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  Full desktop Surfing and Absolute Privacy on the pinephone?
Posted by: Www - 06-28-2025, 01:38 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (8)

Full desktop Surfing and Absolute Privacy on the pinephone pro?



Can you browse with a full Internet browser allowing you to backup current session tabs list, boomarks, history and saved pages?



With absolute privacy?


  Printing and scanning documents with pinephone?
Posted by: Www - 06-28-2025, 01:31 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (4)

Printing and scanning documents with pinephone?

I want to print and scan papers from a pinephone pro. I know they are linux machines, but can they handel this? I have epson and brother gear.

I don't want to connect through the network and Internet, but through usb or wifi direct.

Thanks.


Question Printing and scanning documents with pinebook?
Posted by: Www - 06-28-2025, 01:25 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Printing and scanning documents with pinebook?

I want to use the pinebook or tab to print to printer, but also looking at bulk scanning with features like paperport.  I know they are linux machines, but can they handel this? I have epson and brother gear.

I don't want to connect through the network and Internet, but through usb or wifi direct.

Thanks.


Question Full desktop Surfing and Absolute Privacy on the pinebook?
Posted by: Www - 06-28-2025, 01:04 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Full desktop Surfing and Absolute Privacy on the pinebook?

Can you browse with a full Internet browser allowing you to backup current session tabs list, boomarks, history and saved pages?

With absolute privacy?


Question Backing up to bluray/dvd usb?
Posted by: Www - 06-28-2025, 12:55 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Backing up to bluray/dvd usb?

Hi, I am interested in setting up privacy machines to backup data to optical bluray ray and dvd?  How doab,e is this on Pinebook Pro and pinebook and tabs?


  FM? A future new PinePhone?
Posted by: jebez - 06-26-2025, 08:17 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (1)

Hi

I recently drowned my Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro SM-G715FN/DS, the display not works...

Since I've Arch Linux KDE on PC (my config https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?...5#p2221235), I'm interested to the PinePhone Pro with Manjaro (based on Arch Linux) Plasma Mobile.

Is there a FM receiver? https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10863

But the display is 1440x720, I'd like at least 1920x1080.
Also I'd like eSIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM instead of SIM card & its slot.

Will there be a future new PinePhone?

Thanks.


  Clamares password needed with new Mobian installation
Posted by: fauvetan - 06-25-2025, 03:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Hello,

I just try to install Mobian on my Pinephone using the dd’s method but when I put the SD card inside the phone and try to boot on it, I get the “Enter disk decryption passphrase” of Clamares. I read that “1234” is the default password, but it doesn’t work. Clamares tell me it’s a wrong password. 

I flashed my sd card many times, trying some tweeks, but the message still the same.


So, what can I do to bypass this situation?
Thank you.


  Pinecil v2 tip screw temperature
Posted by: Minuen - 06-23-2025, 06:38 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinecil - No Replies

I just recently got a Pinecil v2 and I want to make sure that my setup doesn't have issues. The two screws which hold the tip get hot enough to burn me if I brush them while rotating the pinecil during soldering. Do your screws get hot?

Cable: anker 100W silicone usb-c cable https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B093GGNRZM
Charging block: Apple 140W laptop charger https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MW2M3AM/A/140w-usb-c-power-adapter
The device says it's getting a consistent 20V and has never posted a warning.
Firmware: v2.23-rc4
Tip: initially noticed with a ST-KU tip I got off Amazon but the original tip it shipped with also has this issue
Temps: 350-380C used while I was testing using lead free solder

Is this just something I need to be aware of and avoid touching? If so that's fine. If the entire tip is supposed to get hot it would make sense that the screws touching it also get hot.
Some searching suggests that it could be an issue with either my setup or some of the circuitry in the device and I don’t want to damage it. 


  (real) Mainline U-boot finally works on SPI, boots SATA, throw away your SD cards NOW
Posted by: aleksei - 06-21-2025, 06:21 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - No Replies

This is on Arch ARM* or Manjaro installed on RP64. If compiling on amd64 machine, set CROSS_COMPILE variables accordingly.


Build ATF:


Code:
git clone --depth=1 -b v2.13.0 https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git
make -j $(nproc) CC=gcc PLAT=rk3399 bl31
Build U-boot:


Code:
git clone --depth=1 -b v2025.04 https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git
export BL31=/path/to/built/bl31.elf
make mrproper && make rockpro64-rk3399_defconfig
make menuconfig
Here are the changed variables in .config, but don't just copy them to your .config - search for them in menuconfig and change there, the menu will take care of dependencies.




Code:
CONFIG_BOOTDELAY=20
CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="bootflow scan -lbm"
CONFIG_CMD_ERASEENV=y
CONFIG_CMD_NVEDIT_LOAD=y
CONFIG_NO_NET=y
CONFIG_BAUDRATE=115200
CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT=y
CONFIG_PREBOOT="usb start"
CONFIG_PREBOOT_DEFINED=y

make -j $(nproc)
Writing to SD card first to test it (from doc/README.rockchip in U-boot source, "Option 3: Package the image with TPL"):







Code:
dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdX seek=64
dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdX seek=16384
sync


Flashing to SPI is much simpler nowadays, see doc/board/rockchip/rockchip.rst in U-boot source. Create a partition with FAT filesystem on the same SD card, place u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin on it, reboot, get to U-boot cmdline and:



Code:
sf probe
load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr_r u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin
sf update $fileaddr 0 $filesize
If sf probe returns an error or booting from SPI fails, short pins 23 and 25 on GPIO to temporarily disable SPI. After booting disconnect them again and erase SPI to at least get SD boot working.




U-boot environment section on SPI might be empty, broken or contain wrong variables. To get default environment for installed version of U-boot, remove situational partitions variable and save the environment to SPI, run in U-boot cmdline:




Code:
env default -a
env delete partitions
env save


Then create EFI partition on SATA disk and proceed like with a regular UEFI machine. U-boot from SPI will also scan SATA partitions for extlinux/extlinux.conf, boot.scr and other U-boot-specific boot configs.



* On Arch, pacman -U these 3 pkgs from Manjaro (choose a mirror close to you) to build ATF:




https://mirror.truenetwork.ru/manjaro/ar...kg.tar.zst


https://mirror.truenetwork.ru/manjaro/ar...kg.tar.zst



https://mirror.truenetwork.ru/manjaro/ar...kg.tar.zst



PS Screw this forum software inserting copious newlines on every press of preview button.


  Thoughts after a year with the PBP
Posted by: ksosn - 06-20-2025, 03:00 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

Hi,

I'm relatively new to the community here, as I received my first and, so far, only Pine64 product roughly a year ago, even though I've been reading the blog for much longer.

It's the PBP, and I've been using it as my only laptop.

It's really good for what it is: being small, light, having a long battery life (for light tasks), it is entirely silent, it looks and feels like a premium product.
The RAM capacity and CPU performance are limited, but it's good enough. All demanding tasks I want to do can wait for the moment when I get to my desk and boot up my desktop PC.
My laptop's role is mainly displaying PDFs, static websites, running a text editor, running GIMP, compiling small programs, letting me SSH into other machines.
As for the future: the machine serves its role well, and this isn't going to change, so even though I would like my next laptop to also be a small, light, fanless Pine64 product, I wouldn't want to buy it until 2030. Also, given that performance is not very important, I think that the increase between RK3399 and RK3588 is relatively insignificant, and Pine64 either way should wait for new, more promising hardware to become available before beginning work on a new iteration of the Pinebook.