Hello! I recently received a Pinebook pro and I love the aestetichs and the idea of an arm-based laptop. However I see lag of support regarding most Distros that could do wonders in this machine. 
Meanwhile the rumors of a new arm-based Macbook Air are real and I was wondering if somebody would be brave enough to eventually port arm-MacOS to the Pinebook pro. that would be the ultimate Operative System goal IMO. Any thoughts?

Hi

Just received my brand new pinephone ub edition. Booted up to find no audio from speaker, headphone jack or Bluetooth headphones. All the kill switches are set to on and im getting nothing. I've booted up the postmarketos factory test  to see if it was just an issue with the UBPorts install and I'm getting nothing from the earpiece/speaker tests.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions as to what's happened and if there's anyway I can fix it?

I got my pinephone today. Switched on, it worked ,  did some setting changes, rebooted several time. After a few hours rebooted, then it stop booting up. The LCD backlight is on, the led flashes red green white in the beginning and nothing.  Screen goes to sleep, if I press power the backlight comes on but the screen is black.  Cannot go into recovery mode.  Flashed other OS in  SD same problem. Flashed fedora , lcd backlight does not even come up, after 30 sec led light next to camera  switches on .Strange issue , any idea? Thanks.

Woohoo!  DHL dropped off my phone a little bit ago.

Quick testing has revealed some problems.  I can't seem to get sound or vibration to work.  I tried some corded headphones but also didn't get any sound that way.  Bluetooth won't stay off.  The cameras don't seem to be working.  My nano SIM was recognized and I was able to connect to the towers but I wasn't able to make or receive phone calls or send and receive SMS.

I know this is more of a development device and a service to the community so I'm not expecting a white glove roll out or anything.  I am just looking for some reassurance that the issues I'm having are software and not hardware related and thus might be solved instead of my particular device being doomed to uselessness.

Thanks!

sir,
simulator is working fine but when i go to keyboard interrupt and do following the commands as you mentioned to check other application it does not update in the screen. what would be the issue?
thank you.

sir,
while using simulator of wasp os am getting some error as mention below:-



raise UnsupportedError(pixels2d, "numpy module could not be loaded")

sdl2.ext.compat.UnsupportedError: 'numpy module could not be loaded'



can you share something about this error. what should i do further to overcome this error ! thankyou

In https://www.pine64.org/rockpro64/ it is indicated that ROCKPro64 has Lithium Battery Port in the manner of Pine64+ and Pine64-LTS, and the photo seems to show a battery connector. But in https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=ROCK64 there is no mention of a lithium battery port and that clearly looked like the battery connector, it is labeled "SPDIF header" and the other possible port candidates are labeled as "PWM controlled fan header", "RTC battery backup header" and "DC out for SATA disk cable".

I installed the latest version of crust , by doing the following on my Mac:

This was using the Mobian stable and Mobian Nightly build:

used a docker Debian image, latest
make sure git/build-essential/cross compiler is installed

Downloaded the following and placed in /opt folder

https://musl.cc/or1k-linux-musl-cross.tgz

git clone https://github.com/crust-firmware/meta.git

edit the Makefile
update cross compiler folders
update board to say pine phone

make
(makes images)

grabbed the following afterwards:

u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

copied this file to Mac book host file

booted up with jump drive on my sdcard

now I can see all drives

unmount all drives

bash-3.2# gpt -r show disk3
     start      size  index  contents
         0         1         MBR
         1      1952         
      1953    248048      1  MBR part 131
    250001   7171874     2  MBR part 131  MBR part 131
   7421875  23363661   



See (1 1952) is not assigned, but 1
and 2 are so I zeroed out 1 - 1952 just in case left overs (This is where uboot resides be careful your deleting boot now)

bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk3 bs=512 seek=1 cou
sync && sync && syncnt=1952
then I did the following:
bash-3.2# dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/disk3 bs=1024 seek=8
the above can be found at SUNXI sites=
sync && sync && sync
1024 seek=8
Try at your own risk but it worked for me

Output on UART:

DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.3(release):v1.4-5069-ga4b8b9dba
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 1592882082
NOTICE:  BL31: Detected Allwinner A64/H64/R18 SoC (1689)
NOTICE:  BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x40647b8, model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)
NOTICE:  PSCI: System suspend is available via SCPI


U-Boot 2020.07-rc4-18358-g139397e64e (Jun 23 2020 - 03:14:42 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A64 (SUN50I)
Model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   Device 'mmc@1c11000': seq 1 is in use by 'mmc@1c10000'
mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 2, mmc@1c11000: 1
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:2... In:    serial@1c28000
Out:   serial@1c28000
Err:   serial@1c28000
starting USB...
No working controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

I'm trying to update my comparison of the PinePhone vs Librem 5 specs:
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs...hones/6827

Can anyone tell me:

• What RAM chip is used in the PinePhone (or at least what speed of RAM)?
  

• What Flash memory chip is used in the PinePhone?
  

• Is the A64 on the PinePhone running at 1.2 GHz or 1.152 GHz?
  
• Can anyone weigh the PinePhone to verify that it is 185 grams?
  
• What is the specific Goodix touchscreen controller chip?
  
• Can the battery be replaced just using fingers (no tools)?
  
• Is there a list of the apps available in Ubuntu Touch?
  
• Are there any other chips on the PinePhone that I missed?
  
• Has anyone benchmarked the performance of the PinePhone?
  
• Will both DisplayPort and HDMI Alt Mode work over the USB-C port?
  
• Does anyone know the clock speed of the Mali-400 MP2 GPU?
  

I've found that the information needed to replace the default OS on Pinebook Pro is scattered all over the place, and in some places, contradictory.  To help newbs like me avoid the trial-by-error that I went through, I've made the following guide based on a successful replacement of Mate/Debian with XFCE/Manjaro.

Update: extended introduction to clarify the structure of the guide

First, an overview of the guide.  First, to replace the eMMC distro, we need to make an ARM-compatible OS on a microSD.  For the purposes of this guide, we will be using the same OS on the microSD as we are on the eMMC, but theoretically any ARM-compatible OS could be used on the microSD.

Once we have the working OS on the microSD booting on the PBP, we will use that system to use 'dd' to transfer an image of manjaro directly onto the eMMC, bit by bit.

0. Get the proper images and signatures.

First, download the images and checksums you need.

KDE Plasma
- Download
- Torrent
- sha256
XFCE
- Download
- Torrent
- sha256
I3
- Download
- Torrent
- sha256

1. Verify checksums

It's very important to verify that the compressed image you downloaded isn't corrupted or anything.  To do that, we will be running sha256sum on our image and checking it against the checksum we downloaded.

Make sure you are in the directory containing the images, usually `~/Downloads`