According to the paper that came with my second PineTime, for it to work as a smartwatch you must use GadgetBridge. I'm able to upgrade Infinitime because nRF can discover the watch easily but GadgetBridge has failed me countless times. I thought it was because I downloaded it from Google Play but the one I downloaded and installed from F-Droid doesn't work either. 

Am I correct that nRF and GadgetBridge are two different types of tools but with some common features? What I'm asking is can you use one or the other? Should I be able to use the PineTime as a smart watch if it is paired with nRF? Should I be able to use the music player, etc?

The watch has Infinitime 0.9.0 and is paired with a Galaxy s8 running Android v9.

I received my Pinecil yesterday, which would have been great timing as I have a small soldering project to do this weekend. But sadly it is now not working and i'm not sure what to do...

When I first plugged it in, I used this Aukey USB-C power supply, which I often use to keep my PBP charged up. Initially I didn't heat it up yet, but as advised in today's Pine64 News, I decided to update the firmware first. i'm running Gentoo on my PBP and was able to install dfu-utils and the flashing process seemed to go fine.

Next I was ready to fire the thing up, so I disconnected it from the PBP and plugged it into the Aukey power supply again, then pushed the button to heat it up. It heated up very quickly, and there was a tiny bit of smoke coming off of the tip - this didn't concern me, since it was its first time getting that hot. Once it got up to temp (like 350 degrees C or something), I turned it off and waited for it to cool back down. It's really nice having the display so I can easily tell when it's safe to put it away.

After it had been sitting for a few minutes and was back down to a normalish temperature, the display suddenly turned off. I assumed it went to sleep because I hadn't done anything with it for a while, and i expected once I pushed the buttons it would wake back up, but it did not respond. So I unplugged it for a few seconds and then plugged it back in (to the power brick) and still nothing happened.

So next I thought maybe something went wrong with the firmware, I'll try reflashing it. But when I plug it into my PBP, it's no longer detected as a USB device. Here's what I'm seeing now:

• If I leave it unplugged for a while (like 10 minutes or so) and then plug it into the PBP, in dmesg I see something like:
  [  +1.360001] usb 2-1-port1: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?[  +0.000384] usb 2-1-port1: attempt power cycle(but not the usual message with the USB vendor/device id's like it showed earlier)
• If I hold down "-" while plugging it in, nothing shows up at all.
  

Anbox now can be started on Lomiri on Manjaro but it has a ton of issues right now like the apps having half the screen black and being super laggy.

Hi,

I'm not an expert in connectors but wanted to connect a usual 3pin non-PWM fan to my RP64. However, I can't find information about the connectors for the fans on the RP64 board. Do they conform to the following?:

    GH 1,25mm

Many thanks in advance.

I bought a bluetooth keyboard with a groove to put my phone in. It works great, but I can't plug in my phone when it's docked. I'm hoping there's a way to change the settings so that I'm essentially holding the phone upside-down when in portrait orientation.

I am using Manjaro Plasma, up-to-date via GUI Add/Remove Software on a mid 2020 PBP.
How can I determine which version of U-boot is used to start my PBP?
Thanks.
Operating System: Manjaro-ARM
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.2-1-MANJARO-ARM
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 6 ×
Memory: 3.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mali T860

Let's play a little game, share whatever photo you shot using a Pinephone.
I went to town to shoot some photos today.
Tomorrow it's Saturday, so I'll be able to shoot daytime photos tomorrow.

I posted about this in the Debian on Pinephone board a little while back, since I use Mobian, looking for a vibration mtor test command but since it's more of a hardware issue maybe someone else will know something about it...

Back when I replaced my cracked screen I managed to damage the vibration motor on the USB-C side board by prying it up in the wrong place and breaking it apart.

I recently bought a replacement USB board with vibrator and installed it but still am not getting the confirming vibration when turning the phone on etc. Is there a command or program in any of the Pinephone distributions that can be used to manually test the vibration motor to see if it can work at all? (Charging is working through the USB port so I know the board is connected.)

Hi

yesterday I got my three PineTime's. Installed was the firmware 0.7.1. I connected it to Gadgetbridge and the PT got the time.
So far so good

The problem is that bmp and the stepcounter not work.
I updated to 0.10 but it do not help.

Have I to activate something?

Have anyone an idea?

M.

Hi!  I have a Pinetab, RockPro64, and Pinephone.  Love them all.

The Pinephone is big, and burns hard on its battery (even w. CRUST).  Please consider a flip phone with a battery-sipping processor (MAX32660, STM32L151C6, etc.) very modest RAM/flash, lightweight screen (like Nokia 8110).  Still open source, but probably not Linux--certainly not Phosh or friends!  But capable of running for days, or weeks, or months.  Thin software stack, maybe based on ChiBIOS or such?

You already have one commenter here looking for a sub-Smarthphone.  This is my take on the idea!

TIA