Hi, I bought a Pinebook Pro in august 2022. I never got the Pinebook Pro to work properly. I've tried several Linux distros from different micro SD cards & internal emmc. Sometimes the boot process stuck or some programs (firefox, gnom or the whole desktop) were frozen after some minutes. Lately I have tried to use Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-23.02, kali-linux-2023.3-pinebook-pro-arm64 & Armbian_23.8.1_Pinebook-pro_bookworm_current_6.1.50_cinnamon_desktop without any luck. I flashed Tow-boot.spi (pine64-pinebookPro-2021.10-005.tar.xz) but sometimes it was frozen during boot medium selection. After such a freeze I usually did a soft reset (holding power button for 10 seconds) and then I faced another freeze at a different position.

Since I had some problems with the micro SD reader in the beginning I have often disassembled the back plate and wrote the Linux distro direct to the emmc from my computer. I have lost two screws so could that cause the "random freezes"? I will attach some photos. Maybe I destroyed something in the Pinebook Pro? I will also attach the log directory of my latest Armbian.

Is there anything else I could try or provide for error tracking?

Thanks for your time







Here is the log directory (/var/log) from armbian: https://file.io/MKmDaAsAACVn

Hi, I  installed postmarket/phosh on my pinephone (regular version, not the pro) using the latest stable image (https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/v23....one/phosh/).
Firefox will show that it is loading for roughly 5 seconds, then crash.

Until this gets fixed, how can I make the OS recognize another browser as the default browser?

google will take control of android in the future.

moderators may not like this topic, which is basically google and android bashing.

i predicted somewhere around that 2021, google will lock android somehow within few years. introducing fuchsiaos kernel, banning bootloader unlocking, using more closed components, changing api in android core and so on. google already has "google play services" and "google play", which are closed components and many android apps are dependent on those.

so i basically, repeat same prediction, open android is gone after few years, maybe 2027.

ungoogled android is still open now, but i predict that ungoogled android is practically gone after few years, android will be like what ios is now.

google/alphabet/youtube is reportedly slowing down youtube (some users report this). google plans to introduce banning ad blockers in chrome (i don't know chromium though), https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/...june-2024/ . these are worrisome developments.

just in case, apple's system are totally controlled by apple. including macs with m-chips.

looking back, maybe i knew more or less few years back, and i went to pinephone train. in short, there's not going to be software and hardware freedom in android.

I've been wondering about the Neural Processing Unit on the SOQuartz, but can't seem to find any documentation about it from a quick look. What can it do, and what software is available that supports it?

I have made several attempts to set up the system, but I keep encountering an error during the repository update process, causing the initial setup to fail. My internet connection is stable, and I have tried using different high-quality power sources and multiple SD cards. I suspect that the problem lies with the sources.list file. Could any developers investigate this matter, please?

Platform details:
Hardware: Pine64 A64+ 2GB
Operating System: 1.4.1 Openhabian Image

Hi, when starting the phone these errors appear. How to fix it? (I will add that the system boots and work normally)
   

Hey, newbie solder here

i bought a pinecil used it once and it was great

i whipped it out a few months later, today, to use it again and it reads low DC on the same setup as before

i tried to switch the power source but now it wont even power up? even on the setup that read low DC

tried different cubes, and cables even the barrel jack with blocks within the voltage range 

i think it smells burnt or maybe it smells like a soldering iron. What gives?

My PinePhone worked great until (I think – this was quite some time ago because it wasn't urgent to get fixed, so I don't perfectly remember it anymore) it crashed and I had to force a reboot (taking out the battery).  Now the SIM card related stuff doesn't work (great) anymore.  To make or receive a phone call I now have to run `mmcli -m any -e` (found on the internet) to activate the modem (which isn't great, but also not a big problem) and (more importantly) I can't configure an APN (the option in the settings GUI is grey out, and I don't know how to do it in the terminal), which means I have no mobile internet (which wasn't a problem, because I'm usually somewhere with WiFi, but soon will be a problem).

It might (or might not) be worth mentioning that I somewhat damaged the SD/SIM card slot, but I don't think this is related, because it still worked for some time with this damaged slot and because after running this command making phone calls still works.

Memory Management Unit (MMU) is the hardware inside our Single-Board Computer (SBC) that implements Memory Protection and Virtual Memory.

Sv39 is the RISC-V MMU inside the Pine64 Ox64 SBC, based on Bouffalo Lab BL808 SoC.

In this article, we boot Apache NuttX RTOS on Ox64 SBC to find out how Sv39 MMU works with:
(1) Memory Protection (for our Kernel)
(2) Virtual Memory (for the Applications)
As we record everything that happens when NuttX configures the Sv39 MMU.

Check out the article:
RISC-V Ox64 BL808 SBC: Sv39 Memory Management Unit

Lup
   

I am a newby to Linux and have the Pinephone and Pinephone Pro.  I have installed PMos on the PP and Mobian on the PPP.  I have to admit that switching to different OSs is lots of fun.  I have a lot of issues trying to make one of them my daily driver device. (Beyond sick of Google and Apple among many other big tech life drainers)  I am just wondering why a Linux open source device has to have a Google protocol in the firmware of the modem in both phones. (com.google.fastboot) Is it communicating to Google in any way? If so, then this defeats the purpose of what I am personally trying to accomplish and not sure how to proceed from here.  Like I said, I am new to Linux and need some guidance if you would be so kind.

Thank you in advance.