Hello. If someone in Europe would like to have my PBP ISO with NVMe adapter and 240 GB SSD, let me know.

I think 300 250 200 € including shipping is the fair price regarding the shipping cost, VAT, taxes and NVMe drive.

If you are interested, write here or PM me. I am located in Slovakia.


Reason of selling: I have also Teclast F6 pro which I also would like to sell and buy the new KDE Slimbook III

Hey there,

I'm sorry to put the community in a bad mood but the customer support is just abysmal. Here's my story:

I've ordered the Pinebook Pro on January 19th and received it damaged on March 17th. Of course it gets damaged because the packaging is just a joke! there are two very thin cardboard boxes in a plastic bag!!! I can't imagine anyone got it undamaged, there is near zero edge protection!

I've contacted support and provided them with photos of the damage.
They accepted to send me a replacement display, which took until June 27th (!) to arrive.

After replacing the display, the USB seems to have failed. The input devices won't work internally or over USB I requested to send the notebook in for repair but the customer support just keeps asking for new videos. For example I've showed them how the internal keyboard and trackpad won't work, and I told them that I tried external ones.

Then they ask me to connect USB devices and show them that this doesn't work either, surely after that they want me to show how Bluetooth devices work or how serial devices don't work and so on. I'm sure they take their fun out of people getting their videos done!

I really don't like how they treat a patient customer who waited over half a year for a working product and not move their finger to really help to sort things out.

I suggest anyone who wants to get a linux laptop to not buy this but instead chose another manufacturer because here you will struggle if your hardware is not working from the day it gets shipped.

I'm pretty sure the whole laptop was damaged when I got it and should've been replaced completely. It seems to me that they just buy time until I give up.

Contrary to the claims on the shopping page, I will request a refund from PayPal, I really can expect a better support than what I've received in this case.

I'm a little curious if there is a dev guide anywhere with some information on porting applications over to pinephone.

Such as some basic information on what to change in order to compile GUI-based applications to run with Phosh on mobile?

Is there any guide with some information on this anywhere?

CLI-based is probably pretty easy, but I'm just curious about the GUI based stuff and optimizing it for the small screen.

I have a UBPorts edition so I can test stuff out

Edit: I figured it out and found some resources on UBPorts if anyone has anymore sources of info to help with porting apps feel free to post some info..

Is anyone else's PinePhone just vibrating at random? The vibration doesn't stop until I power cycle the phone, it sometimes causes my buttons and screen to become unresponsive. I have the BH version. There is no action that causes it that I have noticed, it can start while the screen is off, opening an app, or swiping. I am on dev 71, I also had this issue a couple times while it was on stable.

Edit: UBports is the OS

Hello,

Hey, can anyone tell me what the ribbon cable on the top of the device by the headphone jack is for? I did the hardware mod of removing the 2 switches, to get video out, then ended up accidentally breaking the clip for a ribbon cable at the top right of the device by the aux port. I think it might control the LCD screen? I tried to fix it, although it still isn't working. I'm almost 100% sure that I got the pins in contact, so does it actually control the LCD or did I mess up somewhere else? Thanks for any help! edit: Just to clarify, when it boots the LCD screen seems to get power because you can see the backlight, but it doesn't display anything.

Today marks the one month of use milestone for me and after posting in the initial feedback thread I thought that the designers and architects of the Pinebook Pro might like to see a little more in depth review of their creation.

Spoiler - I really like this laptop.  

My use:
I think it would be useful to understand my use patters for anyone evaluating my feedback.  I have three main uses for this laptop:

• Commute - I travel an hour each way every day by train, commuter rail.  During that time I like to have a lightweight laptop laptop that is small enough to open while seated in the rows of seats.  A 15 inch laptop is too large to open without tilting it one or another that is inconvenient.  The 14 inch display is small enough that I can use the laptop on my lap.  While on the train I use it as a browser, reader and a video now and again.  It has sufficient power to run a 1080p video encoded with H264; I've not tried anything more taxing.
  
