Hi,
I got my Pine A64+ 1GB with a Wi-Fi add on card. I bought an INR 300 worth duplicate Samsung power adapter rated 5V 2.0A. I also bought an 8GB Sandisk Micro SD Card Class 4.

I am having following issues:
1. The default image for an 8GB SD Card on the Pine64 downloads link is not getting written on the SD Card. I tried with Win32 Disk Writer tool and it kept saying that the image size is more than the SD Card size. The SD Card when formatted under Windows 7 shows usable space of 7.2 GB. I then had to use the Phoenix Image and used the Phoenix Card utility to do the Android 5.1 image burn. It was successful. Kindly clarify why it didnt work the normal way ?

2. After the first boot into Android the board, I configured my Wi-Fi and connected to the internet. I connected a wired mouse and keyboard. Downloaded Youtube. As soon I clicked to play the YouTube app the screen went blank. The HDMI signal for still there but nothing was happening. I re-booted the device by powering off and on. This time it showed me a message that Android apps are being optimized during boot. Few minuted after the boot the device turned off automatically. No mouse or keyboard was connected. I re-did the SD card with a fresh Android image but now I am having random screen going blank or the power LED itself going off after few minutes into the boot. I touched and realized that the chips on the board were very hot.

Kindly provide me inputs in solving this, as I am already considering this as a failed investment. Also can you give details of the adapter that you are using Make, Model, Link to Buy and Price in India/Mumbai. This may be a power issue, but I am not sure.

Please help. PS: It was dumb of me to buy the 1GB version, since later while searching the images I read that the Remix OS is suited for the 2GB version and will lag in performance on the 1GB model. Damn shame. Also attaching the image of the power supply being used. It doesn't have option to change cables.

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Hello everybody

I have such a issue. I have pine64+ with 2GB DRAM memory. I download Debian Mate (3.10.102 BSP 2) image from pine64.pro site and flashed it on my SD card. Everything boots up fine and I can login into OS. However, when I want to mount root fs via NFS protocol it does not work correctly.

For NFS root fs mounting, I created boot script (boot.scr kept in mmcblk0p1 boot partition) which is required ,otherwise u-boot sets default environment which mounts root fs from mmcblk0p2. boot environment (bootargs) I set and saved to uboot.env also stored in boot partition.

From boot progress I can see that booting process reads bootargs, I can also see 5 attempts to wait for root /dev/nfs what is set in my bootargs which countdown. I can also see ethernet interface activation. However, the kernel always mount root fs from SD card.

What is the problem? I have installed and activated nfs kernel server on my host workstation, configured /etc/exports config files for accepting requests from NFS client (development board). I even checked syslog on my workstation if there is some activity for NFS dedicated daemons and service, even traced xinetd whether it is activated. But nothing, any activity?

What can be wrong please?

Thank you very much for your help in advance    Martin

If so, what are your plans with it?

Is there a way to connect only a microphone (not a headset) to the pine and keep the audio output directed to HDMI on android?

This would be nice to be able to use Ok google and other voice commands. If I connect a microphone on the audio jack, it thinks that a headset is connected and present no audio output.

Hello,everyone. I am looking forward to using Pine64 for a virtual machine host. And I have some questions about the kernel config.
1. The config CONFIG_ANDROID is set to y. Will it have problems for ordinary users (uid !=0) on networking? Or any user can use tools like ping/netstat/nslookup and bind to a port?
2. The namespace config is not complete in the config file. It is described in a systemd-nspawn document that
CONFIG_UTS_NS=y
CONFIG_IPC_NS=y
CONFIG_USER_NS=y
CONFIG_PID_NS=y
CONFIG_NET_NS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y
should be set.  Will it be possible to add these lines?
Thanks.

Hi guys,

i'm trying to get a web server for my wordpress site on my pine. i followed this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Raspberry-Pi-Web-Server
When i try to install mysql with this code: sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql

It says: The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 mysql-server : Depends: mysql-server-5.5 but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



How can i fix this? does anybody has a good handheld for setting up my own server?



I'm using the following image: Debian Mate (3.10.102 BSP 2)

Pleas help me

This is my first time attempting anything with networking, so I apologize if I have no idea what I am doing. I have 2 Pine64's connected to an ethernet switch, and I assigned both of them a unique static ip. I am able to ping the other pine connected to the switch, but when I try to ssh, I get nothing. I know that one of them can be accessed by ssh, as I have connected through the wifi module using my laptop. Any help would be very appreciated.

I'm new to this, but have been exploring and experimenting with my new pine64 and also a rpi3 (just ordered a ODROID-C2 to play with as well). 

I haven't seen this practice elsewhere. for other distros I have tried there is a single img file and, once you have it flashed, you expand the file system to free up the rest of the card.

Just curious what the advantage is here.

thanks

Hello,

after happily receiving 4 Pine64+ in the first half of june, i directly wanted to test them. Three of the boards work with the same sd card , hdmi cable, tv and power supply, but the 4th doesn't show any picture with the same setup. So, there must be some kind of defect.

I already wrote to sales and support on 06/12/2016, 06/23/2016 and 07/02/2016 but never received any answer. i therefore hope to get more
feedback here in the forum.

Best regards,
zumtra

Hi,

First of all, thanks to longsleep, lenny, and others for their work to provide working images for the pine64.

Now running the pine64+ 2GB with the wifi/BT module. After several trials, both latest debian-mate and ubuntu-mate seems to work fine after I changed the HDMI cable from 1m to 0.5m.
The 1m cable was only working with longsleep 20160507-1 image, and always failed to output the HDMI signal with the newest kernel
The 0.5m seems to be fine with the latest images :-)

I have a question regarding the capabilities of the wifi module: can I connect to the pine64 through wifi from a phone and share the pine ethernet connection or are the module capabilities limited to connect the pine64 to already existing wifi networks?
I would like to set the 1st option, if possible, in order to connect my phone through wifi to the pine64 that is already wired connected...

Thanks in advance for any help and advice!
Cheers!