On the default Manjaro the battery pretty much works as expected (it doesn't charge all the way to 100%, but in the 90's, and my old laptop also did that so it doesn't concern me.)

However, I've noticed booting into Android afterwards causes the battery percentage to behave unexpectedly. Earlier today, I was at ~85% in Manjaro, but after rebooting into Android, I noticed the percentage showed 75% with 1:41 remaining on the battery. I continued to mess around with Android for a while, and eventually the percentage rose to 76%...with 1:41 left on the battery. I rebooted into Manjaro and the percentage read 69% (and stayed there for a while,) and at one point while web browsing it said I had 34:44 left on the battery (yeah.......)

Is Android messing up the battery calibration or something? My guess is that is that Android caused the battery percentage to be set lower, and the percentage was frozen because the battery had to catch up to that number.

Anybody else had the problem where after flashing a distro to your SD card, when latet inserting the card in a windows PC it reflects a much smaller volume, and then upon inspecting the disks it shows several partitions, each with small volume but none with the bulk of the space that should be available? My 64GB was reflecting 121MB

Hello,

I'm still a newbie with Linux, though I'm successfully using a Linux laptop and I'm looking forward to my PineBook Pro.

Is the new PinePhone with Manjaro any closer to being something a non-developer newbie can order and successfully use? I like tinkering and learning, but I'm not a developer and don't have much in the way of developer chops. Still, I'm eager to be on board and learn new things, so I'm ready to go any time the PinePhone is ready to be something I can use to supplement my normal phone.

I'd be grateful for anyone's insights.

Best,

Graham

Does the Pinebook Pro support the 128GB eMMC?

I ordered one, flashed it with the latest Manjaro. It will walk you through the initial setup (name, pswd, location, etc) but fails to reboot when completed. If I power down and reboot, it just hangs.

Thanks.

We’re pleased to announce that the next PinePhone Community Edition will feature Manjaro. 
Two variants available: 
* Regular CE - 2GB RAM/ 16GB eMMC
* Convergence Package - 3GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC bundled with a USB-C dock.

Pre-oders open mid September.

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Hi everyone, over the weekend I did the ub ports update on my pinephone. Finally the camera started. However, it is extremely slow and jerky. I was wondering if it's just my problem or if it happens to everyone.

Love my Pinebook, setting it up with my favourite apps, then ran into a problem with Darktable. It appears to need a font that's missing, because all of the characters are little squares. I ran sudo fc-cache -vf, but this did not help. I wonder if anyone else has ran into this, and if so, what's the solution?

In the July Update, a solution to the USB-C issue was offered to Braveheart and UBports Community Edition owners.

However, the solution to the 'battery discharging while the phone is powered off' issue was not mentioned.


@Luke, would it be possible to offer this fix in the same chain?

Many thanks.

Recently flashed an SD with Mobian and noticed that it isn't charging. Anyone else have similar issues? For what it's worth, I am on the most recent nightly build.

Could we get an easy to copy to sd card version of Debian in a '"Mobian style"'
placed in the wiki for Pinebook Pro users ?