We now have a PinePhone with LibreOffice, mini usb keyboard and mouse which are working, a  Aliexpress usb-c adapter which works only with a usb desktop mouse to this date. Whe miss a connection to a HDMI monitor.

To found a solution, we found a high quality Google Chromecast 3 hdmi adapter plugged in our HDMI monitor, which was left from our last experiments for a stable connection of a Galaxy S5 to a HDMI monitor, which was successful. It was connected over an Android App to the HDMI monitor.

Is it possible to connect the  Google Chromecast 3 do the PinePhone, and if so, how can this be done?

We finally managed to run LibreOffice on the PinePhone and to control it with a Bluetooth mouse and a Bluetoth keyboard:

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

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. «

We bought a USB C Hub 8 In 1 Type C 3.1 To 4K HDMI Adapter with RJ45 SD/TF Card Reader PD Fast Charge for MacBook Notebook Laptop Computer for 20 USD on Aliexpress, shipping included:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10050033...pt=glo2deu

We connected the adapter to the Pinehone. We plugged in an usb mouse, worked, an usb-keyboard, did not work, another usb keyboard did not work either, a HDMI monitor, did not work.

Does someone have any ideas how to make the missing components work?

Absolutely fresh install of Mobian (5/29 weekly image) patched up until last night. mmsdtng -d shows all good and green until the last line "Lost DBus Connection"

systemctl --user status dbus shows it's running and active. Modem is connected and active.

Hey there,
I hope you guys can help me get started on this one.

At the moment did the following and got stuck:

- Quartz model A board, with power and HDMI connected to external monitor
- Downloaded & Installed Balena Etcher in my Ubuntu
- Downloaded latest armbian image (Notice Armbian download link is broken on the Pine website)
https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/pineh64/archive/

Installed this on the EMMC card. Is there any switch to tell the board that needs to boot from the emmc or is automatic?
   

When I turn on the board, guess it's the Power button, do not get (so far anything) using HDMI.
Question: It would be really great to make a "getting started" section where is a bit more explained how to get started with this.

I know is only for developers, but developers don't necessarily need to be Rocket scientists to install Linux in a board

So, I've wanted to buy the PineBook Pro, but I can't see the Ukraine option in the menu. Please fix this ASAP (I know about the war. I just wanted to buy it later)

When I receive images in Chatty v0.6.4, they all show up as text.



I can receive XMPP images using Dino-im.

XMPP images work fine between Android phones using Conversations app. 

Is this a known issue with Chatty? Does anybody else have this problem? I would prefer to use Chatty over Dino-im because it has better notifications.


EDIT:
This looks like a known issue?

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/536
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/407
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/14

Is there any workaround? My wife is going to be pretty ticked because I can't see the photos she sends me. Can I do something with this ridiculously long link to view it?

Filenames with Asian characters in the name are not displaying correctly (I've tested Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). They just the little Unicode boxes with their code point values. I've tested it in Terminal, Portfolio, Lollypop, and Firefox.

Other languages (such as Norwegian, Russian, French, and Farsi) display just fine. I also tried switching to the keyboard layout for Chinese/Japanese/Korean but it just displays the default English layout.

Has anyone been able to get Asian characters to show up correctly?


Here is an example of each:

Chinese: 中文維基百科

Japanese: ウィキペディア日本語版

Korean: 한국어 위키백과

Hi, fellow user @Hook and I are getting flustered with the state of the keyboard case driver in Manjaro/Phosh. Looks like Mobian is having trouble too. I've commented in a few other places, including in the Manjaro forum, and it seems like we might be the only ones.

- Previous big update renamed the kb151 driver, effectively borking it. We used the userspace driver instead, which worked as expected.

- A week or so ago, the next big update seemed to restore the kernel driver BUT:
  - The current kernel driver is missing the punctuation accessible with fn-shift-# (including - and +)
  - Something is preventing the userspace driver from loading, even after disabling the renamed pinephone-keyboard module. So we end up with no keyboard.

Does anyone know what's going on? These are starting to feel like Windows updates 

Another oddity - with the latest update, not all USB keyboards (connected to the Pinephone USB-C as a workaround) work anymore. I'm wondering if there is some defiant engineer out there determined to get us using the virtual keyboard.

This is so close to being the perfect pocket PC!

Currently, I am running Mobian + phosh on a PP Beta. I have the latest version of Mobian, so I have tow boot installed on the eMMC.

I am thinking about switching to Manjaro + phosh. How can I do this safely while preserving my tow boot boot loader?

I have searched online but can't find a definitive answer for this as tow boot is so new. Most people talking about tow boot online are PPP users.

My Idea:
- flash Manjaro installer installation to sd card
- boot from sd card and install to eMMC
(will that erase tow boot? or cause me boot problems?)

I'm wondering if anybody here has tried to do this? or could offer some guidance on this?

When my phone is locked, the time is AM/PM and when I unlock my phone it's 24 hours. How to change lockscreen time?