I am running MATE Desktop Environment 1.16.2 on Rock64. The device was given to me to set up a monitoring display but I am not sure if I have an admin account. I have logged in with the creds rock64 [username] and rock64 [password].

When I go to the Control Centre I only see Hardware, Internet and Network, Look and Feel and Personal under Groups. I saw in screenshots there should be an Administrator panel available. I can only assume the account I am logged in with has limited access.

I have tried booting into GRUB by holding in ESC and then again SHIFT on start up as read on a few posts. Later I read I need to hold down shift on a grey splashscreen which I don't see so I tried the login screen but that didn't work. I've tried various root combinations suggested such as debian debian but none work.

I am not really accustomed to Linux so this is all new to me and this is the first time I've even seen a Pine. 

My goal is to change the power settings so that it never goes into sleep mode but now I also want to get the root account so I at least know what it is.  

Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

I tried to flash the latest Armbian (Armbian_5.50.180630_Pine64_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_4.17.3) on my A64+. When starting I get the following message:



Anybody have any idea what might go wrong? I know it's not stable yet.
After that message I get a black screen.

regards

For those who prefer Discord to IRC, a PINE64 Discord channel has been set up. Please note, this is a community chat (just as the IRC) and not an official support service. 

Discord Rock64 and Pine64 channels are linked to those in the IRC, so you can chat from either Discord or IRC and  messages will show up accordingly. 

At the time of writing, this is an experiment - and I'm not sure if the Discord channel is here to stay or not - let me know how you find it.

Hi everybody!
This is my first experience with a SBC.
Basically, i need something i could keep running 24/7.
It would need to do browsing activity with some medium flash player usage.
It would also need to have as low as possible power consumption and noise making.
After looking for some possible PC builds, i've tried to look at SBC. I was very skeptical at the beginning because i only knew raspberry and its resources weren't enough for me.
Then i found Rock64.
Now, basically the question is, given that 4GB ram should be more than enough for my use case, would the CPU keep it up?
In other words: is rock64 what i am looking for or should i look further?

Just relaying that PCIe -> SATA and PCIe NVMe work as of 0.6.59 on mainline and 4.4.
I'll let frankm share performance results as I am away and have no means of testing.

As always, massive kudos to ayufan for all the work.

Hi there,

I have dowload the 8.1 Oreo stock rom with file XZ. I don't know how to upgarde my Rock64 with this XZ file. Please tell me how to upgrade thid XZ file on my Rock64. Thanks

I was a KS backer for the PINE A64+ 4K Media Computer (with the 2GB upgrade and WiFi/BT add-on).  I received my PINE about two years ago, assembled it, hooked up a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and fired it up - everything worked just fine!  But, we were about to move, so the PINE got packed (away along with a LOT of other electronics), before I could really play with it.

I recently unpacked the PINE (the move was delayed... a bit), and, with the intention of completely ditching cable TV, told my wife that the 2nd TV would no longer have a cable box, and would use the PINE, instead.  (Her reaction was, "whatever, as long as Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora still work.")  I now have it connected to the TV, with a BT keyboard and mouse combo.  I have an ethernet cable plugged in (the LED is flashing, so it appears to work).  The PINE is also connected to the WiFi (seems that I had to connect to log into my Google Play account?)

This is running off the 8GB Android (v5.1.1?) microSD that came with the PINE.  Should I upgrade to a later version?  It looks like the current v7.0/7.1 builds don't work with Netflix, so should I use Android 6.0?  Other than not longer having an old version of Android (and being unable to install some newer apps), are there other advantages to upgrading to 6.0?  We have a Netflix subscription - could I install 7.0/7.1 and be able to run the app without problem, or are there other issues with the 7.x build that block Netflix?

Finally, what apps would you recommend "to turn this into an advanced Apple TV-like Android product"?



Thanks for your help!

Just curious...there was another thread but it dropped off back in May and it seemed like no one had received an update since December.

Several people said they'd put in multiple BTOs over last summer and never gotten any contact.

Are Pinebooks still being produced?  I put my BTO in for a 14" a couple weeks ago and while I don't expect it tomorrow, if it's going to be six months without updates, I won't get my expectations up :-)

Has anyone been able to successfully do video chat with Pine64?
I'm trying to setup my Pine64 board running Android 6 (https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/android-6.0/releases) to do video chat using Skype, Whatsapp, Duo and Hangout and face the following problems.

1) There is no audio with the PINE64 5 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA MODULE as this does not have microphone. Is there a way to add a microphone to this camera?

2) If i try to use my usb Logitech Webcam (which has a mic), i can not switch to it, but get an error that the "device is busy. It could be used by another app". I know that the webcam works correctly, but it doesn't work with Pine64

If anyone has successfully done this, can you please share your solutions?

Thank you in Advance...

http://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-3-b-...er-survey/

looks like rock64, rockpro64, placed in top 20 this year,  and that is a good thing.