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I've had mine for about a week, and to be honest I'm disappointed. It runs excruciatingly slowly on android. In fact it's un useable. I have a Sandisk 32gb class 10 card and a fresh image. I have an Ethernet connection to it that is good. Any ideas please?

Hey everyone! I found that SPI is disabled in Ubuntu kernel, and I need to turn it on rebuild the kernel. I'm going to use SPIdev. Is any step by step tutorial how to do this one? Or maybe is there completed built Ubuntu with enabled SPI? I don't have an experience for rebuilding kernel. 

Thanks in advance!

This is a brief guide for beginners who are visiting the forum. I will be going through the following: 

Finding out the IP address of your Rock64 Board when its not connected to a display (Headless) 
Connecting to your board via SSH
Setting up a Hostname (to connect to your Board even if the IP address is Dynamic)
Setting up a Static IP and fixing DNS

• The tool has been updated, but the pictures/description haven't, please ensure that ROCK64 is selected and the appropriate Disk image is flashed to the SD card. 
  

Has anybody been able to successfully compile the TP-Link supplied drivers for the TP-Link AC600 usb wireless adapter on Armbian (Ubuntu 16.0.4) for the PineA64+?

I'm currently running my pinebook on the default Ubuntu Mate installation with updated kernel/bootloaders.
I did replace the Mate window manager with something more light weight.

And I noticed the other day that my battery had discharged beyond my expectations. Some testing later I noticed that whenever I plug in or remove the power supply it leaves "suspend" mode. And thus causes a lot more battery drain. Anyone know why this happens and if we can prevent it?

Just want to say i love the pine book 14 so far.

a few newbie questions.
what i really want to do with this pine book is use AMIBIAN or Happiga Amiga images that are for the PI
can anyone help my with figuring this out.

now being a newbie i know they are both ARM, and i presume slightly different kernels?

i really have no idea but would appreciate any help.

thank you.

pinebook rox

So I installed Xenial image on my Pinebook. Ran updates, followed the directions here for increasing the speaker volume. Then I installed Android 7.1 on a microSD card. My pinebook was able to boot android when SD card was inserted and it booted Xenial when SD card was not present. However, after a couple of days of use, the pinebook only shows a blank screen when I try to boot from eMMC. It still boots Android from the MicroSD fine. I do not want to go through flashing another image to the eMMC. Is there anyway revive the Xenial on eMMC?

Hi everyone,

I am trying to get a grasp on how much development work is needed to utilize the boards potential as a media player device.

As I understand, Kodi is not going to support any Rockchip boards for recent and future Kodi versions (17.3+).

How about other video players under Linux like mpv, mplayer, vlc? Will they be able to play HEVC 4k videos out-of-the-box? Or do the players need to be forked and adapted as happened with RKMC?

Regards
 Damian

I've tried 2 different SD cards (Samsung Evo 32G), and 3 different power supplies (all 5.1v 2-2.5A).
Still just getting purple screen full of normal boot-up messages, at some point during start up it just freezes.
and leaves me with a screen full of boot messages.
freezes somewhere between 13.xxxxxx and 21.xxxxxx

do i have a bad pine?
can i get it replaced? (got mine via the kickstarter, this is my first time working with it)

(08-05-2017, 09:28 AM)amilino Wrote: What is the ETA. for Bliss? With working VPN of course.