Hi,
Actualy i am testing this android 7.1.2 image: Android 7.1.2 Stock Image [microSD to eMMC] [Rooted] [20171012]
It workinging very  fine however i have noticed some issued with hdmi-cec:

On lg 55la691s:

The remote doesn't work has expected. When i type on touch on tthe remotte, the action dosn't take account in this moment but to time later. So is very strange. Anybody has an experiance on LG device? Anybody has infornation about hdmi configuration on android?

Samsung:

The hdmi work very fine: but if android is foccused on an application, télévision could lost connexion with device's hdmi cec. So the only solution to retreive the conexion is to go home with android app remote. Is theiee any soltuion?

So if somebody could have some piece of informations, or some driver to load on Android i could be intereseted,

Best regard

I am posting here so that it gets the attention of those wanting to try out mainline. Anarsoul has released a new Arch Linux image for all A64 devices. Please read the changelog on his git so you know what you're getting into. 

Original thread - see first post.

Hi All,

Recently i have puchased Pine 64 LTS.
When I satrted to search Schematic of Pine 64 LTS And R18 Reference Manual, didn't foun anything on internet.
Can anyone please help me on this matter.

Regards,
Akash Gajjar

It would be helpful to add a menu for easy root/unroot in Settings.

If user wants to unroot completely, it can remove /system/su; daemonsu files and SuperSU app then apps that detect root won't detect it anymore and will work.
Then when you root again, it can restore these files from a backup(zip file) so root can work again.

Will be much better than to use 2 different firmwares for root or an unrooted one.

i'm runing into an issue with the new stretch mate 0.5.15-136. i think the issue arose during the install of vlc media player which came pre-installed on the build but the install is reported as broken due to a problem with libgles1-mesa. when i try   "sudo apt --fix-broken install"  the repair process starts but halts


rock64@rock64:~/Downloads$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgles1-mesa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgles1-mesa
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/46.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 87.0 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 85649 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libgles1-mesa:arm64 (13.0.6-1+b2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1', which is also in package libmali-rk-utgard-2th-r7p0:arm64 1.5-4ayufan12
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


as best i can tell is the issue is dpkg is trying to overwrite the current libmesgles1 , specifically the file '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1,  that is associated with vlc media player but errors out due to the file also being in the installed libmali from ayufan. here is the dpkg error,

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1', which is also in package libmali-rk-utgard-2th-r7p0:arm64 1.5-4ayufan12

the interesting thing about all this is i'm unable to install any packages due to this broken package issue until i fix this same file in two places and not alloed to update one of them because the same file is elsewhere and i guess 2 different builds of the same file can not exist at the same time even though in different directories   i'm not really sure of the resolution since i've never faced it and thought to report it in the forum before doing a net search. but i think the original install of vlc media player was broken due to libmali having the same file but probably a different build of the file than vlc media player.

so if anyone has any ideas i'd appreciate the help. thanks.

Hello together,

what have I to do, if I want to activate CVBS video output instead of HDMI? I'm using Linux.

Many thanks.

Any plans on bumping the specs up in the pinebook?
Would like to know if there are plans for going from quadcore to octocore
from 2GB to 4GB, 8GB or 16GB RAM
from 64gb emmc to 128 or 126gb emmc + m.2 slot for a ssd
from bgn to abgn or abgn/ac
from hd to fhd or 2k
and is possible to do that while keeping the all-white chassis (and possibly adding a gold color choice).
If it isn't possible? What is preventing it from being possible?

I have been reading up on the xbox 360 chatpad.  It appears to be a very cheap mini keyboard that communicates over a uart.  The raspberry pi community has a driver for it.  I was wondering if any pine users had an interest in doing something similar.  I am not sure where to start writing a driver.  It seems like a fairly simple interface that has been mapped out here. 

I get the main idea is to open a uart, process the inputs, and decipher the key presses. After that is where I am lost as to make the OS see it as a key press input.

Any interest or advice would be cool.  Thanks

Pretty quick question, could I create my own "Pinebook" that is android based and uses the Rock64 single board computer.

Thanks

- LongLogStudios

Please forgive the noobishness of the question. I have been interested in single board computers for a few years now, but wish to dive a little deeper. The SoPine module interests me, as I can certainly understand it's use in projects that are big enough to make it worthwhile to make my own boards.

Bluntly, I cannot seem to find anything to 'plug it into' besides the compute io module I could also purchase. Great for testing, but it seems like I might be better off in that case just getting a Pine64.

So here comes the noob question: what else could I plug it into? It isn't RAM, so certainly not a motherboard. I have seen on these forums that people are working on boards to hold and power multiple sopines; Is there anything else like this out there already, or other examples of things I could do with the sopine, short of having my own boards made, which is far beyond what my current abilities/projects demand.

Thanks in advance for any advice.