It's great I can boot/run from the SD card!  How big a card can I put in there?  (Gotta figure out how much of a media library can travel with me off-the-grid.)

Hey all,
    I have a Pine64 from the kickstarter, I hope I am posting this in the right forum, I don't recall if it was considered a (+) version or not. I am trying to find an image that works with the LCD display. I much prefer a Ubuntu version, but I am not sure if there is one? I tried OpenSuse, but the OS simply doesn't seem to work. It won't update or install anything as it seems the site it is trying to connect to doesn't work anymore. I am hoping someone might be able to point me toward a Ubuntu (or really any distro that works, as I can't find *any*) image that works with the LCD panel.

Thanks!
-MH

As the title suggests my PBP just died on me. I was really happy with it and worked with it  for several weeks without any hitches. I took it to a conference and worked with it there with a USB3.1 Dock attached and all was fine until the display started flickering and the machine shut down. I tried to restart it and it got stuck with the green PowerLED on but did nothing. I tried a hard reset, but it did not react to keyboard input. Not even the on-off switch. After a while it switched off and now it’s dead. 

Any suggestions? Will there be replacement PCBs available?

Cheers,
WhiteDragon

- is there a pinout diagram for the 3.5mm Audio jack for the pine 64+LTS ? 
- is it a mono or streio output?
- is there a workaround for the swiching issue in android?

Hi all, I've made some drawings of clusterboard, if you find anything incorrect, please contact me, I'll fix it.

Currently I have clusterboard ver. 2.3

Latest online sources:
3D model from Autodesk Fusion360 is available here: https://a360.co/3546JOU
PDF drawings: https://a360.co/2t7q3h9


offline PDF is in attachment (pdf v.7, based on dwg v.18)

TP

Attached Files

  ClusterBoard Drawing v7.pdf (Size: 428.34 KB / Downloads: 735)

Hi All: Here's my new article that explains how simple tweaks like Batched Updates and Non-Blocking SPI can have a huge impact on PineTime's rendering performance...


Optimising PineTime’s Display Driver with Rust and Mynewt

I have a Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe in a SSK Aluminum M.2 NVME external case, see here for the product on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MNF...UTF8&psc=1

I installed the gnome-disks utility on the Pinebook Pro to assist me with this.

NVMe and enclosure work without problem on my workstation running Fedora 30. Format, partition, read, write, all good.


dmesg reports:
[341405.622922] usb 6-2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[341405.635207] usb 6-2: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=0562, bcdDevice= 2.06
[341405.635211] usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[341405.635214] usb 6-2: Product: SSK Storage
[341405.635215] usb 6-2: Manufacturer: SSK
[341405.635217] usb 6-2: SerialNumber: DF56419883E5B
[341405.823661] usb 6-2: USB controller 0000:0c:00.0 does not support streams, which are required by the UAS driver.
[341405.823667] usb 6-2: Please try an other USB controller if you wish to use UAS.
[341405.823671] usb-storage 6-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[341405.824043] scsi host15: usb-storage 6-2:1.0
[341406.842939] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SSK                       0206 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[341406.843583] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
[341409.512535] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdg] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[341409.515399] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[341409.515407] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 53 00 00 08
[341409.518240] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[341409.528580]  sdg: sdg1
[341409.534874] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk

However, the Pinebook Pro recognizes the enclosure when plugged in to a USB 3 port, assigning it the device file /dev/sda, but gnome-disks reports "No Media".  dmesg reports:

[ 1490.403480] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-platform
[ 1490.564908] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=0562, bcdDevice= 2.06
[ 1490.565662] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1490.566313] usb 2-1.1: Product: SSK Storage
[ 1490.566693] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: SSK
[ 1490.567050] usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: DF56419883E5B
[ 1490.569695] scsi host0: uas
[ 1490.571524] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SSK                       0206 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 1490.573978] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1499.433316] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unit Not Ready
[ 1499.433767] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.434347] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.435414] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1499.436252] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.436829] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.437890] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1499.438720] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.439285] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.440892] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[ 1499.441442] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0-byte physical blocks
[ 1499.442261] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 1499.443012] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
[ 1499.443537] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1499.444514] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (0 bytes)
[ 1499.485275] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unit Not Ready
[ 1499.485675] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.486252] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.487290] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1499.488131] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.488711] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.489911] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1499.490756] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
[ 1499.491336] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81
[ 1499.494885] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

I note that there is a package named nvme-cli, is this necessary?

Same problem with the default operating system, and with an install of the Mandriva KDE image.

Is this the problem: [ 1499.490756] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current], is the Pinebook Pro not capable of supplying sufficient current for this device?


Thanks for any ideas offered!

I tried to go back to the default install of Debian. However, after dd to the eMMC, the PBP doesn't want to boot. The active LED goes on and flickers for some time, the backlight goes on, then the power LED goes out and after some time the backlight goes out as well. Then everything starts again.
I'm coming from Manjaro if that matters. Any ideas on how to recover from this (SD boot works fine)

Hello everyone.
While I'm no developer (yet, I need to be more organized to get to that point), I do have the know-how to be able to test the landscape for the PineTime, and therefore I had ordered a developer kit from the Pine shop, once I had realized that it is possible to do so.

To be honest, originally I was contemplating asking for a review sample of the development kit in order to "report", so to speak (english is not my native language), on the project's progress, however before I was able to come up with an idea of how to do so, it became possible order one from the store, and I decided, "whatever, this way I can also financially support Pine64, even though this is a stretch for my current financial situation".

So in short, I intend to start an ongoing review of the PineTime and it's development, once I receive my kit.
As for how often I shall post an update (I do not often have proper access to both my laptop and a stable internet connection at the same time), and where I shall do so (in addition to here), that I'll be glad to receive the community's opinion (I am currently thinking of the LinusTechTips and XDA-Developers forums).

I'd rather not post on Twitter or Telegram(no FaceBook, Mastodon, or most social platforms), though I may do so.

And I'd be very happy to receive comments and constructive criticism on my initiative.

Any plans for an Android build?