Has anybody else noticed SIGNAL make it very hard to install and run there app unless its on an android or IOS device?

The likely reasons for this is they are collecting fingerprint data on o devices...

For example
ts very difficult to install SIGNAL Desktop unless u scan the QR code from your phone - IE a camera is needed and this also links your phone device fingerprint to your desktop signal.

Signal could easily allow us to use an SMS or call Verification, but suspiciously, they do not.

1) Are there any other ways to setup Signal or Signal desktop without them secretly collecting our device data?
2) Any non-Signal alternatives



I managed to convince 13 of my friends to use Signal, I can easily convince them the app is compromised and get them to switch to another app.

I’ve been at this for days now and I think it’s safe to say that despite the number of detailed walkthroughs and guides, I’m still unable to get this thing figured out.

Some context: 
PinePhone Pro w/ RE button, purchased Dec 2023. It was loaded with TowBoot, rk2aw and SailfishOS.

What have I done: 
So, I believe my attempt to flash a Kali image to the eMMC failed. No big deal, I’ll wipe the eMMC and start again. All I need is an image on my SD card, right?

Regardless of what I do now, my phone only boots to a blank screen with a steady green LED. No SD card image will boot. It doesn’t matter if I short press or long press the power or RE button. I’ve tried USB-C plugin combos and 6-8 different distros (Kali, UT, Manjaro, Arch, Mobian, Arch, Rhino)

The only time I’ve managed to break out of this hopeless loop is when I load the factory test builds for either hardware or battery testing. When I use the hardware test build it boots to a barebones Android distro, however I can’t see eMMC storage. When I hold the power up button (while booting the factory test build) I can boot to the bootloader that mentions side loading from ADB etc, however my PPP isn’t recognised by either of my machines when in this state.

With the factory build loaded my machine recognises the device as a tablet but I can’t access or view the eMMC. My device is only visible in lsusb and never lsblk. I have also tried using rk2aw to see if I could figure a workaround, however this only helps me to boot into Masked ROM mode and I have no idea how to recover with such limited access.

What am I missing? I’ve read through so many of these posts thinking the answer is right here somewhere. If someone could help me solve this I would love to help document this whole fix because it shouldn’t be this difficult. 

Thank you in advance.

I asked in pine64 support and they said everything is fine and to ask here. Basically I have two different usb hubs one is an anker and one is a kind of no-name brand one. Neither work with the pinetab2. I plug them in and they make a concerning humming sound and no device actually works on them. Are there certain hubs that are known to work? The issue is that with using an wifi dongle it monopolizes my USBs and then I can't use a keyboard and mouse so I was hoping to use a hub to give me more ports. 

Thanks!

I'm getting rid of my 2020 PinePhone Manjaro CE EU, so I'm offering it in this forum first.

I used it for a few weeks, found a few software issues (see my other threads) but other than that it did its job (of convincing me that it was not ready to be my main driver). Shortly after buying it though suddenly it stopped booting and honestly I didn't have time to reinstall the whole thing, so I stored it and never looked back.

If you're interested please name your price below. Shipping costs are on you.

If there are no responses in about a month, I'll dispose it somewhere safe.

Happy New Year! 2024 is here and we’re running Apache NuttX RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) on Single-Board Computers with plenty of RAM. Like Pine64 Ox64 BL808 SBC with 64 MB RAM!

In this article, we create a Blinky LED app with a Python-like, Garbage-Collected Language that compiles to C: Nim Programming Language.

Garbage-Collected Languages (like Nim) require a bit more RAM than Low-Level Languages (like C). Perfect for our roomy (and vroomy) SBC!

(1) We test NuttX + Nim Blinky on QEMU Emulator for 64-bit RISC-V (minus the blinkenlight)

(2) Then we run NuttX + Nim Blinky on the Ox64 BL808 RISC-V SBC (with a real LED)

Check out the article here:
Nim on a Real-Time Operating System: Apache NuttX RTOS + Ox64 BL808 SBC

Lup
   

Hello, Where can i find component's layout scheme ?
I need it for repair.

Sorry if this has already been asked. I put Ubuntu Touch on an SD card and booted successfully. I enabled WiFi but it did not see my network. I manually added hidden network info with no luck. I am using the same wifi adapter setup I use with the stock OS which works well. If I need to direct this to UB Ports I will.

Oddly enough if boots from the SD card without using the UART adapter I purchased because my PT2 did not come with one. Purchased off eBay so original owner may have not seen it and accidentally discarded it.

I bought a PBP over a year ago and installed ArchLinuxARM on it. After initial install I could not make a wifi connection and was too busy to troubleshoot thoroughly. I've come back to it a few times since, but soon give up because screen is on low brightness and the adjustment keys don't work and I remain too busy to find the actual headache this produces worth going into.

Basically, no interface shows for wifi besides lo. I've tried device list in iwd, ip link, and looking direct at /sys/class/net. I've checked that the privacy switch for wifi is not blocking it, and get two blinks from the numlock light.

I thought I would just try a reinstall from scratch, but when I go into BIOS at the start (UEFI?, tow-boot?) and select USB it will not boot from the drive I have installed there. Installation instructions say any version of tow-boot should work for an install, and the version I have is the one released before the current one.

Where should I be looking for the wifi card? Instructions talk about USB or PCI, but the wiki says the adapter connects via SDIO?

I searched through the forum but could not find my issue. Anytime audio is called for, my Pinetab2 produces what sounds like static on the AM band from the speakers.  The speakers do play sound, but below 25% audio all you hear is the static. If you turn the volume above 25% then you can begin to hear the audio over the static noise. The Pinetab2 also makes the static noise while booting but I assume that there must be some kind of a boot chime or sound that is calling for audio and it just plays the static. If you dont have any system calling for audio the static noise will stop after about 20 seconds until the next time there is an audio event. I can insert a 3.5 mm headphone and turn off the speakers and the audio through the headphone is clear.I have also loaded Ubuntu and Rhino linux onto an SD card and booted them with the same issue. 

Anyone else had this issue and resolved it?

For over two years, there have been many scattered posts from people wanting
to be able to use their phones to make and receive calls using hands-free
bluetooth devices. This has been standard with android phones for well over
10 years.

From what I can see with pipewire and wireplumber, and from what others have
said, it is just a matter of creating the proper audio profile
(pipewire/wireplumber configuration) to route the audio between bluetooth and
the modem. If there was proper documentation of the relevant systems I would
figure it out myself and post the solution here.

There are certainly people who understand pipewire/wireplumber well enough
that it would be fairly straightforward for them to solve this problem if
they thought it worth the effort.

I will give $50 to the first person or project (Mobian for example) who,
before June 1, 2024, will come up with a solution compatible with hfp 1.5 and
later, and make it publicly available in a way that the common pinephone
(original) user can make use of it. This could be somthing like an
installable package or upgrade to a package, a script to make changes or, if
it came with complete step-by-step instructions, as a set of edits to
configuration files.

I realize $50 by itself might not be enough motivation so I would ask those
who also need this to at least register their desire for it by taking the
time to add a post to this thread, and for those who can, by also offering
additional money.

Maybe someone with the knowledge just needs to know that people need this.