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.

What carriers are people in the US using?

I went to get a ting sim card today and wasn't able to, apparently because, based on the imei, the PinePhone doesn't support VoLTE. Is that correct information?

To be honest, I was really expecting the hardware switches to be more accessible so I could control them easily throughout the day. It would be comforting to have switches immediately accessible so I could see them and be able to be switched on/off again throughout the day without taking off the back.

Did the team look into making the switches accessible from the outside?

Switching them requires some type of small device. I can't even access them with the corner of a fingernail. Is it possible that future models will have much more accessible hardware switches that can be switched with a finger or fingernail easily?

Are there limitations or problems with switching the various modules on/off many times throughout the day?

What, if any, are the foreseeable problems with making the switches more accessible, and on the outside of the phone?

After you've run pmbootstrap once and chosen a ui, it seems to cache that first choice somewhere so that subsequent installs don't offer you a choice of ui. I'd like to try out some other ui's as the plasma-mobile ui isn't quite what I'm looking for. I did run pmbootstrap zap but that didn't affect this issue. How can I run subsequent pmbootstrap install and be prompted again to choose my ui?

I'll make another post with the problems I've run into with the plasma-mobile ui and I'll try to help with that as much as I'm able, however since it isn't the ui I'm looking for, I'll also be trying out other os's and ui's and likely dedicating more time to them.

On the Brave Heart wiki page it lists all the known issues with this version of the phone. Is the current plan to fix all of these or only the most important ones for the final production run?