It's always fun to me to hear about what names people give to their computers. Lots of people have cool naming schemes they like to use, and they're all interesting to learn about.

For my Rockchip-based computers, I've gone with the cliché and used geology-themed names. My Rock64 is named Scoria, which is a word I think is very pretty (and also a type of volcanic rock, which may be a little unfairly pessimistic about its operating temperature). After some deliberation, I decided on Fluorite for my Pinebook Pro, which is a mineral that's always been rather close to my heart. It forms very pretty crystals, comes in a lot of colors, and also prominently involves fluorine, my favorite element.


How about you? Have you selected a cool name for your Pinebook yet?

I currently use my original pinebook quite often as an off-grid media center, by attaching a usb dvd drive which I power from a largish portable phone powerbank. I intend to use my PBP this way too. It all works fine but I've noticed that when the voltage from the powerbank drops a little the dvd starts to draw power from the pinebook which really shortens battery life. Is there any way of preventing this? I suspect it's probably a requirement of the USB spec, so I don't really expect so.

I also would like to be able to run a powered hub with the PBP so I can try out some usb dvb-t sticks, will using a powered hub always have the effect of charging the PBP and hence draining the external power source quicker?

On a side note does anyone know if such a thing as a combined battery/powerbank/usb hub exists?

Do we have confirmed working USB C video/hub/whatever?
I would like to use my Microsoft Lumia dock, but apart from charging, it wouldn't do anything, not even the USB hub.
Since the Pinebook Pro is actually a good working computer, I wold rather travel with it than with my Macbook or my Hackintosh.
I am looking for a device that puts video to an HDMI, audio to the HDMI, charges the PBP and acts as a USB hub. If possible.
An Amazon/Gearbest/Aliexpress/Banggood link would be preferred.

Thanks!

Already ran the updater.

Battery is always in the 'Charging' state despite not being connected to external power.

Persists across power cycles.

The power cable that comes with the device is incredibly short. Nearly useless. It doesn't reach my couch from an outlet so I can't sit on the couch and use the laptop when battery is low while it's charging. I've tried a few different USB-C wall warts and cables and while most can charge the laptop while I'm not using it they can't really push enough power to charge in a reasonable amount of time while in use.

Does anyone have recommendations for either a USB-C wall wart that can charge the laptop quickly?

Alternatively can a USB-A wall wart of reasonable power used in connection with this https://store.pine64.org/?product=2-mete...ower-cable be used? If yes, then what wall warts are others using with this cable? This cable is listed under the laptops section of the store page and it's noted it works for "Pinebook" but I don't want to assume this matches the PBP as there are a hand full of other exceptions I've seen mentioned. If this does match with the PBP perhaps this could be more explicit on the store page.

Thanks for any help or insight anyone can provide!

Okay, I admit I'm in over my head a little bit here. I know messing with the graphics drivers wasn't a very clever idea this early in the software ecosystem's life, but I bear a certain curse of wild curiosity and can never leave anything alone. It's my cross to bear, but if anyone else has useful insight into what's going on with my unit, I would be quite grateful indeed.

I have ayufan's Bionic image running. The other day, I was poking around the list of packages, and I encountered three that were of interest:

I'm obviously missing something fundamental here.

I built an image with buildroot which creates a u-boot-tpl-spl.img, a u-boot.itb file and a root partition

My Pinebook with factory software that arrived Nov 5, 2018 has been working with no problem (except no hdmi out) but now it suddenly will not boot. The red light at the charging port is not coming on but it apparently is getting power because the green power light comes on when I plug it in. Is there an approved fix for this? Thanks

Well... It's been three frustrating days trying to get this thing to work. It's pretty much dead in the water. Aside from being stuck in a loop when trying to boot it up, it won't turn on now. 

I followed all the troubleshooting instructions at the bottom of the Wiki. Toggling the eMMC switch, checking the ribbons, making sure the eMMC was in the socket... Nothing. It will not turn on. 

Guys, I've seen someone managed to get NVME working. My one doesn't work no matter what I do. I tried all possible OSes, checked the adapter in and out. No effect.

Does anyone know:
1. If it has to be a specific NVME card? My one is Samsung EVO 860, 250Gb.
2. If it's somehow related to the adapter problem? It thought the issue was only about the geometry and didn't affect functionality.

Cheers.