I have now had my Pinebook Pro for one year.

The Pinebook Pro is an amazing project and I'm pleased to have taken part.

I continue to be amazed at the pace of development of the Manjaro OS.

But an experiment it remains and it is certainly not what it continues to be touted to be on the Pine64 website: it is certainly NOT A SOLID LINUX DAY TO DAY EXPERIENCE.

About six months into my experience, one of the rubber feet sheared off. SAV said I had to buy a new bottom case, which I did.

Taking the original bottom case off I realised that most, if not all of the screws were loose and furthermore that the original bottom case was too big for the plastic chassis, which meant that to fit it, it had to be buckled. Perhaps this stress had been why the screws had worked loose.

In any case, the screws were still in perfect condition, so I used them to fit the new bottom case. Seeking advice on the forum, I bought some Loctite thread locker in the hope that this time the case would stay together.

Unfortunately, five out of the ten screws have now sheared: the short screws at the front and on the sides.

All I wanted was a backup machine to my AIO Dell.

The linux world oversold this machine but the reviewers were in part relaying the message put out by Pine64 of "a solid day to day linux experience".

It's time to move on.

In the meantime I imagine that Pine64 have come to realise that they need to have the internal skills and know-how to oversee their Chinese subcontractors.

So, unknown to me, my PinePhone slips under the seat, and ends up sliding between the passenger seat and the door.

I open the passenger door, and out falls the PhonePhone on to the street

Just look how much "protection" it gave

https://imgur.com/a/1gR27DP



And I just replaced the screen before getting this after a previous fall so another cracked screen would not happen again..

Something needs to be done about this


Here is a link to the offending product:

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-har...46c16e2e66

The flash-it script now builds SFOS 4.0.1.48.
If some apps don't open from the home screen, run
devel-su zypper install qtscenegraph-adaptation
and reboot.
I haven't time to test but almost everything works except: camera, email, GPS.

Need some assistance or a pointer in the right direction...

I have the UBports Edition and I have a desire to move to Mobian on my phone.  Can someone point me in the right direction on how to remove the UBports Touch O/S, install the latest release of Mobian and also obtain the latest firmware for my Pine64 UBports Edition hardware? 

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide!

i'm excited about this phone. it is my daily driver. calls are a little glitchy but O.K. .my problem is i can't get the camera to save my pics to photos. can someone help.

Standard edition is documented here: https://pine64.com/product/pinetab-10-1-...46c16e2e66

Excellent condition; only turned on a few times for tinkering.  No destructive changes to the software configuration or firmware configuration were made.  Everything is in the box as it was received.

Installed with testing OS only.  All tests passed.

It is your responsibility to install a fully functional operating system.  (Ask around in #pinetab in irc.pine64.org )

Here is the wiki page for this particular variant (early adopter edition): https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab/Early-Adopter

Reason for sale

I am looking after my daugher full time.  As much as I would love to keep this, in reality, due to my lifestyle (I am a 42 year-old family man with a wife and four-year old old daughter) I simply have no time for tinkering with new hardware.  (An Apple Macbook or Lenovo Thinkpad would be the most sensible and productive choice at this stage of my career.)

My Reputation

Here is my Ebay profile: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fan_of_maynard_ferguson (I am currently trying to find a way to list "ullbeking" as one of my usernames in my Ebay profile).  Note that I haven't listed this on Ebay (yet).  I'm just including this as a way to indicate that I'm a trustworthy seller.

I am very active on IRC, including irc.pine64.org and Freenode.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewnesbit/ (Andrew Nesbit is my real name.)

Price

100 USD for Pinetab Early Adopter

40 USD for postage and packaging (negotiable if buyer wants to collect.  I live in London, UK.  This can be waived if the buyer is local and wants to collect locally.)

Contact

Email: Andrew Nesbit <ullbeking@andewnesbit.org> (send me email here!!)

ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS WELCOME!!  I am a very sociable and reasonable trader, and it's in my interest to make a sale that benefits everybody!!  After I sell this Pinetab, I will most certainly be returning to the Pine64 community at some point in the not-distant future.

Pre-orders for the PinePhone BETA Edition start March 24.

Read the announcement

So I have successful connected my vpn to a single wifi connection but when I change wifi networks I lose my vpn connection.  Is there a way to tunnel all wifi connections threw my vpn (openvpn)

Thank you to the UBPorts developers for all the hard work creating a stable operating system with a very nice user interface.



I'm wondering about the kernel versions that are in each upgrade channel.

• The stable channel (18 March 2021) has kernel version 5.6.0
  
• The Kernel Upgrade has kernel version 5.10.19
  
• The Development channel (versions 439-448) has kernel version 5.6.0
  

Greetings to you.
  I want to write here my thoughts on the topic of your product. I mean a smartphone.
  I think that your decision to release a smartphone completely on your own is a rather bold decision in the modern conditions of the capitalist market. I mean Samsung and Apple. They invest tens of billions of US dollars in their production every year. This allows them to make smartphones that are pleasant to hold in their hands.
 You cannot compete with them at the device level. This is not an insult, but an objective fact. Therefore, I suggest you choose a different path of your development. You can use well-known and popular smartphone models as blanks. For example, recently released a good smartphone Samsung A52. Its price is not high, and there are already videos on YouTube showing how easy it is to assemble or disassemble. You can install pure Linux on these smartphones, and it will be a really successful business model for many years to come.
 For example, you offer a list of smartphones that you can install Linux on on your website. A person chooses a smartphone that he likes and places an order with prepayment. You purchase such a smartphone, perform all the work related to the installation and configuration of Linux on it. And then you ship the finished product to the customer.
 I think that making smartphones on your own, these days, is too expensive and not necessary at all.
 You should focus on trading off-the-shelf Linux devices, and testing the devices in your labs. It will bring you respect among the high-tech professionals, and popularity in the market among buyers.
P.S.
 I am not an employee of any organization or brand. I'm a regular customer. It's my personal opinion.