Mine was one of the first batches and suffered a crack in the LCD bezel, not so bad, but more recently the hinges broke.

I can't see how to buy the body shell for a PBP.

If someone had one that's in good shape but the motherboard has failed, I'd be interested in doing a deal to buy your shell.

Alternatively, I'd be willing to sell you my motherboard (it's got the larger EMMC on it, courtesy of being an early order) so you can repair yours. Also, I could sell the LCD and keyboard etc.

I'm based near Cambridge, UK. Willing to travel moderate distances for collection/delivery.

I'm trying to make a backup image of my PP.  I press the power button and then hold 'volume up' until I get the blue light.  I connect the phone to my desktop and the volumes appear.  I start a dd command to copy the phone's internal volumes to an image file on my desktop.  It runs for a few minutes, and then the phone spontaneously reboots long before the dd is complete.  AFAIK, this would also happen if I was trying to write an image from the PC to the phone.  Am I doing something wrong?

What is the current status of Fedora on Pinebook Pro?

Using the PINE64 wiki ( https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr...ase#Fedora ) :

Links here: https://builds.armdevelopers.com/pineboo...eases/dev/ 
Which has a Fedora Workstation 32 image.
 
Or do I just grab the standard Fedora aarch64 raw image here?
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Hello,
I recently started evaluating the SOQuartz to use as a replacement for the Pi CM4 but am struggling to get any working version of linux. I was able to run the debian installer from this but after completing set up I get this read out bellow:

Where is the settings tool or how to install It? In the latest weekly omg that I installed on the SD, cannot see it

Hello,

I would like to report that it has been multiple weeks (more than 3) that the USB C side board is out of stock: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-usb-c-side-board/

Any chance to have an estimate of when it will be available again ?

It is really painful to charge the phone or use USB storage when you have to apply pressure to the end of the cable.
I do own the battery charger and a second battery but that is much much less usable (I want to keep the phone plugged when I am at my desk), and also would destroy the back cover quickly.

Also regarding "For service purpose and only sell to Pinephone owner, limit quantity to 1." => I understand the point but I would really much like to have a spare to avoid this kind of situations, so allowing 2 instead of just 1 would be great

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Gabriel

I am switching over my new pbp from Manjaro to ArchARM. I forgot what I put in for my user pw and couldn't find anything on a default pw for root, so failed to make a boot SD on the pbp, used a laptop with Slackware instead. I followed the instructions at github (Installation on microSD card or eMMC module) for making the SD card and installing it.

The first reboot put me at the Arch prompt, but 'wifi-menu' didn't work. I looked at PCI devices and nothing was showing up for wireless devices. Wifi was working under the default Manjaro. I went ahead with the rest of the install without a network connection. It didn't give any complaints while initializing and populating the keys.

I then went ahead and with the install for the eMMC (Installation on eMMC module without a USB adapter). I'm not sure what USB adapter is being referred to or how the install would go if I had one, figured this would work regardless. After a reboot, it goes through the Tow-Boot sequence, but then fails to mount /boot.

I repeated the process with rewriting the SD card but it gives me the same error. I looked through the journalctl logs and don't see anything more than generic error info, not sure what to report here. I can't exactly cut and paste with the state the pbp is in. There were some warnings and extra steps (keeping or removing a file system for the second partition) while preparing the SD that I made guesses on since they weren't mentioned in the install guide.

Not sure at this point if I should check this SD card for problems, try a different card, or a different install method...?

This guide is broken up into main recovery steps, and two separate guides for fixing your partition size and setting up GPS(not even needed in bookworm) referred to as steps in the main install guide, I am live editing it for a bit to add links and clean it up.  Most of this is copy/paste fixes over ssh and file transfers over USB, pretty easy way to get a better than fresh system in under an hour.

This is a kludgy guide I made after needing to wipe and restart at an auspicious time right before the serious system breaking Mobian Bookworm issues of August 2022.

*******!!!Use towboot to mount your / over your USB cable to rescue your /home we will use it later!!!**********

Get tow-boot and set it up on a SD card if you haven't already, we need it for install and salvaging your old /home and it's recovery, you can easily install it on a broken system

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tow-boot

this should be an easy copypasta fixit toolbox to get a working everyday driver pinephone in under an hour, jsut hold on updates until Mobian is fixed soon.
this works for me, edit what you want for install packages, I am sure the mobian issues could be hand fixed but this is the fast fix I have right now.
This fix works for me in a repeatable way, let me know ways to improve it!
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Use towboot mount(boot with volume up button pressed you get a blue LED) to easily copy /home or at least copy a backup of phone contacts from ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/contacts.db to your computer

******remove your SD card or at least unsocket it!!!******  (if you forget to remove SD how-to de-booting the SD card at end of main guide)

reinstall Mobian over towboot/USB an image I used https://images.mobian-project.org/pineph...814.img.gz

There's a new version of tow-boot, upgrading is just repeating the first install? Flash to sd and run it in the phone?

An apt-get dist-upgrade command as of last night and today, August 22, removes the setup app and does not allow reinistallation. The pinephonepro-tweaks package is removed by the dist-upgrade in favor of mobile-tweaks, and does not allow recovery.

I need to copy back the image that I saved last night by way of the USB mode of Tow-boot.