The 11-inch Pinebook seems to have a odd issue with the backslash/pipe key which types out a greater than and less than symbol (< >).  Here's how to fix it.  Put this in one of your login scripts like .bashrc or /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc

xmodmap -e 'keycode 94 = backslash bar'

Just wanted to share ayufan's Android and Linux builds. Needless to say these are work-in-progress builds and some may not even work. You can follow the builds live and download them once they finish.

Ayufan's ubuntu image does not have the screen tearing issue - you can download it from here

Hello all!  Finally getting around to trying my 2GB Pine 64 I got through the Kickstarter.  Setting it up as a home calendar in the kitchen to replace a Raspberry PI version I have running that is beyond ready to retire.  

-I bought a Samsung EVO+ 32GB microSD off Amazon.  I figured not skimping on the boot drive was the way to go for these boards.
-I also bought a Anker 3A 5V supply with "Qualcomms IQ" support.  I use these chargers on some really big backup battery packs and know they can put out a good bit of current.  I am also using a really good MicroUSB cable.
-I have a tested HDMI I used with the Raspberry PI.
-I have 3 different monitors.  A Dell, Samsung, and a touch screen Lenovo I intend on using.  
-I have tried 4 different images (Android 6.0, Android 6.0 rooted, Remix OS 2.0, and Android 7.0
-I have used Win32Imager, Etcher, and am now flashing a image via Pine64Installer (very cool program by the way - talk about making it easy to image a card!)

I have tried prepping the card different ways using diskpart and cleaning the partition off the disk and still haven't had any luck getting the board to boot (or so I thought).

I then hooked up Wireshark to the Pine board and sure enough, ~55 seconds after applying power (Remix test) I get Ethernet activity whoch tells me the board is booting but not putting out any HDMI.  I've tried 3 different displays.  The Samsung won't even allow me to select the HDMI input as it says no HDMI device is detected.  

Any idea how to get the HDMI output working on these boards?  Do they need configured for HD displays after booting with a different display type (LCD)?

Thanks!

If this was discussed already, please forgive me. I only discovered Pine64 and Pinebook recently.

From what I've read about the Pinebook it looks like it basically uses a product specific laptop motherboard derived from the Pine64. When I first saw the product I was excited and assumed it contained a Pine64 or a SOPine. Then when a faster Pine64 SOC is released I could just swap boards for a cheap upgrade. 

I'm just curious why that route wasn't taken. $100 is a cheap laptop for sure, but I'd be willing to bet the keyboard, screen, and wifi etc are still good in 2 or 3 years and it would be nice to be able to re-use via upgrade. Maybe this is something you can consider for future models?

Hello,

Just a quick heads up, the Pine64 Installer Utility is available. It makes it easy to download and flash OS images for your Pine devices. The utility works on Mac OSX, Windows 7/8/10 as well as Linux.

You start by picking an OS image for your device:

   

You can select the Pine device from a drop down menu. Once you've selected your device and OS, the Pine Installer will fetch the desired OS image:

   

Once the image has downloaded, simply connect your MicroSD card to your computer. The Pine Installer will recognise it and walk you through the process of flashing the image.  

You can discuss the Pine64 Installer here. I have locked the thread to prevent a duplicate discussion.

Please visit our PINE64 Installer GitHub page to start flashing your MicroSD.

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When will Remix OS be available for sopine?

Got a couple of the sopine + baseboard + power combos. They just arrived, but neither seems to boot. I've tried several images on the SD-Card including the currated sopine Ubuntu image from the wiki: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Main_Pa..._OS_Images

I create the sdcard using 

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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