I bought a Kindle a while back expecting to use some of my favorite apps and experiment with my own but it had almost none. Does the PineTab have:

• Accelerometer
  
• Magnetometer
  
• Gyroscope
  
• Rotation, tilt, orientation
  
• motion
  

Hi,
I would like to start using linux and more specifically ubuntu. 
As a person unfamiliar with this topic, can I cope with"14" PINEBOOK Pro LINUX LAPTOP " and installing the system? If so, do I need to buy additional MICROSD or other "accessories"?
Thank you in advance for your answer

Hi Folks,

I need to record some videos, and it would be nice to be able to use the PBP for this. Unfortunately, I'm having some trouble getting ffmpeg to do an acceptable job of keeping recorded audio and video in sync. I wonder if anyone has any tips, or has had any luck recording decent videos?

Here's the command I've been using:

Im noticing more and more the OTA update process is causing issues. It was not this bad before. Now the phone will crash when attempting to update, then freeze upon reboot, sometimes requiring multiple reboots, sometimes getting stuck in boot loop. Sometimes it runs smooth but after it says the update still hasn't been installed, other times the phone crashes and never says its updating, but upon reboot has the latest build installed. Im getting nervous about using UB touch until we have a more stable version running closer to daily driver requirements. Ive said it is my favorite interface by far, but im getting nervous that this behaviour may damage my pinephone. Might be better off waiting on the sidelines with Mobian in the meantime.

It seems my Xorg is picking up the swrast driver and it's extremely slow. What is the correct driver to use on the PBP for Xorg? I see there is an xorg-video-armsoc driver in github, is that the correct one? Or is wayland simply better supported at this point?

Ok so I usually use express vpn, but it seems there is no aarch linux support. So I see the the PBP has openvpn already installed. Being that Ive never used it and also Im a linux newb, I opted to install the netwrok manager GUI, but apperently that isn't supported either. So how do I activate openvpn properly, or how can I get the GUI working? Thank you very much.

Many potential Pine phone buyers "Missed the Boat"  on the last round of Pine phones.

A few of us early buyers from July 15th discovered too late our orders did not go through.

Please let us know when the next round of orders will open !

Thank you

CORRECTION :
 Apparently my first order did go through,  So I will have 2 of the PMOS Convergence Packages.
DHL has predicted delivery of both by end of business day September 3rd. Exciting !
  I test drove the Manjaro OS with sd card on my Brave Heart last night, nice appearing desktop
but almost nothing worked.  So I am glad I will have PMOS on these phones.

Hi all,
New PBP user here with some questions.  I think I did something wrong on install, as the first lock/password screen that comes up on Manjaro KDE is in a language I don't understand.  I changed KDE's language settings to English and now, after that first lockscreen, everything is in English in KDE proper after the password has been entered, but I don't know how to change the language delayed in that first lock screen after boot when the machine is turned on.

Also, bizarrely, that first lockscreen's keyboard inputs require two or more presses for some keys, mostly vowels, in entering that initial boot screen password.  Again, once in KDE proper, the keyboard works normally without any double presses necessary.

Can anyone give me some guidance in how to fix this?  Thank you in advance.

Greetings, Piners!  I've been intrigued by the Pinebook Pro for a few months, and I decided to take the plunge when the latest order window opened up at the start of this month.  I was glad to see from the mid-month update post that Pine64 would receive them on Aug. 24; I figured it might take a week to check them out or do whatever, and then a few weeks to receive it from Europe.  I was pleasantly surprised to get the DHL notification saying it should arrive by Aug. 31.  Imagine how I felt when it got delivered today (four days early)!  I don't know how you guys pulled that off, but I am extremely pleased!

Initial impressions are very good; it looks great when unboxing, and is deceptively light looking—it definitely feels solid, not cheap at all.  Once I got it configured and rebooted, I thought the taskbar icons looked very sharp; the resolution is definitely nice.  Loading the desktop environment was slower than I was expecting; that's because the machine looks and feels so good, I forgot it wasn't a $1000+ Intel laptop.     I like that Manjaro comes installed, because I'm a fan of Arch Linux; I've never been a KDE fan, though, so I don't feel at home in the default environment and am planning to install one or more alternatives.

So far, I'm loving the new toy!!  Thanks to the Pine64 team for such a great and inexpensive design!

--
Michael Hill

Just got my pinebook pro. Turned it on, disliked it used manjaro, went to install KDE neon.

I read on here you can't boot from USB and great. The micro sd card refuses to stay inserted.

I can push it in with force and get to computer to recognize it, but when i take my finger off of it and it just springs right back out.

No matter how hard I push it in, it never clicks and stays in.

I remember reading something along the lines of they don't take refunds.

That's would've been fine for something small like a dead pixel, but not being able to install the OS i wanted completely kills the entire reason I bought it from the ground up.

Not sure what I can do at this point but buy a new pinebook pro laptop? Or am I doing something wrong that I'm oblivious to?

Thank you!
Samuel