I'm hoping the following may save some fellow Armbian users some grief.

This morning I discovered that my PBP was shut down.  I had been using it for a couple of hours late last night, and I thought I had left it on.

I powered it up and logged in.  The whole GUI appeared:  all the XFCE panels, three workspaces, a maximized terminal window in the first workspace.  But without any input from me, within a minute or so, the shutdown splash screen appeared and then the PBP powered off.

I powered it up again and logged in again.  Same result:  within a minute or so, it shut down.

For the next boot, rather than logging in using the GUI, I switched to a virtual terminal (CTRL-ALT-F1).  At least it did not shut down, so:  progress.

I tried "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" just in case there was some package that had a glitch that had been fixed recently.  Apparently there had been, because I updated, rebooted, and now there are no more unprompted shutdowns (cross fingers, knock wood).

I needed "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade," and the output was:

Quote:The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libllvm11
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libllvm12
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0
5 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 242 MB of additional disk space will be used.

I decided to try out some more games on the Pinebook Pro and I have to say I'm quite impressed, the Pinebook Pro is a solid device for passing the time with some video games

https://youtu.be/2UVwpVtnU1o

So last night i just found waydroid "EXPERIMENTAL - MIGHT SET YOUR PHONE ON FIRE"available on pamac to install like a package..Yes!!
And this is an updated version with sound!! running really smooth and stable.
Gaming is getting better now on pinephone ( you might need to install microG for play-services)
been running supertuxkart latest, pinball arcade via Aurora-store and still discovering around..
Amazing job from Manjaro team

I built a reminder app which has been super useful since the gnome-calendar is pretty small and far from user friendly. I have been trying to make a snap/flatpak/deb file for it but have been having tons of problems with it. Can anyone here help me with it? I would prefer getting it up on snap/flatpak because this should in theory work with anything running phosh.

This is my source code:

https://gitlab.com/greenbeast/elephant_remember

Also, I haven't commented the source code super well so sorry about that, I will hopefully being doing that this week.

This video says the Pine Note has 60Hz refresh rate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMKfQtSXPE

Does it mean that the screen is continuously refreshing like a LCD/OLED smartphone? Isn't e-ink supposed to stay put forever unless it's changed? I say that because backlight PWM is bad for the eyes.

Also, would like to know how good is this screen compared to Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. I want the thing closes possible to a real book.

Does anyone know if Pinephone orders to the UK are shipped from Poland or Hong Kong? and how long it takes?

My new Pinecil arrived, it all seemed promising. But when I touch the hot iron on a circuit board or capacitor it has a tendency to cut out, or reboot.

I think it's rebooting when touched against even the most tiny charge, making it impossible to solder with it. Pinecil blacks out and returns to standby constantly.

Am I doing something wrong?

These are just regular PC motherboards, or other electronics for repair. I can't imagine it's necessary to fully 100% discharge everything, as well as not being practical. And even if so I'd expect this to have been noticed by YouTube reviewers etc.

This is with PinePower and Pine's USB cable. I also had the same experience using a QuickCharge battery pack and a different cable. I ordered 2 Pinecils (one for a friend) which was helpful for testing; both do the same thing.

Is there something I'm missing here? Advice appreciated -- thanks.

Lately have been testing PinePhone beta with convergence.
Went through all OSes on b-boot and they all work like a charm, including the dock (charger, USB, HDMI, Ethernet)
What I noticed is that all OSes on b-boot use Megi's patched 5.13-rc4 kernel.

Then the next steps for me was to install Mobian with FDE to eMMC, all went well except HDMI is not working with the dock.

I tried bullseye, bookworm, unstable up to kernel 5.13 but none of them fix the HDMI issue.

Question:

Did anyone try to install Mobian version from b-boot to eMMC with FDE enabled?

or

Is it better to install Megi's kernel and any other patches on top of standard Mobian distro build?

Hi

I would like to buy a Pinebook Pro from someone willing to ship to Romania, preferably from someone in the European Union. I would also like one with a US keyboard. Payment via bank transfer. I don't think I can PM yet since this is only my second post here. My e-mail is psiholog at coloja dot com (in case I cannot answer here).

The title says it all. I'm curious to what's the community's take on adding cryptocurrency as an option to pay for Pine products, and also about having hardware wallets manufactured and shipped to you by the Pine project.