I have a UBPorts edition PinePhone and I have determined that the modem simply does not work (I believe that the sim tray is faulty). I'd really like to order a new main-board but they're not available. I can't even order a whole new phone because they're not available either. The only other game in town that I know of is the Librem 5; I ordered one of those more than two years ago and it's still nowhere in sight.
So, when will new main-boards or phones be available in the US?
Various stages of U-Boot SPL and full U-Boot call this method with a known int to signal the current boot stage.
I would like to activate PL7 on the SOPINE clusterboard which has an LED attached on certain checkpoints in booting.
My question is, does anyone have experience with low-level GPIO registers/memory and knows how to achieve this? We can't use syntactic sugar like the following
because the GPIO and DM (driver model) systems are not initialized at power-on yet (and I encounter an infinite loop deep in U-Boot trying to enumerate non-initialized hardware).
I understand the pin number for PL7 is 359 from ([L - A] * 32) + 7.
Hi I'm moving & getting rid of stuff. I have a spare pinephone UBports edition available to a good home. I'll mail it anywhere (I'm in Serbia right now), please just cover shipping and preferably add something extra, probably by Paypal or whatever. Serbia post is cheap, I've mailed much heavier things home to Canada for $30. I would just like to know that it isn't going to waste.
A reason why I am still a Samsung Galaxy S5 user are:
1. replacable battery
2. Micro-USB 3.0 connector
The same cable as for 2.5 hard drives can be used, and the connection is very stable. I am a heavy user, and phone death was most often caused by a broken connector.
Is there a reason for not using a micro-USB 3.0 connector as a standard, or one which is modified so that it works also with usb-c?
I've had my PBP since January 13, 2020. I didn't use it much for months but since November or so it was my main machine, using it sitting in a recliner. Which means it got opened and closed maybe 6-10 times a day. A month or so ago I noticed a crack in the case over where the power adapter plugs in, which opens up a bit as I'm opening the lid.
Suddenly today I hear snapping noises on the right side when I try to close the lid. So I stopped with it open maybe 45 degrees, logged in over ssh and wifi from another machine to shut it down and there it sits.
Last time I looked a few days ago at the parts page I could no longer buy just the plastic case piece that failed first, I'd have to buy one with a keyboard. I don't know what failed that's preventing it from closing. Ameridroid doesn't seem to have many parts in stock so they'll have to come from China (months). I'll try to get another nvme USB adapter and rescue my nvme drive out of it. Hinge problems like this in laptops go back 20 years or more, I haven't seen one in years so I thought all the manufacturers had learned how to prevent them.
I would like to share my experience with the PinePhone. I ordered the Mobian CE with dock and received it on 1.3.21. I started using it the day after, so a week ago. Short background information about myself: I have never owned what is commonly called a Smartphone, my current phone is an old Nokia E71, and as far as Linux-phones are concerned: I had an Openmoko and unfortunately lost some money in the Neo900 project.
With all this in mind: the PinePhone is great so far! Apart from the announced CNY delivery delay it arrived very quickly too.
Positive points:
-The convergence dock is magic! It's so convenient to have normal wired network! I haven't even tried the other ports yet. I remember the fiddling with USB networking on the Openmoko, this just works.
-Calls/sms/wifi/mobile data/hotspot: just works.
-Disk encryption: just works.
-Youtube: it looks like I was lucky, but worked out of the box after initial upgrade.
-The buttons on the side do what I thought they would!
Things that aren't 100% great yet:
-In general the UI has some rough edges (phosh), but I never got stuck or had to abandon what I wanted to do so far
-Different sound/vibrating profiles don't seem to work correctly yet, and the phone doesn't seem to wake up upon an sms (no flashing LED) - I probably need to spend some more time figuring this out.
-Only US QWERTY keyboard, I'm missing french and german accents and umlauts (again, maybe I haven'd done enough research yet)
-Webapps created according to mobian wiki with firefox -ssb seem to not have network connection after waking up the phone. It starts working once I loaded a site with the normal firefox.
-I need to use the hydrogen webapp for matrix, as mirage cannot connect to my private server (this is of course unrelated to the pinephone)
-The camera app is still in its early stages (it works fine though)
-I cannot use Tidal, due to the widevine DRM not being available for arm64. This is possibly fixable with anbox, but I'm currently hesitant to install it. Maybe one day this will change?
The fact that my PC, my server and now my mobile phone all run Debian is fantastic, I find this extremely convenient. I would not recommend this to someone who doesn't want to ssh onto the PinePhone or who is afraid of restarting a systemd unit via the onboard terminal, but otherwise my expectations are exceeded by far!
Despite some software fixes for the screen backlight flicker on PinePhone, the primary issue remains, meaning that the intensity of screen backlight changes somewhat erratically and very annoyingly when there's communication on the internal I2C bus, such as when the operating system talks to the LTE modem, or when the total power draw of the phone changes significantly, for example when scrolling the screen contents.
