Instructions to get pinephone working on USA carrier.
My pinephone cusrrently works on a USA carrier as of this posting.
Below are instructions.
Model: pinephone (should work with pro version because it has the same modem)
File system: full encryption
OS: Mobian (fully updated) (supports VoLTE) (mobian-project.org)
Carrier: H2Owireless (h2owireless.com)
APN: att.mvno (H2Owireless runs on the AT&T network)
Get a sim card from H2Owireless.
(You can give your pinephone IMEI number and they should tell you that it is compatible with their network.)
Voicemail:
Call your own phone number to access the voicemail system.
(For example, if your phone number is 1234567890 then dial 1234567890.)
(I just create a contact labeled "voicemail" with my phone number.)
(You can setup a voicemail password if it is your first time accessing the voicemail system.)
When someone leaves you a voicemail, you will get a text message from phone number 1000000000.
This text message will be full of code.
Just pay atention to the value of "m".
"m" represents how many unread voicemail messages you have.
MMS:
You do not get any notification when you get an MMS.
If you get too many MMS messages, it will prevent you from getting SMS messages.
To check if you have any MMS messages, use the command "mmcli".
You can also use this command to delete the MMS messages.
(Please do not ask me how to use "mmcli".)
If you need MMS support, I suggest the following link.
wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=mms
I did the following, the pinebook pro would boot to into debian installer, and the install completed successfully but after install, the pinebook pro would no longer boot.
I used "dd" to copy final.img to my eMMC adapter with eMMC module attached.
I reinserted the eMMC module into the pinebook pro and the pinebook pro was able to boot from it.
I was able to complete the install but the pinebook pro would not boot after the installer completed.
I did an expert install and selected "Guided - use entire disk and setup encrypted LVM".
What more has to be done to make the pine book boot?
I am loking for specific instructions to do this myself.
Do I need to select manual partitioning?
I do not want to use Daniel Thompson's pinebook-pro-debian-installer because it is over two years old and no longer maintained.
How can you call pinebook pro "open" when it requires a closed source WiFi firmware? (and closed source keyboard / touch pad firmware)
"ath9k" or "carl9170" would be a good solution because they are open and work on 5GHz.
The TERES by Olimex suffers from this problem too but I was easily able to remove the wifi module on the motherboard with a heat gun and some rosin.
The pinebook pro looks incredibly difficult to remove the wifi chip from the motherboard.
The next generation of pinebook pro should include an open source wifi option or an easy way to remove anything that is not open source.
(No I do not work for Olimex. I just want a better pinebook.)
If someone can get physical access to your pinebook (and reverse engineer the firmware or buy it from the manufacturer), they could upload a modified keyboard firmware that includes a key logger.
I use tamper evident stickers over some of the screw holes and over the SD card slot to prevent this.
Please complete the poll to show support for an easily removable wifi module.
Open source freedom fighting is hard to do without any help.
I put my ROCK64 on the desktop for a period of time, but it didn't work properly today.I try to reflash the SD card,and it still didn't work,and shows ''Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc0ffa3fe30''.Here is my boot log
Long story short: Need to do a reflowing of my PS3, don't have the money to pay someone to do a reballing and dont have the tools for it, checking a guide to do reflowing on a normal oven made me want to attempt this, rn all I need is a somewhat accurate oven thermometer but all the ones i checked that are under 20€ are useless for what i can see on the reviews.
The pinecil can read over 400ºC no problem, i wouldnt need more range than 100 to 300ºC, so, anyway i could hook up a thermocouple or something to the pinecil and check the temp in real time? As long as it's kind of accurate (+/-10ºC) it's all i need.
I know it uses a handle sensor and a tip sensor to calculate temp but if i can have the ambient temp kinda controlled for a short amount of time could it read accurately? if so what i'd need to do in order to achieve this? Any help is welcome!
Hi, was looking at Pinephone Pro vs. Librem 5. Seems PPP has better GPU. However Librem 5 has removable WWAN (mobile broadband) card via an m.2 slot? I don't need WWAN. I plan to establish connectivity only via USB.
I looked up these EC25 card awhile ago on alibaba. They seem to go $100 a piece. If the WWAN is soldiered on the PinePhone Pro board, is there any way I can get 5 to 10 of PPP void of the WWAN card, and at reduced cost?
As well if price is correct I'd gladly order 20 to 40 pieces without built in mic, camera too as well. What are my options?
