Hello Pine64 community,
I recently booted MrFixit's Debian image off of sd, and I noticed that the Power LED was able to blink to indicate disk activity. I have Manjaro XFCE installed on my emmc, and I'm curious to know if there's any way to enable this feature there too. Thanks.

So I followed here what they mentioned 

https://youtu.be/FD67UPVFouM?t=562



Settings > Update > Update Settings then select the latest kernel.

After about 20, or so tries,  was finally downloaded.

Now to install, it needs you to press the "Install" button, and then a popup comes saying

"The device needs to restart to install the system update"
"Restart & Install"
"Cancel"

I press and "Restart & Install" and the popup disappears. I have also tried manually restarting, but getting nothing.

Hello, extremely new to Linux in general, had lots of help in figuring things out with my PBP. Wanting to try out Debian on my SD card and ran into some troubles. Got the installer script completed, but when I load up again I get a black terminal screen, with a login/password. I set up my username in the install but it did not ask me for a password. Is there a default for this? Unable to load up any kind of start screen, so maybe something went wrong with the script?

Hello, I purchased a used Manjaro Convergence Pinephone package that was allegedly only used for a couple of hours, unknown what occurred during that time. Tried to update first thing as I read that is very important, the phone kept locking up after a few minutes, I was forcing shut down with the power button. Long story short, fixed bad wi-fi at home (weak signal to very strong), finally was able to start an update.

So I just said yes to everything (wanted to get through it before another lock up), update went on for quite a bit, that is, this is the longest I had seen activity without lock up. However, the phone has now locked up without completing the update. Should I just force shut down with the power button and try to update again? Don't know what else, it is locked up anyway
thanks
Edit: forgot to mention, the red light is flashing. Not sure if it was doing that in previous lockups.

update: I did force a shut down, keypad would then not show on terminal, tried shut down through normal button, for the first time I got a "something went wrong, log out try again". good!
update: met again with "(unable to lock database)", had found instructions earlier which had allowed previous update to begin. going to run it again:
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
then
sudo pacman -Syu

update: it looked like the update started again where it left off. I again said 'yes' to everything. After update there were many "file is corrupted, do you want to delete it", I said yes a bunch of times then get: "Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded." Going to try update again. The good news is... this is the longest the phone has been on without locking up!

update: ran update again, 255 "checking package integrity", looks like I'm back at the same place: invalid or corrupted package (pgp signature), do you want to delete it
Phone still has not locked up, good!

OK, so again "errors occurred, no packages were updated" How can I update? I did update mirrors before I started all this. Tried again, met with "unable to lock database". Should I be having to run sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck every time?

Hello. Pretty simple issue.
I borked my own conf file, and I don't see any other place to get a new one.
I think I need pamac.conf as well.
so if someone could just upload those that would be awesome.

Hi all,

Just registered for the forum, but I’ve dancing around the Pine-world for some time (even have an OG Pine64 SBC I got from the first Kickstarter laying around somewhere...). 

I saw that the Pinecil was released & while I don’t *need* another soldering iron I had always wanted to check out a TS80/100, but couldn’t justify the price (once I decided I needed something decent I got a Metcal SP-200 in very good condition for $70 + a couple tips. It’s no MX-5000, but gets the job done quite nicely for about as much as the aforementioned Chinese irons!). I dig a lot about the Pinecil & the low cost, USB-PD & other bits means I could find a use for it. So I figured I might as well consider all the Pine offerings if I am to buy some Pine kit and then I saw the PineCube & intrigued I became

Long story short - the wiki says that currently ‘we don’t know how to use the hw encoder yet’. Doing a quick Google I saw that there are a couple GitHub projects making use of the S3 chips hw encoder (from an OrangePi) running Armbian & have basic examples that include using it to encode a live camera stream. 

I’ll probably scoop one regardless if for no other reason than to toy around with/possibly use as a 3D printer cam, but figured I’d throw this out there in the off chance that no one had checked the existing projects for something that might be a drop-in:

https://github.com/rosimildo/videoenc (There are others, this seemed to be one of the more recent ones). 

Thanks!

Explore the BL602 GPIO and PWM Demo Firmware... And how they call the GPIO and PWM Hardware Abstraction Layer

Control PineCone BL602 RGB LED with GPIO and PWM

What are the community's thoughts about the 30 day hardware warranty on the Pinephone?  It's basically what's been holding me back from pulling the trigger on one.  In light of the recent news about the upcoming retail channel, I posted comments there and under the December update asking this question, and even tried to PM Lukasz but never heard back.  I was wondering if there were plans this year for a more traditional warranty than the 30 days.  I'm a Linux enthusiast so I feel right at home in the community (and not the retail channel), but, one's Linux or software expertise has nothing to do with the risk of developing a hardware problem after 30 days.  Perhaps is the concern not so great because the hardware is so inexpensive and the boards can be purchased and replaced?

I haven't brought myself to install Cheese because it's Gnome.  But I have another USB webcam (which this is) and even in OpenBSD it can do v4l2 (Video For Linux 2).  I'm In Bullseye, I did
modprobe uvcvideo and lsusb shows (maybe it did before):
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:6321 Microdia HP Integrated Webcam

Installed a few v4l2 things, I don't really know what I'm doing.

Pow is a minimal and lightweight window/application switcher that uses wmctrl. Made for X.
https://github.com/jackghg/Pow

Try also:
OnKey onscreen keyboard. https://github.com/jackghg/OnKey
smlock screen lock. https://github.com/jackghg/smlock