I purchased the PineTime smart watch from www.fabtolab.com, a seller in India, as recommended by people on the PineTime matrix server. I purchased this watch on 15th of July, and received it on 19th of July. The day I got it, I tried to press the button to see if the watch came with any battery, nothing happened, so I assumed the battery was dead. Then I put it on charging, the screen turned on, I saw the PineTime logo, and I left it there for about 5-10 mins. I then again checked to see if got charged enough to be usable. I press the button and nothing happens. I tried a couple of times but no luck. Then I asked on the PineTime matrix server to see if someone could help me. So people on the server replied saying that it could be the bug that was in older firmware, that the watch freezes in its sleep, and only way to wake it up again, is to let the battery drain and the watch to reset it self. So I waited 5-6 days, and finally on Sunday 24th of July, it turned on again. And as suggested by the matrix server, I didn't let the watch screen go to sleep, and connected it to my phone, and flashed the new firmware. Everything was successful at this point, only when I went navigating around the watch's interface, I noticed I could not go back out of some menu's as the button does nothing when presses, short or long presses. So I think the button is broken or damaged.

I posted a RMA request on the seller's site, and they asked me to post this here, so people can confirm that this is  a manufacturing defect.

I posted the question on Matrix server the same day I received the product, there must be some history of chat, that can be used to verify this.

I got a PinePhone  "Manjaro" a few months ago. As I was not ready to use it I thought I should charge the battery in the mean time.
Now that I have a SIM to use I put it in the phone. Now the screen comes up asking for a "passcode" number which i never set in the first place.
How do I reset this or what else do I do to get past this problem?
Thanks - Crawford.

OSM Scout Server and Pure Maps were pretty easy to install via flathub. Just open the links in a browser, tap install and open with the software app. It takes a while, but works a charm.
OSM Scout Server for offline maps: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/io....coutServer
Pure Maps navigation and maps UI: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/io....s.PureMaps

My issue is that I can't seem to get Pure Maps to use my GPS data. It has Online, Offline, and Mixed profiles. Ideally I would completely avoid using network location tracking and only use the GPS. This is both for privacy reasons but also because the VPN on my phone throws the network tracking completely off. I tried digging around to see if there was something I had to configure on the modem or some such, but I don't know very much about it and couldn't find any straight forward manner of getting the GPS working with Pure Maps or even gnome maps. I am open to using a different interface for navigation. If someone has the GPS working with a different application, I'm willing to switch.

Hello,
i tested the simulator from https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-.../simulator
but i cant get an success.

If i use Clock.cpp (corrected case in paths), there is a error with date.h

when i change in simulate.yml to WacthFaceDigital.cpp or WacthFaceAnalog.cpp, the bul druns, but the display in emscripten doesn't change. Now i renamed WatchFaceDigital.cpp to Clock.cpp, but the build hangs again on date.h

Has anybody used the Simulator with actual Infinitime version (1.3.0) and could tell me how to get this to run?

I am looking to link up Axolotl with my Signal Desktop client and it requires scanning the QR code and copy/pasting the scanned info into Axolotl. Megapixels shows the code but it is hard to make out, does anyone know how I could save the text from that?

Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I am new to Deb/Mobian.

Hi,

I have had UB Ports running on my Pinephone for a year, not as my daily driver, but as a backup phone, also trying out various new apps available.

I kept it on the kernel update channel and everything seemed fine. However, following one of my last updates, the screen goes blank after bootup. Apparently, the phone is running Ubuntu, but the screen does not show anything. How can I fix this?

I would hate having to kill my long-standing installation.

Many thanks for your thoughts on this problem.

Hi

I have a brand new PP Beta Convergence, and I wonder if external display works for somebody.
I have tried all the major OSs, and Megi's latest multi.img, but none of those got me closer to a working external display.
After multiple displays, and docking stations which all work otherwise, I am starting to suspect the hardware.

What I often see in dmesg is "unknown message", and DP state 0x03:

I'm using Manjaro with Phosh and I installed the Flatpak of Axolotl, the Signal client. It seemed to install fine but it fails to open when I press the icon. When I tried running it via cl I got the following error output but I'm not sure what it means exactly. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks!

DEBU[0000] [axolotl] NewDataStore
INFO[0000] [axolotl] Starting axolotl ws
DEBU[0000] [axolotl] Using axolotl-web path /app/bin/axolotl-web/dist DEBU[0000] [axolotl] NewDataStore finished
INFO[0000] [axolotl] Loading Chats
INFO[0000] [axolotl] Db setup finished
DEBU[0000] [axolotl] Start Session after Decryption
DEBU[0000] [axolotl] starting Signal connection
DEBU[0000] [axolotl] config path: /home/manjaro/.config/textsecure.nanuc DEBU[2021/07/20 13:24:41] [axoltol] Opening Dialog: getPhoneNumber
DEBU[2021/07/20 13:24:41] [axolotl-ws] send request getPhoneNumber
ERRO[0022] '/home/manjaro/.config/textsecure.nanuc/electron/vendor/electron-linux-arm64/electron' exited with code: -1 INFO[0022] astikit: stopping worker...
DEBU[2021/07/20 13:25:04] [axolotl-electron] main: creating window failed: context canceled DEBU[2021/07/20 13:25:04] [axolotl-electron] open dev tools false
INFO[0022] astikit: worker is now waiting...
[manjaro@manjaro-arm ~]$

I got a new phone with android 10 and now my pinebook cannot see it when I plug in with usb cable.  I did a little searching and several pages mentions that I would need jmtpfs (https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs).  I tried modifying the build file to add aarch64 and still cannot build for manjaro.  Not really sure what my next steps would be.  Is there a way to know what is holding up the package build? some dependency that also needs to be built for aarch64?

For anyone interested in what was going on with my phone: I could see the device in file explorer but not access any storage:

No storage media found. Make sure your device is unlocked and has MTP enabled in its USB connection settings.