i just received my pine phone today. it booted to android 7.1.1. i was under the impression that this wouldn't ship with an operating system. the system is in chinese and i try to goto setting to try to change the langue and the phone freezes i have to remove the battery to turn the phone off. also i notice that the phone gets really hot when its on the charger. is this normal?

Hej guys,

I finally got my pinephone and I am stoked by how much has been achieved so far!

Obviously I was super intent to flash my pinephone and get it to work asap (at least, what "working" currently means). I chose pmOS.

Unfortunately, I have, so far, been unable to get pmOS to work when flashed to a microSD card. Whenever I insert the SD card, which I flashed on my linux desktop, in the pinephone, the pinephone boots into the factory image. Am I doing something wrong, have I missed something?

Here's what I did:
1) Install pmbootstrap and pull
2) pmbootstrap status
2) Insert SD Card with adapter (it is /dev/sdc)
3) pmbootstrap init (tried several times, both with "phosh" and "plasma mobile"
4) pmbootstrap install --sdcard /dev/sdc
5) pmboostrap zap && pmbootstrap shutdown
6) insert sd card in pinephone, start pinephone

Before I did these steps, I already tried flashing the sd card with the newest (04/10) image using etcher. The same did happen, that is, it did not boot into pmOS but brought me to the factory test image instead.

Any help is greatly appreciated :-)

very nice ,it seems to be more definite in operation ,responding to touch etc .,few extra apps (nice).
it shows Terminal in the list of installed apps , BUT no icon appears ?  (again ).

  the link also ,does not identify what you are downloading   plasma/phosh/gnome ?

I see that for the model B, there is Android 9.0. Why there isn't Android 9.0 for H64 model A?

Hi all,

I'm looking to purchase a PBP in the UK. With the current wait on shipping times im looking to see if anyone has a new/lightly used PBP they would consider selling.

Please drop me a PM or reply here and we can work out a deal.

Thanks

Sam

To whom it may concern,

Since the shipping date of April 10th just passed  and I didn't receive a shipment confirmation, I looked up the next shipping date and saw that it's now the 17th of April. Have there been shipments sent out on the 10th or was the date just quietly adjusted by a week?
If the second would be true, I don't mind that at all (especially because of COVID-19) however I would have liked a quick heads up to the community that the shipping date was postponed.


Thank you for all your work you put in this community!

Best regards

Tharadash

Hi all.

I was having conversations with Pine64's sales team to find out why my shipment was stopped. Then I found the support page is down one day and the sales team stops responding. Maybe that is the cause? Hopefully this thread can notify the pine teams that the page is down and they could get the page working again.

Google and Apple offered today to work together in order to record movement profiles that can track Corona infections. They both want to build this into their systems ("No app needed"). It is all voluntary and for a good cause, of course. Or so they want to make us believe.

Only that Google is already publishing data about how many people are visiting popular parks right now. They do collect this data already and since location services are switched on by default and many people cannot be bothered to switch them off, it should not be assumed that all this data is based on having given active consent:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52243088


If you needed one more compelling reason to ditch them both and get yourself a Pinephone, this must be it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52246319

Hello, I used the emmc installer image to put Manjaro 20.04 on my PBP and was happily setting it up as a system I'd use for many months. I was running out of things to change when the screen started to go blank during use. The PBP runs for about an hour longer until it won't respond to SSH any more. I searched dmesg and journalctl for errors and warnings or things to do with the display, but didn't find anything that looked like a problem to me. This installation is using Gnome, mesa-git, Panfrost, and is using GDM to get Wayland sessions. The problem may have started after switching to GDM and Wayland.

Once this had happened a few times, I realized closing the lid would put something in the journal to show where it happened. Here is the results of 'journalctl -r --no-hostname'. You can see just before I closed the lid, rk_iommu said quite a bit, including page faults And before that Tracker was core dumping, which is all over the journal so doesn't appear to be causing the the blank screen. Does anyone have ideas on tracking the problem down?

I didn't like how I had to switch to numbers or functions to press numbers or the tab key, respectively. So I changed the terminal layout a bit. Numbers are now available at the top and at the bottom are tab and the arrow keys. Switching the view reveals del, escape, home, end, pgup and pgdown. The keys are now a little bit smaller but I think they are still easy enough to hit. I based it off of the German layout and added the F-keys to the umlaut-view.

Only thing missing are the modifier keys. Unfortunately they need a new squeekboard version to properly work.

Just add the file terminal.yaml to the directory ~/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/ (create if necessary) and it should be picked up for the terminal layout.

For the modifier keys (Ctrl and Alt) to work you need at least squeekboard 1.9.1. As of now I think only Debian phosh has that version.