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  wifi comes and goes and prompts for password often
Posted by: motox6 - 08-05-2020, 01:55 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (2)

I have about 6 wifi Access Points that all use the same ESSID.

Even when sitting in the same place, the pinephone running mobian current as of today, will randomly popup the password dialog for the wifi password.

Most of the time it will not successfully reconnect and will ask for the password 3 or 4 times until it apparently gives up or I give up.

Turning the wifi adapter off and back on quickly generally does not help.

Turning the wifi adapter off for about 15 seconds and turning it back on does tend to produce a working wifi session.

The behavior happens every few hours.

Any reason the wifi can't remember the password itself?  And perhaps retry / off-on cycle the wifi on its own?

The Access Point I would think it would be using is an ASUS RAX75.  (nighthawk).


  apt-get update hanging twice (work-around included)
Posted by: motox6 - 08-05-2020, 01:43 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (11)

Sorry, I accidentally deleted the content of my prior post, because I did not understand how the reply editor worked.
So I deleted the entire post as what was left was not helpful.  (Was there a way to go back to prior versions?)

So here is synopsis without all the nice details I had in the prior post. Sad

I was doing a fresh install of Mobian to the EMMC.
I did an apt update and apt upgrade

and it got stuck at 7% for 20 hours.  Reading elsewhere I found people running into a similar issue and identify a system control restart command related to fstrim as the problem.  I killed the systemctl restart process related to fstrim

The process continued a little bit and exited.

I did another

apt upgrade

It got to 88% and got stuck again.

I killed another systemctl restart process this time related to something else.

This time the apt upgrade continued to completion.

I re-ran
apt upgrade
and
dpkg --configure -a

just to make sure everything was okay, and everything was okay.

I think in both hang cases there was also a process related to something about dialog.

Perhaps the upgrade was asking something that did not appear on the screen?

I ran the entire process once on the phone via Kings Cross and once via SSH using a screen session.


  What is jumpdrive?
Posted by: natasha - 08-05-2020, 01:41 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (25)

I saw:
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive

Ok, it looks like you can flash jumpdrive into a microSD and boot the phone. Does it also say this is a tool collection?

Then I read people use USB to boot with jumpdrive without using a microSD card?

Is this like a small OS just to fix things?

Can anyone with patience, explain a little bit? Not too technical, please

thanks


  broken emmc
Posted by: nieral - 08-05-2020, 11:57 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (7)

Hey!

My Pinephone BH won't boot anymore. I have PM Os installed on the emmc, the sd card as an additional drive. It worked very well with the stable branch. Three days later it was dead. When pressing the power button it stucks with the 'led test' and makes a short 'click' (which seems to be specific to pm os) and restarts over and over again. that it quits at the "led test" reminds on the error bieps from bios, when something essential did go wrong. So: no boot screen, nothing.

What I already tried:
- completely charge the battery
- flash the sd card with jumpdrive:
The phone booted into the jumpdrive modus, but: lsblk did not show the emmc nor the sd card (which is strange). I can unplug the usb cable while it runs jumpdrive, so the battery works well.

I think the emmc is dead. Can I replace it??

I appreciate any idea.


Ralf


  touch screen API resources?
Posted by: Rich_Morin - 08-05-2020, 09:23 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (7)

The PinePhone touch screen controller GT917S datasheet contains a lot of useful-looking information, but (of course) it says nothing about the API(s) that can be used to access the controller. I'm interested in supporting braille input on a PinePhone, probably on Mobian and/or pmOS. Can anyone point me to some relevant resources?


  touch screen API resources?
Posted by: Rich_Morin - 08-05-2020, 09:22 AM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - No Replies

The PinePhone touch screen controller GT917S datasheet contains a lot of useful-looking information, but (of course) it says nothing about the API(s) that can be used to access the controller. I'm interested in supporting braille input on a PinePhone, probably on Mobian and/or pmOS. Can anyone point me to some relevant resources?


  Bricked phone after u-boot update
Posted by: DarkManiels - 08-04-2020, 08:00 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (6)

Hi there - I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to fix my Mobian installation. I've got it installed on the eMMC, with a 128Gb SD card for storage of music and such, and it's been working great since I got the phone several weeks ago. Today I did a couple of apt update & upgrades. On the second update it told me that u-boot-sunxi and u-boot-tools were among the packages to be updated. I ran sudo apt upgrade as usual to upgrade the other packages in the list, but then following the directions on the Mobian wiki Tweaks page I also ran

Code:
sudo u-boot-install-pinephone

to actually upgrade u-boot. The output in the terminal was exactly the same as the last bit of output from my regular sudo apt upgrade, so I don't know if this actually did anything different or not.

I then tried to reboot the phone, since I figured this would be good after updating the bootloader, and after it shut down nothing happened. Now whether I push the power button briefly or for 5 seconds or so I can't get the phone to turn on - the screen remains blank and off. No green LED, nothing. I swapped out my SD card for a Jumpdrive card and am able to get in and see my filesystem just fine. But when I remove the Jumpdrive SD again I still can't boot into Mobian.

Any thoughts on how to be able to boot into Mobian again would be much appreciated. I'm assuming with Jumpdrive I can do something to fix it, but am not familiar enough with the boot file system to know what files to replace or commands to run. Thanks!


  PinePhone CAD Models for Design Improvements
Posted by: jdmark - 08-04-2020, 07:37 PM - Forum: PinePhone Accessories - Replies (4)

Does anyone have a link to the PinePhone CAD models? I might have a design improvement or two that I would like to implement using CAD and either make a custom part or contribute them directly to the Pine64 PinePhone project. If someone would care to share them I would appreciate it, thank you.


  Nodes not booting
Posted by: User 18962 - 08-04-2020, 06:50 PM - Forum: Clusterboard - Replies (23)

Im running into an issue where i added a 128gb EMMC to my clusterboard and now my nodes wont boot.

removing the emmc makes no change and only having one in doesnt matter either, they boot in the baseboard.

is there a way to plug something into the USB port on the cluster board to find out what its complaining about? 

any help would be much appreciated.


  Annoying phosh
Posted by: Zweitaktmotor - 08-04-2020, 05:44 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (1)

The most annoying feature of phosh is the fact that running applications take up more than half of the home screen, leaving very little space for the rest of the icons at the bottom. - Can't this be changed?