I have been working on a "Pinephone Multiboot Platform" guide for the wiki, to consolidate in one place some of what I learned working through this myself. The intended audience is new Pinephone owners with some prior linux experience; just beyond the noob level. The goal is to  explain the power and flexibility of p-boot with btrfs, walk through the process of downloading and installing the Multiboot Demo Image to sdcard, and go over some basic btrfs commands to examine and manipulate os installations. That's as far as I have gotten at the moment. It's is still a work in progress, so I haven't posted it to the wiki. You can see the current draft on my user page: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/User:Woo2.

If you find it useful and think its worth continuing please say so. For now I have to move on to other things, but if feedback makes it seem worthwhile I'll try to find time to add sections on setting up a partition table and filesystem from scratch, adding OSes, and performing p-boot flash and unconf/conf operations.

https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-modem-ot...e-support/

Hello, I was reading that article about firmware change and easy upgrades, has anyone tried it? Please share the experience.

Hi everyone I'm looking for a way to mainstream Linux phones for myself (I need WhatsApp) and for other people that also need WhatsApp I thought for a bit and came to the conclusion that the KaiOS version of WhatsApp is the only Version which is possible to import to Linux without changing any code by making a shell around the app that communicates with Linux (more of a container really)
Can you tell me if this is possible and if so can you please help me find the WhatsApp app files for KaiOS because it's impossible to find.

Hi,

I did a "quick" experiment to find out how long the Pinephone can stay on with all radios disabled (4G, wifi, bluetooth). It seems that this is at around 6-8 days now. I tested this on postmarketOS 21.12 on a braveheart device upgraded to the v1.2 mainboard. See also this issue:

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1365  

I think about retrying the same experiment but with the device being connected to the mobile network this time.

While working on Blackberry Z30  a SW Simulation was available. 

Just wondering if such a thing exist for the PinePhone.  Haven't  seen anything resembling it.

This is the stock AOSP image from my PinePhone Pro, I took it (dumped it as soon I got the device) and make it work on SD card. This will be useful for anyone looking to test their hardware but didn't have a chance to, or maybe just for playing around.

The bootloader must not be present on the eMMC, otherwise the image won't boot. I've tested "recovery mode" and factory reset, they work perfectly fine too. However, reboot is broken as the phone just hangs.

You can download the image here: https://danctnix.arikawa-hi.me/misc/pine..._sd.img.xz

Alternatively, the eMMC dump (~117GB unxz'd) is available here: https://danctnix.arikawa-hi.me/misc/pine...mmc.img.xz

Hello,


I am running into an error when launching docker on Manjaro. I read on some other forums that it might be an issue with cgroup v2. Not sure how to fix this on the Pinephone.




Error message:

My pinephone 3G beta convergence edition cannot access its SD card slot.  I've opened support ticket 11995 "Cannot access SD card" which was immediately closed as a duplicate of a completely different issue 11978 "Pinephone CE fails pin unlock on battery".

My first question is on etiquette.  Are we supposed to open new tickets for new issues?

Are both of these issues in fact related to production QC?  This phone shipped with a very frustrating, known, old software bug with a solution on the forum.  Incorrect timing settings in a configuration file.  Was this a one off, or systemic?   Coupled with https://forum.pine64.org/announcements.php?aid=42 I must question how phones are escaping into the wild with these easily avoided defects.

My phone also does not have a functioning SD interface which makes me wonder how they load software at the factory and test SD function.  Can anyone suggest a procedure to load OS without SD card?  https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/NOOB#Flashi...es_Only.29 does not show a procedure for Pinephone.  The only suggestion from support has been

Quote:Please flash the Beta Edition factory test OS build to microSd card and check whether able to boot up properly.

Here is the link: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_S..._OS_builds

This one is priority.  I can access file system via the terminal, but not even close to as fast as with the graphical app. (a bit of whining -  sorry).

Would be nice to activate the graphical app via the terminal.

Hi,

I wonder if anyone who has successfully booted some OS on their Quartz64 attempted to do some power consumption measures. Measures in idle and under full load would be very welcome!