Hello,
im new to the Forum.

I got my PinePhone yesterday and was pretty happy about it first.
After setting it up i tryed to update the Phone using the App. After the Update, the Phone 
had to restart and after the Restart the Phone showed its "K" Logo but it keept stuck there 
with some Mouse Cursor. And after many restart trys it stayed like that sadly.

So i decidet to load the Updated PlasmaOS to a SDCard and boot it from there.
First time it was booting fine from the SDCard then i noticed i have to install it from SDCard to the eMMC again.
It was late at night so i just waited for the next Morning.

But on the next Morning (Today) i want to power up the Phone, but for some reason 
if i leave the SDCard in while the Phone powers up, i just got the red LED, it vibrates once and then the Screen stays black.
I have tryed multiple times switch the SDCard with another one but the Result stays the same, black Screen of Death :c 

If i remove the SDCard again the Phone shows its "K" Logo but it keept stuck there again with its Mouse Cursor.

I hope the SD Slot is not damaged, but i dont understand i just waited for over night, didnt touched nothing :c

Hope someone can help me there. 

Best Regards, Zuck

How do you get the Navigation app in the watch to work. I am using InfitiTime 1.3.0 with GadgetBridge 0.59.1.  Also there is a heartrate feature in GadgetBridge, anybody knows how that works? Thanks in advance!

After I installed a fresh install of Manjaro i3 edition on my PBP's emmc using manjaro-arm-installer, it no longer boots. I was using i3 edition previously for over a year with absolutely no issues. My PBP doesn't show an amber light or boot in to the bios after pressing the power button. It is completely dead. It boots fine from emmc, SD card and USB drive using other editions of Manjaro and if I install i3 edition on SD card or USB, I get the same issue. So it seems there is an issue with the i3 edition itself and not the PBP or the SD card and thumb drives. Sway boots and runs fine, but I'm attached to i3. I noticed on the manjaro-arm-flasher, i3 isn't even an option, only sway so it's possible i3 isn't supported but hasn't been removed as an option from the manjaro-arm-installer? There also isn't an option for i3 download directly from Manjaro website either, only sway. I made a backup and still have my old i3 config file, so I guess I can give sway a go if i3 is a no go!

(08-23-2021, 06:21 PM)mtndew Wrote: After I installed a fresh install of Manjaro i3 edition on my PBP's emmc using manjaro-arm-installer, it no longer boots. I was using i3 edition previously for over a year with absolutely no issues. My PBP doesn't show an amber light or boot in to the bios after pressing the power button. It is completely dead. It boots fine from emmc, SD card and USB drive using other editions of Manjaro and if I install i3 edition on SD card or USB, I get the same issue. So it seems there is an issue with the i3 edition itself and not the PBP or the SD card and thumb drives. Sway boots and runs fine, but I'm attached to i3. I noticed on the manjaro-arm-flasher, i3 isn't even an option, only sway so it's possible i3 isn't supported but hasn't been removed as an option from the manjaro-arm-installer? There also isn't an option for i3 download directly from Manjaro website either, only sway. I made a backup and still have my old i3 config file, so I guess I can give sway a go if i3 is a no go!

I just received a series of RP64 units from AmeriDroid.

I placed one into the NAS case with Armbian on a 32GB eMMC chip.  Boots properly and finalizes the install.  Ran through updates and all seems well.

Moved the eMMC chip to the second board - nothing but the green power LED on power up.

Moved the eMMC chip to the third board - nothing but the green power LED on power up.

I've attempted the POWER-RESET gambit on both non-booting boards.

I've returned the eMMC chip to the first board and all is fine.

Removed the boards from the NAS enclosures, same result.

Burned a 32GB µSD card with the same Armbian image and jumpered the eMMC disable jumper

Still power LED, but nothing else.

Are there some bad boards out there?

Has anyone tried to add backlight to the keyboard? Are there any plans to add one to shipped units?

I'm asking because I'm used to work in a completely dark room, with dark desktop themes. The reason is long exposure to natural or artificial light hurt my eyes, but I need to have the keyboard backlight activated at all times.

Also I'd love to have the Pine logo carved on the Pinebook cover illuminated with the same light as the screen, just like the MacBook Air. Has anyone tried that as also as a DIY customization. I'd bet that could attract attention of Mac users that might end up buying one Pinebook to support the project.

Several times now I have found that the modem loses registration, then won't register.  Once I solved it by flipping the modem switch on the back off and back on, then rebooting. Once I have solved it by merely rebooting. 

Running mmcli -m any --3gpp-scan times out, whether the modem is registered or not. When not registered, running mmcli -m any --command='AT+CREG' returns ' '. Similar results trying to do it through modem-manager-gui.

This is on a PP beta edition, Mobian Bookworm/Phosh, haven't changed the modem firmware from what it shipped with.

Any ideas what might be causing this intermittent issue, and how to stop it?

Edited to add: Settings and modem-manager-gui agree that the modem isn't registered, but I still have data, can ping google.com. I am using a Pure Talk SIM.

Bleachbit : from the Mobian onboard software store installs both user and root in just one install.
  However only the user part part will open and work.?
 Is there an easy work around,  or just wait for the developers to get it working ?

Sent from my PMOS phone, August 22 Mobian/Bookworm Nightly on sd card, PureTalk cell/Data

Will the PineNote have handwriting recognition software?
it would be useful if it could do something like Palm Pilot graffiti or like Windows PocketPC 3 ways to recognize handwriting. This would replace the need for a keyboard for my use.

I know this is really basic, but how does one disable autologin in TwisterOS? I can't find any instructions for either the GUI or the CLI to do this anywhere. I don't like the security risk of it auto-logging me in every time I turn on my Pinebook Pro.

Thank you!

Hello,

I've been using the PineBook almost daily since it arrived in April, and I used
to shutdown it every day, since the standby isn't really a standby, the battery
drained too fast.

But since 4 days the PineBook won't startup anymore. The green LED turns on,
but nothing else happens. Since 2 days, even the green LED wön't turn on
anymore, until one time today.

What I've tried so far:

- press the reset and recovery button
- press the on-button for 10+ seconds (this made the green LED turn on again, but only once)
- disable the eMMC
- disconnect the battery and connect the bypass cables

Is there anything left I could try?