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  Shonky laser cut phone stand
Posted by: bonce - 06-13-2021, 03:40 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (1)

Oi Oi good people.

I made this:
   

Its a bit odd looking as I had to account for a nasty generic case I found on ebay:
https://ebay.us/h771oU (moto g6 play in black)

Also it uses a right angled usb c adapter for the convergence dock:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07M75JXS1/r...UTF8&psc=1

I'm still fighting with the convergence dock at the moment, the only way I can get it to display on a connected monitor is with the OS's in Megi's 17 distro image on a tfcard, or from an un-upgraded os fresh from download, so the right angled adapter might not be a great idea.

Anyway, if you wanted to make your own, here's the SVG's:
[Image: cut_4.svg]
http://headstrong.solutions/Projects/pin.../cut_4.svg

[Image: cut_4.svg]
http://headstrong.solutions/Projects/pin.../cut_5.svg

[Image: cut_6.svg]
http://headstrong.solutions/Projects/pin.../cut_6.svg

My plywood is 3.5mm so that's the length and widths of the tongues and tongue holes (there's probably a better name, but I don't know what it is)


  no shipping notice on my purchase
Posted by: restiforin - 06-13-2021, 03:18 PM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - No Replies

I made a purchase of a pine phone on 5/25 but other than the receipt I haven't heard anything yet.
Where do I ask for help?


  PostmarketOS - Why swap file not on at boot?
Posted by: stozi - 06-13-2021, 11:41 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

I followed the standard arch wiki way to set up a swapfile, and based on 'Install to disk' in the Alpine wiki, which shows setting up a swap partition the normal way, it should work. It does work if I manually turn the swap file on, but it isn't automatically on at boot. I don't know how PmOS works in that there were no other entries in my fstab, but I guess that has something to do with it. any ideas?


  My Experience Using the Pinebook Pro as a Daily Driver
Posted by: warpnow - 06-13-2021, 10:39 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (9)

I didn't buy this laptop because I expected it to replace my chromebook or main laptop. I bought it to experiment with new technology, but I wanted to test to see if I could use it in that way, and here are my findings. I used it exclusively for 2-3 days.

Things I loved.

  • For its price, the keyboard is very nice. Alot of travel. Plasticy feel isn't great but blows away other laptops in price range in my opinion. Keyboard is fairly clicky which I like but some may not.
  • Love all the hardware switches to turn things off.
  • Build Quality feels very good for price point. My other laptops are X1 Carbon & Apple M1 Macbook, so this is lower end at 10% the price, but it s5-6 itill feels good to use.
  • Love the lack of branding on the top of the laptop.
  • Some people complain about the trackpad but its perfectly usable. I like the precise click vs soft touch click of some laptops.
  • I did not find the CPU/RAM limiting with my behavior of hanging out on discord, watching youtube videos, or checking gmail. I also SSHd into a server and did some development on it and was fine. These days, I do all my builds server side so my laptop is basically just an IDE/SSH session.
  • Quiet & Cool Operation
Things I don't like:
  • Battery life is realistically 3-4 hours. Feel like time travel back to the 90s. 5-6 hours really is table stakes. You need better battery life if you want to prove this chip is viable. Current battery life is not viable for a commercial product.
  • Charging of Battery - by far the worst part of PBP.  I feel like I get one use session out of it per day and then I put it on the charger overnight. I haven't even timed the charging because it takes so long. With the laptop on, it stays at 0% forever. If I turn it off, it does charge, but very slowly. The entire time I wrote this it was hooked up and never left 0%m charge.
  • The charging cable is very short, which is not fun as I basically am using the laptop as a desktop given the low battery life and slow recharge.

Am I happy with my purchase as a tech enthusiast testing out a new product? Yes.

Would I buy this as a commercial product or recommend it to someone? No, the battery situation is not just bad its show stopping. You can't take half a day to recharge a battery that discharges before two movies are played in 2021. Its just not viable. I would pay $300 for a PBP with better charing/battery, but I wouldn't pay $200 for it in its current state if it were my main device.


  Update of new watch consistently fails
Posted by: bitreaper - 06-13-2021, 07:46 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - Replies (5)

Hi,

I was wondering if others had run into this issue, and if there's any suggestions on how to fix it.  Need to see if there's something I can do before having to RMA the watch.

