Hello,

I have been trying to make hardware encoding and audio work on the PineCube under Armbian, but it does not appear that either is supported. For hardware encoding all gstreamer plugins and similar seem to rely on a 'cedarx' device which doesn't exist, and similarly no audio device exists in the tree either, even though the audio codec for the V3/V3s/S3 SoCs is supposed to be supported since kernel 4.12.

Is there a way to make these features work under Armbian, or are there alternatives that may work better?

Hi folks,

I would like to replace my Lenovo Y580 (Intel Core i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, SSD) in the near future with an "open source" alternative. What do you think about the performance of the RockPro64 compared to my Lenovo in real live? 50%? I have no need for 3D gaming, rendering videos or something, but I would like to have a "snappy" experience. Will I be happy with the RockPro64?

What do you think?

PS: My first though was about a Sopine cluster, but AFAIK it's NOT just a 28 core, 14GB RAM machine, right?

Hi,

I'd like to install a standard mobian/debian distribution to use my pinephone as a very small desktop replacement with a fullsize BT Keyboard + Mouse but  I got many of small Problems which are real showstoppers right now....

- The Display is still vertical and I see no way how to configure it to be 'normal' horizontally orientated, even after modifying the xorg.conf (or wayland)
- despite the fact I uninstalled (purged) POSH  it still boots automatically into the "old" system - gdm3 is installed but is ignored anyway...
- I don't get any framebuffer bootscreen with the kernel messages as all other devices do... don't know why my parameters while booting are absolutely ignored, it seems?

Maybe it's the wrong way to take a mobian an uninstall all "unneccessary" stuff from it, maybe there is a better way to start off a 'minimal debian' image on the phone?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers

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Since we are buying an experimental phone and with the pogo pins the assumption is we will be using alternate DIY casebacks; what safe options do we have for attaching a 3D printed caseback with screws?

Specifically I would prefer a hardware model with extra threaded screw holes for say M1 machine screws but I doubt we can have that before the next hardware rev betas in 3-4 years. In the absence of an updated hardware design is it possible, safe, and wise to use some of the screw holes that hold the interior cover to the frame?  If so which holes, what size screws, and how deep can the screws safely enter the frame?

As a side question is there a PCB with a kapton ribbon and breakout for the pogo pins now?  it would make designing DIY casebacks easier if I could just use adhesive to attach the pogo interface and attach the back with screws.

For those who are not already 3D printing the hot plastic squirting types can make a reasonably strong plane in a few mm but the sidewalls will never be strong enough to 'snap' on as the stock caseback does, hence the screw attachment thoughts.

a recent update added a beautiful display to svkbd, menus, the statusbar, etc, but it also caused a lot of apps to scale terribly. Firefox renders half off the screen for instance.

as a workaround I added

With 5G coming online, I am wondering about a new MODEM coming out with 5G, and/or support for LTE bands 66 and 71.

Had this for quite a while.  I had an OS working and a sim for my provider a pay-as-you-go running on Verizon in the US.  Was told by provider it couldn't give me service.  Pinephone sat for a while then I needed the sd card for music in a very cheap Chinese mp3 player.  My car cd player just failed and decided to use the Pinephone to play to my AUX using vlc.  I ran sd card formatter on the card then tried it in the phone.  The phone still had the OS with test options.  I had never yet tried the option to write to the eMMC but thought I understood there was an OS on board in firmware that it wouldn't be a problem if the choice was wrong.  Phone died.  On button seems to do nothing.  I took out the sd card and couldn't format it.  It wouldn't get recognized so I went to my usual fix which is to format on a cheap trailcam.  Still didn't work, wouldn't get recognized on ubuntu nor Windows.  So, I went to an old compaq evo laptop having debian 3.2.51-1 i686 and a d-link hub.  Repeatedly failed but I kept swapping out sd card readers and one finally worked.  I dd if=./flasher-ubuntu-7b.img of /deb/sdb1 after dd if=./flasher-ubuntu-7b.img of=/dev/sdb didn't work.  I went to another terminal a used fdisk to see if anything was getting on the card and it was.  It showed a boot partition and another.  No more writing was getting done so I shut down the laptop and removed the sd card, put it in the PinePhone, and tried to power up but again nothing.

The phone had been getting quite hot before I wrote to the eMMC.  Now it doesn't get warm.

Where do I go from here with this?

Thanks.

soy

Since both pineTime and banglejs use has the same hardware chipset Would it be possible to flash bootloader.js to by converting javascript to binary https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1443...han-base64

Alternatively I am looking for HR and HRV App for PineTime
and Banglejs has one on github 
https://github.com/jabituyaben/Espruino-HRV

Would be happy if LG open sourced and donated to Pine64 all their work as they are completely shutting down a mobile division. I'm pretty sure that we all could benefit from such a move (LG including).

Here is my petition, feel free to sign it and share it:
https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-...n-for-good

Hi
When I bought my Pinebook Pro absolutely nothing happened for about three weeks until I emailed sales, and then then almost immediately I got an email that it had been shipped.
Could have been coincidence, or it could be that they had just forgotten about my order?  I'll probably never know.
Last week (March 29th) I placed an order for a Pinephone with Convergence package.
Again I have heard nothing.
Should I just leave it? or harass them a bit?
thanks