new to pine phone and struggling
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i installed mobian and it's a much better experience than manjaro, I'd highly recommend it over the pre-installed manjaro. Eg, vim is pre-installed, neofetch is easily installed using the usual commands for debian/ubuntu etc. It seems more user intuitive and welcoming

in case it's useful to anyone i'll explain what i did, even though it's covered in the wiki very nicely.

problem is there are lots of good videos about the pinephone and it's not obvious to a noob which are relevant. Eg, this is an excellent video ie very clearly explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Orpoxs...el=myLinux, but it's not relevant if you have the pinephone pro. For the pinephone pro explorer purchased after july2022, you don't need to worry about tow boot, jumpdrive ...

-you need a fresh sd card, solely for the purpose
-get image from here: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...ses#Mobian, ie img.gz file from here: https://images.mobian-project.org/pinephonepro/weekly/
-download it, then: gunzip mobian-pinephone-phosh-YYYYMMDD.img.gz [note the mobian wiki says "We recommend downloading pre-built images for installation", not the 'installer']
-as in the video linked above, run 'lsblk' before and after connecting the sd card to the laptop, so you get the dd command below correct
-i used method 3 from: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...tall-linux
-ie, flash with the following command: sudo dd bs=1M if=mobian-pinephone-phosh-YYYYMMDD.img of=/dev/TARGETSTORAGEDEVICE status=progress [this can take a while, hence use ‘progress’]
-run 'sync' [as he explains in the video above, or maybe use ‘conv=fsync’ as per the wiki?]
-then, as it says on the wiki: "To boot to an SD card, place the SD card in your PinePhone Pro and turn it on. The phone will vibrate once. At this point, hold down the volume down button until you feel the device vibrate again then release the button. The LED color should change to blue and your display should remain black for a few seconds."
-you will come to the log in screen and the password is 1234
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new to pine phone and struggling - by neverdimed - 11-22-2022, 06:41 AM
RE: new to pine phone and struggling - by shulamy - 11-22-2022, 07:19 AM
RE: new to pine phone and struggling - by shulamy - 11-22-2022, 09:36 AM
RE: new to pine phone and struggling - by fxc - 11-22-2022, 01:16 PM
RE: new to pine phone and struggling - by shulamy - 11-22-2022, 11:19 PM
RE: new to pine phone and struggling - by neverdimed - 11-25-2022, 05:01 PM

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