You can install Ubuntu Touch via a bash script from the SD card on the internal memory like this:

(02-14-2020, 04:58 AM)dukla2000 Wrote:

(02-14-2020, 04:43 AM)PinePhoneCoder Wrote:

(02-13-2020, 02:25 PM)Goddard Wrote: Anyone played with installing over USB?

No, but do you have an idea where to start?

Unless I am very much mistaken you have to use FEL mode. And, again unless I am mistaken, the PinePhone has no magic button key sequences to boot into FEL mode (although I am curious about the reset button ...) so you either have to use the special SDcard image or ensure there is no bootable image on both the SDcard and the eMMC.

A few years back I bought a Alfa awus036h USB WiFi adapter with the intent to learn how to pentest my wifi to use on old xp laptop. Fast forward to now I no longer have that machine but do have the Pinebook Pro. Upon plugging in the USB it freezes the p64 to the point it wont work unless I unplug the card and reboot machine. Anyone with experience with this type of stuff kindly share what they used and if it worked or if the same thing happened to them? I tried finding specs on power consumption for the card assuming it draws to much power but to no avail.

If I gently but firmly pinch slightly above the lower left corner of pinephone braveheart, it starts to buzz. Sometimes I have to take the back cover off or power it down to get it to stop. It easily triggers from a pocket or when picking it up. Sometimes even putting the back cover on triggers it.

I would be happy to upload a video of it.

Seems as if maybe something is making contact that shouldn't. If this is a widespread issue, hope we can get it resolved for future builds.

Otherwise, everything hardware seems to be checking out. Love the device! I want to pass along my thanks to the Pine64 team.

Audio in Youtube  stopped working.  I've had the PBP for about three weeks now.  A noob at Linux but having fun with this device and learning.  The PBP is very fast browsing using firefox.  Youtube was playing perfect but for now reason I can deduce, there is no more audio.  any suggestions to help unravel?  Audio on other websites is working fine.

Thanks

I don't remember being prompted to set one. Once the screen locked, it needs a password to get back in.  I'm pretty sure I saw a default password mentioned in one of these forums, but now that I need it I can't find it.

Please help! Don't want to reinstall....

I recently had a question answered by a forum member and wanted to give them rep, but the rate button shows javascript:void(0). Initially I used icecat, so I thought maybe that button requires nonfree javascript, but in firefox, with pine64 allowed to run java (and fontawesome I think it was) it still says javascript:void(0).

I noticed that it tried to load fonts.gstatic.com, which I didn't allow, but it doesn't seem that a font would cause this issue.

One other thing, in icecat, when posting I've noticed it calling googleapis. It surprises me that any googleapis would be called. NoScript in FF doesn't show anything from googleapis so I'm not sure what would be loading. Does the rate button call some googleapi by chance? I believe I have googleapis blocked at my firewall, that makes me think maybe the rate button calls them, but again that would be really surprising to me.

Thanks for any help.


Edit: It just occurred to me it's probably due to my junior member status that I can't give rep, and after looking through the forum rules, I see that this post won't be seen today also because of my junior status. I think I get it now. Confirmation would be good but I'm pretty sure I have it figured out. I'll go over the forum rules so I don't ask any more questions that are answered there.
I am still curious about gstatic fonts and googleapis though, so any answers there would be appreciated.

How would I connect to the PinePhone's serial console from linux?  I have the USB to headphone jack converter, and killswitch 6 is flipped off, but I'm a bit lost on where to go from there.

As the title says, does pmbootstrap install the latest image of whatever ui I choose? I want to make sure before I start reporting issues that I'm using the latest build but I don't see that info anywhere I've looked. Thanks

I downloaded and extracted

Someone on Reddit reported that their Pinebook Pro arrived with a strange-looking autorun.inf file in the boot partition, which looked like it came from some kind of virus or other malware: https://old.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/...partition/

This particular malware might be targeted at Windows and (perhaps) not cause any harm on Linux, but if the system at the factory is compromised in this way, it could be running any number of other malicious programs resulting in the installation of literally anything on the devices.

So I have two questions:

1) Could a malicious program persist itself on the Pinebook Pro (or PinePhone) to survive after the OS is installed, for example by flashing malicious firmware or modifying the boot process? Or will it definitely be clean with a fresh OS install?

2) Should users be advised to install their own OS and not trust the pre-installed software, if the factory can't be trusted? This would affect the plan to have the PinePhone come with the user's choice of software pre-installed.