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| (Glass) screen protector |
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Posted by: guenther - 10-17-2020, 08:58 AM - Forum: PineTab Accessories
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To the people who had installed a glass screen protector...what kind of protector (tablet brand / model) have you used and how does it fit? Do you think there will be a dedicated protector for the PineTab in the future?
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| [WIP] Sailfish OS Alpha |
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Posted by: peperjohnny - 10-17-2020, 06:09 AM - Forum: PineTab Software
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Hello dear piners!
First of all a big thanks for Adam Pigg and Danct12 who made a lot of the initial work, without which this would not be possible.
I've been working on Sailfish OS the last couple of days and there is something somewhat presentable now. Be WARNED as this build has some issues:
Things that do not work:
Sound
Volume buttons
Browser (another one is included)
Plymouth boot splash
Attachable keyboard
Camera
Battery life is probably really bad
That being said it's quite usable for me already and since I'll be having a bit less time to work on it, someone might help a bit with that. Not all things have PRs for upstream currently. I'll hope to write them soon. There will be an image, that I took from my SD card for you at the end of this. The card is a 16gb one, so beware if you're using something smaller.
THIS A LENGTHY AND QUITE CUMBERSOME THING TO DO, BE WARNED THAT IT MAY BE BEST TO WAIT FOR A TIME UNTIL THINGS IMPROVE UPSTREAM. I'VE DONE ALL THE BUILD ON ARCH, SO STUFF MAY VARY FOR YOUR DISTRO.
Ok let's start.
1. Get the flash.it script from https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/flash-it and flash a SD card with the pinetab image.
2. In the mean time get the kernel I patched for sfos from: https://github.com/peperjohnny/linux-pine64-sfos
3. You will need to build this kernel yourself, as the changes in porter upstream are missing as of today.
Code: cd linux-pine64-sfos
export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
export LOCALVERSION=-sfos
make clean
make defconfig KBUILD_DEFCONFIG=config
make -j4 Image modules dtbs
Code: make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=path_to/linux_modules/
Image from arch/arm64/boot/Image to the root of the boot partition.
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinetab.dtb and arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinetab.dts to the root of the boot partition.
Modules from ../linux_modules to /lib/modules on the data partition.
6. Now we need some firmware for Bluetooth and camera (Camera does not work currently)
Code: git clone https://megous.com/git/linux-firmware
git clone https://github.com/pmsourcedump/ov5640
Copy the folder rtl_bt to /lib/firmware on the data partition.
8. Open the /var/lib/environment/compositor/droid-hal-device.conf with your favourite editor and change the last line to event1.
9. Create two files under /home/nemo/ .jolla-startupwizard-done and .jolla-startupwizard-usersession-done with owner nemo and group privileg. They need to be empty. We need those files because at this time, you will lack some packages which won't show you some icons.
10. Unmount the sd card and put it in your Pinetab. It make take a while but it should boot now. Please note there is no boot splash screen at the time of writing.
11. Once in the system connect to a wifi and go to developer tools to set a password. This will be your sudo or devel-su as it's called in sfos password.
12. Open the terminal app and install the missing icons with:
Code: devel-su zypper install sailfish-content-graphics-default-z1.0
You should now be able to have a somewhat working Sailfish OS install
Now for those of you who aren't inclined to this monumental work I took an image from my sd card which should be usable too. http://peperjohnny.org/dl/sfos_alpha2.img.gz
I hope to upstream those things as soon as possible, but that may take some time unfortunately.
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| 128GB eMMC in Pinetab. |
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Posted by: frank-zappa - 10-17-2020, 05:48 AM - Forum: PineTab Hardware
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I bought a 128Gb eMMC to use in my 14" Pinebook.
Would it work in the PineTab ?
My Pinebook needs a new display and I may be waiting a while until a replacement is available.
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| Sticker request / the PineX-"trademark" |
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Posted by: fxk8y - 10-17-2020, 01:27 AM - Forum: General
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Hello there,
I appreciate the general style of the mostly-unbranded Pine64 products and many users on twitter like that too.
But as I love the Pine devices very much(PBP, PP and PT collected so far) I would like to show this off to everyone.
So I would like to see some stickers in the store, in matching sizes for the devices. Like half the width of the phone and half the height of the PBP screen?
Just want to stick a big pine cone onte them ^^
(I also looked at this thread but didn't want to dig it up. Also a full skin is not what I want, because I tend to cover my notebook in stickers. Ok would spare the pine cone though)
Best regards,
fxkk8y
edit: I just discovered that there are third-party(?) stickers on redbubble, but as in the case with the PP tpu protector which contains a donation fee, I would buy them at a higher price and support you or your donation projects.
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| Random but persistent imperfections |
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Posted by: HLing - 10-16-2020, 04:45 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone
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I have been using my UBPort CE Pine Phone on Mobian as my daily driver since mid September. I'm with T-mobile in the US. My Pine Phone always boots up to full bars, 4G. While the data for getting online still needs rebooting from time to time, I've not have to use my back up phone for a while. I am forever amazed at the Mobian team for keeping up the good work. I have learned a few things, like never rebooting with the phone charging cable plugged in, or never covering/obscuring the top portion of the phone while not on the phone, or always making sure data is working before doing the update/upgrade....Happy to be able to learn from my mistakes.
On my end, I feel not too well-versed in how to customize my phone. For some reason, none of the Software Store apps work. I mean, they would install, but would not start up. (and then Software Store will complain that such and such cannot be used). Then I tried to get Skype to work, and I ventured off and installed Snapd. I was able to download skype classic. Then while installing, it said that the software is not for arm64 structure. I'm confused as far as what exactly I can use. Am I wrong in assuming that something .deb is compatible with the Pine phone? Is there a workaround I need to learn?
Also, is it possible to go back to Camera until Megapixel works? With Camera I had decent picture quality, AND i could do video. Now I cannot do video at all. At times it's necessary to have a video camera in the phone.
Switching between headphone (wired) and regular phone didn't seem possible without rebooting in between, which is not ideal , as it potentially interrupts a phone call. Is there something I can do about that?
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| Website logins on Firefox ESR |
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Posted by: MarkF - 10-16-2020, 04:00 PM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone
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Hi All,
Wonder whether anyone can help with this. I have Mobian installed on my Pinephone 3GB/32GB, and I've noticed a peculiarity with Firefox ESR when I log in to the Guardian website. It seems to lose my login and password as I progress further into the site, and specifically, if I try to look at the comments to an article, I'm asked to log in again. But when I do, entering my login id and password, it has no effect - it still keeps asking me to login. And then, if I come back up to the first page of the site, it's restored my login.
The other browser, Web, doesn't have this problem and everything works fine, albeit very slowly.
Any observations/help welcome.
Thanks, Mark
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