Evening, Pine64 community.

I've been doing builds of the Signal Desktop client for Manjaro/aarch64 for myself for a while now.  They've proven stable enough for my daily use that I've decided to start posting them here in case anybody else can benefit from them.

I'll try to keep this post updated within a couple of weeks of new releases.  This is a best-effort project and the packages are distributed as-is, without any warranty, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam.  These are NOT official Signal builds, and I am not in any way affiliated with the Signal project or Open Whisper Systems.  TL;DR use at your own risk.  Distributed under the GPLv3, source code and detailed license are available at https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop 

These are Manjaro/aarch64 packages.  Install with pacman -U directly, or create a local repo for use with pacman -S, whichever suits you.

Current stable versions (Google Drive download links)

• Standard build, for X11 or Xwayland: signal-desktop-1.34.2-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
  
• Ozone build, for native Wayland: signal-desktop-ozone-1.34.2-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz [EXPERIMENTAL]
  

• Minor modifications to some of the build scripts may be required, and often vary from one version to the next, usually because of the Node community's love of bundling pre-compiled x86-only binaries into their git repos.  I do not under any circumstances alter the source code of Signal Desktop itself, nor of any of its dependencies.  If you're curious about the modified build files for a given version, and/or would like instructions to reproduce these builds yourself, send me a message.
  

• The Ozone build provides native Wayland support, no Xwayland required.  Ozone is the name in the Chromium project (and thus in Electron, which Signal Desktop is built on) of a relatively new abstraction layer which modularizes GUI support.  This is highly experimental, requires on my end an Electron build with custom build configuration, and is not in any way supported by upstream Signal Desktop.  I'd very much like feedback on these builds, but do not be surprised if there are major bugs!
  

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?