My beta edition PinePhone will not boot from the SD card. I was getting the red notification light, but it never got past that.

I tried two different Micro SD cards that work in a different beta edition PinePhone, but they would not boot.

Also, I tried putting a Micro SD card in without a OS to see if I could see that when booting from the emmc, but the phone would not boot then. I inserted the Micro SD card after the phone was on (don’t know if this was a bad idea or not) and then I was able to see it.

I am putting it in the correct slot though I wish that was the fix

Anyone have an idea on what could cause this?

Solution: This was caused by a issue with the card detection pin. Using the modified version of U-boot set to ignore the card detection pin is a workaround for if the card detection is broken. https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...775&page=3

Hello, I am new to this forum. I am running a pine phone beta addition with manjaro/plasma mobile. a lot of the time when I sign in i got locked out have to re sign in re do my pin password

Hi friends, 
I'm totally new to pine, and trying to bring up my RockPro64 for the first time. 
I managed to concatenate and burn the Debian net install images and boot from MicroSD.

However, early in the install process, network configuration through DHCP fails. 
I played around with manual settings with no progress. 
Then I checked dmsg and found this fairly ominous DMA error:

eth0: PHY [stmmac-0:00] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL) 
Failed to reset the dma 
eth0: stmmac_hw_setuo: DMA engine initialization failed 
eth0: stmmac_open: Hw setup failed.


anyone have any ideas on how I might progress? I do have the wireless adaptor, so in theory I could also try that (or remove that?)

TL; DR: Display doesn't works, but backlight of display works.

Hi. I recieved pinephone yesterday. And sadly, it's display doesn't work. I thought it was because of corrupted disk image.
So i installed bunch of operating systems. None of this worked.
But i heared a sound effect when plugging and deplugging usb cable on mobian. Turned backlight on and off with power button.

So i tried telnet with jumpdrive, and it worked except for display.
I didn't test all functionality. But It seems like most of components works fine. I was even able to change brightness of backlight.

Replugging ribbon cable doesn't work. While replugging i lost some screws.

I can't get a reason why display doesn't work while backlight of display works.

This is dmesg from jupmdrive. Any ideas?

