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  PineTab and keyboard package for sale
Posted by: yugami - 12-06-2020, 05:12 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - Replies (3)

I bought this as part of the early adopter but I'm just not in a place where I want to be on the cutting edge.  I just need a basic tablet personally.  I have the original packaging.  

$150 shipped CONUS.  I'll work with you on shipping overage if you're someplace else.


Brick Bricked phone uninstalling apps. ?? ??
Posted by: mannipini - 12-06-2020, 02:16 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (2)

Today I chose to uninstall some apps I thought I'd never use like Maps, Calendar, Lollypop, Geary... I was thinking if a problem arose I'd just find it in Software and reinstall.

I believe trouble arrived when I uninstalled Evolution Notification this-or-that. (Which I noticed was running in RAM when I was doing nothing.) As soon as I did, both icons for SMS and phone calls turned into grey coins with ? in them, and did nothing when I tapped them.

I went to Software and couldn't find this Evolution Notifies etc. and I'm not too familiar with pacman but I figured out how to search and it didn't find anything. And then my Pinephone crashed (which is what it tends to do every so often) and after the Manjaro logo and the loading circle of dots under it, I see this:

[Image: 8b64f8dfe1d9e7dc8299561817c10278b8ad54aa...134624.png]

It stays on this screen until I do another hard reset, and the same thing happens again. I don't have a microSD to try and boot to it. Confused  Is there anything I can do except to factory reset?


  Playing video files
Posted by: Zebulon Walton - 12-06-2020, 01:58 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (13)

I mentioned this in a post on the Mobian board but there were no responses. I don't know if this issue is only with that distribution or if it's more general to the Pinephone's video capabilities.

What I've found is that when playing local video files on the Pinephone it cannot keep up with 1080p, or even 480p playback (though the latter is better). To make videos play smoothly I've had to transcode them down to 240p. (Admittedly I have not tried 360, that might work as well, but 240 looks surprisingly good on the phone's small screen.) This is the case whether using Mobian's default video player or the VLC video player.

Is this something that is likely to improve as development continues, or is it just a limitation of the video hardware?

For anyone else running into this issue, I put together a quick-and-dirty shell script that uses ffmpeg to transcode the video to 240p H.264, preserving the aspect ratio, and copies the audio, from the source mp4 and mkv files in the current directory. The resulting reduced resolution files are placed in a "240" subdirectory.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

mkdir 240

for file in *.m??
do
  echo '----------------------------------------'
  echo Processing $file...
  ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -vf scale=-2:240 "240/$file"
  echo '----------------------------------------'
done


  SOLD! US: Selling ANSI Pinebook Pro
Posted by: qchapter1 - 12-06-2020, 01:42 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (11)

Hi Y'all,
I have way too many tech toys, and I'm downsizing.  I have an ANSI Pinebook Pro with a 500GB nmve ssd installed.  I'm looking to sell to someone here in the US that's part of the community.  I'll also throw in the eMMC usb adapter.  Send me an offer in a DM if you're interested.
Kevin

SOLD


  Buying used vs next pre-order of Manjaro Convergence?
Posted by: tgz - 12-06-2020, 01:11 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (2)

Hello, pardon if this is the wrong place to post this. I see Manjaro KDE Pinephone is what is now offered in the store for pre-order. If a buyer specifically wanted the Manjaro Convergence package, is finding one on the used market pretty much the only option right now? Any projections on the next pre-order availability of Manjaro Convergence Pinephone?
thank you


  Pinebook Pro Dock Power Requirements
Posted by: calinb - 12-06-2020, 11:34 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (9)

I have a PinePhone Manajaro Community Edition and I'm looking forward to ordering a PineBook Pro as soon as the Pine64 store enables orders again. Looking at the specs for its dock (https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pro-...46c16e2e66

"Power Input: USB-C PD Quick Charge, 60Wat" (sic)

Is that 60 watts at 5 volts? Yikes--that's 12 amps!!! Huh  The Rock64/PB power supply only supplies 3 amps maximum:
https://pine64.com/product/rock64-pinebo...46c16e2e66


  Pinebook pro no longer boots
Posted by: xsquared93 - 12-06-2020, 10:02 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (7)

Hello,

I was following these instructions to install Arch Linux ARM on my pinebook:

https://www.bencode.net/posts/pinebook/

and when I got to the last step I tried to reboot the computer by turning it off and this triggered the red LED light to turn on. 

I tried typing “reboot” but failed because I was inside chroot.

I have tried to boot from an sd card but failed.

I have tried holding the power button for 20 secs but failed.

Any help will be appreciated.


  PBP Went Blank After Login
Posted by: iscmob - 12-06-2020, 09:03 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Hi,
I really really enjoy PBP Manjaro for many months.
Until recently, after I keyed my login password, the login screen continued as usual for a few seconds and then the screen gone blank. I noticed the green LED and noted the laptop is still running, but with a blank screen.
I’m no Linux expert. Please advise what shall I do.
Thanks.


  Any updates on HardROCK64?
Posted by: dsimic - 12-06-2020, 08:14 AM - Forum: News - Replies (11)

Hello,

I will be putting together a couple of SBC clusters using a whole bunch of SOPine, Clusterboard and Rock64 boards, and having HardROCK64 4GB boards as the control nodes would be perfect.

Is there any news about the availability of HardROCK64 boards, especially the 4GB variant?  Could there be a few available from the preproduction run, for a cool project like this? Smile

Any help would be appreciated.


  1.2b revision Pinephone mainboards, Discounts ?
Posted by: bcnaz - 12-06-2020, 01:31 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (4)

The UBports and Brave Heart phone owners received a discount to upgrade their phones to the Latest 1.2b revision mainboard.

That brings up the Question,

Will the PMOS phone owners also be allowed a discount to upgrade from the 1.2a  to the 1.2b revision mainboard  ?