hello,

I am using dietpi, i messed around with it and i don't know why when i close the lid, i don't see anything! i don't see the backlight on too! so i'm not sure what happened, maybe i accidentally deleted a package or could be i have wayland

I just finally found a solution for this and wanted to share at a high-level. 

In short: there's something not right about the DTB file from Armbian.  I replaced the Armbian file "/boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb" with the file "/usr/lib/linux-image-5.<x>.<x>/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb" from Kali and it boots like a champ after that.

After getting it to boot my 2.4ghz wifi worked but 5ghz did not.  Download the 3 files here to your /usr/lib/firmware/brcm folder: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scrip...rmware/pbp

Actually I'm really disappointed by my pinepkone and mobian........I'm not at all a kind of nerd, but since years I have debian on my PC and I love it and get by with almost everything I need to do with a PC( ......running a local radio station, radioshows, DJing).
For DJing the pinephone with its docking box was my favourite tool, I recommended the pinephone with mobian as OS to a lot of people.

Now after having flashed mobian to the emmc via Tow-boot a lot of things are working no more or behave strange:

low disk space
no access to some apps
most apps you ve to start and restart and restart........
no email client
can not install apps I would need like: unzip, disks etc...............................

The most strange thing is, even mobian should have being flashed to the emmc, mobian does not start up when the sd card is removed, the red light is blinking than red goes yellow and is endlessly blinking, nothing else is happening.

So what to do?

I' m missing a clear step by step guide to flash mobian with tow boot, reading other posts about those issues I've to notice there is some confusion about it?

What is the most stable mobian-img actually?

Thanx a lot for any help!

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...?