We received our Pinephones and have cycled through almost all of the available OS options. None of them really consistently seem to work for receiving and making phone calls. I am currently running Arch and it seems to be the least glitchy, and my husband has Mobian. We really need, above all else, to be able to make and receive calls. We are in the country with solid 3G and spotty 4G.  Arch gets calls most of the time, makes calls most of the time, but if there is any switching between 3G/4G then sound is lost or call is dropped. Mobian seems to be worse. We really like KDE but got nowhere with phone calls on that. What is the scoop? We are currently trying PureTalk for service, and have entertained switching back to Verizon, but my suspicion is that it is the phone/software,.not the service. Help!

I'd like to attach an SSD to the Quartz64 Model-A and put them in a case. 

I don't see an M.2 slot mentioned, so I guess a SATA SSD is what I need?

Does the hardware follow some existing convention, so that I might be able to find some little plastic case with the openings for Ethernet and power in the right place?

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Although hardware acceleration seems to be enabled in the options:

Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ View

it does not seem active in practice: Calc is extremely slow, even when switching cells with the arrows and there are large black artifacts in the window from time to time in Writer.

Under linux ARM, some programs support hardware acceleration (chromium, firefox ...) others seem not to support it (LibreOffice, Gimp...).

Will a USB fast charger make my Pinebook Pro charge faster? If so, what model do you recommend?

How can I minimize power usage in Manjaro(e.g. turning off CPU cores, lowering default brightness, etc.)

I have received a USB-C docking stick with my Manjaro Community Edition which was apparently dead on arrival (it doesn't show up in dmesg/lsusb and is not recognized under other OS's either). Unfortunately I didn't check it thoroughly at first, attributing the problems to the well-known issues of the PinePhone with regards to USB-C PD and HDMI over USB-C (hardware and software deficiencies). Upon contacting the support now, I was told the dock is out of warranty. I proposed to donate it to Pine64 for recycling/refurbishing but was denied.

1) Has anyone tried to disassemble the item? The aluminum enclosure seems to be very snug.
2) Would anyone be interested in it for experimenting (the item untampered and looking as new)? I can arrange mailing across the US for free.
3) As the last alternative, what would be the best way to dispose of it as e-waste?

The multi boot sxmo image build doesn't have any audio. The audio defaults to none and changing it doesn't work. Is it same for all? I have even tried the sxmo on the arch phosh multi boot image and there is no audio there as well.

Does anyone know of an actively maintained Linux that works on RockPro64 running off of the eMMC? If so please post in a reply.

I was using Ayufan's Ubuntu before I was concerned about the fact that it isn't well maintained and thus could be vulnerable to security exploits since the last stable release.

I also now feel like I've tried all the version of Linuxes listed on the wiki page and so far only older version of Armbian seems to boot from the eMMC module. Unfortunately, last time I tried to set it up for my use case (as a Docker host) the older version of the Linux kernel stopped progress!

I was hopeful something like SkiffOS using Gentoo would help being custom built but I've run into some walls getting it to build or copy over to the eMMC so I'm stuck there too.

This is a SUPER frustrating experience (in fact most of my Pine64 experiences have been frustrating due to software issues, OS stuff mainly). Short of learning how to build and patch my own Linux (I'm technical but that is well out of my experience) I'm at a bit of loss as what to do.

(Side question: Does anyone else find the Pine64 boards frustrating due to OS support issues?)

In any case please, if you have them, post links or instructions as to how you got an actively maintained Linux booting off of the eMMC for RockPro64 thank you!

have installed cheese but get error that device not found

seems unable to find camera or device needs to be enabled

Barry

I've had the pinephone a few months now. It is not my regular phone, for me it is just a fun hobby. I've been using Phosh on Arch. 

Today was audio play day. I unpacked a few hundred sound files I've collected over the years. Most were wave and I converted them using ffmpeg to ogg.
I played them on my PC and found some froze mpv when playing, so weeded them out. 

Now I am starting to play them on the phone and find that not only is pulse spitting an error "Stream error: Timeout" after a frustrating delay, but once I get that error I can not reboot, shutdown or any other admin task. It won't even let me drop down the top bar or login from the login shield.

I've played the files on an updated fresh install. Via the terminal and via ssh. 

Quote:pulseaudio -k 
pulseaudio: invalid option -- '�'
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to parse command line.

Quote:pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Quote:ffmpeg -i input.wav -ac 2 -ar 22000 -b:a 64k output.ogg