09-29-2016, 03:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2016, 03:43 AM by UnixOutlaw.)
Why is Pine64+ such a great "fumante secchio di merda di cane"?
It really is a "pezzo di merda"... Just when I get everything going the way I want - the F--KING hardware lets me down...
Had it running DietPI with a battery and hooked up to my Motorola Lapdock... got all the software I wanted running sweet (Chromium, Qute, Synergy)...
Now it HARDLY ever powers on - the power LED will come on then it will go off... When it is running - if I pull the power - EVEN with a LIPO battery connected to either the BAT in JST connector or via the EULER bus - it just shuts off... Even if it's been UP for hours and I pull the power, it dies in its arse... The battery should have charged up by now... I'm going to re-wire the 2 batteries I've been testing (2000 mAh and 2500 mAh) and see if they run NTC CHIP and charge up okay on there - just so I can prove them as "GOOD KNOWN BATTERIES"!
It won't power on connected to the lapdock... CHIP and Banana LOVE the Lapdock!
I did manage to get it to power up and stay on earlier today - by running a PLOX USB charger into it, then charging the PLOX from the Lapdock...
I just powered it down so I see if it will run on battery after being on for several hours - and also so KI could try another battery - and no! It won't power up (or stay on) at ALL!
I'm also going to rig up some USB to EULER CHG in wires tonight... I suspect there's something vile and stinking and putrescently DEAD in my Pine64... I get pretty much exactly the same symptoms on my other pine board too... But the one I'm using now is mounted inside the Zebra C4 "tall" case with a heatsink on the A64 chip...
Well there ya go! I just got it to power on and stay on connected to the PLOX USB powerbank (that's all it's connected to)... This "MERDA" feels like black magic half the time.... These things are SO FLAKY! I'd NEVER run any production workload on them... they're UTTER RUBBISH!
NTC CHIP is rock solid - I've had one of them with continuous uptime over 150 days! Yeah I'd run production workloads on CHIP!
If you hadn't guessed yet - I have a love/hate (mostly passionate HATRED) relationship with my Pine boards!
This may be purely anecdotal - but it seems if I leave it off for a bit... and disconnected from everything...
Then power it up with JUST the plox power it - wait some arbitrary period of time for it to boot up... then hook up peripherals - HDMI and USB for display and keyboard/mouse - it works... but not always... that's why it seems like black magic...
FFS! These things are SO SHODDY!
It really is a "pezzo di merda"... Just when I get everything going the way I want - the F--KING hardware lets me down...
Had it running DietPI with a battery and hooked up to my Motorola Lapdock... got all the software I wanted running sweet (Chromium, Qute, Synergy)...
Now it HARDLY ever powers on - the power LED will come on then it will go off... When it is running - if I pull the power - EVEN with a LIPO battery connected to either the BAT in JST connector or via the EULER bus - it just shuts off... Even if it's been UP for hours and I pull the power, it dies in its arse... The battery should have charged up by now... I'm going to re-wire the 2 batteries I've been testing (2000 mAh and 2500 mAh) and see if they run NTC CHIP and charge up okay on there - just so I can prove them as "GOOD KNOWN BATTERIES"!
It won't power on connected to the lapdock... CHIP and Banana LOVE the Lapdock!
I did manage to get it to power up and stay on earlier today - by running a PLOX USB charger into it, then charging the PLOX from the Lapdock...
I just powered it down so I see if it will run on battery after being on for several hours - and also so KI could try another battery - and no! It won't power up (or stay on) at ALL!
I'm also going to rig up some USB to EULER CHG in wires tonight... I suspect there's something vile and stinking and putrescently DEAD in my Pine64... I get pretty much exactly the same symptoms on my other pine board too... But the one I'm using now is mounted inside the Zebra C4 "tall" case with a heatsink on the A64 chip...
Well there ya go! I just got it to power on and stay on connected to the PLOX USB powerbank (that's all it's connected to)... This "MERDA" feels like black magic half the time.... These things are SO FLAKY! I'd NEVER run any production workload on them... they're UTTER RUBBISH!
NTC CHIP is rock solid - I've had one of them with continuous uptime over 150 days! Yeah I'd run production workloads on CHIP!
If you hadn't guessed yet - I have a love/hate (mostly passionate HATRED) relationship with my Pine boards!
This may be purely anecdotal - but it seems if I leave it off for a bit... and disconnected from everything...
Then power it up with JUST the plox power it - wait some arbitrary period of time for it to boot up... then hook up peripherals - HDMI and USB for display and keyboard/mouse - it works... but not always... that's why it seems like black magic...
FFS! These things are SO SHODDY!