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| M.2 SSD Adapter |
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Posted by: barray - 10-17-2020, 05:17 PM - Forum: PineTab Accessories
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I've attached a poll, please reply if you have a PineTab!
Given the previous community update suggesting the next batch of PineTabs will probably be shipped in December, is there any possibility of getting a jump start on purchasing the SSD upgrade adapter? From what was said by Luke, it sounded like they were basically ready to go in the original PineTab shipping but it was just a case of finishing it off.
Pros (that I can think of):
1. More people to test that it works correctly before the next batch. I imagine some people may even want to experiment with attaching other devices too (in theory, M.2 offers some PCI lanes too).
2. The community can get a head start on testing the compatibility of different M.2 SSDs to smooth over non-early-adopters that might expect a more streamlined experience.
3. It has become clear that there is some nack to opening the device up without breaking the display - I imagine it would also be good to have a community article & video describing this process.
Cons (that I can think of):
1. Smaller number of purchases increases manufacturing costs for a small batch. I think some people (myself included) would be willing to pay a bit more for the lower run and it would make sense to have something being manufactured in this time gap between runs. Also it could be a pre-order deal to prevent having to store stock.
FYI: The poll is just to help Pine gauge if there is interest. Bare in mind also that not everybody uses the forum, and some people who say they are interested might not be later.
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| InfiniTime |
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Posted by: Avamander - 10-17-2020, 12:34 PM - Forum: Development Discussion on PineTime
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InfiniTime
InfiniTime is a PineTime firmware that is lightweight, tidy, supported by multiple companion apps and in active development. It's the current factory-default firmware on the PineTime.
The goal of this project is to design an open-source firmware for the Pinetime smartwatch:
Overview
- Fast and optimized LCD driver
- Bluetooth LE (BLE) communication
- Rich user interface via display, touchscreen and pushbutton
- Time synchronization via BLE
- Notification via BLE
- Multiple watchapps:
- Clock (displays the date, time, battery level, BLE connection status)
- Music control
- System info (displays various info: BLE MAC, build date/time, uptime, version...)
- Brightness (allows the user to configure the brightness of the display)
- Supported by 2 companion apps (development is in progress):
- Gadgetbridge (on Android)
- Amazfish (on SailfishOS)
- [Experimental] OTA (Over-the-air) update via BLE
- [Experimental] Bootloader based on MCUBoot
Getting started
Build, flash and debug
Contribute
API
Architecture and technical topics
Check the GitHub repository for even more details!
https://github.com/JF002/InfiniTime
Ignore the wonky formatting, the forum's text editor is utterly unusable and super buggy.
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| Terminal password difficulty |
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Posted by: Hobbes42 - 10-17-2020, 12:17 PM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone
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Hello!
So I was trying to add megapixels to my postmarket OS pinephone, and ran into an issue.
Upon running sudo add apk megapixels, it asks for the password.
When I enter the password nothing appears in the terminal, (Keyboard does register presses) and it registers as a bad attempt.
Am I missing something here?
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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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