[December 31, 2020] I've opened the KDE shipping thread a bit early to let you all know that we're currently approx 7-10 days behind schedule.
Long story short, a key component wasn't available until now. We were planning on shipping the KDE CE early January - this has now been pushed back to mid-January. I'll keep you posted on shipping progress in this thread.

[January 5, 2021] Following the slight (10 day) delay, were now back on track and everything is going smoothly. We currently expect to start shipping on January 18. Sorry for the delay.

PSA for UK users: We have been notified that our EU warehouse is no longer able to deliver PinePhones to the United Kingdom. This may result in order status being changed or cancelled. We are, however, working on a way to resolve this situation. As soon as something more is known, I'll make sure to update you here. We apologize for the situation - it is completely outside of our control.

[January 18, 2021] Shipping will start this week. As I already mentioned, we were running a bit behind schedule; the initial delay was caused by component shortages, but the production team also encountered some software problems late last week. These issues have now been sorted thanks to the KDE team, and the team will work though the night today and continue work on Tuesday to get all phones packaged for shipping.
Due to the COVID19 situation in Europe, DHL delivery to and from the EU warehouse are likely to be slower than usual (fewer flights from Hong Kong to EU, as well as slowdowns in deliveries between EU boarders).
Once again, apologies for this slight delay and your continued understanding

[January 27, 2021] Some of you have today received an information from DHL that your PinePhone KDE CE was 'returned to shipper'. Having already accepted the shipment and all paperwork, DHL decided to take an issue with the size of battery warning sticker. A sticker size they've never taken issue with in the past I might add. As a result of this, new stickers will have to be issued and new paperwork will have to be filed. This should take about a week. We always own up when we mess up - but this one is completely on DHL. Regardless, we're sorry about the delay; shipping will work as fast as possible to resend the PinePhones.

For those of you in the US; most KDE CE PinePhones should be arriving any day now.
For those of you in Europe (excluding UK): the PinePhones are already at the EU warehouse and should be dispatched your way soon.

[January 30, 2021] Those of you who received 'returned to shipper' notification: the shipping team is working over the weekend to sort out the new battery warning stickers. We are aiming to have your units prepared for DHL pickup on Monday. Please accept DHL's apologies for this situation.

European users (aside from UK): shipment has already started and most of you should receive your unit this time next week.

[February 1, 2021] PinePhones which were previously 'returned to shipper' by DHL have now been dispatched. Thank you for your patience.

[February 5, 2021] Hello everyone, we've had some additional difficulties with DHL shipping these past 5 days (link here for those interested). We're sorry about the longer-than-expected wait. The good news is that all remaining KDE CE PinePhones have now been dispatches.
If you haven't received your DHL tracking number then please do not worry, you should receive it early next week at the latest. 

This, in all likelihood, concludes this update thread. Thank you once again for your patience.

What happens when we flash RISC-V firmware to PineCone BL602 Board... And what's inside the BL602 Boot Image, Partition Table, Device Tree and EFuse Configuration

Flashing Firmware to PineCone BL602

I'm running a Pinebook Pro with Manjaro and I3 window manager. Yesterday, on startup, I logged in and after the desktop displayed, the screen went all white. I waited about a minute and powered off the PBP, waited about 30 seconds, and powered it backup and logged in. No problems.  I shutodown the PBP when I was done and this morning, I ran into the same white screen problem. Again, Shutdown, wait, restart, desktop working. I'm installing updates. I did a quick search to see if this is a known problem lately, but didn't see anything right away.  Any one else have this problem? Any idea what's going on or can point me to a post where this is addressed?

It's 12 minutes passed midnight January 1st 2021 over here, so I'm wishing everyone a happy new year!
The year of the 牛 (cow)!

Hello, i am new here.

I used my Rock64 (4Gb Ram) with Manjaro 19.04,
does anyone have a ready image for Manjaro 20?

Since Manjaro 19.04 is not longer supported...

Thanks for Help.

Hi everyone!

I would like to change the boot animation on Manjaro.

I installed "bootsplash-viewer" and "bootsplash-packer".

I used a script found on GitHub to create a new bootsplash animation.

I manually copied the created file to "/usr/lib/firmware/bootsplash-themes/custom/bootsplash" and I edited my "extlinux.conf" file to point there but it doesn't work.

Is there anything I forgot to do?

The animation works when using "bootsplah-viewer" to see it.

Thanks!

Hi all!

I just received my Pinecil today, and was keen to try it out. However, the tip does not heat up, and before calibration the display showed a very high temperature readout (420+ degrees C) while the iron remained at room temperature.

Enabling "Advanced Options" => "Detailed Idle Screen" reveals that the tip is not detected by the Pinecil. The message "TIP DISCONNECTED" persists, regardless of which tip I insert, and the status of the locking screw.

I have not tried to use the grounding connection as yet, and my power sources tested so far have all been USB-C PD.

This issue persists upon updating to the latest release of the firmware, using the provided firmware flashing documentation.

I believe this may be a hardware issue or user error, hence my post here. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue with their Pinecil?

Selling my like new ANSI Pinebook Pro that I bought earlier this year. Runs Manjaro ARM and comes with charger. It’s in great condition with no issues, I just never used it as much as I thought I would. Selling for $150 plus cost to ship to buyer. Let me know if you have questions.

so I installed command-not-found from the repos, and one of my functions in my default .bashrc calls pacman, so command-not-found suggested I install it from the repos.

I searched Google for any sort of documentation related to Alpine Linux and pacman, but Alpine Linux's documentation is basically non-existent. I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with pacman on Alpine.

is it configured for Alpine's packages? is it just a placeholder for a chroot Arch install, or a fast path to installing Arch within an Alpine install?

I absolutely detest the apk system, and I love pacman. if Alpine were capable of using pacman instead for a regular install I would certainly try that out, but my worry after looking at the APKBUILD is that there's no hint of configuring sources for Alpine.

any input would be appreciated

Looking to install Ubuntu server 20.04 on my 2gb pine64 boards. 

Anyone have some tips on how to get it going?... would really love to use it with these boards. Currently using centos 7 but it has some issues and I in general just like Ubuntu better than centos as I'm more familiar with Ubuntu's workings.

I've attempted to build my own a few times but never had good success..

any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!