Right over on the News Blog.

Hi,

So earlier I power cycled my clusterboard and since then the switch appears to be either broken or booting up in a configuration thats broken:

Links establish just fine between external phy and switch, and to the sopine modules however nothing ever exits the uplink port but rx works fine (that is, I can see broadcast) - don't even see any broadcast traffic from other modules so its not likely to be an external port issue

Has anyone managed to solder the MDC/MDIO pins for SMI access? At least then it would be possible to see the state of the switch and/or reconfigure it...

This is one of many issues with these boards, but most of the other stuff (like being unable to reset itself, etc) can be worked around..

Since an RMA is a waste of time and the warranty is a joke anyway - just putting this out there in case someone has already figured it out

Is the usb to EMMc adapter  that sells at the Pine store the correct one to pre-load the EMMc module for use in the Pine Book Pro  ?

             What are the different EMMc module speeds   r/w   ?

             Are those EMMc's for sale at the Pine store fast "in their class"   ?
                     ( Im sure someone will say they are slow compared to all the SSD's, but I know that)

                  Thanks

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Is this forum the correct place to post issues/bugs? Or is there a dedicated issue tracker in placed?

PLEASE  READ !   ( updated : April 15, 2020 )
  Before attempting to do this modification, you should study the situation carefully.
There are many helpful posts in this thread and in other threads on this forum.

Many have encountered extreme problems with this modification.
Three main problems,
1) the physical fit of the SSD into the allotted space
2) the software inter-action with the SSD
3) the power requirements needed to run the SSD

and various smaller problems.

many have succeeded with this addition to their Pinebook Pro,
so it IS possible. but Please proceed with caution.


See update below  
(January 26, 2020)
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    Hello,  Luke,  TLLIM,   or  ??

          We seem to have a clearance problem with the M.2 NVMe  adapter  and card not quite fitting into the allotted space.
 
  ! !    It is hitting the underside of the touch pad.
      *         Causes the touch pad to lift out of place when the cover is closed
      *          And the touch pad to not respond properly.

      >  I have replied to the persons that experienced the problem over at the first impressions thread.
      >   I made a few suggestions to them on possible fixes,

      *      but   it may be better with some official intervention ?

       After thinking about it,  I figured this should have its own thread  ? 
       Though if those sound like acceptable solutions, 
          maybe you (Admin) could move my previous posts those over here  ?


          Is there a "Factory Approved"  solution  ?

        I have already received my adapter,  waiting on my own PBP.

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 Luke has informed me they have resolved this issue.
 DO NOT INSTALL until you receive the 'kit'
**  They will be mailing to everyone who has previously ordered the PCIe/NVMe adapter.

UPDATE  January 26, 2020
  (No kit recieved yet)
I think the whole Pinebook Pro case would need to be redesigned to make some people happy.
But a few forum members have found ways to make the parts all "Fit together"  and work.
See the POST by @danielt a very nice job with his installation, Great pictures and very good description of his work.
Also a good install job with pictures by @Wizzard.
  You may need to dig back a way into the old forum posts,  but there is a lot of Great stuff in those older posts..!

Now that I've had my RockPro64 since Saturday, I've done some initial work to get Void running on the board. It was relatively easy to get the kernel from Ayufan's Debian image & the aarch64 root filesystem directly from Void. With it booting I'll need to spend some time getting packages built for the board's specific kernel & maybe grabbing some of the other utilities & scripts that better handle resizing the root partition on first boot.

I'm confused on how to pre-order the Pinebook Pro.  I've been browsing to pine64.org every few days for almost 2 months now and am failing to see how this can be done.  I realized that I had not joined the forum quite early enough to get in the first cohort of pre-orders but I thought I'd be able to get in there by now.

The pine64.org front page says "Starting August 25 pre-orders are open to everyone. Following this production-run, the next pre-order window is scheduled for mid-September 2019", followed by a [Pre-Order Now] button.  That button takes you to the store which only says "Out of stock" when I select either the EU or US power supply and the [Add to cart] button just says "Sorry, this product is unavaliable."

Is there something I'm missing?

When ordering the pinebook pro I read to hold down F1/F2/F3 for 10 seconds to kill the wifi/camera/mic. Then in the Sept 2019 blog it was said to use the pine key with F10/F11/F12 to enable the kill switches. However I and not seeing either method work.

I have ran the updating script but it always come back as its all good no updates for you. When I hit Pine key and the F10 I see the lights for the Caps Lock blink twice and when I release the buttons the app menu opens. I don't notice anything happen and I still have wifi. Even after trying the same thing again with the F11 and F12 keys.

Have I missed something? 

I ordered the M.2 SSD adapter for my Pinebook Pro,

However I am hoping to get a better idea of the exact specifications I should be looking for in the SSD drive itself.

 Here is what I have found so far :
                                                        PCIe x4  M.2 NVMe

                                                        Not to exceed 2.5 watts

    However I have not seen anything about what 'Generation'  is acceptable  ?

        I have seen an abundance of  'Gen 3'  M.2 SSD's  for sale in the market place ...

        Very few have the Maximum Wattage listed,  Some have an Active Wattage,  But I do'nt think Active = Peak  ?

         Most do not even mention the wattage.

     I was hoping to find this information in the Pinebook Pro WIKI,  But it does not elaborate on the drive specs.

    *   I got the 2.5 watts from the Pine64 Info team via email, (Thank you info team ! )

    *   Is there a physical thickness spec as well ?

    *   I see one person had problem with his M.2 SSD  lifting his touch pad when he re-assembled his laptop. !


         IS there any other specs I should be aware of  Before I Order the drive  ?

            Most of my experience has been the 2.5" Laptop sata drives  and the old full size desktop drives

           THANKS  for any help & advice  !

             

Hello Pine64

    Will the Pine Phone Brave Heart Edition be available to the general public  ?

     IF So  Is there an anticipated date for opening sales  ?

    Will an amateur be able to use it  ? 

The operating system(s) can be used from an sd card,  ?

so if there is a problem you just download a different OS onto your card and try again  ?
    ( or carry a couple of pre-loaded sd cards)
                         *
    I really want to get one ASAP  !   
                         *
    From what I have read,   scouring the website,
   the hardware will be ready for the Brave Heart...
                         *
      Just     'polishing the software'..  ?
                         *
   Thanks for any comments or suggestions