Quote:/ # dmesg
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.9.1jumpdrive (martijn@msi) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35.1) #3 SMP Sun Nov 8 00:41:50 CET 2020
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 32 MiB at 0x00000000be000000
[ 0.000000] NUMA: No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000bfffffff]
[ 0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0xbdbcd100-0xbdbcefff]
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x000000007fffffff]
[ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000bfffffff]
[ 0.000000] Normal empty
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000bfffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000bfffffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 524288
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4096 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 262144 pages, LIFO batch:63
[ 0.000000] DMA32 zone: 4096 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA32 zone: 262144 pages, LIFO batch:63
[ 0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
[ 0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[ 0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs
[ 0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.
[ 0.000000] psci: SMC Calling Convention v1.2
[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 19 pages/cpu s47832 r0 d29992 u77824
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s47832 r0 d29992 u77824 alloc=19*4096
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[ 0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0
[ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 845719
[ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 843419
[ 0.000000] Speculative Store Bypass Disable mitigation not required
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 516096
[ 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: loglevel=0 silent console=tty0 vt.global_cursor_default=0
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x7bfff000-0x7ffff000] (64MB)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 1946608K/2097152K available (6142K kernel code, 524K rwdata, 2088K rodata, 1152K init, 312K bss, 117776K reserved, 32768K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=64 to nr_cpu_ids=4.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
[ 0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=4
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
[ 0.000000] GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x2ec/0x4b8 with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: Enabling global workaround for Allwinner erratum UNKNOWN1
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: CPU0: Trapping CNTVCT access
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 24.00MHz (phys).
[ 0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x588fe9dc0, max_idle_ns: 440795202592 ns
[ 0.000006] sched_clock: 56 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 4398046511097ns
[ 0.000415] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 0.000432] printk: console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000542] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=96000)
[ 0.000552] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000724] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000746] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.002822] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[ 0.003554] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[ 0.004921] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU1
[ 0.004993] arch_timer: CPU1: Trapping CNTVCT access
[ 0.005006] CPU1: Booted secondary processor 0x0000000001 [0x410fd034]
[ 0.005826] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU2
[ 0.005868] arch_timer: CPU2: Trapping CNTVCT access
[ 0.005878] CPU2: Booted secondary processor 0x0000000002 [0x410fd034]
[ 0.006665] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3
[ 0.006702] arch_timer: CPU3: Trapping CNTVCT access
[ 0.006712] CPU3: Booted secondary processor 0x0000000003 [0x410fd034]
[ 0.006801] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[ 0.006806] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated.
[ 0.006813] CPU features: detected: 32-bit EL0 Support
[ 0.006819] CPU features: detected: CRC32 instructions
[ 0.007952] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL2
[ 0.007979] alternatives: patching kernel code
[ 0.009746] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.020533] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[ 0.020558] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.022303] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.023819] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.026083] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB GFP_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.026159] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.026338] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32 pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.027265] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
[ 0.028025] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.028274] hw-breakpoint: found 6 breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.028409] ASID allocator initialised with 65536 entries
[ 0.028547] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[ 0.069535] HugeTLB registered 1.00 GiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.069546] HugeTLB registered 32.0 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.069553] HugeTLB registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.069559] HugeTLB registered 64.0 KiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.122257] iommu: Default domain type: Translated
[ 0.122710] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.122757] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.122855] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.124004] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.124012] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[ 0.124037] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.126032] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.137382] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.138059] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.138104] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.138264] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.138605] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 0.138759] UDP hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.138821] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.139036] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.139624] Unpacking initramfs...
[ 0.195746] Freeing initrd memory: 1052K
[ 0.196666] hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a53 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[ 0.198935] workingset: timestamp_bits=44 max_order=19 bucket_order=0
[ 0.261828] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 249)
[ 0.261843] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[ 0.262158] sun50i-de2-bus 1000000.bus: Error couldn't map SRAM to device
[ 0.263570] sun4i-usb-phy 1c19400.phy: failed to get clock usb0_phy
[ 0.264411] sun6i-mipi-dphy 1ca1000.d-phy: Couldn't create the DPHY encoder regmap
[ 0.268962] sun50i-a64-r-pinctrl 1f02c00.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver
[ 0.270983] sun50i-a64-r-pinctrl 1f02c00.pinctrl: supply vcc-pl not found, using dummy regulator
[ 0.295519] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.303770] sun6i-mipi-dsi 1ca0000.dsi: Couldn't get VCC-DSI supply
[ 0.316855] loop: module loaded
[ 0.318339] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.318411] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[ 0.318455] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
[ 0.320292] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.320301] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 0.320665] ehci-platform 1c1a000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.320696] ehci-platform 1c1a000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.320851] ehci-platform 1c1a000.usb: irq 20, io mem 0x01c1a000
[ 0.334038] ehci-platform 1c1a000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.335005] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.335054] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.336177] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 0.336186] ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
[ 0.336448] ohci-platform 1c1a400.usb: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 0.336475] ohci-platform 1c1a400.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 0.336593] ohci-platform 1c1a400.usb: irq 21, io mem 0x01c1a400
