Hi!

I'm researching and developing hardware for Virgo.  

https://virgo.org/about/

Our end-goal hardware-wise is an open source mobile phone, and I wanted to follow up with you guys about the PinePhone.  

I'm curious if any of the hardware on the PinePhone is open source?  

For example, the PCB design, case, display, or anything else for that matter.


Thanks!

-Jacob 

PS: I really love the idea of phone as dev platform for mobile Linux, and I plan to pick up a PinePhone as soon as the next batch is available.

If this happens to you, something to try, costs little

This fairly serious, I just spent 2-3 hours to narrow it down
So, I thought I had broke it, the power button did nothing, removed q4os SD, still nothing
For some reason, I tried holding power 15 sec, nothing, thought try longer (and 20+ is right)
Then a short push and started right up, hmm, hmm
Put q4os back in, reboot, same senario (dead power button, hold 20+s, then works (q4os out))
Tried with nothing in SD slot, worked OK, tried with debian bullseye, worked OK,
tried with manjaro, worked OK (reboot worked, after shutdown restarts normally)
Checked 1st 16M, diff and cmp they vary quite a bit,
downloaded a stock mrfixit and updated, 1st 16 match (aside from mbr) (with emmc)
So q4os has some problem with uboot? or ibdloader?
I never did get q4os booted
why the 20 second push????
--edit-- SOLVED
turned out to be wrong card, identical (appearance) card hiding nearby
I wish there was a way to mark cards, that doesn't rub off or gum up SD slot

I installed postmarkOS on an SDcard.

First issue, probably a bug with postmarkOS.

When you first boot it does not bring up the password screen. However, after some minutes of inactivity, it brings up the time/date display and then you need to enter the password.

Where should I submit bug reports?

If I can figure it out I will submit a patch.

So I received my phone recently, and in the factory tests the phone doesn't vibrate. Is this an issue with software or is my unit defective?

Forgive me if this has already on the web forums somewhere - I can only find references to topics about changing IMEI, or references to IMEI in conjunction with activating micro-SIM cards on the Pinephone.  I have Ubports installed on my Braveheart Pinephone that I received two days ago and got wireless to work with a couple of command line entries and a reboot. I've ordered an ATT compatible micro-SIM card, and once inserted, would like to activate the phone on my pre-paid account with ATT.  If I go to att.com/prepaid it looks as if I'll have to supply an IMEI number in order to activate the phone.  If I go to "settings>about" to looke for the IEMI number, "None" is listed.  Is this really the case?  Is there another path to finding out the IMEI of the phone?  How can one get around that in order to activate cellular service?

I accidentally flashed my phone. Is there any way to reinstall the phone's BIOS? I was unable to connect the phone to my computer (Linux Mint 19.3)

Here are the introductory videos I did for the Pinebook Pro ANSI Edition. Hope you enjoy!

Announcing Availability of the Pinebook Pro ANSI Edition

In order to install PostmarketOS on EMMC, Pinephone page on postmarketos' wiki instruct to run the following :

Has anyone had any luck changing the time and date?  It seems to be stuck on GMT.  I can get to the setting that allows me to enter my location, it suggests my city, state, country but when I click on it, nothing happens.  If I try to manually set the time, it ignores the reset.  I've tried a couple of command line entries in terminal, but even those haven't helped.  Being connected to wi-fi doesn't seem to help, maybe once I get a carrier and connect it to their network it will force the change.  Anyone know?