I just unboxed my new Pinephone UBports edition today and I was able to get it to boot a couple of times with the software out of the box, but I was getting screen flickering (not the backlight, the whole screen image). After rebooting it from UBports, I no longer get anything on the screen, just a black screen with the backlight on.

When I try booting it, I get the red LED, followed by a white LED, then a green LED, and finally the LED goes out and the backlight turns on Eventually, the backlight will go out and the LED illuminates white.

Any idea what happened here? Do you think the screen flickering was a sign of a bad screen and it just completely went out? Now it won't boot do anything with just the battery anymore, I have to plug in the type C charger to get it to do the sequence I describe above. Did I potentially get a bad phone? Thanks for the help!

I've been using Firefox for both, but it lags horrendously watching YouTube, sometimes crashing the entire phone.
I've tried installing Clementine for Facebook messenger (a suggestion I found from a random reddit thread), but Electron won't build for Arm64. right now I'm using Facebook chat using the m.facebook.com address, which renders in plain HTML so you have to refresh the messages to get new ones.

any suggestions?

I ordered some hardware almost 5 months ago from pine64.org store planning to do some development for Linux kernel for PinePhone.

Never got any of the stuff I ordered: couple of sopine boards, wifi/bluetooth dongles, lcd touchscreen and some small knickknacks, USD $170 total.

I did receive my PinePhone in February, (I think it was about that time) and had to go through some back and forth with customs because it was declared as a "gift" (really?) but I did get it. When I ordered sopine boards the only option for shipping I could select was "Standard Flat Rate". There was "Express something or the other" option available but whenever I selected it, it would go back to Standard Flat Rate. I would have gladly paid FedEx or UPS just because of the accurate tracking but that was not available.

Anyhow, it turned out that this "Standard Flat Rate" is just a regular parcel shipping from China which, because of international trade treaties, Canada Post does not get paid for at all, so they put that kind of parcels in their backlog (or whatever it is called) and tend to it when they have free slots in their regular (paid) shipment processing queues. Thanks to the COVID, those slots are non existent now.

So, I paid USD $11.99 "Standard Flat Rate" for a service that is of the lowest grade possible and, as far as Canada Post is concerned, should be free.

How did I get all this info? A lot of phone calls, emails, chats and other sh1t, trying to figure out did I get scr3wd or if it's just postal service issue...

I did have some contact with Pine64 either sales or technical or whoever was on the other side of the message exchange (I think they were a bit confused as to what should they do about my queries) but didn't get anything useful back other than "we sent it, here is the proof (a tracking number that is expired and has 'status unknown' status) and we can't do anything about it, have a nice life".

I'm writing this for some future buyer: caveat emptor. I'm not saying Pine64 store is trying to scr3w you (I did get my PinePhone after all) I'm just saying you will get lowest possible service from them and, depending in which part of the world you are in, probably never get what you order.

As for me, I'll never buy anything from Pine64 again, fortunately there are a lot of other manufacturers and providers out there I can buy embedded hardware from (I think it's called competition or something like that).

Peace,
Flying Duck.

I noticed that the plastic around the camera that is part of the display frame has become loose on my nearly new Pinebook Pro. It can be pulled back a bit and is loose for about 5-6 cm.

Pushing it back on doesn't seem to click it back in place, so I guess it must be broken? Odd place though, as there isn't really any reason for it to break at that point.

Anyone else noticed this?

It could lead of some dirt getting between the lens cover and the camera, so I am thinking of gluing it shut. But I first wanted to check here if anyone has a better idea.

Ive noticed when playing music and videos over bluetooth from my pinephone, the connection gets a bit choppy. Im sure the PP's processor, wifi and bluetooth are fully capable, so i was wondering if it might be caused by the OS and all programs being mounted on the SD card thereby adding another r/w process in the middle of buffering? If so, i suppose an SD card with a higher transfer rate might alleviate this issue, but so too would using the eMMC for the OS, although my earliest experience led me away from that.

I have written up how I did it here

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...on_Manjaro

if anyone finds a problem with the instructions please reply.

Also, I have done some work on getting Wolfgang Erhhardt (RIP) maths and crypto libraries working on freepascal on 64 bit ARM.

Read about it here

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/ind...71924.html

His code provides some very useful libraries including RSA, AES and SHA algorithms.

First of all, I really like the PB Pro and I love what you're doing for the open source community.

However, I can't help but wonder why you included two charging ports on the Pinebook pro. The USB-C port is in the middle of the connector lineup, meaning that powering it over USB-C is going to nearly prevent you from using that USB port right behind it. And, in the regular power spot there isn't USB-C, but an ugly barrel jack. Even worse, both ports are nearly right next to each other... 

It doesn't make a lot of sense. Why waste money to increase the number of power ports, and put them right next to each other, when you could save money and make a better-looking product just by leaving it out? 

If you want to be capitalists, just charge $5 extra to take out the barrel jack, and I would gladly pay.

Hello.
I had an accident with my Pinebook Pro and now I have a couple of broken hinges. Any way I can get replacement parts. Looks like the hinges broke off some plastic bracket inside.

Please advise.

Thank you
David

Hey PINE64 community, maybe someone can help me with the following;

I tried the PostmarketOS factory test img (v0.55.0) on my UBports community edition and got the following results in the automatic test;

EG25 either fails or shows No Sim (With working Sim under UBports)
ANX7688 shows: No CC Fix.
RTL8723CS also often fails. 

What should I do next with this? Are there fixes I can apply or are these hardware faults?

geary isn't playing nice. not sure is the keyring problem is related, but I got the app to open and scale ok, but when I try to add a gmail account, it says that there's no connection. has anyone gotten email figured out? The only workaround that I've come up with is trying to make a webapp with the build-in browser (epiphany), or use firefox. 

what are you guys doing for email?