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  Pogo pins flex breakout board
Posted by: jnpine - 12-03-2020, 01:29 PM - Forum: PinePhone Accessories - Replies (4)

Hi all!, 

I just wanted to share my Pogo pin flex breakout board design for the PinePhone. 

You can get design and manufacturing files here:
https://github.com/jnavarro7/pinephone_f...kout_board

 Or you can easily purchase the flex boards directly from OSH Park here:
https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/iJymtIab


[Image: flex_boards.JPG?raw=true]
[Image: flex_positioning.JPG?raw=true]


  Number Share
Posted by: matt_the_hall - 12-03-2020, 12:15 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hello,

I'm thinking of purchasing a Pine phone and I'm wondering if it is compatible with Verizon's Number Share. Number Share allows texts and phone calls to be forwarded from a primary phone to another device. In my case, I would want the Pine phone to be my primary phone, and then forward to a Light Phone II. Thanks for any information/advice you can provide.

-- Matt


Question Why did my order got canceled without reason?
Posted by: EnohpENIP - 12-03-2020, 10:17 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Hello,
I would like to order/buy the new Pine Phone KDE Edition but my order just got cannceld with out any reason. Are they currently problems why they would canncel it?
And why does the support page doesn´t work? I can´t register me or open a ticket (when i try to open a ticket with out account I get an Pine Microsystems Inc. Customer Self Service Portal Invitation but I can not set a password. It says something like: "An error occored. Please try it later" but it never works for me).

I hope someone can help me here. I am new so maybe I missed something.

Greetings to all readers


  Privacy question - is GPS active with phone powered off?
Posted by: Zebulon Walton - 12-03-2020, 07:39 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (7)

A privacy question but hardware-related: Is GPS tracking of the Pinephone still active if it is turned off and no other action is taken (battery left in place)? Or is it necessary to remove the battery and/or turn off the DIP switch to disable the GPS?


Question alert slider in the future?
Posted by: ZeD - 12-03-2020, 07:14 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (2)

Hi
I would like to know if there are some plans to develop / enhance the pinephone with an alert slider (like the oneplus' one - https://support.oneplus.com/app/answers/...ert-slider).
I have an oneplus X and I use it every day. It's invaluable.


  Phosh - double-tap bug, reported upstream?
Posted by: marcih - 12-03-2020, 03:09 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (4)

The double-tap bug in Phosh, where you have to double-tap the numbers on the lock screen to enter them, has been known for a while, hasn't it? It's still present for me on Mobian, Phosh version 0.6.0. Has anybody figured out a way to reliably replicate it, or even better, has it been reported upstream?


  The big CPUs vs the little CPUs
Posted by: xyzzy - 12-02-2020, 10:08 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

I haven't seen a comparison of the two A72 cores vs the four A53 cores.  Just how much faster are the A72s?

So I did a benchmark of compiling the kernel with just the two A72s enabled vs just the four A53s.

Values in seconds.  Lower is better.

  • A53x4: 2888 elapsed, 10985 cpu
  • A72x2: 2285 elapsed, 4377 cpu



So for compiling the kernel, an A72 core is about 2.5x faster than an A53 core.  The big group put together is about 1.26x faster.

Which is pretty much as predicted from the per-core speeds, as (2 cores * 2.5x) / (4 cores * 1x) is 1.25x.  As we can see, the kernel compile scales very well to four cores, but not perfectly, as there are still some bits that only use one core.  So the faster single threaded performance of the A72 helps.  But very little.

One might guess from the schematic that the big core group draws about 2x the power of the little core group.  So if you want to see how many kernels you can compile before the battery dies, just the little group, it's more efficient (peripheral power draw not counted, so not really).


Tongue New Pine64 Phone UBports Edition Can't Connect to Wifi/Doesn't Charge
Posted by: blindbutnotblind78 - 12-02-2020, 07:36 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hello,

I bought a New (was still wrapped in plastic) Pine64 Phone UBports Edition but when I charge the phone it never actually charges, and when I try to connect to a Wifi network none are available. I don't know what to do to get this thing to work. Please give me some feedback and instruction on what to do.

Thanks!


  Report from the bleeding edge: calling / texting
Posted by: jmorris - 12-02-2020, 04:28 PM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (38)

Been carrying for a week or so now, here is the current state of core functionality on PMOS-Phosh (edge)

In the last couple of days a new glitch has appeared, when the phone sleeps the modem is going down, not going to sleep.  On wakeup the modem takes about as long to return to showing bars as wifi, and since this started no message or call has come in while off the plug and the phone allowed to sleep.

That aside, and the bug in Contacts reported in a different thread, here is what you can expect.

At random, a text message from a new number will show on Chatty's list of conversations but you can't touch it to read the whole message or reply. It "depresses" when touched but nothing else will happen.  If you ignore it and come back in minutes or hours it sometimes works.  If you need to interact with it now you must reboot.  That has, so far, always worked.

If you make a contact for a text from a new number Chatty may or may not update the number into a name.  Rebooting won't fix that one, only deleting the conversation has any chance of working as new messages appear.  Still not assured of working though.  Get a billing message after every activity, no matter what it just shows as "38809090"  They aren't "normal" SMS so that might have something to do with it, they are system messages.

The calls app does have basic functionality now.  You can make and receive calls.  You get a call log and you can call back from it.  You can't create a contact or send an SMS in response to a call.  You apparently can't clear the call log either.

You can still expect Phosh to go insane and refuse to allow you to unlock or cleanly shutdown but it isn't as often now as a week ago.  And this morning the phone was simply dead.  Blue light was still on but it was unresponsive.  Power key did nothing, inserting the USB cable did nothing.  So cold start and the battery was almost unchanged from eight hours ago when it was put aside for the night.  Had took a few updates and rebooted at the end of the day so watch out?

Away from the core phone functionality, the alarm clock needs some love, badly.  If the phone sleeps it of course won't go off at all, waiting for some other event (call, text, power key) to wake it, then it goes off.  But even on the charger, the UI needs help badly.  Unlike Android, Phosh has no ability to allow an urgent dialog to precede the lock screen.  And the clock can't launch itself!  So you must enter the unlock code, launch the clock app and THEN you can shut the darned thing off.


  Curious about problem with PBP Wifi
Posted by: kendew - 12-02-2020, 03:33 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (3)

This is not a problem per se with PBP.  Recently my ISP's modem has been acting up and I'm waiting on a new one.  Before it started acting up, PBP connected to wifi just fine, but now it won't connect.  Curiously, my Android based smartphone connects fine, as does an 8 year old Lenovo ThinkPad.  I've been trying to share the connection with the smartphone via bluetooth with less than perfect results.  The old Lenovo is running Fedora 32 and this PBP Fedora 33.  Perhaps I should mention, though irrelevant to the PBP that ethernet hardly works at all.
With inxi I just get 

Code:
inxi -N
Network:
  Message: No ARM data found for this

which doesn't give me a whole lot of info to work with.

Hopefully soon my ISP will fix the situation but I'm curious.  My question is, why would the PBP not be able to connect to wifi while the smartphone and old laptop can?  Is there a remedy?
Kendew