Hey there,

my PinePhone sets the current date/time to august 2115. Thats terribly annoying because you can't even surf the web without trouble with such an issue (cause TLS-certificates seem to be to old).
And I can't set a new date/time because the internal clock seems to stay with the old and wrong time. Sometimes rebooting helps, but not everytime. Sometimes I'll have to wait...
I had this problem 4 times since yesterday.

Do you know this issue?

Together with stability and heat issues I have I don't know if I got a faulty device. (I know sotware is under heavy development).

Can anyone give me some hint?

Thanks a lot guys!

Been doing some  basic testing on the battery.
Using dev 53 UBports and the battery life is indeed 13+ hours with near to zero screentime.

With crust, looking at a simple ping sequence the phone seems to enter sleepmode instantly when switching off.
Me testing the batterytime when off, but 'receiving' quasi push messages (a la GCM) ended here.


question:
Is there (on the middle long term) any idea how the system will provide a GCM alike TCP channel to have our own push messages ?
Maybe triggering the wifi modem the same way as the phonemodem, or with a on/off sequence.....


Hope that someone can shed some light

I had update on the Devel channel - and Dev 53 on my PP (eMMC) , and decided to try to boot from SD.


I have just downloaded the latest "Stable" from here  -  It says Stable 53 
https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/ro...stemimage/

Unpacked , and wrote the img file to a Sandisk Ultra 32GB card w. etcher , no errors.
Inserted the SD in the PP , and did a started the phone.

When it booted, it asked for my "screen lock code" , and it was connected to my WiFi  
Now i'm in doubt if it has booted from the SD card at all, if it doesn't use the eMMC , how does it know my Screenlock code & wifi passwd ??
I somewhat expected it to boot up as "Factory reset" , or ??


My SIM card was not working, i had to go to Cellular settings and select my "provider number" 23xxxx  (Telia)
It was set to Auto , and 23xxx was listed below. Once i chose the 23xxx it connected to GSM , and showed Telia.

When i went into update settings - , and had a look it now shows stable, so something has happened.
And there was actually an update waiting, even though i just downloaded "latest"  - Where's the SHA-Sum of the file !!!!
The update is named Ubuntu Touch Version 3 , and i think that's the old Dev 53 , that @Luke promoted to Stable 2 days ago.

I guess my question is does the OS/PP have some persistent storage where it saves Screen & WiFi pwd's ?
Or does it "sneak read" from the eMMC, even if it is booted from the SD ?



Right now i'm updating my PP with the Stable 3 , that update said it found OTA.

More to come  

/Bingo

Hey all.

I found the onboard Manjaro on my new Pinebook Pro to be a bit limited (a lot of needed yet missing software), so I've been trying to get Ubuntu running.  I've actually had really good results with ayufan's Focal Fossa build (0.10.12), however after banging my head against a wall trying to get LUKS encrypted root going, I figured I'd try downgrading to Bionic and see if I can get it running with a little less "beta-ness".

However, after downloading and flashing the image for Bionic (0.9.14) to SD card, it boots to a black screen.  I can see the backlight for the flat panel light up, but nothing is ever displayed.  I even get the login prompt sound, so I know it did actually boot, but no amount of key-pressing seems to wake up the display.  I can't even get to a text console with CTRL+ALT+F2.

I'm wondering if something may have changed between the last production run of Pinebook Pro and this one (just got mine at the beginning of June, so it should be the latest batch), something preventing Bionic from properly initializing the flat panel.  I figured before I broke out the serial cable and tried to hack the thing into submission, I'd check to see if anyone else had a similar experience and figured out a workaround.  Kernel option, maybe?  Something I can stick in extlinux.conf long enough to get it to boot, run updates, and hopefully fix the problem properly?

Looking forward to hearing a few ideas.

Eric

Hello, I was wondering if there was a URL to download the latest image available for Mobian.

I am building an application that auto downloads and flashes images onto the EMMC. In order to do this, I need a url that always points to the latest version of Mobian. Otherwise, I would have to update the application whenever there was an update.

Thanks in Advance
- PizzaLovingNerd

I boot ubports from the eMMC (preinstalled) and added a micro-sd to the system. If I mount the card manually, I get at least "read" access to the card. But there is no auto-mount happening of the sd-card. Does anyone have any suggestions to automatically mount the card and be able to write to it?

Requirements:

1. Must be compatible with Arch and ARM64 (Mega is not, Dropbox is not)
2. Must be E2E encrypted 
3. Fees not outrageous (I'm looking at you, Cloudberry, now something-something-360)

I'm willing to pay for a solution, but can't find one, really.

Pine, please don't ever change!

I know it's tempting to put a logo on the chassis, but I really love it being logo-less!

It's nice not seeing or feeling extra crap on the cover or palm-rests.  

I can add my own designs!  Or just leave it without tattoos or marks.

Feels more like "my" machine.  Very raw.

I ordered a RockPro64 plus accessories for it on Monday June 15 (4 days ago) with a "next shipping date" displayed of "June 19". After placing the order I received an email confirmation of the order. To date I haven't received a tracking number and there appears to be no order status capability on the Pine64 website. Should I assume that my order missed the June 19 "next shipping date"?

Thanks

I have tried to use Webber to make shortcuts to frequently used websites instead of having many tabs open in Morph Browser. The app gets to the "Exporting" step and then the shortcut never shows in the app drawer/Lomiri. Has anyone noticed this behavior, or is it just me? I last tried this on Stable #3 with no success.