I just received a new 14 inch Pinebook and find on many counts it is as good or better than I had expected. But one area that doesn't pass muster is the power supply. First, the 5V connector on the wall-wart cable is fragile. Mine was broken on arrival and failed entirely the second day - the design of this connector is an invitation to failure. Pine Support consists of telling me to order another supply.

I tried find a replacement. The only bricks that supply 5V at enough current are almost as expensive as the Pinebook, with no guarantee they would work with the computer. As for a replacement for the connector is hard to find.

As an engineer who has worked on the design of electronic products I can readily understand needing to keep Pinbook costs contained and internal power dissipation down, but a 19V SMP regulator wouldn't have dumped any more heat inside the box than a 5V and there are a lot of external power supplies made for various laptop and notebook hardware that would have been just as effective and just as cheap. It is a long established truism that power should be transmitted at high voltages and stepped down at the application -- 5V in was simply a bad mistake born of tunnel vision from the SBC Pine64.

Returning to the support part of this post, replacing a DOA supply should be standard policy.

this is mostly aimed for development of the pinebook, since the pinebook is upgradable by swapping mainboard/emmc/speakers and such.

are there any intentions of designing a faster mainboard? (as in: faster cpu, more ram?)

i think as a company you'lll need to invest in Research & Development as well, and not fully rely on the userbase (counts both for hardware and software).

i personally would love something like a higher clocked cpu (like a RK3288) with 4gb of ram (3gb will be a nice upgrade even).

yes i prefer more speed over more cores here, as i want to use my pinebook for compiling and emulation in the future.

i know this comes with extra heat and power draw, the battery is capable of that and i want to look into an effective way of cooling my current pinebook (as stated in another thread by me)

now my question to the community: what are your upgrade ideas?

my own wishlist:
higher clock cpu (1.6GHZ (or higher) quad core)
more ram (3 or 4 GB)
more storage options (for 128GB)
better charge options (12V, 2A would be nice and more compatible with universal charger blocks for on your desk)

nice to have extra's:
higher speed ram (LPDDR4?)
bigger capacity battery (perhaps multi cell, like 4x3500mah @ 3.7V?)
extra internal usb or 5VDC + 3.3V UART port (example: a MCU with some sensors to adjust a fan (as heat exhaust?) or backlight automatically)
extra 5V internal solderable header (5V class D amplifier)
i know the following will require quite some money to realize, but a standard SATA port (bootable) would be really nice to fir in a half slim sata drive, else i'd like to suggest EMMC 5.1 or UFS 2

this is more a global question.

for me personally it's the upgradability, swapability of EMMC and price that attracted me.

basically i want to know what the free height is of the pinebook's mainboard's thermal spreader and the bottom panel, as i want to improve cooling (and perhaps overclock a little) once mine arrives so it doesnt thermal throttle anymore.

any idea how much space free there is? :O

if barely none, then i'll mount a 0.2mm copper film on part the backside, to spread out the heat.

Hello,
I am French.... my English is bad 
I have installed android 7 on one rock 64 2g with pine 64 to installer in sd mode
I connected a small touch-sensitive screen which works but I have 3 usual botom on android... I cannot thus use him normally. 


Have you a solution for this problem? 

Thank you for your help

Phane

I just disassembled my Pinebook and noticed the thermal pads were installed in wrong order. If possible could anyone else from the latest shipment check if their one is done right. If this is just isolated case.
So how they should be placed afaik is that the bigger pad is on the CPU (big A64 label) and smaller one on AXP803. Mine were reversed.

I wonder what the switch inside the case on motherboard does? Also I'd like to know what the small button does? I assume it's battery disconnect.

Thanks

Hi,

I am considering setting up Rock64 as a desktop system. I am comfortable with Linux, so the flavor really does not matter.

What I want to achieve is a complete desktop solution with Rock64 + Wifi + 64 GB eMMC.
 
My questions are:

• Do the Linux images released contain all the drivers needed? In other words, will I be able to assemble the system, flash the eMMC, boot and everything just works? 
  
• Does the distros available for download use their official repositories (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch... ) or do we need to use ayufan's repositories?
  
• Can we enable distro's official ARM repository and be able to download software, or are we restricted to Pine64 repositories?
  
• I see the A/V jack on the board. Is this for a general purpose 3.5 mm sound jack?
  

Hello Pine64 Community,

I am new to Linux and am trying to get Rstudio on my Pinebook with Q40s installed on the emmc module.  I found instructions from:

 http://herb.h.kobe-u.ac.jp/raspiinfo/rstudio_en.html who documents their experience on a Raspberry Pi 2/3, but I have encountered errors.. Also note that I  did not edit or create a swapfile (I had trouble / didnt feel comfortable, but I also didnt use nano.. I tried just in the GUI with the default program and got a permissions error). Also I didn't mess with the shell... so pretty much everything in the "Requirements" section I passed by 

Aside from the first section I followed their instructions exactly although with my corresponding directories...

But, I get to the line..

cmake .. -DRSTUDIO_TARGET=Desktop -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

When I execute the command and I am experiencing an error.. here is what the output says in my terminal..

I was curious about the frequency of dead pixels on the various Pinebook models... Would anyone care to share their experiences?

Mine is a 14" and came with 1.


Note: Definitely not putting Pinebooks down.. These are sweet machines