I've just replaced my current OS on my regular 1080p pinebook with this https://forum.manjaro.org/t/sway-profile/138700/53
It is pretty lightweight so it fits perfect on the pinebook.

Kudos to @appelgriebsch for making this available for the pinebook (and the pinebook pro as well!)

New Pinebook Pro pre-orders started on July 20, 2020.
Both ISO and ANSI units are available.
Estimated shipping start: Late August, 2020

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Hi,
Received my UBPorts edition with v1.2 hardware(?) yesterday. The 14hrs runtime that this post mentions is nowhere near what I get:
https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/127...4781222912

[EDIT: Added Version and "top -H" output]
Version: "About" says Ubuntu 16.04 (FACTORY).

- The battery was disconnected with the plastic sheet when phone arrived. Battery was then around 40% so I removed it and gave it a full charge. 
- All DIP switches ON
- Wifi/BT turned off in OS
- No SIM or MicroSD inserted
- Restarted phone just before test and only opened the Settings - Battery page.
- Screen off the entire time, except for a few seconds now and then to check the battery.

Lost half the charge in 4.5 hours. It actually loses charge when idle FASTER than it charges. See pic.
- Started charging around 20:00 @37%  and left it alone until 13:00 the day after
- Reached @100% around 01:45, then charging was stopped until it was automatically restarted around 06:45
- Left it with charger disconnected and screen off around 07:30
- Discharged to around @35% at 13:00.

Hello everyone, just received my pine phone but it's not recognizing my SIM card.  I'm in the USA, would anyone happen to know if the phone works with MetroPCS SIM cards?  I assumed they did since metro is now t-mobile.  Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

first post on the forum, although I have been observing the forum as a guest for a long time.

I currently have an Odroid HC1 for a home assistant server and I have another Odroid HC1, which used to serve nextcloud for 4 years , but now I'm trying my hand at an OpenMediaVault installation with docker .
I've been dabbling in setting up a Nginx reverse proxy container and radicale caldav server container setup which I believe is working how I would expect , after weeks of research . Most recently I been looking into  a Jellyfin media server which I mostly got working, however researching odroid's hardware acceleration options to aid transcoding for Jellyfin, has caused me to rethink my entire server network and consider a 4gb Rockpro64 with NAS case for both home assistant and the OpenMediaVault  server.

My plan is to have Armbian as the OS , OpenMediaVault  installed via the script they provide for SBC's , Nginx reverse proxy in docker with a radicale container as one server behind the proxy and home assistant as the other server .

This would allow me to close one of the ports on my router (8123 for homeassistant) (443 and 80 currently are being used for Nginx) and allow me to remove 2 Odroids in place of one rockpro64.

Is this asking to much of the Rockpro64 ?

is the above mentioned plan the way to go ?

I've become a fan of pine64 in the last couple of years mainly  because of it's philosophy and as my first device I went all in and purchased a PineTab which I'm eagerly  waiting for , but ideally I would like to support them further and convert from the Odroids to a Rockpor64.

any advice and opinions would be greatly appreciated .

thanks in advance .

Tim

Hi,

    I've read the following quote:

        "According to Lukasz they went through three revisions of the 1.2 mainboard already (1.2A 1.2B 1.2C)"

I've there's already revision 1.2C why the current batch is 1.2A? What are the differences between revisions 1.2A, 12B and 12C ? I suppose it's fixes, Will next batch be 1.2C or 1.2B?

Thanks very much.

Kind regards

I didn't see an announcement, but I was able to successfully preorder a Pinebook Pro today.

So I've been using Purism's "Calls" app since I got my PinePhone, but it's honestly quite buggy and irritating, I'd like to use something else.

Problem is, I'm on X11 and Fedora, so I can't just use UBPort's stuff I assume since it's more Ubuntu specific.

Is there anything else that can make calls, preferably through ModemManager, from a generic Xorg distro?

I can't find any good working alternatives. I can compile it myself, just need to find some completed code.

Hello people

Does the new batch have the FCC/CE certificate?

I've seen the January post stating that there is no FCC/CE certificate, and that was a custom problem in Germany, where I live. At that point in time it was estimated that the certificate would ready in February ... but there are May and June posts saying that the phones could not pass customs. And they had to be returned.

I understand that the Covid-19 outbreak might have changed a lot of plans and deadlines.

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards,
p.