I have been playing with the Pine phones since my original Brave Heart phone.

I think new users would have a better first experience if Pine64 installed just a "hardware testing operating system"....
..>  Like the original Brave Heart phone came with.

They can first verify their new phones hardware is functioning...

AND THEN,  try the different Distro's that are available.

@tllim

The Pine64 Store needs to offer Replacement main boards for the new Pro series phones, PLEASE !

So many people have destroyed their sim card holders by simply "using the sim card adapters"  !

The only cure at this time is to buy a whole new phone !

The other parts, such as replacement screens may be helpful also.

I have a question with the RK3399S. I find that with normal use of the PPP, the back of the phone gets fairly warm and I assume this is a result of the RK3399S. Is this because the software/OS has yet to be optimized to take advantage of the RK3399S, or does the RK3399S notoriously run warm?

I'd love to see the Pinetime become a more customisable accessory in the "fashion" sense of the word. To achieve this, more customisable watch faces seem like a worthwhile goal. Infinitime (or other Pinetime-compatible operating systems) would need to facilitate the storing, loading, sending and receiving of images to be displayed on the device. They could be displayed either as full screen display graphics, or as backgrounds appearing beneath clock elements.

How realistic would it be to implement these functions, given the device's hardware constraints? Obviously the device handles Bluetooth data receiving well, as that's how the firmware is updated on "sealed" units. The only smart watch I've played with so far is a Pinetime, but I've seen images used as backgrounds/wallpaper on other brands of smart watch. Given the Pinetime screen resolution is only 240 x 240 pixels, the image files should be workably small. I'm really keen to customise my Pinetime further and see this as a great way to increase the public appeal of the device.

I've made this a feature request (via "Infinitime/Issues") over at Github.. if you like the idea, you're welcome to pop over there and give it a vote of support or comment.

Link: https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/issues/1058 

When creating a desktop application
For example to login to a place or email account
THe virtual keyboard is not present and cannot
Introduce credentials. Maybe it is not ready for aarch64
Even when it works por simple pages

Hello,

My PBP has been sitting idle for a while as I've been busy with other things, blown the dust off and looking to get back into learning ARM, I want to bring the keyboard & touchpad up to date as they are sill in the original shipped state but my machine has the SH61F83 with the limited reflash capability. My machine dates from jan 2020 (date of receipt, ordered Nov 2019) Can somebody point me to the correct firmware updates and procedure since I don't have the reflashes to play with.

Thanks 

Ray Sutton

My new PineTime watch arrived last week and I'm keen to update the firmware to v.1.8 to take advantage of the secure Bluetooth pairing and a few other features, including the ability to manually set the time. Manual time setting on the Pinetime itself is not available on v.1.6.

I'm having trouble with companion apps, and find their diversity, limitations and OS-dependencies frustrating.

The companion app NRFConnect appears to have the potential to send a file to the device from an Android tablet, but I'm yet to find a clear step-by-step tutorial for the process. This makes me reluctant to try, for fear of bricking my watch. Where do you upload the file? And do you send the .zip or the .bin file?

To get to this point, I had to resort to installing NRFConnect for Mobile on a friend's device, as the Windows version complained that a debugging kit from NORDIC needed to be connected before it would allow me to connect to any Bluetooth devices. I don't have one of these, so that was a dead end.

I also had a play with Gadgetbridge, which I obtained via the F-Droid app store... but can't see an obvious way to upload/flash firmware using that app on Android. Gadgetbridge seems to be for syncing, but not flashing. Is that correct?

I also tried installing Siglo on my Pinephone, but the installation was unsuccessful. The app opens, but won't connect with my Pinetime via Bluetooth. Maybe I'm missing some dependencies..?

Ultimately, I'd like to pair my Pinetime watch with my Pinephone. Can that be done at this time? Can I somehow get Siglo running properly on my Pinephone to facilitate notifications, music control etc?

In "good news" I see huge potential for the device and I was able to load the correct time/date onto the phone by following this tutorial video and using the HTML file its creator provides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFk_K53U_Oc 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

• Install F-Droid on an Android device
  
• Install Gadgetbridge via F-Droid on the same Android device
  
• Pair your Pinetime watch with the Android device
  
• Download the firmware file from Github (in my case, Infinitime v.1.8.0). Note: make sure it's the .zip file, NOT the .bin
  
• Open File Manager (or similar) on your Android device
  
• Select the downloaded .zip file
  
• "Open With" and select "Gadgetbridge"
  
• Follow prompts, and check status bar on Pinetime for progress
  

Hi,
Downloaded files from https://github.com/LibreELEC/brcmfmac_sdio-firmware
and placed them in /lib/firmware/brcm/

BCM4345C0.hcd 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt 
brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt

dmesg |grep firm
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[  13.956292] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db
[  13.976156] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db.p7s
[  14.174721] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
[  14.174838] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.0.txt (-2)
[  14.175925] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[  14.176891] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.0.txt failed with error -2
[  14.256595] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt
[  15.507776] bluetooth hci1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/BCM4345C0.hcd

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Well yes because brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt  was renamed from brcmfmac43456-sdio.pine64,rockpro64-v2.1.txt
as I cound not locate the correct file.
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checked armbian too but it looks like there is nothing applicable in /lib/firmware/brcm

Did anyone solve this problem?
location of the correct file? or maybe another way to implement the firmwre?

I have a RockPro64 and am looking for a distro recommendation. My two hopes are to find one that supports full disk encryption during install and that allows me to install to an NVME or SATA drive from the installer. Does anything meet those criteria yet ? I am using Manjaro ARM on an SD card in the mean time but miss those two features.

So I got waydroid (sort of) working on my phone. I installed the GAPPS image, but Play Protect won't even let me install apps through the play store. Not a big deal if you use outside images, but I am assuming that the app I want specifically (Google Voice) is going to need GAPPS functioning. Any ideas?