Setting up your PinePhone in 128 EASY STEPS

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ssh

Get the phone’s IP address; on the PinePhone open a terminal, and type:

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ ip -4 -o address
1: lo    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0    inet 192.168.1.105/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlan0\       valid_lft 85154sec preferred_lft 85154sec

From your PC (preferably Linux), ssh into the phone:

mbohun@linux-lrp0:~> ssh 192.168.1.105
mbohun@192.168.1.105's password: 
Welcome to Manjaro-ARM
~~Website: https://manjaro.org
~~Forum:   https://forum.manjaro.org/c/arm
~~Matrix:  #manjaro-arm-public:matrix.org
Last login: Mon Jul  5 20:24:47 2021 from 192.168.1.106
[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$

…and:

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ cat /etc/*rel*
DISTRIB_ID=Manjaro-ARM
DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.07
DISTRIB_CODENAME=
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro ARM Linux"
NAME="Manjaro-ARM"
ID="manjaro-arm"
ID_LIKE="manjaro arch"
PRETTY_NAME="Manjaro ARM"
ANSI_COLOR="1;32"
HOME_URL="https://www.manjaro.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.manjaro.org/c/arm/"
LOGO=manjarolinux

The PinePhone is voluntering info that it runs Manjaro (Manjaro-ARM) Linux distro.

free -m

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ free -m
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            2993         718        1666         128         608        2067
Swap:           4490           0        4490

df -hT

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev            devtmpfs  1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /dev
run            tmpfs     1.5G  1.5M  1.5G   1% /run
/dev/mmcblk2p2 ext4       29G  6.6G   21G  25% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.5G   84K  1.5G   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk2p1 vfat      214M   39M  175M  19% /boot
tmpfs          tmpfs     300M   56K  300M   1% /run/user/1002

NOTE: The microSD card (I put in 128gb microSD) is NOT mounted by default. It is shown in the File browser GUI, but you have to tap on it, and mount it that way.

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ sudo df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev            devtmpfs  1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /dev
run            tmpfs     1.5G  1.5M  1.5G   1% /run
/dev/mmcblk2p2 ext4       29G  6.6G   21G  25% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.5G   84K  1.5G   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk2p1 vfat      214M   39M  175M  19% /boot
tmpfs          tmpfs     300M   56K  300M   1% /run/user/1002
/dev/mmcblk0p1 exfat     120G  512K  120G   1% /run/media/mbohun/3966-3564

CPU

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
BogoMIPS	: 48.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 1
BogoMIPS	: 48.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 2
BogoMIPS	: 48.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 3
BogoMIPS	: 48.00
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

First update (2021-07-05)

[Mon Jul  5 12:29:12 2021] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[Mon Jul  5 12:29:12 2021] Linux version 5.11.3-1-MANJARO-ARM (builduser@on2-runner) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35) #1 SMP Thu Mar 4 17:54:13 UTC 2021
[Mon Jul  5 12:29:12 2021] Machine model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)
...

The package manager was blocked, and it did not work:

# NOTE: The package manager (pacman) was blocked, and it did NOT work.
#       I had to REMOVE the pacman lock first:
#
[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ sudo rm  /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ sudo reboot

REBOOT

[mbohun@plasma-mobile ~]$ uname -a
Linux plasma-mobile 5.12.11-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP Wed Jun 16 13:18:32 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[Mon Jul  5 18:46:34 2021] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[Mon Jul  5 18:46:34 2021] Linux version 5.12.11-1-MANJARO-ARM (builduser@on2-runner) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35) #1 SMP Wed Jun 16 13:18:32 UTC 2021
[Mon Jul  5 18:46:34 2021] Machine model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)

PROBLEMS

modem does NOT re-init/re-start

After that you can’t use phone/SMS, until you restart. Known problem, investigating how to fix.

Modem (quectelqmi_0)
IP configuration was unavailable

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