PinePhone Software

Software usable with PinePhone

Distributions

Main distributions registry: wiki.pine64.org/PinePhone_Software_Releases

• Arch Linux ARM for PinePhone
  • Repository: [1]
• Arch Linux ARM for PinePhone Installer
  • Repository: github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-arch-install
• Mobian
  • Debian for mobile devices.
• UBports
  • Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone.
  • wiki: How to install
• postmarketOS
  • Alpine Linux for phones
• sxmo
  • dwm on postmarketOS.
  • Pine64 Forum Thread
  • User Guide

Utilities

Jumpdrive

Enables flashing of the internal eMMC flash storage from a computer over USB.

• Pine64 Wiki
• Releases (pre-built images)

netevent

Netevent is a tool which can be used to share linux event devices with other machines (either via /dev/uinput or by implementing a client for the same protocol with other means).[2]

• Repository: [3]

Other Components

• feedbackd - events and notifications daemon

Development

• PinePhone-Toolkit
• p-boot - minimal PinePhone bootloader
  • ABOUT
  • HACKING

Troubleshooting

What is going on??

Try connecting to the Serial Console on PinePhone.

Random crashes

If you experience random crashes, try a slower DRAM clock speed! See this thread.

wlan0 MAC keeps on changing

This is problematic if you want to assign a DNS name to the phone on your LAN. You can always setup a systemd service that sets a "spoofed" (but static) MAC address: [4]

External Links

• wiki.pine64.org/PinePhone_Software_Release
• Megous (xnux.eu)
  • Introduction & Status: xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone
  • Linux kernel: github.com/megous/linux/pp-5.6