Hi,

I have a PBP which when I press the power button, powers on about 1 in 10 times. Otherwise, the power light does not come on.

Has anyone encountered this? What could I do?

One thing I noticed is that successes and failures seem to appear in a row, e.g., 9 failures - 3 successes - 6 failures...
Also, it seems like when it had been powered off for some minutes, it always starts with a series of failures - as if it had to "warm up" somehow?
(Of course, that may be nonsense, it but wanted to mention just in case it is not :-))

Many thanks for any hints!!

I've had my PinePhone Pro for a few months, and tinker with it on occasion, mostly trying to get my Bluetooth headsets to work with it. I can get the phone to output media, and even the recorder does pickup the microphone when I set the audio profile to HFP. However, when I make a phone call, it reverts back to using the phone's speaker and microphone. The past 2 days I have been really trying hard to force it, with the help of ChatGPT, and deciphering the differences it was advising me to do to the device (such as telling me to restart Pipewire service using systemctl when it should be rc-service in the case of using PostmarketOS). I have searched, and thought I would get the PineBuds, but I don't want to get them if it's not going to work, considering I don't really like earbuds, but I would deal with it if it worked. In my searches, I have seen a lot of people are happy with their PineBuds, but they all mention just media playback, no mention of making phone calls (unless I'm not searching in the right places?) I've been using it lately just as a glorified music streamer connected directly to my trucks aux input, but I would actually like to use it, as a phone, and Bluetooth connectivity is very important to me as I am a truck driver, and spend most of my day driving. A wired headset does work as it should, but I would much rather not have a wire dangling limiting my maneuverability, or having the wire in my field of view (I have my existing phone on a mount on the top shelf above the windshield, so if I daily the PinePhone, it would go in that spot).

So, my question is, are there any reports of working Bluetooth headsets that work for calls on any OS? I have tried PostmarketOS (with plasma-mobile, as Plasma is my preferred DE), Mobian (Phosh and Plasma), Arch (Phosh), Ubuntu Touch, Manjaro, and the factory installed SailfishOS (although, not very thoroughly as for some reason or another it won't accept my APN settings for AT&T, so that was a quick jump off)

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Is it possible to ssh over USB? I found this very useful with the remarkable 2 since it avoids having to deal with dynamic IP addresses etc. and you can use tools like rsync which don't seem to play nicely with a USB storage mounting.

I just upgraded my pinephone to the last testing via apt as always, and now the full disk encryption (calamares) passephrase prompt is looping with a "bad option" error. So I can no longer boot.

I have not investigated yet, just wanted to alert you.

I bet I can save myself by mounting the eMMC over USB, hopefully last time I had a similar issue I wrote about it: https://mdk.fr/blog/black-screen-at-boot...phone.html

Update:I tried another apt full-upgrade and a dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-6.6-sunxi64 over USB mass storage / chroot, no luck, but it seems a tad different, it now reads:

panel-sitronix-st7703 : ... midi_dsi_attach failed (-517) Is host ready?
pinephone-keyboard: Failed to read device ID: -6

Update: I noticed in my upgrade that phosh-osk-stub had an upgrade, so I downgraded it with `dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/phosh-osk-stub_0.44.0-1_arm64.deb`, but no luck, still no keyboard at boot to decrypt my root fs

Hi,

I have burnt the latest stable PBP image to an sd card, but after insertion and booting the display stays black (even though the light is on).

The output of lsblk (on my laptop) looks like

```
mmcblk0                                      179:0    0  29.5G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1                                  179:1    0  228M  0 part 
└─mmcblk0p2                                  179:2    0  4.1G  0 part  /run/media/key/pmOS_root
```

which could be a problem maybe - there is no boot partition on mmcblk0p1 (I remember there was when recently I had flashed a manjaro image...)?

BTW for burning to sd I used the standard command,

```
dd if=some.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress

```

It would be awesome if someone could help!! Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to invest in a Pine64 device but need some guidance on which one would best suit my needs. I’ve been exploring the PinePhone, PineTab, and some of the SBCs like the RockPro64, but I’m unsure which one would be the best fit.

Here’s what I’m looking for:

• Primary Use: I need a device mainly for lightweight development (Linux scripting, Python, and some web-based tools).
  
• Portability: A mobile or tablet form factor would be ideal, but I’m open to SBCs if they offer better performance for my use case.
  
• Customization: I’d love a device with solid community support and the ability to install various OS options (Ubuntu, Manjaro, python online certification etc.).
  
• Performance Needs: Nothing too demanding, but I want a smooth experience when using a Linux desktop environment or running basic development tools.
  

https://www.hackers-game.com/2025/01/26/...-our-apps/

Any ideas about how one might install the Signal messenger app on the Pine Note?

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