I just received my machine in the mail today. Out of the box I was able to get it running. The wifi works. A Firefox button appears on the dashboard. I can run Firefox. I accessed my university email. This was all encouraging.

My next order of business on all new machines is to install LaTeX (Texlive), emacs, and Auctex. I also make sure there is a PDF viewer and word processor (Libreoffice).

I tried to install Texlive with pacman and got a slew of "error: failed retrieving file" responses. I read a little online about what the problem could be, and the main suggestion was to update my mirrors with

$ sudo pacman-mirrors -g
$ sudo pacman-mirrors -f 5

and such things. I tried these, and it didn't help.

I tried installing emacs and ran into the same problem. I cannot retrieve anything.

Then I tried installing Libreoffice and was told that

:: Libreoffice-still and Libreoffice-fresh are in conflict. Remove Libreoffice-fresh?

This surprised me, because I cannot detect Libreoffice anywhere on the machine. I opened the filesystem navigator and searched for Libreoffice and found nothing. Then I searched for Firefox and also found nothing, even though I am able to run Firefox.

So basically I cannot use this computer. I cannot install the software I need (or any software), and I cannot locate the software that I already have (except for Fierfox, by launching it from the dashboard icon).

I have used linux (Debain primarily) and BSD (free BSD primarily) systems for many years and cannot understand why this is so completely different from anything I've ever seen before.

I want this to work out. I am attracted to the Pinebook philosophy.

Hello, good night, I have this board for a long time, but I believe that in a change, I lost this electronic component in the photo, could you tell me its name or code so I can solder it?

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Hello,

I have a Pinebook Pro for sale. It has the UK ISO keyboard and 64GB flash.
I provide the original NVME adapter (the first one that you have to modify to fit inside the PBP).
European charger.
Serial USB adapter.

3 rubber feet are missing. Otherwise it is in good shape and clean.
It is installed with Ubuntu Mate and crash from time to time on boot (see : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8436 ). You have then to force the shutdown and start it again. No crash when it has started.

I can send in the EU, but I live in France near the French/German/Swiss border if someone want to buy it without shipping costs.
Price : 150 euros + shipping.

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DietPi is an extremely lightweight Debian-based OS. It is highly optimised for minimal CPU and RAM resource usage, ensuring your Pinebook always runs at its maximum potential.

Use dietpi-software to quick and easy install a desktop and lots of other Ready to Run & Optimised applications for your system. DietPi will do all the necessary configurations, including starting the services.

DietPi images are available for PINE A64, PINE H64, Pinebook, Pinebook Pro, ROCK64 and ROCKPro64 and all Quartz64 models.

Our PINE64 images are based on the great kernel and firmware, developed by Armbian. However, if you face any issues, please contact us via forum or GitHub issue first.

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Hello. I have a Pinebook Pro listed on eBay and I thought it might gain some traction if I post here. I was going to use it for making notes at university, in lectures. However, due to COVID everything has been online, so I haven't used it in months as I have a better specced PC. 

PBP specs are as follows:

• UK keyboard layout
  
• 64GB eMMC
  
• NVME add-on board
  
• European charger
  
• USB eMMC reader/writer
  

Hi. i can't send sms right now..the app is too far right outside of the screen, how can i fix it quick? Need to send a text! thanks!

How do i fix popups, buttons that are outside of the screen sometimes? I love the phone.. But i need to come up with a universal solution to this. An universal solution so all apps fit the phone screen maybe? Thanks

i searched:
https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...ale-to-fit

What's the scale-to-fit???

5 of 5 Points, fully optimized ? I would say 4 out of 5? Because of the scale..
Edit: I fixed not seeing the button with unlocking the screen rotation and rotating the picture.

Some of the keys on my Pinebook Pro keyboard no longer register any input (after a heavy object fell on them). Apart from that inconvenience, the device works perfectly. I therefore plan to purchase a replacement keyboard (https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pro-...-keyboard/) and to assemble the other components on it.

My questions are as follows:

- What equipment do I need for the dis/reassembly? I own a screwdriver set and have verified that I can take off the bottom case and loosen any screw fixing the internal components (mainboard, battery, ...). Do I need anything else?

- Am I right in assuming that I can remove the internal components one-by-one, and then reassemble them in reverse order (to the one when removing) on the new keyboard?

- Is there anything I should take special care of or watch out for?

- Are there any guides on changing the keyboard of the Pinebook Pro? A DDG/Google search has produced no (useful) results.

Many in thanks in advance,
gabb

I tried to get some cheap phone headset[0] working with my PinePhone recently, to no avail.  It seemed to pair (I think?) but I could neither hear nor talk through it.  This was on fairly recent version of Mobian.

Do I need to switch OS?

Or maybe this headset[0] is not supported in Linux for some reason (maybe I should try device on another Linux box, or try different headset?)?

Or maybe I was just doing something wrong?  I played with quite a few settings, to no avail so far.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[0] Headset is a Road King model 920.

Edit: my bad guys, I found the issue: https://github.com/JF002/InfiniTime/issues/374 I'm going to leave the post here for other who are like me and will come here first.

I got my sealed pinetime awhile ago and I'm wondering if anyone has the same problem and was able to fix it.

I believe it came with InfiniTime v.1.0 and I found and updated using the dfu zip from here. https://github.com/JF002/InfiniTime/releases/tag/1.1.0

The first time it failed, it lost the connection to the watch and everything seemed fine so I tried a second time. This worked without issue and I was on v1.1. Then 3 days later I noticed that the watch wouldn't connect to my android phone with Gadgebridge v0.57.0 from F-Droid. I held the only button and the watch rebooted. Upon reboot the watch booted with v1.0.

Now no matter what I do I cant get the update to work, it just says "Element cannot be installed". I've deleted the Gadgebridge app and tried again, rebooted the watch phone, tried plugged in, not plugged in, etc.


I waited for the pineTime to be "released" so I could be an end user so I don't really want to open it up or solder anything, though I'm willing to. Do you guys have any further suggestions as to what I can do to get back on v1.1?

Thanks!