Hi there!
I was wondering if someone could help me try to figure out where to begin with troubleshooting this issue...
I have a Linux laptop that does not enumerate my rockpro64 when it is plugged in via the USB C port on the board.  Both the board and the laptop are running Gentoo.
I believe this is an issue on the laptop side, as I've had this problem with some other boards, an rpi zero and BBB, but I haven't had much luck figuring out the issue on the Gentoo forums.

Here's the kernel config for the laptop: https://dpaste.com/2HMMLKLYW
And for the board: https://dpaste.com/EQXMPZGRL

Here is the dmesg on the laptop:

The "Network History" window has shown no output since I started using the machine, but the CPU History used to provide an engaging display of coloured spaghetti. Now it has gone dark, too.

Has anyone else encountered, (or better, solved) this problem?

$ uname -a

Linux armcandy 5.8.10-2-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP Fri Sep 18 17:50:44 CEST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

System Monitor Version 5.19.5

Hello, I was try to pre purchase a pinephone manjaro edition, but it says they have no option to ship to turkey, which is weird given the phone is shipped from hong kong, is there any way to get the phone shipped to turkey? (i know about sites like myus but these ship to the US then worldwide which would cost a ton and be extremely inefficient).

How can I contribute to the development of Manjaro Lomiri?

What types of skills do I need to meaningfully help out?

Who do I contact?

If anybody knows please reach out.

Happy to find a synchronization app which syncs data from the PinePhone to Linux AsteroidOS smartwatches:


“Ubuntu Touch/UBPorts application


A synchronization app for Ubuntu Touch named Telescope has been started by the community. This app tries to re-use as much code from Starfish as possible so some of their codes is shared in a daemon named asteroidsyncservice which uses libasteroid. The app is still under development, first functions like notifications, time syncronisation and battery status reading are already implemented. You can download the app in the OpenStore”


source:


https://asteroidos.org/wiki/synchronization-clients/


this app is compatible with the PinePhone:


https://github.com/AsteroidOS/telescope


to sync data for instance from the LG G Watch R (lenok) Linux AsteroidOS 1.0 smartwatch:


https://asteroidos.org/install/lenok/


What is your opinion about this app?

Hi,

How can I use X11 forwarding on mobian? I used it on servers so I have experience. In sshd_config it is enabled, -X is given on the client side, DISPLAY contains localhost:10.0 but evolution opens on the pinephone.
I try to setup evolution but there is a popup window and when I select the input field on it the virtual keyboard pops up and the text field looses focus so I cant fill it. I was thinking I can set it up using X11 forwarding, "running" evolution on my ubuntu machine.

It's probably a terrible idea to make this thread, but I feel like I should voice my thoughts. I'm imagining I'm going to get a lot of hate for this.
And please understand, I love the PinePhone, and I want nothing else but for it to succeed, but I don't like what I'm seeing on the software side right now.

I'm disheartened and concerned at the glacial pace of PinePhone software development, and I'm deeply surprised and disappointed that an actual Linux phone with shipping units isn't getting much, much more development love. A new SBC, sure, makes sense. Limited appeal. The first actual shipping Linux phone? Cmon.

I was always afraid that the PinePhone would end up as another poorly supported ARM board with half broken drivers. It's starting to look like that could turn out to be the fate of this device after all. Bringing back horrible memories of FriendlyARM SBCs.

I've wanted a phone that could run Linux since I was just 13 years old.
Now I have it, and call audio still cuts out, the phone won't always wake from sleep on incoming calls, I get duplicate texts out the wazoo, the screen flickers on wake among other issues, it's just tiring. I'm currently trapped on a months old kernel without proper wifi support because anything newer is unusable in multiple areas.
You'd expect progress to be visible, but with everything fixed, something else breaks.

I don't expect the UI to be polished, or for MMS to work, or for Anbox to run, or even for backlight control to work properly. I just think that after this many months, we should have the core functionality of a 2003 flip phone at a semi-stable place. Instead, I have to reset the modem several times a day because call audio will quit and outgoing calls disappear with no way to hang up, and some SMS messages just never arrive, ever.

I've done a small amount of work for the PinePhone, writing pplockd and patching kernel drivers until I get them usable in some cases, but I have contract work obligations and poor health, and I'm not too knowledgeable about the kernel's codebase or physical hardware interfaces, so it's hit and miss. I started writing a better calls app, then ran out of time to work on it.

I wonder if everyone else is having the same problem. A desire and ability to help but, no time or energy to do so? I suppose that's the curse of capitalism at work.

I wish Pine64 had the funds to hire one full-time experienced kernel developer, as that's what's really needed imho.

Thoughts?

I'm not sure how this happened. One night i was trying to figure out a way to fix the fact that the small font was bothering my eyes. I don't recall placing any changes that night. I woke up the next day to the increased screen. I would post a picture if i was on that box. Please any help would be so appreciated

After a recent update I have an app on the desktop called Image Magick. Looks like a cool retro app from windows 95. Anyway, I have no use for it personally and I cant find it or remove it from the software manager. I have tried both sudo apt remove and sudo apt purge, neither seem to work. The app is still functioning after removing / purging the imagemagick via the terminal. Even after a reboot. Looking for advice on how to remove it and also to surface the idea of a QOL improvement by allowing the user to remove apps similar to how its possible to mark an app for "favourites". Might be convenient if pressing and holding your finger on an app brings up an option to remove it.

Hi,

Can you verify what's wrong with my Rock64 - 1g:

If I flash with "u-boot-flash-spi-rock64.img.xz" - it boots LibreElec and other Linux distro BUT stops booting android (both from SD card). In this case, Linux boots from USB too.

If I flash with "u-boot-erase-spi-rock64.img.xz" - it boots Android 7, 8 & 9 BUT stops booting LibreElec (both from SD card).

What's the solution to boot both?

Thanks in advance.