If you're using Linux on your PC then flashing Android images to the Rock64 (other than the RAW dd images) is a bit tricky.
I came across a utility for Linux that makes the process nice and easy, allowing you to flash 'update' images directly to eMMC.

The software is called upgrade_tool and can be downloaded from here
You can read about it and its different functions here

In short, after downloading and extracting the contents of the archive, navigate in terminal to the extracted utility and flash the update.img using the following command:

My new Rock64 board has arrived. Is recommendable to buy the case or to make one?

Thanks

Does anyone know how to get meteor to work on 

• xenial-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-armhf.img.xz
  

Hi,

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase one of the initial release of the rockpro64 boards.  

I am very  disappointed that there has been no emailed confirmation of my order yet, or any delivery schedule.   I have only received a PayPal confirmation.

I notice that there is no info yet available on this website regarding the boards, (apart from the initial publicity).

Will you be adding these info on these boards and the S/W  to the wiki before the board arrives,  or have we got to work it all out for ourselves?


regards

Patrick

i am going to buy ROCK64 4GB & i dont know that WiFi module of Pine64 will work or not with rock64. so, tell me Wifi & Bluetooth module of pine64 will work with rock64 or not....

Hi all,

Looking at http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Bo....2FTF_Card I can see that the BootROM will load into memory data from 0x40 on the SD card and then hand control to that second stage boot loader. It appears that BootROM will load the first 3960 bytes (0x40 to 0x4000) for stage 2, is this correct? Can anyone point me to source code for or a binary of idbspl.img or idbloader.img so I can examine a typical stage 2?

I am interested in developing my own OS from scratch, so I would like to write my own stage 2 bootloader and proceed from there.

Thanks for all your help.

Hello
is it possible to get the schematics and the pcb layout of SOPINE Baseboard “Model A”.
Why I need it? I want to create a custom form factor pcb, to fit it in to my project.

Hello all!

I've been designing this DIY 20" laptop with 15 hours of battery life and a 1080p screen all for myself, running on a potato of some kind (an SBC) and decided to pick the Rock64 for the USB3 and the amount of noob support.

I just dug into my newly received R64, only to find the desktop environments laggy and videos unplayable.
I spent about 7 hours looking into getting Mali Utgard drivers working, but haven't been able to figure it out.

What is the current state of Mali 450 drivers for the RK3328 SoC - is it possible to get 2D/video/3D acceleration working?
I don't mind using a light wm, but basic video playback for files and youtube are a must.


Thank you for your time.

Hi 

I'm trying to use the rock64's hardware encoding capabilities. I'm super impressed with the decoding which has incredible performance! But encoding at this stage only works superficially and trying to decode it again fails.

The following produces unusable h264 (yes sudo is needed):

Any consideration on going with a US distribution company for the Rock64Pro or the other boards? There is a company out of California that specializes in quick-turn Printed Circuit Board Assembly.
https://www.laritech.com/