Hey,

So I purchased a pinebook pro to start messing around with linux more.

I have some basic understanding, but I've already been thrown something beyond my ability.

So I booted it up, and did the updates it was requesting. After this update on reboot, nothing. Green power light but no activity or screen.

After looking around, it seemed that I needed to reinstall the OS.

So after looking around more, it seems the path was to use the switch to disable the emmc, boot onto a live SD card, then re-enable the emmc and install the os to it.

I've gotten to that point, however my problem now is I can't select the emmc to install to. It just wants to do the default install using the SD card.

I tried to follow these instructions:

Quote:Once everything has booted cleanly turn the eMMC switch on the back in order to turn it on, effectively hot plugging it.
Then as super user (sudo) use these commands in a terminal, which are also referred in the Wiki:

Code:

Code:

echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/unbind



echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/bind

Then install whatever you want on the eMMC as usual.

I replaced the faulty motherboard on my pinephone with a new one, and it seems to be running Mobian fine...
I got a USB hub, with 3 USB 3.0 ports and an HDMI port, so I could connect a keyboard, mouse and external display to the phone, using it as a computer when at my desk.
But now whenever I start using it, the external display will blank almost every second.. sometimes it will go into sleep mode. Sometimes it's so bad that I have to disconnect the HDMI to get it back. the USB Hub is powered externally.
The external

Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone have a clue why this might be happening?

It makes it really frustrating to use.

ps - it seems like every time it writes anything to the external display, it blanks until its done. And for some reason sometimes it just goes into power-saving.

Considering the issues with Phosh as of recent I have been testing the latest version of Arch Plasma and so far so good.
It still has the typical type Plasma bugs here and there but it looks promising.
Evolution and Libreoffice work well. 
The graphic looks good too and is consistent.
The favourites screen still doesn't work as favourites disappear after reboot.
I have not tested calls as my main focus is PDA related.

I went for a bike ride this morning, with my fully-charged phone. I had it in my pocket, playing music through my headphones. The modem is switched off at the hardware level. Wifi was off, bluetooth was off, the screen itself was off, and the phone was doing nothing but playing mp3s. When I got home, 45 minutes later, my battery was down to 47%.

I bought a second battery, and I will charge that when it's out of the phone. even so, if the battery goes dead in less than 2 hours, that's not even enough time for the other one to charge on the wall. I could start carrying around 3 or 4 batteries, but that seems a bit ridiculous.

I'm guessing that the phone itself just consumes a lot of power, and that no update to Mobian is really going to fix this problem. If I'm wrong about that, let me know. But if the PinePhone is always going to have this issue, it seems my options are:

• To find a ridiculously high-capacity battery that will fit in my phone;
  
• To find some kind of low-profile charger that I can attach to the phone, artificially extending the battery life. I currently have a charger about the size of the phone, but three times as deep, which I can keep in my pocket. It's a little clunky, though.
  
• Upgrade to a PinePhone Pro, if that device has a better battery life;
  
• Figure out some software hacks/tweaks to improve battery life.
  

Just updated (sudo pacman -Syu) and everything seems normal, or rather the same as it was before.

So... is there something I should have noticed, but didn't?

Last week I recieved a pinebook pro. 2 days ago and was able to boot into manjaro. I then tried tried to install slackware as per the slackware aarch64  install instructions which seem relevant to earlier pbp's but not to the latest production run. Switch 24 is now a dip switch in a different location and it appears that the slackwareaarch64 flash-spi-pinebookpro.img does not work.

On the slackwarearm forum I was told by one member that he also has a pbp from the most recent production run and that the slackware installation would not work one the new pbp and that he installed by first using these instructions Which gave him tow-boot. I gave that a go but couldn't boot from the sd card. Used a brand new 32g class 10 card and a 16g class 10 card from pinestore. I also tried a couple of sd cards I had previously used to boot bananapros but could not boot from the sd card.

I have checked the ribbon cable sd slot connection and its good. I've tried the dip switch in both positions and with/without emmc installed. I've used the restore/reset buttons as well. 

As it turns out I can no longer boot into manjaro with dip switch 24 in its original position (see below) or indeed switch in the opposite position. I'm at a loss as where to go next. I've read some posts about this problem but without being able to boot from an sd card they weren't much help. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

I have been using my PinePhone for several years now, having come from Android, and I wanted to simply thank the team for their hard work.

Specifically:
A) Thank you for not gluing this phone together. I am clumsy and have had to replace the LCD several times now.
B) Thank you for the availability of spare parts and the prompt shipping of the ones I have ordered in the past.
C) Thank you for the affordable price point. I'm not rich.

This device finally gives me a decent PDA again, after the iRevolution killed that market. I've been living with this device for years now and I cannot imagine going back to a proprietary ecosystem.

I was reluctant to post this, as it may be considered spam, but I see threads saying to avoid the company and I just wanted to report that not all of us are unhappy.

Put simply, this device rocks. I'm beyond pleased with it.

Thank you, Pine64 team.

Does it actually have neon support? I notice that it's not listed in /proc/cpuinfo. If it is supported does anyone have a good way to identify it in a configure script so I can actually build a project that supports neon? 

Thanks

Chris

i want to drive an edp screen with the rockpro64 under linux 
is it possible if yes then how
if not then why

I tried stock and when updating with pacman it bricked.. I tried reinstalling the PBP ISO from Manjaro and it worked for a while then bricked again while updating..

Then tried Armbian and the Public Key has an error when being verified during apt update, but better than Manjaro as in no bricking, can even shut the PBP lid and go into sleep mode without bricking unlike in stock. Armbian forums are not supportive, the developer in the thread has the "You should pay me to explain how to fix" attitude.

Any suggestions for a next distro in my quest to make my PBP usable?