I initially purchased the pine64 thinking I could plug my external harddrive into it and watch movies that are saved there.  Unfortunately, I discovered that the pine will not recognize the harddrive.  It made some clicking sounds but that was about it.  I love the pine so far as a computer for my living room but I would love to be able to solve this movie watching problem.  Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions they might offer.

I have an old Multia.  As commonly happens to them, it overheated.  I kept the old system thinking that it's case would make a nice enclosure for something.  Then, SBCs started coming out.  I thought when a cheaper SBC with a 64bit RISC processor came out, that would be good fit.

Multias are DEC Alpha based systems.  The do not have a BIOS, but SRM and ARC firmware.  UEFI and the command line EFI shell seem to have come from it's design.  It is where I really started using Linux, first RedHat (not EL) version 6 then Gentoo.  Alpha's typically used OSF/1 (Digital UNIX) or OpenVMS.

When I read this article: The Pine A64 is about to become the cheapest ARM 64-bit platform to run Docker and looked into FEL, I thought, here is my what belongs in the old Multia.

So, my thought is to treat the Pine 64+ (2Gig) as the base of a home-brew like system using another SBC, maybe a Pi0, for FEL, to act as it's SRM (boot loader and shell).  I have an old Radio Shack keyboard that would be fun to wire through an Atmel AVR as a keyboard controller.  And to reflect it's OSF/1 heritage, run FreeBSD on it.  It will need other support like MAX232 to connect Pine's TTL serial to the RS-232 port.

Hi all,

Just got the board yesterday and flashed android-ver5.1.1-20160303-pine64-8GB to my A64+ 2GB.

Everything works fine but the OS can't find WiFi/BT module, any idea?

I check a demo video, and can confirm the installation of the module is right.

Hee Guys,

Is it possible  to make a usb cabled printer wirelles using the Pine? For example, connect the printer to the usb on the pine and make a network on the pine?
I would like to print wireless, just like you can do at a Apple Time Capsule

Hi, I would like to know how I can programming my Pine64 ; I explain :
For example I would like to turn on led connected to my Pine64 ( on GPIO port I guess ) when it's 10pm.
How I can do that and in general how I can create instructions to execute for him ?

Thanks

Have a nice day


Cookeys

I booted up the 20160303 Android image, connect via WIFI (worked great), and start Chrome to test internet connectivity. It crashes so I check the forums which say to uninstall+reinstall Chrome. I open up google play, search for chrome, uninstall it from google play, and reinstall. Everything is working fine so far. I can open chrome without crashing, BUT it says that to use Chrome I must have the most recent version of Google Play Services. 

I ignore the "Google is enforcing their verified devices, DON'T DO IT" feeling in my gut and update Google Play services. Chrome now works, but Google play crashes whenever I try to search for apps or open details of an app saying "Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped". 

I have made a bug report for this issue (can't seem to link to my specific bug report but it has the same title as this thread), but figured I should post here as well so the community can hack at it too.

Hi,

The Android image links both freeze at some point and the download fails.
Can anyone please provide links to a more stable source?
I'm having problems downloading them for a whole two days :/

Also - is the 8gb image for DD suitable for a 32gb SD card? And what's the best way to DD it using OS X?

Thanks!

I have put together this simple enclosure from CD covers

   

   

   

Have looked in the forum, and did not see a similar issue.

I have a 1gb and 2gb board- both exhibit the same behavior. Have tried both Android builds  21060303 and 20160216. Have imaged both with windisk imager and the Phoenix utility, rebuilding multiple times. In each case the result is the same:
- Android loads
- Android recognizes keyboard and mouse input
- Android recognizes Ethernet input (one thing I see is time updated automatically)

Buy as soon as I attempt to launch an app or take any action, the screen goes black. No way to get it back except for rebooting.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions?

I am stumped at this point

Thanks.

I am looking to buy a touchscreen for my Pine64+, but I don't know which one to buy. I am looking for one between 4'' to 7'' and relatively inexpensive.