i can't seem to find any information about the boot/bios 
mainly what key to press at boot to enter the bios
but also if there is a "factory restore" image that i can easily flash
and if not how would i go about doing a "factory restore"?

Hello to all

I have a Rock64 2GB and I need Real VNC server on it.
My installation is Armbian Debian Stretch Desktop [microSD / eMMC Boot] [5.90].
Is the Real VNC Deb x64 package ok?
How can I install and configure Real VNC headless, just over SSH?

Thank you!

*  I do not see any Ubuntu Touch OS mentioned is the OS choices,
  I would have thought it would be in the top 5 or so.  ?
   The list appears to be closed  ?

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Posted from my New PBP

I am a big fan, of Pine, and there efforts...   As one of the Braveheart's customers, and a recent (1 year and counting) convert to Linux (Arch/KDE) I have tried various device combinations in the effort to  get to a  place  where the  Phone is the enabler to the Laptop equivalent experience.   so playing with Samsung's Dex efforts,  and Asus's ZenPhone / laptop like dock etc.    though none of those really had the software to make the  hardware work in the right alignment.

The Pine Phone on the other hand has the exact right hardware alignment to be a  plugin to a PineTab like case, which would give a portable slate with keyboard experience,  or maybe even a Pinebook Shell that the phone plugs into to provide a Laptop experience.

These would be considered accessories,  so they are dumb devices without say the phone or other Pine SoC board (with adapter board for common insertion).

The key is that it needs to insert into the shell of the device, unlike the Nexdock2 etc,  if not inserted into, maybe a recess that the phone has a magnetic case that locks into position etc this method would provide better long term support.

The Dock essentially would provide  the Screen, Typing and Battery extension aspects.

So I'm still running Bionic-Mate on my PBP off SD. 

Last night I noticed there was a red icon in the top menu bar (or whatever it's called) that said something about not being able to run updates (it wouldn't let me cut and paste what it read).  I ignored it because I was busy using the PBP for other things, and did not want to risk breaking anything.  Then it went away on its own. 

This afternoon I ran the updater.  After the update, I had two WiFi indicator icons.  So I tried to remove one.  Unfortunately, it also removed the battery indicator.  After restarting the computer, I now have zero WiFi indicator icons.  I also do not have a battery or sound indicator.  It still shows processor speed, "EN" (for an English keyboard), weather, and date & time.

How do I get the missing menu items back?

Hi,

after some initial shipment problems, I finally managed to assemble my NAS setup:

RockPro64 4GB
2x 4TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5" HDD
PCI-e to Dual SATA-II Interface Card
NAS case with fan and Pine64 power supply (5A)

I successfully installed ayufans openmediavault builds (version 0.9.14, tried both armhf and arm64), updated all packages using the web OMV web frontend, enabled SSH access and configured email notifications and SMART monitoring. Then I tried to configure a mdadm RAID1 via the OMV web frontend. During the sync process, at varying times (0.4%, 6%, ...), the setup crashes: timeouts when accessing the web interface, SSH connection not possible/hangs after entering the password, ICMP ping sometimes works, sometimes doesn't (I tried multiple times). Only a reboot reset (power cycle) helps, after which the RAID is in "sync pending" state. I really don't know what to try anymore.

Does anyone know what could be the problem? Could it maybe be the power supply? According to Seagate specs, each disk consumes max. 1.6A. How could I debug the issue? What log files should I look at?

Thanks

Hi all, I've ordered a BraveHeart and am looking forward to playing around with it.  I'd be interested in creating some simple apps for it and wanted to get people's opinions on what language people will probably use to create apps for the PinePhone.  Most of my programming is done in Python but I wonder if many people will consider Python to be too resource-intensive for a fairly small and low-spec machine like the PinePhone, perhaps going instead for something more minimalist like Lua or even C++ would be more appropriate.

What are people's thoughts on this?  If you are planning on creating apps for the PinePhone, what language would you likely use?  I know there will be the option to use different languages and that the most appropriate language will probably depend to an extent on the OS that is ultimately chosen, but I would like to hear if people think some languages are inherently better suited to the task than others.

Anyone else want a Pinebook Pro spare parts kit?

Here is my current list, in priority order;

- Bottom case screws, at least 1 each of short & long
- Rear hinge spacers, 2
- CPU thermal pad
- Laptop disassembly kit, plastic pry tool(s)

And potentially a miniature precision screw driver

I already have the last 2, laptop tools and various screw drivers. But, I can see where someone else would want / need them. Plus, it makes a dedicated kit for the Pinebook Pro. (I once had a laptop SSD failure while traveling. Could not repair because I did not have the parts and tools with me.)

This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

Hi,

I've had a quick search of the forums but can't find anything on this topic, so I thought I'd make a new post to see if anyone else has this issue.

Ever since new, I've noticed that my PBP makes a high pitch whine when powered on. It kind of sounds electrical. I don't know what it's coming from, but I don't think it's the speakers. The noise seems to decrease in pitch slightly when the power cable is unplugged. Is this normal?

Ben