I just played around with the ubuntu release upgrade which does not want to start due to insufficient space in "/boot" reported (asking for 40MB more).

Out of curiosity I booted from SD card and increased the boot partition of the integrated eMMC with "gparted" (shrink ext4 partition by 50 MB and move to right, expand boot partition by 50 MB).

Later I was able to do a release upgrade of ubuntu using the standard commands.

It took quite a while. But 2 hours and one reboot later I had Ubuntu 16.10 running on my pinebook.
The kernel itself was NOT updated (/boot stayed 100% same). 

No problems so far with Ubuntu 16.10 and the old 3.10 kernel. All seems to work as expected.

So increasing the /boot partition by 40 MB seems to do the trick (even that it is not used).


Will try 17.04 upgrade next.

Just did another upgrade to 17.04. It took much longer to upgrade but it is also running ok.

Maik

HI , 

Have anyone to tried use A1 SD Bench tested speed ?

Thank !

I want to build a smartphone based on a pine64 with android and a c4labs style case,
but i got some questions

is there a smaller lcd screen and touch pannel available for the pine64, about the same size as the pine board ?
is there a way to make it read a sim card and get a signal for calls and data ?
is it possible to put the phone and messaging apps in the pine android image ?


soz for the dumb questions im still a bit of a noob

Does the Rock64 support UHS speeds for the MicroSD card? 

Usually the answer is no (requires switching to a lower voltage AFAIK). USB 3.0 is a welcome addition, but given how cheap high speed MicroSD cards are, it would be nice to finally have an SBC that can take advantage of them. To have to use a USB 3.0 MicroSD adapter though... that would be uncool.

And yes, I understand eMMC is faster. That just tells me the BUS can handle it.

Thanks.

Why wasn't Mirco-USB chosen for power supply?

Will there be hardware acceleration possible? Pine64 still does not have proper support...

SADIE - Simple Android Download and Install Executable
====================================

SADIE is a script designed to make it painless and easy to install Android (specifically ayufan's A7.1 images) to a Rock64 board.

It does the all of the following for you:

- Installs all required utilities (if you are on a system with apt or dnf package manager)
- Downloads the Android image of your choosing
- Prepares image for use (unzip)
- Guides you through how to put your Rock64 into the required "Loader Mode"
- Flashes the image on to your Rock64

Github repo

Direct Download (Linux)

Windows version is in the works!


How to use:

1. Unzip the downloaded zip file from above.
2. Run this in a terminal: sudo chmod +x sadie.sh
3. Run SADIE and follow the instructions!

This is a short tutorial on tweaking SMplayer to perform at its optimum. You can expect smooth 1080p playback of most formats that VDPAU supports using these settings. 

Open SMplayer and press Ctrl+p 

Under general -> video 

• make sure to have vdpau as output driver 
  
• toggle Double Buffering 
  

• toggle Allow Framedrop
  
• Set treads for decoding to 4
  
• Set loop filter to enable
  

Dear all,
my order (Pinebook 14") has been stopped at customs in Russia (Moscow). Shipment option was FedEx.

Customs says that Sender's customs declaration doesn't conform to Russian customs regulations.

They say that there is no somewhat "product notification from Russain FSS".

Customs clearance and further shipment is not possible. The order will be returned to Sender.

Questions:

1. Please, tell me if it is possible to cancel the order and get money back. If it is possible, please tell me how much money I'll lost.
   
2. Please tell me if there is alternative way of shipment, such as mail forwarder.
   
   

1. Please, as soon as possible, inform all falks from Russia that no shipment via FedEx will reach the Recipient.
   
2. Dear Pine64.org officials! Please consult with Russian Customs office to solve the bureaucratic  problem.
   

Another question about something on the board. What does the recovery button do?