There is finally a new section in the wiki concerning Pinephone hardware edition 1.2a (postmarketOS CE). It says that two backlight issues are still present in 1.2a; the second one will probably be fixed in the Manjaro CE version. However, nothing is said about the first one. This is a pretty serious issue: it makes Pinephone barely usable in very low lightning conditions due to the blinking of its backlight. Are there plans to fix it for the Manjaro CE?

Manjaro phosh Alpha 4 with latest updates ...
Generally been working quite well, and is not slow, however, I have noticed that if the pine phone has been idle for some time, the Bluetooth device disappears and is not there on wake up. Sometimes the mobile / cell device also disappears. A restart is the only way to get full functionality back. 

Any else notice this or is just me?

  My Pinebook Pro just decided to quit accepting a charge.  The wall wart is putting out 5+ VDC, but the battery doesn't charge and now is totally dead.  I do not have a USB cable and don't really want to throw good money after bad.  Is there something I can do myself to remedy this?  Can I ship it back to Pine64 for service?  Or am I SOL?

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Hi,

I'm having some trouble enabling overlayfs on my board.  It's running vanilla mainline Linux with just a couple patches for emmc.
I have configfs and overlayfs enabled, but the device-tree directory doesn't populate in /sys/kernel/config.
My understanding of overlayfs is a bit hazy, so I'm confused whether this device-tree directory is provided by a separate driver or patchset found in the ayufan kernel, or if it needs to be mounted manually. This guide that I was following shows that the directory is automatically found in /sys/kernel/config when it's mounted, again not sure if that feature is provided by the custom kernel they are using...
In terms of mounting, I am pretty confused by the documentation in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation...rlayfs.txt.

I have installed Gnome-shell following the instructions from: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...vironments

The problem I have is that the Gnome environment is not scaled, so not all the icons appear on the screen and some are overlapping.

I can't find a way to fix the Gnome resolution.

Is there a way to do it?

Thank you.

As the topic. Can RockPro64 be powered via usb-c?

Hello, I recently got my PineTab and I want to install an OS other than Ubuntu Touch. But I cannot get my PineTab to boot off of the microSD card no matter what I do.
I don't think my microSD card reader is broken because Ubuntu Touch can detect my microSD cards, but not mount them.

What I've tried:
4 different microSD cards from 3 different brands
4 different operating systems (Mobian, Arch, postmarketOS, Jumpdrive)
4 differents ways of burning them to the SD card (dd, etcher, GNOME disks, pmbootstrap)
And I have been extracting the compressed ones.

What I did before I opened this thread:
Read all the Pine64 wiki pages on the PineTab
Asked about it in the Pine64 PineTab chatroom.

I haven't still been able to figure out this issue by myself, so I have opened this forum thread.

I have an odd issue witj mobian, and the postmasrkOS version of the phone

I'm using the tracphone t-moble sim card. and until the last few days, has worked dlawlessly

Now, on initial bootup, now the phone thinks it has a verizon sim installed. I need to reset the modem from the terminal, from this link <https://gitlab.com/mobian1/issues/-/issues/89>.

Once the modem resets, it returns as a t-mobile sim


Any ideas as to what is happening?

Hello,
I'm just curious if the phonepines are ironing out issues on every release. I read all these little things and curious if those tiny issues ( ex.  the high pitch buzz upon turning on the pinephone or a muffled sound when trying to talk on the phone ). I had the PMOS release but gave the phone to my little nephew, who seems to be getting way more out of it than I was at the time. The kids 11 and now bugging me for one of my thinkpads, bc his father won't let him switch his desktop over to linux. I'm itching for another pinephone, but really want to use it as a functioning phone. I don't use social media or any google apps on my phone.So, is it safe to pull the trigger on the Manjaro edition ?

To create a Rockbox build as an application on the Pinephone using Mobian.



For this I flashed Mobian to a 32GB microSd card which the Pinephone will automatically boot from if inserted.



This is building Rockbox the easy way on the device itself so no cross compiling needed.



On the Pinephone in terminal

 install git:-

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install git



download Rockbox source:-

git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox



install:-

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install zip
sudo apt-get install make



cd rockbox
mkdir build
cd build
../tools/configure



from the table select target 200 for the SDL app



next leave the default screen size to get a pre-installed ready made theme that just fits on the screen, press

enter on the width and height.



then just press enter again to create the makefile.





make
sudo make fullinstall



which will install Rockbox to the device



in terminal type



rockbox

to run the Rockbox application.



I have tested this out and can confirm audio and some plugins work.

Further information here:- https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,53578.0.html
and https://odysee.com/@Alex_Davis:8/(RaaA)-Rockbox-as-an-application-on-Pinephone:b