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: 332)

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

The error is:

Locale code for United States during first set up please?

I know it is not open source but is anyone working on Windows 11 for ARM for any Pine64 single board computer?

Hi all,

thank you for your interests. Advertised laptop was sold today.

With kind regards,

P.

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Hi,

I am planning to sell my Pinebook Pro ANSI. It was purchased on May 2nd this year. As addition I add M.2/NGFF NVMe SSD adapter (it's already installed).

It has no signs of usage, I opened it only to install SSD adapter. I will flash clean Manjaro distribution (please let me know if you want any special version like KDE or Gnome). If you choose I can try NetBSD or OpenBSD.

I live in Netherlands but I can ship it anywhere in EU.

Let me know if you are interested, I will send photos on request or later in this post.

Thanks !

Piotr.

Hello,

A couple of PineBook Pro owners complained today on the #pinebook IRC channel about their lids no longer being able to close, leaving about a half-inch gap between the lid and the laptop body when the lid is in the closed position.  I already had to open my first-batch ISO PineBook Pro to recover from bricked U-Boot, so I applied some oil to the hinges at the same time, to see what would be the results.

I used sewing machine oil, which is very thin and penetrates very well into the hinges.  After removing the bottom cover of the laptop, I applied two very small droplets of oil to each of the hinges, at the point where the metal shaft gets into the metal hinge body.  I dipped the tip of a small knife into the oil and used it to apply the oil, so I can have better control and end up using as little oil as possible.  You can also use a toothpick to apply the oil, for example.

Not much oil is needed at all; maybe a bit more is needed if the hinges are in really bad condition.  Also, make sure that no oil gets on the display cable that's close to one of the hinges, because the oil woud degrade the insulation/jacket of the display cable over time.

Before applying the oil, the hinges on my PineBook Pro were somewhat stiff, and there was very little to no "snap" action when the lid was closed.  In other words, the hinges weren't bad, but they weren't something to write home about either.  After applying the oil, the hinges became noticeably smoother, and there's a surprisingly strong "snap" when the lid is closed.  The lid definitely "snaps shut" after applying the oil to the hinges.

So, I'd call this a success.