This thread will be about my experiments with my new #pinePhonePro.
I got it yesterday and had a few minor hurdles out of the gate. I followed instructions on the wiki but couldn't get it to boot into #sailfishOS. I don't remember what I did differently but after a few attempts it booted fine. I immediately wanted to replace sailfish but first checked that sms and calls worked fine and it did (though took a while to receive the first call).
I flashed #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile to an sd card and tried booting from it but quickly realised I had missed a step 
. The wiki said I had to install #towboot to the SPI so I did that. After following the instructions properly this time I installed the OS successfully. I found Plasma extremely sluggish and unresponsive so quickly moved on. The next OS I flashed was postmarketOS again but this time with #sxmo and I immediately fell in love with the interface.
After that I went to sleep as it had been a long day and was getting late. This morning I flashed postmarketos with sxmo to the eMMC and will be tinkering with it today. Ill update this post with comments about my progress.
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#towboot
Something is very wrong with #towBoot's documentation. Broken links, a moved website, always talk about flashing a certain 'mmcboot.installer.img' to an SD card, but WHERE for the love of god can one find this piece of bytes?? 
Certainly not in the releases page on GitHub or within the pinephone (non-pro) tarballs.
Kind of annoying because apparently 
mobile-#NixOS refuses to boot with the default Braveheart bootloader or something...
[SK] Nachdem ich jetzt die aktuellste Version des #TowBoot Bootloaders und das jüngste Release von #Mobian auf meinem #PinePhonePro installiert habe, scheint das Display auch wieder aus dem Standby-Betrieb aufzuwachen. Dann kann ich mich in den nächsten Tagen ja mal wieder damit beschäftigen, das Ding als "Daily Driver" fertig einzurichten. Yay \o/
Wobei jetzt natürlich auch noch die Chance besteht, ein anderes OS auf die eMMC zu werfen. Wie sieht es denn momentan mit #GloDroid oder #SailfishOS aus? Sind sie einen (erneuten) Blick wert?
I made booting my #friendlyarm #nanopi r4s slightly less janky by adding an SPI flash for #towboot!
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@stu I"ve only used #PinePhone(Pro)'s but I imagine the process is basically the same.
Download image from website. ( postmarketos.org )
Extract. (I use Ark )
Write image to sdcard ( I use Balena Etcher )
Insert SD card and hold volume down button to boot from that rather than internal storage.
Follow onscreen prompts.
PS, I think @postmarketOS also requires you install #TowBoot first? It's an extra step but not hard. SImilar to what's above. Website is TowBoot.org iirc.
@ahoneybun #manjaro Gnome, with a custom Mutter/Gnome-Shell build, notably including https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3177
I usually prefer #Fedora but unfortunately the install fails on the #PinebookPro. I guess it doesn't play nice with #towboot for some reason.
#Towboot apparemment quand c'est sur pinephone, d'ailleurs.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (27/2023): Boot loader news and Phosh 0.29.0
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-27-2023/
well i am stuck with my #pinephone running #postmarketos with #towboot after bricking my android phone trying to upgrade the custom rom from android 10 to 12.
#phosh has come as long way since i used it last.
Anybody have any tips on how to #flash a new OS onto a #PinePhone Pro Explorer’s Edition using #TowBoot from a Windows PC?
The phone is mounted to Drive I: which is “BOOT_MNJRO” with the following files:
Attempting to install Fedora Silverblue on my Pinebook Pro…
@martijnbraam described in this nice blogpost: https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/
...the meaning of the LED colors during the boot process of #manjaro on a #pinephone initialised via #towboot.
Does anyone know the meaning of certain colors during a boot of Manjaro on a #pinebookpro?
Colour vision is not my best friend, but I would consider mine to be green for the scenario described in the toot above.
Is someone able to boot a linux kernel from a luks/dm-crypt container on a #pinebookpro by @PINE64 using #towboot as bootloader, but located on the eMMC and not on the SIP?
The last thing that I'm able to witness if I try to do so, is that the kernel is initialised as shown on the attached photograph.
We are currently working on an image for #efi based devices, where its possible to have multiple kernels installed at the same time!
Picture is from a @PINE64 #pinebookpro with #towboot on SPI.
YES!!!! I'm thrilled (ok, easily so...) to find that there's already an issue and possibly work to fix the #PinePhonePro boot-loop problem in #TowBoot, by making it wait for a minimum battery level before booting.
Currently if the battery runs flat, there often isn't enough power to boot the OS, so it constantly shuts down and restarts because the USB cord is plugged in, leading to an infinite boot loop.
I theorized a fix, but others were already ahead of me: