Disconnects very fast. Bluetooth mouse a bit slower. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are important for LibreOffice. We think it should be possible to edit files with the PinePhone keyboard, since LibreOffice can be controlled by keyboard shortcuts. But LibreOffice was designed to be used with a mouse and has dropdown menues. Therefore a stable connection to a Bluetooth mouse is very essential for LibreOffice on the PinePhone.

«Miracast is an open standard, Chromecast is not» personal communication fredldotme Ubports forum.

Unfortunately, we did not manage yet to get a working HDMI out with an usb-c to HDMI adapter on the PinePhone. Therefore, we promote  Miracast adapters:

«Miracast is a standard for wireless connections from sending devices to display receivers, introduced in 2012 by the Wi-Fi Alliance. It can roughly be described as "HDMI over Wi-Fi", replacing the cable from the device to the display. The Wi-Fi Alliance launched the Miracast certification program at the end of 2012».

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast

Hello,

I bought a rockpro64 2.1 with a 32gb emmc module.

I read different wiki pages and ended up installing U-Boot on the spi.

But even if U-Boot works and I could finish the Debian install on emmc (which I did before installing U-Boot), everytime I boot it seems like it doesn't detect anymore emmc. It's says:

Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110

Ok then I thought it's a wrong version of U-Boot so I installed towboot.

But I get the same error.

Any idea what I am doing wrong there?

Thanks

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.