Hi,
    The following is on a Pinephone with Manjaro
I get into Terminal and start entering,
I hit the enter icon,
It then ask's for a password.

At the point - no matter what keys are tried, nothing appears on the screen

The only password I have so far is for the lockscreen,
which I changed not long after getting the phone.

I would think it is something basic. 
For background, I use Ubuntu on a laptop

I just bought a pine phone but I forgot to add the case to the shipment.  I went on the website to buy a case and the shipping is more than the case itself.

I'm wondering if there are other name brand cases that would fit this phone, or be adapted to fit this phone (like cutting stuff out, etc).  Or are there generalized cases out there where you "cut to fit" type style.

I would love to have your feed back.  Thank you.

I am in the USA. Can I pre-order a Pinephone convergence?

I recently learned that i cannot record with a built in microphone. Is this a common issue or does anyone have microphone working on Pinebook Pro?

I'm slightly curious as to how much non-free software is required to run the PineBook Pro and if it's possible to use it with only libre software, if it's not possible it won't put me off getting one I'd just like to know

Thanks

Hi all,

I just got my brand new PinePhone and I have spent a lot of time searching what distro to start doing development for.

Mobian Project seems to be the best described project in terms of development and how to obtain the source code.
The only thing missing from all distro's is what system requirement is needed to do a proper hardware/VM setup to ensure
enough RAM and Disk space to both host the build source code and to do the software compilation? And what Debian OS version
to use to make sure necessary build tools will be available for the process of building.

So my question is:

Where can I find info on DISK/RAM/OS requirement for physical machine and also for VM/Docker if this is more feasible?

I believe a VM/Docker approach would be the best way to kickstart the development process...
My stationary is a Gentoo box so if any one has a pretty good setup for doing Mobian development on this platform I would like to know whats and hows to this approach too :0)

/666

For a long time we have been looking for the ideal power bank for our geek briefcase (a modded briefcase to keep some SBCs and a 13" hdmi monitor)... with no luck for now: we would like a model that uses standard replaceable 18650 lithium batteries... there are various models on ebay and bought a quite cheap one in the past... but for the moment we have found nothing that support pass through charging, namely the possibility of charging its batteries while powering also the connected devices... we would also like one with more than one output port and maybe a PD USB output port...

After a Pinebook Pro and a Pinecil, a few days ago the PinePower we have ordered has finally arrived and, like the other two, it's simply great... so probably we will order another one for the briefcase... it would be very nice for powering all the stuff in the briefcase when we can connect it to a wall socket... but then I started thinking... would be wonderful if Pine guys would come out some day also with the power bank of my dream... :-) probably it would be the perfect solution for the briefcase... portability... UPS.....  so... I'm just putting it out there :-) 

alessio

There's a text based spotify client that runs in text mode called spotify-tui, which I thought looked nice,
so I took some time to make it run on the pinephone.


Here it is running in the st terminal in sxmo


Prereqs:
You need the following packages installed (there might be some missing from this list though)

• libssl-dev or openssl-dev
  
• cargo
  
• rust
  
• pkg-config
  
• libxcb-dev
  
• xdg-utils
  
• firefox-esr (or chromium), to activate the spotify API, since surf doesn't seem to load the webpage properly
  

While waiting for my pine power to arrive I noticed that the standard barrel tip power supply from all of the Asus laptops we have had from the last ~7-10 years are compatible with my pinecil.
I had noticed we had ripped some probes from a logic analyzer and was excited to get my pinecil hot after finding on arrival that the pinecil would not heat up connected to 5v USB C.
What a great mini soldering iron, it was able to dial up to 20v when connected to the Asus power supply and heated up to 300C in less than ten seconds.
Ergonomics with a right-angle laptop charge cable were not perfect but I consider that backup power option once I have a dedicated USB-C brick.
I will be sure to get another pinecil to put into my laptop bag. it makes me wonder if I got a USB-C-->USB-C cable if the laptop's C port could directly power the pinecil from battery.
When not in a workbench situation are there any neat tricks to safely cool the soldering tip?
I guess I have a cheap spiral soldering iron holder that I keep in my toolbox but I want a solution as advanced and portable as the pinecil.

I recently got my pinephone in the mail and within an hour locked myself out of the device. My model is the "Community edition: KDE plasma mobile" that came with Manjaro installed by default.




After looking it up online, I'm not the only one who realized too late your pin number to unlock your screen had anything to do with the password for the standard user. The only thing I've done so far is through the command line I updated/upgraded with pacman, disabled the SSH daemon (regretfully) and changed the password to the user. This has locked me out of the device.





I have been unsuccessful trying to boot anything from an SD card to resolve the problem above. I have tried 2 different micro SD cards, I have tried to flash from different devices (Desktop and laptop), different software to flash (dd and something called "balena etcher") and different OS images such as Arch, postmarketOS, mobian, sailfish and the phone when booting does the same thing. I was following these instructions...




From the wiki:



To install an image to the microSD card:

1. Download your chosen image from PinePhone Software Releases
   
2. Extract the compressed file
   
3. Write the image to your SD card, see below
   
4. Plug SD card into phone
   
5. Boot phone