Since the quartz64 was announced, I am writing a list of wishes that may or may not be ignored. But they are things I find useful when I am setting things up and I think others do as well. And I hope they are taken in to consideration since I love a lot of what Pine has done, and these are some features as a general user I feel would be beneficial.

1. Power should be via usb-c
This one does not require too much explanation in my opinion but it is because I and likely many others find it very convenient to power a board off of tiny usb-c power supply than a hefty psu for a 5v or 12v one that takes up a lot of room on a power strip. Plus I can power the board off of the wall socket in my house directly. 

2. The board should have two ends of i/o one for swapping external drives and peripherals, and a back one for eth, video, power, and keyboard/mouse. 
This is a minor nitpick but it is something I find myself wishing for when I am plugging things in on my desk and have wires tangled everywhere because one wire is crossing over another. Maybe I should clean up a little more I really should actually but it is something that I think makes the board more streamlined. Similar to atrion's cases for the Raspberry Pi, that move the ports to the back for streamlined placement on a desk.

3. Expandable ram and sata+pci-e slots on pro models of sbcs and laptops
This is something that I think is in the works, but it would make purchasing one of these over other things a major difference to me. ARM is already transitioning in to Desktop PC territory, why not give us some of the benefits? Especially in the laptop where it would make a huge difference in the lifespan of the machine.

Hi,
I'm running manjaro and had recently plugged in an external monitor to usb-c. However, the system does not appear to recognise it. Is there a way to activate the usb-c?

I flashed PostmarketOS and found out it was bare bones, so I tried to add apps and such but it isn't easy for someone that has no clue about how 
to navigate in apk. I did get a couple installed....

Where can I go to get a tutorial or something? The phone seems to be solid, phone quality sounds a whole lot better than Mobian and it works....
Messaging works also, I need to get my contacts imported, a couple of apps for music and podcasts is all. I managed to get Gpodder and lollypop installed but
it didn't work....

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
Anyone know how to get sound to output from headphone jack rather then through HDMI. I messed with the alsamixer and just couldn't figure it out. Anyone have a solution?

Just an FYI folks, the chat client (text messaging) cannot be trusted.

Received two messages just fine.
Responded twice. First one transmitted fine and received. Second one failed. Tried second one again and the entire app locked up and froze the phone causing me to have to pull the battery to get it to turn off. When it rebooted the entire conversation had disappeared. Call logs still remained though, so this is isolated to the chat app.

Here's how we transmit LoRa packets over the airwaves with PineCone BL602...

Connect PineCone BL602 to LoRa Transceiver

Hello,

I got a PBP for the kids and we were very happy with it running Manjaro/Plasma.
Recently, however, it has started to not charge the battery reliably - it took a very specific, tape fixed angle and pressure of the charging plug to convince it to charge, so I assumed the receptacle to be broken.

Took the opportunity to order the (very nice) dock and had to realize that there's most likely a deeper problem: when connecting to the USB3 from the dock, the PBP also only charges with very specific plug positioning and what is more, I realized that it often cycles between charging/decharching as evident from a screen flickeriering between the power plug/battery default settings of KDE.

So I'm most likely looking at a loose connection somewhere in the charging infrastructure inside the PBP housing.
I'd appreciate any hints on how to proceed. Is this a know weak point? What can I replace on my own?

Thank you for any help.

Sincerely, balin

is it possible to install the pamac app manager in Manjaro Lomiri? I would like to have a GUI for softwares.

I want to build a bicycle computer around a phone using the app "IP Bike", with a camera and a custom high powered LED on a rotatable mount, roughly perpendicular to the screen. The form factor / design would be almost entirely unlike a phone, but the phone's components are possibly better suited to this, compared to the available SBCs.

Is this likely to be possible? Either now or in the future?

Okay, so I made this thread, PinePhone replacement board won't stop vibrating, detailing how I basically cut of the vibration motor from the sideboard after it started malfunctioning with the newest version of the PinePhone boards. One thing I didn't make a post about was the fact that I ultimately couldn't flash another OS onto the eMMC because I couldn't detect the device when booting jump drive. I used multiple versions. Furthermore, the latest build of Mobian which I booted off of an sd card didn't indicate that it was charging when the phone was plugged in. And the phone wouldn't charge. 

So, I bought a new sideboard, installed it, and the same issues are still there. No light when plugged in, although, it's been about a year since my Pinephone even worked, so I'm having a hard time remembering what it does when it charges. No vibration issues, though. It's plugged in now, and it doesn't seem to have increased in battery since it was plugged in. Lsblk doesn't return anything when the phone is booted into jumpdrive. I tried this on another laptop with Ubuntu, but no dice. I've flashed the eMMC on this phone plenty of times using this exact cable, so I don't think it's that.

I also bought a replacement screen, so maybe I'll see how that goes. At that point, this is going to be the Theseus' ship of PinePhones. I really hope it manages to float, somehow, at this point. The sunken cost fallacy only stays in effect for so long.

Edit: Nope, nothing changed. I'm not sure why I thought it would. Perhaps the connector from the mainboard to the sideboard is damaged? If that's the case, I don't see any damage. The pins look fine, and the cable itself doesn't seem worn down.

The ribbon of my new sideboard snapped off, somehow, so I'll be using the old sideboard from now on.