Hi Everyone,

I am about to launch a product that I have prototyped around a RPI 3B+, and I may build up to 1000 of them in the first year.

I have several concerns about the RPI -- one is the lack of a rechargeable battery option which the Pine seems to solve -- I have been using USB power bricks, but cannot reliably read battery remaining etc.  So do the pine boards have a charging circuit on board that can programmatically show time remaining / percentage and gracefully shutdown?  And can the be plugged in and unplugged like a iPad or tablet without rebooting to start charging and switch to power charging while the system runs?  If so great!

What is the battery life of the Pinebook with the 8000mAH battery (I have been using 10,000mAH on the RPI), and could I use two 8000mAH batteries in parallel for longer life?

Is the 7inch touch screen comparable in quality and brightness to the RPI standard screen, and can it be rotated to operate in portrait instead of landscape?  Are there other third party screen options?

Another concern regarding the RPI is SD card corruption on non-orderly shutdowns -- is the eMMC option more appropriate or do I need to come up with some read only file system recovery option?

My application requires a 3G/4G modem, touch screen, and makes use of the Ethernet port to provide network sharing to another peripheral -- I have scripts on Unix to remap all the ports -- I'm sure I can get these ported to the Pine64.

In terms of operating systems, my application is current a web browser in kiosk mode running against a local Python / Django web server -- so I could use just about anything, maybe even Android (or I could redevelop a native Android app).  Bu I assume Ubuntu could work well for this and match my development environment.

So is Pine64 for me...and if so what board would I start with.

Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry about all the questions.  On paper the Pine64 products look like a great upgrade over the RPI for what I want.

MetroWestMA

Hello.
I just reinstalled Ubuntu Mate using the Installer. That went well. 
When I updated it invited me to upgrade to 18.04 (I think.) When it restarted the wifi seemed to have gone.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Do I need to plug in a  cable and look for drivers?

Hello everybody,

is it possible to configure several display outputs on the RockPro64? For example HDMI and MIPI-DSI? So that always the same picture is to be seen on both outputs, clone mode.

My use case:
-> HDMI: Adapter from HDMI to Composite
-> MIPI-DSI: one splitter (one input to two outputs) and two TFT panels

Is that possible?

Many thanks.

Hello,
Does the Rock64 board boot when powered up?
I mean, when power is applied, does the board boot without pressing buttons or other manual intervention?

Regards,
  vicencb.

I'm using 4.4.132, because when I tried 4.4.154, dw-hdmi-i2s sound doesn't work correctly; it sounds like things play at 0.001x speed.

Anyway, I am aware that sdio0 is disabled because of pcie issues when both are enabled.
I want to be able to use the rockpro64 wifi module, and I have no need for the pcie slot.

If one disables pcie, could sdio0 be safely re-enabled?
I am great at compiling kernels, but not great at editing device tree files.

What are the edits to make to rk3399-rockpro64.dts to accomplish that (if it's safe) ?

I am working on writing some CPU, MEM, and file size monitoring functionality for the rock64 (Debian). I search the web and found this solution : stackoverflow information on monitoring. However, my coworker said that the value does not update the proc files. I am trying to replicate the issues, but would any of you have ideas?

Hi guys.

After multiple attempts to get a regular "tablet" Android version for Rock64 board I came across the ROC-RK3328-CC board from Libre computer which is very similar to Rock 64.

So I decided to create a hybrid rom using the Android 7.1.2 from Rock64 and ROC-RK3328-CC. However before trying this I would like to hear your opinions if this will work.

Here are the suggested steps
1. Download the Android 7.1.2 rom for  ROC-RK3328-CC  from here
2. Open Android Tool Firmware tab and load the rom as shown in the image


3.Take the original Rock64 7.1.2 Rom (EMMC version) and unpack it using the 3rd tab in Android Tool


4. Go to the first tab and check the following options Loader, Parameters and Resources


5. Select the checked files from the output folder where we unpacked the original Rock64 rom

6. Just to make sure that we get no errors, disconnect the device, wait 30 sec, reconnect it in Maskrom mode

7. Press Run.


What are the chances that this will work?
Any suggestions?

Hello,

Doest ROCKPRO64 board consists of the RK3399Pro chip with NPU?

Thanks,
Suren

i build the Android source 8.1,but not succcess boot from sd card,anybody know why ??
i just want to run the sdcard boot image for rock64 board by build it myself by http://files.pine64.org/os/sdk/ROCK64/RO...8.1.tar.gz source code.
rock64 img from (http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_...d_8.x_eMMC) this is ok,
but why myself build is not work

any guy know why?
how  should i do , or change something?

I have a rock64  board(mem  1g),and i have download the ROCK64 Android Oreo ver8.1 SDK from link http://files.pine64.org/os/sdk/ROCK64/RO...8.1.tar.gz.
i have setup the android build environment for ubuntu16.04.1 LTS desktop,and build the source success
source build.sh

and i get the image in rockdev/Image-rk3328_box
vps@ubuntu:~/rk3328v81_box$ uname -r
4.15.0-39-generic
vps@ubuntu:~/rk3328v81_box$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-39-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 24 17:09:54 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
vps@ubuntu:~/rk3328v81_box$ ls -al rockdev/Image-rk3328_box/
total 2727264
drwxrwxr-x 2 vps vps       4096 Nov 23 07:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 vps vps       4096 Nov 23 07:47 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vps vps    1048576 May 15  2018 baseparameter.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps    1491516 Nov 23 07:47 boot.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps   18970644 Nov 23 02:44 kernel.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps     162126 Nov 23 02:31 MiniLoaderAll.bin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vps vps      49152 May 15  2018 misc.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps     168060 Nov 23 07:49 oem.img
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vps vps        981 May 15  2018 parameter.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps      49152 May 15  2018 pcba_small_misc.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps      49152 May 15  2018 pcba_whole_misc.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps    9260688 Nov 23 07:47 recovery.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps      95232 Nov 23 02:50 resource.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps 1201701108 Nov 23 07:48 system.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps    4194304 Nov 23 02:31 trust.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps    4194304 Nov 23 02:31 uboot.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps 1396378072 Nov 23 07:49 update.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vps vps  154861692 Nov 23 07:49 vendor.img

but when i flash the update.img to sd card,
Win32DiskImager or SD_Firmware_Tool.

the board could note boot success!

Hi,

I am very interested in an ARM based laptop that I can tinker with (bare metal, osdev, etc). However, my primary machines use a 4K and 3200x1800 display, so going back to 1366x768 would be quite painful. 

Is the next batch of 11” Pinebooks expected to have the 1080p screens?