So I wasn't initially aware of the existing trackpad issues, and so a quick google search brought me to this pinebook pro forum post
I was so eager to fix the issue that I didn't really notice this wasn't a pine TAB forum as the OP was simply commenting on how a linked procedure worked for them.

In any case, now my KB/Trackpad are completely unusable. 
I'm able to repeat the procedure, so the basic USB communication is still there. Also the keyboard reacts on some keys but the resulting signal is nothing related to the actual key pressed.

I'm wondering if there's any way to get a hex dump of the actual keyboard/trackpad from the pinetab in order to revive my now botched keyboard...

When I plug in power through the hub, the phone will say it’s charging (in the phosh gui, anyway), but the charge percentage goes down.

Hi ,

I am new to this forum and the world of linux.
I am looking for some general directions for installing a software on pine book pro with (factory) Manjaro.
The software is Monero GUI:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero...-a-package

Is this feasible?

I sometimes need several attempts to start the PineTab after shutdown. I don't know if it's the "video issue" or something else. Normally it starts after 2s of holding down the power button, but sometimes it needs 10s+ several times. Have you experienced the same behavior?

Edit: Currently Mobian, running internal emmc but had the same experience with UT also...

Converting Embedded C to Rust is not that hard... Here's how we convert a PineTime Watch Face with LVGL from C to Rust on RIOT

Porting PineTime Watch Face from C to Rust On RIOT with LVGL

I got Vivaldi to run under Arch, and probably the same trick would work for Chrome (which is under Vivaldi).

1. In the AUR there is a 64-bit Arm Vivaldi snapshot Download it
2. Unpack the archive and do an install like you would anything else from AUR
3. There were 2 or 3 things I had to add using pacman (in fact, I had to add fakeroot to get the packaging to work). Everything was there, just pacman -S xxxx
4. Do the install.

Now you will have a problem. Vivaldi is there but won't run. Here's why. GDK_BACKEND is set to wayland. It needs to be set to x11. You can edit the launcher or the Vivaldi script or from CLI:

GDK_BACKEND=x11 vivaldi-stable

Seems to mostly work. The interface is a bit clipped. Setting it to native window (restart required) helped I think. Moving the address bar to the bottom helped a lot.

Woo hoo!

Update: ALT+F10 maximizes the window which cleans up most of the issues.

It is somewhat painful for me to write this letter, or message, in part because I have not had the time to
more fully examine the product of this complaint: a PineBook Pro laptop.
It is approaching the one-year anniversary of first learning about this laptop. This laptop was of
interest to me for a number of reasons. First, it is a decent sized computer that does not depend on any
Microsoft product for operation. In the two years just prior to the introduction of this laptop, I had
suffered a major problem during one of many forced ‘updates and upgrades’ with the Windows 10
operating system. The ‘upgrade’ started to reboot the computer (a somewhat normal event during any
software upgrade) but this time the operating system presented a log-in page that wanted an account
username and password. I entered the information that I thought was wanted and pressed Enter. The
same page came up with a warning: ‘Information entered is not valid. Enter correct information to
continue.’ After trying to enter (and reenter) the log-in information two or three more times, I loaded a
DVD that had an ISO for Ubuntu Linux and switched the computer over. I have not regretted that
decision. After making the switch I started reading and studying about the Linux operating system and
programming language. Progress was starting to be made in my knowledge about Linux.
Then the PineBook Pro was announced. I carefully read the early reviews and write-ups about the
laptop and watched all of the videos that were posted to the different sites. In about October 2019, I
found a way to order one of those laptops for my own. Then the Corona Virus hit and everything shut
down. Probably because the laptop is considered a ‘consumer good’ and not urgently needed by any
individual, company, or government office, the production and shipment of them was greatly reduced
and halted. There was no notification either from Pine 64 or from PayPal that the laptop would be
delayed due to the virus. There also had been no notice or confirmation that my order had even been
received.
During the time when everything was shut down, I spent a lot of my time reading and studying about
both the new laptop and the Linux operating system. And the specific operating system that was to be
installed on the laptop. During my reading I did not find any mention of any warranty or any other
end-user protection on the PineBook Pro. The laptop was delivered in either late April or sometime in
May of 2020. One of the first things I, as the owner of several other computers (several of which no
longer work), was the lack of a product serial number. Some companies use a serial number that
includes the year, month, and day a given product was approved for shipment. Also, there was no
mention of any warranty. And no user guide to help a new user get started. Granted, Linux is not an
operating system known as ‘user friendly’ for a person lacking extensive computer programming
experience. When a problem came up, and some did, I went to the Forum and posted my problem or
question. Sometimes an answer would be posted in one day. Many other times it would take several
days before a helpful answer would get posted. A few of the answers did suggest using an item or
software patch to help gain access to the area where the problem was halting the boot process.
Sometimes those tips failed to include any link to the item mentioned or the software patch desired.I had ordered my PineBook Pro with the 128 GB eMMC module. And when the laptop was delivered,
there was a small case in the packaging that does contain that module. The laptop arrived with the
original 64 GB of eMMC. In one of the user manuals I found online, there are instructions on how to
install the larger module. There were no pictures (either drawing or photographic) of the exact location
of these modules or how they should be oriented when being installed.
About two weeks ago, I did attempt to install the larger module in my laptop. When I then tried to
power it on with the larger module installed, nothing happened. The power LED did not respond to
any key press on the power button. Even when the charging cord and external power unit were
connected to an external outlet, the power button still had no effect.
Today I attempted to restore the laptop to the original memory condition with the 64 GB eMMC
module and see if it would power on again. And again, there was no response with the power LED or
any of the other indicators of ‘normal’ power on state. Frankly, I am at a loss as to what to do. I cannot
find any real street or post office address where a postal message could be sent. The delay time for
questions or comments in the Forum is, in my opinion, discouraging. One group that I follow has
software that can be used on almost any computer no matter the operating system; Windows, Mac, or
Linux. In that group, if any user of that software encounters any problem, the user can post his/her
problem in a user forum and after a few emails are exchanged to help identify what the problem might
be, there would be a solution posted within a week of the original problem. Other ‘consumer items’
that I own (cameras, cell phone, two way radios, etc.) each have known physical addresses where a
user of that product (whichever one it might be) could either send a regular postal letter or request
authorization to return that item for inspection and repair if the repair is needed.
As I said above, if I attempt to turn the PineBook Pro on even with the external power supply plugged
in and connected, absolutely nothing happens and the screen remains dark. I would really like to learn
to use the PineBook Pro and the Linux and Manjaro operating systems.
Thank you,
James Good

