I was expecting to be able to just do stuff like sudo apt install htop etc... but that did not happen.

At this time I still haven't figured out what is the equivalent thing of apt for KDE Plasma Mobile eg. is it yum/pacman/etc...

I did see there is Ubports... I might try that. I'm coming from web development side I was intending to use VS Code for example and run Node locally but maybe I completely misunderstood what this phone can do right now? I think VS Code can run on ARM.

I also noticed the dock doesn't charge my phone. I'm still trying to get video output from the dock to an external hdmi monitor, was looking at some threads.

I think I will have to get an SD card/try different OS's that way.

I'd appreciate any thoughts. At this time I'm more interested in the dock-computing aspect than an actual phone eg. sms.

Hello all.

I just received my PinePhone and I'm mostly impressed with it so far. I have run into a very early snag, and I'm not sure how to correct it. After going into the Discover app and having it update to the most recent set of packages, I find myself without nav buttons along the bottom or the status drawer at the top. As a result applications go full screen and I cannot exit or navigate away from them without plugging in a keyboard.

The time, battery, and wifi status are visible on the lock screen, but I gather now that is a separate application.

Has anyone else seen this? If you have, is there a way to correct it or do I need to start looking into how to reload the OS entirely?

Thanks!

Out of curiosity, i plugged my Pinecil into my Anker model A2322 60w USB-C PD brick with a 2M USB-C charging cable that was sure advertised as being capable of 60W PD, and says so on it, whatever that is worth. I bought these for my Pinebook Pro originally. Plugged the brick into my kill-a-watt power meter. 

The display shows 15v on it, and the KAW shows it drawing 28W. Just to see if it was holding back unless/until it needed the juice i put the tip inside a spare "V6" style 3d printer printhead heatsink and held it in front of a fan. It struggled and continued to just get 15v. 

Is this a bad cable maybe, or perhaps this is a firmware issue? This pinecil is from the 2nd production run, just received today.

tried to login to my voicemail but couldnt send dial tones so i had to log in using my landline

also the menu is noticeably smaller than the main menu for in call and some others, but its especially noticeable while i try to dial with my construction worker hands in the short timeout for the vm prompt

Just received my pinecil from the 2nd production run, and something is loose inside it? 

It's not just the buttons - if i hold both of them down and shake it, i can still hear something moving around inside it.

I ordered and received my PinePhone months ago. It seems like forever (Braveheart). The ordeal started when I choose to get a mainboard upgrade for the Convergence abilities.

During the process of swapping it in and out (because I couldn't get it to work and was testing) I tore the cable that is connected from the mainboard to the screen. Lacking the ability to repair that I choose to just order a new screen thinking that would solve my problem.

Well, the screen still lacks several things that are in the old housing including something that is glued down. That led be to tearing yet another small, thing ribbon cable that appears to, amount other things, connect to the speaker.

The screen replacement took over a month to get here (US East Coast). Understandably it's a pandemic and it was the US holiday season. I'm not saying any of this is unreasonable just describing my experience.

So now I'm left in a position where I have a handful of parts, I'm not even sure I can make a whole phone work again (I'll try) and I don't know if I can get the parts I need. Can I just get a replacement pack of all the ribbon cables? It seems like at this point I need multiples of those because they are very fragile.

I am very adept and have taken apart and reassembled MANY phones but I don't do PCB level soldering or anything like that.

This can just serve as an instructive posts to others that may or may not be considering the PinePhone. I would say it is user repairable in only the most basic sense.

Sigh. Any advice?

Just received my phone, super excited to dig into it.  First issue I had was changing the PIN from default, it requires me to enter a password.  I tried the default PIN 123456 but that didn't work.  What can I enter here to be able to change the PIN?  Thanks

Pro boots normally (Manjaro xfce, using zswap, chromium browser) and runs for some time.  then the screen freezes, keyboard and moouse stop responding, and the power light flasshes amber and red.

I checked the troubleshooting pages, but that is only assembly/Disassembly information with no actually troubleshooting data.

What is my Pro trying to tell me?  If it should be obvious, forgive me but I might need a pointer to the information that makes it obvious.

Tried contacting support@pine64.org, get an automated response to create a ticket on Zoho.

I created a ticket several days ago. Got no confirmation email.
Created a new ticket now, still no confirmation mail.
Tried resetting my password so I can login to the Zoho stuff, and get a timeout on the link to reset the password.
Tried mailing sales@pine64.org, bounce back.

How am I supposed to come in contact with pine64?

I have a Rockpro64 with me and trying to build driver for our custom image sensor connected to MIPI CAM lines (J17).
Currently, I am using the Radxa linux build (https://github.com/radxa/rockchip-bsp/tree/rk3399pro)

Can someone help me with the following.
- How should the dts configurations look like? (Every example I see is for CIF and not MIPI) ?
- Any document on developing sensor driver ?