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  HR monitor shows 000 during jogging
Posted by: pinophone - 11-23-2023, 04:07 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - No Replies

Hi Everybody! I’m new PT happy user! I’m just experiencing problem with heart rate monitor when I starts it for monitor my jogging/exercises! It shows almost always 000 instead of my HR and it’s annoying me because I need to know it to best calibrate my sport activities and because I bought it mainly for it!! Is it happening just to me or it’s a known bug?
It seems that HR monitor is working well just when I don’t move! Don’t know if this info could be important but I thought to write it here!
Thank you


  Rock64 is unreliable after 3 years of service - power problem?
Posted by: ReleaseTheGeese - 11-23-2023, 05:05 AM - Forum: Rock64 Hardware and Accessories - Replies (1)

Greetings all,

I have a Rock64 that I was using to self-host some services (namely Nextcloud).

It was powered on 24/7 for the best part of 3 years. It was connected by my router by ethernet. The only other connection was an external hard drive - the HDD had its own power supply so wouldn't have a high draw from the R64.

Around a year and a half into service, the USB 3.0 port that had the HDD connected stopped working. No matter, I just plugged it into one of the USB 2.0 ports and didn't experience any loss in performance.

Now it seems the whole unit is suffering from something. The ethernet connection shows on my router and I can ping the box, but as soon as I try SSH I am disconnected. I can begin a HTTP request but Apache fails with an internal server error message. When I power it on and view the console output on a monitor, I can login using a keyboard and nothing seems amiss in the OS (Armbian).

That said, if I connect anything to USB after the unit is powered on, it immediately reboots.

Something isn't right here. I suspect power related, but I'm not sure. These problems came all at once.

Would appreciate any help or suggestions.
Thanks, RTG.


  Nethunter default password failed
Posted by: lamlarryyyy - 11-23-2023, 02:48 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

I have installed tow-boot and followed the instruction to flash nethunter pro to the SD card. I can start the phone but i tried to input the password 1234 , it responsed to me that i have inputted a wrong password. please help.


  Various freezes during boot & while running several Linux distros - hardware error?
Posted by: donuts - 11-22-2023, 11:26 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Hi, I bought a Pinebook Pro in august 2022. I never got the Pinebook Pro to work properly. I've tried several Linux distros from different micro SD cards & internal emmc. Sometimes the boot process stuck or some programs (firefox, gnom or the whole desktop) were frozen after some minutes. Lately I have tried to use Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-23.02, kali-linux-2023.3-pinebook-pro-arm64 & Armbian_23.8.1_Pinebook-pro_bookworm_current_6.1.50_cinnamon_desktop without any luck. I flashed Tow-boot.spi (pine64-pinebookPro-2021.10-005.tar.xz) but sometimes it was frozen during boot medium selection. After such a freeze I usually did a soft reset (holding power button for 10 seconds) and then I faced another freeze at a different position.

Since I had some problems with the micro SD reader in the beginning I have often disassembled the back plate and wrote the Linux distro direct to the emmc from my computer. I have lost two screws so could that cause the "random freezes"? I will attach some photos. Maybe I destroyed something in the Pinebook Pro? I will also attach the log directory of my latest Armbian.

Is there anything else I could try or provide for error tracking?

Thanks for your time

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Here is the log directory (/var/log) from armbian: https://file.io/MKmDaAsAACVn


  Firefox Crashes on Start-up (latest installer) & How do I change Default Browser?
Posted by: aLoop100o - 11-22-2023, 04:26 AM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hi, I  installed postmarket/phosh on my pinephone (regular version, not the pro) using the latest stable image (https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/v23....one/phosh/).
Firefox will show that it is loading for roughly 5 seconds, then crash.

Until this gets fixed, how can I make the OS recognize another browser as the default browser?


  google will take control of android in the future.
Posted by: zetabeta - 11-21-2023, 10:17 PM - Forum: General - Replies (22)

google will take control of android in the future.

moderators may not like this topic, which is basically google and android bashing.

i predicted somewhere around that 2021, google will lock android somehow within few years. introducing fuchsiaos kernel, banning bootloader unlocking, using more closed components, changing api in android core and so on. google already has "google play services" and "google play", which are closed components and many android apps are dependent on those.

so i basically, repeat same prediction, open android is gone after few years, maybe 2027.

ungoogled android is still open now, but i predict that ungoogled android is practically gone after few years, android will be like what ios is now.

google/alphabet/youtube is reportedly slowing down youtube (some users report this). google plans to introduce banning ad blockers in chrome (i don't know chromium though), https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/...june-2024/ . these are worrisome developments.

just in case, apple's system are totally controlled by apple. including macs with m-chips.

looking back, maybe i knew more or less few years back, and i went to pinephone train. in short, there's not going to be software and hardware freedom in android.


  SOQuartz NPU
Posted by: stormwyrm - 11-21-2023, 08:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Quartz64 - Replies (1)

I've been wondering about the Neural Processing Unit on the SOQuartz, but can't seem to find any documentation about it from a quick look. What can it do, and what software is available that supports it?


  Error On Initial Setup
Posted by: HankLubowitz - 11-21-2023, 11:37 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

I have made several attempts to set up the system, but I keep encountering an error during the repository update process, causing the initial setup to fail. My internet connection is stable, and I have tried using different high-quality power sources and multiple SD cards. I suspect that the problem lies with the sources.list file. Could any developers investigate this matter, please?

Platform details:
Hardware: Pine64 A64+ 2GB
Operating System: 1.4.1 Openhabian Image


  Errors when start the system
Posted by: kubussz - 11-21-2023, 09:10 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (2)

Hi, when starting the phone these errors appear. How to fix it? (I will add that the system boots and work normally)
   


  broken?
Posted by: legendslayer - 11-21-2023, 01:00 AM - Forum: Pinecil Hardware and Accessories - Replies (2)

Hey, newbie solder here

i bought a pinecil used it once and it was great

i whipped it out a few months later, today, to use it again and it reads low DC on the same setup as before

i tried to switch the power source but now it wont even power up? even on the setup that read low DC

tried different cubes, and cables even the barrel jack with blocks within the voltage range 

i think it smells burnt or maybe it smells like a soldering iron. What gives?