Hi, I have observed online that Arch on the Pinephone Pro has access to a Software app - faciliting the download of software, similar to the same function on the Mobian OS for Pinephone. However, I have noticed that it is not immediately accessible when Arch is installed.

Could anyone please advise me on the method to find and enable this function (the Software app)?

Thanks.

I just received a Star64 RISC-V board and, after some issues, was able to boot it. Other people may be interested in experience and tricks so I wrote a small article: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/star64-first-boot.html

When I launch Weather from the list of applications, I am prompted to "Search for a city or country". However, I am unable to enter text into the search field that pops up: once I tap any key, both the search field and the on-screen keyboard disappear. Are other people having this problem? How can I get around it? Unfortunately, I cannot plug a USB keyboard into the first-generation version of the Pinephone that I have.

I have tow-boot on my SPI... I previously had Manjaro Plasma on the eMMC (I flashed it on there last year).

I put PostmarketOS on there (thinking it would fix the close lid, won't wake up issue) but has the same problem.

I try to put Manjaro 23/22 back on the eMMC (and SD card) and it is just stuck at the blinking cursor.

Wondering if anyone has dealt with this recently vs. from 2020.

tried 22.06 thinking older may work, this one flashing cursor as well and alternating green/red led

I've been playing with my PinePhone for a couple of months. 
I flashed a few different OSs, and settled on Postmarket/Phosh. 
Well, I hate the backend, so I wanted to switch to Mobian, and back to the Debian environment I'm used to. 

Whelp, instructions on getting tow-boot installed are... wanting. 

I downloaded the pine64-pinea64 tow-boot package to flash. 
There's only one included img, shared.disk-image.img

 I've used the various ways I know of to burn said image to the SD card. 
Nothing seems to do anything, regardless of how I burn the image to the card. 

One piece of info tells me that the phone came pre-installed with tow-boot or the like preinstalled, 
but burning the Mobian install weekly file and attempting to reboot with that in place, just sends me into postmarket. 

HELP!

NemoMobile made progress on the Weather app, Qt *.prf file compilation issues, and device orientation functionality. NemoMobile was also featured in a Lightning talk at the LinuxAppSummit conference.

https://fosstodon.org/@jmlich/110286687938101438

Hi guys,

I'm using Debian from years and years and I'd like to do install it also on my Pine Phone Pro.

I did it but there's Posh desktop and I'd like to use Plasma Mobile, I followed a lot of guides but I'm not able to replace Posh with Plasma!

Should I recompile the kernel?

GabrieleMax

I have an older Pine64 build (2016 from the original Kickstarter.) I have an image for it of Ubuntu 16.04 that functions with a touchscreen (NOTE: Just Ubuntu with KDE desktop. Not Pinephone, or Pinetablet.) the Ubuntu 16 is struggling to install my wireless USB dongle. I honestly have no idea where I got the image. I don't recall configuring it myself. I think I found it as an existing downloadable IMG file. 

QUESTION: Is there an Ubuntu 18 or 20 image for this Pine64, that also works with the touchscreen out of the box? 

Alternative: Or instructions for installing Ubuntu 18/20 including configuring the touchscreen?

Thanks!
 

hi,

What happend to openbsd/krjdev?


any working builds 2023 or any instructions?

thank you

My old Pinebook Pro wouldn't boot (it tried, but reported boot error messages and hung). It has no eMMC in the laptop at all (removed long ago), but I used to boot Manjaro from the SD card.

I flashed Manjaro ARM Generic to the SD. No boot at all (no power lights, no response).

I flashed Tow-boot to the Pinebook's SPI from the SD card. This booted, and the flash was successful.

I flashed Manjaro ARM Generic back to the SD card, but it does not boot. No power light.

I flashed the old Manjaro image for the PBP to the SD card, but that does not boot.

I re-flashed Towboot to the SD card. That boots!

Edit: I ended up using Towboot to erase the SPI, and then reflashed Towboot to the SPI. That gave me the Towboot boot menu. I think we're onto something here!