Hi,

I bought a pinebook recently to play around and have a cheap laptop with me during travels and I have one major issue with it.

When I plug it in to charge it it will boot immediately. When I turn it off it stops charging also. This is very problematic as I planned on charging it using solar panels on a trip.

Is there a way to change this in the BIOS or something like that? I'm leaving in less than two weeks :/

Thanks!

On one of my 3-pack sealed PTs, the Bluetooth no longer seems to turn on.  It's on Infinitime 0.15.0, but I had the same problem on Infinitime 1.0.0. 

Is there a way to force Bluetooth to turn on (in part to see if that's still possible)?  I'm assuming Bluetooth still works on this unit, but it's always been a bit flaky: oftentimes I had to reboot to get BT to turn on ever since I started using this unit, but that no longer works.  Thanks.

...the removable battery! ...what a god send ...I've lost count of how many times I've had to take the battery out to get Manjaro Plasma working again ...joking aside, I've only had the phone a week and in that time it's been by far the most used feature of the phone - as Plasma seems to lock up pretty much every time I handle it and never for the same fault twice.

To be fair, part of my problem is my lack of Arch Linux knowledge.  I'm sure it's great when you get to know it, but I really don't have time to learn a new set of commands right now, as it seems to me that Debian has more in common with PowerShell than it does with Arch!

So - can any of you guys recommend a good Debian based OS that I may have a better chance of working with ...I'm by no means a Debian Linux master (as is recommended before buying the PinePhone, so I only have myself to blame) but at least with the amount of Debian I do know, 'll have a fighting chance to work out why the battery needs to be removed again...

...sorry Manjaro, you are very pretty, but I'm a simple man with simple needs ;-)

Manjaro Beta edition.  I've tried sending a photo and a contact via text to it, and never recieved the attachment or the text that accompanied it.  I don't see any way to attach a file to a text in spacebar, either.

What am I missing? is there another program I should be using for texts?

Hi, am unable to import passwords to kwallet. Using an exported csv file from Brave browser. Has anyone imported passwords? I was able to import bookmarks. Thanks. john

Good day,

I have an issue with my UB Ports CE PinePhone. I am trying to figure out if I need to replace just the screen, or if the motherboard needs to be replaced as well.

At one point, I cracked my screen, but it still worked for the longest time. I did remove the two components for the VCONN issue, and again, it worked fine.

I think I may have damaged the phone further recently when I accidently stepped on it :| The touch screen does not function any more, but I can use a keyboard/mouse just fine.

I have tried two different distros that had previously worked, Manjaro and Mobian.

Here is the output from the serial console on bootup with Manjaro. The transfer errors just continue on and on.

Hi,
 
I am start using pine64-LTS board and currently installing new OS in SD card successfully. Please check below result of "uname -a" according to my board. 
"Linux pine64so 5.10.34-sunxi64 #21.05.1 SMP Fri May 7 15:50"19 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux"
 
Now, I want to modify or add some features through kernel. Please guide me how to get kernel source and rebuild process.

Got my Pinebook Pro in earlier this week and have been loving it. Using it with a P1 Crucial NVMe M.2 as the OS drive /boot/ and / . I have wrote the updated uboot to the SPI to boot directly to the NVMe. Laptop had been working great until the battery died for the first time yesterday. Since then I've been unable to boot from the drive nor mount it in any OS. I've install Manjaro XFCE on the EMMC for now, but would like to regain use of the NVME drive.

I have tried mounting the drive on another Linux box with a USB enclosure and everything worked great. All my files are there and it mounted without issue. I've booted into OSes on SD and EMMC and have had no success seeing the SSD with the PBPro. Uboot does list the SSD on boot, but would fail to boot after 3 minutes of trying everytime. I have backed up and zeroed out the boot partition to see if I could mount it as a home drive with something booting off emmc.  ( https://imgur.com/lItnrht )

Booting of emmc this is the error in dmesg. Any help would be appreciated, I'm kinda stumped to be honest

I just got my pinebook pro. I've downloaded two different programs through the repository but am unable to get them to open. I'm not new to Linux but I've tried everything I know to no avail. The two programs were the gufw firewall and the hp device manager. I had already downloaded the cups hplip program. Help.

Hello, 

I have a few questions that I hope that the community might be able to answer. 

I have had difficulty finding info on LuneOS. The webos-ports wiki is useful, but I was wondering if there is a community outside Pinephone forums where I can find more information or ask questions? Does anyone know an alternative? The github for the Luneos Pinephone build seems to have outdated info. For example, it states that wifi doesn't work, but wifi works on my Pinephone, so that is not up to date. 

My other question is regarding preware2. It doesn't work on my pinephone. I am assuming that it doesn't function yet. Can anyone verify that it doesn't work and isn't just my build that isn't functioning?

Also, the system reports in terminal that the linux version is LuneOs. Does anyone know which flavor of linux is running the pinephone version? Most versions are android based, but the pinephone build is linux? 

I get that this is niche OS and there probably isn't many folks working on it, but I I think the base UI works really well on the Pinephone. I am hoping that I can edit and fix from the phone itself instead of an external build.