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  MMS message being displayed delayed
Posted by: car46999 - 09-12-2023, 10:42 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Behavior is that SMS works great, when the phone is in suspend it shows I get a message and I can go see that message. No SMS issues.
In a MMS (group text) pretty much all the time as best as I can tell (very easy to reproduce/test), the following happens:

If the phone is in suspend it wakes, but no message is shown in the notification area of the locked screen. No message is in chatty.
If the phone is un-locked the back light dims when the message is "received". No message is in chatty.
The message will seemingly show up at a random time, and often multiple messages come in at the same time. Often out of order but with the correct time of receipt. 



If I kill mmsdtng and run it in a terminal, when a message is received there are 8 lines of text that describes the message (Body length, MMS transaction ID, MMS version, etc).
Then an error "Failed to get data (http status =404), 
error "POST m.notify.resp.ind failed with a status 404, 
These two errors repeat several times
and error g_uri_parse: assertion 'uri_string != NULL' failed



Things I have tried:
Reinstalling chatty from the software center.
Forcibly killing chatty and restarting it.
MMS proxy port number with and without
Checked to see if ForceCAres=true in ~/.mms/modemmanager/mms
Tried setting ForceCAres=false

Phone info:
Pinephone with Postmarketos 20230710-0752-postmarketOS-v23.06-phosh-22.2-pine64-pinephone running chatty version 0.7.2 and mmsd-tng version 2.3.0.



I have my APN settings set in chatty for Puretalk as

MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net

APN: RESELLER
MMS Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net  ( I have tried it both with and without the PORT # 80 at the end)


I think I may have found the problem, but I do not know how it happened.

There were 18 messages in ~/.mms/modemmanager/. Sending a new message added one more.
Some of these dated back to July.

I deleted all of them and it appears that for now the messages are received and processed and then deleted out of ~/.mms/modemmanager/ .


So now my question would be what caused this?


  Crashes when trasferring large folders
Posted by: x_x - 09-11-2023, 12:30 PM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - Replies (7)

Hey! Since I have gotten my RockPro64 to use as a NAS, I have constantly experienced crashes when transferring large folders (mostly game files). A particular example which always causes crashes is my modded ARK install, spanning 160GB in 110000 files and 8000 folders.

When transferring said folder over rsync, both local or over the network, one of the next cases appears about 2-10 GB into the download:

  • rsync crashes and the download stops (this sometimes shows a message in the kmsg about hung processes)
  • the kernel throws an "Oops", which seems to be always different although I do not have the skills to debug it
  • the kernel just panics
  • the entire system just freezes up, with no panic or other indication visible on my HDMI monitor
  • the entire system just resets

When trying to rule down the problem, I found out that
  • it's not a filesystem problem, it occurs on  btrfs, ext4, zfs on linux and zfs on freebsd
  • it's not a hard drive problem, I tested two HDDs and one SSD
  • it's not a SATA controller problem, it occurs both on my PCIe card and on a USB adapter
  • it's not a network card problem, running iperf for long periods of time is fine
  • it's probably not a ram problem, I ran `memtest` with the highest value I could give it and I ran a MemTest86 test
  • it's not a linux distro (I was using Debian 11 and 12) problem or a linux kernel problem, the issues occur in a similar manner on FreeBSD
  • it's not a problem with my laptop's hard drive (or with the files, whatever that may be), I can transfer the folder onto different x86 machines

The issue mostly appears when transferring computer games. The ARK folder never completed transferring, but some smaller (20-40GB) games did (although inconsistently) when transferred at lower speeds, e.g. over the network or to/from an HDD. I also tried to tar the folder, both on my laptop before transferring over the network, and locally when plugging the drive to the rockpro64. The system still experienced crashes.
Interestingly, I also tried sending my laptops /dev/urandom over netcat to the NAS, which never crashed it, not even after reaching the 100GB mark and at high speeds.

Now, half a year after trying to use my rockpro64 as a NAS, I am truly clueless about the nature of this problem. I really don't know what to try to diagnose next.
Below you can find journald entries of the kernel oopses and hung processes. I don't seem to be able to upload pictures of FreeBSD kernel panics due to image size.
I hope that someone has a clue about what may be going on on my system.