[ 0.398936] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.398985] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.400701] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
[ 0.400842] usbcore: registered new interface driver ch341
[ 0.400894] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for ch341-uart
[ 0.400949] usbcore: registered new interface driver option
[ 0.400994] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[ 0.404861] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 0.407731] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.407739] sdhci: Copyright© Pierre Ossman
[ 0.407909] Synopsys Designware Multimedia Card Interface Driver
[ 0.409286] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 0.410737] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 0.411333] SMCCC: SOC_ID: ARCH_SOC_ID not implemented, skipping ....
[ 0.412075] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 0.412082] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 0.413707] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.414153] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.427663] sunxi-rsb 1f03400.rsb: RSB running at 3000000 Hz
[ 0.428236] axp20x-rsb sunxi-rsb-3a3: AXP20x variant AXP803 found
[ 0.430753] input: axp20x-pek as /devices/platform/soc/1f03400.rsb/sunxi-rsb-3a3/axp221-pek/input/input1
[ 0.441269] axp20x-usb-power-supply axp20x-usb-power-supply: DMA mask not set
[ 0.443391] dcdc1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.444010] dcdc2: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.444386] dcdc4: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.444779] dcdc5: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.445074] dcdc6: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.445357] dc1sw: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.445548] aldo1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.445611] dovdd-csi: Bringing 3300000uV into 1800000-1800000uV
[ 0.445922] aldo2: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.446252] aldo3: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.446521] dldo1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.446794] dldo2: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.447071] dldo3: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.447133] avdd-csi: Bringing 2900000uV into 2800000-2800000uV
[ 0.447452] dldo4: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.447506] vcc-wifi-io: Bringing 3300000uV into 1800000-1800000uV
[ 0.447785] eldo1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.448066] eldo2: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.448358] eldo3: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.448420] dvdd-1v8-csi: Bringing 700000uV into 1800000-1800000uV
[ 0.448691] fldo1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.448976] fldo2: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.449275] rtc-ldo: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.449504] ldo-io0: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.449824] ldo-io1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 0.449884] vcc-1v8-typec: Bringing 3300000uV into 1800000-1800000uV
[ 0.450273] axp20x-rsb sunxi-rsb-3a3: AXP20X driver loaded
[ 0.457455] sun50i-a64-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver
[ 0.459786] 1c28000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28000 (irq = 32, base_baud = 1500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.461548] 1c28400.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 33, base_baud = 1500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.461762] serial serial0: tty port ttyS1 registered
[ 0.463040] 1c28c00.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28c00 (irq = 34, base_baud = 1500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.497386] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1100000.mixer (ops 0xffff800010697a38)
[ 0.499283] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1200000.mixer (ops 0xffff800010697a38)
[ 0.499720] sun4i-drm display-engine: No panel or bridge found... RGB output disabled
[ 0.499738] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1c0c000.lcd-controller (ops 0xffff800010693ca8)
[ 0.499951] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1c0d000.lcd-controller (ops 0xffff800010693ca8)
[ 0.499987] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1ca0000.dsi (ops 0xffff800010696968)
[ 0.501226] sun8i-dw-hdmi 1ee0000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v1.32a with HDCP (sun8i_dw_hdmi_phy)
[ 0.501922] sun8i-dw-hdmi 1ee0000.hdmi: registered DesignWare HDMI I2C bus driver
[ 0.502482] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1ee0000.hdmi (ops 0xffff800010696cf8)
[ 0.503238] [drm] Initialized sun4i-drm 1.0.0 20150629 for display-engine on minor 0
[ 0.503344] sun4i-drm display-engine: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[ 0.504654] ehci-platform 1c1b000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.504687] ehci-platform 1c1b000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 0.504838] ehci-platform 1c1b000.usb: irq 22, io mem 0x01c1b000
[ 0.504978] sun4i-drm display-engine: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[ 0.518066] ehci-platform 1c1b000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.519018] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.519072] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.520600] ohci-platform 1c1b400.usb: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 0.520635] ohci-platform 1c1b400.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 0.520755] ohci-platform 1c1b400.usb: irq 23, io mem 0x01c1b400
[ 0.583086] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.583142] hub 4-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.584754] usb_phy_generic usb_phy_generic.2.auto: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[ 0.585715] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.3.auto: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 0.585745] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.3.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 0.585843] phy id_det change to device
[ 0.586729] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.586780] hub 5-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.588907] input: 1c21800.lradc as /devices/platform/soc/1c21800.lradc/input/input2
[ 0.590172] input: gpio-vibrator as /devices/platform/vibrator/input/input3
[ 0.695552] Goodix-TS 1-005d: ID 917S, version: 0200
[ 0.697545] Goodix-TS 1-005d: Direct firmware load for goodix_917S_cfg.bin failed with error -2
[ 0.707253] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: Got CD GPIO
[ 0.708476] random: fast init done
[ 0.720739] input: Goodix Capacitive TouchScreen as /devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-1/1-005d/input/input4
[ 0.730659] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new timings mode
[ 0.732633] sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: allocated mmc-pwrseq
[ 0.756394] sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new timings mode
[ 0.767048] mmc0: new high speed SDXC card at address 0001
[ 0.767966] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 ED4QT 119 GiB
[ 0.770269] mmcblk0: p1
[ 0.777376] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
[ 0.782048] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 2048 KB, uses new timings mode
[ 0.806055] scpi_protocol scpi: incorrect or no SCP firmware found
[ 0.806105] scpi_protocol: probe of scpi failed with error -62
[ 0.807503] usb0-vbus: supplied by vcc5v0
[ 0.822758] i2c-gpio i2c-csi: using lines 141 (SDA) and 140 (SCL)
[ 0.892448] mmc2: new DDR MMC card at address 0001
[ 0.893628] mmcblk2: mmc2:0001 ISOCOM 14.5 GiB
[ 0.894212] mmcblk2boot0: mmc2:0001 ISOCOM partition 1 4.00 MiB
[ 0.894754] mmcblk2boot1: mmc2:0001 ISOCOM partition 2 4.00 MiB
[ 0.928340] mmcblk2: p1 p2
[ 1.049913] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x90
[ 1.108897] sun4i-drm display-engine: [drm] fb0: sun4i-drmdrmfb frame buffer device
[ 1.108930] sun6i-mipi-dsi 1ca0000.dsi: Attached device xbd599
[ 1.108969] panel-sitronix-st7703 1ca0000.dsi.0: [drmt7703_probe] 720x1440@55 24bpp dsi 4dl - ready
[ 1.110587] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input5
[ 1.113244] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1152K
[ 1.130139] Run /init as init process
[ 1.130145] with arguments:
[ 1.130150] /init
[ 1.130154] silent
[ 1.130159] with environment:
[ 1.130163] HOME=/
[ 1.130168] TERM=linux
[ 1.315479] using random self ethernet address
[ 1.315487] using random host ethernet address
[ 1.317085] Mass Storage Function, version: 2009/09/11
[ 1.317096] LUN: removable file: (no medium)
[ 1.318651] LUN: removable file: (no medium)
[ 1.331946] usb0: HOST MAC 06:3b:17:25:aa:72
[ 1.331990] usb0: MAC be:62:fe:82:aa:ab
[ 3.534689] random: crng init done

