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  Bluetooth microphone not detected
Posted by: mjc - 10-01-2020, 08:27 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (2)

I'm on Manjaro and I recently got a set of bluetooth headphones with inbuilt mic (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07C5VW8D1/).

The bluetooth pairing works fine, and I can get audio output through the headphone speakers, but the microphone doesn't seem to be detected, and the "Recording devices" list on audio settings shows only "Analog Input (Built-in Audio Stereo)".

Any ideas?

Update:

On a cross-post at forum.manjaro.org, a member of the ARM team writes,

Quote:I seem to recall something about the wireless chip not being able to do WiFI and Bluetooth (microphone) at the same time. Don’t know if it’s true or not.

And I know we haven’t gotten the microphone part of the headset jack to work (if it’s indeed a dual jack).

Sounds like the problem might not have a solution.


  My Daily QA - 2020-10-01
Posted by: plainenough - 10-01-2020, 07:43 AM - Forum: UBPorts on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Results: ubports/2020-10-01-TMobile

Conclusion: This OS is not ready for the device to become a daily driver.

Notes: Still open to the idea that the camera button is to reverse the image not switch to the 'selfie camera' if anyone can confirm either way I would appreciate it. Failed 4G outbound call still an issue. I noticed that the modem crashed after the initial update and all outbound communication led to a "No SIM" error. It was interesting though, because all of my carrier settings loaded and I was able to manually force them to reload. A hard reboot fixed those issues.

Issues:
4G outbound calls broken.
Phone gets stuck in a weird lock state when spamming power button.


  No modem
Posted by: Tazadar - 10-01-2020, 03:15 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (1)

Hello there,

I have my pinephone for less than 15 days now.

I played for some days then stopped...

I tried to use it again today but on Mobian "mmcli -L" gives me "No modem were found".


So I decided to go for the factory image.

When I start the modem test I have "Boot timeout".

Is my modem broken ?

All the pins are up by the way...

Thank you,

Taz


  Pine Tab
Posted by: Markdanni123 - 10-01-2020, 02:55 AM - Forum: News - Replies (3)

Hey guys was just wondering when the next round of Pine Tab's will be up for pre-order?


  KDE crashing
Posted by: bastafari - 09-30-2020, 03:45 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

I was messing around with themes and my dock ( thankfully I corrected auto correct ) and I encountered a crash that persists on reboots. There is no dock ( caught that too, my auto-correct is filthy ) present just the crash notification that I can't close and I cannot open anything to change settings. No big deal I'll fresh install Manjaro but I'm curious is it the pbp or the software? I guessing transparent or blurry themes are too much for it to handle.


  [SOLD] I sell NEW pinebook pro from Italy.
Posted by: ocirne - 09-30-2020, 03:38 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (6)

Hi,

I sell a NEW Pinebook pro!

Here the history:
I bought a PineBook Pro during lockdown. I thought I had time to improve my Linux knowledge and install Debian. Luckily the Lockdown is over in Italy, I found another job, Debian for Pinebook Pro is too hard to install for me as a beginner. Result: I only turned on PineBook once when it arrived at my house, around May 20, 2020.  I turned it on the second time a little while ago to take pictures. The date on the display is wrong, today is 30 September 2020. I don't even remember my user's passwoord anymore!
The machine is new, perfect. Original boxes.

Material included:
- Pinebook Pro with Manjaro, ISO UK Keyboard
- USB-Ethernet Dongle
- PBPro-NVMe Interface adapter
- Inter SSD 660p 512GB Product code SSDPEKNW512G8X1 (Sealed, never open)

At today's date the euro-dollar exchange rate is 1.1724. My Pinebook paid 216.97 dollars in euro costs 185.0664. Intel ssd today on Amazon at 64.55 Euro. Total in Euro 249.55.
I paid the import taxes in Italy equal to Euro 68.29. I do not ask for this money.
The selling price of the complete product as described is 250,00 Euro, plus shipping costs. Payment only by bank transfer in advance. I ship everywhere. Packaging made with the utmost care to avoid damages from transport.
I send detailed photos on request.
Thank!


  Dimensions of pinetab shipping box help?
Posted by: geeksville - 09-30-2020, 02:28 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - Replies (2)

Hi,

Alas - I'm leaving the country soon and my pinetab is apparently going to arrive at my old address a few days after I leave.  I need to leave a prepaid shipping box (with some other items) with a friend.  Would one of ya'll mind measuring the dimensions and of the box your pinetab arrived in?  I'd be super appreciative of this info.


