Hey all,

I have been having some issues with charging my device through the USB-C port. I read through some other posts on USB-C charging and haven't come across anything that's exactly like my issue so I decided to start a new thread in the hopes that someone can shed some light on the issue.

Up until this point, I've been using a USB-C charger that came with my cell phone to charge up my device.
It's output reads 5V=2A OR 4.5V=5A OR 5V=4.5A

I recently bought a new charger for my other laptop. It's an Anker 60W rapid charger.
The output reads 5V=3A OR 9V=3A OR 15V=3A OR 20V=3A

When I plug in the Anker charger, the screen flickers and the charger indicator goes in and out as if the charger is being unplugged and plugged back in rapidly. Then the system goes into standby.

Would someone be able to explain why this is happening? I'm guessing it has something to do with the 3A output not being compatible with the PBP USB-C port? But would love some more clarity from some people with more expertise in the community. And who knows, maybe it'll help others with similar charger issues??

As a follow up question, the device is clearly not usable with the Anker charger plugged in, but will I damage my device by using the Anker charger while the device is powered off?

If there is any other info I can provide to help answer the question, please let me know.
Thanks in advance to all the Piners out there for the assistance.

Best
-B

Hi,

Mobian up-to-date.
Phone asleep.

1. Text verification SMS sent by website. Screen wakes up. Then turns off. No blinking blue notification light. Unlock phone, open SMS app and SMS is there.

2. Website error so go through the process again, literally one or two minutes later. Presumably because phone was woken up previously, I get the blinking blue notification light (screen does not light up). Unlock screen, SMS is there.

3. Have to allow cookies as still get an error, so third time website sends SMS (literally 1 or 2 minutes later). This time, nothing. No notification light. Unlock phone, SMS is there.

4. I've turned on wifi via the command line (sudo nmcli radio wifi on), it initially connected, seems to have disconnected. My network is showing up in Visible Networks with a tick next to it but I don't seem to actually be connected. Can't ping, can't SSH into phone.

Wifi off then back on, still nothing. Settings GUI bug as wifi on / off is blue but Visible Networks is blank.

Whilst having the wifi issue, popup on the screen saying SMS text message received!

Turn wifi off via GUI - says phone is in airplane mode! Turn wifi back on via GUI, bluetooth is turned on so I turn it off (bluetooth scanning is fine). Wifi Visible Networks is blank, though it does show swirling circle so suggests it thinks it is scanning wifi networks.

dmesg shows sunxi-mmc 1c1000.mmc data error, sending stop command
dmesg shows sun81-ce 1c1500.crypto Fallback for ecb-aes-sun8i-ce is ecb-aes-ce

Wifi doesn't connect. Forced to reboot.

Phone restarted, can SSH into phone before unlocking phone so wifi now works again properly.

Does anyone know the location of (phosh) calls & chatty data files, please?

I have been able to do a reasonable backup of my home directory and restore it e.g. from Mobian to Arch by brute force copying the entire directory. Which handily preserves my phone call and SMS history. However my home directory has become rather bloated due to various experiments/roll backs and so I want to start from scratch but would like to copy those histories. I imagine somewhere in ~/.local and/or ~/.cache but have yet to isolate things accurately.

TIA

Hello guys, I'm just wondering if the rockpro 64 can take analog output, I'm thinking to use a current sensor to measure something, but I didn't see the pi-2 bus can take an analog output like this. The sensor is like  ACS712 30A.

Any idea? Thanks

Has anyone else that ordered a Pinecil had them get stuck in shipping to the US? I have a tracking number from Pine64, but after about Dec 9th, there haven't been any updates.

I was curious to see if others had different experiences.

Let us talk about riddles!

So far, we’ve done two riddles - for the Pinecil, posted in the June 2020 Community Update and more recently for our upcoming RK3566 single board computer called Quartz64 - posted on December 18, 2020. 

Judging by the volume of responses, people seem to have fun solving these riddles, and I must admit that I am having fun coming up with them. As a result, it’s safe to say that riddles are now a part of what we do at PINE64, and something you’ll see more of when a piece of hardware is due to be announced. 

So I figured I’d start this thread with the purpose of explaining the clues used in each of the riddles. It is already clear to me that I will have to step up my riddle game, as both the Pinecil and Quartz64 riddles were solved very quickly.

Lastly, let me also state the obvious: these riddles are just a bit of fun, and a way for the community to be engaged in product announcements. I'm not a poet nor don't want to give anyone an impression that I have any previous experience with writing or creating riddles. Fun is all this is, so take it as such.


