SO,
I have a pinePhone Pro Explorer and the keyboard phone holder.
Firstly. Is there an easy or "recommended" method of removing the Phone from the the keyboard holder??? I was forced to use tweezers and twist them and try and wriggle them behind the phone and in front of the screen bit just to get the phone out. It wasn't easy, and the phone now has scratches on it.

Real Newbie question.
What do I do now??
I REALLY wanted this pine phone so I could seamlessly integrate the phone with my desktop. Abilities to sync emails, copy of phone calls, Voice recordings of VoIP calls, copy of sms & mms, and files.
I don't use social media full stop, and have no intention of ever using it. ScoialMedia just sucks the life out of privacy!


How do I go about Testing things? I am half a point higher than a noob with linux to begin with, but I can search and figure things out. I do like a good problem to solve, as long as I know it's a problem.

SO FYI. Ask me to work out how to change something setting on the phone. My Autistic brain will thank you for it.

Will I ever learn. I did a dist-upgrade this evening, immediately lost access to the internet via wifi. So I restarted the PPP and it came back up but still no internet via wifi. 

I tried shutting down and booting instead of just a restart. Now I cannot boot from the SD card with mobian on it at all. Or at least not in the same way I started it up til now. Double press and short hold on the power button normally did the trick but now nothing. 

I just checked to see if it was a coincidental hardware failure but the PPP boots OK from Manjaro/Plasma which came installed on the eMMC.

Anyone else experiencing anything similar?

I have been trying to get the any of the BSP images to boot on the SOEDGE. I made some discoveries along the way I thought I would share. I did not see these posted anywhere else so hopefully this will help someone else.

I could not use rkflashtool on linux. It would not detect the SOEDGE while in maskrom mode. I did not troubleshoot this very far, but I think it's because it USB PID is not what rkflashtool expects. Maybe there are some udev rules that could fix this.

I tried several combinations of drivers and software on Windows 10. I eventually got the BSP image to work with the usb A to A cable.

The Rockchip tools download links in the wiki no longer work at the time I tried them. I did find a version of AndroidTool (RKDevTool) elsewhere that works. The exact version was labeled AndroidTool_Release_v2.71.zip. I used the drivers from DriverAssistant v4.5. I used the links from the Firefly Core-1808-JD4 download page.

With this combination, Androidtool was able to detect the board and flash it with the BSP images in the wiki. If you flash the Factory Test Build by Gamiee and have the touchscreen attached to the baseboard, it will boot up with a splash screen and then load a simple touch interface.

Also, like other have stated, I was not able to get the serial console working. However, adb will work. If you keep AndroidTool open and leave the usb A to A cable plugged in. It will change the detected board status from maskrom to adb after the board boots up. I used the adb_tools.zip for Radxa. With a adb start-server and adb shell, I was greeted with a prompt that was clearly the SOEDGE running.

After reading about the SOEDGE on the forum, I consider this a win as I never thought I would see this thing run code.

Hello,

in the mobian section, there's a thread about overheating and how to edit thermal zone values.
I want to apply lower values to the thermal zones of postmarketos, too.

The current values are:

Hello,

while setting up postmarketos on pinephone I encountered some problems, I don't get along with.

Probably the easier one: I try to access the PP shell via SSH like described on https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/SSH.
The password should be the same like I use for sudo commands, right? But whatever I try, my password is not correct...
And which is the correct folder to put the public key?

Secondly I'm trying to set a default app as video player.
I tried using the xdg-mime command like described on https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Default_applications.
But it says

I use my headphone jack a lot, and I think the connection is getting pretty shaky. When I play VLC on my Mobian phone, it pauses when headphones are inserted or removed from the jack. Nowadays, when I'm walking around, VLC pauses constantly, whenever the jack is even nudged.

It also sometimes misinterprets a volume control command from the headphones when they're jostling around, and my audio will go up to full blast. I'd like to disable both of these features.

Hi this is Palak Sharma,
I am engineering student. I am learning lots of programming language here. I also like doing coding in Python Programming Language. Currently I am working in windows 7, 10 and 11, now I am looking to work in Linux OS, therefore can anyone suggest me some Online Linux Terminal for this.
Waiting for some positive responses. Would be a great support.
Thanks

I read several posts about this issue, but I was unable to make it work. I want to try the factory/most stable OS image that comes preloaded with the latest PBP, along with other OSs.

In Manjaro ARM Flasher, I selected the following:

pbpro-bsp, kde-plasma, factory_22.06, mmcblk1 (SD card)

When I reboot, I press Ctrl+C to bring up the boot selection menu, then choose "Boot from SD". A blinking cursor appears in the top left corner which freezes after awhile, and the power LED will start flickering with green and red color.

I also tried manjaro-arm-installer with minimal install, and it shown the spinning circle below the Manjaro logo, and when pressing Esc, it said something about failed boot and threw me into tty.

Generic image (as offered in Manjaro-ARM download section) shown only a black screen with backlit LCD.



I am a noob here. Can anybody show me how to make "any" PBP approved OS image work via SD, so I can try different OSs?

Thanks in advance!

This article explains the UART Controller for the Allwinner A64 SoC inside PinePhone…

-  Transmit and receive UART Data the Polling Way

-  Also the Interrupt-Driven Way

-  Enabling UART Interrupts

-  Handling UART Interrupts

And how we implemented PinePhone’s UART Driver for Apache NuttX RTOS.

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: UART Driver

I just received my PinePower 120W Desktop PSU. The charging ports work, but the screen seem to turn off and back on every second or two. If this is a software issue, is there any way to access a serial port or upload firmware? If it's a hardware issue, has anyone dealt with this problem?