Has anyone installed his ROCK64 in the 'ROCK64 ACRYLIC OPEN ENCLOSURE'?  There don't appear to be any assembly instructions....  From the product photo, it looks like the board is supposed to be pressed onto the toothed brass standoffs that are included with the enclosure hardware but the mounting holes on the board would have to be opened-up a bit in order to be pressed on to the standoffs and not damage the board.  I don't want to open up the holes if there's something I'm missing regarding the assembly...

Thanks!

Ron

Hi !!

I have already made a first design of a wooden enclosure for Rock64
(you can see here  rock64 wooden case  )


But I want to make an adaptation for
 the Audio board called ROCK64 STEREO AUDIO DAC ADD-ON BOARD ...

Soo

I attach a link to download a PDF of a sketch,
 And the measures I need to make the new case Adapted for the ROCK64 audio card. too..

PDF Rock64 stereo Audio DAC sketch

Thanks for your great help ..!! 

Greetings,

The purpose of this photo blog is to provide a working tutorial for setting up a serial console over the Pinebook, by utilizing the audio headphone jack which also doubles as a universal asynchronous receiver|transmitter; uart(0).

Greetings, 

The Pinebook Linux Power-Down Procedure that has been found to be most effective (although not 100% reliable) is to use the "power button" to pull up the shutdown dialogue !

Just received the Pinebook.

First impressions and thoughts.

At first all seemed well.

The battery was 95% charged upon delivery so that was an improvement on many people's experience (flat due to not shutting down properly after testing).

Then I spotted a stuck LCD panel pixel - just a single pixel off to the upper left screen permanently green. Poor QA. Should never have left the factory in that condition.

More concerning is quite serious keyboard faults. For some reason I can't fathom, the '-' (minus) key (between '0' (zero) and '+' (plus) produces multiple key presses on a single quick touch, and then sticks causing repeat characters until I hit another key. Disabling the key repeat in the Mate operating system helps, but why the fault?

I've checked the seating of the ribbon cable. It is fine. I've even lifted off the key cap. No difference with the key cap off and no change when I pop it back on either.

Additionally, I later found that the combination left Shift and 'm' does not produce a capital 'M'. It doesn't produce any key press. The right Shift combined with 'm' correctly produces 'M'.

I can't work out how, if or whether this could be a physical hardware problem or a software scan problem.

Finally, there is no video output to the mini HDMI port on the left hand side on the Pinebook. Should this work yet or do I need to wait for a driver update?

I also have a Rock64, 4GB RAM with 64GB eMMC, which I am very impressed with. I even managed to flash the eMMC without faffing about with a console cable. Just used a jumper cable (actually a GPIO wire from my several Raspberry Pi models!), waited for a few seconds so both eMMC and microSD card were visible to the system, booted off the SD and then wrote an image to /dev/mmcblk0 (the eMMC)

On the whole I am quite disappointed with the Pinebook and regret buying it.  I am pleasantly surprised with the Rock64 which seems to hold much promise. I'm glad I didn't suffer the dreadful experiences with the original Pine64. But I feel I've been stung with the Pinebook. Should have just stuck with the order for the Rock. Oh well!

Any advice and comments would be welcome.

Hi ,

I have noticed the 90% of the times when I turn on the pinebook the wifi does not work. If I check the settings it seems to be active and  stuck at looking for hotspots. No amount of starting /stopping the wifi works.  The only way to fix this is to  activate Flight Mode and then deactivate it after a few seconds. Any idea? Any suggestion for a permanent fix ? Thanks

Greetings, 

Please see this reference link:

The uart(0) enable slider switch on the Pinebook main board (while working) disables the left-hand usb port !

In this mode the left-hand USB port is completely disabled on my Pinebook;  I am interested in knowing if others have seen this, or if this is an anomaly on my unit.

Thanks

 


Note:  when the slider switch is restored, the left-hand port becomes active again !

( solidly reproducible on my unit )

Any reason I can't select a resolution past 1080p@60fps on my 1440p Dell U2515H monitor on ayufans android TV image? (android-7.1-rock-64-rock64_atv-v0.2.15-r77-update.zip)

If I have an existing Rock64 eMMC Android load running how do I update to the newly released Android image without wiping out any changes I'd made to the load (apps installed, Google account signed in, settings tweaked, etc.)? Do I pull the "update" zip package, unpack it and then run the update.img using the Androidtool? If so, will that write over the my existing Android image on the eMMC module or just update it?  I've looked on the forum and github but haven't found much yet. By the way, the instructions for flashing the eMMC image worked flawlessly once I located a USB A to A cable. Nice work.

hey,
does someone know how to check the temeprature on the pinebook in real time? i have tried "lm-sensors" but it didn't work because the pinebook doesn't have any sensors. 
i would appreciate any help.