Pinecil riddle: 

Quote:

Pinecil

With the Pinecil we take a risk   

Spelling the latter with the letter c   

Breaking with current conventions

And having the device run hot 

As hot as it will ever be

 

This may be too perplexing 

So for the sake of simplicity 

What does 82 and 26 have in common

As defined by a man 

Born North-East of Caspian Sea?

       

Quote:

Wistyx

Between a Pine and a Rock

My origins are to be found

Heritage of the sun and sand

Locked in cogs circle round

Now here alone I stand

 

It all makes sense

Shifted one to the right

Look down and ahead

In your line of sight

The solution can be read

Quote:

Latin slant

Under the scorching sun

An old Roman senator sat 

Studying it all 

And slowly came to realize that

He bears witness to the empire’s fall

 

And so began his intricate plan

For the imminent end

So savage and so cruel        

Was this strive to mend  

It lay waste to the Roman rule

Quote:

Latin slant

Under the scorching sun

An old Roman senator sat

Studying it all

And slowly came to realize that

He bears witness to the empire’s fall

And so began his intricate plan

For the imminent end

      So savage and so cruel       

Was this strive to mend 

It lay waste to the Roman rule

Hello, pre-ordered and got this pinetab from the first early adopters shipments. Used for a total of < 4 hours but didn't suit my needs. Excellent condition but comes without original packaging. Selling to put money towards a new mother board and cpu (ryzen 7 5800x ).

Price $150 with shipping included in that cost. Comes with:

• PineTab
  
• Backlit Keyboard
  
• Charger
  

As you probably know GTK4 was released but it's currently hard to find much information on it specially when it comes to mobile support. Originally I planned to only make a post on fosstodon about this but after thinking for a while I came to the conclusion that it probably deserves a own thread in here. To make it short in this thread I would like to ask for some help gathering information on the current state of GTK4 on the Pinephone and other GNU/Linux devices. I would love some responses from people who are a bit deeper into the topic then me :D

Hi, I currently run a 5.7 kernel on my pinebookpro that supports my usb-c hub, especially its HDMI output. I got it installing archlinuxarm from a repo that was called «simulated-earth» or something like this (thanks to those guys if they ever read me ). But as this repo is dead for a while now, i'm still using this pretty old kernel. I've tried the one provided by Nadia, which is very up-to-date, but cant, unfortunately, make my HDMI output works. I assume this is du to a specific kernel module, but as I am far from being an expert I can just show you the return of lsmod, and ask you for your help if you can identify if there really is an exotic module that should be responsible for this well behavior of this kernel :

rpcsec_gss_krb5        36864  0
snd_usb_audio        266240  2
snd_usbmidi_lib        40960  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep              20480  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            45056  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device        20480  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_soc_hdmi_codec    16384  0
cdc_ether              20480  0
usbnet                49152  1 cdc_ether
r8152                  86016  0
mii                    20480  2 usbnet,r8152
snd_soc_simple_amplifier    16384  1
panfrost              65536  0
gpu_sched              32768  1 panfrost
hci_uart              118784  0
btqca                  16384  1 hci_uart
btbcm                  24576  1 hci_uart
btintel                32768  1 hci_uart
joydev                32768  0
bluetooth            454656  5 btqca,btintel,hci_uart,btbcm
snd_soc_rockchip_i2s    16384  2
snd_soc_rockchip_pcm    16384  1 snd_soc_rockchip_i2s
rockchip_rga          28672  0
dw_wdt                20480  0
videobuf2_dma_sg      24576  1 rockchip_rga
cw2015_battery        16384  0
ecdh_generic          16384  1 bluetooth
ecc                    32768  1 ecdh_generic
rfkill                40960  2 bluetooth
hantro_vpu            90112  0
snd_soc_es8316        40960  1
rockchipdrm          147456  2
dw_mipi_dsi            20480  1 rockchipdrm
dw_hdmi                53248  1 rockchipdrm
analogix_dp            45056  1 rockchipdrm
cec                    61440  1 dw_hdmi
rockchip_saradc        16384  0
rc_core                57344  1 cec
drm_kms_helper        241664  4 dw_mipi_dsi,rockchipdrm,dw_hdmi,analogix_dp
rockchip_thermal      24576  0
syscopyarea            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
sysfillrect            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
sysimgblt              16384  1 drm_kms_helper
fb_sys_fops            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
snd_soc_simple_card    20480  1
snd_soc_simple_card_utils    24576  1 snd_soc_simple_card
panel_simple          81920  0
pwm_bl                16384  0
drm                  622592  10 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,dw_mipi_dsi,panel_simple,rockchipdrm,dw_hdmi,panfrost,analogix_dp
drm_panel_orientation_quirks    20480  1 drm
gpio_keys              24576  0
hid_multitouch        32768  0


Thanks for any suggestions,
alex

Today I ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and noticed the following in the output: