When will the Pine Phone be available again for ordering ?

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I'm using this post to collect the issues I commonly see noted with Ubuntu Touch on the PinePhone, as people receive theirs. Expect many edits as we find better ways to solve problems.

If the steps in this thread do not solve your issue, please create a new thread here on the Pine64 forums, note what the problem looks like, then say that you've tried these steps already.

I did not install an update and I'm stuck on the Pine64 logo after rebooting.

1. Use a USB A-C cable to plug your phone into your PC
   
2. Hold the PinePhone's power button for 4 seconds or more to power it off.
   
3. Wait 5 seconds
   
4. Hold the Volume Up and Power buttons on the PinePhone to boot into recovery. You should see the LED light red, then yellow, then green. The "Installing update" screen will appear, but a progress bar to indicate update progress will not. Ignore the "Installing update" part.
   
5. Your PC may automatically mount the PinePhone's partitions. If it does, Safely Remove or Eject all of them.
   
6. Open a terminal on your PC. Type
   telnet 172.16.42.1
   
7. You should receive the text 'Welcome to Rescue SD Shell!'
   
8. In the new Rescue SD shell, type
   umount /dev/mmcblk2p10; e2fsck -fy /dev/mmcblk2p10 && sync
   
9. Once this command pipeline finishes, type
   sync && reboot -f
   

1. Hold the power button until the light turns off
   
2. Hold the power button until the light turns on
   

1. The plastic tab between the battery and the device's battery contacts has been removed
   
2. The battery is installed
   
3. The WiFi killswitch, #2, on the rear of the device is switched "ON"
   

Hi, I just received the Ubuntu Edition pinophone, I removed the film on the battery and turned it on.
The phone is in "boot loop" showing the pinecone for a few seconds, then a black screen with the LEDs changing from red to white to blue and then the pinecone. Endlessly.
I think I need help. Shouldn't the Ubuntu touch OS be pre-installed?

Hi there,

I'm using Fedora on my PinebookPro (https://github.com/smithmcgriff/Fedora-o.../README.md) .Sound from the speakers is not very loud, but it's working. But if I plugin my headphone sound comes always through the speakers not through the headphone. Switching at the GNOME-Control-Center from speaker to headphone has no effect.

Andreas

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I m interested in this Raspberry Pi Ant+ script which sends sensor data to a MQTT-Broker:

https://www.thisisant.com/forum/viewthread/7360/

You certainly need an Ant+ stick for this. But except from that. Are there any modifications necessary to run Rasperri PI code on a Pinephone. And if so, which ones?

Nextdock is a notebook shell powered by Android phone. There're SBC with full spec usbc that would also work with nextdock. You could make the SBC or she'll too.

I tried Recalbox on PBP, but I think the best system to emulate on PBP is DOS and maybe Windows, because of its form factor. We have a keyboard, what is all we need for DOS games and dont need any additional gamepad.

I installed Dosbox and later Dosbox SVN and the games run very well (using the latest Auyfan's Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma)

Tried Bolo, Tomb Raider, Quake, Duke3D and some older games.

I had to set Dosbox to scale to full screen and enable openGl and also tweak number of CPU cycles that Dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond. When setting to 100000, all the SVGA games run smoothly, but not so fast, so I also added frameskip=1.

It was even possible to install Windows 98, but it does not run stable. There are still some problems after booting so it is not usable yet. If anyone was able to install and run Win98, please let me know, how to do it.

Hi,

How can we increase the size of the root partition? The root partition on my PinePhone is 2.3 GB but nearly full, whereas there is a /userdata partition with 8.4GB.

Thank you,
Saliency

Hello,
i ordered an Pinephone on April, i dont Preorder it, it was on Stock. Now 40 Workdays are gone and i wrote Emails to the Support but still got no answer
I got no Email that I Purchase it, only Paypal wrote me that i pay. Please help