Releases

Get both stable and test builds at GitHub releases.

There is also an FTP server with images build every night @ ftp://pine.warpspeed.dk/nightly/pinephone/ (Mount this with something like Nautilus)

WiFi, Bluetooth, SMS, Data, Calls all work|There are still a few bugs though, and some features don’t have driver support yet on any PinePhone distribution.

Please send your bug reports to the project’s issue tracker. Be sure to include logs if applicable|Send us pull requests on Github.

Overlay locations:

The documentation can be found here:

Feature overview:

In order to connect to the device using SSH/SCP via WiFi: You can simply connect via SSH/SCP via WiFi using the PinePhone’s IP address on port 22.

There is also an image builder, see the wiki for instructions on how to build a custom image. For current status and instructions, please read their PinePhone wiki page.

Most discussion occurs at [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/#maemo-leste #maemo-leste on irc.libera.chat] and this thread.

All other contact information is listed on the main page of the Maemo wiki.

Submit bug reports on github. To track known issues, you may use these search terms: pinephone, pine64.

The installation of the stable images is strongly suggested. The dev images might break frequently.

The development is work in progress. See pinephone-support for further information. The Mobian wiki can be found here.

In order to connect to the device using SSH/SCP via WiFi, you need to install SSH on the device. You can do this by executing the following in a shell: "sudo apt-get install ssh", afterwards you can connect via SSH/SCP via WiFi using the PinePhone’s IP address on port 22.

Update 2022-01-26, using megi’s kernel 5.16.2

DD image to SD card and boot. This image is for 16GiB or larger SD cards, also works if flashed to eMMC.

This is also a good build for charging depleted battery. Just boot up this build with power supply connected, keep the PinePhone charging for 3 hours at power down stage.

For more info on this build, please visit its entry the "News" section of its web page.

Due to its size, download though torrent is suggested by the author on its main page.

Also see Installation instructions.

Image

The website of the Nemo Mobile UX Team can be found here. Please report bugs regarding the Nemo Mobile UI as GitHub issue.

There is a guided installer by the Mobile NixOS project available. An installer image that can be flashed to a sdcard can be downloaded from the Hydra build instance.

Users that want to build a local image, are expected to follow the instructions in the Getting Started page, and Project’s device page.

Project home page: Mobile NixOS

The official image can be found at sourceforge.net. See here for the offical announcement.

To verify the images you need to import our GPG key. Keep on mind that the first boot may stay on black screen for about a minute - consequent boots should be faster.

You can find install instructions at this section in the openSUSE Wiki.

You can find all information about the releases of the project here. Detailed information, tips and troubleshooting suggestions are also provided at the openSUSE Wiki. You will also find information in our wiki on how to report issues (Contributing section).

Download page

As of writing, official images are provided with Phosh, Plasma Mobile and Sxmo. The official images come in two flavors, either as a test image to try out postmarketOS, or with the installer.

When using the installer images (recommended), it is possible to:

Power users may also create their own image with the distribution’s install and development tool pmbootstrap.

See the pine64-pinephone page of the postmarketOS wiki for details.

Rhino Linux Downloads (select Pine64 on the dropdown)

Foundational to the distribution is Pacstall, a Debian-based user repository inspired by the AUR. Additionally, RL comes with Unicorn, a custom modified version of XFCE with various modernizations and improvements, including auto-rotation for mobile devices.

Discord - Matrix - GitHub - Wiki

Flashing script

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 the CI, extracts everything and burns it onto the SD card.

Instructions:

When asked where to flash, type 'raw' and it will build the image on your computer. Otherwise define the path /dev/[…​]. to flash to card or internal emmc.

username/password

Set PIN on initialization.

What works, what does not work

See the Hardware Support section on the Mer Wiki’s PinePhone Page.

There is a limited selection of apps available from the Jolla store, the vast majority are hosted on openrepos.net. If the Storeman app for openrepos is not preinstalled, download the RPM and click to install.

How to contribute and report defects

See the documentation wiki at the github project for help and links.

See the Installation section on the Mer Wiki’s PinePhone Page for compile, build and development.

Git repo links are at the top of this OS section. other repos that may be helpful:

See the Sailfish OS wiki for links to their forum, as well as info required when reporting an issue. See the Sailfish OS wiki main page for options to contribute to Sailfish OS.

Notes

OTA is supported: zypper refresh && zypper update as root (devel-su to get root access). Things that need reflash are bootloader specific at the moment. If improvements like Crust or changes of partition layout are added, then you need to reflash.

The repository and instructions can be found here.

Upgrade over-the-air via a simple rsync script, or copying 3 files.

Uses the Buildroot cross-compilation tool for support for all Pine64 boards.

Use configuration packages to configure distro:

The boot-up OS is upgraded independently from the containers.

Discussion: Thread

Scroll down to the middle of the GitLab project page, or directly here at the UBports website to see which features work.

Contributions and bug reports can be made at the UBports PinePhone GitLab page. See UBports website for how to donate.