Hello all.
I took delivery of my Pinebook last week and was playing around with is as one does.
I decided to see if it would connect to the internet using the "Personal Hotspot" feature on my iPhone. I was not expecting it to work as I had no luck when i tried it using Linux Mint on another laptop. 
I was pleasantly surprised  when it worked. This makes it a far more "usable" machine for me.
I should also point out that  the machine came installed with Ubuntu Mate.

I thought this was worth pointing out as others may not be aware that it works so well.

Hi all!

Just sharing my experience :-)


A case with an active cooling system for my 1Gb pine64.

A rather detailed account on building this: https://ishwestscriptwault.wordpress.com...ine64_fan/

Enjoy!

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Hi,
it is a pretty weird, but the audio output of my Pinebook 11.6" stopped working - but is still working in Android.

I have Android (from factory) on eMMC and Ubuntu with Mate desktop build 0.5.5-65 on microSD card. I used it to watch Youtube videos including audio using SMplayer. It worked nicely all night, using the speakers and using headphones.

Next day I resumed the device and every since I can not hear anything from the device, neither speaker not headphones. I checked the mixer and Pulse audio settings and can not find anything suspicious - though I have to admit that alsamixer exposes way too many mixers. Most of them I can not tell their function.

I also compared the default /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf with the one on the device in order to find any mixer misconfig, but they are identical.

Currently all audio playback seems to run fine, all players play as expected but there is no audible output.

If I reboot into Android again everything seems to be normal.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Cheers
  nicole

What is the purpose of the 128Mb SPI flash chip?

Are there plans to make available the upgrade 32GB and larger emmc modules?  I see that they mention out of stock and only available for May 22nd 2017(last month).

Does anyone know if the Rock64 is also "Open Source Hardware" like the Pine64 board was? In other words, will all of the hardware documentation be available in the event that developers and hardware hackers want to take the existing design and modify it to their specifications for commercial use (while still operating under the Open Source licensing)?


Thank you!

Hello,

I've just received my pinebook today and am curious as to how one would write the OS image directly to the emmc module?  I've seen where the pine64-installer has an option to write to an emmc but it seems like this tool is for a x86/x86_64 system which the pine isn't.  Is there some emmc to usb adapter one would need to do this or is there some magic I'm missing?

It appears that many peoples' Pinebooks arrived with completely drained batteries. This has likely been caused by the units not being shut down poperly at the factory: 

Quote:13:35:07 <tllim> @ayufan, we suspect production people not totally shut down during production time 

Hello guys.
I have received my pinebook today.
so, i'm so glad, but no notice to understand how to :
1. change te eMMC, because i've bought an emmc 32go card

2. when I have sucess and change the emmc flash card, must i reinstall the system ? if yes, how, with an sd card ?

thanks a lot for your help

de France, bonne journee.

I would appreciate if others could try this out and see if it fixes wifi applet dying on occasion after resuming from suspend in Mate.