Android Images (ROCK64)

[dougunder]

So many questions in this thread. It is pathetic that the board developers and more advanced users don't or choose not to help anyone.  It's just question after question after question with no response.  The Rock64 has good potential for running Android, but if this shitty support keeps up, Pine64 doesn't have much hope.

1) Shitty support ? - we've got a stock and a community build. Ayufan has been working on Linux recently ...
2) ... in part because A8 is out within the next 2 weeks.
3) Moreover, the state of stock software is down to RK not PINE64. There are many A7.1 ROMs for the RK3328 out there if you want another one ...
4) If there are no answers then it means no-one knows, doesn't know for sure, or is working on something else ... are you blaming devs and other users (who volunteer their time) for not working on something you care about? Perhaps donate to ayufan instead for offering his time on this in the first place ...

Yes shitty, unbelievably shitty.

There are dozens of Linux builds, none of which are worth a damn for a desktop/ home theater use.
It should never have been released without a working graphical subsystem.

All but the stock build of android are uselessly unstable on my 4GB board.
The stock build does crash if I scroll too fast in Google Play music.

The stock build is unsupported by 95% of apps in the market.
Went to modify the build.prop in an attempt to fix this only to find adbd non functional.
If this is intended to be hacker friendly why not included functional adbd set to insecure mode and a tcp port by default?

Intentions were to work on porting Debian Kit to ARM64 and integrating with the stock rom, maybe converting it to run LVM later for Linux container use.
I think a hybrid GNU Linux/Android Linux could be cool and overcome many of the Mali short comings.

That said the Rock64 isn't worth the headache. I want to hack on, not against a device.
This it is getting relegated to my camp, as one of it's it's few saving grace's is HDMI without HDCP.

It's being replace with either a lepotato vs odroid c2.
Le potato is better supported by Debian and someone has already released a hybrid image in volkpc for the C2.

I regret buying this based on specs and misleading myself re mainlining. The kernel is just one part of a functional system.
I don't expect to buy another pine device.