Hey everyone! Wasn't sure if anyone had encountered this issue. Spent some time searching the forums for issues powering on their device and incurred endless threads of battery performance issues instead.

I just received my new PinePhone Convergence model. I plugged it in to charge it and let it sit. When I plugged it in, the LED turned red, then yellow, and eventually the screen blinked on and off and the device seemed to power down again. I figured it needed time to charge and let it sit for an hour.

Unfortunately it's still happening exactly the same. The boot loop has stopped but the same sequence occurs after holding the Power button.

My PinePhone doesn't get to a boot screen even and it's been charging for over an hour now- It's like DOA but was wondering what kind of help I might find here.

plasma development branch. After flashing the most recent image 2 days ago, the phone will no longer make or receive calls or send SMS. It's odd, because prior to that, it was working more or less normally (except for the usual intermittent lose-the-modem flakiness). Although the indicator shows bars and says I am connected to the cellular network, it remains inaccessible. Updated as of 10 minutes ago, same problem. Rebooting does not help.

I've tried restarting ofonoctl, with no change in behavior. Any suggestions that could work me out of this?

Thanks.

Hi, I looked everywhere, but it seems that the SIM pin could not be changed in plasma-mobile itself?

Codes like **4* ............. in the dialer have also no function and threw errors only

Hi,


I have Pinebook Pro connected to LG 27UD88-W monitor via USB-C to DisplayPort cable. I'm running Manjaro ARM 21.06 (Linux kernel 5.12) with Sway WM. The problem is that I can't run 4K @ 30Hz properly (right 1/3 of the screen is distorted). FullHD (1920 x 1080) and WQHD (2560 x 1440) works just fine. I have also tested X11 based Linux distros and the issue is the same. Anybody had luck to run 4K @ 30Hz video output on the external monitor?





This is the similiar thread, but it is closed.




I will be more than happy to provide more details if necessary.

Hi,

on my PP with arch/plasma-mobile after a reboot the systems give me a notification that due of an update a restart is required.

Have done all updates in the shell and Discover. Of course rebooted several times. But the notification pups up after every new boot.

Any hints for me?

The Spotify application for Linux is working perfectly fine on my Manjaro Plasma desktop, but neither Spotify Web Player nor the app is available for the Manjaro Plasma Mobile right out of the box. Has anyone found a smooth solution to get it working?

Hello, I try to make the ov5640 camera working...
Problem: no autofocus function because ov5640_af.bin seems not to work with the ov5640 camera modul installed.
I ordered another ov5640 camera modul from pinephone and replaced it with the one installed. Same result: no function.
So I think it is not a problem with hardware instead of software.
My question: Is there a way to get a ov5640_af.bin from the vendor of the 0v5640 camera modul?
Is it possible to get the source of ov5640_af.bin?
Is it possible to replace the camera modul with ov5647 or a successor of ov5640?
Thank you in advance
greetings

New PinePhone user here... and honestly a relatively new linux user as well.

my wifi network has a hidden SSID and uses MAC Whitelists, so I need to get the MAC address for my phone.... and I need to be certain it doesn't change/randomize. 

Some preliminary searching lead me to believe that an "ifconfig -a" would reveal the MAC address (found it odd it couldn't be retrieved in the settings).... however, imagine my surprise when i opened the terminal, executed the command, and received the following error... "bash: ifconfig: command not found"

This lead to learning that manjaro uses "ip addr"... having deprecated ifconfig and other network related tools.

So I got my wwan0 MAC, added it to the routers whitelist, and setup the hidden wifi connection in the settings of the phone.  The router supports 5G and 2.4G connections, and I think I learned quickly that 5G is not an option for the Pinephone.... refused to connect or show any signs of success.

2.4G doesn't connect either, but it does get farther.  It actually takes me to a screen where it prompts me for the networks "password" which I thought was odd because I entered it with the wifi setup.... so i type it in again (in cased it's important, the password is 12 digits long) and the connection fails and prompts me again for the password.

I get notifications like... "wlan0: No secrets were provided" and "wlan0: The Wifi network could not be found"

Hmm, interesting, looks like i got the networks backwards... so I added the MAC for the wlan0 to routers Whitelist instead... and boom, the phone connected to wifi!

So for my final check, I restarted the phone and was pleasantly rewarded with a successful connection to the wifi network... meaning the MAC is't randomizing on reboot/reconnect... perfect!

Man... this is going to be fun... I wanted to cut my teeth on linux for privacy reasons... and I figured once I got a bit comfortable with it on the PinePhone I'd pave over win10 on my PC with Linux as well.

Hello, new PinePhone user here with a quick question after unboxing and turning on my phone.

Do we have any warranty on dead pixels on new PinePhones?

It's just one pixel, but it vertically almost right in the middle, although horizontally shifted to the left of center.... so it's in a really obvious place.  If it was off  to the edge, i wouldn't be as concerned.

... Challenging, to say the least... Being a Linux noob, I have probably bitten off more than I can chew when it comes to "fixing" the many problems I have had with Manjaro Plasma so far... to the point that the mods I made reduced the usability of the phone to zero - with the only way I could use it being via ssh.

 ... Do I wish I had paid heed to the dis-claimer about "advanced Linux users only"?  ...hell no - I just popped a new SD card in and started again... but this time with Manjaro Phosh - which so far, has been a much better experience.

 ... I still can't get it to work as a basic phone, but Terminal works great in Phosh, so at the very least I have spent $150 on a lovely little pocket computer that I can use to learn Linux on at any time of the day - wherever I am... which is nice.

 ... And one day soon, I'm sure some of you lovely, clever, advanced Linux users will fix all the problems and let me know how it's done ...until then, I've got some command line to be getting on with... cheers guys x x x