Just received my pinecil from the 2nd production run, and something is loose inside it? 

It's not just the buttons - if i hold both of them down and shake it, i can still hear something moving around inside it.

I ordered and received my PinePhone months ago. It seems like forever (Braveheart). The ordeal started when I choose to get a mainboard upgrade for the Convergence abilities.

During the process of swapping it in and out (because I couldn't get it to work and was testing) I tore the cable that is connected from the mainboard to the screen. Lacking the ability to repair that I choose to just order a new screen thinking that would solve my problem.

Well, the screen still lacks several things that are in the old housing including something that is glued down. That led be to tearing yet another small, thing ribbon cable that appears to, amount other things, connect to the speaker.

The screen replacement took over a month to get here (US East Coast). Understandably it's a pandemic and it was the US holiday season. I'm not saying any of this is unreasonable just describing my experience.

So now I'm left in a position where I have a handful of parts, I'm not even sure I can make a whole phone work again (I'll try) and I don't know if I can get the parts I need. Can I just get a replacement pack of all the ribbon cables? It seems like at this point I need multiples of those because they are very fragile.

I am very adept and have taken apart and reassembled MANY phones but I don't do PCB level soldering or anything like that.

This can just serve as an instructive posts to others that may or may not be considering the PinePhone. I would say it is user repairable in only the most basic sense.

Sigh. Any advice?

Just received my phone, super excited to dig into it.  First issue I had was changing the PIN from default, it requires me to enter a password.  I tried the default PIN 123456 but that didn't work.  What can I enter here to be able to change the PIN?  Thanks

Pro boots normally (Manjaro xfce, using zswap, chromium browser) and runs for some time.  then the screen freezes, keyboard and moouse stop responding, and the power light flasshes amber and red.

I checked the troubleshooting pages, but that is only assembly/Disassembly information with no actually troubleshooting data.

What is my Pro trying to tell me?  If it should be obvious, forgive me but I might need a pointer to the information that makes it obvious.

Tried contacting support@pine64.org, get an automated response to create a ticket on Zoho.

I created a ticket several days ago. Got no confirmation email.
Created a new ticket now, still no confirmation mail.
Tried resetting my password so I can login to the Zoho stuff, and get a timeout on the link to reset the password.
Tried mailing sales@pine64.org, bounce back.

How am I supposed to come in contact with pine64?

I have a Rockpro64 with me and trying to build driver for our custom image sensor connected to MIPI CAM lines (J17).
Currently, I am using the Radxa linux build (https://github.com/radxa/rockchip-bsp/tree/rk3399pro)

Can someone help me with the following.
- How should the dts configurations look like? (Every example I see is for CIF and not MIPI) ?
- Any document on developing sensor driver ?

I am interested in doing some app development for Linux phones.  I have developed some Android apps using Android Studio but I am not that familiar with Linux except for some tinkering with Python for the Raspberry Pi and the Jetson Nano. I need some big picture instruction of the tools and methods I need to develop apps for the Pine Phone. This newbie needs some help.

So I charged my Pine Time on Saturday, updated Infinitime (using nRF and OTA) to 0.8.3 (which I validated) then 0.10.0 (which I didn't) and then sometime yesterday the battery ran out.

I put it on charge - and the green 'PINE TIME' screen comes up (after a brief bit of random static).

The PINE TIME screen just stays on until the battery dies again (I haven't fully charged it, since it could take a long time to run out of battery).

If I press the button, or long press (10 seconds+), nothing happens.


UPDATE - now with the charger on, it is blank screen - no static, no PINETIME, and button doesn't do anything.  This acts completely dead.  

Any advice please.

Note: I'm trying to do this without disconnecting the battery - though since I've run the battery to switch off - it shouldn't be different (should it?).  I'd like to be able to develop without having to have the back falling off all the time - I'd really like to glue the back on...

Thank you in advance
  Andy

Update again - left off charge for a while - when put on charge, reverted to original hanging behaviour - static - PINE TIME then hang.

Hi All, My KDE edition arrived today and I super excited to start playing around with it.

I have one tiny problem, it looks like somebody has put a screen protector on it before shipping it to me, but they put it on crooked and there a few air bubbles.

Do you think if I try and pull it off I'll damage the screen?

Jay.

I know the modem is also the GPS receiver and doesn't do much as a modem until a simcard is present, but does the GPS portion require one be installed too for the separate satellite positioning?