not so long ago I got my pbpro.
with installed manjaro 20.03 kde.
I created a bootable USB stick with debian. and downloaded the latest image of Manjaro  XFCE 20.08.
Before flashing, I checked with the LSBLK command that emms is in mmcblk2. and copied DD.
after that everything worked.
Today I decided to return to where. Only now LSBLK returned me that emms is on mmcblk1. ok uploaded there.
after the end of the process, turned off the laptop. but it's frozen. 
I waited for a while and turned it off by holding the power button for 15 seconds.

after which the laptop will not turn on. the power-on indicator is neither red nor green. the screen does not show anything either.
only the cpu temperature is an indirect sign of operation. after a short press on the power supply after a short time, it becomes warm. after 15 pressing the power button it cools down quickly.

what will be the assumptions about what happened and what to do about it?

I'm not sure how much this will help us but here is a link with reading, maybe.  https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/18/...velopment/

Hi Folks

Got a pinetab for sale with keyboard and cable's. Moving house and just dont have time to mess about. 

£130.00  (i'll pay the shipping)  - UK only

Accept paypal only and happy to list on ebay, if preferred. 

PM if you have any questions 

Sun

I've just ordered my first pine64 product, a USD 199.99 phone.  The only payment method accepted by pine64 was PayPal.  Other users express their dissatisfaction with this in other threads on this forum.

I want to highlight a frequenly overlooked additional cost due to PayPal, if you pay in a non-USD currency.  PayPal uses its own currency rate to convert pine64's USD price.  My currency is Australian dollar, AUD.  PayPal's exchange rate was 4.4% worse than the fair rate.  This is how currency exchangers typically make money.  The fair rate is the representative mid-price (between bids and offers) by global currency traders, e.g. banks.  One data source of the fair market exchange rates is https://www.xe.com, but there are many others.

The total amount of my order was
USD 226.99 = USD 199.99 (phone) + USD 27.00 (shipping).
This total at the time of the purchase at fair exchange rate of 0.7299 USD/AUD should have equalled:
AUD 310.99 = USD 226.99 / 0.7299.  Instead, PayPal charged me
AUD 324.93 = USD 226.99 / 0.6986, quoting PayPal's exchange rate 0.6986 USD per 1 AUD.
Thus, I was forced by PayPal to overpay ~AUD 14 ~USD 10 for my order, a ~4.4% surcharge.  Not a huge amount, but it affects each non-USD payer every purchase!  I'd rather give this extra 4.4% to an open source project than to PayPal.

Pine64 is my favorite company these days thanks for the products they create and the way they do things.  Except for this unpleasant payment methods situation.  Cryptocurrencies seem like such a perfect fit for both Pine64 and its typical customers.  But of course other payment methods (credit cards, bank transfers, etc.) could be natural to have too, as suggested elsewhere on this forum.

I'd like to keep buying more of Pine64's great products without the sour feeling that each time I have to pay 4.4% extra to PayPal.  Bring better payment methods to us, Pine64!

I was interested to read in the September update about a PineTime manufacturing issue ("involved the memory protection, which was still enabled") that there are plans to fix.

I understood the memory protection is part of the APPROTECT register in the UICR flash page and can therefore be set or cleared by an OTA update. Certainly I was planning to update the wasp-reloader to ensure that it is capable of updating the UICR to ensure it will automatically clear the protection bits during an OTA update.

Does that sound right?

Hi together,

I am curious what kind of e-mail client are you using on pmOS? I looked into geary but it doesn't seem to be optimized for mobile use and the screen is off. I thought about using mutt/neomutt, but commandline is not very convenient on a smartphone for every day use.

Anything you guys tried and can recommend?

I am curious what the Pine Phone actually does in "drive read speeds".

 The eMMC drives and sd cards do each have their own speed ratings.

However in the end what matters is the speed that the phones mainboard can actually "use" them.

I may have 'missed it'   but I have not found this in the wiki, 

 I saw an older post that 'hinted' that the maximum sd card,  read speed by the board was 28mb/s.

 I am NOT asking for 'Favorite Brands' or '"Opinions"'....

Just facts :  How fast can the mainboard read each type of 'Drive'  ?

Thank you

Hello,
I am just an average linux user and I really enjoy using mobian on my pmos I received recently.
I am trying to enable nightlight on my phone because the screen is to harsh and bothers my eyes.
I tried:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-temperature 5000
But it has no effect.
Can anyone give me an idea how to enable nightlight in mobian?
Thanks a lot.

I see that there is a note about this in the wiki but it doesn't give much detail about the cause. Is this a driver issue? hardware issue? Is everyone experiencing this or just some?

For me the reception is equally poor in UBPorts and Arch.

I'd like to invite you all to join the BBS scene of 2020. These single board computers and SoC's are perfect for retro computing, and even running bulletin board systems. However today I'll just help you get logged onto one.

There is still a great ANSI-art scene, with packs being released to this date! http://16colo.rs if you want to view the ANSI scene of 2020. [Viva Blocktronics!!]

The are a few good door game networks these days, as opposed to simply playing door games locally on a BBS we now link them and play on networks like BBSLink or DoorParty. (I run both of those networks on my BBS...)

FidoNet still lives! Also, there are *several* current FTN's, or FidoNet stlye message networks, that are currently active in 2020 with fsxNet being the most popular one by far. Also, Dove-Net is probably a close second... with its focus on Synchronet BBS software. (fsxNet leans more towards Mystic BBS software.)

At any rate you'll need an ANSI-BBS compatible terminal software like SyncTerm or Netrunner... SyncTerm is IMO the better software and is easier to get compiled on ARM computers. I'll walk you thru it, using Manjaro ARM like you have on the PineBook Pro:

First lets handle dependancies... use 'pacman -S' to install:

base-devel
unzip

You also need some curses and SDL dependancies, but they are installed on a Manjaro install.

Then, lets install SyncTerm... (You can head to syncterm.bbsdev.net to read about it yourself, but the following will work from a command line, too.):

(I install from my /Downloads directory.)

wget http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/syncterm-src.tgz
tar xvzf syncterm-src.tgz
[Then head to the directory which might be a little different than my exmaple depending on the date:]
cd syncterm-20200917/src/syncterm
make SRC_ROOT=/home/pinebook/Downloads/syncterm-20200917/src
sudo make install
which syncterm

Now just run syncterm from your GUI or CLI... and make sure in the title bar its running in SDL mode. (This isn't required, but its way better if so.)

You can hit Alt+Enter to go full screen, or drag to size...

You might want to change the following setup options first, with 'hide status line' as the most important:

Default Connection Settings,
connection type = telnet
hide status line
change dl/ul paths, I make mine /Downloads
Program Settings,
confirm exit

Now, just add some BBSes and get to calling! I'd like it if you applied to MY BBS 20 For Beers by pressing 'insert' with the following details:

telnet: 20ForBeers.com
port 1337 (You'll have to press F2 on the entry to edit this after you add.)
Again, be sure hide status line in the entry. This allows you to see all the ANSI art.


Dial in, and type 'meatloaf' when asked for system password - I'm not fully LIVE yet, so a syspass is set.
Hit Esc twice, and enter 'new' to create a new user....

I'll be sure to validate you ASAP!

You can google TELNET BBS LIST for many other (better) BBSes... and if theres interest here, I can tell ya'll the best of the best.

Later, if theres interest, I can writeup how to RUN a BBS.... or, the info is out there...

Come on over and BBS like its 1995!!!