Thank you Pine64 and all involved in making this wonderful PinePhone!  I'm super impressed.  Once the software catches up and is more reliable, I'm switching to this as my daily.   Now I hit refresh every day to see if there is an update. A++

Get that Pro ready, I'm buying it as soon as its avail!!!

Good morning everyone.

I read the rules for this forum and believe that this post is within the boundaries of them; however I apologize if I am incorrect on this matter and am open to correction on the appropriate place to post this.

I have a VERY lightly used PineBook Pro that I purchased in late 2019. It works great and has no issues at all- I simply have not used it anywhere near as much as I thought I would when I bought it originally. Rather than let it continue to sit on my closet shelf, I would like to find someone who will get more use out of it. 

If you are interested, please PM me. Thanks! :-)

Hi,

 Every time I boot my PinePhone, I get a popup from "Discovery" that says

I am running SXMO on postmarketOS stable on a PinePhone UBports Edition. My modem crashes several times a day, on bad days every few minutes, on good days maybe just twice. On IRC someone suggested to flash Biktorgj's Pinephone Modem SDK. Now I wonder if this is a good idea, or if there are simpler remedies now. Flashing involves building the whole thing, which requires me to free up 50 GB on disk and probably takes ages.

The system is now not fully booting with the KDE Plasma Mobile GUI.

While I can login from the serial console, but on the screen it is showing:

musb-sunxi 1c19000.usb: Invalid or missing 'dr_mode' property


I see the following wiki mentions something about the error:


https://linux-sunxi.org/USB_Gadget/Serial

So after a bit of experimenting, I have found a method to turn Mobian into a command line version of Debian. It may not be the best way to get this done, but it works. I am always open to other approaches. There may also be extraneous packages remaining, but I’ll leave any further tinkering to your discretion.

   
1. Flash the latest version of Mobian

2. Boot the phone and setup the phone, including wifi (I haven’t tested ethernet with this process, but I assume it would work also).

3. Open King’s Cross Terminal

4. Install ssh service: sudo apt install ssh (The package may be called “openssh” in some repositories and/or builds).

5. Start sshd: sudo systemctl start sshd

6. Ssh to device from another computer: ssh mobian@[ip address] (the default password should be “1234”)

7. switch to su: sudo su (the default password should be “1234”)

8. Remove gnome / phosh: apt autoremove *gnome*

9. Update the system: apt update

10. Upgrade the system: apt upgrade

11. Reboot the system: reboot now (this should reboot to command line, but it will still have the splash, and no console output).

12. Ssh in again: ssh mobian@[ip address] (the default password should be “1234”)

13. Switch to su: sudo su (the default password should be “1234”)

14. Edit boot arguments:

      a. nano /etc/default/u-boot
 
      b. in U_BOOT_PARAMETERS= remove the argument “splash” and add the argument “console=tty1”
      (so the argument line should looks as follows: U_BOOT_PARAMETERS="console=ttyS0,115200 consoleblank=0 loglevel=7 rw plymouth.ignore-serial-console vt.global_cursor_default=0 console=tty1")

      d. save the file

15. Write the boot arguments:

a. cd /sbin
b. u-boot-update


16. Reboot: reboot


That’s it. It should now boot to command line with console output.

Currently I've tried Arch Phosh and KDE which comes with PinePhone.   So far Tmobile calls, sms work.

Mobile data doesnt.  Not sure why.  Deleted the APN, recreated with info from Tmobile.   Is there a distro that just works with the 3 basics I need (calls, sms, mobile data).

Hi all. I'm new to this forum. I own a PineTime with InfiniTime, and it's rather nice - though the LCD seems to be slowly delaminating itself from the digitizer... I should probably make a separate post about that.

Here's my suggestion: why not make a PINE64 "MP3" player? Not limited to only MP3, of course.

I'm thinking of a combination of the Apple iPod Video, the Microsoft Zune Flash, and the Sansa Clip+.
(Yes, I've used a Zune. Gawk if you must, but it was rather nice - until I found out that it had no Unicode support.)

As to why I chose those media players, here are a "few" prerequisites for a media player, for me personally:

• The ability to run Rockbox, and all that comes with it (i.e. the vast array of audio codec support) - or at least an intuitive OS + UI that shares some similarity with Rockbox: i.e. a playlist-centric mindset, ability to copy-paste media from a PC, navigation of media by folder, etc.
  
• A powerful enough CPU, or perhaps a coprocessor, such that MP4 (or other video) playback would be possible - a la the Zune
  
• (Anything beyond MPEG-1/2 support would have to be added to Rockbox - I believe the reason is that no MP3 player supported by Rockbox has a powerful enough CPU for that kind of decoding)
  
• A compact form factor - something that could fit in my pocket, and that isn't as tall as, say, a PinePhone  ;)
  
• An intuitive form of UI navigation, a la the iPod's "click wheel" or the Zune's "Zune Pad" - not sure about the legality of such a thing, though (concerning patents)
  
• (Personally, I'd rather not use a touchscreen - hence why I don't just buy a PinePhone and turn off all the comms...)
  
• Expandable storage, a la the Sansa Clip+ - i.e. internal eMMC + (micro)SD card, etc.
  
• A headphone jack, of course!
  

I've disabled bluetooth and wifi to save battery life on my new PinePhone.  Going to use it as my main phone today to play around with it.  Calls/SMS work fine but mobile data doesnt.  I went into cellular networks --> Access Points and the APN is fast.t-mobile.com.  So it looks right.

Anything I'm missing?

I have seen no sign of life of my Pinebook Pro. I've tried bypassing the battery (mains only). No sign of life. I've checked the power supply (5.25volts). Good. I've looked over the excellent User Guide, and I don't see anything that I could do that I've missed.

I've kept my Pinebook Pro hooked up to the wall charger that came with the Pinebook, and sometime in the last month or so, it became inert. It's dead, dead, dead.

What are my repair options?

Thanks.

— Vladimir
vladimir@acm.org