Hi,

recently, i got the Pine A64 2GB. I bought a SanDisk Ultra Class10 32GB sdcard to flash the OS on it.

I tried a bunch of OS's but none of them were booting.

After reading a couple of threads in this forum about the power that the Pine needs to run, i bought a matching charger and a cable. With that, i was able to boot Android 5.1. But none of the other OS's like Remix_OS, Armbian and others boot.

To flash the sdcard, i use Etcher for windows 10 attachted to a 2.0 Cardreader thats connected to an 3.0 port. That flashes the OS about three times faster than the 2.0 port. I mention that because i dont know if the port might cause the problem due to the speed the 3.0 port provide. Like, the OS flashes too fast or something like that. I'm a bit desperate.

In general, i'm fine with android but i would like to try different OS's.

Is there something missing or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help!

Hello, someone could help me perform an install of arch on the pp with FDE, I downloaded the script installer.sh but I have no idea how to use it to make a image with FDE.

Is running mainline linux possible and usable on Quartz?

Last time I checked (some time ago), Rockpro64 seemed to be the way to go for people looking for a fully libre (aka blobless) solution.

Not sure if this is the right place but I just did a fresh install of stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.9.14-1159-armhf.img on my Rock64. Now I can not update the system or install any plugins using the OMV Control Panel. I was able to update the system using Putty but i never had to do this with previous install (stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.8.3-1141-armhf.img). Below is the log file from my most recent attempt to install shellinabox

From megi: https://xnux.eu/pinephone-keyboard/faq.html#safety

Quote:Can I plug something to the phone's Type-C port?

No! When the keyboard is connected to the phone, it powers the phone by internally supplying 5V to the VBUS of the phone's Type-C port. So if you connect another USB power supply to the phone's Type-C port, it's like connecting two chargers to the phone by cutting and splicing their cables. (Likely not a good thing, or something you'd consider doing if it was presented to you that way.) If you connect some USB peripheral there that only consumes power from the port (like mouse, unpowered dock, etc.), it may work (in theory), but only if you make *absolutely sure* the phone will not enable its power output to the USB device! No distros ensure that at the moment. When you plug USB periperal it's the same as plugging in two chargers into the same port, without additional software support that doesn't exist, yet.

Hi folks,
For most apps, what is the underlying mechanism that causes the software keyboard
to appear? For instance, when it comes to Qt apps, people caution that
it is a desktop GUI library, so does this imply that e.g. editing a Qt text field
will NOT cause the software keyboard to appear?
Thanks.

I made a mistake.  I heard about pinetime and somehow got the message it was a Linux based watch.  I bought it and paid way too much on freight, which took a long time, and got dumped on my door step in a high crime area.  I'm stupid, but this thing is not even a match for my $15 watch phone.

I had hoped to use it as a code development and case controls test platform for a gaming watch, and see if it might be a good basis for the watch.  That would have entailed tuning existing programs on Linux and writing simple control interface test code a d some simple games.  So, I would be up for writing the whole thing now.  If it could at least run JavaScript apps, I could still use it without writing everything.

If the developers want a platform spec for a really nice phone as a next model, they can contact me.  This looks like a slightly smaller version of my watch phone.

I am also on a look out for a good cheap cheap digital oled/LCD watch platform with reasonably good features (like more than 1 button) to contact the manufacturer to negotiate using it for my product.  This might well be a platform from the chip manufacturer which I can shop around to get the internals made, and complete here, for security, with own software additions.

 Could anybody suggest any which could go into a $15 phone?

As for the pinetime, I'm interested in where this goes, JavaScript with machine code access, future models.  Partnerships.

Good screen and colours at a cheap price is the missing link.

My apologies if this is considered commercial, but I seriously was going to get it and try some interesting things.  At the moment making extra controls and running JavaScript games on it, seems to be too much trouble.  If anybody is already doing this, into the pool, I look forwards to hearing from you?


I support Pines privacy phones effort.  Please release a 5 inch full face screen trendy privacy phone with oled and external privacy sliders?

Thank you.

Hello all,

I've recently taken delivery of a DeskPi Super6C motherboard that can house 6x RPi CM4 on one side, and 6x NVMe SSD on the other side: https://deskpi.com/collections/deskpi-su...-supported

The CM4s are still hard to come by, and so I was thinking about trying to get one of the SOQuartz integrated with this mini-ITX sized host board. Before I buy a bunch of SOQuartz though I wanted to ask if the community thought this a crazy idea or not?

I'm very happy hacking around with Manjaro (I use it as a daily driver on my personal machine), and using serial access to machines, playing around with dts files, kernels, and so on for embedded, so don't think there's a huge issue there for me. I note that a few people are collaborating on SOQuartz on RPi CM4 host boards already: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry...issues/336

Does anyone have any strong feelings on my above pairing at all? Is it a worthwhile project?

(Background: I'm looking to build a relatively low power multi-node cluster for lightweight Ubuntu (and Ceph) eventually with BYOH Kubernetes on top.)

Thanks in advance for all opinions and advice.

Hello,

I'm new with setting up a Linux distribution on a board. After receiving my two Quartz64 I tried to flash several images on a microSD and afterwards tried to boot the board. Additionally I have connected a 24" monitor on the HDMI Port, a LAN-cable at the ethernet adapter, a power adapter (12V 3.5A 42W) and mouse & tastatur at the USB-ports.

But it seems there isn't even a booting sequence, my monitor doesn't show any command line and only the power LED is shining blue.
I tried to press the power button several times but nothing seems to work. BAT_Jumper is sticked on the board too.

I tried the following OS:

•   Manjaro-ARM-gnome-quartz64-b-20220620.img.xz 
  
•   Manjaro-ARM-mate-quartz64-b-20220620.img.xz
  
•   Manjaro-ARM-minimal-quartz64-b-20220620.img.xz
  

Can we use Zig to code PinePhone Apps? Maybe make them simpler and safer? Let's find out!

Build a PinePhone App with Zig and zgt