It has been suggested to me that it is possible to use my Pinephone as a wifi antenna for my Pinebook Pro, but it doesn't work. I have default manjaro on the PBP and PmOS Phosh on the PP. In network manager on the PBP I see 'Wired Connection 1: Connected 0 B/s 0 B/s', the zeroes never change. Please help thanks!

Hello everyone.

I'm having a problem with the charging on my PBP.  A few days ago, all of s sudden the PBP stopped charging via the USB-C port. I was down to about 39% of charge so I decided to charge it overnight using the same `USB-C charger I have been using all along.  When I checked the PBP in the morning, the charge was still at 39%. I have tried a different charge cable and still same results. The battery indicator on the PBP is indicating that it is charging, but the level never increases. Does anyone have any solutions or ideas? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

/Michael Biel

I bought the UBports editions of the PinePhone, and around January of this year I flashed Mobian onto it. Since then, I've been upgrading packages regularly, and seen some improvements, but the phone doesn't seem to be getting any faster, and in fact it's running the battery down faster now than before.

Are there any benefits to flashing a new image, vs simply keeping the phone up-to-date?

So I'm using a pineohone, with the pre-installed OS (Manjaro, I'm pretty sure). Right now I'm trying to set up Tootle, so I can use my mastodon account. Trouble is, I cannot get the paste button to work to enter the confirmation code. I can reliably bring up the prompt, by entering some text, highlighting it, and then tapping on it - but when I tap the paste button, nothing happens. I'm not sure if this is an issue with Tootlde, or Manjaro - I thiiink KDE plasma might be at fault? Not sure though. Anyway, is this a bug, or is there a setting I need to change somewhere, or is pasting just not as simple as tapping a button when I have something saved to keyboard...?

I suppose this is an odd sort of question.  

One thing I have never understood about OTA updates (I also run UBPorts on a Nexus 4 and have it configured for the devel channel), is how one sees them delivered. When I go into Settings and run Updates there is usually an update available (today is is 657). It installs via wifi. That's not an OTA, right? What does it look like to be notified of an OTA update?

Dear friends, recently I have submitted the IMEI changing info to the PinePhone Wiki - see below! Unfortunately, we are having a disagreement with another Wiki contributor who has reverted my edits without having a prior discussion. My point of view:

Quote:Unfortunately, I noticed that "IMEI check and change" has been reverted for the reason "Illegal wiki contents removed". Please tell, "illegal" - in what country? I.e. PINE64 is a Hong Kong company, while a Pine64 wiki website is hosted in Slovakia, - and I can't any info that changing IMEI in either Hong Kong or Slovakia is illegal, or at least posting the "how-to" information about this. And what isn't forbidden - is allowed. For the majority of countries (not taking some totalitarian ones into account), changing IMEI is as legal as changing the MAC address which has been allowed to stay.

Since a "pinephone change imei" seems to be a popular Google request - it's even more popular than "pinephone change os"! - I'd like to preserve this information for the public usage. If, to be able to do that, I need to re-word/extend the warning about the possible legal issues (something like "please check the laws of your country before doing that") - please let me know.

At the same time I understand this advanced information is probably not suitable for the main PinePhone page. Please tell what's the more appropriate place in your opinion - PineModems, PinePhone_Software_Tweaks or PinePhone_FAQ#Modem ?

Quote:Please don't re-add information regarding the IMEI on the wiki.

Quote:== AT commands ==

A list of documented AT commands can be found in the document-link-here from Quectel. In example, to show the current IMEI number:

Code:

sudo su
atinout - /dev/EG25.AT out.txt << EOF
> AT+EGMR=0,7
> EOF
cat ./out.txt # to see the IMEI

Also, there are certain undocumented AT commands. In example, to change the PinePhone IMEI number to a valid newIMEI one:

Code:

sudo su
atinout - /dev/EG25.AT out.txt << EOF
> AT+EGMR=1,7,"newIMEI"
> EOF
cat ./out.txt # should output OK

Then use AT+EGMR=0,7 to see if IMEI has been changed successfully, - and, to see that IMEI change is persistent: shutdown a phone, remove a battery, press a power button to discharge the motherboard, put a battery back, turn on the phone and run AT+EGMR=0,7 again.

Such a command has to be approached with caution: although in the majority of countries changing IMEI by itself is not illegal (or at least not prosecuted unless you are doing something malicious using this capability), still a cellphone service provider may ban your IMEI and/or phone number if it sees two cellphones with the same IMEI being used simultaneously. So it should be done with common sense: in example, if you don't want your cellphone service provider (or the governmental/commercial entities it could be supplying with information) to know that you have replaced your old phone, you could change the IMEI of your PinePhone to be identical to your old phone's, just avoid using them simultaneously or at least don't connect them to the same provider.

Further undocumented AT commands found by the developer megi, who reverse-engineered parts of the modem and its firmware, can be found on megi's website here.

When trying to play music, I'm getting "connection terminated" errors from PulseAudio. This happens with Clementine (my preferred player), Lollypop and VLC, and most likely others as well. This will either happen immediately, or after a few seconds of starting a track; either way, playback stops.

Digging through the system journal, I can see that PulseAudio is somehow getting killed: when triggering the bug, get the following from journalctl | grep -i pulse:

I'm in mainland China, I would like to buy a pinebook pro, but the official website shows that it has been sold out. A second-hand one is also OK. Does anyone sell a second-hand one that could be sent to China? Or will there be the next batch of new goods? And it seems that Chinese mainland can not order a new one? 

I am new to the PINE64 world so please excuse me if I don’t make any sense.

I have a Sopine baseboard with the optional RTL8723BS wifi/bt module. The Sopine is flashed with an OpenWrt v.21.02-rc4 OS. I installed the driver for RTL8723BS along with its firmware. From here, I’d expect the Sopine to detect the Bluetooth through UART and WiFi through SDIO. However, the Sopine does not show any indication that it detects the wifi/bt module. 

Using OpenWRT, How can I confirm that the Sopine detects the Wifi module with SDIO interface? Same with Bluetooth UART?

What is the device path related to /sys/devices/?

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