Dear folks,

my Pinebook won't charge any more; there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the charger brick though. I followed the advice on this forum for battery problems but that only made things worse but I did discover that indeed its the charger circuit.

For the battery reset, i had to unplug the battery cable while the mains was on but this instantly gave a power loss to the machine so no power was arriving from the power cable and it was just running on fumes so to say of the little that was still in the battery although it showed 0% power. The situation is now that it runs on the fumes but at the same time reports there is no battery :-S

Is this charger part replaceable and what PCB is it? The USB connector on the PCB with the power plug and the SDcard is in working order so i doubt its the cabling between the PCBs. Can I order a new side PCB or do I need to replace the main PCB?

With regards,
Reinoud Zandijk

I miss a PineTime which is more powerful and has a Linux operating system. Shouldn t this be feasable? There are already such watches available. The Ticwatch Pro for instance has 1 GB of Ram:

https://www.amazon.de/Ticwatch-Pro-gesch...B082Y2Q1LG

and runs android wear. Linux can run on Android wear:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWear/com...roid_wear/

but what is missing is an easy to use user interface. Make a real Linux Pinetime which is more powerful. All components are available.

Does anybody in this forum use Zotero too?

I have been using Zotero on my PBP with 'zotero-arm-bin' package from AUR, but the recent kernel update broke the software.

I am not exactly familiar enough with Linux to change the contents of the package. I would appreciate any help about this issue.

When I try to start the program, I get the following error message.

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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/zotero/libxul.so:
libstartup-notification-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

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Hello all, didn't see a forum for this product, sorry if this is the wrong place.

I saw the 7" touch screen panel on the site here:
https://store.pine64.org/product/7-lcd-t...een-panel/

I recently installed a samsung tablet in the dashboard of my car but in the heat it would go into thermal shutdown mode, and the glass eventually got so hot that the glue melted and the button slid back inside the case.

Is this LCD a glass surface like a 'standard' tablet or is it something else? I'd like to use it with a RockPro64 in the dash of my car with Android if possible.

One additional question, the description says:
Note: Only stock Android OS build for this LCD panel available for ROCKPro64 board.

Verifying that this is saying this panel will only function with the ROCKPro64 with a stock Android OS? If so, which ones? If anyone has any advice for what LCD touchscreen to get I'd love to hear your advice.

Thank you very much in advance!

Results: mobian/2020-08-19

Conclusion: This OS is coming along nicely. Looking at the results I will be following up with the tester to ensure that camera functionality is effective. This at the moment is the closest candidate to making the pinephone a daily driver. (out of our testing group)

Notes: Speakerphone was awful, tons of feedback. Mic was a touch sensitive during calls. Calls were clear otherwise.

(Using AT&T sim).

Soon to begin testing data and hotspot.

Results: ubports/2020-08-19

Build number: Dev-157
Conclusion: This build has been no bueno.  Move along.

Notes:
This guy has been a problem since startup. Not a clue what is going on. Texts stopped working, SMS stopped working. Calls stopped working. I'm going to image my device with a fresh build and execute the tests again. But ultimately not impressed with this build. Camera works ok though.

Today I am also going to begin testing against boost mobile as well as t-mobile. (both US)  I will note any discrepancies in the results. 

Is anyone else experiencing issues with this build?

Watch out for your system clock , when upgrading.
Somehow (on my PP CE edition) it FSCK's up and TimeWarps to year 2115 , happpend 3 times now.

If the sysclock is that much wrong , then the repos used has expired , and gives an error.

*** Update fails

root@mobian:~# apt update
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease [116 kB]
Hit:2 http://repo.mobian-project.org mobian InRelease   
Reading package lists... Done
E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease is expired (invalid since 34743d 13h 12min 59s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
root@mobian:~#


*** Check clock = TimeWarp
root@mobian:~# date
2115-10-12T05:35:27 CEST

*** Set sysclock from hw clock
root@mobian:~# hwclock -s

*** Date ok now
root@mobian:~# date
2020-08-19T20:17:43 CEST
root@mobian:~#

*** Update works
root@mobian:~# apt update


Why doesn't the OS do a hwclock -s , during boot ??


/Bingo

Hello guys,
I noticed yesterday night, that my RockPRo64 was not running..

I discovered that the board was very high temperature around the red ellipse in the picture bellow..
https://paste.pics/7e66971884c4b53ee63160a9dc4c9995

it extended till the lcd header connectors close to the ellipse, it was so high that I made a burn in my finger..
I disconnected the power supply from the board..
I already checked power supply voltage seems ok, but again without load( 12.3volts )..

Those components were heating up maybe because there are a short circuit somewhere in the board.. after that ellipse maybe..

I wanted to know what reference those component's are in the Datasheet diagram, so that I can look at them and see what I can do.

Can Anyone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Best Regards
tux

I bought one of these on Amazon
https://www.syncwire.com/collections/wal...ll-charger

it has two output ports, each of which can deliver 3 amps.

and also this H barrel cable
https://store.pine64.org/product/2-meter...wer-cable/

The reasons that I bought this:-

Despite being an ISO PBP they sent me a US charger with it.
The Syncwire one comes with USA, UK and Euro pins.
As it has two ports I can charge a phone and the PBP from one device and one power socket which is useful for travelling.  The PBP is basically becoming my default travel laptop due to it's slimness and light weight.
It's also useful for powering a Raspberry Pi.

It seems to work well.

I know these exist for RPi4 but is there a dual SSD expansion board for the RP64 with SATA shield to mount the board to?