I struggled for a few hours to get ADB commands on my laptop talking to the Android OS on the Quartz64.

Here are some tips that I think will help:-
I used an A to A USB cable from Amazon.  It's just a straight through 4 way to 4 way A to A cable.
As you look at the USB ports on the Quartz64 it has to be the top right one (with black plastic tongue), above the USB 3 port (with blue plastic tongue).
I can only get it to work if the cable is connected from the Quartz64 to the laptop before booting up the board.  I'm not yet 100% sure but I think that it has to be a cold boot, not a reboot.

Usefully if you do adb shell and get a Linux prompt on the Quartz64 from there you can run sudo and have root access.

Hi,

I've been trying unsuccessfully to flash to eMMC the images from https://github.com/manjaro-arm/quartz64-...s/releases

In absence of any instruction, I thought that a simple dd would have been enough, but it does not look so.

Flashing the image the the SD card works well though! Is there something different to flash the image, or something more to do afterward?

The symptoms are that during the boot sequence, it just stops always at the same place, just after kernel start:

I have been playing with RKDevTool v2.71 on the Quartz64 running Android and it appears to work.
I haven't yet tried to write an image to eMMC with it.  Doing this requires knowledge that I don't yet have.

I found that versions 4.x of Rockchip Driverassistant wouldn't work, but 5.1.1 does. Well either that or I made a mistake somewhere.

To run RKDevTool one needs to plug in a Windows laptop with an A to A USB cable, shut down the Quartz64, press the "recovery" button and whilst continuing to press it power on the Quartz64.

This will put the Quartz64 into "loader" mode.

In RKDevTool in Advanced Functions you can reset the Quartz64 (boot Android again) or go into Maskrom mode.

The ExportImage feature only works if Start + Count doesn't exceed 65536 and with Start=0 and Count=65536 it appears to dump out the first 32MB of the eMMC module.

I haven't played with the batch tool yet.

I don't suppose that these tools are that important with a Quartz64 unless you want to seal it up in a box making removal of the eMMC module difficult, but my objective is to learn more generally about the RK3566 at the moment.

I hope that this is useful to someone as it took me hours to figure it out.

Forgot my pine lockscreen pin, so I tried to install manjaro. Jumpdrive is working to get into the phone but I seem to be having an issue installing an image. The original postmarket os boot partition(127mb) continues to be the only bootable partition. Is it possible to expand the partition to one large one and let manjaro partition as needed. The other partitions never come as bootable so I keep getting the factory test screen every time.

Seen several youtube videos explaining this, newbie I admit I am....but this is frustrating.

The Quartz64 comes with an SPDIF output pin, so I've decided to make a little adapter board that converts this to TOSLink. With it, you can connect the Quartz64 up to your optical audio equipment. The board's design is open hardware, you can find the KiCAD files on GitHub: https://github.com/CounterPillow/quartz64-toslink-hat



The board plugs straight into the GPIO pins, and allows for stacking whatever else on top of it using the long pin legs. Only the front row of 3 pins is actually used, the back row is not connected and merely used for mechanical stability.

I've produced a small batch of these adapter boards, and am selling them for USD 9.99 (excl. shipping + customs) on Tindie. Check it out if you're interested, or make your own from the design files.

Greetings Everyone!
I just receved my new Pine Phone last night and it seems to work with our Fido network. Fido is a dummy company of Rogers to give us the illusion of having more choices than we do. So it likely works on their network since it's really the same as the one I'm posting from now. If anyone here wants to update on the wikia of compatible carriers then please do.

Thus far I've been using the preinstalled Manjaro with mixed results. I often get error messages that the modem is busy or otherwise cannot connect to my mobile network. When making calls I have to go into the settings to manually switch from the loudspeaker to the earspeaker then manually switch it back again when I'm done. Attempting to save files like JPGs through Angelfish does nothing. Does anyone know of fixes for these?

I would consider tryjng another OS like Ubuntu Touch but it has its own compatibility issues at present so are there any other OSes that can reliably use the Pine Phone to make calls, text, lightly browse online and listen to MP3s? It doesn't have to be pretty so long as it works. I use Zorin on my desktop and a modified version of Rasbian on my Pi 4b in a tablet enosure so I have some basic experience with different types of Linux.

Thanks in advance and I will look forward to participating on this forum with all you freedom lovers, hackers and other enthusists!

Posting this in a new thread so it's easier to see, tried piggybacking on another thread but not sure anyone will see it

I've got a ANSI Pinebook Pro for sale, $200 shipped in the US.  It's hardly ever been used and as such, is in excellent condition.  I liked the device but I've not had nearly the freetime I had hoped to be able to learn Linux and ARM so would happily like to help this neat little machine find a worthy new owner.  I've attached a couple pics but can take more if needed, no bezel cracking or other issues present thus far and no dead pixels that I have seen.  Never been taken apart so only has the 64gb of storage that comes standard.  Will throw in a little laptop sleeve along with the original box and barrel plug charger.

Hi
Why is there no subforum somewhere under Quartz64 for discussing Android? like there is for Linux?
Please can we have one?

or is there someone place or site that people talk about it?

thanks, DNJ

I opened an encrypted SD card using a USB card reader connected to the phone. It appeared in the Index app, which showed the "mount" button and then I could enter the passphrase. But now I don't know how to unmount & lock it. The Index app doesn't have the usual unmounting icon like Dolphin has. I had to unmount via the terminal.

Is there a direct way to unmount & lock a card via the Index app? Or in Settings, or somewhere else?

I'd like to create a new flashable Manjaro+Plasma image, but with an encrypted partition dedicated to the /home folder and a corresponding entry in /etc/crypttab. When the phone boots up, I would expect a passphrase prompt (will it happen?). How would I be able to type in a passphrase on the screen, given that it the OS hasn't booted up completely yet? Is there a way to add a virtual keyboard at boot time?

Or better yet: is it possible to delay the decryption until after the phone boots up, but just before the first lock screen? That way, a virtual keyboard would be more feasible. This is how Sailfish X did it, anyway. Any ideas would be very welcome.