Hi all.
I've just made a video where I show how to install and set up Armbian Reforged on RK3399.
This is a Linux gaming image with tons of emulators preinstalled. Also Box86 to play x86 Windows and Linux games.

Here is my video. Greetings

I was reading this article from a Linus Torvalds interview. There's a choice quote from him:

Quote:I’ve been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time. The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don’t have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don’t want to help.

Hello,

I initiate a thread dedicated to the 2020-11-13 image mobian-pinephone-phosh-20201113.img.gz
Because, I find difficult to know if a problem or bug is always pertinent when the OS's version is not known or when it is better to flash the new version than to only upgrade.
If there is a better solution, don't hesitate to give it

I want to trace what is working after a new update. - 12-4-2020

I always make an 'apt update && apt dist-upgrade' in a console.

• SMS : Unable to read the message received : 'systemctl restart phosh' needed.
  
• Call with a short number : I have some short numbers like '123'. When I use the phone application and dial '123', I have my communication. But when the number is associated to a contact in the application 'Contacts', it's not possible to have a call.
  
• Landscape / Portrait mode : When the phone is in Portrait mode and I change to Landscape mode, I must turn my phone on the left to have a normal view. But if the phone goes in sleep mode (manually or alone), the screen to unlock it is in Portrait mode and after I must turn my phone on the right to have a normal view. If I force the sleeping mode again, I recover the normal Landscape mode, I must turn my phone on the left to have a normal view. The bug seems that the Landscape mode is well memorized but the angle of rotation is not the good, something like '-90 °' in place of '+90 °'.
  

As many of you know, there are problems with Mobile Data connection and modem waking up in a different state after deep sleep.
So I have come up with a solution that is automatic and does not require rebooting the phone.

Find it here --> https://gitlab.com/as400l/pp-modem-guard

Yes, I know it's nasty but the modem behaviour is so painfully unpredictable.

Dear Sirs,
 
One of the usual and more useful things of smartphones is the possibility to save the numbers of the received/made calls from dial application to memory & contacts application as well as to dial numbers from the contacts application. It seems that this is not possible from the manjaro’s applications of my new device.
Without this possibility I think that it has no sense to use a device differently from an interesting play, my simple G2 old NOKIA can do this and, since it has no access to internet at the moment is a good privacy solution.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Best regards

I'm in the midst of setting up one of the extremely cheap but amazing deals on the Iconikal RK3328 boards recently sold on Amazon for 13 bucks, and I'm setting mine up as a tiny SMB server to host ISOs from an external HD to my Playstation 2.  I've been going back and forth between the idea of using OMV or just setting up a manual SMB share, but no matter which option I choose I still need a way to safely power down the device when it's not in use.  I know these boards have reset and power buttons on them, but considering the only case I could find for my board was a $6 AmeriDroid case, the power and reset buttons are extremely recessed.  I know you can hold the power button to kill power to the board, but if I fashion some sort of power button that reaches the onboard switch if I just press it once will that send the halt signals to the board and start the shutdown process?  This is my first SBC with a dedicated power button and I'm not used to having one handy, and since my main OS is stored on eMMC the last thing I want to do is to have to reprogram the module every time something craps up after being improperly shutdown.  Thanks.

Hi everyone!

I recently built my little media server using the RockPro64, along with the SATA expansion card connecting two 12 TB Ironwolf drives to serve as my home server. I'm having a little trouble deciding on the right OS for the job. 

at the moment I have the full desktop version of Armbian installed, though at the moment I've got all the desktop stuff disabled through armbian-config. The version I've got installed is based on Ubuntu Focal.

I'm not having any problems per-say but the fan is constantly running at full speed, and never slows down. I'm using the NAS enclosure with the large fan and mid sized heat sync. I would really like to have that problem fixed. I've tried the ATS solution, to no avail I was wondering if I'm running too new of a kernel or something.

since the machine sits in my basement doing buggard-all much of the time, I don't see the point in having the fan blasting cool basement air through the unit all the time.

I only have two requirments of this machine other than better fan control; SSH, and Samba. Most of what it does is serving up media files to 5 other machines in the house running Kodi.

Thanks in advance for your help. I am relatively new to the rather exotic nature of the ARM multiverse, as such I am eager to learn.

Hi, i made this lightweight onscreen keyboard for the pinephone (for Xorg) becuse i couldn't find a good one. Try it ! OnKey
idk if it works on xwayland...

  It moved to:
https://codeberg.org/jackc/OnKey

Trust is an important thing for anyone concerned with privacy, as i would assume most in the pinephone community would be. Part of building and maintaining trust, especially in a liberty-oriented community means not censoring, and ensuring you allow public discourse. 

Therefore i am deeply saddened and alarmed to inform this community that our trust may be misplaced. 

Upon hinting at a potential conflict of interest regarding the manjaro dev team as it pertains to political ideology, freedom and the potential for spyware my post was promptly attacked and deleted with no explanation, or correspondence whatsoever.

Those who've been around in the community for a while and are familiar with me are aware that i typically engage in constructive conversations here, often inquisitive, helpful, or just conversational banter since we are indeed meant to be building a community. My posts are never abusive, or against the TOS, so the fact my post was censored is extremely concerning. Let's all consider another look at Purism. If i must pay more for Liberty, I shall. It's a shame we may not have such a community after all.

So I just received my Rock64 through Amazon with the 16x2 LCD, 5v 3a power adapter and 16gb sd card bundle a few days ago. I have to say, I'm very impressed with it so far. Currently, I'm just focusing on making it into an emulation system rather than a mini desktop. It's the 1GB version, but for my projects I really don't need anything more powerful.

So, I'm looking for small display options for the Rock64 and currently all I'm finding are the ones that hook up to the HDMI port. I do plan on making the rock64 into a portable emulating gaming console sometime in the future. The raspberry pi displays don't obviously work, as those have a ribbon cable, with the Rock64 does not have.

My question is are there any displays that can be hooked up to the PI-2 bus, so the HDMI port can be used for another larger external display if needed? If not, then I'll have to use a small display that connects to the HDMI port on the rock64 such as THIS.

Thanks in advance.