Pine64-Arch VS Jumpdrive

Phone has Tow-boot and the open-source modem firmware already installed. eMMC & sdcard have just been formatted & flashed to the latest Arch Phosh image from danctnix.

I flashed my pinephone pro with an arch-sxmo image (here: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases), and it works great, but I can't seem to switch the autologin to a new user. In fact, I couldn't find a conf file, neither in /etc/conf.d/, neither in /etc/tinydm.d/env-wayland/. I added a "tinydm" file in both directories, containing the line "AUTOLOGIN_UID=1001" (1001 is the userid I want to log in at boot), but to no avail. Any suggestion?

The keyboard is an important detail! Given the state of the PinePhone Pro, and that you want to use keyboard, have a look at DanctNIX Sxmo https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases .

I was using the danctnix arch build running Phosh - https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases

At the time (about 10 months ago) it was the most solid I could find. I'm a little out of date at this point, but I'll probably check back in on it some time in the next few months.

And I agree - even at the time it was a usable phone. A tad slow for my tastes, but hard to argue with the performance given the low cost of the hardware.

For comparison: Here‘s the (IMHO sane) DanctNIX PKGBUILD: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/blob/master/PKGBUILDS/phosh/phosh/PKGBUILD

Download: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/pine64-pinephone.img.xz

To confirm the battery status I flashed the charging image from https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/issues/55. That indeed showed that there was pretty much no charge in the battery. I then took my macbook adapter and charged it for two hours using that, and then the status led started flashing green. Looks like this is solved!

I would suggest that you download https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/pine64-pinephone.img.xz. Then write it to a microSD card using "Balena Etcher" and then insert the microSD card in the top slot and let us know if there is a question or if it changed anything.

Please put Jumpdrive on a microSD card and try to boot that. Jumpdrive boots independently from the battery charge. If it boots fine you can let it charge in there for multiple hours and then see if you can boot the phone properly again. https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive

That sounds like a corrupted installation, not a drained battery. If you're on the regular PinePhone (not the Pro) I would suggest you to flash JumpDrive on a microSD card, insert that into the phone (top slot) and to boot from that. The image can be found here: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/pine64-pinephone.img.xz

At this point if you haven't updated in a long time it's best if you flash a new image to your eMMC because if you pacman -Syu your just gonna bork it like I did when I updated my KDE edition after a year of being sidelined lol. Luckily jumpdrive exists and makes this task as simple as running a dd command.

JumpDrive -> https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases

The last time I had to reinstall my Librem 5 I ended up using JumpDrive and a fresh image from Purism's Jenkins, reusing the instructions from postmarketOS Wiki#Installation).

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/tag/0.8 I had a similar situation. After getting a pinephone pro my pinephone OG set idle for several months. I couldn't boot to the eMMc or the sd. I still had jumpdrive on an sd so i tried booting from it. It fixed everything although I don't know how. Now it boots from eMMc or sd just fine. I didn't even plug it into a laptop. After the jumpdrive screen booted I powered it down and removed the jumpdrive for pinephone sd. I fired up the pinephone OG to fix the modem firmware. Flashing the modem went well and the pinephone is ready for use should I need it.