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<![CDATA[PINE64 - General Discussion on PINE A64(+)]]> https://forum.pine64.org/ Thu, 14 May 2026 23:42:53 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Pine a64+ power supply]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=20223 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:02:55 +0000 davidspencer]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=20223 I’m new here. A friend gave me his old Pine A64+ that I want to use to run a program for my 3D printer. I’ve run into some problems and narrowed them down to a few possibilities, one of which is the power supply. What do you all use for your Pine A64+ boards?

Right now I’m using a USB cable from an old 5 V phone charger plugged into a cheap surge‑protected power strip. Is that okay, or do I need a more stable or controlled power source?]]> I’m new here. A friend gave me his old Pine A64+ that I want to use to run a program for my 3D printer. I’ve run into some problems and narrowed them down to a few possibilities, one of which is the power supply. What do you all use for your Pine A64+ boards?

Right now I’m using a USB cable from an old 5 V phone charger plugged into a cheap surge‑protected power strip. Is that okay, or do I need a more stable or controlled power source?]]> <![CDATA[Pine A64+ lost 7" screen functionality after kernel 6.1]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=20115 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:03:47 +0000 Learnincurve]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=20115
I was successfully running Armbian on my Pine A64+ board, using the 7" touch screen from 2016, first using the Longsleep kernel, with mainline kernels from 2021.

See https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=3482 thread for more details.

Regular Armbian upgrades were fine until around the beginning of this year - Armbian kernel 6.1.104 (02/02/2025).

But a kernel version somewhere beween that and the next currently available Armbian kernel 6.6.750 (03/02/25) has broken the output to the touchscreen.

I haven't been able top source intermediate kernels and device trees, so can't say exactly where the change happened that broke the output.

Rolling back to 6.1.104 fixes the display with no other changes.

I don't see any changes in logging boutput related to mipi-dsi or display and don't have access to a serial connection to view the early boot process, so am stuck.

Does anyone else still use this board with the 7" touchsceen and have they been able to run it with a kernel later than 6.1.x?

I'd be very interested to know what changed and how to fix it without freezing the kernel.]]>
I was successfully running Armbian on my Pine A64+ board, using the 7" touch screen from 2016, first using the Longsleep kernel, with mainline kernels from 2021.

See https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=3482 thread for more details.

Regular Armbian upgrades were fine until around the beginning of this year - Armbian kernel 6.1.104 (02/02/2025).

But a kernel version somewhere beween that and the next currently available Armbian kernel 6.6.750 (03/02/25) has broken the output to the touchscreen.

I haven't been able top source intermediate kernels and device trees, so can't say exactly where the change happened that broke the output.

Rolling back to 6.1.104 fixes the display with no other changes.

I don't see any changes in logging boutput related to mipi-dsi or display and don't have access to a serial connection to view the early boot process, so am stuck.

Does anyone else still use this board with the 7" touchsceen and have they been able to run it with a kernel later than 6.1.x?

I'd be very interested to know what changed and how to fix it without freezing the kernel.]]> <![CDATA[Pine 64 installer OS list blank]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19783 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:04:35 +0000 spamsucks]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19783
Board:
pine 64 + 2 gig
A64-DB-2G-Rev B

My system
Windows 11 pro
32 GB ram
External SD card reader (the SD card is showing up to the PC)]]>
Board:
pine 64 + 2 gig
A64-DB-2G-Rev B

My system
Windows 11 pro
32 GB ram
External SD card reader (the SD card is showing up to the PC)]]> <![CDATA[Need OS]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19570 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:26:31 +0000 mtcomp]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19570 I have also installed on my computer even going back to older systems Phoenix card win 32 disk manager and Etcher
with 7 zip and i can not find an *.IMG for the life of me can some one please tell me what I'm doing wrong or give me a link to the correct software

Please and thank you]]> I have also installed on my computer even going back to older systems Phoenix card win 32 disk manager and Etcher
with 7 zip and i can not find an *.IMG for the life of me can some one please tell me what I'm doing wrong or give me a link to the correct software

Please and thank you]]> <![CDATA[Installer Help !]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19378 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:28:54 +0000 jacktrade]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19378
I have a Pine A64 that I want to start using again, and I tried to downloaded the Pine64 installer, to install lunix OS, from the github repo here and it is not functional! Blush

When i was first using this board a few years ago the software worked. The sofware will not let me select a my type of board or what type of software I want to flash to it. I tried downloading it on my Mac and windows, and they both do not work. So then I tried using etcher to flash my sd card with this ububtu arm image but it didnt work either.

When I plug the board in it with the flashed sd card it only turns on with a red light. Does anyone know if it is my SD card or my board. I have not used this in a long time and there isnt much support on it.

