One thing missing from the PBP as shipped is a 180 degree screen tilt rotation. This is a great feature of Thinkpads that I immediately felt was lacking upon receiving my PBP.

Well I've recently made an unintentional but wonderful discovery. If you push the screen to the maximum point and apply some force, you can break the hinge that makes it stop at 120 degrees or whatever the original max tilt is. But it seems like the way the hinge breaks (or atleast the way the hinge broke on my PBP.. early January model), doesn't make it unstable and basically bending the PBP screen past it's normal max tilt just, unlocked if you will, 180 degree full tilt.

This was a completely unintentional discovery and I thought initially when I was pushing back on it and heard the snap, my PBP would now be useless; but to my surprise, I heard a snap, and now well my PBP has a great full 180 degree tilt. After I bent the screen back and heard the snap, I heard some loose inside the PBP - taking off the bottom cover I found two small metal bits from each of the hinge.

For me after doing this, there's no real wobble or instability as far as I can tell and the hing seems sturdy for the full 180 degrees - so I think what broke off (those metal bits are just stoppers that prevent tilting past the original tilt).

Try this at your own risk ofcourse, but for me this makes the PBP an even better

 

i was on version #39 ,when updating to #41 , it would only reboot to the pine64 cone or the ubports update install icon. 

reinstalled via jumpdrive to emmc . all ok again now
 
anyone else have this happen

Hi all, I added a KingSpec NE-512 NVMe drive, listed as compatible in the PBP HW accessory wiki to my PBP however it is not being recognised either with the stock Debian+Mate (on eMMC) or latest Manjaro XFCE edition (on SD).  Have flashed pcm720's uboot to eMMC and SD without effect.  

I just want to use it as a data drive, at least to start with and was hoping it would just work.[url=https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro_Hardware_Accessory_Compatibility][/url]

Do I need to update the uboot on SPI?  Which uboot release (the one by 720pcm or sigmaris)? And which procedure (the one using rkdeveloptool or the one dd'ing to /dev/mtd0?)

All feedback welcome, thank you. 
Vidya

Hi,

I love the Pinebook Pro. It's almost perfect for what I need. However, one issue I'm still finding frustrating is the keyboard driver. A lot of key presses are being registered as double-presses. Are their any workarounds for this? I ran the keyboard and trackpad firmware update utility when it was released several months back. It improved things a bit, but the issue still prevents me from using the PBP as much as I otherwise would.

Ben

https://bloggerbust.ca/post/install_and_...pinephone/

I updated the title of the article as well as the URI because I wanted to be clear that the target platform is the PinePhone. I also updated the section on configuring APN settings. It appears to be important to add a context for both carrier services when your primary carrier is an MVNO. I might update this article a few more times. I am on the road right now so it might take me a while to answer questions.

I hope this article helps someone out there :-)

Happy Hacking!

dustfinger

Hey all, I made some wallpapers for you while I am waiting to receive my new Pinephone and Pinebook Pro!   These wallpapers are the correct resolution for Pinephone.  [Also these links work unlike my last post]

I'm running my Pinebook Pro with Manjaro ARM v20.04 (testing) and the GNOME desktop. I'm delighted to say that Gnome works beautifully except that it is unable to load a color profile and the 'Night Light' feature does not actually change the screen's white balance.
I think these two issues are linked. Loading a color profile relies on the colord daemon. In the journal, I see many instances of the following message from colord:

I made a selection of cool wallpapers for people to use while I wait on my incoming Pinebook Pro and phone!

Hi everyone,
I received my Pinebook PRO a few days ago and it has worked fine up until this morning. When I plug a mouse (anything) into the USB port attached to the mainboard (left USB) , nothing happens. The other USB port works fine still.

After I received it, I flashed MrFixit2001 Debian image to eMMC and everything was functional. Last night I turned it off (no hibernate etc.), put it on the charger and this morning no left USB anymore.

I tried Debian from sdcard today and also there, I get no USB.

lsusb gives:

Or is IP TV streaming the only option? Or possibly x11 tunnel.