Dear all,
We are the developers of Clonezilla (https://clonezilla.org). Recently we have created Clonezilla live arm64 release, and would like to invite you to give it a try on RockPro64. Clonezilla is free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning.

How to use it:
1. First, follow this to flash U-Boot to SPI:
   https://github.com/sigmaris/u-boot/wiki/...oot-to-SPI
   We have tested the release rockpro64 u-boot v2020.01-ci work for booting Clonezilla live from USB flash drive.

2. Download Clonezilla live from
   http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/...ental/arm/
   The Ubuntu-based release, e.g., clonezilla-live-20200414-focal-arm64.zip which we have tested OK on Rockpro64.

3. Create a FAT32 partition on your USB flash drive, then mount it, e.g.,
   pmount /dev/sde1 /media/disk
   unzip clonezilla-live-20200414-focal-arm64.zip -d /media/disk
   pumount /media/disk

4. Insert the USB flash drive on your Rockpro64, then boot it. Remember to set the it to boot from USB device.
   i.e., when you see:
   Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
   Press any key, then type:
   => setenv boot_targets usb0
   => boot
   If all goes well, you should be able to see the Clonezilla live boot menu.

5. In the 1st item of grub boot menu, edit the boot parameter by pressing "e",
   append "ocs_live_run_tty=/dev/ttyS2", so that the Clonezilla main menu will be shown in the serial console.
   e.g.,
   linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live union=overlay quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset enforcing=0 noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=en ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch="no" vga=788 ip= net.ifnames=0  splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 ocs_live_run_tty=/dev/ttyS2
   Of course, the serial console device name has to match your environment. Then press Ctrl-x to boot it.

6. Wait a while, and you should be able to see the main menu of Clonezilla live, then you can save your disk as an image, restore the image, or clone the disks. More docs are available on Clonezilla website:
   https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php

The photo about the test environment:



The rate about saving a SSD disk using -z9p (zstd) of Clonezilla option:


Rate about restoring an image to SSD:


Boot progress:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/...rocess.txt

The progress about saving the micro SD which has Armbian 20.02.1 Buster:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/...ave-sd.txt

The progress about wiping the micro SD:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/...ipe-sd.txt

The progress about restoring the image to micro SD, then boot the restored Armbian:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/...ore-sd.txt

Bugs report, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you very much.


Steven

Hi everybody

I do not succeed in enabling location services on my pinephone.
I followed
https://docs.ubports.com/fr/latest/userg...ation.html
But location quick settings freeze up and settings in system settings apps does not work.
(Even if "using GPS" is enable)


Does anybody knows if there is another way to enable location services through command line for instance ?

Thank you for attention.

SBC:    RockPro64 4Gb v2.1
OS:     Manjaro-ARM 20.04
            Linux rockpro64 5.6.0-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 12:35:20 CEST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux
        
Greetings Piners, any news on getting audio to work
on a RockPro64 running Manjaro Arm 20.04?

TIA,
/Faradn
~ Odroid N2 ~ Odroid XU4 ~ RockPro64 ~ Pi3B ~

Hello,

I received my PBP in January (I think from the second publicly sold batch). After some trying out on the original Debian install, I was able to install Bionic Mate on it following instructions. Given that I messed up that install a bit by trying to install software that I think was incompatible (Anbox, VMWare Horizon, R Commander), I decided I wanted to give Manjaro a try (at that time I think it was still 19.12). I followed the instructions per manjaro.org, however Whenever I booted up with the etched Manjaro image on sd in my PBP, it would either hang, or decide to boot up in my Bionic install. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I've already tried at the Manjaro Froum, but they keep repeating the instructions (and I keep repeating following them to the letter and failing).

I have tried numerous times downloading (both 19.12 and later 20.04 versions), writing the image with Balenaetcher (on my Windows laptop, btw I've also tried several times writing the image to my sd using dd on my PBP), than booting up on my PBP. I've tried it with two different sd cards (including the one I used successfully before to install Bionic Mate), however I keep failing. I finally found out how to get a boot log from a previous boot, so I have the log of my latest failure.
log.txt

I have Ubuntu on my card. I testeed it on my Linux laptop, and in Windows; it works there. On PBP the first time I tried it, it seemed to recognize it as bootable, but hung up. Since then it merely mounts it. How do I get it to boot from the card?

After not using my Pine A64 for a while, I decided to dust it off and reinstall Android 6.0. I actually first install Adroid TV (v7 I believe), but my wifi kept getting disconnected. Anyhow, I'm able to connect to wifi but it's showing I don't have internet. My other devices are connected to the same network and they are fine. I tried searching online for resolution but I can't find what I need. Please help!

pine64, can you make an estimate of what it would cost to add an usb nano hub on the
mainboard? Or design the mainboard such, that people themselves could
add an usb nano hub? I want to be able to connect an
usb wifi card to the mainboard. Other people might find ways to
utilize an usb hub.

Pinephone support for these two features may be more critical than anticipated.  According to the following article, T-Mobile has announced they will be turning off their 2G and 3G networks in 2021. Verizon is already doing so, AT&T apparently is accelerating their plans to shut down their 2G/3G to this year.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/cdma-vs-gsm-w...difference

I was doing some research in the UBPorts forum and discovered why a certain phone (Nexus 5) is not capable of doing VoLTE and wondered how the Pinephone compares in this regard.  Basically, it's because it cannot transmit and receive on both 3G and LTE networks at the same time due to no second diversity antenna. So support was never built out for it.

Can the Pinephone transmit and receive full duplex on both the  3G and LTE bands at the same time?

Hi everyone,

I just hoped someone can point me in the right direction please? I'd like to experiment with getting a couple of linux distros running on my Pine A64 which dont have any official images, are there any instructions available on how to build an image for this? I have 1 of tge original boards from the kickstarter campaign if this matters. I thought if there are any steps that need to be taken and things I should know then I can apply the build process to diffeent distros I use to see what I can get working well on my Pine.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks