Im a new user of pine phone, indeed my phone has yet to arrive.
Im just wondering what my OS options are, I think it would be handy if there was a list of functional and tested OS builds to choose from.
Is there such a thing already? Have I simply missed it?

Here is a guide to some of the hardening you can do on your Pinebook Pro's OS and applications. Each post will be dedicated, (and edited for corrections and updates), for a specific type of hardening.

Hello all,
I have tried to build Rockpro64 bootloader..

But I am still confused with the methodology/ tools used..

I am using ATF mainline + u-Boot..
But it seems that the boards uses OPTEE Trusted Execution Environment instead of ATF?

Is this scheme bellow correct?

Didn't seem to have any printer configuration in the default distribution.
I used Synaptic to install CUPS and this found a few network printers. However, no way to configure them so they mostly print blank pages.
I installed system-config-printer but it won't  authenticate. When I go to add a new printer, it asks for username and password (I only have the default) but tells me "not authorized".
Any suggestions for getting printing to work (obviously a newbie here).

Hi.

I'm about to order a Pinebook Pro but still not sure about the power supply option, which is EU or US formats. My country is Argentina. We use 220v. As for the plug, I guess I'll need an adapter anyway: it's the type used in Australia.

Does it make any difference to choose one or the other?

Thank you very much.
M.

Pd.  I'm new to the forum. Sorry if this is not the best place to post it, or if there's already a thread for this topic. I couldn't find useful information after a search.

Hi all,

I´ve been wondering about some time now if it is possible to build a PATA device to SATA jack bridge via the RockPro64. I know this would run at very slow speeds and there are already adapters. How can the GPIO pins be utilized? I want to do this to learn more about how to work with single board computers.

Best regards

Count Omega

Hi all!
I'm new to the forum.
I'm from Italy and I'm very interested into this project :-)

My questions are:
Is the brave heart edition fully functional?
Does the pine64 installer utility provides OSes for the brave heart edition including and not limiting to vanilla Android images?

There are istructions to install personalized images and/or how to hack them?

Thank you very very much.
Yours.
M.

Hello there,

Finally came my Pinebook Pro , I read this post https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4632  and charged him. But after I pushed power button 5-10sec nothing is happen. I found that during charging, red diode shone something around 3 min and then turn off until I plug out charging cable and again plug in. I repeat this procedure couple days and red diode shone a little bit longer but still the notebook doesn't work.

Can you help me please?

Thanks

Just got my order in, very exited to get tinkering with this thing in Janurary (or... maybe they will come even sooner?). Curious if there's any waterproof cases in the works... also curious if pinetime is going to be waterproof. I'd eventually like to replace my apple watch and iphone with these for my outdoor activities as soon as the platform is ready. I love kayaking/camping/hiking and I want to create a distro custom tailored to my outdoor activities.

What is everyone else around here excited to experiment with? Anyone been doing any 3d printing of accessories? I'm excited to try out GNURadio out on the phone with my hackrf one too...

Anyway I hope this project becomes a huge success.

Or ultimately Vulkan.  I've been going in circles for a week or so between my Rock64 and my Odroid N2 trying to get the Malis to do anything remotely like acceleration or being controlled by a language like OpenGL ES or Vulkan, under X11 anyway.  ARM/Mali only supports Wayland (and Android) at least from some point on.  Panfrost is supposed to work with the older 2Mali families, not Bifrost but Utgard and Midgard.

So Panfrost https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/ attempts to change that.  I have Panfrost installed on my Rock64 but there's one catch:

Quote:Use a mainline kernel version 5.2 or later with CONFIG_DRM_PANFROST enabled