  Tinkering with docker-chromium-armhf to use any armhf program e.g. vncviewer
Posted by: wrzomar - 09-30-2020, 02:07 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - No Replies

I was struggling to connect to my Raspberry Pi VNC server, it's impossible without RealVNC Viewer, even with turned off encryption. There is vncviewer for Raspbian, but it's for armhf architecture (and for Debian) and is proprietary. The chromium-docker uses Chromium for armhf architecture in docker and it works perfectly on Manjaro, so I've decided to tinker with it.
First you need to download code from @hthiemann docker-chromium-armhf using your favourite method.
https://github.com/HenningThiemann/docke...mium-armhf
Then you will need to modify Dockerfile and dependencies folder to your needs. I would recommend to change ubuntu image to debian by changing FROM line:

Code:
FROM docker.io/arm32v7/debian:latest
You can change the MAINTAINER line too. Then add desired packages, in case of vncviewer you will need:
Code:
openssh-client xterm qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static
SSH client is optional, e.g. if you have to ssh to RPi from docker to check connectivity.
Then you will need to download vncviewer deb for Raspberry Pi from RealVNC site, place it in dependencies folder and change ADD and RUN lines which installed Chromium so they'll install vncviewer deb file, instead.
Lastly you will need to change 'mediaguy' to something else, e.g. 'andy' and CMD line to start "/usr/bin/xterm".
Save Dockerfile, then run command to build docker container (just follow README instructions from docker-chromium-armhf but create different volume for home and use different tag).
Last thing, you need to change 'chromium-armhf', copy this file to 'xterm-armhf', change volume name to the volume you have just created and change the line with DOCKER_IMAGE_ID (put your tag followed by ':latest' instead of 'hthiemann/chromium-armhf:latest').
Start xterm-armhf script, go to your home dir and start:
Code:
qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/vncviewer <enter ip>
I had to use qemu-user-static because vncviewer always crushes with illegal instruction. It runs with qemu, but it's not connecting (it probably tries to open new vncviewer and fails), so I had to connect immediately.
It's killing fly with a sledgehammer but works.
Have fun.

PS. If you need to access your VNC server through a SSH tunnel, you will need to adjust the -L option parameter:
Code:
-L 172.17.0.1:5901:localhost:5900
where 172.17.0.1 is docker0 interface address. If you've enabled firewall, then allow TCP connections from 172.17.0.0/16 addresses to port 5901, then you can connect - run in xterm window:
Code:
qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/vncviewer 172.17.0.1:5901
In case of using socks5 proxy, configure proxy server to listen on 172.17.0.1 address (its docker0 address in my case, but I don't know if all docker use the same address), then allow TCP connections from above subnet to the proxy posrt, e.g. 9050. Then use ProxyServer parameter:
Code:
qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/vncviewer -ProxyServer socks://172.17.0.1:9050 <here put VNC server address>
I don't want to tell which socks proxy I've in mind and what kind of address is in above command, but you can guess.


  My Daily QA - 2020-09-30
Posted by: plainenough - 09-30-2020, 01:48 PM - Forum: UBPorts on PinePhone - No Replies

Results: ubports/2020-09-30-TMobile

Conclusion: This OS is not ready for the device to become a daily driver.

Notes: Still open to the idea that the camera button is to reverse the image not switch to the 'selfie camera' if anyone can confirm either way I would appreciate it. Failed 4G outbound call still an issue. 3G outbound texting worked without issues. I noticed that there were some issues getting all of my carrier settings after initial update. Reboot solved this, but 3g calls were broken today.

Issues:
4G outbound calls broken.
Phone gets stuck in a weird lock state when spamming power button.


  Unsatisfactory GPS reception on PinePhone?
Posted by: LinAdmin2 - 09-30-2020, 11:07 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (53)

When looking at the results of GPS reception by typing in the console

Code:
mmcli -m 0 --location-enable-gps-nmea # Once only
mmcli -m 0 --location-get             # Many times
I get a maximum of 3 satellites even when absolutely no obstacle present and no clouds at the sky.
This command does not report any fix even after 30 minutes trial.

Is this the adequate method and what are your experiences?