Has anyone succeeded in running Plasma Desktop (not Mobile) yet? I quite liked it on pmOS after some tweaks. Much more than Pasma Mobile. It ran on X11 much better than on Wayland. But I had problems getting phone calls and mobile data to work so I thought I'd try it on Mobian.

Sddm runs without any problems. But when I start Plasma in X I get a black screen where only the mouse cursor is visible. It changes position with each touch so it seems to be working generally. But plasmashell doesn't seem to load. I couldn't find any logfiles, so no idea what's wrong.
It starts up properly on Wayland but crashes after a few seconds back to sddm.

The loudspeaker on my Braveheart Pinephone used to work in the past. Now I realized it doesn't work anymore, while both the earpiece and headphones continue to work normally. I cannot pinpoint the exact moment when it stopped working.

While I'm not certain this is a hardware problem, I've tried various current system images (ubports, pmos, mobian) as well a factory test image and even an older image from March (when I'm positive the loudspeaker was working) with no luck, so I'm inclined to think it is.

Did this happen to anybody? Any clues on what the reason may be? Any chance there is a solution?

Thanks.

As Manjaro is now the default OS as shipped from the factory I'd like to flash my PBP to the "official" OS.

Can someone point me to the correct image?

I've looked on the Wiki and its still debian-centric and the Manjaro section has various different desktop options.
Looking in the forums there are versions 19 and 20 manjaro threads, so I'm not sure which is the correct one that will match the version flashed onto the PBP in the factory.

Cheers

Hey y'all!

Some of the keys on my keyboard are not working, and I don't know if it's soft- or hardware-related.

My Pinebook Pro is an early model from last year. It arrived here in November, and right from the start the space bar didn't seem to work properly. Some of you will remember that back then there were some problems with the touchpad's palm rejection leading to keyboard inputs being dismissed. I have updated the keyboard/touchpad now, but the problem apparently has gotten worse, some of the other lower keys seem to not be working sometimes. The space bar flat out stopped working altogether.

Here's my question, is this a known problem with the software? I haven't followed development so closely since last year, and to me it seems like a random hardware problem. I'm evaluating what's the next right step (software patch, RMA, buy a spare keyboard and build it in myself, etc.).

Any information or pointers in the right direction appreciated.

Hi

Anybody knows the power intervall of RockPro64? I have only seen 12V. Plan to use it in a car.

BR
Mats Ekström

I haven't the search functionality on these forums, but someone must have considered using PBP with alter sbc like substantially more powerful odroid-n1.

Okay, so I have been having this issue for close to 2 months now, and I finally have enough time to play with.

I am a big fan of phosh DE, but I have been having this issue where, since March, I have had a problem where after start up I get a black screen, backlight on, that persists even through pushing the power button (sleep). Pushing the power button just cycles the backlight on and off, but the black screen remains. (though it did help me find a dead pixel). The only way to get it to stop has been to hard shutdown the phone and restart. This however, just restarts the cycle. It shows be the PmOS splash screen, flashes me the desktop menu and then shortly afterward, (usually before I can access the menu and turn on wifi) it does the black screen again.

So I have been doing random updates to new images since, only every few weeks due to class, with no change. I finally got done with the semester and have actually started messing with it again, and nothing has changed.

I have now tried building from pmbootstrap and using an image, they both do it. I have used USB network to get the wifi started and updated, it didn't solve the issue. Finally, I noticed that it seemed like the camera made a whole lot of noise shortly before the death, so I tried hardware kill-switching the cameras to see if that helped. It seemed to have worked for a bit, I could get into the menu and open settings, and even get into the terminal before it froze up and died. It also seemed to always be after I changed the brightness (not too low, just touching it), but it still happened, just later, if I never touched it.

Now it is still happening as soon as I touch the screen with the newest pmbootstrap build even with the switches flipped. The closest I ever got was with the pmbootstrap build and the switches flipped and I used usb network ssh to turn on wifi and seemed to have everything working until the update, and it started again. 

I have also tried phosh with pureOS and it does the same thing, (they called it the black screen of death) and they told me it could be fixed with hitting the vol+ and vol- 3 times each in under 5 sec. This did not work for their OS, nor for PmOS. So at this point, I'm really not sure what to do. Everything on the phone works fine with the terminal and ssh, but it wont let me use the screen with phosh.

Also, when this first started I tried PmOS with KDE plasma, and it worked fine. That was months ago and I haven't tried again since. I'm 90% sure it is something in phosh, but no one else seems to be having this issue. So, I'm not sure if it's something wrong with my hardware (would be weird since it doesn't break in other DEs) or something weird happening with me writing the images, even though I have done it a few different ways now...

Any help would be appreciated, cause I am really hoping to get to play with the phone some while I have this bit of free time. Thanks!

PS: If it's not obvious, I'm on a Braveheart.

PPS: Don't know if this is due to the voltage change to the screen, but it happened around the same time.

do we have drivers or can we get drivers for the the following in Android 9

the onboard fan socket
BT/WIFI module
anything else that might be missing?

I'm working on an enclosure for the rockpro64.  The new version has provisions for active cooling but I'm having trouble with that and in testing found that the stock tall heatsink is almost enough.  It can run full throttle and just barely need throttling.  I'm thinking if I tried replacing the thermal pad with either some more exotic material or even just use thermal paste it would be enough.  Unfortunately the DRAM under the heatsink isn't as tall as the SOC so using a thermal paste wouldn't work for the DRAM.  

So I have a few questions.  Does the DRAM actually need cooled or is it just located so close to the SOC it was a matter of "why not?"  What have you tried to improve passive cooling?

Can you give us some more background on why you decided not to support cryptocurrency payments at this time?