PinePhone

I'm interested in a 4th iteration but also finding a fix to the IP5209 blowout

I wonder if its just too small of a package, but its not using all of the features so that can't be it

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The first one lasted 4 months so I couldn't RMA it. I removed the battery and cut the appropriate traces to stop powering the chip. It was also discovered it could partially power itself over the i2c lines. Channel history has some chat about it in May 2022. The second one that lasted 4 days I didn't get out of the package for over a month from coming in the mail (It was a present) so I couldn't RMA that one either. I finally got a new motherboard for that one a few months ago but haven't worked on it yet. The battery is more than likely toast if it's been @ 3V or less for a year.

[I] <g​narface> so, does the keyboard case actually send keysyms through the pogo pin interface too?

[I] <g​narface> as in it's 100% i2c or whatever, or is there also some sort of usb connection?

[I] <g​narface> (i don't actually have to know, just curious about implementation details)

[D] <A​rya> no chance at usb, so, yes, i2c

[D] <m​ungfusensei> So I dove off the deep end and bought a lora cover for my pinephone. The end goal is to see if I can mess around w/ reticulum on it, but for now, I need the very basics. How can I determine if I have the proper driver/kernel module, see if it's properly recognized by the OS, etc? Just "yes, I see that this thing is connected and exists" kinda stuff.

[D] <m​ungfusensei> I had a wireless charging cover way back and the pogo pin connection was a bit iffy on that, so being able to just see that it's connected to the phone will be the first victory.

[I] <g​narface> did you check dmesg?

[I] <g​narface> (i don't actually know but that's usually where i look first)

[D] <m​ungfusensei> Looking through there, I can see gpiochip0 and gpiochip1, but no sx126x stuff

[I] <g​narface> i can't tell you what that means, but stick around, i'm sure someone around here knows

[D] <m​ungfusensei> I did find https://codeberg.org/JF002/pinedio-lora-driver in the lora channel, futzing around trying to get that to compile

[I] <g​narface> what distro you using?

[I] <g​narface> if it's something debian based i might be able to help with module-building basics

[D] <m​ungfusensei> I'm on pmOS (sorry, nura or whatever), running into issues with the cmake portion where apparently it doesn't like my /usr/bin/cc (maybe a musl thing?)

[I] <g​narface> oh, sorry don't know much about pmos other than that "maybe it's a musl thing" is a good guess

[D] <m​ungfusensei> it's ok, I will use the caveman solution of installing random packages that have some chance of being related until the problem is solved

[I] <g​narface> they might have their own support channel somewhere they can help with this, but also this channel here is slow and if you wait around long enough someone here might help later too

[D] <g​ary3041> They are on Matrix/irc

[D] <g​ary3041> https://app.element.io/#/room/#main:postmarketos.org