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  battery and charging
Posted by: submariner - 02-25-2021, 12:04 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Si it might be only my ignorance that I expected some charger to be packed with phone. ofc I've ordered in a separate package battery charger itself, but getting to the point

upon first boot battery showed something like 30%
plugging it with that USB-C red cable to an ultrabook instantly shows it to be 40 or 50% something
unplugging it after few seconds shows like 47% percent which after a while resets to some other number

So I was just wondering if its just me not having a proper charger has such issues, maybe a battery is bad ?

I'm not refunding or whatever, but given such limited supply of components for phone in a package itself (talking of 2GB version) its a bit worrying. in a week or so I should get a package with more cables and docker and such, but this battery % status on KDE Manjaro UI is a bit worrying.


  How do you get the SIM out easily?
Posted by: desca - 02-25-2021, 11:38 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (7)

I've been switching between two SIM cards just lately, but I find it difficult to get them out


Question Hardware issues with Rock64
Posted by: grobbs - 02-24-2021, 08:07 PM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCK64 - Replies (10)

According to an Armbian forum post about Rock64:


Quote:Rock64 has many hardware problems, that is the reason why we don't support it anymore.

I'm disappointed to see that Rock64 went from supported to unsupported. Armbian has been my go-to image.

What is the future of the board? Is Pine64 addressing the issues?

Are there any other Linux distributions with accelerated hardware support (GPU, etc.)?


  PineTab Mobian LXDE desktop
Posted by: fjord - 02-24-2021, 06:32 PM - Forum: PineTab Software - No Replies

LXDE seems to be a viable option for Mobian on PineTab according the information at the bottom of this page. https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...vironments 

The sequence of steps is not too clear so I installed LXDE to start which after reboot results in a black screen with a mouse pointer.  Also while ctrl+alt+f1 brings up a console, it disappears within seconds.

I'll try installing xinput first and configuring xorg.conf and then LXDE and report back.

Any help would be appreciated.


  PinePhone replacement board won't stop vibrating
Posted by: acohl - 02-24-2021, 06:27 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (8)

As the title suggests, I got the new replacement boards that were on sale for ubports/braveheart users. I installed it, and now it vibrates when it turns on and continues to vibrate indefinitely. As it happens, I can actually boot mobian just fine off of the sd card. It just vibrates, regardless of what it is or isn't booting.

To confirm whether this was an installation mistake or not, I pulled out and put the board back in several times, making sure I got all the connectors. As far as I'm aware, the proximity sensor is installed correctly, as there is no red light. I went back and re-installed the old board just to be sure, and it works fine (although the touch screen wasn't working, but that might be because of some other factors; I dunno). 

To some, I suppose that could be a feature, but it's just kind of strange. I do have a tendency to be a little to ginger with my electronics, so, maybe, I pushed one of the pins in while sticking the board in the chassis? Maybe something's short. I've screwed in the frame but that didn't make a difference.


  Unable to get PinePhone Manjaro - Arm to Update
Posted by: kmk7x - 02-24-2021, 05:26 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hey All,

Running Pinephone Manjaro-Arm

I am unable to get my phone out of the box to update.  Going into software it says "no plugin could handle get-updates.  Try to update in terminal, however, shows "error:  failed to update core  (unable to lock database.  This happened with extra and community.  failed to Sync all databases.


  Pinebook pro for sale [UA only]
Posted by: mikkra - 02-24-2021, 01:38 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Hi guys. So, i played a little with my pinebook and now selling it. Notebook is from second batch with iso layout. For me layout makes no difference, i just installing ansi layout. So, i am selling it only for people, who lives in Ukraine Smile


  "Low Disk Space on Filesystem root" after installing Axolotl and Podcasts
Posted by: Anna - 02-24-2021, 04:27 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (11)

Hi,

please forgive me for making my entry to this forum with this very basic question (after owning the Pinephone (16 GB) for about two weeks and reading the threads here I have come to realise that I am probably way out of my depth).

My problem is as described above: After installing Axolotl and Gnome Podcasts, I get the following error message: "Low Disk Space on 'Filesystem root' The volume 'Filesystem root' has only 716,3 MB disk space remaining." That figure keeps changing and went down to a two digit number. At that point, Axolotl did not start anymore. I deleted everything I could (well, basically all my files) to come to the present 716 MB (Axolotl works again).

I tried to reproduce the problem on Megi's multi distro SD card. After upgrading Mobian, according to "Usage"/Storage", the "Operating System" took exactly 10 GB, "Home" 9 MB and the other directories 0 KB. After installing Gnome Podcasts, "Operating System" went down to 7,7 GB and Home up to 4,1 GB -- almost entirely due to a directory /.local/share/flatpak of a similar size. Uninstalling Podcasts did not change much about that.

On my main Mobian installation (not the SD card), "Operating System" now takes 7,6 GB, Home 5,8 GB and 1,5 GB are supposedly available (so considerably more than the 716 MB in the error message, according to "Usage"). In Home 4 GB are taken by /.local/share/flatpak, 908 MB by /go. Documents (146 KB), Downloads (63 KB) Pictures (42 MB) and other directories take relatively little space.

So my Pinephone has pretty much become unusable: I cannot save files for lack of space and even if I don't, the "Disk Space on Filesystem root" still tends to shrink for reasons I do not understand.


Any ideas what I can do?

Best,
Anna


  Where is the keyboard @ key on pinebook pro?
Posted by: jon snow - 02-23-2021, 09:08 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

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Conclusion,

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  Extra newlines in forum post
Posted by: TRS-80 - 02-23-2021, 08:38 PM - Forum: General - Replies (5)

I mentioned this briefly in another post where someone was discussing forum issues.

But it just happened again, so I thought I would make a separate post, about this issue specifically.  I hope this is the right place.  I am going to try and ping @fire219 as well, as it's my understanding that this sort of thing might be his bailiwick(?).

When I am composing a post, I like to press the Preview button some times as I am editing.  Then some times (not all the time) the forum ends up inserting extra newlines.  And even if I try and manually remove them, they still get inserted back in the final post.  Once this starts, it seems every additional Preview might be adding another newline in the affected area(s).

You can see an example of this here (this just happened).

I have not nailed down exactly what conditions seem to cause it; when I can reliably reproduce the issue I will make another report.  But I thought I would mention it, in case someone else might also be experiencing the same issue.

Until then, cheers.