Hi All: We have a new way to build JF's FreeRTOS firmware in the Cloud, using GitHub Actions.

(FYI this is the firmware that will be loaded to the next batch of PineTime, assuming that the factory testing goes OK)

I noticed that newcomers to PineTime often run into problems building PineTime firmware. So I hope this will make it easier to get started with PineTime programming.

Please try this out, lemme know if it works for you. Thanks!

Build PineTime Firmware in the Cloud with GitHub Actions

the LED is slowly blinking blue now...is there a color code scheme posted somewhere? like, what each color / flashing speed means? I'm guessing that it has something to do with sleep mode?

So originally it wasn't booting because I had a low battery charge, too low for Crust to boot. Now I charged it, and it bootloops.

This is what happens:
I flash it with either bmaptool or gnome image writer. Then I boot it, the rainbow LED goes and then there's the pine logo. Then there are 2 possible cases: there's a Ubuntu Touch logo that splashes for a few seconds and the screen goes black, or the same logo freezes forever. Then it reboots.

I tried everything, I tried making a bigger swap file, thinking that there wasn't enough. Changed partitioning table from MBR to GUID. Tried different builds from different channels and weeks.

 I really don't know what to do, Mobian isn't stable enough for me... I need a basic phone with internet access and being able to hotspot, anbox compatibility would be appreciated; I am in vacation and my old Nexus gave up on me and I only have this pinephone.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, im going to buy the new posmarket os edition of the pinephone and i want to know about the actual state of anbox running applications like whatsapp (i really dont want to use it, but for work groups and study groups i need to do it.) or other social media android apps.

Restart doesnt seem to work. Just shuts down phone extra slowly, doesnt start back up again. Power on required again.

Im sure the majority of our community wants to keep the big surveillance behemoths out of our PinePhones. This brings me to a question, how safe is it to sync up with google anything at any time? For example, syncing contacts from google. As a android user until now, google has played a big part of my tech life but i wish for this to be no more. With thousands of contacts stored in google, this would be easiest way to transfer them to my pinephone. But therein lies the problem. Could syncing with google even momentarily for something so meager have downstream effects on the privacy of my Pinephone? What about accessing other google services on an as need basis, but not google itself? I understand much of the tracking from google is built into android and backdoors hidden within apps. But would accessing google meets over morph browser or using a gmail account in a mail client on the pinephone pose any threat?

Here's what i see being the need for UBports to develop so the pinephone can be a daily driver:
1) contacts import
2) stable cellular connection on all networks incl. Data
3) bluetooth for in-car pairing
4) gps nav functioning
5) camera functionality
6) A VOIP app would be great!
7) in-call volume control
8) guaranteed stable build roll-outs on OTA so users don't need to worry about losing functions with new updates.

After a few problems, some of which were/are user caused, my PBP seems to be working good.  However, when I installed an email app or program there were several choices: Claws, which is included with Manjaro; and Thunderbird, which is used on my main computer.  Using Thunderbird, I am able to use almost any email server and use almost any email address that server allows.  Claws, on the other hand, includes at least one email address (username@manjaro-arm).  When I try to send a small file from the desktop computer (the main computer) to the PBP, I get a notice that the message can not be sent and gives a failure code.  My question: Is there, or should there be, some designation at the end of the @manjaro-arm like .org or .net or .com?  Wondering because it would be easy to use email to transfer short files between the two computers until I learn enough to set up some other way to connect the two computers.
Thank you,
James Good

Hi,
is it possible to connect a 40 Pin Mipi DSI Display to the Rockpro64? Anyone got any idea what sort of adapter would be needed?

Khaosgrille

not sure where to put this question, so leaving here...

i am preparing/leading STEM projects in my community with a small army of pbp's, and i hoped to do the same with hardrock64 devices. the idea being to share SOC development and create a single custom OS for ourselves, and share here of course. (we will use debian bullseye if you didn't figure that out from pbp forum...)

is anyone doing similar with rockpro64? any reason to wait for hardrock64 other than cost and simplicity? any improvements worth waiting for? (and do we know when hardrock64 will be released?)

thanks