Hi, I've applied all recent updates but my Pine Phone KDE Plasma (community edition) keeps automatically going auto-brightness to completely dim. 
Is anybody else having this problem and what is the solution?  
Settings Slider keeps scooting to the left and the phone screen goes completely dark. 
thanks 
Don

The official replacement power cable is described here as having a "Type H" jack. The most precise information I managed to find on Type H via an internet search was this Amazon product page, which describes its Type H jack as having measurements of 1.3mm ID x 3.4mm OD. I'd like to be able to use this cable, which describes its measurements as 1.35mm ID x 3.5mm OD x 18mm length. Is the latter likely to work with the PBP?

I'm running ubports on the Development Channel currently at version 456.

I turned the wireless off using the status bar > Network > Wi-Fi Set to disabled/off. Then I went back and turned it back on, but the wireless connection won't come back up.

When I run $ sudo rfkill list  I see that phy0: Wireless LAN says Soft blocked: yes

So I run $ sudo rfkill unblock all  I see that it changes to Soft blocked: no  , but the Wi-Fi still won't connect.

I've checked that Flight Mode is NOT enabled and that Wi-Fi is enabled, but I can't get the Wi-Fi to connect. I've even tried toggling them back and forth with the same result.

Running $ nmcli dev shows: wlan0    wifi    unavailable    - -

Restarting network-manager doesn't help. Restarting the phone doesn't help.

Does anybody know how to re-enable Wi-Fi?

Thanks

Mark

Carrier: Verizon
OS: Manjaro ARM Phosh beta 5 (I also tried mobian)

Outgoing Calls: Good
Incoming Calls: Never work (Screen locked, screen unlocked, screen unlocked and phone app open)

Outgoing SMS: Good
Incoming SMS: Works occasionally see more info below

1. I text my pine phone from a different phone, I wont receive the message until I text that other phone from the pine phone. The message then comes instantly.
2. When I reset the modem with mmcli -m 0 -r I get the pending message, but after that I have the same issue as number 1.

Any ideas what the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I'd like to sell my pinebook pro. I'm just not using it anymore and its (IMO) one of the best products Pine64 has made and deserves to be used. Mine is actually one from the first batch and has the 128 GB eMMC module (freshly flashed with Manjaro). Lightly used by me for a while, but now gathering dust.

The price is € 200,- and I'll be including some extra's



From left to right, top to bottem:

• Pinebook Pro - ISO - 128 GB
  
• NVMe adapter
  
• EU power supply
  
• eMMC to USB adapter (optional)
  
• TP-Link Archer T2U Nano wifi adapter (optional)
  

Made a video demonstrating something I discovered while using Pinetab's internal RTL-SDR (using GQRX).

I found my Lenovo laptop's speakers (whenever playing any form of sound/video) turn into a virtual microphone, remotely transmitting all audio in the room to multiple frequencies.

When in use, my (Lenovo) laptop speakers turn themselves (speakers on Lenovo laptop) into an unintentional remote listening device. Anytime sound is played from those Laptop speakers (Lenovo example), the speakers turn into a microphone, and combined remote transmitter (speakers are very similar to microphones).

I was able to tune into these frequencies using the Pinetab w/built in rtl-sdr, and found the frequencies to be static, reliable locations to listen in (bookmarked and repeated many times).

Unique electromagnetic emissions are given off by our devices (while in use). In some cases speaker wires themselves (not normally shielded well), can turn into a virtual transmitting antennas.

in this case the remote transmitting only occurs when speaking is playing audio. In other cases high powered electromagnetic energy can remotely turn devices into listening devices. This is known as RF retro reflecting.

After talking about these things (in the below video), I show GQRX on the Pinetab tuning into a couple of these frequencies.

I record the speaker's signals and replay the raw audio captured from GQRX.

Then I demo how to clean up these audio signals and replay the audio (making for a much cleaner sounding recording with understandable words).

Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/bK-CcnfP_ws

I've started to use PostMarket OS with Plasma Mobile this sunday and I found it to be my preferred solution for the PinePhone. It actually has the best usability for me at the moment and I could even think to try using it as my solely daily driver unless I had these two problems (in order of importance):

- Every now and then, the wifi is disconnected because of "wpa supplicant timed out". I just have to manually re-connect to the wifi, but I do not receive a sound/vibration notification of this happening, so I could end up staying hours with a disconnected phone without knowing it
- I can't figure out how to install the version of Angelfish browser with the integrated adblock plugin. I would/could switch to Firefox, but I the virtual keyboard simply does not work with it (there is no way to make it appear).



Thanks!

Hi

Recently I repaired the screen on my PinePhone and I had some issues with the USB-C board that are now fixed, now the loud speaker isn't working, any ideas?

As fun as the terminal is I would like to have a desktop environment again.

I am running Manjaro-ARM-phosh  on a UBports Edition pinephone.  I ran the latest update on Sunday and after I rebooted it did not boot into the desktop environment.  With an external keyboard I can still login and run terminal commands so I was hopeful a new update would fix the issue but yesterdays update did not change anything.  Is anyone else having this issue or just me? Any suggestions on a next step? I could always flash a new install on but I would like to learn how to fix this in case it comes up again.
thanks

Hi, I'm trying to get the new Debian installer RC3 to give me a working Debian server on the RockPRO64, but I'm stuck. I'd like to know if I'm missing anything. The steps I followed are:

• Got testing/unstable daily builds from: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm6...rd-images/
  
• Squashed the images together as instructed
  
• Flashed to a USB with Balena Etcher (A few months ago I flashed a U-Boot image from Ayufan to get USB boot working)
  
• Put USB into the USB 3 port (No SD or eMMC inserted)
  
• Installer starts successfully, run until partitioning
  

• 500MB ext2 mounted to /boot, bootable flag enabled (Boot from USB because U-Boot doesn't seem to support SSD's yet)
  

• 56GB ext4 mounted to /
  
• 2gb swap at the end
  

• 2TB ext mounted to /hdd