Hi all!

I recently got my PinePhone and currently it's showing no signs of life. Not even a red led.
Here's what I did once I unboxed it.

1. Let it warm up to room temperature and dehumidify over 24 hours.
2. Removed the plastic covering the battery connections.
3. Connected the red USB to a USB2 charger and inserted the cable in the phone.
4. Waited approx. 5 hours. (Phone felt a little warm to the touch)
5. Removed the charging cable.
6. Held the Power button 2 seconds. Didn't work
7. Tried that a few more times. No luck.
8. Inserted the USB charging cable with power connected.
9. Held the Power button 2 seconds.
10. Phone turns on.
11. I complete the initial steps and finish off by entering my WiFi credentials.
12. Screen displays "Setup Complete"
13. Screen goes black with an audible click coming from the speaker. (Sounded like when the DC offset changes)
14. Phone stays off.
15. Power button does nothing.
16. No light from led neither red nor green.
17. Flash SD card with Mobian and insert it into the SD card slot.
18. Try to power on.
19. No life whatsoever.

Is the phone completely bricked or can I recover it somehow?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Went to a lot of trouble to get Waydroid running on the Pinephone Pro. Seems to be running pretty smooth now (as smooth as it will run without hardware acceleration anyways).

Waydroid is technically not supported yet on the Pro. Hardware acceleration is broken, so you have to disable it due to a Mesa / Android conflict. I am on Mobian Bookworm, so this post outlines what I did to get it working on Mobian Bookworm specifically. Your instructions might vary slightly on different distros or builds of Mobian.

Note: You will be editing your U-boot config file here if you are on Mobian. Doing this wrong can make your device not boot correctly. I’m not responsible for bricked devices if you break your config. The Mobian resource below has all of these instructions save for the hardware acceleration disabling. I’d recommend using the listed instructions over mine. The only thing in this post not included in either of these links is the hardware acceleration disabling.

Refer to these instructions:

Mobian specific, I used the desktop install method and not source compiling: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=waydroid

Use the Ubuntu/Debian desktop specific instructions here: https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops

After you install the Waydroid package via the instructions, do not use

Looking for replacement for SA-2202-112 25-pin Micro-SIM and TF slot as referenced from PPP parts list.

PPP will not read my consumer cellular sim card and it is difficult to insert or remove sd cards.  It used to read sim card fine and I could make phone calls, sms, and mms using manjaro-phosh.  Now nothing.   No software fixes work so it must be the hardware.  Perhaps too many inserts/removals.

I can't find replacement on PPP spare parts site.  Search for part doesn't pick up anything on internet.  Amazon has some slot hardware but nothing looks simillar.

Anyone found a hardware source?  Anyone changed one out successfully?

thanks,     tom kosvic

Could someone please tell me what the PineTime (sealed) can and can't do? I'd like to use one as a conventional wrist watch, but with my own theme/skin if possible. I'd like to load my own custom font and background image for the display, and sound scheme (if it has sound). Anything else is a bonus. I haven't had a smart watch before, so I'm keen to learn about the device's potential. What information does the device send/receive via bluetooth?

*Edit: since posting, I've discovered that the bundled OS is called Infinitime, and the current version (1.8.0) appears to include three clock variations (digital and analog) plus some neat apps, like a metronome and stopwatch, and even a couple of games. There's a repo on GitHub and a website for InfiniTime that suggest more apps/features are on the way. I'm keen to learn what else is in the pipeline.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have my Pinephone Keyboard working really well with my Pinephone running postmarketOS edge.

However, I cannot check the current charge of the keyboard battery.

The device does not show up as /sys/class/power_supply/ip5xxx_power 
I am unable to compile the ppkb utilities as sdcc is not available in the pmOS.

Does anyone running pmOS on the Pinephone know how to tackle this?

Thanks in advance!

Relevant links:
Pinephone Keyboard userspace module FAQ https://xnux.eu/pinephone-keyboard/faq.html
Software Support for the PPKB https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_(...re_support

P.S.:
I've searched the forum for

• ppkb postmarketOS
  
• sdcc postmarketOS
  
• ppkb pmos
  
• sdcc pmos
  

Convergence is "the thing" which I try to push on PinephonePro.

Connecting a 1920x1080p screen (even bigger ones do work) via USB-C to hdmi adaptor works so far.
Also simulating a mouse with the great app from [Adam Honse](https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/TouchpadEmulator).

But I have several issues which someone might help to fix or point me into the right direction:

The first time I connected a screen, the KDE Screen Layout Widget popped up and I was able to select the screen layout, 
kind of this (was more squeezed over all screens):



However, when you select a wrong configuration here, you will never ever be able to get back to this widget.

Any KDE expert knowing how to trigger this widget? via terminal or via keyboard shortcut?
Where does KDE save this made joices, where is the whole screensetting stuff stored?

What I figured out so far:

This is a simple question but I would like to know where to find the 'bypass contact points' on a _developer_ edition of the PPP.
Not needed at this time but we never know

Can anyone provide an update on the implementation of the fingerprint scanner case? Which (if any) OS' currently support the new case with fingerprint reader?

This video appears to suggest Manjaro w. Phosh supports the device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEXv_SrD0TA

Since I've previously caught people trying to read my password on my laptop or phone in various environments over the past few years, I'm really looking forward to having a functional fingerprint scanner to unlock my Pinephone and mitigate this vulnerability.

I bought a Community Edition Pinephone back in 2020 and would like to upgrade it to the 3GB RAM, 128 GB eMMC board. Is that practical/possible to do myself, or would I do better to buy a new, complete Pinephone with these specifications instead? I enjoy simple DIY computing/electronics projects.

Thanks in advance. 

Any suggestions for a video player that works well on PPP (using Phosh)? Neither Totem nor VLC play nice.