I see great tools and extensions to others for creating bootable SD cards - thanks!

I am still fuzzy on flashing on-system emmc.  So far I am guessing it involves something like Jumpdrive and then the command below?

wget 172.16.42.2/u.img -O - | dd bs=4M conv=noerror,sync of=/dev/mmcblk2

Thanks for clarification.  I cannot seem to see another and the trial to 'dd' a live SD card were as stable as expected.

Cheers

I installed Mobian to the emmc on my pinephone.  After resizing the partition on it's first boot, I decided to do a full system upgrade with

Wondering if anyone knows how to get an ethernet connection working through the convergence dock with Ubuntu Touch (build #90). I have the Manjaro convergence version of the pinephone and ethernet worked transparently with multiple Manjaro builds so I know the hardware works but I can't get Ubuntu Touch to recognize it.

I found a reference somewhere to modprobe CDCEther which outputs "Module CDCEther not found in directory /lib/modules/5.6.0-pine64" but I have no idea if that's the issue. Can anyone offer some help or a pointer to the right place to ask? Thx!

Hey everyone, I am pretty new to the pine phone and the programming of it. I have the mobian software on my Pine phone. How do I add apps to it? Thank You for any help. 

Thank You
Chris

I built some Armbian 21.02.0-trunk Groovy images (both minimal and GNOME3) last night.

They are available here: https://www.ironrobin.net/clover/droppy/...ro/armbian

I hope you find them useful!

Bugs I've found:
- Locking / blanking the screen crashes or freezes gnome-shell on wayland. Can't reproduce the issue with X11. (issue recently resolved: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1536)

11/28 Update: fixed bootsplash

11.27.2020 Mobian As Main Driver Notes

Intro
So far using Mobian on Pinephone UBPorts edition as my main driver has been a relief from the for-profit operating systems. Thank you so much for this push forward, it's making a difference and giving me a word-of-mouth ability to spread awareness to people that this is possible: to live without the for-profit tech giants entirely!

What works well for me in Mobian as a user with low-intermediate linux knowledge:

• Phonecalls incoming and outgoing are reliable with correct amplification and quality to be acceptable to the non-linux person and to me as an everyday user
  
• texts send and receive reliably
  
• Software downloads and uninstalls with relative ease
  
• voice recorder works
  
• camera works, front and back
  
• battery reads accurately
  

• When outside my usual data area, I'm unable to browse the web even though data is set accessible through cell signal. It would be important for reloading bus cards through web app, and other important lookups for logistics no matter the area
  

• A lot of applications don't resize to the correct window resolution. Having this automatically fit the window would be helpful, especially for linking contacts from Evolution or Thunderbird which both have the non-native resolution concern
  

• When turning off only Wifi in settings, Airplane Mode is activated and deactivates bluetooth, wifi and cellular data
  

• When turning off Airplane Mode, bluetooth, wifi and cellular is reactivated all together
  

• When the phone sits idle on the charger for more than 30 minutes (idk the exact time), the phone has a blinking blue light and doesn't have its screen open. Is it going into sleep or hibernate mode? I could open it once with a few presses to the power button, though I don't know enough about the feature to say any more.
  

• Importing .vcf or other contact file formats in default contacts app: Even though I imported key contacts one by one, Phone doesn't recognize numbers that don't have the exact data representation. (Example: +17731234567). I found this out after manually putting contacts in without the + sign and having all my family members and friends call me and text me while not knowing who they were half the time other than voice recognition lol
  

• Messages receives an unknown number and on pressing the new message, it doesn't open the text
  

• When on a phonecall, the software can't yet put the first call on "hold" and I would have to call back (I don't mind this tbh)
  

• Voice Recorder could automatically suggest the date and time as the name
  
• Mastodon works really well on Tootle
  
• The UBPorts gui is really human focused, hopefully that can be an option in later builds
  
• If an application is added to Favorites, can it stay in the application window as well instead of moving entirely to the top?
  

Hi everyone

I recently bought a PP comunity edition , and i've been trying out most of majors OS 'manjaro , mobian , Ubuntu Touch ,...) now come the turn of SAILFISH wich is for now the smoothest one but , i just encountered a probleme i did not on any of the other OS's the SIM card won't unlock .

It is detected allright as i'm prompted with the unlock sim card screen at phone's startup , if i enter a incorrect pin code on purpose it tells me "wrong pin" but as soon as i enter the correct one ... nothing happens i touch the tick symbol and nothing happens , so utimately i'm forced to ignore this step and i can use every other functions of my phone except the phone related ones (sic).

if i try to unlock it from the settings-->security--->SIM it doesn't work either .

I'm really enthusiatic about the pinephone ,and would really like to get android free , sailfish seem to offer a good balance between user experience/functionality so i'm kinda frustrated about the whole phone not working thing , if anyone coudl help me it would be much appreciated.

Thank a lot

I updated my SD card via apt and all was well.  It's running Mobian and the emmc is UB Touch.  Rebooted the critter and all is dark.  I can hear some noises in the tab if I put my ear to it, and can power it down so it is quiet, but when I power it up, no display and the keyboard doesn't light up anymore.

So I removed my SD card to use Touch and it also doesn't respond!  That doesn't make sense.

So is there a procedure to restore the emmc to it's original settings, or at least to get Mobian working on the SD card again so I can use it once again?

thanks,
My3ke

I don't religiously follow the forums, what did @LinAdmin2 do to get himself banned?

Also, when I try to run apps like file manager or notepad as root, it gives me permission a error for run/user/1000?