I was wondering if there was any way to turn off the 5v+ on the RPI GPIO (or Euler) for the SOPine, because even a really low amp 5v fan connected to the RPI GPIO prevents it from booting.

I bought the kit WITH the power supply and yet it STILL has trouble booting without the HDMI cable plugged in, and now it seems like I have to buy a higher power PSU for it as its going in a cluster, headless.

Right now I have the SoPine's fan plugged in to one of my other Pine64's (NOT SoPine) in the cluster but that is not a good way to do things, and I really don't want to power all my fans separately.  I'm using CanaKit's 2.5 Amp RPI PSUs for those and they are working BEAUTIFULLY!

I'd like to use a PWM fan but those usually run full power with no PWM input so that still is not an option without turning off the +5v on the buses.

I'm considering using one of the PWM outputs for a non-PWM fan but I don't know if it could handle the AMPs and I don't want to add a bunch of extra unnecessary electronics for a stupid little fan.  (yah yah I know it would just be a transistor and a couple resistors, that's not the point, a stupid little low amp fan should NOT need that...)

The power for both GPIOs should be off on default during boot, because the SOPines seem to have such bad boot power problems.

I do intend to eventually buy a gutsy Mauser power supply for all of them, but for just a few Pines that is overkill right now.  

Any suggestions?  

-Tek

Hello,
I have 4 PINE64 (2G-RevB) boards for sale. No wifi. $20 each ($9 off retail). Shipping within USA is $6. If you take all 4 boards, shipping will be free. Worldwide shipping to be calculated based on country. The boards work just fine, I just have no need for them anymore. Will include 32GB SD cards for each board and a power supply. PM me here.

Has anyone had luck with audio input using the 3.5mm jack?

The audio out works fine, but I'm unable to record any sound.

I've tested using the old android 5 and the newer Android 6.0.1 (32 gb image, lcd/hdmi)



The camera, audio out, lcd / hdmi all work.

EDIT: IT WORKS! - THE ONLY THING I DID DIFFERENT WAS USE NOTEPAD++ TO UNCOMMENT THE UENV.TXT FILE RATHER THAN NORMAL NOTEPAD (SORRY IF THAT WAS AN OBVIOUS MOVE? BUT IT WASN'T TO ME. Thanks to everyone for the help though

Hey

I know there are other threads out there with similar issues and people have managed to fix it, but i have tried everything that i'm aware of and can find but i cant get my LCD to work.

(I have the 2gb Pine)

• All cables are correctly connected
  
• I've disconnected the keyboard USB and camera
  
• It's definitely the right image (android LCD - i have used the android 6 LCD and the android 7 DD image (64gb) ) (I used 7zip and rufus for the image writing)
  
• The power light stays on when plugged into HDMI but doesn't always when plugged into the LCD (its really temperamental - sometimes it stays on sometimes it doesn't it depends what image I'm using  - v6 it stays on - v7 it didnt stay on at first now it does - but on both images the screen is blank.
  
• I have plugged it into my tv using the HDMI cable and it works fine.
  

Hello everyone. I have created an openSUSE image for the SoPine.

If you want to have a look, click here to go to the project thread.

Here is a fast alternative mirror for all available SoPine images.

We will try to keep the selection up-to-date as new releases pop-up. 

As always, credit for hosting goes to ItsDave

Hi there;

I have Pine64+ (2GB) plus the official 16GB SD card with Remix OS. It works excelent.
Now I'm trying to format the SD in order to boot from an external HDD.


I'm using macOs Sierra 10.12.3 (MBP 15-inch early 2011) - when I insert the SD with the SD adapter in the built-in MBP SD reader the OS throws this error:

Quote:The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.

Quote:The card is write-protected.
Please release the write protect switch.

because pics or it didn't happen.

I'm cleaning up the kicad project I made it from, to get rid of the custom stuff on that board, but will (fingers crossed) open source and publish the project shortly!

M.

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Hi,

I bought this board at the beginning from kickstarter, but I can´t find time to test it until now.

The problem is that the board can´t boot (I test with Android and linux) and if I connect to the serial console using PINE64 USB SERIAL CONSOLE/PROGRAMMER I get this:

I'm encountering a really frustrating problem. I'm trying to use my Pine64 in a headless configuration, so failing to boot is a big problem. When I plug into the console, the failure always seems to be at the point of loading "cfg80211". I don't have a wireless module and I don't want any such thing loaded. Any ideas?