I have been wearing my Pinetime basically nonstop since I got it. I took it off just now and there is a burn mark on my arm where I was wearing it. Has anyone else experienced this, and should I be worried?
I'm confident this is not any form of allergic reaction to the materials of the device as this burn is exclusively under the sensors on the backside of the pinetime. I think the sensors somehow burnt me, but the device itself never got hot to the touch.
I've started playing music in my headphones without realizing it's also blaring from the speakers in public enough times now to try to fix this.
If headphones are in on boot, sound will come out of both them and the speakers unless you remove them and put them back. How to make only play from headphones if they are in on boot?
This is for a user who just got a PBP (loves it ) and before has used LinuxMint Cinnamon since forever.
Since he's used to Cinnamon, he wanted that as a DE, and I thought, "Easy. Go to Add/Remove software, find cinnamon-desktop, and install."
Well, that part was easy. But it keeps booting into KDE. I simply cannot find where you tell the system to use cinnamon. There's no option to choose DE at login (that I could see), and no setting that can be changed after it's booted.
Hi guys,
I just got my phone few weeks back and been testing different builds. The 2 that I like and are working most of the time are Arch Linux Arm and Mangaro Phosh also Manjaro plasma(but having problem waking up the screen).
I find that when I try to call my Cell the modem for the sim card and I use shaw mobile services in BC always have busy signal on a first dial, if I hangup and call again the call goes true. Any one have the same experience? Other than that I love the phone and the option to ungoogle myself is great.
pretty new to cell phones with previous desktop experience with linux. i have an old blackberry z30 that needed replacement and didn't like the iphone/ android options.
i recently inserted my sim card into the pinephone and keep getting the 'modem no carrier' messages. i'm on the koodo/telus network in canada. koodo network is displayed on the top right of the pinephone. sms, spacebar, and the phone seem to be functioning normally!? is there something i should be doing/configuring?
Have you cut a hole in the back cover of your pinephone and regularly switch off your cellular modem with the dip switch to keep the 3 letters from being creepy? If so, you will need these scripts so you can turn off/on the modem without having to restart your phone.
Turning modem off:
Install "minicom"
Code:
sudo apk install minicom
Create file "modem_shutdown" with the following text:
Code:
sudo minicom -S shut_down -D /dev/ttyUSB2
Create file "shut_down" with the following text:
Code:
send AT+QPOWD=1
now make both executable (Probably don't need to make "shut_down" executable)
I also added read/write so I can edit them as needed later.
Install gnome-terminal (So you can click "Run in terminal" in the filemanager "Nemo")
Code:
sudo apk install gnome-terminal
now click on "modem_shutdown" in your home or whatever directory you put these files. Be sure to click "open in terminal" and supply your user password. You should see a minicom screen pop up and it will eventually say "Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB2!". Close out the minicom instance. You can now switch off the modem with the dip switch.
Turning modem on:
Create file "modem_startup" with the following text:
Code:
sudo rc-service eg25-manager restart
make it executable
Code:
sudo chmod 700 modem_startup
Flip the dip switch back on and click on "modem_startup" and "Run in terminal" like the shutdown script.
Hi, I have rock64 v3.0 and screen is blinking quite much. With "blinking" I mean black rectangles that appear and disappear on screen when I move or resize window, also screen is "shaking" when it happens. Don't know how to describe it accurately with text, I can record a video if someone needs it. I tried armbian focal, it had lima driver. Also I tried slackware with mali driver, the blinking was gone when I decreased resolution to 1600x900 (resolution of my monitor is 1920x1080). I wanted to do this on armbian but other resolutions were not available, xrandr printed only 1920x1080.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
I have tried the latest release of manjaro plasma, when I update, it won't boot any more. I have also tried the latest dev build of manjaro. The same thing happens. I also tried manjaro MATE, and the same thing happens. All of them seem to get a random grey screen, I have even seen the Armbian logo appear in grey when trying to boot manjaro. Very strange.
I have a mrfixit debian sd card, it is pretty stable I guess. I am using it to flash my emmc, but it's pretty slow in regards to ui interactions.
The latest releases of Armbian have graphical issues, and the latest release of TwisterOS Armbian only has a 30% chance of booting up for me, as well as really muted audio.
So far all of these distros have had really bad touchpad sensitivity. Does anyone know of a way to fix this that will work in most distros?
TwisterOS runs the fastest and smoothest of the 3 for me. It even runs youtube video better than my pi4. It's very nice, but has too many other issues.
So does anything smooth and stable exist out there at this point? Preferably ubuntu/debian as it makes it possible to install all the things I am used to, easily.
) and before has used LinuxMint Cinnamon since forever.
Help, please. 
