Recently the keyboard produced strange sequence of characters so I had to use an externel usb keyboard. I also noticed pb pro only started after I tried to press the power button several times. After a while, my pinebook pro can't start any more - I suspect because the keyboard died and the power button is on the keyboard. I took out  the mainboard to see if I can use it in a project (and use the display panel as a monitor for another computer), but I haven't figured out how to start it. I tried the "Reset" button but it doesn't seem to power on the mainboard. I also tried to press and hold that reset button, and did the same to the other button next to it. Nothing happened.

Is it possible to power on the mainboard without keyboard?

The documentation states that the lower usb port is "USB-C 2.0 + Power Delivery (device mode by default & power input)". Is there a way to put it in host mode and use it as a regular usb port ?
Does it needs a change on the hardware side, the kernel driver (.dts file), a setting file, some command ... ?


The upper usb port is usb3, host mode only. But not all usb3 devices are recognized. Is this the same problem as with the Quartz64 board: "USB 3.0 (applies to Model A only) — only works with very short cables and depends on the device."

Example of device not recognized (hub has usb2, usb3 and ethernet):

Are there any OS which is capable of bluetooth handsfree calls? Nothing works, I use my phone in car and handsfree function is crucial to use a phone as dayly driver. Mobian with Piperwire NOT work at all, with Pulseaudio - it simulate work everiting is OK except it dosent call and there is not audio. Postmarket doesnt work at all with bluetooth handsfree. Another OSes doesnt work with other phone functions. Which OS is WORKING??????

I'm trying to write a temporary installer for a program I'm working on, and none of the .desktop files I have created have shown up on Phosh on Mobian
I've tried:

~/.local/share/applications/
and
/home/mobian/.local/share/applications

as locations for the .desktop files, and it *still* doesn't show up..

I've made desktop files before on Manjaro Phosh, and didn't have any of these struggles, any help would be appreciated, i've been working on this for hooooooours @_@

Hello,
Any general help or understanding what is going on here, much appreciated....

I have the Quartz64-b handy.

( [not really relevant]... I tried installing Manjaro's img and it worked 100pc okay.
Then tried https://github.com/jaredmcneill/quartz64_uefi and finally got it's boot menu showing.  - okay)

I then installed ArchLinux Arm and THAT worked - but the onboard ethernet was down (I suspect it's kernel build re a setting should fix it) 
  -did a full pacman -Syu  (and installed a few pkgs)

-I THEN tried plebian and dietPi OS (on a DIFFERENT sdcard)
 and they BOTH cannot boot now (also the Manjaro), complaining the root filesystem is missing.

Has ArchLinux ARM loaded the onboard eMMC (or NRAM etc) with its own /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf settings?
As -its- root label is 'rootfs' while the others are 'root'

please note: 2 different sdcards, and a clean install of Manjaro / Plebian /DietPi.

Yes, I can provide boot logs, but if anyone knows how to re-flash/re format the onboard eMMC much appreciated.
I cannot see it in /dev, and its not mounted any where

Thank you.

My Pine64 does not boot and I want to install Manjaro on my pinebook 64. What do I need to download from their website and put on my stick? The image?

Okay so I bought a 4 piece lot off eBay and the seller said they replaced the charging board and the keyboard connector broke.

Does anyone know where I can order that, when I search this all I see are 3 different ribbon cables, a white one, a short gold one and a long gold one.

I don't know if these are the right components or if I need some other piece.

Thanks

We’re in the super-early stage of porting Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to the Star64 64-bit RISC-V SBC. (Based on StarFive JH7110 SoC)

In this article we’ll talk about the interesting things that we learnt about RISC-V and Star64 JH7110…

(1) What are RISC-V Privilege Levels
    (And why they make NuttX a little more complicated)

(2) What is NuttX Kernel Mode
    (And how it differs from Flat Mode)

(3) All about JH7110’s UART Registers
    (And how they are different from other 16550 UARTs)

(4) Why (naively) porting NuttX from QEMU to Star64 might become really challenging!
    (Thankfully we have the LiteX Arty-A7 and PolarFire Icicle ports)

https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/privilege.html

So... is anyone selling a proper (fully compatible) serial console cable for the Pinebook pro ?

My impression from reading older threads is that 3.0V is ideal, 3.3V usually works, and 5.0V (which the Pine64 store was selling as PBP compatible) is unreliable.

Have any stores stepped up to sell proper cables for this?

Does everyone just have to solder their own cables together?

I want to experiment with alternative bootloaders and maybe firmwares, and it sounds like a serial console would be essential for when things inevitably go wrong.

I ran top to see what process are running on background and notice fwupd is contantly eating 25% of the cpu:
4136 1 root R 52056 2% 3 25% /usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd

How to fix it? My phone running hotter than usual because of it.