What operating system will follow the Ubuntu Touch on the PineTab ?

Will Post Market OS be next as was the Pine phone, or straight to the Manjaro OS, as both the

phone and the Pinebook Pro are moving to.?

I am kind of Hoping for a Mobian OS edition, as it works so good on the Pine phone, and Debian 

has a huge support base.

I would ask about Zorin OS,  but their very first release of a Arm64 operating system is tentatively

proposed for late December of this year.

Not sure where this post fits, but since I'm a first time user I'll put it here.

I recently received a PineBook Pro.  I am very enthusiastic about this project and would like to get everything up and running well, but I'm worried by some problems I have been having that I've never seen with any other Linux install or computer, and I've installed many.

The biggest worry has been the keyboard.  On first boot, all went well with login and input of requested info.  As suggested, I updated the software on the PineBook Pro.  I rebooted, and after rebooting, all was still well.  After charging, the next time I booted and logged in all went well, but suddenly the keyboard was unresponsive.  I logged out to see if that would fix the problem.  However, I was not able to log back in because the login failed.  I enabled password visibility so I could see what I was typing.  The keys I hit had nothing to do with the letters that appeared.

The first letter I typed did not appear at all.  After that, all letters appeared as CAPS, even though caps lock was not on.  Turning caps lock on resulted in letters being typed in lower case.  However, whether caps lock was enabled or not it was impossible to type any numbers.  The symbols above the numbers was all that appeared. 
Rebooting once, then twice did not solve the issue.  I was unable to login.  Thinking it a lost cause, I shut down the computer.  This morning when I rebooted I could login and all was well.  For awhile....


Then the same issue started repeating itself.  This time I noticed it was mainly an issue of caps or not.  If I typed a letter, I could get caps, but if I kept re-typing it, I would get some lower case letters to appear as well.  At any rate, nothing consistent.  Of course, this makes the PBP essentially unusable, especially when I need to type a password in the terminal and can't see what's being typed!

However, I need a computer that I can rely on.  I take it with me and need to know when I boot I can login without any trouble.  I need to know what this problem was so I can avoid it.  Perhaps I should mention that KWin constantly crashes.  I tried LXQt to see if it might be a KDE issue, but kwin also crashed just as much.  Reinstalling kwin didn't help.

My eventual plan is to remove Manjaro which I have never liked and install another distro, probablly Arch Linux since there is quite a bit of PBP software for it.  My second choice would be Fedora.

Has anyone had this kind of issue?  I really want to be a PBP user but need reliability.

Kendew

My incoming SMS stopped working somwhere around the Sep.1-2 nightly builds. My carrier is Bell in Canada. Everything else seems to function flawlessly. Daily driver ready for me if I can get my SMS full capabilities back. Anyone else have this same issue?

Howdy all!!

1st I am a complete newbie to Manjaro. I have about 4 months experience with Mint, but when my Pinebook Pro recently came in I feel like I am learning a new operating system all over again. If you are kind enough to help, please be kind and treat me like a kindergarten child...

I use MEGA Cloud almost extensively for my file storage and use a Cryptomator vault. I have no clue how to install these. I could not find them in the repositories and am not finding much on the webs as far as a how-to.

I'm a slowly converting normie, and really appreciate the help!!

Cheers!

P.S. My Pinephone just left China!! Kinda giggity about it!!

So i got 3 of those Rock64 boards off Amazon, i only got one emmc card for one so far.

I went threw all of the Android files (Android is all i really know how to use as of now)

Anyway i installed one that is Android 9 tv emmc boot and one that is SD boot. My issue is the SD boot one has a defualt of 1920 x 1080, the emmc install deufalts at 1280 x 720 and it wont change in the settings, ive reinstalled the operating system more then once and its like stuck in the firmware or somethin

Can some one guide me on how to fix this so its like the SDboot version?

I tried to install the SDboot version onto the emmc but for some reason when using this version on the emmc it no longer reconizes the SD reader (im guessing because the os should be on here instead?)

Its been a fun little board so far, i dig all of the different OS files, havnt tried em all yet but its cool they are available

Greetings,

Any word of progress on the fulfilment centres for the PinePhone CE USB3 OTG fix? I recall it was mentioned in the July update.

I'm in the UK, I'd be willing to pay a small fee to have this fixed. Really hoping to try some USB devices with the PP but don't want to risk burning the motherboard. It's best done by someone with knowledge and proper equipment. It pains me to admit, but that person isn't me

Regards,
R.T.G.

Just got my pinephone, and I’m still using ordinary phosh, etc., that it came with…

I have a headset with separate headphone and microphone plugs. If I plug in the headphone plug
and try the audio test, I hear "front left" from the right ear and "front right" from the left ear.

Is this what I should expect from using this kind of plug on this kind of jack, or is it a
manifestation of audio being a work in progress?

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to update everyone that I finally have a stable build up that supports EMMC completely.

These images include several new fixes and enhancements. Some of those are listed below:

New Features/Fixes

• EMMC Support
  
• Boot partition is separate
  
• SELINUX support in the kernel (disabled out of the box)
  
• Updated wireless drivers
  
• Custom kernel packaging more closely resembles the official Fedora kernel packages
  
• Several new desktop environments
  

I just got my Pinephone and super psyched to start messing around with it.  Has anyone tried a Google Fi data-only SIM?  I was thinking of getting a free pay as you go one.

Hi!

This monthly update is a bit overdue, but with summer seeing a lot of people going on holiday in the northern hemisphere, there hasn't been much progress over this period

Anyway, we got back to work and things continue to improve, although at a slower pace as we already dealt with most of the low hanging fruits. Here are the most interesting features that have been worked on in the past few weeks:

• u-boot has been updated to the latest upstream release and is patch for 3GB PinePhone compatibility, so all images are now compatible with all HW versions
  
• User "root" no more has a default password, which improves security as it will disable root login entirely (you can still set a password of your choice by executing 'sudo passwd')
  
• Default user password can now be changed without the need to use 'sudo': it now accepts any password which is at least 4 characters long, including fully numeric passwords
  
• PinePhone usage as a USB device has been entirely reworked:
  • Internal storages (both eMMC and SD card) are now exposed through the MTP protocol, so you can browse and edit your files directly from your computer as long as they contain a valid filesystem
    
  • Ethernet-over-USB now has DHCP enabled and shares the data connection with the computer, so you can use your phone as a mobile data modem on the go; the phone's IP address has changed to 10.66.0.1 with the latest build (if you upgraded prior to September 5th, it might still be 10.0.0.1 for you).
    
• The volume rocker buttons are now supported out of the box thanks to recent phoc and phosh updates
  
• Thermal management has been tweaked so the CPU almost never gets over 60°C, and the display brightness scale has been improved to allow for a dimmer screen at the lowest settings
  
• Kernel has been updated to the latest 5.7 stable release