Can the pinephone be powered without a battery?
02-12-2020, 06:06 PM
(02-12-2020, 05:49 PM)stragulus Wrote: I'd like to be able to power a smartphone device without the battery installed. Is this possible with the pinephone?
Yes, see the wiki. Without any tweaks you are OK but have no modem, wifi or BT.
- ROCKPro64 v2.1 2GB, 16Gb eMMC for rootfs, SX8200Pro 512GB NVMe for /home, HDMI video & sound, Bluetooth keyboard & mouse. Arch (6.2 kernel, Openbox desktop) for general purpose daily PC.
- PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition, daily driver, rk2aw & U-boot on SPI, Arch/SXMO & Arch/phosh on eMMC
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