PinePhone Software Releases

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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

  1. Download your chosen image from the options below
  2. Extract the compressed file
  3. Write the image to an SDcard
  4. Plug SD card into phone
  5. 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.png 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

See postmarketOS wiki page

  • Where/how to report defects

postmarketOS issue tracker for PinePhone support

  • Contributions

See postmarketOS wiki for options to contribute.

Ubuntu Touch by UBPorts

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  • 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

plasma_mobile.png

  • Download location
  • userid/password
  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/howto report defects
  • Contributions

Sailfish OS

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  • 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

maemo_leste.png

  • Download location

Maemo Leste test builds download

  • userid/password

root/toor

  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/how to report defects
  • Contributions

NixOS

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  • 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

luneos.jpg

  • 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.png 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

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  • 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

See Manjaro announcement.

  • 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