Hi,

a few weeks ago LCD screen backlight seemed to have broken somehow.
Since then, I have been able to still used the backlight Up key (to 100% value) to restore about 25-30% light, but it always moves back to 50% after some seconds.

To be more precise, returning to 50% backlight is too dark to be read at all. When on 100% I can barely read text size 45 on the screen terminal.

Anybody had a smilar experience?
Cheers,
Yann

Hi all I have a problem with missing lid screw from the factory I've contakt the pinebook per email the same day they told me that I need to wait they will contact their hardware devision.. And I'm still waithing for answer... I just need the specs for the screw to be able to order some it really bugs me...  the screw is at the bottom side of the lid (shorter one it has longer ones too same head I'm happy they are all in place) if someone knows the type or the name of it please to share with me

From a certain moment they can be seen if you change in boot.txt:

from:
console=ttyS2,1500000n8
to:
console=tty1

and remove the bootsplash part so the line reads:

setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/nvme0n1p2 rw rootwait  (I have my root on nvme - your root might be elsewhere !!!)

Than - ./mkscr and reboot.

This is necessary for encryption to be able to enter password for your encrypted device.

It is probably not only to @Luke but to all Piners with PP.
Are we going to have dedicated Matrix channel? Should we wait for the cluster to setup? What is the status of the cluster?
Is there tested bridge to Discord?

It is gona be hot!
Would you like a poll?

But I'm not using 'buntu so it's probably better than that
Stock, Q4OS (stretch): NO ,,,, manjaro,bullseye: YES
Just to save you some time, if you meet caveats, 5 minutes,
otherwise waste hours, and no result
With an arm device you are almost certain to use airprint (bonjour/avahi)
(unless you have postscript printer or compile filter yourself, manjaro has some)
Background: Apple came out with airprint about 2010 for iphone, ipad
the manufactures quickly adopted because ..... apple
Printer must be 2010 or >
localhost:631 is cups 2.2.4 or >
Printer on network,,,,, there is a driver for ipp/http over usb, you must compile
Then it is just a question of the right address, cups will let you know if wrong
The ppd is a bit sparse, but you get to print
For older, use SAMBA
--edit--
I was not clear, when time to pick ppd, pick generic
1st is ipp everywhere,, ippeve.ppd
2nd is driverless,, drvless.ppd
Slightly different
If you pick specific model, will NOT work

Hi all,

I've been really enjoying my new PBP since I got it a couple days ago. I flashed Manjaro onto the eMMc and all was good. The NVMe drive I ordered came in so today I decided to install it. I opened up the PBP and installed the drive. After that I took some time to examine the rest of the hardware. It was then when I caught the glint of some exposed wiring along the hinge side of the case up behind the battery. It looks like who/whatever was assembling my unit was met with some resistance on one of the screw holes as the (I think) ant wiring was forced into the screw hole and torn up quite a bit. I decided to see if it was as bad as I thought so I moved the wire out of the screw hole, booted up the Pinebook, formatted the NVMe and got it working .

The problem is that now I can see all of my WiFi connections, yet can't seem to complete any. Guessing this is the result of that smashed wire (pic attached), but I could be wrong. The WiFi has also always been weaker than I thought it should be and I'm wondering if this has something to do with it.

So, how should I proceed?

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WIP Armbian OS images for the Pinebook Pro are now available.

Download Page

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