For my fellow klutzes, here's a DIY Bumper Case idea, using furniture bumpers: https://imgur.com/gallery/5xtZ3x6

Hello again!

Administrative: I apologize in advance for posting the actual instructions offsite as I have yet to figure out how to format headings using bbcode. If I ever figure it out or it becomes possible I will bring the content back over here. The instructions may be found at the link at the end of this post.

This process allows you to program/erase the Pinebook Pro (PBP) SPI NOR flash (flash) using u-boot on a micro SD card. 

• The user is still required to remove the back cover to turn the eMMC switch off and the UART switch on.
  
• The user is also required to connect to the PBP over USB serial UART from a host machine (Rock64 with keyboard and monitor for example).
  
• You cannot use this process to recover from writing bad images to the flash though, you would still have to short the pins on the flash to boot from SD card again in this instance.
  

• The SPI flash is not automatically detected. I am not a u-boot expert yet but I assume it is because an alias for 'spi0 = $spi1' is missing from the device tree. And I additionally assume this is because rk3399-pinebook-pro-u-boot.dtsi does not #include rk3399-pinebook-pro.dts. I tested this theory by temporarily adding the alias to rk3399-pinebook-pro.dts and the SPI was detected (should have also tested by adding the #include to rk3399-pinebook-pro-u-boot.dtsi).
  
• CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is set too low. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is automatically set to 0x140000. uboot.itb is written to 0x60000 and its current size is 949936 (928K) bytes which overlaps with 0x140000. If you want to safely saveenv you will need to set CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET to 0x150000. You could also place it at the end of SPI ((16M bytes - 1 byte) - 32K bytes).
  

No matter what I do, I can't connect to wifi. I replaced the built-in Manjaro KDE Plasma with Manjaro Xfce. I'm using the wifi menu widget on the task bar to select my router, entered the correct password a million times, and it just pauses a great while trying to connect and then asks me to enter a password again. Does it every time. 

This is the only device in my house that has this problem. I've used Wifi on my Pinephone, my android, and like 4 other computers, and my family has other devices with working internet. I've tried reconnecting to internet on a few of these devices and it worked. My new Pinebook Pro is the only device that refuses to connect to internet. 

This has been happening for a full week now. I haven't even been able to use it effectively without internet. Without internet, it's extra space being used up in my house that I don't need if it won't work. (i bought a table for it)

Pretty frustrated, to be honest, because I'm pretty sure my 30 day warranty expired by now.

To top it all off, can't reinstall the operating system it came with, (or any operating system made for it, for that matter), because the micro sd card reader isn't reading my micro sd card. So unless I can fix wifi, I'm basically screwed.

Though a separate issue, it would be nice to have the micro sd card reader working again, too. Not sure if that will ever happen, either?

I'm a developer who ports my software to a lot of operating systems, including windows, mac, linux, freebsd, and I would like to get netbsd or openbsd working on my pinebook pro since my other machines are being used for other things at the moment and can't have their os replaced easily right now without being a big sacrifice.

Any help is appreciated, like you have no idea!
Samuel

Today I apt update and check what is new.
Camera app was black (don't remember if it was before upgrade)
I saw a new app, megapixels
This is much smoother than camera app. However, button didn't take any picture...
Not working yet, but at least something moving here...

Has anyone attempted (or had success) using the usb-c dock from the Pinephone convergence package with their Pinebook Pro? 
I've been able to use it as a usb hub, but I have not gotten the HDMI out to work (I haven't had a chance to try the ethernet jack yet, that's on my to-do list).
I know there have been issues with PMOS and the HDMI on the dock, but I don't know if the the pbp would have the same issues (I'm running the out-of-the-box Manjaro on it).

Looks like there's an arm branch of endeavor now. Pinebook isn't an official device but they list it as a possible device to use it on. They offer a couple of DE's except for Deepin. I might give it a shot. Here's the link: ://endeavouros.com/news/the-september-release-and-endeavouros-arm-arrived/

I used 'Kings Cross' as my terminal under mobian.

Last week sometime it disappeared from my phone.

How do I re-install it? I can not see it under Utils in Software, nor does 'apt search cross' yield anything that looks suitable.

I did manage to install 'Terminator' but prefer 'Kings Cross' because I can access <ESC> and <CTRL> from the keyboard in 'Kings Cross'.

I have set up a PineTime for flashing firmware and testing remotely...

1. You can send flash commands to the Telegram Bot...

    /flash 0x0 https://.../firmware.bin

2. Then view the live video stream of PineTime on YouTube

Hope this will encourage more people to try PineTime programming. More details here...

https://github.com/lupyuen/remote-pineti.../README.md

   

Hi, 
It cannot be found in any documentation. 
What is the operating temperature range for these SBC's? 
The only information I found is -20 + 70 degrees (Celsius). Is it true?

Hi, first of all, i wanna say that i'm quite happy with the Rock64, i've a 4GB, Rev 2 version, that is working like a LibreELEC Media Center 24/7, PulseAudio Server without (almost) a glitch.
I'm trying to install Android on a SD Card, so far i've tried on a number of Cards without success;

8GB Kingston Class 10
16GB Sandisk Ultra
32GB Sandisk Extreme (i own a Couple)

The images were the following; 

android-7.1-rock-64-rock64_atv-v0.3.13-r115-raw.img
rock64_20171204_stock_android_7.1.2_rooted_sdboot.img
rock64_20180623_stock_android_8.1_sdboot.img
ROCK64_20190621_stock_rooted_android_9.0_sdboot.img
ROCK64_dd_20190621_stock_rooted_android_9.0_sdboot-16GB.img

ROCK64_dd_20190621_stock_rooted_android_9.0_sdboot-32GB.img

Flashed in a number of ways, first the Pine64 Installer, then Etcher, the Rockchip SDTool, Win32DiskImager, DD on Linux. 
None of the combinations booted into Android. 

I know that this is a developer SBC, i also tried Armbian and Manjaro ARM flawlessly, so i find quite strange this behaviour.

The PSU is a 3A 5v, i can acccept that maybe this unit will never boot into Android, but if there is a tip, i'll take it. 
i don't own a eMMC memory, i'm from Argentina and they are quite difficult to get here. 

Thanks!