I kept the default Linux installation on the eMMC and an Android one on the SD.

For reasons, KDE uninstalled some vital components and eventually it crashes after boot. I tried to install some other OS (I tried a bunch) by flashing on two differents SDs but it keeps booting KDE (and crashing). Moreover, neither my Android installation is working anymore.

What I've already tried:
- changing SD
- booting from a USB pendrive (both USBs)
- unplugging the eMMC (this cause not booting at all, just a black screen)
- switching on and off the tiny switch that should disable the eMMC (it doesn't affect the boot, even if the eMMC should be disabled)
- tried with another daughterboard from another trashed Pinebook that doesn't work anymore, no effect
- tried with another eMMC from the same trashed Pinebook, with the default Linux installation. It boots and loads KDE but I can't use the OS because I don't know the passwords... besides there isn't nothing more than a firefox window... no menus, no internet, nothing else but the firefox window... weird, i can open a terminal but I can't do much because I don't know the sudo or root password. I checked with dmesg if it reads the USBs or the SDs, it detects them but I can't mount them because mount needs sudo

What's happening? why isn't working as it should?

Can someone tell me how to register my nick on Pine64's IRC network?
Normally "/msg NickServ <passwd> <email>" would work, but now I'm getting "NickServer: No such nick/channel"

And trying to post on any channel now apparently requires a registered nick otherwise you'll get a msg like the following:
"#Pine64: You must have a registered nick (+r) to talk on this channel (#pine64)"

I don't register my nick that often, so I may be doing sth wrong.
Or 'you' made having a registered nick a requirement without a working option to actually register?
I can understand taking measures to combat spam, but now I'm (also) blocked from using IRC

I have two Pinephones, one alpha and one beta. I’m trying to get the beta up and running but it does not send or receive calls. At first I though it was the sim because there was a similar problem on a normal phone but I’ve tried it out on the alpha phone and that one sends and receives calls just fine. On beta one I'm able to find the modem through mmcli. I currently have them on Manjaro KDE but I've also tried Ubuntu and Postmarket with the same results.

This presentation explains how we built the NuttX Drivers to support Touchscreen Apps on PINE64 PinePhone:

(1) MIPI DSI on Allwinner A64 SoC
(2) Allwinner Display Engine
(3) Goodix I2C Touch Panel
(4) Integration with LVGL Graphics Library

To derisk the development, we prototyped the NuttX Drivers in the Zig Programming Language, before rewriting to C.

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Hello all!

My PBP arrived today. unfortunately… it appears to be dead on arrival. The power button did nothing. I plugged it in and that didn’t help. I tried holding down the power button. All that I have to go off of is a red LED indicator that comes on when I plug in the charger. Anything I should try? What do I do?

- James

Hi all, this might be a daft question, but does anyone know of a screen that's readable in direct sunlight that can replace the pinetab screen?
I'm ideally looking for something brighter than the ipad pro (1600 nits), and ideally more like 2000 nits (like the samsung UDR 2000 displays, or DJI's CrystalSky monitors although I've no idea who manufactures their screens, or Gemlighttech's 3500 nit displays).

As I understand it, 1 nit = 1 candella per square cm.

My thanks for any thoughts anyone has on this.

If there's another open-source tablet with a more customiseable display I'd also gladly accept a steer.

Smartphones are incredibly complex gadgets. What if we could learn the internals of smartphones... By booting Apache NuttX RTOS on our phone?

Over the past year, we have ported NuttX to PINE64 PinePhone as an Educational Experiment. Today we can run NuttX Touchscreen Apps on PinePhone, based on Allwinner A64 SoC with Arm64 CPUs.

NuttX on PinePhone will soon support Phone Calls and Text Messages on the 4G LTE Network. We hope NuttX will become a valuable tool for teaching the inner workings of modern smartphones.

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Hi all, I'm not sure where to post this. I'm finally selling my Pinebook Pro. I wrestled with it over the last couple of years and tweaked it to where I want it to be, aaand now I don't really need a laptop anymore. 

It's here on ebay - and I included a lot of photos and several screenshots of the system running.

                   
I succesfully installed a Western Digital Blue 500 GB NVMe SSD drive. It boots from the SSD and doesn't seem to exhibit any extra battery drain. Manjaro ARM is already installed to the NVMe, and should boot right up to Manjaro's first-time setup wizard. I advise running an OS update immediately though, Manjaro likes to stay current.

I flashed Tow-boot to the SPI and now the bootup experience is infinitely better. It's a total improvement in my opinion. As most of you know, if there's an error in your boot media the laptop is normally unresponsive and inert, you don't even get a power light. With the new SPI boot image, it acts like a normal laptop. If there are any errors in the normal boot sequence, you'll still get a power-on light and the boot menu. From there you could boot from a rescue disk however you like.

The old eMMC was removed long ago. Not really needed with the NVMe working anyway. And the device boots perfectly from microSD as well. If you really need an eMMC they're pretty cheap, but I haven't ever felt the need for one. Too small and too slow.

I do not have the original slow barrel charger. I've been charging it with any USB-C charger for the duration that I've had it. It seemed so much faster.



Feel free to ask me any questions!

I have a Pinephone 3GB/32GB which is able to playback videos of DVD quality (720x480px) or less.
Even then it starts getting hot pretty quickly, I won't watch longer than 20-30 minutes.

Is the PPP able to play videos in Full HD (1920 x 1080px) and if so, does it also become hot quickly?
(I'm referring to the file's resolution, not to the display).

If there are differences between distros, which one performs best?

Thanks!

Can the layout of the virtual keyboard be changed on the Arch Linux (danctnix)? I need arrow and escape keys.