Ok, now that I have booted Android 7, it's going pretty slow. The MicroSD card I'm using is Kingston Class 10, UHS-I 16GB (https://www.kingston.com/en/flash/microsd_cards/sdca10). Seems pretty ok speed, but I'm not sure what is expected.

Apps are opening grudgingly slow, sometimes they fail to open whatsoever.

Any suggestions how to get decent performance?

I am using Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) and I'd like to run Android on my Pine64 2GB board.

I have 16GB SD card, and I can't seem to make any of the images boot, so I come here out of despair.

The image I've currently downloaded from this page is android-ver5.1.1-20160711-pine64-16GB.img, zip file MD5 hash FAA48E4261451C1F54094AB6C253E76C.

Here's the command I used to burn the image:
$ dd if=/path/to/android-ver5.1.1-20160711-pine64-16GB.img bs=32M | pv -s 16G | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=32M

The process, however, finished when the progress bar was at 93%, but no error were thrown:
16004415488 bytes (16 GB) copied, 1283,6 s, 12,5 MB/s

The file size is 16088301568, so obviously there's something wrong.


I attempted also to burn the image using Gnome Disks utility, but it complains that the image is 83 MB bigger than the target device.
The Disks utility says my SD card size is "16 GB (16 005 464 064 bytes)", so apparently 16088301568-16005464064=82837504 is a problem. But why would there be a slightly-too-big image file for download? Its confusing.

I think I am too puzzled to move on now. Any suggestions how to get a proper image file and/or how to burn the current one?

Hi,

I would like to ZJ080NA-08A with pine64, I havent ordered yet but I am planning to order one this week or next week according to your feedbacks. The lcd have same resolution and same aspect ratio as default pine64 lcd. Do you think can I drive it with pine64? What about the capacitive touch screen on it? I couldnt find any specs about ctp.

Thanks.

Datasheet: http://www.vslcd.com/Specification/ZJ080NA-08A.pdf
Specs overview: http://www.panelook.com/ZJ080NA-08A_Inno...17696.html

Posted in project suggestion as well.... 

Forgive my ignorance, but I have little experience with hardware "hacking" and had a few questions that endless searches through the forums could not answer... 

1) What exactly can I do with the buses on the Pine64/how do I actually go about using them? 

2) Would I be able to directly wire an Xbox 360 controller to one of these buses, thereby freeing up a USB port and/or the bluetooth connection?

3) How much programming/how possible would it be to modify Android to allow for controller interaction with the Android UI? For example, use the D-Pad to select apps on Android's home screen?

Again, pardon my ignorance, I am only taking the first baby steps in this field and would love any and all direction from you guys!

Thank you!

Forgive my ignorance, but I have little experience with hardware "hacking" and had a few questions that endless searches through the forums could not answer... 

1) What exactly can I do with the buses on the Pine64/how do I actually go about using them? 

2) Would I be able to directly wire an Xbox 360 controller to one of these buses, thereby freeing up a USB port and/or the bluetooth connection?

3) How much programming/how possible would it be to modify Android to allow for controller interaction with the Android UI? For example, use the D-Pad to select apps on Android's home screen?

Again, pardon my ignorance, I am only taking the first baby steps in this field and would love any and all direction from you guys!

Thank you!

Hi,

I would like to use a linbus tranceiver to boot up my pine64. When the IC senses traffic it wakes up and provides current for 20ms. When the board powered it has to set CSL/WAKE pin to high to have continues power. So how can I set a pin to high status when the board powered?

I dont want to use arduino or other microcontroller, it makes my board even more complex.

Thanks.

Hi all,

There is no touchscreen usage on W10

Any idea

Hi Pine64!

my experience till now is very frustrating.
I backed the kickstarter project at Dec. 16th 2015 and pledged 31$ for the A64+ model with delivery.
at february 18th I got an email referring me to a backerit survey asking me to upgrade my pledge in which I payed for 5 units with wifi enclosures etc. a total of 174.92 USD.
at April 6th the shipment of the first unit was sent with no enclosure.
while I repeatedly sent emails to the support I never got a single reply.

I really tried to be patient and understanding till now, I sure understand you're under a lot of load but after so much time I feel I deserve at least an answer what's going on with my shipment.

thanks for replying.

--
Akiva

Hi all. Currently using Ubuntu Mate, while experimenting with OpenSuse and admiring Debian. Most things work on Ubuntu while a steady flow of upgrades and improvements keep coming out. Unfortunately Mate-system-monitor (25-30%) and the X-server (25-30%) grab the lions share of cpu. Any thoughts on why this may be the case? Is it to do with lack of Mali support?
On my normal day to day desktop, the x-server is using minimal resources. I would like to see this in Ubuntu Mate.

Firefox is also a heavy user of cpu and memory, probaby because of web pages with masses of images and graphics and media. But newer releases of Firefox are very good at releasing resources as soon as a page is closed. So some consolation here. I am Interested to hear your observations

Hey,

I should receive the PINE64 PlayBox Enclosure.


I never received the letter to make the lifting of enconmenda since moved house and the new tenant did not tell me.

And I noticed now, on tracking site (I check last weak and wasn't been updated...), which is to be returned. Is there any option to be delivered again this time at a different address?

Best Regards,