I realized that there is no 32" AIO offer in  the market when my sister asked me to select one for her.
There was some Intel and AMD based ones from Lenovo and HP with good price / performance and I opted for an HP one with an AMD APU inside.

The Dunning-Kruger effect 1999, nobel price 2000 applied to this, is that not company engineers no tinkers think people, would prefer AIO, as other options are cheaper and easier to repair, and yet AIO are a sell success being most of the models overpriced a lot.

I think that a cheap offer of Pine AIO would be a success

With replaceable PCBs to upgrade them if needed in the future - in 28" 16:9, as it seems is the most demanded market size, plus 32" that I think is the most valuable size for a desktop, and even 40" ones to be TV and big desktop  - real AIO - 

And bigger Smart TVs with replaceable PCB and the latest Android TV  AOSP - It is rare that a TVbox with Android would upgrade to the next version - .

And 28" and 32" touch screen ones for bars, restaurants, and many other businesses to act as a register case and split the screen for internet leisure if it is not an everyday full business, or whatever.

GNU/Linux, Chromium OS or Android in ARM are good solutions for most of the SOHO and business tasks, and they are usually much cheaper than X86, adding a PCB and some connections to an already good a cheap 1080p (or 720p if price difference is noticeable or 4k if price difference is not or offering price gamma if the market is big enough) 32" monitor - no need to be IPS, VA, is cheaper and good enough - and 28" and 40 50 and 60 with TV tuners - at least as an option - would be a great product to have in the market. 

Even if is just because they produce less noise than their competence.

Last but not least, integrated 1080p webcam, with a privacy switch, can start a landline phone replacement to a TV based video call replacement if paired with a free or cheap service provided by asterisk installing IP phone software on every device with this 1080p webcams - not only this AIOs - and I think that a one-year free trial, plus perhaps a 12 USD/year price, would make that service a good business with a great value add for customers - not just pine hardware ones -.

