Right after I got my PineTab2 one of the first things I did was to run a sudo pacman -Syu to update the system. But after that I bricked the thing. Luckily it comes with the UART board and I saw that the kernel wasn't working (I think it was not finding it? Don't remember exactly).

I reinstalled the factory image and it's all good. But now I'm afraid of updating the system again. Is updating everything with pacman like this not recommended? Anyone had the same issue or I just got unlucky that time?

I've started developing an app for the Pinephone, my app would be deployed with a flatpak.
My application needs access to system directories to read the device camera.
Doing some testing I've discovered that a native Pinephone application called megapixels doesn't launch if I package it into a flatpak. The error is related to not being able to read a system directory `/sys/firmware/devicetree/base`
In order to diagnose the problem I've run a python terminal inside the container and I've verified that neither `/sys/firmware` nor `/dev/video*` are visible from within the container:

I am new to the community, but I wanted to ask if their was any interest or plans for higher power versions in the PinePowers family, 100 watts or even higher in PD3.1 EPR range. I mostly was thinking about this due to frameworks new laptop seemingly being first to possibly use the full 240 watts of the PD EPR range, but only are shipping with a 180 watt adaptor planned right now. Are their any 240 watt PD 3.1 chip IC's out their as the cables have caught up at least.

Hello!

I'm experimenting on running sway on PineTab2. My idea would be to use it together with the keyboard attached and sometime detach to read or doing stuff that are not keyboard heavy.

I managed to rotate the screen to landscape mode manually by running:
$ swaymsg output DSI-1 transform 90

This is fine, except that if I try to use the touchscreen it seems like the touch gestures "didn't rotate" together with the screen, i.e., I need to swipe left and right in order to scroll up and down when I'm reading a text.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? What is the KDE WM doing besides just rotating the output to match the gestures?

Hello, I used arch with FDE in the past with this script https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/ar...-installer
I used to work fine, but I tested a few months ago and could not install anymore, is it working again now?
Another question, how is the support of tow-boot in arch+pinephone?

Just installed. Has internet, but no audio. Did full update. Restarted. No audio through headphones or the internal speaker. What do?

Was curious if there's anyway to reflash the chip inside the pinephone? Even if it's stock, I would like to go through the process of reflashing this chip. Even better if there are updates from sunxi.

I saw this: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...4+firmware

Which points to here:

https://linux-sunxi.org/Pine64#Boot_sequence
https://linux-sunxi.org/BROM#A64

So I'm assuming I can use FEL somehow?

Where do I download the firmware hopefully with a hash to check integrity and what's the process to reflash it?

And a question about Pinephone PRO. It has SPI flash? Does that mean there is no BROM in the allwinner chip? Or is the same, and just boots from SPI instead of emmc?

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I want to be able to run kali off of the pinebook pro as needed via the SD card. I followed the Pinebook Pro installation instructions here: https://www.kali.org/docs/arm/pinebook/

* Download and validate the kali linux image
* flash the kali-linux-2023.2-pinebook-pro-arm64.img file to the SD card (note, no errors or issues took place on flashing the SD card)
* insert the SD card to the pinebook pro
* start the machine

From here, I'll see what appears to be the boot process loading which is a wall of text. Note that I saw several "FAILED" "Failed to start ssh.service - OpenBSD SecureShell error, etc.

kali-pinebook-pro login: 
password:

After the booting process stops, I am dropped into a CLI login screen. I attempt to use the kali login defaults e.g. username: kali and password kali which shows as invalid. Does anyone have the default login and password or can we determine if I did something horribly wrong?



Thank you!

Iv'e got my pine tab 2 to boot once again and the only thing it says is [    0.000000] clk: failed to reparent gpll to clk_rtc32k_frac: -22 it repeats this line 1 more time and below both lines I get a flashing cursor  does anybody out there know what it means? and what do I need to do to get it run again? please thisis driving me nuts pine64 insists that the community will help please!

Hi
As a new raspberry->pine64 I'm lost in all model options and I find it confusing.
I think a comparison sheet would/table would bring benefit to all buyers to see which on is the most modern which on lack what.

For QUARTZ64 Model-B I found info it can handle 3-pin li-po charging with temp. sensing.

The page for Model-B does not mention it.
So does it mean it's gone in model B?