Recently, i went through the process of disassembling and modifying my Pinebook Pro to have a 180 degree hinge, and i noted the lack of talk on a good guide here.

Tools
 - file (preferably small) or a dremel with a small tip that can cut metal (or equivalent alternative)
 - a set of small screwdrivers/bits, preferable if you have a set of electronics repair screwdriver bits
 - calipers, ruler, micrometer, anything that can measure on the millimeter scale. (optional but recommended)
 - marker (optional)

Step 1) So as to not be redundant, go to https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr...Reassembly and follow the steps to remove the back cover. Please note there is two lengths of screw, keep track of where they go.
Step 2) Take panel assembly apart from main body according to these instructions http://files.pine64.org/doc/pinebook/gui..._Guide.pdf
Step 3) take off these (https://imgur.com/uGA26y7) on both sides, put everything else in a safe spot
Step 3.5) separate the two parts of the hinge mechanism
Step 4) get your dremel/file or whatever else you are using, and take off 3 mm from, whatever depicted in https://imgur.com/4xxVE0w from each of the side's pieces
Major steps of getting it to 180 degrees are done, now to put it back together. IN REVERSE

one thing to note, the hinge piece that was not modified is the thing that actually limits it, and if you can grind that (on the right side) to 180 degrees, you can do the same thing, but it would require grinding around a circle, and not linear.

full picture set: https://imgur.com/a/7tE8QY9 
first mod guide please be nice.

I have the 11/29 nightly build of Mobian running on my Manjaro Pinephone, booted from a micro-SD card. Overall it's quite stable and surprisingly the phone's voice and SMS functions basically "just worked" with a Tracfone SIM for the AT&T network.

I have ssh server running on it which is great for working from the command line, but it would be nice to also be able to have remote desktop working. On my Debian desktop and laptop systems I normally run x11vnc for this, but since Mobian is using Wayland I assume something else is needed. What's the best choice?

Also I'm noticing that video playback of mp4 files is very choppy. HD videos (1080p) just show a few frames per second. I downconverted some to 480p and those work better but are still far from smooth. To get smooth playback I need to go down to 240p - VHS quality. (Actually on the small Pinephone screen it doesn't look bad!) This happens both with the default video player and VLC. Are there any tweaks that can improve this, or is it just a matter of waiting for further development? (On a related topic, where are default programs like default video player set? I'd like to make VLC the default unless there's a reason not to.)

So I am trying to get a new clusterboard up and running and want to use an ATX power supply as the main power source.  So I got a EVGA 450 W3 power supply. Got the board installed into a ThermalTake Core V1 case. Power Supply is hooked up and no juice. Flicking the power supply to the on position give me nothing. Not even a hint that the fan on the PSU spun.

I am assuming that my issue now is that I need a J2 Power switch and short that to an ON position; however, I thought I would ask if anyone else is using a regular ATX Power supply  instead of a Pico one. I want to also use the Molex connections to power some fans in the case and some other converted electronics projects.

PSU Spec Sheet

My second question is, what J2 Custom Options have you guys been using to power on the ATX Power Supply as a Switch?

I installed Fedora 32 KDE Plasma today (Nov 29, 2020) from the Pine website. 
Used dnf to so some 424 updates and rebooted (so system was current).
Then tried to do:  
  dnf install gcc
  dnf install clang
Both failed due to missing kernel headers being filtered out.

I am now doing an upgrade from Fedora 32 to 33 as per
  https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/qui...m-upgrade/
The 3172 actions are taking a while.  Once done, I will see if I can 
install either gcc or clang C compilers.

This system is running on a 64 GB uSD card.

After replacing the screen that I managed to crack on my new Pinephone (an interesting experience), I finally installed a Tracfone SIM for the AT&T network and activated it using a pre-paid Tracfone card. OS is the latest nightly build of Mobian as of this writing.

After activating the SIM and rebooting I found that basic voice calling and SMS both worked immediately. Pretty impressive for alpha software! Voice quality is not the greatest but is usable and will no doubt improve with updates. (People on the other end say it sounds muffled but they can understand me.) Interestingly at first the phone connected via 3G, then it switched to 4G.

So in theory when I'm ready to use this as my daily driver, a SIM for my regular AT&T account should work. Thanks and a tip o' the hat to the Pinephone and Mobian teams! (And to the guys on the hardware board that helped me get through the screen replacement!)

I'm a little but befuddled.  Debian claims to have "support" for the RockPro64, but various installs of their images either hang in the middle of booting, or make some indecipherable statement about kernel modules.

MrFixIt's minimal image boots and looks GREAT.  But it's armhf, and I really need MongoDB on the machine.

A Devuan arm64 install img would be fantastic!  Or how I can I put together a Debian boot image which actually works (and is 64-bit)?

Most OS's mentioned here don't make it clear if they're armhf or aarch64, and it's pretty tedious to be pulling and burning entire install images just to find out.

TIA,
Andy Valencia

Been seeing a problem with the Edge version now for over a week.  Can anyone else duplicate it?

Open Contacts.  View one, edit it.  Open the additional fields with the three dots and fill something in, I have been using Nickname.  Save.  Wait.  Contacts closes abnormally and going back you find the edit didn't stick.

This is in ~/.cache/tinydm.log

see here 

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2364

Trying to use the USB-C docking bar that comes with the convergence package for wired ethernet with Ubuntu Touch with no success. Has anyone else tried it and gotten it to work? If so, can you help me with some tips?

On my Manjaro community edition pinephone with ubuntu touch flashed and dock connected the "ip link" command shows no eth0 but three other links:
- lo (loopback),
- wlan0 (wifi)
- wwan0 (cell data)

So far I've found no other information about how to get it working. it works fine with manjaro.

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