I must ask if there a version of debian for the pinebook pro that can support the gpu without having to get too deep into recompiling things?(somewhat pain free install)

So I followed along the guide to install CentOS 7 referenced on the Wiki (and noted on the thread here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...&pid=95685 and the guide on the developer's site here: https://project31.github.io/pine64/), and decided to give upgrading to CentOS 8 and then switching to Stream a try.

I followed a few guides online (specifically here https://www.tecmint.com/upgrade-centos-7-to-centos-8/ and here https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos8/docs/migration/), and with a tad extra fiddling to handle the kernel version, I was able to get fully updated and now am booting into CentOS stream!

My question is that upgrading 7 - 8 isn't technically supported, so I would like to try making an updated image for Stream 8.

The Project31 site has some info linking to it's inspiring project, which mentions taking the AArch64 image and a booting Armbian image and swapping out the rootfs bits while preserving the the /boot, /lib/modules, and /lib/firmware (here: https://github.com/umiddelb/aarch64/wiki...ch64-board)

When I try to follow up on this, I cannot seem to figure out how to take the images available on the CentOS site and extract the rootfs.... Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you for your help, and your patience!

Just setting up a new Pinephone with the stock Manjaro OS and getting a 'wrong PIN' error, despite checking a few times when setting up the phone the PIN I would use.

How can I re-run the setup/installation process again? There doesn't appear to be a factory setting or recovery mode option.

Can get usable sound on speakers by setting card to rk... (not default) and increasing volume of "headphones" ? to max and by increasing audio scale to 150% in system settings: audio. But the settings are not persistent. They disappear on rebooting and at other times during use.
Someone mentioned a fix but I can't find it. Thanks for any tips.
Edit: the alsamixer is set back to the "default" card choice when the sound goes back to very low volume. If I re-choose the rk... card, the volume goes back up. I think this is happening when listening to a series of you tubes. Maybe the default setting could be set to the rk... card in some config file. Have each choice be the same?

Hi, all...

...I bought a stock 64G laptop (Pro) from Pine. I have had it about a month.



I tried out a few OS's and played around with it a little. It's interesting, but I think someone on this forum would appreciate it more than I do.


Asking $200, and that includes shipping for (most) U.S. buyers. If you are outside the continental U.S., message me and we'll see what we can figure out.




Cheers,

-Robert



P.S. I am often outside of internet range. If you try to contact me and I don't get right back to you, just give me few hours to respond.                

I've had my Pinephone for some weeks now, and I'm trying to solve one important nagging issue. 

The Broadband modem will just die and not come back up. I'm suspecting that it may be a weak or absent carrier signal but, I have very little to go on.

I'm not finding any  mmcli commands that would allow me to reboot the modem. 

When this happens, it's as if the device is gone, or has been completely unmounted and mmcli fails as there is no device and my only recourse is to reboot the system.

What would be the best approach to:

• Discover and remount the device if necessary
  
• Cycle the modem on if not active
  

After many failed experiments, I finally have a working version of moonlight running on my Pinebook Pro.

I messed with a lot of packages, so if I missed something, it's likely a new version of SDL (per this topic: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moon...issues/509). Other than that, these PKGBUILD files and patches should make working versions of FFMpeg, linux kernel, and moonlight.

BIG NOTE: I did not generate checksums for these patch files. I'm providing these patches and PKGBUILD files with the intent of someone more knowledgeable and familiar with development on this platform to clean them up and potentially include them in future "official" releases.

I'll be looking at this thread periodically to answer questions.

https://github.com/danschdatsci/pbp-moonlight

I have decided to cancel my pinephone order because of financial problems, the sales team did not respond to my emails so instead I have contacted the support team. The support team said that they cancelled the shipping of my phone but that I would have to wait for the sales team to contact me for a refund. The sales team just blanks me. Now I am at a spot where I will not get my phone because it won't be shipped to me nor will I get a refund for it. If someone here is capable of helping me please do so.

Hi!

Yesterday, I rebooted my PBP and it did not boot again. The green power led is not on.

I have 2 power supplies, and I see that the red light is not lit with the one I used yesterday. I have created a support ticket for this defective power supply.
So it could be I drained the battery to 0%.
I plugged the PBP all the night to recharge the battery.

I tried to unplug the battery and use the bypass cable, long press on the power button, press the reset button, but no success.

I tried to boot a SD card but no success too.

Before this state, the OS on the eMMC and on the SDCard were working fine (Gentoo like all my PC and other ARM servers).

I don't have the official debug cable, but I can make one with a USB FTDI cable and a hacked jack cable.  Or do you have any reference I can use instead? or wait until it's available on the Pine Store?

I did NOT flash the SPI nor U-BOOT, they are working and I don't want to brick the boot process. I only did a repartition on the existing Manjaro, keeping the start offset of the first partition.

What operation can I do to unbrick it?

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,
Xavier

Hi guys - 
I haven't been able to use texting for about 2 weeks now - it worked when I first got it for about 10 days, and now it won't send or receive. I'm using plasma-mobile and the default app is "spacebar". I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, what else can I try? I don't use a data plan - I plug the sim into my samsung s4, and texting works just fine, so it's not my carrier. 

Let me know what I should try, thank you!