Thanks for reading this suggestion.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself. I just received my PinePhone (Manjaro with Plasma Mobile) the other day and have had the past couple days to play around with it. So far I have had a great experience other than the part when I accidentally locked myself out when I changed my password to contain letters . But even that gave me the opportunity to switch distros and test out Mobian with Phosh.

Using jump drive to switch distros was super easy and I'm really just blown away with how cool this phone is. Obviously, there are a few kinks to work out, but I didn't buy this to be my daily driver immediately anyway. The issues I found were with GPS (Mobian with Phosh, I didn't test this with Manjaro) on Gnome Maps not giving an accurate reading of where I was, but when I went to the settings for location it appeared as if no apps were trying to access my location. So, I feel like I will need to look into that a little more later. Also, when I was on Manjaro I couldn't connect to my mobile network, but didn't really get to troubleshoot because of the lock out incident I mentioned above. I've had no trouble making calls or accessing the internet through Mobian/Phosh, though.

I do have a couple things I was curious about. I watched a video of the disassembly of this phone and it seems like it would be really easy to take apart and replace broken pieces. Does anyone know if there are plans to make upgraded parts? I see they have the standard camera (5MP) as a replacement in the store, but do they plan on making a >5MP camera to replace it with if someone wanted to buy it. Seems like it would be cool to be able to upgrade your phone like you could upgrade your desktop.

Also, does anyone know how to get the Microsoft Teams web app working? I know there's an Teams for Linux Arm app, but I heard it's not the best and at least until Microsoft comes out with an official app I was hoping I could get it set up just in a browser. I already tried changing the user-agent of the Epiphany browser, but that didn't work.

Thanks for any help anyone can give!

Tim

So I changed the scaling of Telegram through the settings from the default 90% and now I can't go back to 90% from 100%.

Does anyone know how I might get back to the original 90% it came preinstalled as?

Would also like to know if theres a way to do this for other apps as well.

thanks for your time, and thanks to everyone helping make this dream a reality.

Hello!

So I got my phone yesterday and the excitement was well y'all know! Anyhow I followed the simple instructions the phone came with to get it started up. All good no problem. Once I got the basic start up completed I pretty much left the phone on the charger for the night (12+ hours) and it indicated it was charging but it never got past 86% charge.

Next the brightness won't stay where I set it and slides up and down until finally it just won't  stay illuminated (screen is black). But if I plug the phone in, it works. So on battery power... its whacky. I got an AT&T SIM installed (seems to work, I was able to call and receive calls) but for the life of myself and the fellow helping, I could not find a way to enter the APN. So I don't have access to the data plan...

Network connection, been trying to find a network connection protocol... not so much luck with that either.

I did manage to get a 600+MB update installed, I had hoped it would have resolved the screen issue. But now it seems to do it even when plugged in!? So I get this is BETA but I am kind of not sure where to go from here. Tips? Advice?

HI all, i just recieved my beta edition of the pinephone, and was very excited to try out the HDMI docking features as i have previously been using a UB Ports edition which does not support the feature.

However i am unable to get the phone to recognize that a HDMI cable is connected, i have tried under factory Manjaro Plasma, Manajaro Phosh Beta 8 and Mobian nightly with no luck. I was under the impression that HDMI out was mostly supported as of now? is there some setup that I'm missing? does it only work on certain distros? is it just broken atm?

Any help is very appreciated, overall i am head over heels with this device, it's exactly what i've been missing form my life!

So, due to some missing parts between UBports and Wayland you cannot setup online accounts on the PinePhone. Bug and Bug.

Here is a way to make it work until the bugs get addressed.

• We need to build a click package of GhostCloud. I setup a minimal Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine as I use openSUSE and didn't want to try installing the click build environment on it. Then I setup the click build environment as described here. - I used the PIP method.
  
• Then following fredldotme's instructions, I built a click package of GhostCloud version 0.9.6 which does not use UBports online account mechanism.
  
• I transferred the click package to my PinePhone, and then using the UT Tweak Tool available in the Open Store installed GhostCloud.
  
• I was able to enter the URL, username, and password for my NextCloud instance. I now have access to files on my NextCloud server.
  
• For Calendar and Contacts, I setup syncevolution following the instructions on this github page.