One of the advantages of the LibRem 5 is that it has two M.2 slots, so the phone hardware and the WiFi hardware can be upgraded, or one can possibly swap the WiFi card with an M.2 NVMe card or other interesting cards, like WiFi 6.

What would the cost increment be for the PinePhone to include an M.2 slot?

Build script for Kali Linux for the Pinebook Pro is now available.
Many thanks to Steev for the hard work!

Kali Linux Build Script

Image download link

hi all
I'm wondering if there is some way to backup the internal 64gb emmc to an sdcard
Raspberry pie uses a little app called SD card copier it would be nice if there is something like this for the pinebook pro
its very useful if we f*ck up the system just to restore it from the sd card would be amazing
and time consuming just copy back everything with all settings and stuff
hopefully somebody will come up with something

Just wondered if anyone has got the display going from MicroPython.

So far I've spent most of my time on PineTime hacking together a bootloader robust enough to allow me to stick the back on (albeit with something I could undo in an emergency). Nothing too fancy... just getting the bootloader and app cooperate to turn the user button into a watchdog enforced long press reset button.

I've been using MicroPython with a BLE REPL as a test payload and the next step is to get something on the display so I just wondered if someone is ahead of me there and already has this going in Python? Once the back is on I'd like to at least see the time!

Does anyone know if a PCI soundcard (more specifically the ASUS Xonar DX) will be recognized and work soundcard on the RckPro64?

The speakers in the pbp could use, well, a subwoofer maybe.  I don't know where you'd put one.  To look at the picture they look like ordinary small speakers like you might find in a radio.  Recent advances like neodymium magnets have made big sound from a small space possible, but they're best used in some environment designed for them, not just stuck in there.  Some plastic or fiberglass housing, I remember it's important that sound waves coming off the front of the speaker not reach the back and cause interference and partial cancellation.  A cardboard box is better than nothing with bigger speakers.  There is software like qspeakers for trying to optimize designs, not that I've tried it.

What about cell phone speakers?  They aren't very big but some can belt out those ringtones, which are often music clips.  Seems like there must be some surplus ones around since there are millions of cell phones.

 (January 18, 2019)

   So Brave Heart Edition of the Pine phone started shipping yesterday.

      Have  'YOU'   received Your shipping notice yet ?

    I was in the Crowd waiting when they opened the door on this bout of orders.

     I guess the store is probably closed for the weekend (?)  I hope to hear something soon.

January 25, 2020

When I attempt to track my Brave Heart :

It still has the same old statement that it has "arrived in Switzerland" !

5 Days and not even an update !

GRRrrrr Wish it was DHL

Asendia SUX

I'm trying to build a couple of kernel modules for the Pinebook Pro but haven't been able to find the kernel headers.  Are there debs of these anywhere?

(I suspect this will be fixed with the mainline kernel work moving to 5.x but I haven't yet found the specific 4.4.207 fork used on the Pinebook Pro.)

I'm using the default linux image and have updated everything.

After a while of use, the wifi stops working, requiring me to either `ifconfig wlan0 up` or, if that doesn't work, reboot the machine.

If I have it plugged into AC power with the supplied power adapter, I only get maybe 10 minutes of watching fullscreen 720p youtube before the wifi goes out.

If it's on battery, I get longer, maybe a half hour or more before it fails.

I checked the syslog and I see a bunch of wifi-related errors when this happens - lots of assert failures, mismatched lengths etc, then finally a note saying the chip has hanged and it shuts off the wifi.

Does this happen to anyone else? Is this the expected behavior or did I get a bad one?

A snippet from my syslog when this happened:

Hi PineTime Fans: I have modified OpenOCD to run on Raspberry Pi using the faster SPI interface (31 MHz!) instead of the old GPIO Bit Banging.  If this works, we should be able to flash AND debug PineTime firmware with VSCode on Raspberry Pi!

But I need your help to test this modified version of OpenOCD.  (Test instructions are in the article below)  If it's tested OK, I'll publish the steps to debug PineTime firmware on VSCode.  Please lemme know if it works. Thanks! :-)


OpenOCD on Raspberry Pi: Better with SWD on SPI