Hi,

I just received my PINE A64+ 2GB BOARD, everything works great. Now I'm wondering if I can upgrade the memory? 

Thanks,

*** I have read many of the threads regarding power and firmware and tried without success

Sometimes boots up or fails due to 'soft lockup' CPU#0 stuck for 22 seconds
at a point when calling cfg80211. I have tried all the combinations below and still not reliable

Pine A64+ 1GB board (A64-DB-Rev_B 2016-03-21)
Using serial cable on EXP header with Putty terminal and Ethernet connected.
No Wi-Fi or HDMI or USB connected

Have tried two different power supply - 5V 20VA adapter and 5V 100VA ATX computer supply
Have soldered power wires (0.5mm) onto pcb directly, to bypass use of usb power connector small pins
Added 100uf capacitor at that point to help any surge or length of wire (only 30cm!)

Then tried Euler bus DC-IN (4 and 6) with same power supplies.
Tried 6V SLA battery and diode so that 5.3V and lowest 5.208V at boot and still problem - you do not get more clean power than this.
Added 100nF, 10uf and 100uf caps on Euler header and still no help
When try ATX at lowest 5.098 it works and then sometimes not

Have tried soft reset button on Euler Bus and hard power reset on power
Tried changing the AXP803 bypass cap on pin 57/58 (C45) to 10nf and adding in 10uf - no change

Experiencing same problem with
pine64-image-debianmate-310102bsp-2.img and
pine64-image-debianbase-310102bsp-2.img

Using two different types of Scandisk Micro HC I sd-cards (8GB and 16GB) that work on other small board computers
Format SD-Card for linux
Burn image to SD using Win32DiskImager.
First boot - Serial Cable and Ethernet only
Burn again and First boot Serial Cable only

Expanded image as suggested ($resize_rootfs.sh)

Updated Kernel as suggested (from 3.10.102-2 to 3.10.105-0)
$pine64_update_kernel.sh

Make sure the cfg80211 is up to date
$sudo apt-get install wireless-regdb iw crda

Disable DHCP:
$ sudo update-rc.d -f dhcpcd5 remove
$ sudo update-rc.d -f isc-dhcp-server remove

Set Network Interface:
$sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static

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In the past, I have been using Thunderbird for e-mail; however this is not an option on Android. I have tried the gmail client, which works but seems to lack some of the functionality that we like and use in Thunderbird. There are a number of clients available in Google Play, but I am not familiar with any of them. Anyone have a recommendation/experience with any of them?

Thanks for your time.

William.

Hi Community,

First, hello everyone and good to see some activity here.  I've been playing with my Pine64+ 2GB board and I really like the hardware capability.  I want to use it for openHAB and other embedded projects and with all the GPIO, battery charger, camera, etc. it seems really great for that.  However, I have some concerns about the software support.  

It seems that, for a while now, there still isn't a current Debian Jessie image with 4.x.y kernel supporting all the hardware (ethernet, WiFi, bluetooth, etc.) "out of the box".  For me, and probably others who just want to use the board without having to debug the hardware/software, it's a bit of a worry.  I'd love to use this board but it's hard to justify spending time on it without updated software that completely supports the hardware.

I've looked around and I'm seeing "curated" images provided by other communities (Sunxi or Armbian) or forum members -- this is a terrific contribution but I don't think it's reliable long term.  And, not to fault these voluntary contributions, but they don't appear to completely support all the hardware either.

Are the Pine64 developers planning to get behind the hardware and put together official (meaning not "community contributions") images that are up-to-date (Debian Jessie with 4.x.y kernel) and provide full support for all hardware?  Is there any intention to provide such support?  A roadmap or timeline for getting it done?

Just curious.  Am hoping for some positive news...
Spark

You can find the pre-release android 7.1 build for android here 

I have locked the thread for now (I will wait for ayufan to make a formal announcement of his build). You can discuss everything related to his A 7.1 build in the Pine A64 main thread

Hi guys I'm using the armbian image on my pine with Lcd and ts working
With a 6000mah battery diy it's any chance to get the battery stats on the panel?
I know that it works on Android
But can't find a way to make it work on Linus help pla
Thanks!

Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

EDIT: I have removed much of the original thread since it was becoming too messy and I wish to keep this post very clean so people get an idea of what are the outstanding issues are. 

Most issues have been resolved as of 05/05/17. Make sure to download an up-do-date image using the Installer.

Currently not working on Linux: 

• HDMI out
  
• Headphones autodetect (being tentatively worked on) Please use these scripts by k_mp
  
• edit: microphone doesn't work - a fix is inbound
  

Hi to everyone! I'm a CS teacher and for some time I playing with my Pine64+. Last week, I built a C++ library (in object oriented paradigm) for manage GPIO, I2C and SPI.


https://github.com/databit/Pine64-CPP


This lib is based on the work of Eric Ptak <trouch@trouch.com>, Stefan Mavrodiev <support@olimex.com> and Kamil Trzcinski <ayufan@ayufan.eu>

I hope this library can be of help to you!

Send me yours comments and eventual bugs.

Hi, i designed a pedestal for the Playbox Enclosure.
Now Pine looks like a sweet tiny Desktop.
It's 3D-Printed.

Update 22.04.2017
Version 1.0 now has a hinge to adjust the visual angle.

• A stacker pocket is added to the base.
  
• Full access to the Pine connectors.
  
• The hole for the Ethernet jack is also there but closed with a very thin layer, you can cut it out for to use it.
  
• An additioinal hole in the bracket, say for a power-cable jack to the Euler bus.
  

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First there was CHIPtimus Prime for the CHIP SBC. Then came ODROIDtimus Prime for the ODROID C series. Now there's PINEimus Prime for the PINE64. This will work for I2C displays only at this point. I wasn't able to get SPI fired up with legacy or mainline Armbian.



Transform your PINE64 into a PINEimus Prime for projects requiring a small OLED display. Luma.OLED makes it easy to do text, graphics and video. Both displays I used to test I bought on Amazon. I already ordered some cheaper ones on EBay. I was able to get 3 SSD1306 I2C displays for under $10! I also ordered some TFT displays as well to test.

Requirements

• PINE64 flashed with latest legacy Armbian Ubuntu server
  
• Small nylon nuts, bolts and standoffs
  
• OLED display (check http://luma-oled.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hardware.html)
  

• Tested I2C OLED display (I used https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O2KDQBE, but there are cheaper alternatives)
  
• 4 female/female jumper wires required
  

• Power off PINE64, wire up display and power on
  
• sudo apt-get install i2c-tools
  
• sudo usermod -a -G i2c username
  

• i2cdetect -l
  

• i2cdetect -y 1
  
  

• cd
  
• nano i2chello.py
  

• python i2chello.py