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  Pinephone64 ring volume is very low
Posted by: mudflap - 05-20-2021, 01:56 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (2)

Hi guys/gals - 
I used to be able to hear my phone ring, but since the last update a few days ago (Plasma Mobile) - or maybe I messed it up - I can barely hear it ring. I tried to adjust the volume by overclocking it, but it doesn't seem to do much beyond distort the (still very quiet) ring. wife gonna be mad at me if I keep missing her calls, lol.....

Also, unrelated - is speakerphone mode supposed to work yet? 

Thank you in advance!


  infinitytime 1.0 includes games
Posted by: 11Eleven - 05-20-2021, 01:06 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - Replies (2)

Hey all, I just flashed all the InfiniTime firmwares to the 1.0.0 on my pinetime that I just got yesterday; smooth process following the wiki, this thing is pretty awesome.

The new version of the software actually includes 3 ''games''.  The first is just drawing with your finger on the screen, there's one-player pong game where you just bounce be ball against the wall instead of having an opponent.  The last game, called ''2'', is perplexing to me and I'm wondering if anybody knows how to play it.  It's a 4 x 4 grid and starts off blank except for 2 squares that both have a 2 in them.  When you swipe any direction, the values get pushed to the edge, you get new values and I think some of the existing ones get added... I got a high score of 668... I'm just curious to know if anybody knows the actual rules to this game.

edit: I think you have to match 2 similar numbers and it doubles them, I'm at 1688 high score now.


  pinephone oses and qemu emulation
Posted by: streak - 05-20-2021, 07:00 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (1)

hi guys

Since i dont own pinephone (im waiting for it) I would like to start coding/compiling some stuff that ill use later on phone in my free time on my laptop. Do we have some information / Howto / tutors how to setup proper environment in qemu to run pinephone oses in virtualisation?

Btw im using ubuntu/debian as my os of choice.

Thank for all pro tips In this topic

Wysłane z mojego CLT-L29 przy użyciu Tapatalka


  camera firmware problems
Posted by: kqlnut - 05-20-2021, 05:20 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (25)

I just found out that my phone has problems with the ov5640 camera firmware as reported here. The firmware is loaded, but apparently can't be started correctly which leads to the autofocus feature not working. Other than that taking pictures works. This is the output from dmesg:

Code:
[ 72.687561] ov5640 4-004c: firmware upload success
[ 72.996306] ov5640 4-004c: uploaded firmware didn't start, got to 0x7f, retrying...
[ 73.304696] ov5640 4-004c: uploaded firmware didn't start, got to 0x7f
[ 73.311504] ov5640 4-004c: ov5640_set_ctrl_focus: no autofocus firmware loaded
 
This happens every time I open Megapixels. I tried it on Manjaro Phosh unstable from eMMC and on the latest Mobian nightly from an SD card. I cannot recall it ever having worked in the past either. Apparently it works for other people though

Does anyone have more insights on this? Could this be faulty hardware which could be fixed by replacing the camera?


  briicked, fix from MASKROM mode?
Posted by: QuinTeknoLife - 05-20-2021, 03:13 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Hey all,


During trying to flash TwisterOS to my emmc I seemingly have done something wrong, causing my pbp to brick. To my horror I found out that it's also refusing to boot from SD, however MASKROM mode still is working. I tried flipping switch 24 both ways and SD boot refused both cases. I sadly do not have the usb emmc adapter (because I actually won this device Tongue)

Does anybody have an idea how to restore/flash Manjaro or any other distro using MASKROM and rkdevtool? I have a machine with both Win10 and linux (with rkdevtool on both) available for flashing.

Edit: some progress! Using the instructions on the bottom of this page ( https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2...03041.html ) I have gotten the pbp to the point where the power led will light up green without SD, but with SD still nothing happens.


Question PineBook Pro shipping to India
Posted by: User 22380 - 05-20-2021, 01:23 AM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (2)

Hello everyone

I'd like to buy PineBook Pro and have it shipped to India.
Unfortunately, the store says that there are no shipment options available.

I've read a couple of posts from fellow Indians and inferred that we used
to ship to India in past. Is the unavailability recent/temporary?

I've contacted a local reseller FabToLab about it and they too said that the
product is unavailable (although their web-store says otherwise).

It'd be great if anyone can let me know if/when can shipping be available
to India. Or why can it not be available in foreseeable future. (e.g. maybe
because customs are rejecting it)

Peace


  Appimage
Posted by: theboz1@verizon.net - 05-19-2021, 05:35 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Running Manjaro KDE on pinebook pro, yet to be successful having an appimage run. Am I missing a prerequisite that I need? The only info I seem to see on searches is to change permissions on the file and it magically runs - not…..


Video Problem Booting from SD card
Posted by: ezryder324r - 05-19-2021, 02:42 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Have been having problems booting from a SD card. Is there a some key to press on the keyboard to start the boot process so I can choose SD card. Or do I need to use the terminal? All in all I have been spending much to much time on this. Is there anyone  that can help me on this? Thanks


  Convergence: battery is constantly discharging/charging
Posted by: arjan1995 - 05-19-2021, 02:41 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (5)

Hi folks,

Today I share an interesting find with the PinePhone's battery profile when using it with the convergence dock. 
I've installed Cronie and shell script which sends the battery voltage and level (percentage) to my RPi server every minute. (from /sys/class/power-supply/axp20x-battery/)
The server then is able to plot a graph of these measurements.

When fully charged (at 86%, due to the 4.2v safety limit being applied) and plugged in with convergence dock (USB-c charger, HDMI display, usb keyboard/mouse, media playing so it won't go to sleep), the graph reveals that the battery does not stay at the same level but constantly discharges and then recharges again.

   

With a laptop for example, this does not happen. It stays at 100% and the voltage is constant.

How does this affect the battery in terms of longevity and efficiency?


  Screen Power Consumption Brightness=0 vs Turn off
Posted by: somefoo - 05-19-2021, 12:54 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - No Replies

Heya

I have a question regarding the power consumption of the screen on the Pinephone. I was under the impression that if the screen brightness is 0 that the power consumption of the display should be very low. But there seems to be a huge difference between turning the screen off and setting the brightness to 0. Could someone explain this to me? I understand that while the screen is on and the brightness is 0, we still are still drawing, but I don't expect that to cost 0.5w. I don't know much about display technologies and the hardware behind getting them running, but I would appreciate an explanation. 

0.90w: xrandr --output DSI-1 --off (OR xset dpms force off OR xset dpms force standby OR however you want to turn of the screen Tongue )
1.44w: echo 0     > /sys/devices/platform/backlight/backlight/backlight/brightness
1.49w: echo 100 > /sys/devices/platform/backlight/backlight/backlight/brightness
1.51w: echo 200 > /sys/devices/platform/backlight/backlight/backlight/brightness 
2.08w: echo 600 > /sys/devices/platform/backlight/backlight/backlight/brightness 


Many thanks Big Grin