I'm attempting to install nixos, which requires towboot.  Normal method to install towboot is to dd to an SD card and boot, but that doesn't work for me, or other folks. 

Workaround is to copy towboot to /dev/mtd0 with nandwrite.  I installed nandwrite, but /dev/mtd0 is not visible in my /dev folder. 

I pretty much have the default debian that came with the PBP.  How can I enable /dev/mtd0?  Is there another way to get towboot installed?

We installed Pcmanfm file manager on PostmarkedOS. Why is the external SD card not listed by the filemanager on the PinePhone?

Hello!

What I would like to achieve is having a fanless server and smart TV all in one. I would like to host my personal website, torrent daemon, Nextcloud and Ampache for music. Additionally I would like to connect it to my 4K TV where I would then watch 4K movies and listen to music on my stereo system.

I know that RP64 is capable of being a server but what is the story with 4K videos? An additional challenge would be crash resistance of the graphical part. What do you think of my plan?

After we spent almost three week everyday some time until we managed to install LibreOffice on the PinePhone:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614

and we spent one more week everyday some time until we where able to have a remote desktop to our PinePhone:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16775

and did about a day of google search about HDMI adapters, we are facing the following problems:

- the PinePhone keyboard works, but not the special characters
- we have often to pull out the battery since the phone stucks
- the Bluetooth mouse repeateatly dissconnects

- connected via VNC to a Windows PC
- mouse works, keyboards unreliable

- then we looked once more at Martijn Braams setup, where everything seems to work which does not work on our setup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeza4UNOm8

and ask ourself, how he managed this:

- When will the PinePhone USB-C dock Martijn  used be available again?

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-usb-c-docking-bar/

- Which was exaclaty the distro, in which Martijns  USB-C dock worked? Which day, which, month, which year?  (several reported, the  USB-C dock does not work with the PinePhone).

- Martijn said in his youtube video, even the Ethernet cable adapter worked, which is great.

- We suppose what looks so easy was the result of many hours of hard work. We do not want to reinvent the wheel and want the exact setup Martijn used.

- Martijn was able to use an external keyboard with trackpad, eventually also the result of a long evaluation process. Maybe it is worth to find out which is the exact keyboard model:

- The keyboard is a lenovo thinkpad usb keyboard with trackpad,  Martijn mentioned it in his youtube video

- Everything seems to work perfectly in Martijns Youtube video, from keyboard to trackpad, to Ethernet to HDMI monitor to LibreOffice etc. Almost nothing seems to work in our setup.

Therefore we would be happy to know as many details as possible about  Martijns setup and how to build it up yourselves.

How can this be solved.

When LibreOffice on the PinePhone starts, there is a box which ask to recover files. But neither the Pine64 keyboard, nor a Bluetooth mouse can execute it. How can this be solved?

After doing plenty of reading and research into my PPP and several operating systems installed I have realized that the PPP has got quite a ways to go before it can be used reliably. At present my device will once again not boot but I have been through this before and successfully recovered it -- but for what? The device is unreliable and I decided to box (just like the cylons in Battle Star Galactica). I already have two PP Convergence and they run nicely but I have also noticed that the rolling release concept of updates can also hurt your reliability. After a problem in the last update on my PPC concerning Uboot and Settings updates it caused my device to sleep and then require a hard boot to recover. This is a first problem with PPC in my opinion and experience. I have now realized that updating is not a great idea so I suggest once a standard of good has been achieved, your happy with device operation - don't update. Freeze it right there in that sweet spot. I had to flash my PPC with Arch Linux 2022-05 version which by the way included those updates and the device is fine - perfect. So I think I might wait with my PPP until the end of the year and then look at the latest versions after reading about any issues concerning the version history. I will then select that good version and flash that, then do initial update and then stop. This might be the best scenario overall in my humble opinion.

-I would love to see the equivalent of a Lubuntu  LXQT LTS type image for Pine phones of all sorts. This could be a direct competitor to Arch Linux and because of the LTS concept of Debian/Ubuntu may be quite reliable.

Enable the AUR.
Install ppsspp-qt-git (and dependencies).
Change the architecture in the PKGBUILD file to aarch64.
Let it build for an hour.
Have fun!

https://youtu.be/y9XHQCXhGX4

Some gameplay: https://youtu.be/mwkifsiMGhs
Monster Hunter Freedom plays fine, God of War has serious performance issues.

I've found the on-screen squeekboard keyboard to be extremely aggressive and it pops up constantly when it isn't wanted. Is there any way to keep the option for the on-screen keyboard but force it to _only_ appear if the keyboard button at the bottom right is pressed, the way sxmo does it? The option in settings disables the keyboard entirely.

https://www.galaxus.ch/de/s1/product/gem...lsrc=aw.ds

The Gembrid USB to HDM adapter can also be found on Aliexpress (with a different name)

Martijn Braam wrote here in the forum about another usb-c apapter with VGA output:

«In theory any dock that uses usb-c displayport alt-mode for the video ports should work (which most are). The usb3.0 is a bit useless since the usb connection on the PinePhone is only 2.0. «

The Gembird USB Typ-C adapter shows a blue light to indicate that it receives power from the phone, but there is no HDMI signal when connected to a HDMI monitor. We plugged it into a PinePhone running PostmarketOS.