I'm a new user, so please bear with me.  I just installed Manjaro Plasma, which all in all went well, but upon login I get half a screen showing the GUI, the bottom half black.  I turned it sideways (landscape) and saw the entire GUI, rotated it back to portrait and had an entire screen of GUI.  This happens after every logout/screen timeout.  Is there some setting I need to change to fix this?

Greetings:
Just went to T-Mobile in Greece, NY this past Friday to have my new Pine64 phone activated. 

To make a long story short, when you first boot it up, in Cellular Networks tab under settings, it shows APN as fast.t-mobile.com. But when you try to access the internet, it doesn't work (I forget the error message right now). But if I wait long enough it will connect to the internet. HOWEVER if I let it sit long enough, it will lose network connectivity altogether. It will show nothing under Access Points or SIM Cards. It's running Manjaro-ARM that it shipped with. KDE Plasma version 5.21.2. KDE Frameworks Version 5.79.0. Qt version 5.15.2. Kernel 5.11.3-1Majaro-ARM. Not sure which, if any, you needed. I attempted to do an update, but it errored out concerning dependencies. 

I'm new to this. What should I do? 

If it makes a difference, I'm currently in Orangeburg, SC at this time. I drive truck.

For some history, my husband and I had old flip phones on 3G until they stopped working due to discontinuation of 3G service.  Our phones stopped working rather quickly and we are unwilling to embrace standard Smartphones for daily use.  We turned to the Pinephone, hoping that it might be stable enough for phone/text, which is all that we had before.  After a one month trial, and some serious head banging on the wall, I am feeling done until things get ironed out a bit more.  We both use Linux on computers, but we are not programmers and do not know much about development.  I am pretty much done trialing all of the various OS and have not had any consistent luck with any of them actually working for phone/text for daily use.  

Here is my question, and it is not specifically Pinephone related:  THe Pinephone does not currently seem capable of being a daily driver for us since we really only need phone/text (which is what a phone is for IMHO).  Do any of you know what other options are out there (affordable) for people who do not want classic smartphones to track us, spy on us, etc., but need a mobile phone/text that can run on 4G?  I do not really want another flip phone, as they are difficult at best.  If we were to buy a used phone that could run Ubuntu Touch, are the original Operating Systems disabled so that there is no longer any tracking, etc., or is it just a dual boot with the other OS running in the background?  I am considering that option while I wait for Pinephone development, but cannot figure out if UT wipes out the phone similar to a computer Linux installation vs. a dual boot. 

Thank you in advance for your thoughts!

Megan

I could have sworn I had this working before?  However, I had to re-install recently, and now I'll be damned if I can find even any option for Themes in the Settings app...  Am I going crazy? 

currently passing a Google Captcha is a requirement for registration.

I 'd argue both the company and the act (you tell them what website you visited and train their AI, free of charge) are going against the values Pine64 stands for.

please consider removing it and using alternative, self-hosted solutions for human verification.

Hey all,

So I've been searching around the internet and have had almost no luck figuring out why my download speeds are so slow on the Pinebook Pro.

I haven't tried a whole bunch of distros or anything, just the Manjaro ARM that it came with, and Fedora 32 (GNOME).
In both Manjaro and Fedora, my download speeds are really slow.

In Manjaro, I get 2.5Mbps download, and 16Mbps upload speeds (I'm standing right next to my router too).
In Fedora, I ran the Ethtool command and put the wireless NIC in full duplex. My download speed went from 2.5Mbps to 5Mbps. My upload speed has stayed at a steady 26Mbps.

Has anyone else had this issue or know what it might be? I'm positive that it's not my internet connection. On my Lenovo Yoga and my custom build, I get at least 30Mbps download in my basement (a floor below my router).

I've run updates and everything. Before I updated Manjaro/Fedora after installation, my download speeds were in the Kbps, so obviously updating did help to some extent.

Are the wireless NICs in the Pinebook just that slow? I figure I wouldn't be getting a much higher upload speed if this was actually the case.
I couldn't seem to find any threads, any Youtube videos, or really anything regarding anyone else having this issue.

Any advice what so ever would be greatly appreciated.

If there's any information I missed that I should have provided, please let me know and I will do my best to provide it ASAP.

Hello,
I've been troubleshooting pinephone patiently, to the best of my limited ability, for 3 months. I thought I had a basic functioning phone with Phosh 11 but an update hung it on login and with the new Phosh 12 I no longer receive sms messages. I didn't have huge expectations for the pinephone but a basic functionning cell network, phone/sms/data, was one of them. You know, not pretty but working - sound quality on phone in Phosh 11 was acceptable with earphones. I reinserted the sim card into my old blackberry z30 to confirm that sending and receiving sms still works on my network, telus/koodo Canada. And yes it does. So my question is, is there something that can do this right now? It seems like there are 50 flavours for pinephone that are semi-broken? I wonder what would happen if they all got together to work on one o/s? Right now I need a phone that works reliably so I'll stick to the old blackberry which at least does the cellular network stuff. I still have a shred of hope that a decent system will pop up in the next couple of months/half-year and I'll monitor this forum. Thanks for all the help! I know a lot of people are making a big effort but at the end of the day, I need a phone that works at least at a basic level.

Has anyone built an image to install Devuan 3. on the a64+?

I've tried following a few guides and nothing has worked so far...

Hi,

I noticed that on the 1.2b schematic (https://files.pine64.org/doc/PinePhone/P...ematic.pdf) the LED pins seem to be labelled incorrectly.

On page 11, grid ref 3A, PD18-LED-R signal is shown connecting to the blue part of the LED, PD19-LED-G connects to the red part, and PD20-LED-B connects to the green part.

However, I also tried controlling the LED on my actual hardware (Beta Edition) and found that in reality, PD18 is green, PD19 is red, and PD20 is blue.

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Attached is a small test program you can upload and run over FEL to try this on your hardware. The program will light up the LED colour connected to PD18, then PD19, then PD20, then return back to FEL mode. On my phone I see green, red, blue.

Attached Files

  ledtest.zip (Size: 240 bytes / Downloads: 284)

Dear forum,

I recently stumbled over the PineCone/Nutcracker challenge when I was trying to flash a custom firmware on my "Magic Home" Wifi LED controller. Those controllers  had an ESP based chip in the past but recently switched to BL602. Curious I read about recent developments and decided to play around with the chip as well. I used blflash to dump the existing firmware but apparently I did not recognize that by default blflash only dumps 1 MB, whereas that particular controller seemed to have 2 MB.

Does anyone here have such a Magic Home controller and is able to provide me a dump of the original firmware please? Thank you in advance