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

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