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.

I am thinking about buying a rockpro64, but I would specifically like to set it up as a desktop computer connected to the internet. (It would actually be a bit of a home server, but would probably see most of its use in me typing or programming things within xfce/i3.)

I have experience with the pinebook pro and pinephone so I somewhat know how these computers are put together and boot.
But my big problem is simply knowing what parts I need to order when the information in the shop is very sparse and sometimes doesn't even say what's included and not included.

(I also tried writing to info@pine64, but the person who wrote back did not seem to be well-versed enough in English to understand what my question was.)

I think that logically I probably need to have:
- a computer board
- an emmc?
- a wifi/bluetooth module? (I would mainly use this for things like a bluetooth mouse)
- an enclosure
- a heat sink?
- an AC adapter
- a SATA* ssd adapter? is that even possible, or is it only an NVMe ssd that works? (I do mainly mean inside the enclosure**.)
- an hdmi cable? can it use these? Yes, there is an HDMI port.
- Is there an ethernet jack? (I think so) Yes, there is an ethernet jack.

I would like to know if I may have forgotten any parts or any of these things are actually included with other items.
As well as what parts are shared with the pinebook pro — I'd guess this would mostly just be the emmc, as it looks like there are different specs on the power adapter.

I feel like there probably should have been some kind of "ready to go" store page where you could get the minimum set of parts needed for a desktop the way you could simply order an assembled pinebook pro or pinephone. (or realistically maybe a couple of these for different use cases?)
But the next best thing is a tutorial on what parts go together for what purposes.

(* The only reason I ask about SATA drives is I had a previous server whose main board seemed to be dying, and it would be convenient to simply reuse its drive for the rockpro64 — specifically, I would only need it to be available as storage after boot.
I would not really be upset to find out that in practice it's too much trouble or requires dangerous meddling with the firmware. I would just like to know if it's possible to do and "how hard it is" for everyone's future reference when they think about buying this computer.)

(** This brings in two extra details:
A) computers always have a teeny chance of getting bumped at my house, so I would want an ssd to be protected and secured to the table along with the computer box
B) if it's not impossible to use a SATA drive by the time I've said that, I'd like to know how big the enclosure has to be and if this changes how I would set up a heat sink / fan / any other parts inside the box.)

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Confirmed parts

* computer board - https://pine64.com/product-category/rock...46c16e2e66
* emmc and/or sd card - https://pine64.com/product-category/rock...es/page/2/
* wifi/bluetooth module - https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-1x1...5-0-module

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Edited to add basic facts & confirmed parts 22/6/11.

Sources:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64

To install phosh 0.20 beta on mobian you need to:

Go to https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/p/phosh/ and download phosh_0.20.0~beta1-1pureos1_arm64.deb and phosh-mobile-tweaks_0.20.0~beta1-1pureos1_all.deb

Then cd into the directory you downloaded the files into (example: cd ~/Downloads)

Then run sudo dpkg -i *.deb then reboot

You should have phosh 0.20 on your pinephone! (tested on pinephone mobian ce)

I have a pinephone pro that was working fine.  I left it alone for a few days and came back to a completely dead phone.  It won't charge.  I tried plugging it in overnight on a 5v charger and it didn't charge.  I tried pulling the sim's and using the RE button and nothing happens.  Is there anything I can do or am I in the send it back phase?


*EDIT - NEVERMIND*

I also have a community edition phone.  I swapped batteries and put the ce battery in the pro and it booted.  I put the dead pro battery in the ce and plugged it in and its charging.  What a weird problem to have.

I can't get my Quartz64 to boot, but interested if anyone has even attempted ubuntu server yet.

Hi,

Have just got my PinebookPro back working after being broken for 6 months. Still has the default Manjaro distro. Has 800 updates and the updates fail. Not very enthusiastic to try to fix it. 

The current OS never worked great. Sound volume is extremely weak. And for some reason only 5Ghz wifi works.

Was thinking this is a good time to do a new OS installation. 

From the point of view that things work as good as possible after installation I would like opinions about what the most mature OS / less bad option available at this time for this hardware?

My 4GB Model A came in today and I've got no boot activity. Tried with BAT jumper on and off, with and without sdcard in place. Possible DOA or is there a trick to this?

Hi all,

I downloaded the Manjaro-ARM-minimal-pine-h64-22.04 from Manjaro and flashed it onto an 16GB SD-Card, followed all the on-screen setup instructions/questions, SD-Card got resized and System was up and running.

Next I did the update with pacman and it revoked and signed some keys and had 80something files to update, confirmed with Y and let it run.
After pacman was finished I did a reboot and ended up with a black screen....  

Got the UART Cable out and recorded the following:

Why doesn't the latest releases for PBP spec Manjaro images patch this sleep brick problem and the drunk mouse pad problem? How to fix sleep brick?

Am I using the wrong version? What is the difference of https://github.com/manjaro-arm/pbpro-ima.../tag/22.04 and https://github.com/manjaro-arm/pbpro-ima...g/20220606

Help me with this and ill change my username.

Yesterday I upgraded Arch-Phosh with "pacman -Syyu". After powering off and on (booting from SD via TowBoot), there was no splash screen, and the screen was not backlit.
Today, I burned the latest release (20220502) to the same SD; the phone booted fine. I was quickly notified of a Software update, so I used Software app to upgrade again, with the same result; after powering off and on, there was no splash screen, and the screen was not backlit.
I switched to Manjaro-Phosh SD and ran "pacman -Syyu" and got the same result.



Anybody got an ETA on resolution?
For now I will run Arch-Phosh 20220502. I will have to torch my Firefox profile since I was running Firefox 101 and will now be stuck with Firefox 97 (there is probably a cute way to make pacman upgrade only firefox and all of its dependencies, but a quick search yielded nothing, and upgrading just Firefox did not work).