Hi there, I just recently got a pinephone again I bought one a long time ago sold it because it was in a too early development. I got one again two days ago it shipped with manjaro plasma and I was kinda shocked at how much better the development has improved. Then I started looking at other operating systems but I noticed most of them haven't really changed much.

For instance in mobian phosh the settings is not sized properly, I haven't used it much but I thought that was interesting. Also mobian phosh seems alot slower than manjaro phosh. I'm wondering what brings people back to mobian, i'm trying to find a operating system to settle on. I was using sxmo the last two days because it is so snappy. But i'm just curious why so many people enjoy mobian, I'm sure there are reasons I can't see and will help me avoid further pitfalls in trying some other operating system then ultimately coming here hah

Cheers 

Hi there is there anyone else that uses sxmo?

I was using it on my pinephone for the last two days, and i actually enjoy it.

The reason I like it is because it seems quicker than all the other operating systems,

I wonder if there is a way to make the keyboard automatically pop out when using browser or anything. I think if it had this function, it would be a much better experience. Also a automatic power manager for the screen. Gets old to have to manually turn it off. I do like the concept tho.

Hi there, Ive been using this xfinitywifi as my primary internet for all my devices for quite some time.
I just got my device, but for some reason xfinitywifi does not seem to show up on my wifi list. 
I've tried other operating systems but none of them can see xfinitywifi, I'm currently trying to figure out how to change my mac address and try that.

Also does anyone know a command to limit cpu temperature on the cellphone, I've noticed mine gets a little hot, not sure if anyone else has set the limit lower to make sure it doesn't overheat and damage.

I ejected the drives for the phone, but when I plug them back in, they're not detected anywhere. How can I make it so that I can recognize the phone while connected to the computer via usb to write archlinux-pinephone-phosh-20210908.img to the drive and start using my pinephone?

I am trying to get the console working on the SOEDGE model A baseboard.

So far:

I have connected 3 different serial console gadgets; 2 with the FT232RL chip and another with the CH340 chip:

Voltage set to 3.3V, Serial port set to 115200 baud, 8N1
GND -> PI-2 GPIO pin 6 (GND on baseboard schematic)
RXD -> PI-2 GPIO pin 8 (UART_TXD on baseboard schematic)
TXD -> PI-2 GPIO pin 10 (UART_RXD on baseboard schematic)

Nothing works.

Pine64 Support Says:


Please inform that the console serial speed setting is 1500000, N, 8, 1. the txd light light keep blinking this means there is console message damping out during SOEdge boot up,  The rxd LED light only light up when there is message send from terminal program to SOEdge.  For further technical questions, please you may post to PINE64 forum or chat room, and the developer there will give you the best advice.

Response:

I have configured the console to 1500000 8N1 in minicom and there is nothing coming from the device.

I have tried it with 2 images available on the wiki (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/SOEdge#Linu...e_Releases): "BSP Linux ver 1.1 Build from SDK" and "Factory Test Build". (I burned the images to microsd with balena etcher and inserted them unto the sdcard slot on the baseboard.)

What is the next step to diagnose this? Are one of these images known to work with the SOEDGE baseboard?

FYI The device: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07BBPX8B8

I'm getting pine64-pinephone.img.xz from Releases · dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive · GitHub [/url] [url=https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/pine64-pinephone.img.xz]
After I run "sudo dd if=pine64-pinephone.img of=/dev/sda2 status=progress", I have jumpdrive on my microSD card, but when I insert it into my turned off pinephone, the pinephone boots into Plasma Mobile, not jumpdrive.
What could mitigate this problem so that I can end with an arch linux installation on my pinephone?

Below links show pinephone with retail price, which may be including warranty beyond the 30 days, not even sure of that..
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12711
https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-s...il-stores/
Is there any similar existing or planned extended warranty offer for the rockpro64?

I am also interested if others had interest in such an option, please share

Attaching a Rockpro64 via its ethernet port to my PBP, it's supposed to be possible to "share" the PBP's wifi connection with it, which actually involves setting up NAT & DHCP automatically under the hood.

Network Manager > Edit Connections > Wired connection 1 > IPv4 Settings > Method: Shared to other computers

But it didn't work.

After banging on it all morning, I found this article,
https://fedoramagazine.org/internet-conn...rkmanager/

which mentions that it uses dnsmasq. Check; dnsmasq is not running. Check; package dnsmasq is not installed. Install dnsmasq; now it works.

That ought to be declared as a dependency.

Edit: When installing NetworkManager, it does list dnsmasq as an optional dependency for connection sharing. But the user doesn't necessarily ever see this message. It should either be a hard dep, or Network Manager should detect the absence of dnsmasq & give an informative error message, rather than just mysteriously not working.

I've been setting up my Rockpro64 with a Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rockpro64-21.08.img that I DLed a while ago. The built-in ethernet worked.

After upgrading the system via pacman, it does not work.

Old kernel: 5.13.12-1-MANJARO-ARM
New kernel: 5.14.1-1-MANJARO-ARM

Or possibly the new linux-firmware 20210818.c46b8c3-1.

If I connect a random USB ethernet dongle, that works fine.
But with the built-in port, nothing gets through. Pinging my PBP makes the lights on its dongle flash, but absolutely nothing shows up in Wireshark running on it. The ARP pings apparently aren't comprehensible.

Anybody want to test & confirm? Or is it just me?

---
Edit 09.17 (Fri)
The update to kernel 5.14.2-1-MANJARO-ARM a couple of days ago fixed it.

Hi all,

I killed my first RockPro64 after only some minutes of use. It seems I put the SATA card in the wrong direction in. It starts directly to smoke after it gets power.

Now, I got a new one and I want only know if I got it now the right way!?

   

Regards corax