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I've been running Arch ARM on a PP as my daily driver coming up on nine months.

It's the best OS so far in my opinion, but there are still glitches that I don't mind because I only need it for phone & text. Others appear to have much more difficulty when using all of its "smart" applications (GPS, Web, etc.).

Given that the PP forums seem overwhelmed with what's not working probably due in part to volunteer developers understandably shifting focus to PPP development, I ask that you create a "Genode OS on PinePhone" forum because their main focus is developing a micro kernel that solves for many of these obstacles (battery life!) currently plaguing the PP.

I've tried out the latest test version of Genode OS and it's great. Boots in 10 seconds, the web browser works well, battery life seems improved, and some of the other test features are really promising.

Best of all, one of the Genode developers (@nfeske) is here on the forum and has been really quick to answer questions regarding their pilot OS.

So if you want to breathe life back into the PP, please create this new forum to help us provide feedback to its developers.

Here are related links to their project:

https://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-02-01-mobile-sculpt

https://depot.genode.org/nfeske/image/

https://genode.org/about/road-map

I am trying to install a distribution on my Quartz64 Model-A 8GB, but can't seem to make any work properly. I've been used to armbian for quite a long time, so I wanted to use a headless armbian image. After trying images that I built myself, and images build by balbes150, everything always works correctly but the system does only see 2GB of RAM (using free). However, whenever I install Manjaro instead, free actually shows me the 8GB of RAM (which suggests that it is not a hardware issue). I also tried to install DietPi, but the system would always start in read only mode...

Has anyone run into this issue ?

MMS-Monitor is something I developed to help deal with Verizon's use of 2 APNs and our software's current inability to deal with that. It allows you to have your phone configured for internet use by default but get a notification when a MMS message is pending.   It is not carrier-specific.  It was targeted at mobian but may work on any platform using mmsd-tng and can probably be adapted for others.

The latest version can be dowloaded as a zip file. This is my first Gitlab project and my first time publishing code like this so I hope I've done everything right.

Constructive feedback will be appreciated!

Hello Friends,

I can't add a micro SD card to my pine phone. I've had my pine phone for 2 years and I've just flashed Manjaro Phosh on it and it all works well. Except that I cannot add the SD card to give music via Lollipop. I've tried using both Windows and Ubuntu computers to format the disc, but when I put it in the pine phone it doesn't boot. What am I doing wrong, please?

Chris

I had a fully functional keyboard under Arch/Monjaro w/
linux-image-5.17-sunxi64 using Megi's tutorial, but not having any luck w/
Megi's Debian/Mobian tut using the userland driver and vmlinuz-6.1-sunx64.

The userland driver doesn't seem to do anything, and loading the i2c-dev
module kills the native keyboard support. 'ppkb-i2c-inputd.service' shows up
in '>systemctl status' as enabled, but fails cause it 'can't find /dev/i2c-2
device', wh/ looks like a clue, but I read that those are loaded at boot time
and manually creating one doesn't seem like the solution.

I've also tried 'https://wiki.mobian.org/ppaccessories'.

I read that a fully functional keyboard w/ Debian/Mobian has been achieved
(year+ old reports and maybe a different kernel), yet it eludes me.

Soliciting suggestions/clues.

Hello Friends,

I can't install Manjaro. I loaded the SD card with jumpdrive and then flashed the Manjaro image using Balena Etcher. When it's finished it dosn't get beyond an initial screen of text. What am I doing wrong?

Chris

Seems my accelerometer has died. Has anyone successfully replaced this part that cares to share?

Pine has a datasheet available for the BMA421 (although some post indicate this part may have been changed, my PT is from 10/21)
https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/p...-FL000.pdf

AliExpress seems to have them available for $6.50 shipped, and I'm willing to attempt a repair
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/325680381...IDTyuGcxfT

Although its tempting to just replace the whole unit for under $40 shipped, I'd be more interested in that route if I knew when it failed again I could replace that part.

This video explains how we download and boot Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System on PinePhone...

Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System for PinePhone

Download the video (1.4 GB)

Hi,

I installed PostmarketOS Phosh on eMMC with disk encryption, it worked fine for a month, then it suddenly turned off and says incorrect passphrase when I input it (I made sure I typed the correct passphrase). I charged the phone for a couple hours but still doesn't let me in. What's happening? What went wrong?

Hello

I've just run