Preliminary details:

  • I bought the dev kit
  • The sealed watch does not make it through the first update step (upgrade of infinitime from stock 0.7.1 to 1.0)
  • The dev watch does make it through the update list.
I have attempted:
  • Following instructions on the update wiki page
  • using GadgetBridge to upload initially
  • uninstalling GadgetBridge while using nRF Connect, to ensure there's no conflict
  • most attempts used nRF Connect, latest version 4.24
  • Connecting, bonding, changing LE phy from
  • Trying from two different phones, a Galaxy 20 Note (first attempts) finally going to Galaxy 8 Note.  Same result.
Symptoms of each try:
  • Gets through some percentage of the load, random each time.  Sometimes 75%, sometimes 18%.
  • Connection drops, nRF Connect attempts to restart it
  • watch bluetooth is offline until I reset it with the 8-second-button-press reboot trick.
  • until retry, watch isn't in scan list
It also just occurred to me that while I had the watch charging I was playing with it attached to GadgetBridge, and noticed that some notifications got through, but then it dropped off being attached.  I wonder if the bluetooth transceiver is at fault and not a software glitch.

Thoughts from the community?

UPDATE:  I was finally able to get the watch to update 100%, and then the following updates to the bootloader and rescue went OK as well.  In the true vein of that phrase "definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and again expecting different results" I tried again.  I think the only thing I changed was letting nRF Connect pick the PHY.  It was glacial to update though compared to the dev watch.  Since then, It hasn't lost bluetooth connectivity to my phone running GadgetBridge.  I'm mostly interested in WASP-OS, so I'll be attempting that later today.  We'll see how that goes.


  Fix for online account login
Posted by: Nooblife - 06-13-2021, 06:34 AM - Forum: UBPorts on PinePhone - Replies (1)

You can now test the fix for online account login on ubports:

the fix is here

for google accounts there's an additional step: here

the fix requires that you run on devel channel or kernel upgrade channel.

(i am not a developer, just a fan)


  Cannot run onionshare-gui on pp manjaro plasma
Posted by: scott_VYuCAbn3k1NFK - 06-12-2021, 11:07 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - No Replies

Hi all,

I tried to install onionshare (https://onionshare.org/) on Manjaro Plasma. I installed through Discover, but looks like I could also have done:

Code:
sudo pacman -S onionshare

Upon selecting onionshare from the launcher menu, nothing happens.

The .desktop file for onionshare executes "onionshare-gui".

I tried running that on the command line and I get:

Code:
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/PyQt5/QtGui.abi3.so: undefined symbol: _ZTI18QOpenGLTimeMonitor, version Qt_5

It turns out I can get the same error by just running python, and then typing:
Code:
from PyQt5 import QtGui

Has anyone hit a similar error already? I haven't done any Qt development in python, but this looks like it would be a fairly important package?


  Arch auto mount usb example
Posted by: Lazy_one - 06-12-2021, 09:30 PM - Forum: Arch Linux on PinePhone - Replies (2)

After 2 days of head banging and following the wrong answers on google, I finally got my usb to auto mount as user on the Arch Phosh install.

There is no guaranties this will work as everything in linux is dynamic and what worked one day doesn't the next. 

Here is what I did I create 3 file  

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-mount.rules

Quote:ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]*",SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",RUN+="/bin/systemctl start usb-mount@%k.service"

ACTION=="remove",KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]*",SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",RUN+="/bin/systemctl stop usb-mount@%k.service"


/etc/systemd/system/usb-mount@.service
Quote:[Unit]
Description=Mount USB Drive on %i
[Service]
Type=simple
User=alarm
Group=alarm
ExecStart=/home/alarm/bin/mountusb.sh add %i
ExecStop=/home/alarm/bin/mountusb.sh remove %i
RemainAfterExit=true
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target



/home/alarm/bin/mountusb.sh
Quote:#!/bin/bash

ACTION=$1
DEVBASE=$2
DEVICE="/dev/${DEVBASE}"

case "${ACTION}" in
    add)
        /usr/bin/udisksctl mount -b ${DEVICE}
        ;;
    remove)
        /usr/bin/udisksctl unmount -b ${DEVICE}
        ;;
esac



Don't forget to chmod -x mountusb.sh it can be called anything and put anywhere, obvious use your path in the usb-mount@.service file.

I found rebooting the phone more reliable than 

Quote:udevadm control --reload-rules

systemctl daemon-reload



EDIT: Check the Second Post, I forgot the polkit edit. If it works without it great, but I am sure it was critical... (end EDIT)

After just plug in a usb and it should auto mount. 

I did manage to get a sound to play, but that was a whole other story and twice as painful as getting the usb working.

Hope it's useful to someone Big Grin


  Image Roll - new image viewer for phosh/gnome
Posted by: weclaw - 06-12-2021, 05:19 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (3)

Hi everyone,

I have created a new image viewer which can be used over the stock one.
UI was created with linux phones in mind, it can also do basic image editing.

You can install the flatpak from here: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.git....ImageRoll
Repository: https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll

In the future I will try to add it to linux distros repositories.

Let me know what you think and how I can improve it.


  Best power supply?
Posted by: naviathan - 06-12-2021, 01:37 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinecil - Replies (4)

Whats a good power supply for the Pinecil? I thought maybe my laptop USB C connection would work, but it only outputs 9v apparently. So What type of power ratings should I be looking for?