Just got my PBP Aug batch and have 2 questions:
1. Am I supposed to flash the touchpad/keyboard firmware linked in the wiki?
2. If I want to boot from SD, am I supposed to flash anything? I believe that the chip boots to emmc first, then the u-boot on the emmc is supposed to try booting from sd-card. Is that how it works?

Just got my newly ordered PBP a few days back, and started playing around with it. Overall love it, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with different OSes and configurations.

The charger that came with the box manages to charge the PBP, but it seems to get stuck at ~87% battery no matter how long I leave it charging whilst it's off. I switched to a 5V3A USB 3.0 PD charger and cable, and that pushed it to around ~91% but no further.

Today I got around to downloading Fedora Linux and went through the motion of decompressing and dd'ing onto a SanDisk Class-10 A1 64GB microSD (verified with F3), and I noticed that the action of these two combined whacked my battery from 25% to 12% even while charging at max input of 5V3A (USB 3.0 port). The action of writing/reading 50+GiBs alone shouldn't cause the drain, as F3 testing did that with no discernible impact on battery.

Is this normal? Or is there something wrong with my battery? With both the inability to reach capacity and the massive drain issue. I believe it's still under warranty so I could perhaps ask for a replacement battery.

Hey, everyone, I really like the donation program and believe it's great initiative.

Maybe a counter for the shipped Soft TPU cases would be good way to introduce something simple that gives a chance for members to talk about the program more often.
I think it would be great and it will give the feeling of interacting with the donation program more directly. Updating the counter every few weeks or monthly, would still be a conversation starter and should help for those periods of time between forum/ blog updates about the initiative.

What do you guys think about the idea?

Where might I go to find information about the status of USB C dock support for UBPorts? I've got a hardware modified UBPorts edition Pinephone. I used the factory test image to ensure that the ANX7688 affected by the hardware issue went through it's test successfully. Also, charging and a mouse work using PostmarketOS. I'm using a Mokin model MUC1901 hub.

Thanks to all of the folks working on UBPorts for Pinephone!

Since April 2020, DHL started charging an extra fee for "remote locations" in my area.
I'm not even that far out of town, but out of their delivery zone. I used to get them to drop packages at their depot in town so I can go pick them up for free, but now they charge $38 extra for that, even though they don't have to do the last mile delivery...

Here is a link to the PDF listing all the postal codes worldwide affected by that surcharge :

https://www.dhl.com/content/dam/download..._id_id.pdf

It's a 234 pages document listing about 100 000 postal codes.

So I'm wondering if Pine64 is working on offering alternative options for shipping?
People living in those areas who order a $150 pinephone will pay DHL $63 (25+38) shipping before duty and local taxes...
That's almost 50% of the cost of the phone for shipping... I'm sure there must be cheaper options.

Hi community,

I tested the latest mobian and I am honestly impressed. I would say it's the most useable os (at least for me) right now.

There is one issue that I discovered which is bugging me a bit : I can't send text messages on 4g . 2g works well ... any idea why or is there a fix available ?

 Cheers
Helium

Edit: Fonic (D2 German) is my provider

ANSI Pinebook Pro's just showed up in the Pine64 Store as  "In Stock"   with mid - September Shipping   !

How about some good news like that for the Convergence Package Pine phone ?

I just received my Pinebook Pro today, and all was going well until i realized the screen wasn't turning off when I shut the lid. I was able to put the PBP to sleep with a magnet, but not when I close the lid. My only guess is that the magnet is missing from the top lid?

It would be wonderful if CRUST could be configured to leave both the cellular data and wifi networks alone if they are being used by an app when turning off the screen. Otherwise, that terrific podcast you're listening to about penguins just goes pfft! when your screen dims.

Does anyone have any hacks, scripts, bash files or magic which will allow this to happen until the devs get around to it? If you post one that works, I'll tell you everything you wanted to know about penguins.

Be aware, these tests are being executed using an out-of-box testing methodology. All tests are preformed with minimal interaction/setup of devices outside of: OS imaging/updating,  SIM installation, Wifi Configuration,  and Power Cycling the devices.

Results: mobian/08-28-2020-Verizon.html
               mobian/08-28-2020-TMobile.html

[b]Conclusion: [/b]OS is not Ready for pinephone to be daily driver.

[b]Notes: [/b]The Microphone is getting really sensitive. The audio out quality is suffering because of it.


I started a longevity test thanks to a comment from @ragreenburg

I set the phone down and let it go to sleep. After about an hour i send a text to my pinephone. I never received it. I called the pinephone. It never rang. I unlocked the phone to see if it would reconnect. It didnt.

Connection to the cell towers broke and the phone had to be rebooted to reconnect. Connection to my wifi broke and had to be rebooted to reconnect.

I dont have a section on my test sheets for this longevity test yet.