Hey all.

I'm interested in buying a second hand (used or not) PinePhone Mobian CE or a PineTab. Please get in contact with me if you have one available for sale. I can deal with some dead pixels or other minor hardware issues.

Cheers!

Hi,
we experienced a battery charge issue from a fresh new pinephone ; we asked the support team but it seems they cannot solve our trouble, they told us to ask the forum ; so ...

* Summary :
- Phone : "Community Edition Mobian w/ convergence package", RAM 3Go, delivery Feb/2021
- any battery cannot charge correctly (never reach 100%)
- the battery discharge very quickly (few hours without phone usage, OS up and running)
- the battery sensor reports random charge level, can go from 80% to 20% in a minute

* Investigations :
- tried 3 batteries (2 new Samsung, 1 from the Phone)
- tried 3 distrib (Linux Mobian, Manjaro Gnome and KDE, GloDroid)
- tried to boot on USB charger only as asked from support team#4, we got from Mobian :
   * USB Charger :
   - Charger : connected
   - Voltage : N/A
   - Current Limit : 3.0A
   * Battery:
   - Capacity 0%
   - Voltage : from 1.63V to 4.21V randomly
   - Status : Charging/Discharging randomly


We would appreciated any advises from the  community to identify the origin of this trouble. We think this is an hardware issue and would like to get your point of view ;
many thanks,

Hi folks, after my troubles installing Debian the other day I decided to try some other distros instead of diving too deep down that rabbit hole just yet.

To my disappointment, I was unable to get any video out the HDMI port on either Manjaro or Armbian.

I think the problem may be the bootloader I flashed to the SPI which doesn't seem to initialize the HDMI display (I get no video during the bootloader, nor during kernel boot).

Is there a microSD image I can use to flash the stock bootloader back so that the board is in the same condition it was as when I got it?

This is kind of silly, but I wanted to report I got a virtual machine running with QEMU/KVM on my UBPorts CE Pinephone. I'm using Mobian with phosh and Mate installed. Virt-manager did most of the lifting.
With a gig of memory for each OS it isn't speedy, but it does work. My goal was to get the abandoned media player Banshee running on my phone. My vm is Ubuntu 17.04 arm64, installed as Ubuntu Server and then with xorg, xdm, fvwm, pulseaudio, and Banshee.

Has anyone tried using petitboot on this particular SBC; if so, were you able to get it working successfully?  Is anyone aware of a compiled list of instructions for getting that boot loader up and running?  

On a somewhat related note, I haven't been able to get my board to boot from the SD card slot; I've read that I'll need to jumper some cables to bypass eMMC booting, but have no idea what jumping means.  Are there any pictures of what I'd need to do to the board in that situation?  

Thanks

Mine:  Pine64 mobian/debian CE, full first update successful...

I've seen green and blue indicator lights, but don't understand what they're signaling. Are these hardware-specific, operating-system (mobian/debian), or application specific?

Thanks

Just received my Pine64 mobian Community Edition, and with Pine64.org forum help, completed the massive first update.
Lovin' it.
   But is there any sort of online User Manual for the mobian edition?  Or do we just rely on Q&A in the Forum?
   And, for "Search" purposes in this forum, I'd ask everyone to BE SPECIFIC in the Thread Subject  - Thanks.

Thanks!

Would the raspberry pi be able to sync the time and date on my time? I’d yes would anybody be able to recommend any apps that would be able to do it? I have heard of gadgetbrodge but I don’t think that is on the pi or I haven’t seen any videos or info on it

Hello,

got a PP KDE CE and started using p-boot[url=https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/][/url] bootloader to compare OOSS.

Using my SIM, I'm experiencing trouble with data downloading

Of course, searched for the right APN on the (Italian) carrier website and write it in the Manjaro / Phosh beta2-20201119 OS, Manjaro / Plasma201122 and Ubuntu Touch settings page.

The message is always the same (Manjaro / Plasma201122 and Ubuntu Touch):

"ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED",

and (Manjaro / Phosh beta2-20201119 OS):

"...
If the address is correct, here are three other things you can try:
Try again later.
Check your network connection;
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web".

On the other side, WI-FI, calls and SMS never gave me problem with the OOSS above.

No treads on this issue, I guess.

Any help?

Many thanks.

How can i get updates on when some products will be on stock again in the store without manually checking every day? Do the Pine64 newsletter cover this? Or is there any RSS i can follow?
Thank you in advance!