Hi people

I've had a PBP working successfully for a month or so. But now it's dead.

It's sat in an inmoving position, connected to the mains with the barrel charger which I switch on from time to time to top up the battery. It's mostly used for flashing to my pinephone so it's not been used heavily, I also have tried a few OS's so it has been booting from multiple SD cards and the emmc (from original Manjaro) successfully.

Yesterday I flashed opensuse to the emmc (booted and rebooted a few times) and decided it wasn't for me so I flashed Manjaro again but after I tried to reboot it crashed so I had to force shutdown with 10s hold on power button. After that it failed to start up (no lights on front but charger is lit red when plugged in).

After leaving it for an hour or so it started, but after a reboot it went back to dead. And next day that's how it still is.

As it's not been moving it's unlikely to be a loose cable inside so I hesitate to take the back cover off.

Are there any known issues that may help me? Could repeated plugging of mains/SD/USB cause this?VidMate Mobdro

Hey,
I have currently got sucked into the Pinephone world and I love the whole idea. I know that the plan is to support the current version of the phone for a very long time but I still cannot help it to speculate about a possible revision with a "better" SOC. I researched Allwinner products and the A50 chip looks very nice. Very similar package but using 28nm instead of 40nm, higher clock (1.8GHz), up to 4GB of DDR4 RAM.

I guess my question to other users is: Do you think that it's more probable that in the future there will be a board revision with better specs or a straight up completely new phone design?

Hello,

The following situation is occurring on SF 3.4.0.24

First of all after some minutes of inactivity, the wifi network is lost and can only be enabled again by turning wifi off and on.

I get quite often a crash of the OS when I put the phone away for a couple of minutes.
=> When trying to unlock the phone, the phone doesn't react anymore (sometimes the led is blue/green but not red).
It can only be solved by a hard power off and then a normal boot.

Anyone knows what the issue might be or how to solve it?

Thanks.

Br

I have used my PinePhone Pine64 Manjaro Community Edition for four days. I was having an awesome time with it, trying out different distros and UIs. Everything worked beautifully at first and I'm well impressed with the current status of usability of the phone.

Now, the phone is dead - absolutely dead: no LED action, no screen (not even backlight), nothing happens anymore.

How it started:
The problem started when I had the phone running Mobian+Phosh.

I had it docked on USB keyboard/mouse, HDMI and power (although the battery did not really seem to charge, it was losing charge %).
I had updated some packages and installed some new ones.
In the terminal I gave the command: sudo reboot.
At this point the charge on the battery was probably down to a single digit (5% maybe?)
I left it in the dock.

The phone started to reboot and even power on again. On the external monitor, a very hazy version of the Mobian logo appeared (so it started to boot).

Then all went black and the phone has been dead since.

Current situation
Nothing works.
I tried the reset pin, multiple times for over 15 seconds. Removed and replaced the battery a couple of times. Held the power button multiple times for over 10/15secs.

There is no indication that anything at all is still going on in the phone.

I left the phone charging overnight (the whole night), and still no luck this morning.

The only thing that is still happening is that the phone draws power (when I connect it, I can hear coil whine starting on my cheap charging station, and when I connect it to my power bank it shows dots indicating something is sucking power from it - both charging methods were used without any issues during the first four days).


I am at a complete loss as to what's going on and I don't know what to do next... it would be a real shame if this was it and the device is now dead.

I hope anyone can help. If you have any suggestions as to what I could try or do next, please let me know!

Cheers.

Hey folks,
I hope you are all healthy and well.
Since the wifi on the pinephone requires non-free drivers (realtek iirc), I obviously would rather wait for the version with the pinecone included.
But since I am impatient and want to start developing apps (and get rid of my android), I am wondering:
can I, once it has reached usability, change the wifi card? I couldn't find out how the wifi card is connected to the mainboard.
I don't have any skill in soldering, so that's out of the question.

Thank you all for your time!
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E: The repository 'http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release' no longer has a Release file.

I got this error when I've tried to update repository.
When I access to http://pinebook.kde.org.uk there is No file.
What should I do?

Every few months I try again I am tempted to buy a Pine product like the PinePhone, but I am unable to buy it compliant to the EU VAT legislation.

Whenever an address in the EU is specified, automatically VAT is added to the order. 

However, VAT *only* incurs for purchases made by indiividuals, or by businesses that do not have an EU-VAT-ID.

For all other businesses (from freelancers to large corporations) inside the EU, VAT does not apply, and the "reverse charge" mechanism is applied.

These are standard rules of taxation all across the EU, and they have been like this for decades.  Yet, the Pine shop does not allow me to order in compliance with those rules.

I would like to have either one of the following two options:

1. to order directly from a non-EU country, using INCOTERMS DAP (Delivered At Place).  This way the payment of duties and VAT is the responsibility of the recipient, and not the sender. I can take care of the EU import handling myself (which I am doing almost every day for incoming shipments).  I am a registered importer with customs ID (EORI number) - or
   
2. to order via the existing process (which seems to be DDP via a freight forwarder in Poland?), where i am able to specify my EU-VAT-ID during the checkout process, so that the order will be shipped under the normal "reverse charge" rule that applies to VAT inside the EU for decades.
   

I know I saw this in the past.... I would love to be able to order replacement back covers with the different logos from the special editions. Even though i ordered the KDE edition, I m thinking I may land on mobian and would love to have the @ on my phone without dropping another 150.

I didn't change anything. Mid-call suddenly no one can hear me anymore. It's done that a few times before but rebooting or toggling modem off and on fixed it, but not anymore.

I've tried maxing all the volume under Audio, I've tried pressing all the different options mid-call, I've tried updating, nothing. At best I can be heard for a few seconds. The other lines say they can hear when I push buttons (speakerphone, tones, linejack, etc) but nothing from me. 

Hello Pine-Team !

Unfortunately I cannot place an order.


I get the following error message from store:
There are no shipping options available. Please ensure that your address has been entered correctly, or contact us if you need any help.

I've played with a lot of variations, but without success. In the past I had already ordered 2 times on same address. 

Thanks for your support!
Harald