• Work - During the day I use this as an additional screen that is mainly used for browsing, reading documentation and writing a few documents. I've also used it to draw up a PCB using Kicad and lately tried it to look over some code using Eclipse.  Other than opening up a bunch of tabs in Firefox, which most always causes a crash, I have not had any troubles; this is not a problem in Chromium.
  
• Home - I use this for most home computing needs including using FreeCad to design a project case and Kicad to update a board.  I use Syncthing to keep it up to date with my other PCs.  Works fine while I stay with Chromium, again Firefox tends to lock up the PBPro.
  

• I added a 256Gb SDCard.  I purchased the adapter to add an internal SSD, but based on the problems other's have had with compatibility as well as thinking about the potentially significant increase in power draw as well as the fact that the majority of what I need more storage for is documentation and media files that I really don't update that frequently; I decided a nice low power SDCard was a better option - cheaper too.
  
• I downgraded the WiFi firmware as described in this post https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10262
  
• I resized the drive to add a 4GB swap partition in the hopes of getting sleep to work.  Sleep is not working but the partition remains.
  

So obviously things aren't complete, but I thought I'd post a list of the bugs I'm seeing with PinePhone drivers right now, since I know some PinePhone kernel developers read this forum, and hopefully some people in ModemManager and Librem5's dev team too, since I use their "Calls" app.

This doesn't include stuff like the camera, which just isn't working anymore on recent kernels.
I'm using Fedora 32 with XFCE on a 5.7 megous kernel.

• Merely having the bluetooth kernel module loaded cripples wifi speed to an unusable point. I can get wifi working well by either not installing the firmware for the 8723cs bluetooth chip, or blacklisting the btrtl driver. Bluetooth works fine, but wifi drops down to around 30KB/s.
  
• Intermittent audio routing issues with phone calls. Sometimes there's no way to get audio without rebooting the modem entirely, other times the call audio will scream in my ear at distorted, extremely high volume levels. Sometimes it happens multiple times a day, other days it behaves fine.
  
• Being in CRUST sleep frequently eats text messages, not leaving a trace that they ever existed.
  
• Sometimes calls will wake the phone from CRUST sleep, but not actually trigger a ring. When this starts happening, rebooting the modem doesn't help, a full phone reboot is required.
  
• HDMI output over Type C has serious lag, even when the DSI touch panel is disabled. It's enough that the second hand on my digital clock can go slower than realtime.
  
• Touchscreen will occasionally start refusing to act on clicks although the cursor moves, as if there's another finger touching somewhere on the display, but there's
  not. I must reboot at that point, usually via ssh.
• Modem sends AT CMT message events that seem to trip up ModemManager during some outgoing calls, making ModemManager erroneously think the call failed, although audio will route fine. There is at that point no way to hang up a call short of powering down/rebooting the modem or the whole phone.
  
• GPS reception is very poor, may be fixable with drivers or a device tree change.
  
• Seems impossible to play two audio sources at once, the attempt will frequently crash both programs.
  
• Battery reads 100% as 92%, though this seems specific to the megous kernels.
  
• Battery will fully charge, then slowly discharge itself without charging again until I reconnect the charging cable.
  

Hello!
I've been using manjaro pretty exclusively as a daily driver on my laptop for quite a few years. I love how there is just one install image for all computers, boot it on either a brand new HP or a 10 year old Gateway it makes no difference, almost all the drivers are already there and you're immediately off and running. 

My question is, will this ever come to the arm/smartphone space?

When android came out with treble I thought it was the answer, but even phh-treble doesn't work completely on everything and my Xiaomi Mix 2S happens to be one it doesn't even boot on. Lineage is great, but eventually a phone loses support and stops receiving updates.

Will Linux phones be any different? Will there ever be just one Ubuntu Touch image that can boot up just fine on any new or old device just like desktop? When arm laptops eventually become popular, could the same image be bootable on them too? I dream of a world where I can reload my arm laptop and phone from the same flash drive.

Sorry if this is a weird question lol

(July 03, 2020)

Will the next evolution (V1.3) of Pine phone motherboards possibly be available as a replacement without having to wait for next release of the production phones ?
   ( or when will it be possible to get the v1.3 in a phone or as a part ? )

         Thank you


See post # 7  !