I've been running and old ayufan rock64 build of OMV (v4) - I set it up 2020-01

I had been getting the occasional issue with the un-powered USB3 HD (only USB device plugged in) where it needed to be remounted.

About a two weeks or so ago, ssh sessions would consistently freeze when I tried to "ls" a specific directory and/or issue "df". SD access seemed.

I tried with a powered USB hub, with no change.

I had a small collection of rock64's that I picked up cheap and swapped out the board from the case (with fan) and the same SD card/OS, case, PSU, USB HD and it immediately worked fined. Its been running fine for 11 days now - with no incidents.

I suspect there is something going on with the USB ports (I'm guessing damaged).

Any suggestions on how to test the ports? Other than "df" and try accessing random directories?

I have another rock64 that I deployed with Armbian and Docker (with Pi Hole in a container) its been running solid for 4 months (NOTE this only has a USB2serial device on it) so I suspect I either got a flakey board originally or something in my environment has damaged the USB ports.

NOTE I'm planning on using Armbian for all my boards, I just haven't made the time to move OMV to Armbian+OMV5 yet.

I have Rock64 that I want to use with this HDMI display by Waveshare: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDM...with_case). It has native resolution of 1024x600 and that is the main problem.
I tried latest Armbian and latest Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic by ayufan. In first case it runs only 1080p and I can't set any other resolution, and haven't found any help on their forum, with the second image I can chose between multiple standard resolutions, but there is no native one and the image looks bad (obviously).
I tried to set native resolution with xrandr:

Hello everyone,

I just updated a cluster of Rock64 4G boards I have and they all forgot their MAC address now and have defaulted to 82:57:28:5d:f7:9d (no idea where this MAC comes from, the ones I had set where very different and started with "da:19:c8").

I was setting the MACs in the bootloader script via boot.txt and ./mkscr using this guide (wiki tab) but now that evidently does not work.

Asking that the OS side (forum post) did not produce much so I came here to ask:

How can I set the MAC of my Rock64s in uboot?

Thanks,
K

I am trying to make something like RockProBox, it means TV box using RockPro to replace my aging RockBox.

I guess it is more difficult than I thought.

First, it is impossible to find some working Android with Play Store AND working from EMMC. I found some Slash TV, but it does not boot from EMMC.

I was able to install PlayStore to Android 9, but Kodi does not run, it crashes just after start.

Ok, let me try Linux. Armbian looks good, it is fast and stable. It runs Kodi. It does not run RetroArch, because it is arm64 and Retroarch does not have the cores for arm64. Bang.

Ok, let me try Linux armhf. I chose Ayufan's Ubuntu Focal. It runs Kodi and Retroarch with the cores, but after a while the network is disconnected and I see the profgram crashed. So it is not stable.

Yes, there are some obscure OSs like Twister OS or Armbian Reforged, I tried that too, but there are still the OS in beta or development and I cannot even update them without breaking the things.

So, is there any working OS (Android with Play Store running from EMMC supporting Kodi)?
Or, is there any Linux distro armhf version that is stable?

I do not want to insult anyone, RockPro is surely great SBC, but it seems it is not suitable as a TV box replacement.

Hi,

This weeknd I've finally got round to trying Gnome Shell instead of Phosh, and now I just wish I'd tried it months ago. I don't have to enter the PIN every time I switch the screen on, I can see my desktop, it's usable at 720x1440 and it's so much more configurable.

The only obvious issue I've noticed (and it's not that big a deal), is that there's no 2G/3G/4G indicator, no mobile signal strength indicator and indicator for mobile data. Does anybody know a way to do this (without having to try and write my own extension)?

Thanks,

P.S. If anybody else is using Gnome Shell and has any tips/tweaks then please let me know. Can't say that the on screen keyboard bothers me that much, but it could certainly be better.

Hi all;

I dropped my phone a while back, I got a replacement screen and installed it myself. First time on any phone...
I put it back together and the modem doesn't appear to be working, have reinstalled mobian, I have signal strength, but not registered on the network. Everything else seems to work WiFi is good.
Have tried different sim card, no change, sim works on other phone.
Is there anything I can do to narrow the fault down to software or hardware ?

I guess I must have stuffed the main board somehow when I pulled it apart, but it would be good if I could confirm it.

Thanks

Hi

I bought a 12V / 3A power supply. When I plug in it, the green LED on the board turned on. The LEDs on the network board are also on. But when I press the Power button, nothing happens, the board does not turn on. What could be the problem? Before that, I never power on the board.

Hello all,

For a client project I have obtained two PineCube units and have tried to set them up with Armbian, but regardless of the SBC I see the same issue. After starting a download of a larger (multiple MB) file from a HTTPS server (Git repository), the system becomes unresponsive and has to be hard reset.

* I used two different PineCube units.
* I used a known good SD card (pulled from a working Raspberry Pi 3B system).
* I used different USB cables and chargers (also used with Raspberry Pi & Odroid systems previously).
* I used Ethernet and WiFi (separately) with identical results.
* I used the Focal Armbian version, then the Buster version, with identical results.

Does anyone have stable Ethernet/WiFi on PineCube with Armbian, or is this considered to be an unstable feature? The PineCube wiki seems to hint at this being still experimental.

Pinephone freezes after a couple minutes with kernel 5.9 5.10 and 5.11 after last update
Geary doesnt start and pinephone doesnt recover anymore after sudo reboot or deep sleep
Only hard reset will start again

I'm trying to download apps directly from the site but its telling to go to setting and security to enable downloading from unknown source.But im unable to find that setting on my pinephone kde am I missing something or is it located somewhere else ?