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| Assists for running Mobian my PinePhone |
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Posted by: gilwood - 01-01-2022, 04:38 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone
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Moved back to Mobian Phosh on my Pinephone (3GB version). Have been checking out distros by copying to a PinePhone folder on my windows PC. I then load an SD card into the phone that I have installed JumpDrive using Etcher. When the phone is then connected to my PC via USB JumpDrive starts automatically. I can then go to Etcher and move an OS to the eMMC drive. A video covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0zwq6jI30. Kudos to Pine64 for making this easy and forgiving.
Another significant tool was the purchase of a Bluetooth keyboard with a touchpad and left/right buttons from Amazon. After pairing the keyboard with my phone I was easily able to scroll around the desktop, click selections, type and easily use terminal. [url=https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_dp_s_web_0?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=waherfo][/url]
The last breakthrough was finding File Manager PC Man FM in the software utilities of the Mobian software store (icon on the desktop). This app allowed me to access song and PDF files I had stored on the SD card in my phone. I completed a copy/paste of the files into the appropriate folders in Mobian and now had file to test out the music player (lollypop) and the PDF viewer that is located on the desktop. I can now listen to music and read PDF's on the phone.
I am sharing this info so that other new users of the PinePhone won't get frustrated by not being able to use their phone. I am also becoming better acquainted using the terminal in Linux for the phone as well as my Raspberry Pi (since they both are running Debian). Hope these comments help.
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| Any experiences with hardware mod to improve eMMC speeds? |
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Posted by: kqlnut - 01-01-2022, 08:00 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware
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I recently came across this very interesting article on how to modify the PinePhone's hardware to allow a different timing mode for the eMMC in order to improve read speeds (theoratically up to 200 MB/s vs. currently 104 MB/s). I'm wondering if anybody has performed this hardware mod and can comment on how noticeable the speed improvements are for everyday use? Does it even make a real difference at all (e.g. for application loading times)?
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| U-boot not booting on H64 model B |
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Posted by: CGNZVV - 01-01-2022, 01:47 AM - Forum: Linux on Pine H64
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I am trying to get mainline U-Boot to run on the H64 B.
I'm able to boot Armbian successfully, but the U-Boot I compile never works.
Any help would be appreciated.
I've tried these two scenarios:
- Flash Armbian to an SD card, it boots successfully, then overwrite my U-Boot onto that card, and it fails to boot. Filesystem and partitioning unmodified from what Armbian had, just overwrite U-Boot with dd.
- create an Arch Linux SD card using my U-Boot and rootfs. It fails to boot on the H64. I'm using a very similar method to what I do for an Odroid C4, and it works on the C4 - the C4 has a different uboot, but the process I use to make the SD card is the same.
In both cases, the UART shows:
Code: U-Boot SPL 2022.01-rc4-00030-gb3f84a939f (Jan 01 2022 - 00:28:05 -0700)
DRAM: 4096 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
And it hangs at that last line.
Using the reset button just results in that message being printed again:
Code: U-Boot SPL 2022.01-rc4-00030-gb3f84a939f (Jan 01 2022 - 00:28:05 -0700)
DRAM: 4096 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
U-Boot SPL 2022.01-rc4-00030-gb3f84a939f (Jan 01 2022 - 00:28:05 -0700)
DRAM: 4096 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
U-Boot SPL 2022.01-rc4-00030-gb3f84a939f (Jan 01 2022 - 00:28:05 -0700)
DRAM: 4096 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
I've also tried doing a power cycle instead of using the reset button, that leads to the same result.
I think I'm creating U-Boot in the right way. Here's what I'm doing (based off of https://github.com/qemu/u-boot/blob/mast...ME.sunxi64, and seems to match what as365n4 is doing in his post @ https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11703):
Code: # compile ATF
git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git
cd arm-trusted-firmware
CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=sun50i_h6 make bl31
=> Built build/fvp/release/bl31.bin successfully
# configure and compile U-Boot
git clone https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git
cd u-boot
cp ../arm-trusted-firmware/build/fvp/release/bl31.bin .
make pine_h64_defconfig
CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- SCP=/dev/null make -j16 all
I've tried master ATF & U-Boot both with and without SCP, compiled as such:
Code: git clone https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust
cd crust
CROSS_COMPILE=or1k-elf- make pine_h64_defconfig
CROSS_COMPILE=or1k-elf- make scp
The or1k-elf toolchain is a bit different from the or1k-linux-musl that the sunxi readme suggests, but SCP shouldn't be required anyway in the first place.
I've also tried ATF v2.3 with U-Boot 2020.10, since as365n4 reported that working for him on post 24 of his thread... but same result, hangs at "Trying to boot from MMC1".
Flashing U-Boot to the SD with:
Code: dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sda bs=8k seek=1
I've spent a few hours banging my head against this but haven't been able to get any result other than "Trying to boot from MMC1"...
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| Pure Talk MMS |
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Posted by: jwide - 12-31-2021, 06:41 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone
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Has anyone been able to get MMS working with Pure Talk? I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I see files in ~/.mms/modemmanager but the Chatty GUI never displays them. I also have never successfully sent an MMS message. I am able to access mobile data on the network.
I got the settings from https://www.puretalkusa.com/phone_programming
Below are my settings:
Chatty:
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
APN: RESELLER
Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
Settings/Mobile Network/Access Point Names:
Name: Pure Talk
APN: RESELLER
Thanks for the help!
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| DFinity IC OS on Pinephone |
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Posted by: quasimotoca - 12-31-2021, 03:17 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software
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Hi:
Do you think it's possible to run DFinity's Internet Computer OS on a Pinephone? It's a Linux based kernel optimized for their blockchain network.
Cheers,
Dave
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| Boot from SPI first |
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Posted by: mjnck - 12-31-2021, 11:23 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCK64
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Hi, is it possible to boot from SPI when emmc is inserted?
When i want to boot armbian buster (NextCloudPi) from sdcard/emmc without spi u-boot (installed from https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u...k64.img.xz) i've got kernel panic during boot. When using spi u-boot from ayufan it boots NexCloudPi from sdcard properly. Sadly it doesn't work for emmc. Propably it ignores SPI and goes straight to emmc boot 
Maybe I can somehow "broke" u-boot on emmc so it will think it is not bootable and next SPI u-boot will look for u-boot on emmc and load it?
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| New year 2022 |
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Posted by: ryo - 12-31-2021, 09:03 AM - Forum: News
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Since 2022 has just begun here 4 minutes ago, happy new year everybody!
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