Below links show pinephone with retail price, which may be including warranty beyond the 30 days, not even sure of that..
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12711
https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-s...il-stores/
Is there any similar existing or planned extended warranty offer for the rockpro64?

I am also interested if others had interest in such an option, please share

Attaching a Rockpro64 via its ethernet port to my PBP, it's supposed to be possible to "share" the PBP's wifi connection with it, which actually involves setting up NAT & DHCP automatically under the hood.

Network Manager > Edit Connections > Wired connection 1 > IPv4 Settings > Method: Shared to other computers

But it didn't work.

After banging on it all morning, I found this article,
https://fedoramagazine.org/internet-conn...rkmanager/

which mentions that it uses dnsmasq. Check; dnsmasq is not running. Check; package dnsmasq is not installed. Install dnsmasq; now it works.

That ought to be declared as a dependency.

Edit: When installing NetworkManager, it does list dnsmasq as an optional dependency for connection sharing. But the user doesn't necessarily ever see this message. It should either be a hard dep, or Network Manager should detect the absence of dnsmasq & give an informative error message, rather than just mysteriously not working.

I've been setting up my Rockpro64 with a Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rockpro64-21.08.img that I DLed a while ago. The built-in ethernet worked.

After upgrading the system via pacman, it does not work.

Old kernel: 5.13.12-1-MANJARO-ARM
New kernel: 5.14.1-1-MANJARO-ARM

Or possibly the new linux-firmware 20210818.c46b8c3-1.

If I connect a random USB ethernet dongle, that works fine.
But with the built-in port, nothing gets through. Pinging my PBP makes the lights on its dongle flash, but absolutely nothing shows up in Wireshark running on it. The ARP pings apparently aren't comprehensible.

Anybody want to test & confirm? Or is it just me?

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Edit 09.17 (Fri)
The update to kernel 5.14.2-1-MANJARO-ARM a couple of days ago fixed it.

Hi all,

I killed my first RockPro64 after only some minutes of use. It seems I put the SATA card in the wrong direction in. It starts directly to smoke after it gets power.

Now, I got a new one and I want only know if I got it now the right way!?

   

Regards corax

Hi all,





I'm on Manjaro with Plasma Mobile on a pinephone rev 1.2. Just updated to the latest testing branch and got the Megapixels 1.3.0.

Since then colors in images feel way off.





I dug around a bit to find the difference in the postprocessing script.




The change seems to occur around line 76 of /usr/share/megapixels/postprocess.sh:

Some of us live in remote and or mountainous areas with poor to no signal strength for 2g,3g,4g and gps Im wondering if a case could be made that has an extra battery/batteries and external antenna ports for powered higher strength antennas. Im also wondering if the 6 gold breakout pins in the back would be sufficient for such a modular case.

Hello,

Is the upcoming pinephone keyboard planned with different layouts ? I can speculate on that, as the pinebook has only been released with qwerty layouts (the subtle ANSI vs ISO difference wasn't really interesting to me).

I understand it would be complex to produce many different layouts. At minimum, are keyboard stickers (eg. azerty...) been planned ? It would be likely impossible to find any commercially available sticker that would fit the small buttons of the keyboard.

Thank you for the feedback !

I was so happy today with so many packages updates, but after the reboot calls geary and gnome-contacts were missing, I tried to reinstall and got "dipends on packages libfolks-eds25(>=0.14) and libfolks25(>=0.14), but not installable" "impossible to correct the problem, the packages are dammaged and broken" (I was translating the output of the terminal, those may not be exact words)

I have been inspired to make my own phone and really like my Pinephone.

As I start on this journey I am looking for some friendly guidance. I would really like to chat with some of the folks in the Pine64 hardware team so that I can learn a bit more and even see how viable my idea is or if there is any synergy between out projects.

Right now I am looking for a manufacturer to make me an android phone with hardware similar to the Pinephone in many ways so I thought that this community would be a great place to start.

I would be very appreciative to chat with anyone with manufacturing experience making phones especially with a community based model.

Recent thread item says installed plasma beta7 update.  My information tab in settings says 5.xxx for kde.  I would like info on:

Where is the beta7 update available?

Can I install a kde plasma update through pacman online update or do I need to install manjaro +plasma through a flash?

If it can be obtained through pacman how do I reference the search and update on the commandline?

thanks for any info,       tom kosvic