I tried the Mobian 20200615 image on my pinephone CE and it's very impressive - I was able to use calls, texts and data immediately after booting. There are a bunch of features that I like a lot more than UT - including the UI (phosh), the update system being more alike standard debian, and for me, it's been generally more stable than UT at the moment.

I have a couple of questions though:
- Since a recent UT update (I believe now including the Crust firmware), battery life under UT has extended by about 4 hours over Mobian (from about 7 hours to about 11 hours for me). It looks like there are a couple of commits that reference Crust - so I was wondering if it is something that can be enabled currently? Or is it something that still needs more work?

- Is there a way to change between booting from MMC and booting from SD card without removing the card? Using the Mobian image also prevents the volume up + power key combination. I have an sd card writer now, but when I didn't I used the phone to flash to the SD card - unfortunately once the sd card is bootable it prevents this option.

Thanks for all the great work so far - I am hoping to become involved in some capacity with the project eventually - but for now I am just learning.

If you are seeing a bunch of 404 errors when using command-line 'pacman', you might be able to fix it in 2 easy steps:


1. Edit your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, so only this line is present:
  Server = https://manjaro.moson.eu/arm-stable/$repo/$arch

2. Now run a complete update and mirror sync with this command:
sudo pacman-mirrors -g && sudo pacman -Syyu



I am sharing this because I struggled for about a week.  One day, pacman just decided to quit, and I spend a lot of time working with mirrors trying to fix it.  Finally, I found this post by strit:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/another-mirr...red/132302


Along the way, I came across related info, that may or may not be relevant or useful, but here it is anyway:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/repos-mirror...404/135113
"Manjaro ARM is transitioning to a Boxit Server, which requires a new mirror structure" - April 2020

Hi, 
after running the default Debian my pbp shipped with I now installed Manjaro 20.04 xfce. 
As I use the pbp while travelling the power settings are pretty important. 

On Debian I could simply set the cpu to powersafe via the battery icon. 
On manjaro xfce I can not find such an option. xfce4-cpufreq-plugin is only displaying but won't let me change the settings.

Any ideas? Or on powersaving in general? I choose xfce as I though it should be less power consuming.

After receiving my PBP and tinkering with Manjaro (including fully updating the system) I decided I'd rather try out a more familiar distro so flashed @mrjay 's Ubuntu image; details here:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...0#pid68220

The battery was showing 20% when flashing completed however once the system powered down it will no longer power up. The power button does not appear to have any effect at all.

I've tried searching the forums here for similar issues and so far have tried:

• Booting with / without A/C adapter plugged in
  
• Booting with / without SD card inserted
  
• Verified that A/C adapter is charging (light comes on, charges then turns off)
  
• Verified the A/C adapters are working by charging a 2nd PBP that is still working
  
• Removed the battery, connected the power bypass cable and attempted to power on with A/C adapter
  
• Reseated the eMMC
  
• Booting with / without eMMC hardware switch toggled
  

After dd my working Manjaro KDE 20.04 from SD card (mounted with an SD card reader at USB) to the emmc (by booting from a 2. SD card from card slot) the pinebook pro do not boot from SD card any more. I cant even mount SD cards from the SD card slot. Any idea how to get the card slot to work again (and then with booting SD cards first, before emmc)? Thx in advance!

Addendum:
The only SD card which mount is the SD card i did the dd from - this is also the only sd card the pinebook do boot from if inserted.

Hi,
as the pre-orders are sold out, I would like to buy a pine single board computer to get a feeling on how useable (or not useable) a pinetab would be.

Could please someone tell me which pine single-board computer I should buy to get the exact same performance as with the pinetab?

The reason behind this is that I am a school teacher and would like to try if the pinetab could be suitable foor school use.

In Germany, students are required to buy a very expensive graphic calculator for math. So firstly I would like to try how GeoGebra runs on  pine Hardware.

Regards,
Andreas

Hi,
I do not know if I should consider this funny or not. On first attempt I was denied registration, because I was too fast to be human, haha.

This is my 10-fast-fingers-result from today:

https://10fastfingers.com/share-badge/2_DD

... so maybe it would be a good idea to cut down the "you are a robot"-barrier to 25 seconds, wouldn't it?

2nd attempt I did some websurfing in between, that helped

Looking forward to interesting discussions here,

Andreas

There is now a group dedicated to Ubuntu Touch on the PinePhone.

Join here

So I've been fiddling with my phone, trying to get GPS working. From ModemManager, this is what I get after enabling NMEA.
Anyone else seeing this?
What exactly is required to get the GPS to actually work, since some people claim it works for them?

Used 'mmcli -m 0 --location-get' to produce output, after using --location-enable-gps-nmea.

Attached Files

  gpscrap.png (Size: 337.24 KB / Downloads: 656)

Machine arrived yesterday. Very pleased with quality. Manjero set up with absolutely no problems. KDE seems unrefined compared to cinnamon, but I think it's safest to stay with what's known to work for now. Next step is figuring out how to make the M.2/NGFF adapter work. Need a bit more storage to make this thing a daily driver.

Great job, Pine People!