I've already researched the possible ways for fixing the flicker by doing some hardware modifications, and I've reached the point where I'd need to secure a development platform. In other words, I'd need a development PinePhone, which would be used for trying out hardware modifications. My goal would be to end up with hardware modifications and clear instructions that are as simple as possible, and easily doable by many PinePhone owners.
Understandingly, I do not want to try out those hardware modifications on my own PinePhone, because there's always a chance for the electronics to produce a puff of magic smoke.
Thus, I'm asking for a way to get a PCB 1.2b PinePhone, for the above-described development purposes. Ideally, I would like to get an additional, separate PCBA 1.2b board, in case something bad happens to the original board. Also, please, keep in mind that I cannot guarantee that the whole endeavour will actually result in the desired hardware fix, but I would do my best.
Finally, there are two questions:
1. Would the Pine64 team be willing to donate the required hardware?
2. If not, would the forum members be willing to pitch in? I can accept PayPal payments.
I am not really sure whether this is a hardware or software issue:
Gnome-Maps (or Open Street Maps in the Browser) never gets the location right.
When I am at home, Maps shows some address in Frankfurt, Germany (200 km off); when I go out, the marker never moves on the map but only jumps to slightly closer places once in a while: to the middle of the Rhine (10 kms off), some address in Bonn (5 km off) or some adress in Cologne (35 kms off).
No matter where exactly I am, it is always that particular park in Cologne, that particular spot in the Rhine and so on.
I wrote a kind of dumb script to turn your phone into a cyberpunk accessory. Since Kali and Mobian are both based off Debian all it really does is take a Mobian install and remove most of the packages, then add the Kali repositories to apt and install all the tools. When done it takes up about 30 GB (if more of the base OS can be removed, please let me know. I'm no expert on this. Also if packaging this into an image is an option, I'm all ears). It also adjusts the theme and background, and changes the default username from 'mobian' to 'h4x0r' (obviously). I'd also change my ssh port to '1337' but that's just
If you're pretty new to Linux but with aspirations to become a world-class (white-hat) hacker you can:
- install Mobian to an SD card, following the instructions here: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=install. Just a note, that if you install an encrypted version via the installer it will alter the UUID of the eMMC-LUKS-partition if you already have an encrypted version of Mobian on you eMMC. Instructions for restoring the original OS can be found here: https://gitlab.com/mobian1/issues/-/issues/235. I'm not sure how this bug affects other installs.
- open up a terminal (King's Cross) in Mobian and type:
Code:
nano 1337.sh
- copy this script into it:
Code:
#! /bin/bash
# get rid of all crap. h4x0r has no time for games
apt purge gnome-2048 gnome-authenticator gnome-calculator gnome-calendar gnome-chess gnome-clocks evince firefox-esr fractal geary lollypop gnome-maps gnome-todo gnome-weather telegram-desktop gnome-software gnome-sound-recorder gnome-software-plugin-flatpak nemo file-roller gedit totem epiphany-browser gnome-contacts -y && apt autoremove -y
# here check to make sure you're getting the good stuff
apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
# and you want the good stuff
echo 'deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free' | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
# live in the now
apt update && apt dist-upgrade
# get rid of old kernel to stop small boot partition from complaining
apt purge linux-image-5.9-sunxi64
# load up toolbelt (least important)
apt install kali-tools-*
# look the part (most important)
apt install kali-themes
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Kali-Dark'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/kali/kali-neon.xml'
# how can you be mobian? you are h4x0r (this part taken from mobian wiki)
old="mobian"
new="h4x0r"
# Home paths
ohp="home/$old"
nhp="home/$new"
# Change username
for file in group gshadow passwd shadow subgid subuid
do
sed -i "s/$old/$new/g" /etc/$file*
done
# Rename home folder
mv /$ohp /$nhp
# Fix path references in /home for new user
grep -rl "$ohp" /$nhp | xargs sed -i "s+$ohp+$nhp+g"
# Set user info
echo
chfn $new
sync
# like 1337 phoenix, you are reborn
reboot
- save and exit by typing Ctrl-x and saying yes
- make the file executable with
Code:
chmod +x 1337.sh
- run the script with elevated privileges
Code:
sudo ./1337.sh
I've tried to comment everything in the script so folks can customize as necessary. Any recommendations are also welcome.
I ran across this on the fedora pinephone distro. It’s awesome for convergence because it lets you choose between multiple sessions including phosh and any other session you’d like whilst otherwise being like a phone lock screen. I had to build it for Debian, it needed git flex bison make cargo glib2.0 libcairo2-dev libatk1.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev liblightdm-gobject-dev libgdk3.0-cil-dev libgtk-3-dev libhandy-0.0-dev
I removed development packages after the build. So far it’s working really well, it would be awesome to get this into Debian (I sadly don’t have those skills)
