Hi,
Is it possible to put the pine phone CPU into some form of sleep mode programmatically?

There are many instances during a program where it is useful to put the main processor into some form of sleep mode e.g a time-lapse camera App that goes into sleep mode in between taking images.

Is this possible with the pine phone?

Cheers.

Hello,
i'm a software guy, fairly inexperienced in hardware.
I love my pinebook pro, but it stopped working completely: no charging, no led, no startup (sd card, usb or internal). I would buy a new motherboard but it's out of stock; so I would want to try to repair it.
How should I start to diagnose it? I have no idea what failed. I've done some uboot updates, but I'm almost positive this is not my current problem (as the laptop was working for a few weeks since the updates).

Is there a begginer friendly guide for laptop repair that you would recommend? I have acces to basic tools at some hackerspaces around me.

Sorry for the large question; but I would love to get my PBpro back, because it's such a great machine I can't imagine any replacement. And I would love to use this opportunity to expand my DIY skills; I've already learned so much low level stuff by tinkering on the PBpro and Pinephone; why not get into hardware?

Thanks for any info, any pointer, any input.

Alex

Hi folks -

I have been trying to use KDE Connect on the PinePhone and not having much success under either Manjaro or Mobian.

 - Software runs, connects to my desktop
 - Desktop recognizes that it is connected to the phone
 - Dolphin will not find the phone to exchange files
 - However, I can send files individually from phone to desktop downloads folder.

I know that using KDE Connect with an Android phone, there is a setting in the "device plug-ins" category that allows you to choose folders to share, but the same menu entry does not have such a capability on the PinePhone.

Anyhow, if anyone has an insight on this issue, I would love to hear it!

Tim

Hi All,
I keep getting an alarm going off at random times. I don't think it's every day unless it's going off in the middle of the night and I'm just sleeping through it. 
It doesn't leave any notification in the ui and I don't have any alarms or timers set in Clocks.
I haven't managed to make it to the phone while it's going off so I haven't seen what the screen looks like at the time.

Has anyone else had this?
Any idea where this might be set?

Hello all,

I thought I should share my experience with getting a PinePhone, since I lurked here for a long while before joining, trying to get all of the information I could, before I spent my hard earned cash on a Beta phone; I was a bit worried things would not work in my country.

I’m coming from ios, but didn’t need all of the things there and just wanted a basic phone that did not spy on me.

I ordered my PinePhone on August 31st & got it today, September 7th (in the EU). The company did great, very fast order processing & handling, complete with DHL online tracking, which was spot on.

I followed the Wiki and got the phone up & working right out of the box. Calls work both ways and missed calls show a notification popup message from my telco (Telenor). I’m really looking forward to testing out this device.

Great Job on the phone to all at Pine & thank you for your work, I’ve wanted a functional Linux phone for more than 20 years.

Hello and good day I followed this(alwaysonvpn) tutorial in mobian wiki.  Everything works but when I switch to new wifi network. I have to manually enter the uuid secondaries in system-connections via nano.  I want to tunnel all data on my wifi adapter or phone threw my vpn (openvpn) is this possible on mobian

I do have the Manjaro edition, which I have not been happy with at all, so I have been using other distros. It seems as soon as I log into the Manjaro edition, the modem will be shut down.

I have not booted Manjaro in several months, and decided to boot it up yesterday and did some updates. After the updates, and reboots, back to the charger it went.

Later in the night, I needed to go out and about for about half an hour and decided to take booted Manjaro with me  to test it more. After about 20 minutes of messing with it, and modem continues to get shut down after login, I shut the phone down for the night.

Today, this morning, I slipped in the SD card with my usual distro I use with the phone. It powered on for a few seconds then shut down. The battery is drained

I don't think this should be happening as if I do the same with other cell phones, I can leave them powered off for a week, or so and the battery level is about the same as when I shut it down.

With the complaints about battery life, and this experience, I wonder if the hardware is really to blame.

Any thoughts on this?

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