Hey all, 

Lately I've been curious abour Arch on the pinephone, and have some questions about it!

1) how stable is it? Is it could for daily drivin? 
2) What are some of the current issues that users are facin with it?
3) What apps can you install on it? Can you use Chatty?
4) Can you use Lomiri with it? I've always liked that de, but don't really like ubuntu touch itself
5) Is Arch easy to install?

Thanks!

Edit: Typo

Hey all,

Recently I decided to do a fresh install of Mobian, and have discovered that we are now usin tow boot. I was able to install that just fine, but whenever I try to flash an image to internal storage with balena etcher I end up with only 5 gigs of space dedicated to it...? Not sure what I'm doin wrong.  
After holding the power and volume button and mounting it, it comes up as Linux UMS_disk_0 (boot, rootfs) in balena etcher. I've never seen any other listin. Am I missin somethin?

Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Edit: After flashin I opened up gnome disks on my pc and just increased storage myself. Seems to be workin fine so far!

Hello,

I received my Pinebook Pro in Spring 2021.  I last used it about one month ago, and left it disconnected.  So, the battery has completely drained.

I've been charging it using the barrel charger for more than twelve hours.  When I turn it on, the green power light comes on, and the screen comes up bright white.  After ten seconds or so, the backlight dims a bit so it's a softer white.  At that point, I can do things like toggle num lock on my external keyboard.

I don't think it is an OS issue, because it booted completely fine a month ago and I haven't touched it.  But just in case, I am using hand-debootstrapped Debian "bullseye" with a custom kernel build using Manjaro's patches as of a year ago, and stock Debian u-boot.

Any ideas about what these symptoms could indicate?  Really hope it is not bricked!  I don't have UART, but I could get one if it's not just that the screen is completely dead.

Thanks.

Currently, I'm on the Speakout phone plan. I'm using my 10-12 year old Samsung phone, and it works fine, but I've wanted a tinker phone with pure Linux for several years.

I'm interested in going down the rabbit hole to try my SIM card on a Pine Phone Beta Edition. I'd like to know if anyone has used the Speakout carrier on the Pine Phone and what experience they've had with it.

Are all carriers generally the same in terms of call reliability?

Has anyone managed to get ov5647 to work on Quartz64 or Soquartz? I've spent last few days on it and despite the configuration being correct I can't get the mipi csi to see the data.

So if you do have ov5647 working on Quartz64 /Soquartz or a similar mcy please post the DTS that works for you.

Hi all,

I am managing a cluster of Rock64/RockPro64 and I need access to the GPU cycle counters (I already got access to CPU cycle counter) of the Mali T860 included in the board. I am trying to use the HWCPipe (https://github.com/ARM-software/HWCPipe) interface to get the CPU counters. However, this library tries to use /dev/mali0 to interact with the GPU, which is not exposed to the user in armbian using the Panfrost driver.

I have tried several ways of installing the mali midgard driver without success so far. Besides, I have tried to use /dev/dri/card1 (and 0) as resource for HWCPipe, but it doesn't work either.

Does someone know how I could expose the /dev/mali0 interface to userspace using panfrost driver or how to install mali-midgard driver in the last armbian version (kernel 5.15.48)?

The same posted here applies for Rock64 with lima driver for Mali-400 GPU, just in case...

I have a Pinebook Pro from the original first batch. I've noticed that the WiFi signal strength is much lower on the PBP than with my other devices. This happens in both 2.4 and 5 GHZ. I re-seated the antenna connector and that didn't change anything. I'm running Manjaro with all the latest updates. I have disabled Bluetooth (through the GUI) and that didn't seem to help. Is there anything else that I should be trying?


Yes, I'm just noticing the signal weakness now because I've only recently started taking the PBP with me to places where I need to use public WiFi.

Thank you,
B34N

Listening to podcasts using gnome-podcasts (flatpak) was working fine until last weekend. It no longer prevents the system from suspend.
The log shows

Hi,
I haven't found any information about it anywhere else, so I'm asking here.
What should I do, if I use the Caprine app and the keyboard to type things doesn't come up? I have been copy-pasting the text which you probably can understand is horribly inconvenient. Is there any way to solve this?
Besides, I want to use the Tutanota app, but it doesn't seem to work (it's an outdated version in Discover and it cannot update itself automatically (the keyboard also does not pop up).
What should you do?
Thanks, guys, for any input

Hi there,is there a good tutorial about the u-boot with example?
I've installed Freebsd on microSD card,and on a hd as well but i'd
Like to boot it from the HD as the main way.
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