I just got a Pinebook Pro and am trying to use it. It came with absolutely no instructions, so I had to search this forum to find that user/password of root/root enabled me to login.

I now want to create a new user account (don't want to run as root when not necessary), and can not find how to do it.

So, how can I create a new user account? I am using the default OS (Debian, I guess).

Thanks

I fired up my new PBP this morning for the first time. The sound worked at first, but now I have no sound at all. I can't figure out what changed. All of the sound preferences appear to be set correctly.

**Can we please get Screen Protectors  ?

Or at least let us know what phones have the same screens as the Pine Phone.

I would like to have a screen protector already in my procession before my brand new Brave Heart arrives.

Every smart phone I have ever owned has wound up with a broken, cracked, or shattered screen...

Replacing the screen on every one of those would cost more than the purchase price of the phone.

There are Lots of accessories that I 'may' consider,  BUT

a screen protector is Not an accessory, it is a NECESSITY  !

Thank You

Hi guys,

I am searching a good VPN gateway board since some time. Currently I am using a Raspberry Pi 4 but am not really happy with the OpenVPN throughput (approx. 60 MBit/s, but 100 MBits/s connection). I guess this is related to the fact that the Raspberry does not have supported hardware acceleration for openssl/openvpn. I also tried some other boards (like an Odroid) but none of them provided a sufficient performance until now. I read about the ROCK64 and people are claiming that the crypto hardware is used by openssl, is this the case? What performance can I expect if using the board with OpenVPN? Maybe somebody already tested it and can provide some numbers?

Thanks in advance!

Bye

I am having a problem getting bluetooth headphones and speakers to connect using the default OS.  They pair without a problem, but always fail when connecting to audio sink.  The error I receive is "Device added successfully, but failed to connect."  I've tried two sets of headphones and two speakers and get the same error with each one.  Is there a workaround or fix available?

I just installed the 128G module which comes with android 7.1.2 installed on it (not sure why). Anyway, I've been reading through the threads about how the new factory image is available which is great. Here's what happened.

1. booted to the SD but the power light just flashed. Nothing from there. 
2. flipped the onboard switch to disable the eMMC.
3. booted from SD. 
4. flipped the onboard switch to enable the eMMC.
5. looked to see if the eMMC was available but no dice. 
6. rebooted and ended up back at step 1. 
7. Reaching out for help 

While I'm writing this, I'm flashing the latest build to a USB to see if I can go that route. If this proves to be successful, what are the steps I need to take to dd the image to the eMMC? I am a noob but not afraid of the command line.

Thanks in advance.

DHL texts me an says my Pinebook Pro will be here today, Friday the 29th.  The website says it has an "exception". I call them,and they tell me it will be delivered today.  Every time I must deal with the incompetence of DHL my heart sinks and I despair.  Of course it did not come today.  Why would it, I took off work to be able to sign for the package and of course it is not here.  If there was a way to hire an attorney and recoup the losses from DHL, I would do so.  How do theyeven remain in business with the level of incompetence they exhibit???????

Worthless. 

If there was another way to ship pine products, even if much more expensive I would gladly do so.  DHL sucks beyod imagining.

After reading about the various issues on using the SPI flash for U-Boot, it comes down to 2 things;

 - Bricking when you write a new U-Boot that does not work as expected. But does not allow recovery.
 - Writing to the SPI flash reliably

I can't speak to the second issue directly, will have to accept what others have to say.

However, I have some thoughts on fault tolerance for the SPI flash image This is what I came up with;

 - Stage 1 code to select U-Boot image, that has recovery by looking at a special SD card
 - data to select image 1 or 2
 - U-Boot image 1
 - U-Boot image 2

So, under normal conditions, we have an old, working U-Boot, (maybe lacking a feature like NVMe boot), installed in one SPI U-Boot slot. And we want to install a new, less tested image into the second slot. We then run a program to install new U-Boot image and change the boot image selection to newest.

If the new U-Boot image fails in such a way we can't work around the problems easily, we install a SD card that has a special signature our stage 1 code recognizes. If stage 1 sees this, it changes the U-Boot image selection to the other one, (aka old U-Boot image), and proceeds to boot.

We can also have stage 1 look for a second signature on the SD card. If found, boot off the SD card. That way, we have a choice.

Since this is all open source, the exact location and data of these signatures would be well known and documented.


So, that's my solution to the SPI issue where we could "brick" our Pinebook Pros.


Discussion anyone?

Hi,

The current Pinebook pro comes with the option between ISO and ANSI layout, what is great. But it is only QWERTY. 

I understand that makes sense. Other layouts are the exception. And this is not a store. To keep costs low, producing other low volume keyboard layout versions is probably not possible. 

Nevertheless if you are accustomed to a non-Qwerty layout it can be annoying to be forced to use it. Using stickers is an option but not ideally. It never looks great. 

Idea;

Let's take French Azerty.  Take all the keys with the correct printing on them for French Azerty.  And then remove the keys that are identical of the included QWERTY layout.

Sell that bag of extra printed keys as an ad-on to the order.  So ordering a Pinebook pro AZERTY FR is only the default computer + a bag of extra keyboard keys.


And then the buyer can do some puzzling to rearrange the keys. The bag can also contain a tool for removing the keys of the keyboard.

I suspect (hope) a bag of extra lose printed keyboard keys would not be very expensive. This way multiple keyboard layouts could be offert.

Hey,

It seems to me that the GPU isn't used at all on Ubuntu 18.04 on my pbp.
At least powertop reports 100% idle for the GPU even when playing video (in browser and mpv).
Does anyone else have a similar experience?