Any help will be appreciated Smile

!]]>
I have a Pine A64 that I want to start using again, and I tried to downloaded the Pine64 installer, to install lunix OS, from the github repo here and it is not functional! Blush

!]]> <![CDATA[Looking for Customer onboarding solution]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19119 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:06:12 +0000 lokeshjoshi94]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19119
I am new here and do not know this is the right place to ask the query or not but i hope i will get a positive response. I am looking for a customer onboarding solution for my organization. I searched this on the internet and found many results. i am confused to which one to choose. can anyone please help me on this?

Thank You]]>
I am new here and do not know this is the right place to ask the query or not but i hope i will get a positive response. I am looking for a customer onboarding solution for my organization. I searched this on the internet and found many results. i am confused to which one to choose. can anyone please help me on this?

Thank You]]> <![CDATA[Max Ethernet Throughput PineA64+]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18972 Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:44:02 +0000 kapqa]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18972
I was investigating the max throughput via Ethernet of the Raspberry Pi3 model B+ since it has supposedly 1000Gbps Ethernet; but since this Ethernet runs over USB 2.0 Bus, it gives supposedly a max throughput of around 300Mbps.

Would like to investigate if this is the same for the Pine A64+ or if this board is more modern in this regard, eg. capable of higher throughputs over Ethernet?

Thank you very much for your answers.

thanks I think the answer is that the pine a64 is actually capable of the 1 Gbps over Ethernet;

tried this with iperf3

and got the results for Pine A64+ (2 GB version)
[ 4] local 192.168.0 port 49776 connected to 192.168.0 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 108 MBytes 910 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 113 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 113 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 112 MBytes 943 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 113 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 112 MBytes 943 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 112 MBytes 943 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 112 MBytes 943 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 112 MBytes 943 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 940 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 937 Mbits/sec receiver

whereas on the Raspberry Pi2 Model B with a USB 3 Ethernet Dongle (over Usb2.0 port) got the following results
[ 4] local 192.168.0 port 49794 connected to 192.168.10 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 39.8 MBytes 333 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 36.5 MBytes 306 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 36.6 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 37.0 MBytes 310 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 36.6 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 36.5 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 36.6 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 312 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 36.7 MBytes 308 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 36.5 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 370 MBytes 310 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 366 MBytes 307 Mbits/sec receiver

iperf Done.

hence if the Raspberry Pi3 Model B+ still has the Ethernet going over the Usb 2.0 bus, the results should be similar to those of the Raspberry Pi2 Model B.
(please disregard the IP numbers for the SBCs since changed those for this post).]]> <![CDATA[External storage problem for pine64]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18546 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:28:41 +0000 Dani6102]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18546 I have recently bought a pine64 and i am using it as a plex server with USB-stick as extra drive to not fill the sd card, unfortunately when i tried to connect a 1tb 2,5 HDD from seagate it wasn't reading it's content, from searching online i found out that the usb2.0 do not provide enough power, and i was now wondering if they could support an SSD or if i need to buy an usb hub.

do you have any suggestion about my problem?

thanks!]]> I have recently bought a pine64 and i am using it as a plex server with USB-stick as extra drive to not fill the sd card, unfortunately when i tried to connect a 1tb 2,5 HDD from seagate it wasn't reading it's content, from searching online i found out that the usb2.0 do not provide enough power, and i was now wondering if they could support an SSD or if i need to buy an usb hub.

do you have any suggestion about my problem?

thanks!]]> <![CDATA[PINE A64 SBC: Clone of a functional 32GB SD card doesn't boot]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18205 Sat, 06 May 2023 12:01:09 +0000 burningkrome]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18205
I've created a full disk backup of this 32GB SD card using AOMEI Backupper, and then restored the entire disk to a new 64GB SD card. The restore is successful, and the disk looks OK, but the 64GB card won't boot. Putting it in the Pine64 and powering on simply remains at a black screen (the original SD boots as soon as I plug the Pine64 in. I don't have to press a "Start" button or anything.)

I have also tried this with a 256 SD card, with the same results.

I have tried copying the entire 32GB SD card with DD in linux, and restoring via DD. Same problem.

What am I missing. Does the new disk have to have a boot sector activated or something?

I absolutely can't see the difference (see image for full details about the drive and copy)...

[Image: 6rXMvv3]

https://ibb.co/6rXMvv3 (If image link is broken)

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I've created a full disk backup of this 32GB SD card using AOMEI Backupper, and then restored the entire disk to a new 64GB SD card. The restore is successful, and the disk looks OK, but the 64GB card won't boot. Putting it in the Pine64 and powering on simply remains at a black screen (the original SD boots as soon as I plug the Pine64 in. I don't have to press a "Start" button or anything.)

I have also tried this with a 256 SD card, with the same results.

I have tried copying the entire 32GB SD card with DD in linux, and restoring via DD. Same problem.

What am I missing. Does the new disk have to have a boot sector activated or something?

I absolutely can't see the difference (see image for full details about the drive and copy)...

