I am porting a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 project over to run on Pine64 under Armbian due to the unavailability of Pi hardware. This app absolutely must be able to use lvds displays. It doesn't matter to me about mipi being "better", losing the ethernet port or any other of the valid reasons to not enable lvds.  Many of the posts about lvds on the forum just say "don't do it". Is there anyone out there who has made lvds work on a recent release of Armbian?

I bought one of the Pine 7 inch mipi-dsi displays just to get an idea of how a flat screen would be enabled in Armbian. It works fine, but I can't glean much information from the configuration that gives me any hints about how to make changes to switch to lvds display output. They have a device tree overlay for the dsi screen, but it mostly deals with power/backlight/etc. There's nothing in the .dtob file about dsi pre-se. I also can't find anything about how the display resolution of communicated to the software. It looks to me like the things I want to change are baked in to the driver and not supplied by device tree information, which was my previous experience with using Raspberry Pi hardware. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We are using one of the serial interface - UART_2 on the GPIO header pins for console. We wanted to use one more UART to communicate to another device. 

From the pin diagram, there are 2 more UART's available. One set TX-RX on pins 15,18 and another set of TX-RX on pins 33,35.

We are only using EMMC and not using the SD card slot. Is it possible to disable SD card and configure it to be used for the UART.
We are using the Linux kernel from Ayufan - release-4.4.167.

How can we configure to use them appropriately. Is it possible to make the changes using dtb overlay.

Also what's the maximum baudrate that can be achieved on these UART's ? Currently the one used on UART_2 (console) is 1500000. Is this the maximum speed supported ?

Hello,

is there a way to check, which version of mobian I am exactly running?

I mean if I take the list of weekly builds as reference, is it possible to see, which weekly build I am running?

The information delivered by e.g.

Hello,
Playing with Pinephone I have just realised, that the only way to receive real time communication like calls and messages is over GSM service. VoIP and internet messengers will not work, because when phone gets suspended - operating system goes offline and if you disable power saving feature - keeping the system all the time online, the battery will be consumed within a few hours. 
What i have researched is that the only ability of crust is to wake up the system, being triggered by GSM call or SMS and in the best case you can manage periodic wake up for syncing services like email. Does this mean that there is no way and there is no view for the future that pinephone will be usable for real time internet communication, for example push service awakes the system and let the app to pickup incoming VoIP call or IM message ?

Hi all, regarding the general narrative here around android, it seems like everyone thinks android is some closed source software...well, it's not. there is no google  in AOSP

What is in your opinion the difference between running GloDroid and Ubuntu on pinephone? Glodroid is also open sourced system that uses linux kernel, called android.

Basically, android is a linux derivative specialized for mobile devices.
To me, saying android bad, linux good  sounds like people who say Linux is crap, unix is the best. FreeBSD is the only OS for real men, forget about linux.

Hi,

Last week, I took off my Pinetime (sealed version) to wash the dishes and stored it in my pocket. When I took it back to wear it, the watch was in a bootloop (attached video).



After trying the different reset/recovery options and letting the watch battery drain, I managed to recover the watch.

But after at least three episodes of bootloop, there now seems to be a screen/display issue (see attached pictures).

Anyone knows if this might be either an hardware or software/firmware trouble? Or is there an easy way to test that?

I really like my PineTime, it's a bummer that it's now unusable after only about 13 months.

Thanks

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Hello
couple of months ago I ordered PinePhone Pro with keyboard.
it came with plasma as usual but actually I couldn't update or install any app.
some guys looked at my log and found out that the keyrings are broken and thus update was not possible.

now I would like to install Mobian instead of plasma but actually I don't have the required skills to do that.
thus I am willing to pay for a step by step help to do the following:
 
1 - install Mobian 
2 - ensure that the keyboard drivers are ok and working
3 - install releight reloaded with phosh (https://github.com/WebFreak001/raleigh-reloaded)

please PM me if you are interersted

thanks

Hi guys, i installed lakka on my pine64 but i don't have any sound via hdmi port, can you fix it? 

Thanks

I'm trying to do

Suppose we’re creating our own Operating System (non-Linux) for PinePhone…

-  What’s the File Format?

-  Where in RAM should it run?

-  Can we make a microSD that will boot our OS?

-  What happens when PinePhone powers on? (U-Boot)

This article explains how we ported Apache NuttX RTOS to PinePhone. And we’ll answer the questions along the way!

PinePhone boots Apache NuttX RTOS