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| Prerequisites | |
| ============= | |
| - One Pinephone braveheart edition | |
| - A micro SIM card or Nano sim with micro adapter | |
| - A micro SD card (tested with SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-1 64G) | |
| - A 5V power adapter with regular usb connector (15 Watts recommended. 5V/3 amp) | |
| - A Linux desktop/laptop to prepare the SD card (laptop used in this tutorial) | |
| Preparation | |
| =========== | |
| * Open your pine64 box | |
| * Remove the phone from the plastic holder | |
| * Remove packaging & screen protector | |
| * Remove the backcover by putting your nail under the backcover corner indent and pull carefully | |
| * Carefully remove the battery. Do NOT use anything sharp to do so. The battery is fragile | |
| * Remove the plastic strip | |
| * Insert your micro SIM card, reinsert battery and put the phone flat on a table | |
| * Connect the red usbc cable to the adapter and power the phone on | |
| PostMarketOS self-test build boots.... | |
| * Run all self-tests to verify correct working of all parts. | |
| - The modem says Status OK (Not registered) | |
| - SIM test does not work, unless you have a sim in there without pin | |
| - Flash to eMMC test failed, but that's ok I suppose | |
| * Shut down the phone afterwards. | |
| SD Card setup | |
| ============= | |
| Prepare the SD card. The goal is to boot from SD and from there flash to EMMC. | |
| First install the PostmarketOS bootstrap tool on your laptop: | |
| pip3 install --user pmbootstrap | |
| pmbootstrap init | |
| > Work path [/home/user/pine64-pinephone] | |
| > Vendor [pine64] | |
| > Device codename [pinephone] | |
| > Enable this package? (y/n) [y] | |
| > Username [user] | |
| > User interface [plasma-mobile-extras] | |
| > Change them? (y/n) [n] | |
| > Extra packages [none] | |
| > Use this timezone instead of GMT? (y/n) [y] | |
| > Device hostname (short form, e.g. 'foo') [pinephone] | |
| > Would you like to copy your SSH public keys to the device? (y/n) [y] | |
| > Zap existing chroots to apply configuration? (y/n) [y] | |
| Make sure the SD card is NOT mounted | |
| pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/mmcblk0 | |
| > New password: **** | |
| > ... | |
| > [19:25:42] Flashes the kernel + initramfs to your device: | |
| > [19:25:42] /home/user/pine64-pinephone/chroot_rootfs_pine64-pinephone/boot | |
| > [19:25:42] * If the above steps do not work, you can also create symlinks to the generated files with 'pmbootstrap export' and flash outside of pmbootstrap. | |
| > [19:25:42] NOTE: chroot is still active (use 'pmbootstrap shutdown' as necessary) | |
| > [19:25:42] Done | |
| Boot from SD Card | |
| ================= | |
| * Remove the battery | |
| * Insert the SD card (On top of the SIM card) | |
| * Gently put the phone on the table | |
| * Boot the phone. It should boot PostmarketOS with Plasma mobile. | |
| * Connect the phone with USB to the laptop | |
| Install to EMMC | |
| =============== | |
| There are several KDE plasma mobile builds. Here are instructions | |
| for KDE Neon(Ubuntu), PostmarketOS (Alpine) and Manjaro (Archlinux/Manjaro) | |
| KDE Neon | |
| -------- | |
| # See https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/ | |
| wget https://images.plasma-mobile.org/pinephone/plasma-mobile-neon-20191213-160054.img.gz | |
| xz -d pine-pinephone-20200118-plasma.img.xz | |
| scp pine-pinephone-20200118-plasma.img [email protected]:~ | |
| * Copy the image to the phone's emmc from the terminal: | |
| dd if=pine-pinephone-20200118-plasma.img of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=4M | |
| # Reboot without the sdcard | |
| KDE should start, although with a unresponsive UI(missing Mali driver?) | |
| Laptop: | |
| $ sudo sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 | |
| $ sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT | |
| # The 3 parts of the USB network, ending with 0 | |
| $ sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 10.15.19.0/24 | |
| # SSH into the phone: | |
| $ ssh [email protected] # pw:1234 | |
| Phone: | |
| # The IP of the USB network interface on your laptop | |
| $ sudo route add default gw 10.15.19.100 | |
| $ echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf | |
| $ sudo apt-get update | |
| # Takes an hour or so... | |
| $ sudo apt-get upgrade | |
| * Reboot | |
| Info: | |
| -> KDE Plasma 5.18.80 | |
| -> KDE Frameworks 5.67.0 | |
| -> Kernel Version 5.4.0-pine64 | |
| - Mali driver should work now | |
| - Touch should properly work now (try adjusting brightness with the slider) | |
| # Connect to wifi | |
| * nmcli dev wifi con "ssid" password "password" | |
| Manjaro | |
| ------- | |
| # See https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha3-for-pinephone-and-pinetab/120761 | |
| $ wget https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/storage/pinephone/plasma-mobile/alpha3/Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-alpha3.img.xz | |
| $ xz -d Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-alpha3.img.xz | |
| $ scp Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-alpha3.img [email protected]:~ | |
| $ ssh [email protected] | |
| $ sudo dd if=Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-alpha3.img of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=4M | |
| # Power down, take out the SIM card and reboot. | |
| PostmarketOS | |
| ------------ | |
| $ wget https://images.postmarketos.org/pinephone/pine-pinephone-20200118-plasma.img.xz | |
| Resources | |
| ========= | |
| https://linux-sunxi.org/CSI | |
| https://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver | |
| http://linux-sunxi.org/PinePhone | |
| Phonecalls | |
| ========== | |
| See https://megous.com/dl/tmp/modem.txt |
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this is very helpful, thank you!