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?

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.


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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