I'm about a week in with my PineNote and mostly really enjoying it, figuring out one little issue at a time. But one thing has remained confounding: I can't get the on-screen keyboard to work with KeePass XC.

My usual go-to is KeePassXC. However, when I open it on the PineNote, I can't get the keyboard to come up to enter my password. I can use it with a Bluetooth keyboard, but not without that. I imagine this is because it isn't GNOME-native enough (whatever the terminology is). But is there a trick to get XC working? This would be great as it would integrate with the browser.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi everyone,

I'm selling my brand-new PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition. I initially planned to use it, but between work and recent health issues, I barely have any free time. So rather than letting it sit unused, I'd prefer it to go to someone who will actually enjoy it.

I purchased it from Pine64EU, and it's in pristine condition, preloaded with Manjaro OS (with only a few extra packages installed). The default passcode (123456) is still unchanged.

To ensure safety for both the buyer and me, I'm selling it through Vinted, where we both have purchase protection.

If you're interested, here's the Vinted Link.

Feel free to reach out to me on Vinted if you have any questions!

Thanks!

OK, so I have had an older PinePhonePro (mini SIM rather than micro SIM) for a while. I had flashed Biktorg's fw to it and used to be able to chat to the modem fine. A while back I had a problem 1 night setting a wakeup call (can't remember, power fail, think trying to flash 0.8.0) and since then I cant SMS the modem. I have tried everything I can think of, flashing back to stock, trying fwupd to flash, pmOS, arch, mobian, 30.006, 01.003 ADSP firmware, ...

So as I write this I have my PPP which has a "Frankenstein" firmware (it seems half FOSS but with stock artefacts) and my old PP in front of me which is FOSS and behaves like I expect.

The basic problem that is the subject of this thread - I can't send SMS to the modem:

Hi, 
does anyone have step by step instructions on how to install android on the Soquartz? I have already found this:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/SOQuartz#Android_SDK
But we can't get Android to run with this short guide. Does anyone have more detailed instructions?
many thanks
Lenzer

I decided to try with manjaro arm again. I've got it running but recently my device seems to be unable to most needed hardware. It seems to think it has no wifi, or blutooth and I can't see the battery status(seems to think it's always on wired power)


Has anyone encountered this issue before? I've currently got this issue when I boot from sd card(with Manjaro-ARM-gnome-pbpro-23.02) or from the emmc.

Hello,

On a Pintetab2, Arch Plasma (default system) I tried to install a user kernel module with dkms functionality. Looking for the needed header files, I installed the linux-aarch64-headers package with Octopi, and I installed also the dkms, ntfs3-dkms and asix-ax88179-dkms packages.

Problem now with the kernel modules, if I use the command lsmod, not any module is listed ...
And no way to reach the internet ...

Do I need an other header package ?
How can I restore de default modules ?
Do I need to rebuild the kernel ?  How ?

thanks for any advice !

Hi,

I am following this post:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10403

to install current Manjaro on the ponebook. So far, I have successfully installed Manjaro 23.02 on the sd card.
But from the new sd card installation, I cannot use wifi to download an image for the emmc install:
wlan0 is forever hanging in "connecting"/"setting network address".

ip link shows the interface as dormant. NetworkManager is running, and the nameserver setting is correct in /etc/resolv.conf. I can also ping the nameserver.
But ip route does not return anything.

Would anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Many thanks in advance!!

Hi. I have installed rk2aw and primary/fallback bootloaders from https://xff.cz/kernels/bootloaders-2024.04/ppp/ with spinor-flash-initial-setup.sh script. Then, I have installed mobian to emmc with installer image booted from SD card. Mobian does not load when just turning on the phone but if I enter rk2aw LED based menu and select primary (2 flashes) or fallback (3 flashes) bootloader, then selecting mobian option from uboot will actually load the OS. Looking at https://xnux.eu/log/098.html I was hoping that EFI stuff will work but I'm getting invalid elf header magic errors.
So I have few questions:
1. How to diagnose what is preventing booting with "Perform a normal rk2aw boot." option (1 flash)
2. What are the differences for ppp between floss and rkbin bootloaders? (menu looks the same for me).
3. Maybe primary bootloader does not work for me and I'm always taken to the fallback bootloader, so how can I verify which uboot bootloader menu is being shown?

Hi all,

my first expirience with Pine64 I buy 3 boards and 3 LCD but nothing work the kernel dmesg |grep mipi tell: vcc-mipi: disabling. I don't know to solve this.

Please help me.

Thanks for all reply

Andrea Manca

Hello,

I've been trying to set up Gentoo on an SD card in my Pinetab2 since I received it a few weeks ago. I am generally more comfortable with Portage than pacman, and I would also like to test and possibly provide support for Gentoo's arm64 binary packages. This means that I have built a partition table up from scratch on the SD card, rather than duplicating an existing installation image. It's a very simple partition table:

mmcblk1p1: EFI boot partition mounted at /efi, FAT32
mmcblk1p2: swap
mmcblk1p3: root partition, ext4

The Pine64 RockPro64 entry on the Gentoo wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PINE64_ROCK...bootloader indicates that whoever wrote it had success using a standalone build of Grub on an EFI system partition to get the RockPro to boot, but I am not having the same success on the Pinetab. Should I instead be installing U-Boot to the boot partition? Or flashing it to the first sectors of the SD card? I am still unsure about the normal procedure for using U-Boot or where it should be installed. 

At what point might I also want to consider the rk2aw bootloader? This person had success using it with Fedora: https://www.jistr.com/blog/2023-11-27-fe...-pinetab2/

It also seems like the tablet is now not booting at all with the SD card inserted, which was not the case before I formatted the SD card with the boot partition. But it could be possible that it is actually attempting to boot but I just have no video output/keyboard backlight, since the stock Gentoo binary kernel probably doesn't have drivers for these. I can attempt to use the Danctnix kernel patches and build my own kernel, but I am curious, exactly what devices does it patch in support for? 

The bes2600 wifi driver is not important to start with, as I have a USB-Ethernet adapter that has Linux kernel support. I plan to install the wifi driver after I have a properly booting system, and also write a Gentoo ebuild for it.