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  Install the DDE desktop environment
Posted by: wangyukunshan - 12-23-2021, 06:51 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Recently, I installed the desktop environment of DDE on my DEBIAN10 system. It runs smoothly, and occasionally some hardware devices are incompatible, and the settings fail, but they do not affect the use.


  Is my rockpro dead?
Posted by: k0sm - 12-23-2021, 06:07 PM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - Replies (6)

Hello,

After years and years of loyal service my rockpro64 quit on me. I had some slow network problems this week, but now it stopped completely.

I have an official power supply. No overheating and I didn't handle it physically.

Only the power light comes on but not the white one also no blinking or anything special. I also tried removing the mmc and inserted a new microSD with a manjaro distro on it.

question : Is it worth it to get an UART cable or did it just die out of old age?


  VPN for Arch Linux ARM?
Posted by: tk1107 - 12-23-2021, 12:47 PM - Forum: Arch Linux on PinePhone - Replies (5)

I'm using ProtonVPN for Ubuntu and noticed it in the AUR for Arch Linux (X86).

Has a VPN with a GUI been successfully installed and used with Arch Linux ARM? What VPNs have been used so far with GUI or with the command line (has ProtonVPN been used with Arch ARM)?


  Pin login fails when unplugged
Posted by: slomobile - 12-23-2021, 08:02 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (2)

https://youtu.be/e8p7QYuvsIA

Seems to work normally if plugged in.  When running on battery(any state of charge) the pin screen is only up very briefly unless you are constantly touching the screen.  On the rare case the phone does unlock, the screen very quickly goes black and locks again.

Pinephone Beta Convergence Edition with as delivered hardware and software.  Software updates did not resolve the problem.

Would appreciate any insight about the cause, especially whether this is the same as any already reported issues, or if it is new.  Please advise next steps.

It was like this when it was delivered, but now past 30 days because... life.  Is a new USB-C board likely to help?


  Guide: Access Android Settings /ADB in stock image
Posted by: nakato - 12-23-2021, 05:50 AM - Forum: PineNote Software - No Replies

The Android that ships on the PineNote is pretty impressive at showing off the eInk panel on the device, so it's tempting to play around with, but getting past the settings built into EngLauncher, the Home App/Launcher isn't the most straight forward.  This android settings are useful if you'd like to get ADB up, or any other settings that aren't exposed via EngLauncher.

To start with, open up the app list, highlighted as 1, then open application management.
   

Next up, "Application Management" again.
   

This opens up the Android "App Info" panel, but it doesn't have a search box like much the rest of Settings has, so it can't search to the root of the settings panel.  Use the far right 3 dots to "Show System", then search "Settings".
   

Lastly, click open, and the root of the settings app opens up.
   


  Upload possibility
Posted by: MartinR - 12-23-2021, 02:26 AM - Forum: PineNote Software - Replies (2)

I am testing several possibilities to upload files (like marked and commented pdfs), but the uploading via internet filshares does not seem to work with the installed browser.
Anny suggestions?
Any filshare-software we could use?


  Waydroid on Arch Linux ARM install guide?
Posted by: tk1107 - 12-22-2021, 09:06 PM - Forum: Arch Linux on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Is there a guide to installing Waydroid on Arch Linux ARM? Does it work as nicely on Arch ARM as it does on Manjaro ARM?


  Calls & SMS stopped working
Posted by: Schugy - 12-22-2021, 06:21 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Hello everyone,



LTE data was always problematic while calls and SMS worked pretty well. Now data is the only thing that sometimes works for 3 seconds, 5 minutes or an hour or two. The MVNO Klarmobil is no longer shown (carrier is T-Mobile). The dialer app and the clock app close themselves after some seconds. After two weeks I decided to create this thread.



Old cellular settings tab with NVNO

   



New cellular settings tab

   

Spacebar unsent message (clock symbol)

   

Thank you for any help.


  Phone goes to sleep whilst audio playing
Posted by: new2pinephone - 12-22-2021, 05:50 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - No Replies

Has anybody had this problem? If I listen to audio for a while, which I usually do on Rhythmbox, the audio will keep playing, but the phone freezes on a black screen and, in order to turn the audio off and generally access the phone again, I have to hard reboot by pressing the switch button.
I usually listen whilst I walk with the phone in a pocket, so I wonder if it is connected to the screen being "touched" repeatedly?
In any case, what might be the cause, and how to solve it?
I am using 5.13.7-1-Manjaro-ARM, KDE plasma v 5.22.4, 4 processors 2.9 GB ram
Thanks!


  Erasing the eMMC | Pinephone Pro
Posted by: Vermi - 12-22-2021, 05:08 PM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (4)

After I got the Pinephone Pro I wiped the preinstalled AOSP Image according to PinePhone_Pro Wiki

and afterward tinkered with the Arch Image for some time.



Sometime later I noticed pacman showing me in when updating that I could update uboot:



Code:
dd if=/boot/idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblkX seek=64 conv=notrunc,fsync
dd if=/boot/u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblkX seek=16384 conv=notrunc,fsync




and I thought updating uboot might help in someway. I unfortunately wrote the bootloader onto the eMMC(mmcblk2) and uboot wont boot my SD card and now I'm stuck.

I managed to see uboot trying to boot, but failing.



My question is, is there some otherway to wipe the eMMC or is there a way to get into the uboot cmdline to wipe it from there...so that I can boot again from the SD card



My uboot output is this:



Code:
U-Boot TPL 2021.10-3 (Dec 11 2021 - 19:16:00)
Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz
BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB
Channel 1: LPDDR4, 50MHz
BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB
256B stride
lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1
lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0
Trying to boot from BOOTROM
Returning to boot ROM...

U-Boot SPL 2021.10-3 (Dec 11 2021 - 19:16:00 +0000)
Trying to boot from MMC1
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
spl: mmc init failed with error: -95
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###