Hola fellow pines.

New pinephone user here. Picked up the KDE Plasma, which arived on Monday. The pre-loaded manjora distro is super buggy. I ended up tossing UT on a microSD, and it's a huge improvement.

Looking forward to playing with and testing these distros, and supporting the devs anyway I can.

My goal with the pinephne is to have a DD'able, secure device free from Google and Apple's data harvesting. I only want to be able to make calls, send SMS, browse the web, etc. A usable 2FA app would be a plus.

I will say, I was stoked to see WiFi Scanner in the OpenStore. I can see that being a very useful tool at work. I believe there used to be a similar app for iOS, but it's not available anymore.

Anyhow, figured I'd say hello and I look forward to conversing with you all.

Cheers

Here's how we call the PineCone BL602 RISC-V Hardware Abstraction Layer to access the BME280 I2C Sensor...

PineCone BL602 talks to I2C Sensors

How to un-seal a sealed PineTime (Do at your own risk and only if all other options of recovery have been explored. This will void any warranty you have I am sure). I am not responsible for any damage to your PineTime if you do this and neither is Pine64. Please also note: this will destroy any water resistance/waterproof rating obviously.

Required tools: Wide tip flat-head screwdriver (mine was 7mm wide at the tip), Heat Gun (A hair drier may work but take longer. It may also help to prevent overheating), Plastic pry tool or guitar pick

1: Take off the watch bands

2: Lay the PineTime face down on a heat resistant surface that wont scratch your screen. I used a thick wood surface.

3: Use a heat gun to evenly heat all the sides. **Be very careful not to over heat. The back is plastic and will melt or warp if it gets to hot. You could also damage the screen and/or internal components. Also be careful not to burn yourself.**

4: Once the sides are heated (I heated mine to the point where I could just barely still hold it without burning my hand) insert the wide flat-head into the corner of the band slot and twist the screwdriver slowly to the right if you started on the left corner or to the left if you started on the right corner. If the corner does not begin to lift, apply a little more heat or possibly a little more twisting pressure (not too much). Take your time and do this on all 4 corners, then use a guitar pick to finish breaking the black rubber seal all the way around.

Extra info: For anyone that wants to re-seal a PineTime, I was made aware that the factory sealent was B-6000 which is a rubbery sealent/glue. You can also use E-6000 which is almost the same and can be found easily on Amazon. Whatever you do, DO NOT use superglue or other non-rubber adhesives.

Does anyone know a source for a reasonably-priced USB-C cable with a silicone jacket? It would be nice to have a power cable the iron can't melt.

The TS80 kit evidently includes a nice one, but it can't be ordered separately (AFAIK) and is an A-to-C cable, and I'd want C-to-C to use PD.

For that matter, does anyone make a silicone barrel-style power cable? That would be easy enough to adapt, I'd think .


EDIT: This looks promising--a 2m silicone USB C-to-C cable for under $5 shipped on Aliexpress. Granted, it could be absolute crap, and I'll probably be vaccinated before it shows up, but hey ... promising.

(If I need to move this, please let me know where)

Hi everyone, brand new here, first post.

I've been diving headfirst into the linux world for about a year or two, and I'm not looking back after going the way of everyone else here and realizing how fun and deep the linux world goes. I would like to help develop on the pinephone, at least for expanding my own knowledge. I have an interest in programming, though I wouldn't say I'm well educated yet. I have basic scripting experience, understand a fair bit of the linux ecosystem and command line, and am smart enough to figure out a coding system once I have a project to apply it to. I am experienced in the Debian/ubuntu side of things, and would preferably like to stay in that realm because I just like it. I am extremely interested in helping the linux phone movement progress whether by developing, troubleshooting, cleaning up, or even just getting burritos for the team.

So my questions are: how does one get started in this domain? What are some basic things I need to wrap my head around before diving in? What IDEs and languages are best used to program in the Debian-like environment? When developing for mobile/phosh/pinephone specifically, should I be learning a certain discipline, or just learning the desktop environment since it's all just that anyway?

I'm doing research for myself and trying to be self-sufficient, but no reason not to ask the experts their advice on getting started. Any help would be great.

Thanks

First time i see this.
DHL tracking says the shipment returned to shipper
Do any of you guys has the same problem?

Here is dhl log


Wednesday, January 27, 2021
3 - Returned to shipper - HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA - 12:20

Tuesday, January 26, 2021
2 - Shipment on hold - HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA - 23:53
1 - Shipment picked up - HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA - 21:48

Hello all, first post after a long lurk!

I am planning to preorder a pinephone, and in preparation I would like to be able to explore the OS options so I can quickly settle on a daily driver. I am hoping to fully replace my android and this is basically the last step in my de-googling process. I do need some functionality for work however, so again, I would like to explore the available operating systems while I wait for shipping to begin.

Is anyone aware of a method of running any of the supported OSs in a virtual machine such as KVM? I tried to get iso files but could only get installer tools and .img files for the ones I was most interested in. If anyone has any insight I would very much appreciate it!

Hook-seller! I need your STRONGEST hooks and userscripts! 

I'll start. 

Surf gesture so that back and enter go back and forward in history.

Hello everybody.
Let me know, what you tink about this.

Alarms that are set in the Clocks App of (at least) Mobian are, as far as I can see, actually not reliable.
They do not go off, if the phone is in stand by mode for some time.
Sometimes they go off, when I wake up the phone, sometimes, when I unlock it, and sometimes they do not at all.
My first approach was to use a cronjob, that wakes the phone up, 1 minute before it is time for the alarm. Any (!) command executed by cron did the job. I used "ls".
This worked well and I used this solution for several days, until I decided, that the standard alarm tone is crap. And even worse, it will last precious seconds to find my glasses, unlock the phone, open the header and stop it.

No, I wake up with my favorit music, the phone is already unlocked and I am able to quit (if I wish) without using my glasses.
Here is, how it works.
You need to install cron and mplayer.
You create a cronjob that (1) unlocks your device and (2) starts mplayer in a kingscross session. mplayer will play every music you like.
cron will wake up your phone reliable, even after a long night. Your display remains dark.
To end this "alarm", you have to press the power button once, then either hit q, or p on the keyboard. This will quit, or pause mplayer.
As an alternative you can end kingscross. This is what I do, because I can do it without my glasses.
I hit the arrow icon to switch to task view, swipe to close and hit the fat red button on the right (indicating, mplayer is running in the terminal)
Yes, that are two to four key presses. More than in standard spy phones but less than necessary whith the standard alarm.

Here is, what has to be done before (you need basic knowlege of command line editors, cron, mplayer).
In Kingscross, or from a SSH session do:
sudo apt install cron
sudo apt install mplayer
crontab -e
## In the file, that opens, enter the following line

30 7 * * * loginctl unlock-session 1; DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/kgx -e "mplayer http://wdr-wdr5-live.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/...stream.mp3"

That's all.
At 7:30 on every weekday (30 7 * * * ), cron will now unlock the device in your name (loginctl unlock-session 1) and start kingscross (/usr/bin/kgx). Kingscross will execute mplayer and let it playback the german WDR5 info radio (-e "mplayer http://wdr-wdr5-live.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/...stream.mp3").
The mplayer manpages will tell you, how to set the initial volume and how to play your inividual playlist.
The cron manpages will tell you, how to configure "alarms" for working days, weekends etc.

Here is a quick way to see whether the Pinecil gets back in stock.
I've been meaning to get one, but it is out of stock. To automate my stalking of pine's website, i've written this python script and thought that I could share it if someone thinks that it's neat: