According to https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...rt#Verizon "Some Verizon users have had calls and and text stop working after around 2 weeks of use. This can be resolved by contacting Verizon support." Has anybody managed do do this successfully? If so, what should I tell support. After the massive headache of getting them to send me a sim, I am not in the mood for spending all day on the phone trying to explain to them what a pinephone is

I've been trying to set up a rockpro64 for the purposes of a home server for backups; I have flashed the SPI so as to be able to boot off a USB. I had a Debian official installation on an SD with encrypted root going back in December when I noticed that any write operations larger than a few MB would give me a kernel oops (using tools like scp and rsync), and when I left it up for the holidays for a couple weeks, the machine crashed on its own. This problem seems to be independent of which OS I use; I've been trying to switch to Manjaro by flashing a USB stick and then rsyncing the contents of the root partition to a luks volume on an sd card, and I get a similar oops.

It seemed very similar to the problem described in this thread, but the solution offered here (compiling my own device tree blobs with trusted firmware) didn't yield any different behavior; although the thread leads me to suspect that it may have something to do with my having flashed the SPI partition, and there's firmware from when the rockpro64 booted off SPI still running that the kernel bumps into? However, I've used ayufan's as well as sigmaris' latest releases (sigmaris seems to be using atf for the dtb), and I continue to get kernel crashes.

What follows are the kernel messages from the most recent crash. I'm fairly new to dealing with things like this, so please let me know if I'm missing information that would be helpful.

I've had my PinePhone as my daily driver since early November.


Thank you!

Aapanel v6.0 (Fast) for Rock64



Image is based on Ayufan's Debian build.

Minimum Requirements:
Rock64 v2, 1 GB Ram, 16 GB SDCard

Login: https://<Rock64-IP>:5000/rock64

User: rock64 / rock64
Root: root / rock64
aaPanel: rock64 / passw0rd
PHPMyAdmin: root / rock64

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My pbp  is 1 month old running default Manjaro it came with. 

I am able to connect to wifi but I am only gettting 0.33, and up to 1,5 Mbits/s. On the same connection my phone get 12+ Mbits/s.

What are some tips for me to debug this? I'm not even sure how to do the proper updates.

So far I've done all the updates in the software center, in whatever the UI system is on Manjaro (separate question: what is the UI/GUI called on Manjaro), and ran pamac update && paman upgrade and this did some stuff.

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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