Hi,

I was trying an adaptation of https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12279 to try and restart phosh when you unlock the screen - to try and get rid of the double touch problem. While it does restart phosh, it puts me in an infinite loop, because after the phosh restart, I'm back at the lockscreen again. Does anyone have any clever ideas on how I could restart phosh on screen unlock?

Thanks,

I haven’t yet been able to get my phone to sync up properly to my head unit in my car or the stock one in my truck to make phone calls. It connects over Bluetooth but that’s about as far as it goes function wise. Is there any way to get this to work or is that just a function we will have to wait for down the road? I haven’t tested if it will play music over Bluetooth as it’s a new head unit but I will test that tomorrow

Hello All,

My 3gb main board arrived and I was able to replace my old UBports edition board after some trouble. However after powering on, the OSes I use don't seem to work properly:
PostmarketOS gives  a boot screen but doesn't go any further than that, and if the device is plugged in it boot loops.
Mobian powers off immediately if charger disconnects, battery is stuck on 60% but I don't think the battery is actually detected in Mobian. Also WiFi and torch don't work (cameras do).
The only physical damage was to the shroud because I didn't see the hidden screw on the top right of the phone.

Any idea what went wrong?

I figured that since Mobian is just running Debian, I could install the Nextcloud desktop client. However, the app doesn't scale even when I run scale-to-fit, and when I finally got it set up, it didn't apppear to do anything. Also, whenever the client loses focus, the whole app appears to shut down.

Is there a way to get nextcloud synchronization working with Mobian/Phosh?

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