How do someone set up a VPN, tor and signal on a pinephone? And while i'm asking. How do you fully encrypt a pinephone? Good features to have on a phone focused on privacy. One option while getting a new pinephone should be the option to encrypt it at boot in my opinion.

I discovered a few days ago that the built-in camera in my pinebook pro is not working.  I'm not sure for how long this has been going on, since I never actually tried before.

Since lsusb does not see it, I guess this cannot be a software problem:

My device is a PinePhone Beta Edition. On every distro I tried, whenever I turn the screen off, it will not wake up again (the screen flickers and then goes permanently black), and I have to hold the power button for 10 seconds and boot it back up again.

Below is the list of distros I tried:

- ArchLinuxARM/Phosh, with DRAM underclocked
- Manjaro/Plasma Mobile
- Manjaro/Phosh
- Mobian/Phosh
- Ubuntu Touch/Lomiri, channel KernelUpgrade

So the problem seems hardware-related.

Also, when the power key was pressed, journalctl reports "unable to get EDID for xrandr-DSI-1: unable to get EDID for output" on Phosh, but nothing on Plasma Mobile.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Thanks!

Hey! With the current way the chats are bridged across different platforms, I find it difficult to visually distinguish messages from people on other platforms, because they all come from Pine64 Protocol Bot, with the same username and avatar (though the reference to C3PO is amusing <3).

I'm far not an expert in the topic, but as I know Matrix bridges can provide much better integration, passing actual usernames and avatars accross the bridge. There are bridges for many platforms, including discord, telegram and IRC: https://matrix.org/bridges. Most of them can be self-hosted or use third-party hosting, such as https://t2bot.io/.

So maybe we could try to bridge Pine64 chats around Matrix? We could try it first with just one chat channel, maybe #offtopic, or create a test one, and see how it goes?

I'm almost sure someone brought it up before and won't be surprised if there are good reasons not to do this, and if so I'm sorry for making another thread, but I searched the forum for around 10 minutes and couldn't find anything related.

I got a new pinebook pro a couple of weeks ago.  It booted into Manjaro KDE.  I'm a regular i3 user and saw there was an i3 image package so I just tried installing it with pacman.  When I restarted and tried i3, it seemed like some extras like dmenu and i3-status weren't installed.  Then, I saw there's an i3 manajaro image for pbp and decide to just install that.  So I installed the flasher tool and just tried to direct flash onto the sdcard with the manjaro installer tool.  Well, this seemed to bork things.

No problem, I downloaded the i3 image with another laptop and `dd`ed it onto an sdcard.  Thankfully, the PBP booted the external sdcard no problem and dropped me into the installer menu.  I did the setup and it rebooted.  I saw the manjaro splash screen for a while.  Then it just looked strange and got stuck.  The manjaro splash screen just stretched out into three lines.  I tried finding virtual terminals with some text with the ctrl + f keys and found no text.

So then I thought that maybe the i3 image i was using was problematic.  So I went through the process again the manjaro pbp xfce image.  Same thing: booted fine to the installer.  The installer completed successfully.  On reboot, the splash screen, then the stretchy splash screen and no progress after that.

I guess I have two questions:

1) How can I turn off the splash screen on the kernel options on the image that gets installed by the installer? I want a textual boot so I can see where things are getting stuck. 
2) If you know what's going on based on my symptom, just tell me.  I'm happy to hear that someone else knows what's up and what I should do to fix it.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi,
How easy is it to build apps for the pine phone.

I am currently building apps for android phones and find this process quite frustrating at times. Given that the pine phone essentially runs a conventional Linux distribution, can apps be built using languages such as python directly? Is there a preferred language for building apps? Or is an SDK required?

Also,
Can lightweight Linux distributions such as MXLinux be adapted to run on the pine phone.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers.

I have looked up relevant information on Google.
Since 5.6, pine a64 already supports dsi in the kernel mainline.And the Feiyang FY07024DI26A30-D 7inch MIPI-DSI LCD Panel driver and dts already released.
But the 7inch LCD above is a video mode panel. I can not found any information about the command mode panel.
Is pine a64 mipi-dsi supports command mode in the kernel mainline?
Is possible to use a command mode dsi panel with pine a64？
Any help is appreciated!!

Hi.
Does any one knows is it possibly  to power up this soldering iron with 6s Li-Ion battery pack? Fully charged 6s battery will be 25v. In the description whey say dc voltage 12v to 21v. Max voltage 24v. But in settings menu i can set up voltage protection from 4s to 6s. I want to know did anyone tried to power up this iron more then 24v?

Hi,
Ive got two similar setups. Im running and booting my rp64 through nvme and have a rpi4 running and booting through usb 3 external ssd. I find that the rpi4 Manjaro runs much faster than the rp64 Manjaro DE. Firefox and start menu appears to be much smoother. Is this a graphic driver issue? Anyone have the same outputs or have figured out other ways to compensate for the speed? Rp64 should be much quicker. It appears to be when building packages...

Brand New -Never used Community Edition Mobian w/ Convergance package
New: Screen protector , Hard case, extra usb charge, Keyboard USB- missed the deadline for return-  I can ship - I’m in Oregon - asking $230 + shipping. Thanks!