Completed my PreOrder Aug 22nd. Any update on when I should receive my pbp?

While updating the built-in Debian+MATE, the update script detected three unexpected files in the /boot filesystem:

• autorun.inf
  
• darfrp.exe
  
• lxrx.pif
  

We began discussing skinning for the PBP in another thread, and I thought it would be best to start a dedicated thread.

I'm going to get with the Pine team to see if they have any assets we can use to make a template for the PBP (and the logo file for those who want to rep their stuff.)

I have a few questions for the community, though, about what you'd like to see.

Would you prefer simpler or more ornate/vivid designs?

Do you prefer a wide or restricted use of colors? (Blacks/greys vs. colors)

Would you like to see skins for:

1. the lid only
2. the lid and palm rest plastic
3. as complete a skin as possible (lid, palm rest, bottom)

EDIT:
Another question I want to ask, so it can also be explored, is there a preference for gloss or matte? I can't guarantee a matte option, but I can look into it if there's enough interest.

I'm going to try and come up with some fun original designs in my spare time, but I want the community to have a chance to suggest the kind of things they want to see and are interested in. (Visual aids are a bonus, since a lot can be lost in translation putting the description of an appearance into words.)

EDIT 2: Unfortunately, the opportunity I had to get press time for these did not come to fruition, and it will take a serious investment on my part to secure a run elsewhere. For now, feel free to use the PDF templates I've shared in this thread to setup and commission your own skins.

Hi,
I've built my own android rom for the pinebook (the /e/ rom pinned) and I'm trying to create a sd2emmc image. I haven't been able to do it so far, I've tried to replace the pinebook.img inside kde neon, so it flashed android instead of kde neon, then it doesn't boot, looking for a partition that doesn't exist so it seems it is a problem of mount of partitions

fdisk: can't open '/dev/block/mmcblk0': No such file or directory

I'm guessing partitions are not in the right place
Any ideas ?

thanks

`lsb_release -a`

Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.11 (stretch)
Release: 9.11
Codename: stretch


`uname -a`

Linux Debian-Desktop 4.4.190 #1 SMP Tue Sep 3 20:36:12 EDT 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux


My wlan0 device automatically goes down, I have to `ip link set wlan0 up`, and reconnect wifi, both 2.4G/5G wifi.

Should I use another kernel?

Based on the November update's comment thread, a PineReader project was abandoned. While the PineTab will help further such a venture ($100 full computing device for reading, right?), I would suggest revisiting the idea when the company CLEARink makes their screens more widely available for projects.

https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/


They are a next generation epaper solution which boasts color and video on epaper ideas. While their displays have a slightly shorter battery life than the epaper we are familiar with, it is still drastically lower than an LCD display. They have also stated before they expect their screens to be cheaper than current epaper technology due to a simplification in the hardware from current epaper tech.

Is there any guidance on this issue, I kind of want to demo it on a video since I got mc to run on my pi. Can the PBP do the same with the correct magical commands?

Regardless of whether I run thunderbird from the launchers or from the command line on my PBP it crashes every time with the following output:

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thunderbird %u
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 3439
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
npallett@Debian-Desktop:~$ Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='ISO-8859-1'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've checked dependencies and even re-installed thunderbird but the error persists

The thunderbird version is 60.9.0

Is there a guide/ explanation of the boot sequence for dummies?

I can see "Image" and "Image.bak" in /boot/. I want to build a custom kernel based on mrfixit2001's code (with changed configuration), but I haven't found out yet to recover as painless as possible when things go south.

Is there a boot menu in u-boot or something?

During the discussion about the upcoming pinebook and phone on hackernews the report of a severe issue with the batch of eMMCs shipped with the A64-LTS came up. Namely that the eMMCs apparently ignore the first read instruction which leads to not being able to boot from the eMMCs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454573

The originial report is on the pine subreddit from a month ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/...from_emmc/

The author added a bunch of information in the HN post, namely that he tried the different images from the etcher fork and not just armbian and

>I then was able to order a usb3->eMMC adapter, and was able to debug the USB and determine my assertions were correct: those eMMC chips ignored the first read operation.

Unfortunately,  I am not familiar with the issue myself, but thought it would be beneficial to collect the information here.

Cheers