Hello, I hope you all are having a nice day.

I am very new to Pine64 and interested in the PinePhone and PineTab.
Also I do not really have a clue of Linux, so I will probably ask quite some stupid questions. I hope that's okay.

But for now just two questions about Pine64 hardware in general and one about operating systems (this one is probably a bit embarrassing).

A big reason why I am looking at the pine devices is that I really don't like the way most phones and tablets do not get (os/security) updates after 2-3 years anymore (the other reason is privacy).
I don't really understand why it is that way for phones but not for pc's, which also support a variety of hardware. I always read something about drivers and chip producers not providing patches or something along those lines.
So how about the pine hardware in that regard? Is it that open source that as long as the community supports it, it will be updated?

How about repairs? I think I read somewhere that some things are screwed that would usually be glued - for repairability. As the hardware is mostly for tinkerers I reckon it is much easier to repair than other phones/tablets ? Is it possible to have it repaired by Pine64 if i don't have the skills to do it? Obviously the devices are not very expensive but I really dont like the idea of throwing away a device because of minor issues.

Are the Linux versions available for the PinePhone and PineTab "the same" as the desktop variants? What I mean by this is: If i get a certain distribution running on a device, will it be able to run all applications that would run on a desktop (from a compatibility, not a performance point of view of course).

I really hope you guys don't mind helping out someone who very much is not a power user. ^^
Thanks to anyone answering my questions.

I'm a new pinephone user. When trying to connect as root, I do use "sudo su" and I gave my PIN code as password.
That work fine. I did some look up as root and exit from root.
Then I changed pas password in order to have my favorite password which is alphabetic. Then I shutdown my phone.
On restart, the pinephone ask my then PIN code as a number. But nor my old PIN does works, nor the sim card PIN. I suspect that changing the password for the main user should be restricted to a numeric sequence in order to be able to answer the PIN code question with the new password.

So, now I'm perfectly blocked and, I thing, the only solution should be to restart from factory setup.

Does somebody knows how to do ?

Regards

Jacques

if I download any .pptx file for work and open it in default PBP Manjaro, either in libreoffice or even in MS Office online, all text will be highlighted black. I don't know how this is possible, but is there a way to fix it?

Last I tried was back in May and I was never able to update through the command line and the screen would eventually white out after about half an hour. Is it better now? How stable is it compared to phosh?

Hi there,

I am new to the Pine, which works surprisingly well out of the box (Manjaro Plasma).. however, there is an extremely nasty bug, and I am not sure whether its a damaged hardware or rather known problem: my SIM card disconnects every few minutes and the only solution is shutting down, taking it out, back in and rebooting again. Since I tried it with several SIM chips, if a new one, I am sure it's not on their end. Any work arounds available? Experiences/solutions to be shared?

Thanks!

Hi folks!

Since the PineTab section seems dead I like to place my post here:

On my PineTab, kernel version 5.10 / 5.13 has the issue that after several minutes after reboot some "kworker" process comes up and eating up 100% cpu.
Kernel 5.9 works fine.

Some inputs? Seems I'm the only one with that issue...

Edit: Its the same on "mobian" and "bookworm"

I have a dev version of the PineTime and after not using it for some time it is not switching on anymore. Maybe it is not charging either. 

Are there any things I can try before buying another one?

Thank you in advance

I installed VLC, and I use this for audio. When I use portfolio, the file manager, to open an audio file, it opens in Totem.

I don't want Totem at all, but if I try to remove it, it tries to totally remove Phosh.

Therefore, I need a way to change the default for audio files, to VLC. How do I do it?

I made an app I would like to get on the wiki, how does one go about doing that?

Hello!

I got my PinePhone Convergence Package yesterday. Lots of work remains for the devs for sure, but I thought I'd ask if anyone else has ran into / solved problems of KDE Plasma desktop settings not surviving a reboot. I am getting varying behavior where some icons go back to the dock at every reboot OR the desktop just gets reset into "factory settings" entirely with all my icons / widgets / wallpaper settings gone. Any specific log files I should look at - I'm afraid I'm very unfamiliar with KDE in general.

Thanks,
zzb0