Hi all,

I received my pinebook pro (May edition) and have been absolutely amazed by the quality of the product. Love the hardware and while KDE isn't my favorite environment I have managed to make it work for now (may try fedora cinnamon eventually).

The one issue I have had, and I have seen it described elsewhere is the intermittent issue of the screen not turning on with a power up. If I power down and turn back on then everything runs fine.

I have yet to see a good guide to fix this. Does anyone have a fix? Should I just wait for a future update? Thanks.

I've seen this question asked a million times but seemingly never in a thread of its own.

Would someone be able to generate a proper flash-able Sailfish IMG that doesnt require use of the flash-it script?

Flash it only works on native Linux hosts (i.e under a VM or container it will attempt to unmount the drive thus releasing the controllers shared access with the guest and cause the script to fail) ruling out anyone who is looking to flash on Mac or Windows without a complete script rewrite.

Plenty of people want to give Sailfish a spin but are left out in the cold by this so how's about we just start generating self contained images rather than multi-step scripts that are prone to failure?

The script just creates more headaches than it addresses.  

Thanks.

I recently reflashed Manjaro 20.10 to the emmc using the manjaro flasher app, but apparently it deleted the uboot because each boot now starts with bout 15 seconds of red light (the indicator on the top left of the keyboard), rather than directly switching to green light for the boot process.

Installing the manjaro uboot package didn't change anything. How can I reflash the uboot to the emmc?

Thanks

Hi ya'll,

Related to this question, does anyone know the recommended way to remove the back of the pinetab case?  I want to poke around inside.

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2403/pinephone

Looks like one of the main threads on the ubports forums was updated notifying a de-prioritization. Not sure when this happened, but it makes sense that we haven't a lot of changes recently. This would explain why the issues board has gone stale and why it seems to be no changes for at least a few weeks on the dev builds. With this in mind, I still don't consider this OS fully abandoned still don't consider the pinephone integration abandoned and will maintain a quiet eye looking for updates. Until I come across something that shows activity prioritization on their channel I am going to indefinitely suspend my QA testing for this OS so I can expand into other candidates.

EDIT: Clarity, I know the OS in general isn't abandoned, but Dalton had bigger fish to fry.

EDIT 2: Changed title to add 'for pinephone'

Purpose

Experimentation with SPI flash and u-boot can/will result in a board that will not boot.

Background

To recover from this it is necessary to prevent booting from SPI. This can be done by shorting the flash chip's clock pin to ground. This will allow you to boot to micro SD card so that you can either erase the bad image or erase/write a new one. Erasing and writing images to SPI flash are beyond the scope of these instructions as it is assumed the user successfully flashed the SPI NOR with a bad u-boot image or images.

It is also assumed you have the following:

• A separate host with a serial connection to the RockPro64
  
• A micro SD card with a known good u-boot installed on it (and possibly fixed u-boot image files placed in a partition to reflash SPI NOR)
  

I have recently set up an SD card with the most recent Manjaro 20.10 and it connected to the Wifi with no problems at all just last night. Then I was prompted to update some of the software through the software update manager so I've let it run until completion.
After a restart the wifi stopped working -- It doesn't connect to the last network it used to and the wifi menu that pops out of the bottom doesn't show any networks to be available (the list is empty).
I made sure the wifi hardware switch is off.
How can I fix this?

Thank you!

I would like to add a back shell solar power bank to my Pinephone and know some specs.

Is it possible to add the battery of the Pinephone to a power bank Via the VBAT GND pins?

Are there any values to take into account? (Voltage - amperage)

I was thinking 3.7v-4.2v, 10000mAh

it's possible?

Hi ya'll,

So I'm a pinetab noob trying to make lora go. I have some questions about the internal USB hub routing.


The block diagram on page 2 of the schematic says "SATA SSD" port(?) connected to the four port internal usb hub (via HOST-DP2/DM2):



But if I look on page 16 of the schematic is says that the "Docking" port is connected to port DP2/DM2 on the hub.  Also the docking portion of the schematic seems to have presence sensing to control power for that port.  So I assume it really is the "docking" connector for the keyboard add on.


So is the correct internal expansion port actually the "usb host" connected to HOST-DP1/DM1?
If so, I suspect the reason I don't see my lora device is that I need to turn on GPIO0-LDO on the PMIC?  Does anyone know how to do that yet?  (Or even how to get pmic status in /proc or somesuch so I can poke around?

Alternatively: Is there a recommended way to open the case on the Pinetab (so I can physically look to confirm that the Lora board that was supposed to be installed is actually present   )

Thanks much!

Hi ya'll,

So I just received my pinetab (with an alpha version of the Lora radio module).  I'm eager to port meshtastic to your slick board but I admit I haven't been following pinetab development closely.  

I'm reasonably experienced with linux driver development (though not this year) and I think I can handle that part, but I have some questions on distribution choice etc...  Any advice would be appreciated:

* What OS distribution should I target initially? - I assume the development branch of the "ubuntu touch" that came preinstalled on the tablet?
* I will need to build and distribute an (improved) version of the CS341 driver for the USB/SPI chip used in this radio.  Where would be best to provide that for others (a .deb?)

My general current (crummy) plan is here.