Hey everyone, I recently got the Pine Dock, and to be honest it's been a game changer for me, however there are two issues, HDMI isn't working, and no network through the rj-45.
Being a jack of all trades, but master of none... I do not have the knowledge to figure out these two issues. The primary issue I wish to fix is the network.
ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlu1u2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
uname -r 6.6.7-1-MANJARO-ARM
Anyone else experience these issues?
My Pinephone broke and I switched to Droidian, but I don't think this is a Droidian-specific question. Forgive me if it turns out to be irrelevant.
Anyway, my on-screen keyboard works fine on most apps, but I installed both Nextcloud client and Chromium browser, and in both cases, focusing on a text field doesn't cause the keyboard to deploy. The common denominator here is that both of these apps use QT and not GTK, and I assume this is relevant.
Has any one had this issue, and if so, how did you resolve it?
Under bookworm, the keyboard icon appears at the bottom right of the screen when you activate an application with which you can use it, but under trixie the keyboard icon doesn't appear.
What configuration needs to be activated for the keyboard icon to appear at the bottom right of the screen?
I recently bought a pinebook pro and was surprised how old the manjaro installation was
I've tried to update using both the gui and pacman -Syu
but i'm getting the error:
error: linux: signature from "Furkan Kardame <furkan@fkardame.com>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-6.6.7-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PG
P signature)).
Is there any way to update the factory image safely?
I can just flash the emmc I am pretty confident I can do this.
This is just a curiosity of purchasing a pinebook pro in 2024
My current configuration for my pinebook pro is charging using USB-c (the red light comes on solid, no blinking, but goes out after 2-3 hours and comes back on when I replug the USB-c). The eMMC has been removed and the switch is in the do not enable eMMC (switched toward the touchpad). Is it normal for the power on LED to come on when I press power on for 5 seconds? What color should it be? If I don't have a bootable SSD in its slot will the computer even turn on? Any information is appreciated. Thanks
Today I tried to upgrade from 23.06 to 23.12 by running
Code:
postmarketos-release-upgrade
via SSH.
At the end I got the message:
Code:
Executing devicepkg-utils-0.2.0-r1.pre-upgrade
ERROR: devicepkg-utils-0.2.0-r1: trying to overwrite etc/deviceinfo owned by device-pine64-pinetab-kernel-allwinner-0.13-r4.
1 error; 1501 MiB in 830 packages
>>> ERROR: Release upgrade failed!
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: Find the log and backup of /etc/apk/repositories in:
>>> ERROR: /var/lib/postmarketos-release-upgrade/2024-02-05-100344
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: If this is a simple packaging error, running 'apk fix' may help.
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: If apk failed to install packages (e.g. due to network outage),
>>> ERROR: running 'apk upgrade -a' again may help.
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: If you need help now, consider joining the postmarketOS chat.
>>> ERROR: Some nice folks hang out there in their free time and may help
>>> ERROR: you out: https://postmarketos.org/chat
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: The wiki page for release upgrades may also have further
>>> ERROR: troubleshooting information: https://postmarketos.org/upgrade
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: If this looks like a bug (i.e. no network outage etc.):
>>> ERROR: please check if there's an existing bug report for this, and if
>>> ERROR: not, then report a new bug at:
>>> ERROR: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos-release-upgrade/
The log contains the exact same information and didn't help me. So I ran
Code:
postmarketos-release-upgrade
again, to see what happens and it said:
Code:
>>> Nothing to do, you are on the latest stable v23.12.
What does that mean now? Was the upgrade successful or not?
I've been searching for a solution to fan related issues for my RockPro64 including this site, Armbian stuff, and OMV. I've found a couple of related issues in sites outside this one but haven't posted there yet.
Based on the cadence of posts & responses found in the RockPro64 sub-forum on this site, I'm not very optimistic my inquiry will have any response.
Could anyone recommend any active forums where there might be some better hope at engaging a user base for this hardware?
If it helps, I'm running the Armbian variant of Bookworm on my RockPro.
