I wrote an artile about my initial thoughts of my Pine64+ 2GB model. Check it out: http://techscout.online/2016/06/16/pine6...-thoughts/
I am also going to write an article about setting up the SD card for the Pine and about problems related to booting the Pine!

Hi everybody.

I'm downloading the Android 5.1.1 Image (LCD Panel Video Output) Release 20160603, for 32GB microSD Card from the official page and it's extremely slow.
I've got 300Mb from my ISP provider so this can't be the problem.

Is there any other source or server where I can download it from?

Any is suggestion welcome.
Thanks in advance

I have the battery pack for the Pine, and my goal was to use it sort of like a battery backup for a server. What I'm wondering is if there is a way in Ubuntu to pull any stats on the battery. Mostly I'd like to track the charge percentage if possible just for monitoring purposes. I know it's not connected like an actual UPS, so I assume it can't be managed the same way. Does anybody know if this is possible?

Please share your actual free space results, on microSD cards without any known defects, with only 1 partition.

SanDisk Ultra UHC-I class 10, red/grey, "32GB" has only 28.7GB of actual space. Partitioning software cannot increase it.

SanDisk says that they define 1 GB as 1000MB, not 1024MB. That would only be 2.3% off, but this card is missing 10.3%. As a result, 16GB images are the largest images that I can use.

A kickstarter backer in the comments section over there is claiming that when she tries to boot Android, she is presented with a black screen with white text saying 'AB Login:'

Has anyone else experienced something similar, or can someone shed some light on why and/or how this might be happening?

Just asking if I should be worried.
Backer number 23,241 and no information of shipment.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Where do we get our Kickstarter backer number?  I backed in January and have an order "ready to ship".
I need it to submit a question regarding shipping.

Just received the kit today; LCD ribbons attached to DSI and TP (metal side down, a little awkward without the yet-to-be-shipped enclosure), and the red LED powers on, but it does not appear to boot.  I checked the connections, same result.  I removed the LCD and tried the board alone with a good HDMI cable; same result: black screen.

I attempted to verify the image on the "Pre-loaded Micro SD card" with both a Windows 8 and a Macbook, but both state that the "disk is not readable"???   WTF?  

What next?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


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(Reward Level):

"The PINE A64+ Box w/ Touch Screen

You will get the PINE A64+ 1GB unit along with 64GB MicroSD Pre-Loaded with Android 5.1 OS, 802.11N Wifi + Bluetooth 4.0, PINE64 Power Supply, 7" LCD touchscreen panel, the PINE64 Enclosure. 2GB upgrade available for $10 later. "

Despite my best efforts, I cannot get the Play Store functional.  Every time I try to install an app, no matter how simple it is, I get an "Auth error."  I get this error, despite ensuring that I'm logged into my Google accounts; that the time is correct; that WiFi is enabled so that location is found.

What the hell?  Hardware is only as good as its' software.  Is this a Jide or Pine issue?


-MMB

I'm trying to compile a "hello world" assembly program written for 32-bit ARM. I was told this would work:

gcc -o hello -m32 hello.S

But I get this error:

gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m32'

I installed build-essential but nothing else. Am I just missing some component that allows this switch, or am I out of luck? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm just another one of the newbs having fun crawling through the dark trying to make things work.