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.

I would like to disable all animation and smooth scrolling, in the hopes that this might speed up my Mobian phone's performance. Does anyone know how I might do this?

Also, in general, if you have any recommendations to speed up Mobian, please let me know.

I find that when using Nextcloud and KeepassXC on my Pinephone that they don’t fit the screen properly so I can’t see all of the boxes or buttons to click on. I have tried adjusting the scaling through Terminal but if I can get the programs to fit better then nothing else looks right. I have tried Manjaro ARM; Mobian; and Postmarket OS in Phosh as well as Manjaro Arm in KDE but had the issue with each. Any ideas ? Should I be reporting this to the program developers themselves ?

What are people using to monitor power consumption? Specifically, I would like to be able to monitor consumption by individual systems, modem, wifi,  USB etc. I am trying powertop but it keeps saying 0mW for everything and I know that is not true. I am new to powertop so I assume it is due to my mistakes. Anyone have configuration advice or other recommended applications. I prefer command line but I can make most things work.

TIA
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flashed jumpdrive to sd card using Etcher, boot off the card, jumpdrive says it's running. connected phone to laptop using the supplied red cable, but Etcher is finding no place to flash the new OS image. the phone storage doesn't show up with lsusb, either.

I'm using the Pinephone CE UBports edition, and have reset it to get rid of any settings that may interfere with this.

I've tried rebooting the laptop with the phone plugged in, I've tried rebooting the phone while plugged in, nothing.

the sd card seems to be good. Etcher reported no problems, and before flashing jumpdrive on it, I had stored a Mobian image on it which worked with no problems.

I'd really like to run Mobian off the emmc and I don't care how I get there, but I'm stymied. the mobian_installer utility fails, but that's for other reasons (it wants glibc 2.29, UBports is using glibc 2.23. I suppose I could try installing it by booting mobian from the sd card and then installing the OS from it, but installing a running OS just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Hello folks, finally I have started to test the PP with my separate SIM card I've bought just for PP. To test the calls etc. I have firstly wanted to import my contacts from daily driver phone (iPhone in this case). I've used 3rd party app in iPhone to export all my contacts to .vcf format which I then did send to my email. Using Geary I did save the .vcf to my pinephone.

I have then followed https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...]=contacts to import the contacts via Evolution. There the problem started.

All the contacts have been imported successfully, but calling them via Contacts didn't work. Why? For some reason every contact I don't have saved with prefix (format +<country specific prefix>) in tel. number (it's not like that in my iPhone either btw so it's not import problem) was called with prefix+10 using Contacts app. If you would ask why don't I have all the contacts saved with prefix for phone number, it's because sometimes I was lazy, and when calling Slovak mobile phones in Slovakia I don't have to use any prefix.

To explain in better, example:
- contact imported via vcf, phone number imported: 0910 123 456 (this is a standard Slovak mobile phone number). Displayed as 0910 123 456  in Contacts as well, everything looks good.
- calling the above number via Contacts results into calling: +10 910 123 456 which obviously fails (Slovakia has +421 prefix) instead of calling either 0910 123 456 or +421 910 123 456
- interestingly Contacts is at least clever enough not to ad a prefix for numbers which already have it

I couldn't find any setting in Contacts to change it, to stop adding prefix on its own, so I had to come up with my own workaround I wanted to share ^^. This is applicable for contacts imported via Evolution (vcf) tested on Phosh pmOS and Mobian.

1) take a backup of your vcf
2) check whether you need to modify anything in vcf: