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  redirect incoming/outgoing calls ans sms
Posted by: Frexit - 10-29-2020, 05:19 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (2)

Hy, i'm currently developping calendar and contacts webapps using node.js as websocket.
I'm searching for all available CLI commands/systemd units doing the following :
- detect an incoming call and forward the phone number directly to a local URL.
- detect an incoming sms and forward the phone number and the message datas to a local URL.
- making a new call from the CLI (providing of course the phone number).
- sending a new sms from the CLI (providing the phone number to call + datas).
Thanks for your help.


  Battery won't charge.
Posted by: Liveandkicking - 10-29-2020, 03:15 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (18)

Hello,
Not sure if it's a software or hardware issue, but I'll start here first.

I retrieved my phone a couple weeks back and it will only work when plugged in and even then will not connect to my wifi.  It appears that I can not get the battery to charge and thus, it won't progress to allow wifi.  All ideas are welcome and thank you for your help.


  Developer Documentation for GT917S
Posted by: flurry - 10-29-2020, 11:46 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - No Replies

I'm aware of the code available from Goodix on Github (https://github.com/goodix/goodix_gt9xx_public), but I was hoping to get official documentation on the registers and any other relevant documentation for driver development. I've looked through the datasheet on the wiki but unfortunately it only references "relevant registers" in the I2C section.

Is this documentation available, or if not, would it be possible to get it released?


  Boot issue
Posted by: DarrowAtreides - 10-29-2020, 07:23 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

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.


  Please publish a proper flash-able IMG
Posted by: patrickjquinn - 10-29-2020, 07:05 AM - Forum: SailfishOS on PinePhone - Replies (19)

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.


  How to rewrite uboot to emmc
Posted by: pineitup - 10-29-2020, 06:34 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - Replies (5)

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


Sad How to open the pinetab case
Posted by: geeksville - 10-28-2020, 06:56 PM - Forum: PineTab Hardware - Replies (1)

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.


  Looks like I found a mild reason why UBPorts for pinephone hasn't seen much progress.
Posted by: plainenough - 10-28-2020, 09:25 AM - Forum: UBPorts on PinePhone - Replies (13)

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'


  Recovery from bad SPI flash image
Posted by: hmuller - 10-28-2020, 08:22 AM - Forum: RockPro64 Projects, Ideas and Tutorials - Replies (2)

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)
Preparation

Turn the RockPro64 off before continuing.

Press and hold the Power button for approximately 10 seconds. If the RockPro64 is connected to a network switch, the network switch LED representing the RockPro64 connection will turn off. If you are not set up that way and cannot observe this, then holding the power button for the 10 seconds duration is long enough to turn the board off.


Pin Shorting Methods

Pi-2 GPIO

This method is the easiest and preferable method.

Connect pins 23 and 25 using a jumper or female-female jumper wire.

SPI Flash Chip

The asterisk represents the indentation on the chip (which identifies pin 1). The code rendering is broken, so the ASCII graphic below cannot be fixed, but you will get the general idea which pin is which.

Code:
+------------------+
     |*                 |
CS --- 1            8 --- VCC
     |                  |
SO --- 2            7 --- HOLD/RESET
     |                  |
WP --- 3            6 --- SCLK
     |                  |
VSS --- 4            5 --- SI
     |                  |
     +------------------+
GD25Q127CSIG

Connect pins 6 and 4 using a Pomona 5250 clip and female-female jumper wire. Micro hook test clips could also be used to short the two pins.

Final Recovery

Once the SPI flash pins have been shorted using one of the methods above, insert the known good micro SD card into the the board's slot and power it on. Hit any key on the keyboard to prevent u-boot from trying to autoboot, once it stops at the u-boot prompt you can either erase the SPI flash, or erase/write a new image to it AFTER you have removed the short between the pins.


  Wifi stopped working after updates
Posted by: pineitup - 10-28-2020, 06:33 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (10)

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!