I cracked my (original) Pinephone screen and got a replacement. Installation seemed ok, and I snapped the back frame on and put in the battery to make sure everything was ok. Booted, unlocked, logged in, great.

So I replaced the 15 screws and snapped the back cover on for more testing, and after a short while, the screen wouldn't wake up. I plugged it in to my computer USB, and the pinephone was recognized, so it's running, motherboard working, daughterboard working, just no display. I assumed I made a bad connection and disassembled and detached, cleaned, and re-attached the display cable. Snapped the back frame back on and put in the battery and all was fine.

Again, I replaced the screws and rechecked. Now the screen doesn't seem to unlock. On a very close look, it seems the backlight comes on but the display itself isn't responding.

Repeating the process, everything seems to work, including the display, until I install the back frame screws. WTH am I doing wrong here? I don't think I'm over-tightening the screws -- I don't even know why that would be a problem.

What's going on here? Why does the screen work until I screw down the back frame? What do I need to do to get my phone up and running while fully assembled?

Ideas? Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I was recently able to overclock my Pinetab 2 on both Danctnix and UBports (also posted a guide on the UBPorts forum), so I figured I'd also share a guide here on how to do this on Danctnix/arch ARM. I was able to get mine to run stably at 2GHZ, which is about an 11% overclock over the stock 1.8ghz. I did overvolt mine slightly just to ensure stability, although it worked without the overvolt as well. I'll provide both configurations here, you may decide which one you are more comfortable with.

Firstly, we must convert the DTB files to DTS files so that we can edit them. The Pinetab 2 actually has two DTB files that we will need to edit. Technically, only one of these is loaded by the bootloader, but it can be difficult to tell which one is loaded after bootup (the bootloader takes care of this transparently from the kernel, so Linux itself is unaware of which file was actually loaded). We will edit both just to be sure. (As always, it’s a good idea to create a backup of your /boot folder before editing these. If you botch the overclock, having a backup will make it much easier to restore your old settings. )

To convert these, run the following (ignore the warnings spit out by the device tree compiler):

• cd /boot/dtbs/rockchip
  
• sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts rk3566-pinetab2v0.1.dtb -o rk3566-pinetab2-v0.1.dts
  
• sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts rk3566-pinetab2-v2.0.dtb -o rk3566-pinetab2-v2.0.dts
  

Quote:opp-2000000000 {
opp-hz = <0x00 0x77359400>;
opp-microvolt = <0x100590 0x100590 0x118c30>;
};

Quote:opp-2000000000 {
opp-hz = <0x00 0x77359400>;
opp-microvolt = <0x10C8E0 0x10C8E0 0x124F80>;
};

• sudo dtc -I dts -O dtb rk3566-pinetab2-v0.1.dts -o rk3566-pinetab2-v0.1.dtb
  
•  sudo dtc -I dts -O dtb rk3566-pinetab2-v2.0.dts -o rk3566-pinetab2-v2.0.dtb
  

• sudo watch -n 2 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
  

Hello Friends!
Can you help me? I bought the PinePhone pro, updated it, but now  it won't turn on. I can't new OS, because pinePhone don't see SD card

hi!

After 4 years of use, the battery of my PineBook Pro is really swollen, I should change it soon~ish.

Currently, it seems out of stock on the official store, and the European store doesn't even sell spare batteries.

So: has anyone had success procuring batteries elsewhere?

Hi everyone,

I remember once upon a time it was mentioned that there would be a battery case for the Pinephone /Pinephone pro; seeing the current state of things, I would say that the project has been scraped. Any chance to know why? I don't think it would be expensive to manufacture such a thing for Pine64, and seeing the issues with the battery life of the PPP it would be highly appreciated (if it doesn't add a crazy thickness to the phone, of course).

Cheers

Manjaro: Settings doesn't open it just stays at the splash screen.

Is there a way to rearrange your desktop?  Add folders?

Is there a way to set suspend on ram, like what purism did to the L5? It seems to improve battery life a lot.

Hi,

got my Pinebook Pro few days ago, so complete newbie with Arm64 & Co (including ArchLinux/Manjaro, I'm more of a Fedora user normally).

Anyway, connection over Wifi to my network works (ping etc), but anything slightly heavy (loading a webpage in Firefox or calling pacman to refresh the cache or install a package) leads after a very little while (less than a minute for sure) to a complete breakdown of the whole network, not only for the PBP, but also for any other device, even connected to the LAN or another Wifi.

I had "Enabled Smart Connect - Let the router intelligently select the best 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz WiFi band for your WiFi connections. Smart Connect requires that the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi networks use the same WiFi network name (SSID), security options, and password." Having read about issues with the 2.4GHz band at https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo...h_and_WiFi I've switched off this option and give a specific name to the 5GHz network, and started only using this one. BUT this didn't make any difference and I'm a bit at the end of my ideas what I can do.

Perhaps important, the Wifi router is a Nighthawk® X4S R7800 running in AP Mode against another router (TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1 with OpenWrt 22.03.3 r20028-43d71ad93e / LuCI openwrt-22.03 branch git-22.361.69894-438c598), which is used since years without any issue.

Thanks, Eric

new pinephone regular model with nano-sim slot.

this is a small proposal, but i think it is not a huge change anyway. micro-sim slots starting to be an unnecessary inconvenience.

alternately, newer phones could be nano-sim only.