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!

Hello all!
I just got my PineBook Pro in the mail and have been getting used to Manjaro (I have been a regular user of Ubuntu/Debian before). I want to install Java so I can code and work in Java projects using the PBP, however the arm architecture has allegedly been causing me some issues. I installed YAY and did yay -S jdk and then chose jre11, but I get the following warning: the following packages are not compatible with your architechture: jre11. Should I try to build them anyway? Any help is welcome, I figured I would ask others who have succeeded in installing java, with its necessary jdk and jre, on your PBPs.

• Should I be trying to install JRE11?
  
• What jdk should I get?
  
• Any other things that will be necessary to get java development up and running on my PBP?
  

I'm looking to modify the cluster board in order to have the camera ports exposed so I can feed cameras in for the new AI modules to use. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Clusterboar..._and_other has the "Clusterboard version 2.2 Schematic Capture source file" but its pretty much useless to me as I don't have OrCAD and nothing I've tried was able to convert the (presumably) OrCAD *.dsn file from the wiki into some format I can open.  


Has anyone been able to open it or convert it to any of the more widely available formats. I can't get KiCAD, EasyEDA, or https://schematics.io to do anything with the file.

Pinephone's case covers the LED with a Fresnel lens probably to diffuse the light.

The problem is that the lens analyses the spectrum of the white light and produces circular rings of different wavelengths(colours), so we start from a warm yellowish colour in the middle and we reach blue on the outter periphery.

There are various such things that I wish to modify on Pinephone even by replacing ICs if this is possible.

My general observation is that Pinephone seems to be purposefully designed to be of inferior performance comparing with phones of a similar class, everything somehow "isn't working so well" for no specific reason though we have already been many years in the age of smartphones and we also have many years of experience with Ubuntu Touch.

The same observations apply to the audio quality though I have not still researched whether I can somehow optimise it except for putting the Pinephone in a box to gain some bass.