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. Finally it provides a number of links to other resources related to your PinePhone.

Release installation

Initial (new) release installation should be to a micro SD card. It is recommended to choose a card with fast I/O of small files for best performance of your PinePhone. Generic installation instructions are in this section, please see the releases below for specific installation options they may offer/require.

Don't forget your Braveheart phone ships with a film of plastic between the battery and the phone. You need to open the back cover (gently) and remove the film before the phone will switch on!

Preparation of SD card

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

If you need step-by-step instructions for writing an image to an SD card, check NOOB#Step-by-Step_Instructions_to_Flashing_MicroSD_Cards then return to this page.

Installation to eMMC

  • Prepare a new SD card as above
  • Boot the phone
  • Run a magic script (to be defined/written/...)

Discussion to use the modem

There is a document about using the modem by user megi here. This is from circa 18 Jan 2020.

Software Releases

postmarketOS

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  • Download location

postmarketOS offers a choice of several desktop environments including Plasma Mobile and phosh. Rather than downloading a demo image they recommend the use of their script, pmbootstrap, that can tailor build your SD card for you. The script automates steps 1,2 & 3 above. See for example this forum thread.

Note pmbootstrap offers an option to install to the eMMC.

Demo images can be found here.

  • user-id/password

demo/147147 (for demo images only - when building an image with pmbootstrap you set your own user-id and password.)

  • 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

See UBports gitlab page.

  • user-id/password
  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/how to report defects

See UBports gitlab page.

  • Contributions

See UBports website for how to donate.

Manjaro ARM

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  • Download location

DD image for 8GB micro SD-card /16GB eMMC module and above: Alpha2 release direct download from manjaro.org

  • user-id/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.

KDE Neon

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  • Download location

Plasma mobile images can be found here.

  • user-id/password
  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/how to report defects
  • Contributions

SailfishOS

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  • Download location

The SailfishOS 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!

  • user-id/password
  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/how to report defects

See the Sailfish wiki for links to their forum as well as info required when reporting an issue.

  • Contributions

See the SailfishOS wiki for options to contribute.

Maemo Leste

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  • Download location

Maemo Leste test builds download awaited. Note dont-be-evil images will not work on Braveheart due to hardware differences.

  • user-id/password

root/toor

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

NixOS

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  • Download location
  • user-id/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

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  • 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"

  • user-id/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

  • user-id/password
  • What works, what does not work
  • Where/how to report defects

For more info please visit neochapay's github page

  • Contributions


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 preceeding devkit here.

Other software information

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