04-23-2025, 02:11 AM
(04-22-2025, 09:35 PM)katyperry Wrote:(04-22-2025, 03:10 AM)HHawks Wrote: Hello everyone, I have been having an issue with the PinePhone. It sometimes randomly freezes (the screen is unresponsive, but the phones still works) and then after 10 seconds, it forcibly reboots and makes a clicking/popping sound (same sound when the camera starts up). The phone seems to be still working as I have been in a call when that happened.The clicking sound you hear is quite distinctive and often associated with the camera module being powered up. There may be an underlying power management issue that's causing the system to momentarily lose stability, triggering the camera power-up sequence right before the forced reboot. This could be related to the battery, power delivery circuitry, or even a kernel-level power management setting.
However, the logs don't get saved after the force reboot, so I don't know what's causing the issue. Does anyone have any idea what the issue may be?
Crazy Cattle 3D
Yeah, I think it may be a battery issue (or the system has an issue communicating with the battery.) The freezing happens mostly when it is charging, it happened once that it was charging the phone and on 94% and it froze and force reboot itself. Afterwards I have left it plugged into the computer to see if the issue is with the power brick and the it froze and rebooted itself again.
That doesn't happen when it is in sleep or shut down and charging at the same time. It may be a good idea to calibrate the battery, discharging it completely and then charging it with JumpDrive.
Either way, I will try to boot PostmarketOS with systemd (or some other distro with systemd) to hopefully get logs of the freezing, as the current method doesn't work.