What are the various tricks you have to open the pinephone?
In specific, to separate the back cover from the front "brick"
a crack.  [Once I get started, the rest is easy.]

I used to be able to open it.  I have not opened it for over
4 months, so dust, etc, probably settle inside.

The methods I am aware of

1.
Hold the phone upside down, facing your heart.  Put your
right fingernail in the slot and pull toward your right
shoulder.

2.
Hold the phone upside down, facing your heart.  Put a
credit card in the slot and zip right, pulling alittle.

3.
Turn the phone upside down and over, facing desk.  Put
a credit card in the slot.  Slide leftward and pull.
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Are there any way to clean the slot with the cover on?  I
tried rubbing alcohol and q-tip.

Thank in advanced for any help.

Sheng-Chieh

Hello, I'd like to ask the position of fuse denoted in schematic pdf as R1206, addressing in the picture below. could you specify the location on the board surface or soldering point. 

Anke

https://gitlab.com/public_1/rock64/-/blo...type=heads

So i was thinking about it a little and since i know pine has not announced a new phone, i thought i could include a wish list for the nect phone, here it goes without breaking the bank.

1. 12 nano meter processor, to help power management of course maybe especially.

2. esim for travel. replace sim card alot and put it in new spot or do away with the sim card altogether.

3. lcd display 1080p

4. 6.1 bezzel less display 

5. maybe some dust and water resistance like galaxy s5 with galaxy s7 waterproofing plugs

6. sharper camera, maybe take from iphone x camera

7. 5g and maybe possible satalite bands, even of not possible to be used right now, haave for later

Thanks.

I booted my Quartz model b for the first time after a couple days of trying different images and sdcards.  I'm very happy with the equipment upgrade from a raspberry pi 1 for the last couple years.  Particularly, when I hooked up USB tethering from my android the Quartz was connected to the internet right away with no tinkering.

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uname -a
Linux forbiddenplanet 6.1.12-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 14 22:16:04 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
"
When I do a pacman -Syyu to upgrade system or use the gui for adding packages, I get the dependency of conflict linux-headers and quartz64-post-install providing the same file.  When I remove either the linux-headers package or the quartz64-post-install package the model b is unbootable.



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/usr/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,soquartz-model-a.txt exists in both 'linux-firmware' and 'quartz64-post-install'

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
"
Is there a way to remove this file from my source packages locally or should I force and install with pacman?
Sincerely,
Nate

Hey?
I forgot the passcode to my pinephone :/ Anyone knows how i can open the phone when i dont have the passcode?

Thanks in advance?

Helle

So i have a fairly old Dev pine time and i wanted to start it fresh.  So these are the steps i took

nrfjprog -f NRF52 --recover


//using this hex - https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/n...device.hex
nrfjprog -f NRF52 --program aboveHexFile.hex --verify --sectorerase

//https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/download/1.13.0/pinetime-mcuboot-app-dfu-1.13.0.zip
nrfjprog -f NRF52 --program latestPinetime.hex --verify --sectorerase

nrfjprog -f NRF52 --reset

I followed these steps here.
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Reprogramming_the_PineTime

After i did these steps nothing is working.

I'm guessing the softdevice version hasent changed because i updated my other watch from just bluetooth and it worked perfectly.  Any thoughts on how to solve this problem.

Could someone who is able to follow discussions on the discord thread for pinenote summarize the current status of progress?

While I am aware of the wiki pages for the pinenote, i'm unsure if they properly reflect the current status of developments.

So a short summary by someone acquainted with the current proceedings would be very appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance!

I've got a Sopine and baseboard and have thought to try making a Playbox. On page 13 there is a picture of an 8000 mAh battery in the installation guide:

http://files.pine64.org/doc/guide/PINE64..._Guide.pdf

I can't find this battery in the store, but there is this:

https://pine64.com/product/lithium-battery-casing/

I suppose it's the same thing, I just have to bring my own 18650s?

I was using an infra-red temperature sensor (MLX90614) connected to a Raspberry PI on which I would ssh from the PinePhone... Not anymore! 
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