I'm not here to say I'm disappointed with my RockPro setup. Quite the opposite in fact. That being said more recently have had some thoughts about maybe I should have chosen a device with a more robust support system (if not from the user base, then at least from the manufacturer).
I have what seems like a hardware problem and am trying to diagnose it. Most likely, it is the PMIC (Power Management IC) or something else on the motherboard that is bad and would have to be replaced, but maybe I am missing something.
First, I have a Convergence Edition PinePhone (1.2b board) which I got about 2 years ago.
Second, the lead up. PinePhone spontaneously rebooted like it sometimes does and was sitting at the screen for providing the decryption password for the storage for a long time, draining the battery and producing a lot of heat and getting decently warm. I finally noticed and logged in and the phone claimed that there was just 5% battery left. I plugged it into my computer as quickly as I could (USB A to C cable). My OS (Mobian Trixie) didn't indicate that it was plugged in so I tried the usual unplug, replug, unplug, plug in a different way, etc.
Then finally went to the power section of the settings program (I use Phosh) to see what was wrong. It indicated the battery health was good and was registering that the USB was there but not its voltage or current. Based on the discharge rate with the USB cable plugged and unplugged, not enough current was being drawn from the USB so the battery was steadily draining further just at a slower rate. I tried other chargers including the one I used every day, plugging into the USB C cable on my computer, a steamdeck charger, and an old pre USB-PD charger I still have, as well as trying some of these through the USB dock. Same result including not being able to read the USB voltage.
I turned it off and let it sit for several hours with the charger plugged in before turning it on again. No change in battery charge and continuing to drain.
So, I just unplugged it and removed the battery (to really really turn the whole thing off long enough that none of the capacitors and inductors would have any energy left in them) and let it sit.
Later, I put the battery back in and powered it up again. Same result as before. Though now it was registering the battery as 10%. I did not remember the battery voltage from before, so I do not know if it was higher or lower. Then, I flipped all the switches to turn off everything I could (modem, wifi, cameras, microphone) and the discharge rate dropped to nearly but not quite zero. But still no charging. Again, it was reporting that the battery health was good. I tested it again but this time with the modem on but not the rest. Battery was discharging despite being connected to an overkill USB power source.
From this, it was clear that at least one of the following was true
1. USB circuitry was bad and not enough current could be sourced
2. Battery was bad but in a way that the PMIC could tell but the rest of the system couldn't
3. PMIC or other power circuitry had gone bad (whether hardware or firmware)
I hooked the phone up into the PinePhone keyboard to see if I could eliminate possibilities (I had been intending to buy one for some time and decided to go ahead and do it since it could help diagnose). Same exact pattern. Can't charge the battery. The modem being on causes the battery to discharge even though the keyboard can supply more than enough power.
This seems to eliminate possibility 1 above, leaving only
1. Battery was bad but in a way that the PMIC could tell but the rest of the system couldn't
2. PMIC or other power circuitry had gone bad (whether hardware or firmware)
Based on what the battery diagnostics and its voltage, I am inclined to think that the battery itself is probably OK. It definitely wasn't at a low enough voltage to be unrecoverable -- 3.5 V or so (very drained and likely its lifespan reduced by it, but still should be OK).
This makes me think it is the PMIC or its support circuitry.
Am I missing a possibility, or is this the best guess that can be made?
If it is the PMIC, is it possible it is just a firmware issue (maybe firmware got corrupted)?
Otherwise, I am looking at having to replace the motherboard if I want to get my PinePhone working again, or replacing the phone outright (would go to the PinePhone Pro).
I've been playing with new and different OS images on SD cards on my pinephone pro since I got it. I noticed about 6 months ago the latest Mobian release I imaged would show random but very regular volume changes to the internal speaker. Looked like a hardware issue at first, but the problem followed the software I was using as going back to an earlier release or a totally different OS made the problem go away. Today, all the well supported releases seem to have the same bug. The strange part being that I can't find any other posts with the problem. Is there some combination of things on my system causing this?
