Hi,
I've heard that gnome is working on letting gnome-clocks wake up the phone but didn't find anything in that regard.

So i experimented a little bit myself and got it to work with a little dirty hack. I don't really know a lot about the gnome ecosystem, vala, dbus, flatpack etc. so it really is a mess  but kinda working.

I first tried to write directly to /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm from gnome-clocks when an alarm is changed but it outright refused to. Even with chmod-ing that file. I don't really know why but my guess it's b/c of some flatpack specific stuff.

So i wrote a small external program "waked" which let's other programs register alarms via dbus to wake up the system. It's just a little experiment and still relies on /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm being chmodded but better then nothing. Running waked as root didn't work because then the dbus sessions didn't play nicely.

Then i slapped some spaghetti to gnome-clocks to register it's alarms in waked. Really messy, just a poc.

You can find the result here: https://gitlab.com/seath1
waked needs sdbus-cpp to build

What do you think, could that be a step in the right direction? I'm a bit surprised I couldn't find something existing to schedule rtc wakeups other than systemd timers which afaik doesn't let users add their own timers.

Hello @Danct12 ,

I've uploaded a package with some scripts to the AUR.
This package is a collection of shell scripts which sets up a USB Gadget interface and initiates a network on this interface.
The created network will use subnet 10.66.0.1/8 as it's subnet.

The purpose of this package is to facilitate easier means of debugging.
Sometimes the GUI on the Pinephone decides to fail and then it's difficult for a lot of users to obtain the valuable debugging logs.
This package ensures that the usb gadget interface is up-and-running.
Whenever you input a USB cable from any PC/Laptop it will initiate the network, and hand out a IP-Adress for the Host PC.
Now it's easy to connect to a SSH session with the command: ssh <username>@10.66.0.1
From here it's easy to obtain the neccasary debugging information such as dmesg and systemctl statusses etc.

You can find the package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pinephone-dev-tools/

Let me know what you think of it.

Greetings
Jasper

Like many of you, I have been struggling to find a working browser for Mobian. Chromium was the most usable — until it wasn't. Half the time, it doesn't even load for me and I just get a gray screen.

On desktop, I use Vivaldi exclusively, which I would argue is the best browser ever made. I never had luck installing it on Mobian, because I couldn't find it in the right architecture. Well, If you go over to 'old versions' on their website, you can find a new, stable version of Vivaldi for Arm64.

After you install it, I would recommend you disable all animations, clean up the interface, and maybe find a tutorial or two on how to speed up Vivaldi. I would also go to developer tools (f12), click the three dots in the upper right, then go to more tools, network conditions, and under 'user agent' uncheck 'Select Automatically'. Then set the user agent to Chrome, Android Mobile (high-end). Then restart. This will cause far fewer sites to deliver the full desktop version of their site when you're browsing.

I'm still getting some horizontal scrolling on some sites, but luckily, Vivaldi has a zoom slider right in the status bar, so it's easy to tweak sites on a case-by-case basis.

Vivaldi also has an integrated mail client and calendar now, and they also work on Mobian. I haven't spent too much time with these, but they display at the correct scale, unline Geary and Gnome Calendar.

Hi I am starting to use the USB-C deck to connect to my 4K monitor.

The description for the item on Pine store is 4k/P30 (means 30 fps?), and that's what I got when I am using it. But on the other hand the USB-C to HDMI converter I had is allow me to select 4K at 60 fps on the display setting, where the PBP deck only allow the 4k 30 fps selection. 

Is it possible the HDMI cable I am using the bottlenect, there isn't any meanful lable I can tell. Happy to buy a new one if it might be the issue? But on the other hand, it might be a hardware limitation due to the deck need provide USB3 and HDMI outputs at the same time from a single USB-C connected to the PBP for input?

Hi,

as some of you might know there is a known issue with handling of PCIe errors on the RP64 as discussed here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8374
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6329

I am getting this error when I try to build/rebuild my RAID for the first time. Sometimes I am lucky and it works, but most of the time it does not and I don't have much confidence in putting my backup on a machine with a malfunctioning PCIe interface. If it happens, I see entries like these in the logs:

After what has seemed like a very long time with little to show for the efforts, I burned a new download of Manjaro to a micro USB card and put it in the PBP.  Powered it on and Manjaro got installed.  Seems to be working as it should.  Minor problem; can't seem to find or install an email program/app where I could send and receive email on the laptop.  The WiFi works and has connected to the home network.  Ultimate goal would be to use the laptop for portable and travel operations.  Any suggestions would be welcomed.
James Good

Hi,

Since the Chromium browser will be losing the ability to sync with Google, and Pinebook Pro users cannot install Chrome, what is the next step for Google users on Pinebook Pro? I've used Google for years and I have an Android phone, so being able to sync my bookmarks and history is important to me. I'm unaware of any solutions that exist; and using another browser ecosystem, like Firefox, isn't really a solution to the problem, since it's an entirely different browser ecosystem.

Anybody have any ideas?

I just got my PineTab yesterday and I'm slightly at ends with what to run on it, what are you all running on yours?

I install latest update and there is login issue, i change PIN to 12 then change kde password to `kde` (via passwd) then i can't unlock the device. Should i reflash? I try ssh but unfortunately it's not enable, root / root refused. Any suggestions?

I let someone look at my pinecil, they grabbed a standard 5.5mm 12v barrel-style power cable for the bench power supply assuming the pinecil used that standard and did the old push&twist to force it in.
After a few seconds of effort my associate had a stupid look on their face holding the connector cable but the center pin from the pinecil was jammed tight into the barrel connector.
Fortunately I was able to re-insert the pin and solder the broken power line back together, though certainly not as strong against a similar attack it works again over USB C (obviously) and the repaired barrel power port too so all is good.