I have a RockPro64 running Ubuntu 4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310. It boots from emmc and has a hard disk attached via SATA.

After working fine for a long time, since last week the hard disk doesn't seem to be recognized. It doesn't show up in `fdisk -l` for example and isn't mounted anymore.

If I plug it into another laptop the drive mounts and is visible so I don't think it's dead. dmesg contains `PCIe link training gen 1 timeout!` which may be related and the last time it successfully mounted the linux-firmware package was updated via apt from 1.187.25 to 1.187.26. The older version no longer seems to be available to rollback to so unsure if related.

Anybody seen this before or know what to do here?

Prolly not, but I am a bit flummoxed at this point and could use some help sorting out the phone.

The problems started from minute one, the batter connector protective tab was partially attached to the coating inside the back of the phone and peeled a little patch off when I opened.
On boot I got the welcome screen, but like @Jetpac , I ran into the orientation problem, a scroll problem and a no timezone choices. Like him I solved with an external keyboards and in one case a good guess on what info was needed to finish setting up.

So, that got me started and I got to setting up the phone, nothing special, just adding a few programs, tweaking a few settings as far as theme and timezone, and upon returning to the desktop, I found I didn't have an app drawer any more. Odd, but I figured a reboot would do the trick, so the phone turned off...

And won't turn on again. I do sometimes get the light and vibration of a boot, but it doesn't go beyond that. I did try the reset button on the back, and the phone turned on, the indicator light was lit, but nothing displayed on the screen.

I've tried starting it with and without it being plugged in, tried an external display, and nothing.


I'm not really sure where to go from here, as a lack of a display makes it a bit tricky to interact with the phone.

I admit to being a noob.  I am pretty good at researching before asking a question, and I follow directions well, but I am limited in my ability to troubleshoot on my own. 

Has anyone on Manjaro (Phosh, but that shouldn't matter) switched to the userspace driver (ppkb-i2c) for the keyboard case?  If so, can you post how you did it?

I was hoping maybe I could just use the instructions for Arch starting at step 3:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16156

Unfortunately, I can't even get out the  gate because Manjaro Arm does  not seem to have a mkscr command (The boot.txt file says at the top to run "pp-uboot-mkscr" but that fails to with a "command not found" message. and there is no ".scr" file with a similar name on the boot directory).  There is a boot.scr file in the boot directory, and, yes, I am in that directory when issuing the commands.

Any help from someone using Manjaro Arm would be appreciated.

TIA

I just loaded Kodi after a few months, I just want to let everyone know about the progress that has been made.
Firslty Kodi is firstly a complete UI for DIY TV-box multimedia Linux distros, it is also an app for desktop OSs and mobile Linux and Android distros, it is an ultra flexible platform for streaming and other plugins and easily re-configured with easy to edit UI skins.
There is now a touch 'back' button in the Estouchy UI skin making the Phosh keyboard superfluous.
The latest build for Mobian has a new and quite good custom UI 'skin' which works well as long as you are not touching near the phosh keyboard touch area.
Some of the plugins I tried crashed when they worked in earlier builds but it can stream video and search in other plugins.

I recommend installing and playing with it, I have not tested it but I suspect you will still need your charge cable as in the past Kodi, like VLC, used a battery quickly though it has a quite universal playback codec library so it is rare to find unsupported media.  I have not found much media that the totem player would even play so I have no way to compare battery savings if any.

There is still plenty of work to be done on the easy to hack skin and possibly deeper issues but I can see the effort that has been put into this app.

If your install does not have the Estouchy skin(I experimented with several mobile tweaked skins a few months ago so not sure if this is me or Mobian) you find it by clicking the settings 'gear' - Interface - Skin - Skin
I am not sure how much of the upgrades are the Estouchy skin and how much is Mobian tweaks.

I have a new PinePhone, with a new SIM card, and the modem won't connect. The carrier assures me the SIM card is activated. (I went through 5 or 6 support people and I believe the last one actually knew what he was doing.)

The phone came with Manjaro installed. I'm looking at the Cellular Network section of the Settings app, sometimes I see a SIM 1, sometimes SIM 2, I've even seen SIM 4. If I select SIM 1 (or whatever number) and go to Select Network Operator it says "Current operator: none". If I hit the Scan For Networks button, I get one of these messages:

  Scanning networks failed: Object does not exist at path "/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/1"
  Scanning networks failed: Cannot scan networks: not enabled yet

I suppose the first one is because the number keeps changing.

When I hit View Modem Details, I see an Enable Modem button and a Force Modem Restart button. I have tried both of those a few times, and they don't do anything as far as I can tell. I have rebooted the phone a few times also.

I suspected a command line equivalent of the Enable Modem button might give me better feedback, so I tried this: `mmcli -m 2 -e` and it said

  error: couldn't enable the modem: 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.Core.Retry: Invalid transition'

And that, I guess, is the root problem. But I don't know what an invalid transition is so I can't troubleshoot any further without a hint.

Hello Good People,

Pine phone newbie here (altough I've been on Linux with my laptop for a couple of years). I've noticed the wifi disconnects after a while and it takes many attempts entering the password over and over to get it re-connected. Bit annoying. Any remedy? Any help appreciated.

Best

Matt

Are there any distros that suspend(sleep) work on. I carried my phone the last couple days as my only phone. It was great for everything except the battery. Even with the keyboard case and battery in that fully charged and the phone fully charged I barely made it through the work day without it going dead.

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