PinePhone Software Releases
This page is intended to help you install a software release on your PinePhone. In addition it provides details of all the available releases so that you can do some background reading about them to help inform your choice of release. Finally it provides a number of links to other resources related to your PinePhone.
Software installation
Initial (new) OS installation should be to an SDcard.
Preparation of SDcard
- Download your chosen image from the options below
- Extract the compressed file
- Write the image to an SDcard
- Plug SD card into phone
- Boot phone
If you need step-by-step instructions for writing an image to an SDcard, check NOOB#Step-by-Step_Instructions_to_Flashing_MicroSD_Cards then return to this page.
Installation to eMMC
- Prepare a new SDcard as above
- Boot the phone
- Run a magic script (to be defined/written/...)
Software and OS Image Downloads
Postmarket OS
postmarketOS offers a couple of different builds, including KDE plasma and phosh.
- Download location
Direct download from postmarketOS image site
Note postmarketOS also has a script, pmbootstrap, that can build your SDcard for you. The script automates steps 1,2 & 3 of the PinePhoneOS#Preparation_of_SDcard above. See for example this forum thread.
- userid/password
demo/demo
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
postmarketOS issue tracker for PinePhone support
- Contributions
See postmarketOS wiki for options to contribute.
Ubuntu Touch by UBPorts
- Download location
Jenkins Project rootfs-pinephone
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
You should use the built-in Ubuntu Touch feature to "Report a bug". See UBports own tutorial on how to submit defects.
- Contributions
See UBports website for how to donate.
KDE Plasma
- Download location
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/howto report defects
- Contributions
Sailfish OS
- Download location
The Sailfish OS image is built on Gitlab CI. The latest image can be installed using the flashing script.
The script downloads the image and bootloader from our CI, extracts everything and burns it onto the SD card.
Instructions:
1. Download the flashing script
2. Insert a microSD card in your device
3. Make the script executable: chmod +x flash-it.sh
4. Execute it: ./flash-it.sh
5. Follow the instructions. Some commands in the script require root permissions (for example: mounting and flashing the SD card).
Note: The script will format and flash the SD card, make sure that you don't have any important data on the SD card!
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
- Contributions
See the SailfishOS wiki for options to contribute.
Maemo Leste
- Download location
Maemo Leste test builds download
- userid/password
root/toor
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
- Contributions
NixOS
- Download location
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
See Bugs section on this page.
- Contributions
Details about contributions and donations are on the NixOS website.
LuneOS
- Download location
LuneOS test image for PinePhone Tofe recommends using bmaptool ; for example "bmaptool copy http://build.webos-ports.org/luneos-testing/images/pinephone/luneos-dev-image-pinephone-testing-0-15.rootfs.wic.gz /dev/mmcblk0"
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
- Contributions
Nemo Mobile
Nemo Mobile is the open source build of Sailfish OS.
- Download location
DD image for 8GB micoSD card /16GB eMMC module and above: Release build 0.3 direct download from pine64.org MD5 (XZ file): CA25F72A97CEE57C1479B90F445F4A4B size: 325MB
- userid/password
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
For more info please visit neochapay's github page
- Contributions
Manjaro ARM
- Download location
DD image for 8GB micoSD card /16GB eMMC module and above: Alpha2 release direct download from manjaro.org
- userid/password
- manjaro/manjaro
- root/root
- What works, what does not work
- Where/how to report defects
- Contributions
See the end of the announcement here.
Other Resources
Community
Hardware information
- PinePhone hardware details in this Pine64 wiki.
- The postmarketOS wiki has a detailed page on the PinePhone hardware here, and the devkit here.
Other software information
Other