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Since getting my pbp a few months ago it has occasionally failed to start up due to an unexpected empty battery. This has been regardless of the level of charge on the last shutdown and often even occurred while plugged in for topping up. So far, the remedy has been to let it continued charging for a day or so.
Happened again a few days ago but now it won't charge at all and can't even be started, despite being plugged in and charging that whole time. Pressing the start button (whether it's plugged in or not) lights up the amber LED, sometimes goes to green, as normal... but then turns off. It once got to the login screen, showed the battery at 0%, and died.
Up till now the battery, once charged, has had decent life, so it's probably not a bad battery. Although I don't think I've ever seen it at more than 60-70% regardless of the time it's been on the charger.

Any thoughts?

Hi,

I received my PinePhone today with manjaro preinstalled.
I wanted to update the os, the system update was stuck for ~1hour in searching update.
So i opened the terminal and run

Hello all,

unfortunately I have managed to damage the coaxial cable: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-coa...46c16e2e66 while swapping the mainboard. It was quite unfortunate, it seems it wasn't properly at its place and while screwing the screws back, one of it nearly cut it to half completely.


I did test everything after the mainboard swap and the only think which is not working now is the mobile(carrier) signal (it's either very poor or not at all), can that be caused by damaged coaxial cable? What is this coaxial cable used for? From the description in the store it's not quite clear to me.

I would have to test but I think the WiFi signal strength dropped as well (but works at least) can it be related as well?

I will order it from the pinestore, but I'm quite dissapointed that I will have to wait (probably long) now.

Does anybody have spare coaxial cable in EU? if yes PM me if it can be sent to me (I'd pay the price in the store and the post costs).

Or can I try to solder it, would that be safe or not woth it?

cheers

Hey all so I purchased another Pinephone and I want to flash an OS to my microSD card. Previously to flash I used my Mac Laptop and it required an acessory with a USB cable to connect the microsd to the laptop. Now I don't want to use a mac but rather i'd like to use my Pinebook Pro since I am trying to make this my main computer. It does seem that the pinebook Pro has a slot for sd cards but it doesn't appear to have anything for MicroSD cards. Another questions I have is it seems that I can't find Balena Etcher in the pacmac-manager. How do I download it?

I received the replacement screen for my Pinephone, and following the instructions and video for replacing the motherboard I'm most of the way there. Getting the midframe off was a real challenge but I managed to do so without breaking anything as far as I could tell. The big black adhesive patch over the ribbon cables came off pretty easily after being heated with a hairdryer.

How do I move the components highlighted below to new screen? Are they glued in place?

Hello,

I have the TS100, is it possible to use your tips on the TS100 or is it not recommended?

To use your pinecil with a PD / QC charger, do you need a special PD / QC cable or it has nothing to do with it, and all cables are compatible?

For PD technology, I see that there are several versions, but 20V / 5A is PD 3.0?

Thank you

Just for fun!

Using latest mobian:

Quote:EDIT: After those two issues were fixed (https://gitlab.com/mobian1/devices/sunxi.../issues/14 & https://gitlab.com/mobian1/devices/sunxi.../issues/16) k3s works out of the box in Mobian without any tweak in the /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml file \o/

This is a cross post from Manjaro Forum (by request)

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wip-pinephon...aned/39655

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## Be cautious
* The nano-to-micro sim adapter in the package is not a superfluous accessory.
* The sim reader is for micro sim - so if you have a nano sim - you will need it.
* The sim reader is the lower of the two slot - the upper slot is SD-card reader.

The pictograms showing sim/sd-card can be misunderstood - this will short you sim and cause irreparable damage to it. Because the nano sim is smaller than an SD card you will most likely bend the third leg in the reader - with a high probability of causing damage to the PCB and subsequently your SD-card.

So be sure to insert the cards in their appropriate slots.

So by now you will all know that I melted my sim and learned to take apart the pinephone and replace the pcb with a new undamaged counterpart.

## Pinephone boot order
Pinephone boots from USB or SD if present - otherwise the eMMC. Due to the high number of writes rumors are SD-cards don't last very long.

That means you can try out other images without actually flashing your phone

## Testing images
Download the xz compressed image to your computer and unpack the image

    [fh@a116h Downloads]$ ls
    Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-dev-pinephone-201124.img.xz
    [fh@a116h Downloads]$ unxz Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-dev-pinephone-201124.img.xz
    [fh@a116h Downloads]$ ls
    Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-dev-pinephone-201124.img


Then use your favorite image writing tool - mine is **mintstick** - to write the image to the SD-card. You can also use **dd** but you **must** ensure all data is written before removing the card from your computer.

## Using jumpdrive
Depending on the sequence when connect your device - you may experience weird behavior of your network connection.

I have not been able to nail it completely but it seems be act like this

**Connect to computer after loading jumpdrive**
Your system will create a new route leading nowhere because 172.16.42.1 is broadcasted as router but has no internet connection.

**Connecting before loading jumpdriver**
Your network connection works as expected.

## Flashing your pinephone
Flashing from an SD-card is prone to failure. The only viable way is to get the jumpdrive image. Read more at Pine64 wiki by following [this link][1]. Download is found following [this link][2].

System used for this excercise is a cheap yepo laptop

    [fh@a116h ~]$ inxi -Sxxx
    System:
      Host: a116h Kernel: 5.9.11-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
      v: 10.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.3 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
      dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux

I have no idea if it was/is my sd-card(s) or a limitation of the jumpdrive but I was only able to make it work using a smaller SD-card than the 8GB cards used to test images.

So if you cannot get jumpdrive to work - use a small card -  64MB is enough - I got a 2GB card to work. Remove the back cover and the battery and insert the jumpdrive in the ***upper*** slot. Attach the battery - and the phone starts - immediately displaying the jumpdrive.

[details="jumpdrive screen"]
[/details]

Attach your device to your computer using the red cable. After a few seconds your system will display two new block devices - it could look like this

[details="jumpdrive devices"]
[/details]


and you can verify using the terminal

    [fh@a116h ~]$ lsblk
    NAME  MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sda      8:0    0 238,5G  0 disk
    ├─sda1  8:1    0  100M  0 part /boot/efi
    └─sda2  8:2    0    16G  0 part /
    sdb    8:16  1  29,1G  0 disk
    ├─sdb1  8:17  1 213,6M  0 part
    └─sdb2  8:18  1  28,9G  0 part
    sdc      8:32  1  1,8G  0 disk
    └─sdc1  8:33  1    49M  0 part

In the example sdb is the eMMC of the device and sdc is the jumpdrive.

Open your image writer application select the unpacked image you want to write and write it to the device eMMC as shown below.


When flashing is done - ensure the data is synced - use the eject button of the file manager.


Remove the cable, battery and jumpdrive. Attach battery and the device starts using the new system.






[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone#F..._Jumpdrive
[2]: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Ju.../releases/

I just received the Pinephone today.
It seems like Phosh has no support for Japanese language interface, which was disappointing.
Probably I can opt in for localization, so not a big deal.
If there's no way, make your own way I'd say.

But this is not necessarily the reason to install another OS on it, the main reason is because I just prefer KDE over Gnome.
I flashed the micro SD card like this: