Hello!

I had recently purchased the dev kit package for the PineTime watch (one unsealed, one sealed) and have been having a lot of fun playing around with it. It's a new area for me and I've definitely learned a good deal from it!

With that being said, I want to stress that I'm by no means an expert with things like Bluetooth. I understand how it works and how to interact with it via code, but I couldn't tell you all the truly intricate details of it.

For reference, any tests or scenarios I mention below are using InfiniTime 1.6 with a custom app I had put on it to act as a simple remote control. I based the structure of the app off of the Music app's play/pause button implementation since that was essentially what I needed, just for a different use case that connects to my PC. It has been working perfectly fine and doing exactly what I expected in terms of functionality.

However, the one issue I've had is in regards to the Bluetooth cutting out more than I would've expected it to. There are times where I'm in direct line-of-sight of the adapter for my PC, standing approximately 12 - 15 or so feet from it, and it would start to get more latency and then typically disconnect. It would then reconnect intermittently until I got closer to the adapter, at which point it would be fine again. This would also happen if I was right below the adapter in my kitchen (maybe 7 or so feet, with only a few 2x4s separating the top of the kitchen from the floor above).

So, I tried the following to diagnose it:

• Connected to my phone instead of the PC adapter. Had the same results
  
• Tried a different PC adapter. Same results
  
• Tried using both the sealed and unsealed watches in the same situations described above. Had the same results for both in all cases
  

• Is wearing the watch supposed to affect connectivity? Like I said above, I understand that our bodies block signal, but it seems kind of bizarre that wearing the watch - one of the main functions of it - would decrease connectivity by such a noticeable amount, no?
  
• Does it really make sense that my slight bending of the antenna would've increased performance to such a noticeable degree?
  
• Is there just something else here that I'm overlooking, or other factors that are just making this a red herring?
  

All expected things were working fine with pinephone.  A pacman update borked my pinephone and it wouldn't boot.  I installed fresh current img to phone main memory (not sd card) as below:.

"Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-20111108.img.xz".  Install was uneventful.  I did a pacman system update after the flash install that added some items.

I use a Consumer Cellular sim card.  Worked fine in past 6 months.

Testing of the new install shows that I can text outward,  receive texts inward.  Incoming voice calls are received.

Outbound calls, however, do not work.  PhoneBook and Phone app both say " Unable to make a call at this moment".   But this has been hours and is not a temporary Consumer Cellular system problem as I have an android phone working with the same carrier.

My sim card data shows in Settings -> Cellular Networks -> Sim card and data looks right.

Never had a phone problem (lots of others) before.  Any ideas, anyone?

I may reinstall the older img file where all was working if I can't get a fix going to see if something got gliched in update.

Thanks,  tom kosvic

I wanted to check status of my order but when I click "Order Status" on the store website I get

404 Error that page can't be found

https://pine64.com/my-account/orders/

Any way for Pine Store to fix it?

Hi guys,

after writing this I realised that the introduction is quite long; for the actual question you can hop to the last paragraph.

I naively used ssh to connect my phone to the computer, until I recently found out that this is apparently very insecure.

So now I am trying to harden the system by
-excluding IPv6 adresses (done)
-changing the port (yet to be done)
-using a key instead of a password (yet to be done; there's a brief manual in the wiki, but I could not do it, so I will have to look for more foolproof resources)
-installing fail2ban

After installing fail2ban (which is supposed to block IP adresses which fail to enter a correct password for more than x times) I noticed that it did not work: I could enter as many wrong passwords as I pleased and still log in. I finally found out that the reason was that the file /var/log/auth.log was missing and that I could solve the problem by installing rsyslog.

Was it a bad idea to install rsyslog? I'm asking because I guess that the devs had a reason to leave it out. Could it maybe drain the battery, quickly use up a lot of disk space or do anyting else that would be undesired on a pinephone?

Hello! I have seen some success in the forums getting SATA controllers to run. Saw this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7777

I am thinking about transfering some existing Linux Software RAID drives to a box with a RockPro64. Couple questions:

1. I'm thinking about this card: https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-ada...-sata-card Any experiences with it? Chipsets are Pericom - PI7C9X2G608GP and ASMedia - ASM1061

2. The disks are currently in an Intel system. Will they be auto-recognized in the new system? No weird Intel to ARM transition issues?

3. I'm thinking about using an existing case and power supply. Is there an ATX to barrel connector adapter for the five volt rail?

Thanks!

Hi all,

I've been doing searching on this forum, and I haven't found many good answers.  One or two threads closed, some others not really answering.  Here's my question:

PineBook Pro -> USB C adapter -> HDMI -> LG 43Un700-B

Resolution at 1920x1080 is supported on the external LG monitor

Problem: The monitor itself frequently suggests that I switch to 3840x2160

Question: Is this theoretically possible with PBP?

Datum: When I attempt this, I get a KDE error "Outputs could not be saved due to error"

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Hi all ,

I'm selling my Pinetab which I bought with the backlit keyboard , its an brilliant device from pine64 , but unfortunately I haven't been able to give it the proper attention it deserves. I had hoped to contribute back to the project, but life has taken an alternative direction and I find myself getting busier and busier .

I would prefer to sell in the UK only, so if your interested please DM  me .

I'm looking for £100 +postage (but I'm sure an offer can be made) for it as its barely been used.

I have just received my pinecil but I can't get it to work - I get an X !! on the screen (not sure if the photo is viewable here) - I am using an OMARS power pack with 45W PD capability.
thanks,

PrimeOS is originally an Android-x86 based OS that provide desktop like experience on x86 based devices with top of the line features like Multi-Window, taskbar and Deca-pro Key mapping tool for playing games. Few weeks ago we received our Pinebook 1080p unit and started our work to port PrimeOS 0.5.0 to Pinebook. 

Feature Highlights:

• Multiple features to give a desktop experience like start menu, taskbar, etc.
  
• Multi-window support with maximize, minimize, close, resize, etc.
  
• Option to disable multi-window for any app in case you need.
  
• General keyboard shortcuts like alt + tab, alt + f4, win + d etc.
  
• Close to AOSP experience with only necessary desktop features.
  
• Taskbar with the ability to pin apps, show notifications, and system icons.
  
• Decapro key mapping tool to play games with keyboard and mouse (Press F10).
  
• Built in Google apps.
  

• Download the PrimeOS SD-card image from our FORUM.
  
• Download BalenaEtcher from Etcher.io
  
• Insert sdcard into a card reader and flash the image using Etcher.
  
• Put the sdcard into Pinebook and boot up.
  

• Colors in camera is not good.
  
• Chrome Browser crashes.
  

Hello, I bought last week a pinetime, I got a confirmation email but no info about when it will be shipped. i would like at least an aproiximate idea, like next month, 6 months...