some big letdowns right away and very slow progress
05-04-2021, 08:24 AM
I like the hardware so far, but ....
Here is my story with some issues behind me and some still ahead. The day after receiving and exploring the phone, preloaded with manjaro plasma, an update corrupted the OS already. And the battery would not charge over 85% and would tank to 33% in an hour after the first update on day of arrival.
All we have right now besides android and apple phones are a 6 year old Windows machine, and an android tablet. My Chromebook 3 that I ran Galliumos on had physically worn out beyond repair, over a year ago, but that learning experience got me interested in Pine64 projects, and so I waited to buy.
I tried Belenaetcher to create a bootable sd on the Windows, and failed maybe ten times before success, and yet the phone would still not boot. I was trying with a plasma ISO. When I tried the .img download for Posh, it booted the phone, but it is so wonky as a live OS it is almost unusable. You know the lag. You know the cropped oversized browser that you can't pinch down. You know the no rotate to landscape issue, right?
I had Debian Linux OS distros for years and got used to those basic terminal commands. It is weird to type apt-get for an error message.
I found instructions all over the place for flashing to the eMMMC, but none anticipated key choices a noob has to make with little knowledge. More on that later.
While waiting for guidance, I started just playing with the software app, thinking I will try to customize the Posh before installing it. Well, after some deletions I managed to lose the software app. I hope I can use the terminal to restore it because it really went bye bye. It is great to browse and read reviews as I am still learning.
So, my current big issue with using the booted phone to download and flash an OS to eMMMC.... From noob wiki, I got the terminal command for dd, I know my x is 0, but this command returns no file or directory even if I can see the file in my download folder. Do I change the directory and the name of the actual image? I know this might be a very stupid question, yet in my experience what should be a variable is sometimes a routine function. There seems to be many steps here skipped or not detailed enough for me, about extraction too. If I select download/open the file with archive manager nothing at all happens. Here is the code in question.
dd if=new-pinephone-image.img of=/dev/mmcblkX
Please note my phone is the convergence version. I was hoping it might also preclude my need for another pc, but now I think it is required, at least keyboard and monitor. It would be nice to use the dongle alone for flashing. Cheers everybody and much OS joy for reading this.
Here is my story with some issues behind me and some still ahead. The day after receiving and exploring the phone, preloaded with manjaro plasma, an update corrupted the OS already. And the battery would not charge over 85% and would tank to 33% in an hour after the first update on day of arrival.
All we have right now besides android and apple phones are a 6 year old Windows machine, and an android tablet. My Chromebook 3 that I ran Galliumos on had physically worn out beyond repair, over a year ago, but that learning experience got me interested in Pine64 projects, and so I waited to buy.
I tried Belenaetcher to create a bootable sd on the Windows, and failed maybe ten times before success, and yet the phone would still not boot. I was trying with a plasma ISO. When I tried the .img download for Posh, it booted the phone, but it is so wonky as a live OS it is almost unusable. You know the lag. You know the cropped oversized browser that you can't pinch down. You know the no rotate to landscape issue, right?
I had Debian Linux OS distros for years and got used to those basic terminal commands. It is weird to type apt-get for an error message.
I found instructions all over the place for flashing to the eMMMC, but none anticipated key choices a noob has to make with little knowledge. More on that later.
While waiting for guidance, I started just playing with the software app, thinking I will try to customize the Posh before installing it. Well, after some deletions I managed to lose the software app. I hope I can use the terminal to restore it because it really went bye bye. It is great to browse and read reviews as I am still learning.
So, my current big issue with using the booted phone to download and flash an OS to eMMMC.... From noob wiki, I got the terminal command for dd, I know my x is 0, but this command returns no file or directory even if I can see the file in my download folder. Do I change the directory and the name of the actual image? I know this might be a very stupid question, yet in my experience what should be a variable is sometimes a routine function. There seems to be many steps here skipped or not detailed enough for me, about extraction too. If I select download/open the file with archive manager nothing at all happens. Here is the code in question.
dd if=new-pinephone-image.img of=/dev/mmcblkX
Please note my phone is the convergence version. I was hoping it might also preclude my need for another pc, but now I think it is required, at least keyboard and monitor. It would be nice to use the dongle alone for flashing. Cheers everybody and much OS joy for reading this.