I feel like I'm losing my mind, here, so hopefully someone can help me out, here.  I apologize if this duplicates someone else's thread, but it didn't appear that this particular problem was already represented on a couple of searches.  I may have missed something, though, since searching for "PIN" turns up basically every thread as a substring for "pineXYZ."

So, the phone showed up this afternoon.  I opened the back and connected the battery.  I walked through postmarketOS's setup process.  And then, after seeing that there was no software to speak of available, locked the phone to avoid wasting the battery and went to go deal with some other things.  So far, so good.

Coming back a few hours later, though, I'm stuck at the lock screen.  My PIN doesn't seem to work, so I just get the "Invalid Passcode" animation.  I can log in via ssh, but that seems to be a different user, so I'm not sure that's helpful.  I've tried variations on the PIN on the chance that I just zoned out or slipped when entering it, and I tried the 147147 default.  The only thing I haven't been able to try (because I can't see the setup process anymore) is the possibility that my PIN--chosen because of the shape, rather than the numbers--was input on a number pad with a different orientation, but I don't think it was different.

I assume that there's no way to bypass the lock screen, or else it wouldn't be a particularly good lock.  But is there a way to use my not-quite-right ssh connection to change the main account's PIN?  Do they maybe share a PIN at the operating system level?  Failing that, since I've done literally no work on the phone beyond setting my name and timezone, is there a straightforward way of running some sort of factory reset so I can start over?

Thanks!  (And once I'm back in, I can wonder why none of the software controls seem to wake up the camera and Cheese just doesn't run at all.  But that's a problem for later...)

Just a suggestion or rather asking if this has been already considered: a simple 3dof VR headset made by Pine64 that can work as a passthrough SteamVR device with outside in head tracking similar to the PSVR?

This open source project could be a starting point:
https://www.relativty.com/

Although I suspect it being easier to source the mechanical parts from one of the many Chinese cheap phone VR case vendors.

http://www.openhmd.net/ and Monado could be used software side.

And since Google made Cardboard VR fully open source it might be a good way to get some simple VR video watching or FPS drone flying working in stand alone mode via a RockPro SBC as a belt attached compute box?

Add some stereo cameras and it might even be possible to do some basic hand tracking or inside out head tracking in the future

Would be a cool addition to the growing Pine64 device ecosystem.

   

... using vs code server and the browser.

> wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/relea...m64.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf code-server-3.5.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz
> cd code-server-3.5.0-linux-arm64/
> ./code-server --auth none

browse to 127.0.0.1:8080