in my area cdma is the only service that works. i cant find any carrier that supports my modom. my verizon sim works (mostly) but i cant stream on it. so im wondering if that because i cant register my imei? if anyone knows of a carrier that will, plese respond.

Got a brand new ROCK64 and would like to drive one of those SPI LED strips with it. I know I can do that with, for example, Python's [/url][url=https://github.com/doceme/py-spidev]spidev module.

So what is the best way to get from an empty SD card to a ROCK64 with spidev?

I noticed this thread from 2018 but I imagine the situation may have changed since then.

Thanks very much!

I posted the same question 5 days ago in "getting started" but perhaps it wasn't the right place.

I received my pinephone with mobian 5 days ago. After playing around and failing to update anything with the software update app, I saw I needed to do that via the command line and using dist-upgrade.

I did that but during the upgrade, as I was touching the screen to avoid the screensaver, I touched the battery icon and the phone immediately wet off. As I powered it up again, I could enter the password to decipher but after seing mobian and the logo, I have a graphical message saying that something went wrong in the session start and I need to try again, but f I power off and on again the same occurs.

Is there any solution apart from reinstalling mobian?

While the phone is connected to my PC running Trisquel, there is no device for it so I guess the only solution to reinstall mobian is to first install mobian on a SD card and after I have a working phone, I can try to access the eMMC to install mobian there again, but I am not sure whether that can be the installer at https://images.mobian-project.org/pinephone/installer/ that is copied to the eMMC directly or not (in order to install the FS ciphered).

I finally received my phone and the second day I apparently snapped the thin plastic in between the volume and power buttons.  When the back cover was removed the buttons fell off.  With a careful hand I was able to put it back together and buttons are working, however now I am afraid to take the cover off again when needed.  

I could go on blah blah.  My only question is does anyone know of a ETA on back cover https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-bac...46c16e2e66  availability?  


thanks everybody

I bought a Syncwire dual 3A charger and a USB to H barrel cable from the Pine64 shop to try out.
I thought that this would be useful for travelling because it should be able to charge the PBP and a phone at the same time.
Initially it worked well but then I hit a problem.
One day I let the PBP run totally flat, and the Syncwire would not recharge it.
I put this down to experience and suspected that the Syncwire was not performing to spec, but then last week a youtube video popped up with a fellow connecting a USB-C second monitor, and in the video he says that by connected a 5A power supply to the PBP it could run the monitor on a higher brightness than is possible with the standard 3A one.

This got me thinking that if the PBP is capable of pulling more than 3A then maybe when it is totally flat that it does, and maybe this causes the Syncwire to protect itself and shutdown?

Is this possible?

How does a totally dead PBP will recharge from the stock power supply?  Does it just current limit by reducing its input voltage?

Haven't received sms for about a week. I am able to send SMS. I am on Mobian and phosh. My carrier is Verizon

Here is what I have tried:

• running the mmcli to check for and delete sms. However MMCLI claims there is no messages.
  
• Janky-mms which I think probably just uses mmcli and had the same result.
  
• minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB2 with a couple of different commands (I can't find where I got these commands but they were supposed to clear the cache and reset the modem I think.)
  
• Changing APN
  
• Ran the following to check for messages on modem. Like above it showed nothing
  
  Code:

  socat - /dev/ttyUSB10,crnl
AT+CMGL
  
  

Hello all,

Has anyone had issues with support before? I had bought a Mobian CE Edition and it came to me defective. I sent it back to Pine64 for RMA at the start of March and now my Phone seems to be in limbo. Also trying to get answers from support is like pulling teeth from a lion.

I was really happy when I got my PinePhone and I even bought a Pinecil to support Pine64 more however I am beginning to feel... Regret, Anger, I'm not sure.

All I know is I bought a phone, it came to me broken, I had to pay MORE money to get it fixed, and now I have no clue where it is.

I'm not sure what to do anymore. Has anyone else experienced this?

Best,
Astilex

Cat was less than careful around my pinebook pro and did something that resulted in it landing hard on the floor and losing two keycaps. 

I only found one of the missing caps and the hinge is broken. 

Naturally, the ANSI keyboard replacement is still out of stock and i figure buying an Iso replacement so i can pull two caps off of it and put them on my ANSI is sub-optimal. 

Specifically, I need the M and comma keys.

Hello, in the pinecil wiki it is written: 

Quote:

• The first batch of Pinecil's were rated 12-24v @ 65W. After some heated discussion on the discussion group, it was decided that it would be downgraded to 12-21V @ 60W, due to concern over the connection of the DC jack to the USB-PD chip, which has a recommended maximum of 21v, and absolute maximum of 28v.
  

well, i could never get my pics to show up in photos or imagemajik but after update on 3-21 the camera wont even open. also streaming over cdma was somewhat possible, now wont stream at all. any ideas?