Hi all.

I was having conversations with Pine64's sales team to find out why my shipment was stopped. Then I found the support page is down one day and the sales team stops responding. Maybe that is the cause? Hopefully this thread can notify the pine teams that the page is down and they could get the page working again.

Google and Apple offered today to work together in order to record movement profiles that can track Corona infections. They both want to build this into their systems ("No app needed"). It is all voluntary and for a good cause, of course. Or so they want to make us believe.

Only that Google is already publishing data about how many people are visiting popular parks right now. They do collect this data already and since location services are switched on by default and many people cannot be bothered to switch them off, it should not be assumed that all this data is based on having given active consent:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52243088


If you needed one more compelling reason to ditch them both and get yourself a Pinephone, this must be it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52246319

Hello, I used the emmc installer image to put Manjaro 20.04 on my PBP and was happily setting it up as a system I'd use for many months. I was running out of things to change when the screen started to go blank during use. The PBP runs for about an hour longer until it won't respond to SSH any more. I searched dmesg and journalctl for errors and warnings or things to do with the display, but didn't find anything that looked like a problem to me. This installation is using Gnome, mesa-git, Panfrost, and is using GDM to get Wayland sessions. The problem may have started after switching to GDM and Wayland.

Once this had happened a few times, I realized closing the lid would put something in the journal to show where it happened. Here is the results of 'journalctl -r --no-hostname'. You can see just before I closed the lid, rk_iommu said quite a bit, including page faults And before that Tracker was core dumping, which is all over the journal so doesn't appear to be causing the the blank screen. Does anyone have ideas on tracking the problem down?

I didn't like how I had to switch to numbers or functions to press numbers or the tab key, respectively. So I changed the terminal layout a bit. Numbers are now available at the top and at the bottom are tab and the arrow keys. Switching the view reveals del, escape, home, end, pgup and pgdown. The keys are now a little bit smaller but I think they are still easy enough to hit. I based it off of the German layout and added the F-keys to the umlaut-view.

Only thing missing are the modifier keys. Unfortunately they need a new squeekboard version to properly work.

Just add the file terminal.yaml to the directory ~/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/ (create if necessary) and it should be picked up for the terminal layout.

For the modifier keys (Ctrl and Alt) to work you need at least squeekboard 1.9.1. As of now I think only Debian phosh has that version.

Hello there,

I am making this thread as a request to setup a RetroArch buildbot for the pinebook pro, so we can get can easily get up to date cores (and maybe even push them to the AUR?), while RetroArch is available through the AUR and that a good amount of cores are also available through it, some key ones, like mupen64, paralleln64, MAME, FBAlpha & FBNeo aren't available...

I've spoken with some libretro guys on Discord and they told me that the official buildbot doesn't provide aarch64 cores (probably won't until some time) but proof is they are buildable yet...

I know some are gonna say, "build the cores yourself" but first of all, it's a mess to build RetroArch cores and second of all it takes ages to build some of them, so a build bot would be plenty useful for the community, the pbp has good emulation capabilities annd it'd be a waste to not make them more easily accessible so that the most can use it

Hello everyone,

In the link below you'll find the final draft of the PinePhone Quick Start Manual. This is a manual we are required to include with future PinePhone shipments for regulatory purposes. 

We welcome any language translations, from all corners of the globe, but we are particularly interested in big (population-wise) European languages, such as: French, German and Spanish.

Before doing anything read this first:

• If you're up to the task then I kindly ask you to clearly state (in this thread) that you are going to do a translation and state which language you'll translate to
  
• If someone already said they'll be translating to the language you speak in, perhaps reach out and help them out - split the workload.
  
• Some languages are more expressive than others, but keep the text  as short as possible while still maintaining semantic coherence
  
• Be very cautious with section 2.2 - the translation needs to be as close to the original English text as possible
  
• Please post finished translations here in this thread and @ me so I don't miss it
  
• If you spot some mistake in the English version linked below do let me know - I'll fix it.
  

Attached Files

  USER MANUAL - QUICK START GUIDE 1.2 DRAFT.docx (Size: 211.72 KB / Downloads: 1365)

Hi.

I'm playing with UT image for a few days, and noticed that during incoming call, the phone doesn't ring, it just vibrates.
I doesn't make any sound when you select a ringtone either.
The audio playback works.

IS this a known issue, is it fixable using some sort of script?

The UBPorts gitlab page has "Cellular: Change audio routings" in the "Not working" list, but I don't think it's about ringing.

Another issue is - it only detects an incoming call if the screen is turned on, looks like something is wrong with "suspend" settings

Hi there,
I am willing to use the pinephone for a project needing GPS positionning.

My software will execute on Linux Ubuntu Touch using a GO (golang) binary.

Could you provide reference documentation or explain how I could access the GPS coordinate of the smartphone ?

Thanks for your help

Best

You can use this python script I wrote to import contacts if you have a .vcf file with multiple vcards (the kind you get from exporting google or apple contacts)

Hope it helps you!

https://github.com/pine-clover/Clontacts

I've had an Intel 1 TB SSD sitting here in the box for a few weeks because I haven't decided what to do with it.  I'd like to have at least 2 operating systems on it.

I get that a boot menu (like GRUB) isn't going to work because there's no video until the driver loads.  But what if you load a very minimal Linux partition with the video driver, then write a small boot menu (in C) that boots your choice of OS.  It could be on the eMMC even, the SSD doesn't need to be bootable directly.

Except I don't know what to do in C to boot another partition because I've never done it.  Would I just system() a kernel with a full path and command line options?  Probably not, and what if the kernel isn't Linux, like an OpenBSD one?  system() probably isn't going to like that.