10-30-2025, 03:49 AM
(10-29-2025, 10:38 PM)teekay Wrote: I think it is a kernel regression, I too get the crash on suspend sometimes (and others have mentioned it in the chat). The phone gets a bit hot and does not wake up, requiring a hard reboot. This has definitely made it that I cannot daily the phone anymore. I might try going back to an earlier kernel version to see if it becomes stable again.
Sadly the problem is hardware related see this thread with picture
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=20046
The problem seems to be that the RF shield, which covers some ICs above the square modem/CPU RF shield to the left of where Pinephonepro is silkscreened on the PCB, came loose and I dont think it can be fixed. I ordered a replacement system board but I wish the soldering on this one had been done properly.
It also resultsin needing a good slap to get the Pinephone to boot as I assume it does something to the circuit through the RF shield to the solder. In any case I have the RF shield shimmed down with a paper spacer and that is not enough to fix the issue.
I respect that Pine64 is providing us some very specialized hardware at an amazing price to a very niche purist market, they and Librem are driving the real fully private phone revolution alone.
You cant do real privacy on hardware based on a hacked/subverted android boot process or a system which shares RAM between the CPU and the modem's CPU and OS.