Hi all,

I was wondering whether there was a "kit" version of the PinePhone that allowed the user to customise the hardware?

Specifically the customisations I'm looking at:
- SMA connection for external cellular antenna: in spite of being on one of the "better" carriers (Telstra) here in Australia, sometimes I'm in places where reception is not great
- enlarged battery (presently I get about 2 days stand-by on my ZTE T83, I'd like to expand this)

I also thought it'd be cool to do something unique case-wise: maybe using thin pine sheets for the front/back cover with clear acrylic in between edge-lit from inside with notification LEDs.  It'd be a literal "pine" phone, and I think could be made to look good and really sell the concept of an end-user customisable smartphone platform.  A custom enclosure also means I can accommodate the larger battery and external antenna connection much easier too.

Regards,
Stuart Longland

Hi,

I just received my Rockpro64, I plugged the fan in, and then added the SATA adapter and some drives, plugged in the HDMI, made an armbian sdcard according to the instructions, and then plugged in the board with the power supply I ordered from Pine64.

I can hear the drives spin up, I see a little green light, but nothing else. The fan doesn't spin (is it supposed to?) I get nothing on the HDMI display.

What can I do to debug what is going on here?

Thanks!

Let me intruduce idea how performance can be increased on the PinePhone.

I know about https://github.com/Frogging-Family
This GitHub contain patches for increase compatibility with games, nvidia drivers, kernel performance and more.
Linux-tkg can use more schedulers (BMQ, MUQSS, PDS, UNDEAD-PDS), but mainline linux have only CFS.

Next useful project is Xanmod https://xanmod.org/
It's something similar like Linux-tkg, but it use different patches.

So i think if we cherry pick right patches from both projects, performance on the PinePhone can be better without affecting battery life or temperature.
In my opinion, following patches is useful for the PinePhone:
1. More schdeulers - people can try, what scheduler bring top performance.
2. Tickless kernel
3. CK's high-resolution kernel timers (hrtimer)
4. Full multi-core block layer runqueue


What do you think guys? Should i write to https://megous.com/git/linux/about/ or do you have more or better idea?

Hi everybody,

-- short version for the impatient :-)

I have 2 questions:
- when does the yellow LED go on/off on the ASM1062 board?
- what is the minimal setup of rockpro64 that should not show "gen1 timeout" errror but some entries in lspci etc?


-- long version

i have bought 

• a rockpro64 2.1 board (builddate 2018-07-02)
  
• according 60W power supply
  
• nas case
  
• asmedia 1062 pcie board
  
• 14 TB Toshiba SATA disk
  
• 512 MB Sandisk SATA SSD
  

• see the gen1 timeout on u-boot. 
  
• When starting u-boot and issuing the
  
  pci
  
  command, i usually get "No such Bus" back.
  

Does a cable come with the pinecil or do we have to buy the cable separately?

Hey Everyone,

I've created a simple GUI to access passwords stored with pass.
Right now, if you already have your pass repository setup on your device,
you can use PinePass to search for passwords and copy them to the clipboard.

Packaging is in a rough state right now, and no launcher entries are added but
you can check it out here: https://github.com/mpnordland/pine_pass

It's still very experimental, so don't @ me if it eats your passwords. (Really don't think that will happen, but still...)

Love to hear feedback/questions.

Micah

Hi

First I want to apologize if this has been answered.  I have been looking at the website and the forums but I can't seem to find the answer.
It's a while since I'm seeing there's stock for the PBP but with ANSI keyboard. I'd like to buy a new PBP but with ISO layout.

Do we have an estimated date for stock of the PBP but with the ISO keyboard?

Thanks

I got my PinePhone a few days ago. I wanted to document my thoughts and findings. I am a huge Arch Linux fan. So, I went with Arch Linux on the PinePhone.

Installing Arch Linux
I used Jumpdrive to expose the eMMC and flashed the latest Arch release. Thank you @Danct12
I then used ssh to log into my phone and updated everything to the latest releases.

• I was told, if you make a phone call and the phone drops to 3G during the call, it will be removed because it is doing Vo3G not VoLTE. The PinePhone stayed at 4G during phone calls. 
  

1. Flashing the OS was easy
   
2. Connecting to Wifi was easy
   
3. Maps and GPS worked
   
4. Camera worked
   
5. I can add software with "sudo pacman -S pcmanfm"
   
6. I can update the whole phone with "sudo pacman -Syyu"
   
7. Syncthing is in the repositories and could be launched via terminal
   
8. Geary works well with gmail
   
9. Gnome-Calendar work well with google calendar
   

1. squeekboard - to have swype/swipe
   
2. squeekboard - to have suggested words pop up (spellchecker)
   
3. Geary - to have some swipe options
   
4. Gnome-Calendar - to have some swipe options 
   
5. Display size to have a 150% option
   
6. Brave Browser to added to the repositories
   

I received my phone over a month ago and on day 2 I removed my Verizon card in order to install my Sprint card.  The cheap plastic part that wraps around the card grabbed the tiny pins that stick up and broke one of them off.  I contacted the guys at pinephone and they informed me I needed to remove the card and send to California which I did that day.

After over a month I finally received a new motherboard for the phone and was excited to finally get it going again.  However, the board is totally dead and after trying to contact them through email they told me to come here and post to see if anyone has any ideas.  I get no lights or any other sign the board is even working at all.  The power cable is working on Android phone so would assume it should be fine on this phone and it was working fine a month ago when I was using it.

I was originally excited about being able to work on my own phone again but am starting to think I've just wasted my time and money.  Anyone have any ideas of what I can try here?

Thanks,

Glenn

Hello,

as the title says, I get no shortcuts on my homescreen after installing packages via