I have installed Android 9 on my RockPro64 so that we can use it to stream Netflix (since it is Android it allows downloading of content, if I had Linux which I would prefer then we could stream live from a browser but our internet is tooo sloooow to do that!). Everything works except there is significant "artifact / artifacting" in media playback (with Netflix only? Using "NewPipe" for YouTube streaming seems OK).

Is it possible there is some configuration option needed to enable GPU / Hardware Acceleration? I can't seem to find nearly anything on the situation. I will try alternative (older) Netflix versions to see if it helps, but I suspect not....

From what I have read here, I will not hear from anyone until my phone ships.

Will there eventually be somewhere on this website to check the status of an order?

Thanks.

Ive noticed at least when running UB Touch on my pinephone it often, and randomly, starts emitting a very high pitch and annoying sound, probably around 18-22kHz since its barely audible, but loud (high dB) and very irritating nonetheless. Its the same sort of sound you get out of a bad electrolytic capacitor in a RLC circuit when the inductor is off phase or the electrolyte in the capacitor is boiling off.

It kicks in like a laptop fan, so im guessing its the effect of some program/s or subroutines either causing some oscillation in a component or random noise to the speakers or amp gain. Im hoping it is the speakers, so the hardware isnt under stress, but i still hate the sound. 

I know it's been reported by others, i was wondering if we knew the exact source, whether it could be addressed, and also whether it is OS specific.

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P.S. i know we're all used to electronic noise, idle speakers, old chargers especially. But for a phone you regularly hold close to your head or other body parts, we really should get it addressed and not just accept it.

Oddly enough, this exact executable file I ran on the PinePhone works just fine on the PineBook Pro and it does not have all these glitches it does the PinePhone. Not sure why these devices aren't displaying it the same? My game is being rendered with OpenGL 1.1 and everything else I've tried reports unsupported GL version (also tried GL 3.3 GL ES 2, GL ES 3.3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ClLbvBJqY

Any ideas why it works perfect on Manjaro ARM for the Pinebook Pro and not the PinePhone running the mobile version of the same OS?

You can download the game here (FOSS):

https://samuel-venable.itch.io/key-to-success

Made with ENIGMA - www.enigma-dev.org

Since there are so many interfaces available for the PinePhone, I'm curious which ones people are using.

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Edit: I think the way that the forum software reports poll percentages is confusing, because it reports as a percentage of total votes, rather than as a percentage of total voters. Here are the poll results as a percentage of total voters:

Which interface(s) do you use on the PinePhone?
● Phosh (postmarketOS, Mobian, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, Arch, Manjaro, Gentoo or PureOS): 70%
● Lomiri (Ubuntu Touch or Manjaro): 27%
● Plasma Mobile (postmarketOS, KDE Neon or Manjaro): 16%
● Hildon (Maemo Leste): 3%
● Silica (SailfishOS): 3%
● Glacier (Nemo Mobile): 0%
● Luna Next (LuneOS): 0%
● Mate (postmarketOS or AVMultiPhone): 0%
● Android (GloDroid): 5%
● Other (XFCE, LXDE, JWM, OpenBox, i3wm, Kodi, Sway, Sxmo, command line, etc.): 24%
● Total voters: 37

Hi, I'm thinking about buying the PineTab (the next time it is offered), and I was wondering what kind of performance it will have.

Would somebody mind installing hardinfo on their PinePhone and running the command hardinfo -r and posting the output?
I would like to see the CPU and GPU benchmarks.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I set up my Pinebook Pro as instructed. However, when it reboots, it won't accept my user name or password. Also, the default language appears to be Catallan, which I did not set and is difficult to understand.

Can anyone assist? I'd be happy enough to wipe it and set it up again, but I can't seem to do that from the login screen.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Best,

I have a Rockpro64 board in which I flashed an Ubuntu OS via an eMMC and installed a system onto it. However, I messed something up during the install and would like to completely start from scratch. There is nothing important on the drive I have attached to the board like this setup here, expect I have an NVMe M.2 SSD: https://notmandatory.org/rockpro64-pt1/

So I would like to unmount the drive, reformat and redo the LVM volumes I had setup, and do anything else necessary to go back to default configuration settings so I can start from scratch trying to install that system again.

Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

So I'm working on my darktable issue. I loaded LibreOffice writer and tried to select a font to see if it was actually installed, and the list was blank. When I highlight a font, it shows up the name highlighted and it can be selected, but the other unselected fonts in the list remain blank. I ran sudo fc-cache -vf and this is the output:

Font directories:
        /usr/share/fonts
        /usr/local/share/fonts
        /root/.local/share/fonts
        /root/.fonts
        /usr/share/fonts/Roboto
        /usr/share/fonts/TTF
        /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro
        /usr/share/fonts/cantarell
        /usr/share/fonts/encodings
        /usr/share/fonts/gsfonts
        /usr/share/fonts/noto
        /usr/share/fonts/util
        /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Roboto: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 36 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto: caching, new cache contents: 511 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts/Roboto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/util: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded


Maybe an issue with looped directories?

I have two 4GB Rock64 boards identically configured.  Each has

• The official 5V 3A power supply.
  
• The official heat sink.
  
• A 32GB SanDisk A1-class SD card.
  
• An Eluteng USB to SATA bridge.
  
• A Sandisk 240GB SSD.
  
• Armbian Focal Server installed for Rock64.
  
• A wired gigabit network connection to same switch.
  
• No monitor attached.
  

• disabling one of the four CPU cores.
  
• disabling up to 1GB of RAM.
  
• reducing clock speed by up to 20 percent.