Journal log


  What's the MAX RAM you can install to PineTab2?
Posted by: Ptab2newb - 09-11-2023, 06:17 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - Replies (2)

What's the MAX RAM you can install to PineTab2?


  gnome-control-center: segmentation fault on startup
Posted by: jojuma - 09-11-2023, 02:05 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Since an update within the last three days, I can't open the Settings app (gnome-control-center) any more.
It quits returning a segmentation fault. I reinstalled gnome-control-center,itself and the packages it depends on.

Still segmentation fault on startup.

Is there anything I can do about that but reinstalling the whole OS?
I had that problem already some time ago and I could only help myself by setting up the whole system again. I'd like to avoid that...

Thanks!


  Imroved Backlight Brightness Levels
Posted by: m3henry - 09-10-2023, 07:51 PM - Forum: PineTab Hardware - No Replies

I was poking around in the device tree this evening and I noticed the PWM values for the backlight aren't the full range. With this patch, the screen is more comfortable to use at night.

You'll need to follow the instructions in section 1.3 & 1.4 of the WiFi driver guide. If you've already got your WiFi driver working, just apply the patch, recompile and update the DTB.



Attached Files
.txt   pinetab2-Use-better-brightness-PWM-ramp.patch.txt (Size: 2.67 KB / Downloads: 287)

  PPP as a PDA.
Posted by: DaForest - 09-10-2023, 05:30 PM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (15)

I  am using my PPP as a PDA and it works fantastic with Arch Linux Phosh. I shut off the modem and the device is as cool as ever. Never overheats even while on wifi. At present with mild usage through the day I'm in the 8th hour of usage and the battery reads 87% remaining. I'm guessing that the PPP could go around 12 hours of use depending on usage type. 
F.Y.I.


  Star64 JH7110 (slarm64, riscv64)
Posted by: mara - 09-09-2023, 06:45 PM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (2)

Added support for StarFive JH7110 (VisionFive 2), you can try the images. The Star64 board cannot be delivered now, so there is no way to test it.

Release information.

Added support for Star64 and PineTabV


Photo Mobian with X11 without Wayland and Phosh.
Posted by: Manieck71 - 09-09-2023, 07:35 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - No Replies

Hello

I have quite a big challenge (for me).

Well, a few years ago I wrote an application in Python and TKinter. It ran without issue on a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ under an X11 display server.
I set it to run on startup and take up the full screen.
The user did not have access to the installed system and could not close my application.
I created an interface for WiFi, sound, system shutdown, etc. All settings were in my application.
Nothing could be installed or uninstalled. This is how it was supposed to be. Just my app.

Now I would like to transfer all this to PinePhone.
I added XWayland, all the necessary libraries and finally the application started.

It works fine, but there is one big problem.
Full screen not working properly. The two bars in Phosh (bottom and top) are still visible.
A user can go into the system and kill my application, add another one of their own, etc.
This is undesirable for this application.

And now the questions:

How do I disable these two system bars at the top and bottom?
If this can't be done, how do I install a clean Mobian/Debian and X11 server so that I can run my application?
I hope it runs and she's the only one on screen.
How do I run my application on device startup?

I am asking for help because I am a beginner in Linux and PinePhone.


  Rockpro64 disappointment
Posted by: Paulius - 09-07-2023, 04:00 PM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (2)

After wasting countless hours  trying different OS variants for the RockPro64, it's clear that, for someone without a coding background, the process of installing and using a stable or fully functional Linux version is a nightmare! It's mind-boggling how needlessly and frustrating this task is, especially in this day and age when user-friendliness should be a basic expectation. It's an absolute disappointment and a source of pure frustration! 
 I'm sorry for expressing this, but I felt the need to share it before I throw mine in the trash.


  dd'ed Mobian, bricked?
Posted by: GloriousCoffee - 09-07-2023, 01:13 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTab - Replies (9)

I tried to dd the Mobian image as I've done with Rhino to the internal flash of the Pinetab Pro.

After this the tab doesn't seem to start anymore. It didn't boot from the emmc, nor will it boot from SD.

What should I do to get things up and running again?