinetab 2 I was able to write an image to the eMMC and subsequently boot from the eMMC. My theory is that the SD/MMC/eMMC state machine in the SDHC was somehow corrupted, leaving it unable to enter a state where it could respond to commands; I suspect that fully de-energizing and re-energizing the circuit caused it to go into reset, getting it back on an operational path. It's possible the issue is with the eMMC chip instead of the SDHC, but my knowledge of SD/MMC standards and implementation is limited and I was unable to find substantial documentation on the eMMC chip. As a caveat, I have not had the time to attempt to reproduce the issue or my solution, so it's possible my observation and solution were subject to confounding factors I didn't test for. (Time aside, I damaged the microSD card reader while attempting to reseat the back cover, so I would need to get USB booting to work in order to be able to effectively run tests.)

Hopefully, this is helpful to someone.


  Movuan distribution for PinePhone
Posted by: merom - 04-01-2025, 02:05 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (4)

You may not know yet, but the Mobian Clone, which is without SystemD, has been released. It uses Devuan Linux as the basis.
Release v 0.0.0.2 comes with an attached image that can be burned to your bootable SD card straight for the PinePhone.

Code:
https://gitlab.com/l2385/movuan/movuan-recipes/-/releases


If you would like to test/use it in a VM, on a laptop, or on other compatible phones, you will however have to build it yourselves.
Code:
https://gitlab.com/l2385/movuan/movuan-recipes
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On gitlab they have limited free storage space, hence providing a single image in a split zip archive. They also have free compute minutes monthly, that are almost enough to build one Movuan image monthly. Everything important is written on the project pages.
Yes, you can try it.  

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  At what voltage is the battery fully drained?
Posted by: ethical_haquer - 04-01-2025, 07:44 AM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Hardware - Replies (1)

I'm wondering, what is the minimum battery voltage the PPP can run at before having to shutdown? Or in other words, what should the battery's voltage be when the installed OS says it's at 0% charge?
Thanks in advance, ethical_haquer


  Ubuntu 25.04 beta works, kinda
Posted by: RMJ250 - 04-01-2025, 12:16 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

Hey, just tried Ubuntu 25.04 beta ISO on an SDcard and it boots as you would expect any x86 to say from a USB stick. This is the first time I have found an ISO boot successfully like this, took a little while to get to the desktop but it works in live mode, no wifi, BT or sound, would it be possible if I installed it?


  Pinephone pro explorer edition
Posted by: systeamdos - 03-31-2025, 03:35 PM - Forum: Getting Started - No Replies

Hy man. I am glad to bye this phone for test nethunter or kali linux, but gsm modem sleep and phone dont working also nmap and something base function. Maybe human who sell me this phone install bad image or this product dont working in russia.. if you have information on this issue, give link, for decide problem, thanks)


  Debian vs Mobian
Posted by: henrythemouse - 03-30-2025, 09:52 PM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - Replies (3)

I started to think about why I was still using the Mobian repo. It looks like most of the dev work is bing done in debian trixie. So, I looked at what was installed.

Code:
apt list phosh* --installed

phosh-common/testing,now 0.45.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
phosh-core/testing,now 44 arm64 [installed,automatic]
phosh-full/testing,now 44 arm64 [installed,automatic]
phosh-games/testing,now 44 all [installed,automatic]
phosh-mobile-settings/testing,now 0.45.0-1 arm64 [installed]
phosh-mobile-tweaks/testing,now 0.45.0-1 all [installed]
phosh-osk-stub/testing,now 0.45.0-1 arm64 [installed]
phosh-pim/testing,now 44 arm64 [installed]
phosh-plugins/testing,now 0.45.0-1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
phosh-tour/testing,now 0.45.0-1 arm64 [installed]
phosh-wallpapers/testing,now 0.42.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
phosh/testing,now 0.45.0-1 arm64 [installed,automatic]

apt list mobian* --installed

mobian-archive-keyring/testing,now 20240504.0 all [installed]
mobian-base/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed]
mobian-multimedia/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed,automatic]
mobian-phone-base/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed]
mobian-phosh-base/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed]
mobian-phosh-extras/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed,automatic]
mobian-phosh/trixie,now 0.5.1 all [installed]
mobian-tweaks-common/trixie,now 0.6.1 all [installed,automatic]
mobian-tweaks-phosh/trixie,now 0.6.1 all [installed,automatic]

I also have this mobian pin from a year ago.

Code:
cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/00-mobian-priority
Package: *
Pin: release o=Mobian
Pin-Priority: 700

Some or all of these packages may include duplicate code. I'm wondering if I should be using the Mobian repo at all. I've done some ducking to try to get information one way or the other, but found nothing definitive. I've looked on my phone under software/repositories and it no longer lists any software repos (other than flatpak). Upon review many of these packages are meta packages with overlapping requirements.

Is anyone using pure debian?


  New Pro Owner
Posted by: dnerp953 - 03-30-2025, 06:03 PM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - No Replies

New member
- Model: Pinephone Pro RK3399
- Monitor: Asus PAV247 24" with USB-C displayport
- USB logi K380 keyboard, M350 mouse
- OS: Mobian Phosh
- Use: 100% desktop, Claws-Mail, Firefox, PCManFM, Chatty/MMS
- Pro: Works great 99%
- Con: Occasionally auto reboots when starting 1st app
      Battery life ; presently use PD 100%

- Rating: 9/10 desktop use
                  mobile not rated, battery power management needs work
Overall impression: Big improvement over my Librem5 USA (ret'd),
                    especially doing OS installs / maintenance


  Problem with Wifi, Sleep, Video and PGP signature
Posted by: Anarethos - 03-30-2025, 10:55 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

Hi everyone!

After 2 years in my drawner, I decided to revive my Pinebook Pro. I wanted to use it to watch Youtube video, Spotify and my Plex media when in the bedroom (don't have any TV there).

So, I downloaded the latest Pinebook Pro image from Manjaro (Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-23.02) and reinstalled the whole laptop.

Saddly, I found out that this version has some problems that previous one didn't had :
- When put to sleep, the computer don't come back on. Must force poweroff
- Wifi stop working on reboot. Needs poweroff/poweron
- Videos are sluggish on Youtube

So, I decided to try a previous ISO I had (Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-21.12) and I have none of theses problem with the Pineboook Pro!

But I have, then, another problem : completly unable to update anything! I always get PGP error. I tried to :
pacman-mirrors -f5
pacman -Syy manjaro-keyring archlinux-keyring

None of them fiex my PGP problem.

So ...

how can I use the old version and update it correctly OR how can I use the new one and get by the old stability (sleep, wifi, video accelaration) ?

My understanting of Linux is not good enough for me here.

Thanks in advance for you help!