Hello all:

Please let me know the most recent Mobian image or Mobian installer image which you personally know works on the PP!

I'm having trouble getting a fresh install of Mobian to boot. I've used the Mobian image from 12/28 AND the Mobian installer image from that same date. I'm trying to troubleshoot where the problem lies; could it be with my install of tow-boot? The images from that date? Hardware? To isolate these effects and diagnose the problem, I'd like to use an image which is known to work. Thank you; you're really helping me out!

Some additional info:
I have reason to believe tow-boot was installed correctly: I installed the 2021/10-005 installer of tow-boot to an SD card and used the tow-boot installation GUI to flash it to the eMMC boot partition. Since then, the power on, volume up, and volume down behavior and LED lights has been consistent with tow-boot's docs, suggesting that tow-boot is functioning correctly.
I followed the instructions and didn't make any of the following obvious errors: I verified the sha256 checksums of all images. I unzipped them before dd'ing them. I flashed the right image to the right medium: Mobian image to eMMC via tow-boot's jumpdrive mode, Mobian installer image to SD card. Please do not post a link to the tow-boot or Mobian installation instructions. If you don't trust that I was following those, why bother responding at all?
The order of events is as follows: I try to boot from eMMC, and the LED stays yellow. Nothing ever displays on the screen. I try to boot from the SD card, and the LED stays cyan. Nothing ever displays on the screen. These behaviors are different if there is no SD card, or if the eMMC has been erased: Then it vibes and blinks red. So the phone is recognizing in some manner that the images are bootable in some way, it just never displays anything on the screen of the phone.

I have a 2022 (July?) Pinebook pro.

I installed the latest Tow-Boot on the SPI, that works, but won't boot the eMMC, SD card booting works, haven't tried NVME.

The current Tow-Boot is based on the 2021.10 u-boot, so I think the problems are common to both.

I also successfully re-built Tow-Boot myself, and was able to add a patch with some debugging statements.

The problem seems to start when Tow-Boot tries to read multiple blocks off the eMMC, and the eMMC returns timeout in response to the stop transmission command that is supposed to close off the read command, in u-boot file drivers/mmc/mmc.c / mmc_read_blocks:

My (patched) version

I've been testing Mobian Phosh on my Pinephone a64.

• I am using the unstable repositories. - Debian GNU/Linux bookwork/sid
  
• Gnome Version 43
  
• phosh 0.23.0
  
• Contacts 43.0
  
• Calendar 43.1
  

• I have entered the server address, user name, and user password in the Online accounts section of the Settings App.
  
• I have Calendar, Contacts, and Files enabled in the Online accounts > Nextcloud section of the Settings App.
  

The store listing says Ox64 boards are coming in January. Is there some more specific info? Is it the beginning of the month? The end? Will there be lots so anyone can get it, or just few dozen? Is there some sort of "waiting list" one can sign up to not to miss it? 

I would like to get my hands on a couple, but I missed the initial sale and ever since they aren't available. 

I also have a question about continued availability, is pine64 planning to manufacture a lot of them? I would like to avoid a situation where I do manage to get one or two, I spend ages on developing the software. Then I can't get any more (at all or for the original price) so all the software dev time is pretty much wasted.

I purchased my PBP in late 2019, and I've generally been happy with the physical build quality -- up till last week, when the bottom plate fell off.  No joke. Every single one of the plastic mounts that hold the captive nuts that the bottom plate screws screw into, has shattered.

           

Here's what came away with the bottom plate:

   

Thankfully, the PINE64 store will sell me a replacement for the damaged piece of the chassis (aka "PALM CASE WITH [variety] KEYBOARD") but I wanted to know if anyone else has seen this particular failure mode.  I'm a little nervous that the exact same thing will happen in another three years

Hello all!

I've been fiddling with the PP on and off since September 2020, and all in all it's been a great learning experience. Very empowering for folks like me who like to imagine a better way for smartphones to be.

I've found that what was holding back my use of the PP for a daily driver was a lack of a smart-wake. I had to choose between poor battery life (handset on, not suspended) or no notifications (suspended). I am aware that the phone can wake from suspend upon incoming call or text, a feature called crust. This is great but, as of the last time I checked, did not work for arbitrary push notifications such as emails, chats, or timers. 

In summer of 2021 I hacked together a solution which wakes the PP up for one minute out of every 15 or so to check for notifications. It works fine (really saves on battery), but isn't well-integrated or well-supported. Here's the thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14564

So, do we have this feature yet? Last time I was actively following development was around 7 months ago.

Thanks all!

I'm not a heavy user of my PineBook Pro, but I turned it on today and it boots, displays a login screen, and then turns itself off within a minute.

The battery should be full, although the machine doesn't stay up long enough to actually log in and check things.

Any ideas on (a) what went wrong, and (b) how to recover?

Thanks,
Eric

Are there any plans to develop a CM4 module based on T-Head TH1520 RISC-V 

https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a

Apache NuttX RTOS now boots on PinePhone and renders a Test Pattern!

Let’s find out what’s inside our NuttX Kernel Driver for PinePhone’s LCD Panel…

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: LCD Panel

Could never get it working despite all the forum posts and tutorials and manuals and experimenting plus many frustrating hours trying to get useful software installed. Manjaro is a PIG and unresolved dependencies are the order of the day for anything useful.

Make me an offer. I can't boot to anything to clean the storage for you. It is completely and totally AS-IS.
I had it open but the so-called emmc enable is not a switch on this unit but merely a blank square sticking out of the PC board. No slide, no toggle, just bare white surface. This is entirely useless to me but may provide spare parts for someone more clever than a career electrical engineer and software architect. I can't use this.

BUT ALL MY PIXELS WORK!!!