I bought a Pine Phone recently.  I flashed maemo-leste-1.0-arm64-pinephone-20221113 to a microSD card using BalenaEtcher on a cpu running Windows 11.  I put the microSD card into the PinePhone and turned it on.  Maemo-Leste booted okay.  I turned it off.  I turned it on again and Maemo-Leste did not boot completely.  The MicroSD card became unusable on the Pine Phone, but still seemed usable on a windows cpu.  Any thoughts?
There's a little more to it then this (i.e. keyboard, microSD card, trouble I had with Manjaro, many times I reformatted the microSD card, and other images I flashed to it, it's the discontinued$149 2GB/16GB PinePhone ), but there didn't seem to be an initial problem with the boot, only a problem the second time I'd boot and not only with Maemo-Leste, though that was the first one I tried.

Hi,

I would like to install a  standard debian bullseye on my pinephone - no phone like options needed...

I have the Keyboard wich assembles together with the pinephone to a "small sized" laptop, or better palmtop computer so I'd like to use it that way :-)

Taking Mobian and strip everything down is not the route I would prefer to take.


Any hints if someone already did that?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers


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Would pine64 be able to provide custom pinebook pros (remove pinebook logo from super button and with my custom linux os preinstalled) to some of my customers?
(note: this is just a general IDEA and not a real business inquiry in any means, just seeing if it might be possible in 6m-1y)
P.S. The custom linux distro is still in development please don't ask for an iso
P.P.S. If I posted this in the wrong channel I'm sorry, I really didn't know which channel this would fit in

This is the 1000th thread in this channel and my first thread, nothing much else to say!

Does anyone have instructions on how to install the latest Endeavour OS Cassini on the Pbpro. It looks like it's officially supported now.

Hello,

I've been playing with Arch (Phosh) on the Pro for a while now, and kind of like it.

Recently (past week or two) when I try to run "sudo pacman -Syyu" I get a 404 error from mirror.archlinuxarm.org

Anybody have any idea what's going on here?

Thanks

My installation guide starting from a messed up eMMC with a non responsive screen and ending with Debian MATE (and Xfce). The serial cable part can be skipped I think because briefly disabling the eMMC ought to suffice but I'm writing it down anyway.


Have a serial cable so you can use another computer to interact to the PineBook Pro (PBP).


Remove the PBP bottom cover. Make sure you keep the tiny screws in a safe location because they can easily get lost. Make sure the tiny nearly invisible audio/serial lever is switched to serial. Also switch the eMMC using the eMMC lever. The boot loader sucks and will keep booting from the eMMC regardless whether it's broken or not because of the preset boot order. Leave the PBP open because it's pointless to already close it.



Connect the serial cable by plugging the USB part in the PC and the audio jack in the PBP.



Install "minicom" on the PC and fire it up with the following command:

• this way the eMMC can be chosen because the installation installer might choose microSD to install to which will fail.
  

• Choose MMC/SD card #3 (of 62,5 GB)
  

• Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
  
• Write the changes to disks? -> Yes
  

I'm new, point me to the proper thread/forum if this is the wrong place.

I have the Pine64 Beta, running Plasma.  It worked fine up until about 3 days ago when it stopped receiving inbound sms.  I have:

1.  Cleared messages from terminal;
2.  Checked for messages in terminal (none show);
3.  Reflashed 3/11/22 factory image; and
4.  Flashed the most recent Plasma distro.

Nothing.  Outbound sms works and the phone works.

Does anyone know what is going on and how to fix?

Greetings, my first post hire
So i'm planning to connect Bosch tool battery (18V) to Pinecill v2.
The adapter for battery comes with option to use fuse, but ones that are used in cars.
Question is what fuse would be the best one to put hire; like what voltage, amperage? I also heard of quality ceramic fuses...
I'm guessing using one that would brake if 24V or 3.8A is reached (just a guess )

Another question is there to be bought multi-core silicone cable (2 cores) that is same quality as one that Pine64 USB cables are made of,
so temperature heat resistance up to 350°C and super smooth feeling.

Hi,
I'm enjoying the latest Sailfish on my PinePhone. Has anyone managed to get the top row of keyboard fn-keypresses working? i.e. the keys one needs to get common special characters like hyphen, underscore, pipe, backslash, equals, £ and so forth. What does one need to do to make them work?
Any help or advice much appreciated.
Ian
PS Would also be interested in hearing if the camera can be made to work, but am assuming this is still not possible ...