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  Seeing no WWAN adapter or No SIM
Posted by: jcun4128 - 05-26-2021, 12:53 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (2)

This worked a few weeks ago. I have a KDE Pinephone that is now running Mobian and Phosh.
I have T-mobile sim card and I have used it before to make calls/send some text messages.
Now it will not work...

I have tried toggling the physical switch for the modem, ran a modem reset command, some other command systemctl eg5-....

Still nothing with the modem. Not sure what's wrong.

The phone is fully charged now but it has drained before.

Any thoughts/things I can try?

I don't know if it's a software or hardware problem.

My sim card is a nano type but it came wrapped in a regular sized sim adapter/I haven't punched it out/how I used it before when it was working.

WiFi and Bluetooth are both working normally as far as I'm aware, haven't done anything physical to the phone i.e. it just sits on my desk.


  Black Screen on PinePhone with Manjaro
Posted by: Juron - 05-26-2021, 12:51 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (5)

Hi forum.

I just received a new PINE64 Beta. Manjaro pre-installed. After a little playing, like installing ssh, x2goserver, upgrading and rebooting, the screen turned black. The K-logo can be seen. And sometimes the screen lights up and then turn black again. I rebooted several times. No change. I can SSH into it. What do I have to do to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
J.


  How do you install VPN so you can set up a config file, tor, signal and disk encrypt?
Posted by: temp0rary - 05-26-2021, 08:04 AM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (5)

How do someone set up a VPN, tor and signal on a pinephone? And while i'm asking. How do you fully encrypt a pinephone? Good features to have on a phone focused on privacy. One option while getting a new pinephone should be the option to encrypt it at boot in my opinion.


  Replacing the camera?
Posted by: lfourquaux - 05-26-2021, 06:58 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (1)

I discovered a few days ago that the built-in camera in my pinebook pro is not working.  I'm not sure for how long this has been going on, since I never actually tried before.

Since lsusb does not see it, I guess this cannot be a software problem:

Code:
$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 258a:001e HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I also noted that the platic hook immediately to the left of the camera seems unhooked, and pressing slightly seems ineffective, as if something inside were just a bit too large to fit (or the hook is a bit broken).  While this is very slight, it might be another clue pointing to a hardware problem.  (Broken camera board inside? or badly plugged in?)

I'm aware of the privacy switches and tried toggling them.  No /dev/videoN appear, whether the leds blink 2 or 3 times.  I did not change the keyboard firmware.

Looking for camera problem using Google (answers mostly in this forum), it looks like this is not an uncommon problem, but solutions mostly involved replacing the top panel of the pinebook pro.  With the current penury of LCD panels, this is not a workable solution.

Thus, my question: how hard would it be to replace the camera?

Breaking this down into subquestions:
 * How hard is it to open the top panel without breaking it, for someone careful but inexperienced in hardware teardowns?
 * Any good teardown guide for the top panel that you would recommend?
 * What should I be careful of if I attempt this?
 * how is the camera connected?
 * What are the requirements for a replacement camera? (size, connectors)
 * Where would you buy a replacement camera (same model or better, compatible, camera)?

Thanks for any hint!


  Screen off = dead phone (Generalized)
Posted by: User 22437 - 05-26-2021, 03:26 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - No Replies

My device is a PinePhone Beta Edition. On every distro I tried, whenever I turn the screen off, it will not wake up again (the screen flickers and then goes permanently black), and I have to hold the power button for 10 seconds and boot it back up again.

Below is the list of distros I tried:

- ArchLinuxARM/Phosh, with DRAM underclocked
- Manjaro/Plasma Mobile
- Manjaro/Phosh
- Mobian/Phosh
- Ubuntu Touch/Lomiri, channel KernelUpgrade

So the problem seems hardware-related.

Also, when the power key was pressed, journalctl reports "unable to get EDID for xrandr-DSI-1: unable to get EDID for output" on Phosh, but nothing on Plasma Mobile.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Thanks!


