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A PinePhone brought back to life and running Claude Desktop
A PinePhone that refused to cooperate was revived once Claude spotted a charger problem, then set up with Mobian and Claude Desktop.
Credits
- Reddit poster HistorianGullible291 Source ↗
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The full story
The maker's PinePhone had stopped working with its keyboard and power bank and they thought both batteries were dead. Claude suggested the charger was too high end, since the PinePhone cannot negotiate power delivery well. An old 5V 1.55A charger brought it back, with the battery fine.
They then had Claude prepare a distro to run Claude Desktop, and it chose Mobian because it is Debian and Claude Desktop is possible on ARM64. It installed with the phone connected in USB mode, and the maker says the 3GB phone is still usable. Reviving the keyboard was harder, as the maker blames badly made drivers.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Claude Revived my old PinePhone.Reddit poster: HistorianGullible291Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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