Just jotting down some notes, and a question after going through a painful process of trying to get a non-debian derivative Linux OS on my cluster.   

After some twists and turns I finally came back around to a post I saw regarding the arm-image-installer and a F30 image.  

I run Fedora on my workstation, so  all of the instructions assume a fedora build box.

1. sudo dnf install arm-image-installer
   
2. downloaded the raw image file from the Fedora download site and selected Fedora 32: Raw image for aarch64
   
3. Write the F32 aarch64 image to an SD card using the following command
   sudo arm-image-installer --addconsole --addkey ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub --relabel --resizefs --image=Fedora-Minimal-32-1.6.aarch64.raw.xz --media=/dev/sdc --target=sopine_baseboard
   
4. Move card to sopine board
   
5. Insert sopine into clusterboard
   
6. Connect serial console to pins 6,7,8
   extracted from https://forum.pine64.org/attachment.php?aid=1111 and somewhere else
   
7. Connect to serial console via
   screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
   
8. Apply power to clusterboard - and prepare to press a key to "stop autoboot"
   
9. Press the space bar until
   Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
   appears and you are presented with a prompt `->`
10. At this prompt execute this command and hit enter 
    mi w 1c30000 1f 7; mi w 1c30000 1e a4 ; mi w 1c30000 1c b573 ; mi w 1c30000 1f 0
    found at https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6036
11. Reset the board, either by typing reset or power cycling or the reset button.
    This often does not work the first time.
    
12. Wait for the kernel to load and Fedora 32 to finish initializing
    
13. Answer the remaining installation questions
    
14. Finish and log in.  
    
15. nmcli` should show an active eth0 device
    
16. ip addr should show an IP address from your DHCP server
    
17. Never remove power or reset the clusterboard. 
    

(06-10-2020, 12:09 PM)revoman Wrote: ...
Question to the community.  How do I make `mi w 1c30000 1f 7; mi w 1c30000 1e a4 ; mi w 1c30000 1c b573 ; mi w 1c30000 1f 0` persistent?  Is this u-boot?  is this EFI?  I am a bit out of my league here.

Thanks in advance,
-Nate R

When I suspend my PBP, the device won't wake up.

I get only a black screen with a cursor - it never progresses beyond that. Any ideas?

I'm running the default Manjaru image if that helps.

I seem to not have any haptic feedback when typing on the digital keyboard in Ubuntu Touch. Is this normal behavior? I haven't felt vibration in the phone at all except at one point the phone got stuck vibrating randomly until I rebooted it.

Is the keyboard supposed to give haptic feedback or is there something wrong with my vibration motor?

I'd like to preorder a Pinebook Pro from the next batch but when I try to add it to my cart it says "You cannot add "14″ PINEBOOK Pro LINUX LAPTOP (ANSI, US Keyboard)" to the cart because the product is out of stock." 

How do I go about getting it ordered?

Thanks!

I seem to not have any haptic feedback when typing on the digital keyboard in Ubuntu Touch. Is this normal behavior? I haven't felt vibration in the phone at all except at one point the phone got stuck vibrating randomly until I rebooted it.

Is the keyboard supposed to give haptic feedback or is there something wrong with my vibration motor?

I’m attempting to mount some cloud storage using rclone mount, but it is complaining about fusermount not being found in $PATH. Running “which fusermount” yields nothing. Fuse seems to be installed, but how do I get or find fusermount? I’m on a new Pinebook Pro running the stock Manjaro install. I installed rclone using “curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash” Thanks!

I haven't received my one phone yet, but was wondering if Miracast was working.

Since I m writing a lot, a appreciated to ability to have all my files on an Android phone on the external SD card. But starting from Android 5.0 it was not possible anymore in an easy way to write to the SD card on Android, nor to access the SD card from a PC.



I went pack to a Samsung Galaxy S5 and Android 4.4, which was the last version of Android which allows an easy way to write to the external SD card.



One of the main reason for me personally to buy a Pinephone would be to have a writing machine with SD card in my pocket, which allows access of the SD card from a PC. SD cards are practical storage devices, which allows easy back up, no need to sync over the Internet etc.



On older Android Phones it was possible to plug in the phone into a PC, and it was a storage drive. But from Android 5.0 it was not possible anymore. I did not even manage to get access to the files on my phone over a wifi network.




All these options are gone. How is it with the Pinephone? Which is the easiest way to access the external SD card of a Pinephone from a PC?

After using my PineBook Pro for a few days, I noticed that the time was wrong (set to the exact date and time of the shutdown) when it was booted without being connected to the internet.

I don't know if it's a rare issue or not, but since I couldn't find any fix for this I figured I'd make a small tutorial in case someone else have the same issue in the future.

After searching for a bit, I found that the PineBook Pro have a Real Time Clock (RTC) so it should be able to keep track of time while being powered off.

My RTC date and time wasn't apparently set correctly (it was set to an arbitrary date in 2007) which confused the system that decided to use the last known timestamp instead. Thankfully, the fix is easy:

1. Check if the RTC date and time match the actual date and time by running:

There is an instruction from Adafruit to build up a BLE bike based on the Adafruit CLUE chip:

https://github.com/PeterGamma/Pyloton-Ci...g-Computer

The Adafruit Clue chip is Arduino compatible. There are instructions how to run Arduiono code on a Rasperri PI. And as far as I found out there is no reason why Rasperri PI code should not run also on a Pinephone.

The Pinephone would be a better platform for a bike computer than the Adafruit Clue. Replacable batteries, large display, 3G or 4 G connection, etc.

The Adafruit instruction to build up a Pyloton bike computer is great. Is it possible to migrate the code for the Pyloton bike computer to a Pinephone?