  Matrix as bridge hub for chats
Posted by: azymohliad - 05-26-2021, 02:46 AM - Forum: Community and Events - No Replies

Hey! With the current way the chats are bridged across different platforms, I find it difficult to visually distinguish messages from people on other platforms, because they all come from Pine64 Protocol Bot, with the same username and avatar (though the reference to C3PO is amusing <3).

I'm far not an expert in the topic, but as I know Matrix bridges can provide much better integration, passing actual usernames and avatars accross the bridge. There are bridges for many platforms, including discord, telegram and IRC: https://matrix.org/bridges. Most of them can be self-hosted or use third-party hosting, such as https://t2bot.io/.

So maybe we could try to bridge Pine64 chats around Matrix? We could try it first with just one chat channel, maybe #offtopic, or create a test one, and see how it goes?

I'm almost sure someone brought it up before and won't be surprised if there are good reasons not to do this, and if so I'm sorry for making another thread, but I searched the forum for around 10 minutes and couldn't find anything related.


  debug help installer
Posted by: Jxx - 05-26-2021, 12:04 AM - Forum: General - Replies (2)

I got a new pinebook pro a couple of weeks ago.  It booted into Manjaro KDE.  I'm a regular i3 user and saw there was an i3 image package so I just tried installing it with pacman.  When I restarted and tried i3, it seemed like some extras like dmenu and i3-status weren't installed.  Then, I saw there's an i3 manajaro image for pbp and decide to just install that.  So I installed the flasher tool and just tried to direct flash onto the sdcard with the manjaro installer tool.  Well, this seemed to bork things.

No problem, I downloaded the i3 image with another laptop and `dd`ed it onto an sdcard.  Thankfully, the PBP booted the external sdcard no problem and dropped me into the installer menu.  I did the setup and it rebooted.  I saw the manjaro splash screen for a while.  Then it just looked strange and got stuck.  The manjaro splash screen just stretched out into three lines.  I tried finding virtual terminals with some text with the ctrl + f keys and found no text.

So then I thought that maybe the i3 image i was using was problematic.  So I went through the process again the manjaro pbp xfce image.  Same thing: booted fine to the installer.  The installer completed successfully.  On reboot, the splash screen, then the stretchy splash screen and no progress after that.

I guess I have two questions:

1) How can I turn off the splash screen on the kernel options on the image that gets installed by the installer? I want a textual boot so I can see where things are getting stuck. 
2) If you know what's going on based on my symptom, just tell me.  I'm happy to hear that someone else knows what's up and what I should do to fix it.

Thanks in advance for your advice.


  Buiding apps for pinephone
Posted by: katesfb - 05-25-2021, 10:08 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (9)

Hi,
How easy is it to build apps for the pine phone.

I am currently building apps for android phones and find this process quite frustrating at times. Given that the pine phone essentially runs a conventional Linux distribution, can apps be built using languages such as python directly? Is there a preferred language for building apps? Or is an SDK required?

Also,
Can lightweight Linux distributions such as MXLinux be adapted to run on the pine phone.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers.


  MIPI DSI command mode support on 5.10 kernel??
Posted by: jamwu - 05-25-2021, 09:32 PM - Forum: Armbian - No Replies

I have looked up relevant information on Google.
Since 5.6, pine a64 already supports dsi in the kernel mainline.And the Feiyang FY07024DI26A30-D 7inch MIPI-DSI LCD Panel driver and dts already released.
But the 7inch LCD above is a video mode panel. I can not found any information about the command mode panel.
Is pine a64 mipi-dsi supports command mode in the kernel mainline?
Is possible to use a command mode dsi panel with pine a64?
Any help is appreciated!!


  Powering up from 6S Li-Ion battery
Posted by: Nikiboy - 05-25-2021, 09:20 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinecil - Replies (1)

Hi.
Does any one knows is it possibly  to power up this soldering iron with 6s Li-Ion battery pack? Fully charged 6s battery will be 25v. In the description whey say dc voltage 12v to 21v. Max voltage 24v. But in settings menu i can set up voltage protection from 4s to 6s. I want to know did anyone tried to power up this iron more then 24v?