A few months ago, I dropped my Pinebook Pro.  Not from very high, about desk level.  The system continued operating as normal, but I found that the power cord had snapped.  I have tried ordering replacements based on the specs of the DC cord listed on the website, but none of the replacements have fit in.

Does anyone have any power cord replacement recommendations?  I'd greatly appreciate it.

Finally got tired of trying to fix the autorotate on Arch, so I decided to go with PostmarketOS. Installed Jumpdrive on an SDCARD and mounted it on my Linux box. Got a strange error the first time I ran pmbootstrap -- but not sure why. Running it again seemed to fix. There were error messages about qemu-arm64-static.  

However, once I got past that I got locked into a death spiral where it tried to set up my password but it had not set up my user. I went into the chroot and edited /etc/passwd to add my ID as user 1000 (this was a mistake). This let me get through setup.

However, all was not well. I couldn't get KDE to start. Turns out my home directory wasn't set up for user 1000 but 10000. So a quick reboot into Jumpdrive to edit that did wonders. I also added a group 10000 with the same ID and added myself to /etc/sudoers because I was locked out of root otherwise.

That did the trick. All works well but no autorotate. However, manual rotation works fine. The Vivaldi arm64 build does not work  But otherwise seems good and also seems snappier than arch did. Network ok, sound ok, touchscreen ok. Did have to unmute and twiddle the mouse settings for sanity, but nothing major.

As a sway user on desktop, I've been trying to use it on my pinephone. One of the shortcomings is that on mobian, most of the phone related functions are (well) integrated into phosh and I didn't want to loose that. 

Sway use on the pinephone is mostly interesting in docked mode or when a keyboard is plugged in ...

I've identified 3 ways to achieve sway integration 

 1 - run sway on a tty
 2 - run sway inside phosh
 3 - replace phoc with sway as phosh compositor

1 is trivial, you switch to a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1 on the keyboard), log in and launch sway. It works well but is not really integrated. For instance, when you receive a call you need to switch to phosh terminal, and so I quickly abandoned this solution

3 seems to need some work and might not be feasible due to the way phoc and phosh seems to be tight together through D-Bus things ...

2 has always had my preference, and I didn't know why it never worked when I tried it, since as sway can be used as a wayland client, it should be as easy as typing sway in a terminal. Today I gave it another try and figured out what was wrong. Before launching phoc it restricts WLR_BACKENDS to drm and libinput. And sway was using this variable. So to run sway this way all you have to do is type WLR_BACKENDS=wayland sway ... and it magically works.

Then to use it fullscreen I associated toggle-fullscreen command to Alt+F11

There are still some issues, one is that sway don't get the good keys from the squeekboard that runs in phosh. But this way, you can keep a full desktop in a corner, pop it up when connected to a screen or just to a keyboard, and I find this quite interesting ...

Hope it will be of some help to some of you

Regards,
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FdL

I ordered a PinePhone replacement LCD screen which is only $30 USD
The person/persons who shipped up put the total declared value of $65. Te $65 USD included the cost of $35 for shipping via DHL
The problem with this is where I had it shipped, they charge a tax plus collection fees of anything over $50.
They wanted fees of nearly totally the the shipping and price for the LCD.

You people need to get your crap together. I rejected the packed. I submitted a ticket for them to send another with the CORRECT declared value.

Hopefully this won't turn into a PayPal dispute like I have seen in many other threads.

Hi,

Since the schematic kindly tells me that the hall sensor is not populated I was wondering if it was sufficient to just solder one on the board (since the firmware apparently anyway checks via i2c if its presenet) or are the caps also omitted?

Best,
schuschu

Hi there,

I have been trying armbian on pinebook pro. I realize volume up and down multimedia keys do not work on the xfce desktop. The other keys brightness etc. seem to be working.

I checked out the keyboard options in xfce and there seems to be a specific shortcut using alsactl, which made me even more confused as I was thinking the system is using pulse audio.

Is there anyone who use armbian? How can I make the volume up and down keys to work?

Best,

Looking at the demo videos/docs/guide it seems like this is mainly intended to be used for mobile.

If I wanted to use it while docked/as if it was i3-wm how far will I get? Will I need to do stuff like use xrandr to show/position the external monitor?

I did figure out how to properly flash the images onto the SD card so it actually boots/isn't skipped.

But I figured I'd ask before I got into it.

Thanks for any thoughts.

edit: Oh and I was curious about the idle RAM usage. Mobian is surprisingly not as bad as I thought eg. I saw a number just over 500MB. Is Sxmo significantly lower than that? I got a 170MB figure nice.

Hello,

I'm trying to add my protonmail account in the geary but so far without success.
Running the latest version of Debian:

Was one already able to do the following:
- run a protonbridge client
- add a protonmail account in geary (or any other mail app) using the config from the protonbridge

Or
- running a mail client with a protonmail account and bypassing the protonbridge

Looking forward to get this running!

Thank you

Br

I just installed sxmo on my new pinephone and it appears that there is no ~/.config directory. Thus, there is no hooks, so I can't receive incoming calls. I can't seem to find said hooks directory on the git page. I was able to see that I am successfully getting the call by running modemmonitor.sh (or whatever it's called) via ssh, but again, the phone doesn't do anything when the call is incoming. 

Anyone know where I can get these files?

Hello,

I tried to do some comparison between various Pine-devices available, (a comparison chart between all the Pine-doohickeys would be cool) and search the forums but I ended up with an impression that the PinePhone is the only device with hardware switches?

Does Pine64 has any plans to implement those to other devices? Say laptop or tab / anything with camera/microphone/etc would warrant having at least some of those handy switches alone.