Please remove google captcha from registration.

Many people move away from Android and avoid google services because google does not respect users privacy. I purchased a PineTab and would like to help improve this product. I tried to register at this forum without success. Finally it was only possible by allowing the access to google servers and use the captcha. Please remove google from this website. Many people are using pine products just because they do not want to use google products and services. I appreciate it so much that I can use a PineTab running mobian!

Just piqued my curiosity. Its been there the whole time but never paid attention. Obviously it appears to be a messaging app, but i can't find any nomenclature on it.

Just flashed the 0.8.2 version of infinitime via nrf connect upgrading from the shipped firmware, after downloading it the pinetime automatically rebooted (expected), then froze up - blank screen no response to button pressing or long hold (bricked). I had to disconnect the battery to get it to restart. Then, strangely, it booted into 0.8.2 all working fine. Am I missing something here? is there some way to get the effect of disconnecting the battery in this situation without actually doing it? Otherwise this might be a problem for the sealed units  now shipping.

My pbp  is 1 month old running default Manjaro it came with. 

I am able to connect to wifi but I am only gettting 0.33, and up to 1,5 Mbits/s. On the same connection my phone get 12+ Mbits/s.

What are some tips for me to debug this? I'm not even sure how to do the proper updates.

So far I've done all the updates in the software center, in whatever the UI system is on Manjaro (separate question: what is the UI/GUI called on Manjaro), and ran pamac update && paman upgrade and this did some stuff.

I'm trying to set up the Pine64 NAS. Here's what I've done:

* Installed Armbian Focal 20.04 on to the eMMC module, using Pine64 5A adapter.
* System worked fine, installed software. No problems.
* Installed the SATA card from Pine64, no hard drives yet. lspci shows the card.
* Installed 2 Seagate Iron Wolf HDD
* Booted the system, and it sees /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
* Installed mdadm, created a new partition /dev/md0 based on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
* Formatted /dev/md0 with XFS.
* No problems yet.
* Tried to copy a large movie file to the /dev/md0 partition, got an I/O error. Didn't save the error unfortunately, but looking back at my search history shows the line "md: super_written gets error=10"
* I install the latest Armbian, Focal 20.08.9, Linux kernel:
uname -a
Linux rockpro64 5.8.13-rockchip64 #20.08.8 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 5 15:59:02 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
* I saw a few posts about the hard drives drawing too much power, so I purchased a 10A adapter from Amazon.
* Booted the RockPro64 with the new 10A adapter: Nothing. No lights, no fan.
* Booted the RockPro64 with the original Pine64 5A adapter: Nothing. No lights, no fan.
* Removed the SATA card.
* Booted the RockPro64 with the new 10A adapter: Boots fine, I can SSH in, all seems good.
* Powered off, connected SATA card with hard drives disconnected.
* Booted again with 10A adapter: Nothing, no lights, no fan.

Any thoughts? Did the SATA adapter somehow die? I've seen a few posts about using a Marvell SATA adapter, but I don't want to keep buying extra things as replacement for the items which should have worked.
I'm confident that these items work fine:
* Hard drives
* RockPro64 board
* 10A adapter

I have my doubts about the SATA adapter.

How should I proceed? The only thing that looks like a version marking on the SATA card is: SU-SATA3-T2 Ver. 005.

Hi

I had some problems trying to post an image of pinephone showing mobian apps. My image was removed due to: "Copyright violation: c:COM: DW of phone GUI"

MObian is GNU/Linux right? Can I take a picture of pinephone using mobian, showing apps ? or is is a Copyright violation?

The image was:


So, if I am free to share my photograph how can I prove it?
Thanks!

Hi all,

I've joined the ranks of those with a cracked digitizer/screen from opening and closing the back panel. This was after I installed a tempered glass screen protector, so I wonder if that's maybe part of the cause (possibly not letting the screen flex ever so slightly when snapping the back on?). With my first pinetab I opened and closed the back 4+ times for testing cables and such (bad touchscreen) with zero issues. With this one, I opened it only once to swap in a higher capacity eMMC, when snapping it back together it didn't feel like there was any extra tension/stress but it wound up with a corner crack. Easy enough to move the tray to the other side so losing touch there isn't a big deal, still going to be one of the first in line to buy a replacement screen if/when they're available. 

So I pose a question/poll. Just wondering how many have popped it open and reassembled without issue or have had a screen crack. Furthermore, if the screen cracked was there a screen protector involved? Wondering if this might be a common mode of failure or not.

I have had my phone for a while now. Im a total beginner and I really need some help to simply boot and start my phone today on my day off work. I have a sim SIM card and a 64G sd card and a MAC running Catalina, I hope someone sees this im sure this easy for you all. SOS

I finally was able to unbox my Pinetab with keyboard today.    I have tried the UBPorts, Mobian and Arch images so far.    A reoccurring issue I'm running into is that some of the keys on the keyboard do not work.

So far, it appears the following keys are inoperable ( well, at least keys that echo when pushed without a combination of other keys required ):

qwruasdfjkl;'zx
 
The key repeat speed seems to be different as well on the keys that surround ones that are not functional

When I plug in a USB Logitech K400 wireless keyboard, it seems to function as expected.

Is it possible I have a firmware issue that flashing would solve?     I fear, because it is partially operational that there is some underlying hardware issue with portions of the keyboard.   Any ideas anyone might have would be much appreciated.

On a side note, I must give kudos to the DanctNIX community.   The Arch image is very functional, including auto rotate.

Went ahead and tried to order a pinephone with convergence package and a few accessories (case, screen protector, charger, 32GB micro-SD), and the shipping estimator is telling me there are no shipping options. Is this a glitch in the shipping estimator or can this really not be shipped to my location?