Hello

I got the Pine64 back in August 2021. I’ve been trying to get it to work ever since. I’ve tried three or four OS on it with the same results. I can’t log into anything. 

Finally almost for Firefox to work, but I can see a tiny bit of the page. Any menu items show the first few charactors. Laying the phone on it’s side opens up the menus some, but the keyboard blocks all the page.

Tried to setup the chat. Nope. Says log in failed even though it’s the same login I’ve always used. It also won’t let me change the protocol to test that.

Any apps I try to download won’t connect or work. 

It is so slow. When you tap a button there is about a 10-15 second delay before it works, if it works. You have no idea till finally several pop up and it crashes.

I’ve had it connected to WiFi only to test it. The back gets hot. Each time I test it, it will crash a couple times and I have to pull the battery at least once to reset it.

I really want to use this phone. So far the only use I’ve found for it is a paper weight and dust collector. If anyone has any ideas how to get it working, I’m open to suggestions.

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.

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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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:

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!

Hello. I am looking for the lcd panel, from any dead pinebook pro, because i broke mine. I am in Europe.

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

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?

Since 2022 has just begun here 4 minutes ago, happy new year everybody!