Hello,

I just receive my PinePhone CE w/ pmOS on it. I've gone through installation fine and it's all looking good so far, except for one thing:

I am not sure if I can charge the phone with phone chargers I have. I am in the states and I currently use an Xperia XA2 Ultra that I'm planning to flash LOS on.

If it makes you feel better, you can call me a "stupid American" but the fact remains I am not an electrical engineer. I just checked the forum and wiki (grep PinePhone) for mention of what kind of charger I can get for this thing and I either come up to dead links or some external charger....

It's pretty clear there's no way I'll be getting official support for this so I am trying to make sure I don't break something I paid good money for.

Using the red USB cable that came with my phone: where am I able to use this cable to charge my phone? As far as I can tell, the docs says something with 5V is what's supported.

Would this work: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082TZZJZR/

If not, why? Again, I'm NOT an electrical engineer.

TIA

The call audio is too bad to understand.  Broken mechanical static.  It is bad
for both incoming and outgoing calls.  I've tried the sound settings for the phone 
but nothing makes a difference.  Any clues?

Hi Together,
I got my first Pinephone 4 days ago with a shipping time of 1 day from Hong Kong to North Carolina, USA WOW.
I like this device and as normal I am trying a few distros.


Well whatever distro I try, as soon as I put a SD Card in the phone doesn't boot and just the red LED is on.

Anybody can help me or has the same issue?

Steven

My phone arrived yesterday, and…there is supposed to be a pin in each of the six holes, right? *attaches photo*

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Howdy All,

I've newly acquired a RockPro64 and an LCD Touch display, this is the first time that I have ever used such devices, so everything is new for me. After discovering that the original eMMC chip I purchased was faulty I'm now having issues with the LCD display. 

The display works fine except that the image displayed is reversed, or flipped along the vertical axis? It's difficult to describe but it looks like I'm looking at the image via a mirror.

Has anyone experienced this issue before? If so, what I am I doing wrong?

I'm using Etcher to flash a 32gb eMMC chip via a USB adaptor on my Mac running OSX 10.14.6. The image I am using is:

ROCKPro64_dd_20200804_stock_android_9.0_emmcboot-32GB.img

The SBC I have is a RockPro64 v2.1 2018-07-02. 

I'm not sure what other details may help troubleshoot this issue, I've run out of ideas...

There is some weird battery issue with this pinecone. Battery level dropped from 88% to 26% in 5 minutes. Feeling the battery temperature with the left hand with the cover off and navigating apps on the phone ( reproduced both with Ubuntu touch and Postmarket OS ) I am feeling the battery getting very hot then dropping back to room temperature as I am navigating apps on the phone. When the battery gets hot, the battery indicator level is visually decrementing percentages as I am looking at the display.

Any other users experiencing this issue?

I am considering getting the PinePhone to complement my PineBook, PineBookPro and PineTab.  I'm absolutely interested in convergence, however I already own a few USB-C adapters that I have used with the Macbook Pro. They all have video (HDMI and/or VGA) and USB and one has gigabit Ethernet. Am I likely to find that these work with the PinePhone, or should I order the convergence package to be certain?

Hello,
Am I missing something here ? I've following the instruction on how to get ubuntu touch on a SD and I always end up with that little red light in the top left of the phone and a black / blank screen. i have the SD Card formatted to FAT32. I'm using Mint 20. I've used the built in writer ( Not sure what the disk imager / writer is called on Mint ) I've simply take the image and drop it into the SD Card and the outcome is still the same.
I assume its me missing a step or something, but don't know what it could be. The SD Card works, I previously used it to put jumpstart on it when I got locked out of my phone. I'm using the PMOS release.

Image used : https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/ro...sfulBuild/
Instructions followed : https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone

I am using a San Disk micro sd 32GB, it's compatible with the the PinePhone as jumpstart worked and copied to it. Sorry trying to list everything I can think of in one post.I think that's it. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks !!

Not much concrete information about activating SIM cards. This is how I got lucky and got things to work without too much trouble. I can make and receive calls, send and receive texts, and have 4G data with PMOS. Hope this helps.

1. Bought a Tracfone SIM and plan kit from eBay. I chose the T-Mobile network because Pinephone supports 3 of its LTE bands (2, 4, 12).
   
2. Installed SIM on Pinephone and tried to activate on Tracfone website, but got an error at the IMEI information step.
   
3. Installed SIM on Moto G5S+ and tried to activate, but got the same error.
   
4. Reinstalled SIM on Pinephone and booted.
   
5. Called customer support and successfully activated the SIM through their automated system. It never asked for IMEI information. I never even spoke to an actual human being.
   
6. Rebooted phone.
   
7. Profit.
   

What are the chances of getting a line64 mini arm based computer similar to Apple mini with a arm linux distro for a OS?