[Image: 6rXMvv3]

https://ibb.co/6rXMvv3 (If image link is broken)

.png

Blank diagram (4).png (Size: 485.52 KB / Downloads: 463) ]]> <![CDATA[PINE A64 Ubuntu 18 or 20 IMG with touchscreen?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18181 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:13:33 +0000 burningkrome]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18181
QUESTION: Is there an Ubuntu 18 or 20 image for this Pine64, that also works with the touchscreen out of the box?

Alternative: Or instructions for installing Ubuntu 18/20 including configuring the touchscreen?

Thanks!
]]>
QUESTION: Is there an Ubuntu 18 or 20 image for this Pine64, that also works with the touchscreen out of the box?

Alternative: Or instructions for installing Ubuntu 18/20 including configuring the touchscreen?

Thanks!
]]> <![CDATA[Jack connector problem]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17586 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:46:14 +0000 pinebug]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17586
I am unable to output any sound from jack. I tried different headphones, including Samsung smartphone earpiece (told to be compatible, according to a pine64 forum).
Tried dozens of tips and tricks found here (with alsa, amixer, alsamixer, pulseaudio), but no success.

Finally, i traced dmesg during headphone plug-in and plug-out, and what I found was intriging :

This is what I get when plugging IN :

[ 3517.655643] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3517.663413] jack: irq plug-in
[ 3517.696086] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3517.762223] jack: plug-out reported

=> so the headphone is reported being plugged out, when I plug it in.

This is what I get when plugging OUT :

[ 3532.479203] jack: irq plug-in
[ 3532.487846] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3532.496029] jack: irq plug-in

=> the headphone is reported being plugged in when I plug it out.

Strange... Can this be the source of my problem ?

More information :

root@DietPi:~# aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sun50ia64audio [sun50i-a64-audio], device 0: 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0 [1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Any idea ?

Thanks]]>
I am unable to output any sound from jack. I tried different headphones, including Samsung smartphone earpiece (told to be compatible, according to a pine64 forum).
Tried dozens of tips and tricks found here (with alsa, amixer, alsamixer, pulseaudio), but no success.

Finally, i traced dmesg during headphone plug-in and plug-out, and what I found was intriging :

This is what I get when plugging IN :

[ 3517.655643] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3517.663413] jack: irq plug-in
[ 3517.696086] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3517.762223] jack: plug-out reported

=> so the headphone is reported being plugged out, when I plug it in.

This is what I get when plugging OUT :

[ 3532.479203] jack: irq plug-in
[ 3532.487846] jack: irq plug-out
[ 3532.496029] jack: irq plug-in

=> the headphone is reported being plugged in when I plug it out.

Strange... Can this be the source of my problem ?

More information :

root@DietPi:~# aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sun50ia64audio [sun50i-a64-audio], device 0: 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0 [1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Any idea ?

Thanks]]> <![CDATA[Pine A64 does only boot with Android 5.1]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16926 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:09:21 +0000 Dude]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16926
recently, i got the Pine A64 2GB. I bought a SanDisk Ultra Class10 32GB sdcard to flash the OS on it.

I tried a bunch of OS's but none of them were booting.

After reading a couple of threads in this forum about the power that the Pine needs to run, i bought a matching charger and a cable. With that, i was able to boot Android 5.1. But none of the other OS's like Remix_OS, Armbian and others boot.

To flash the sdcard, i use Etcher for windows 10 attachted to a 2.0 Cardreader thats connected to an 3.0 port. That flashes the OS about three times faster than the 2.0 port. I mention that because i dont know if the port might cause the problem due to the speed the 3.0 port provide. Like, the OS flashes too fast or something like that. I'm a bit desperate.

In general, i'm fine with android but i would like to try different OS's.

Is there something missing or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help!]]>
recently, i got the Pine A64 2GB. I bought a SanDisk Ultra Class10 32GB sdcard to flash the OS on it.

I tried a bunch of OS's but none of them were booting.

After reading a couple of threads in this forum about the power that the Pine needs to run, i bought a matching charger and a cable. With that, i was able to boot Android 5.1. But none of the other OS's like Remix_OS, Armbian and others boot.

To flash the sdcard, i use Etcher for windows 10 attachted to a 2.0 Cardreader thats connected to an 3.0 port. That flashes the OS about three times faster than the 2.0 port. I mention that because i dont know if the port might cause the problem due to the speed the 3.0 port provide. Like, the OS flashes too fast or something like that. I'm a bit desperate.

In general, i'm fine with android but i would like to try different OS's.

Is there something missing or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help!]]> <![CDATA[Pine64(+) and manjaro]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16434 Wed, 06 Apr 2022 05:32:27 +0000 dsychan]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16434 <![CDATA[Pine64 as wireless audio device]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16413 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:40:22 +0000 S265]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16413 The Rock64 works quietly away in the corner. It runs on Armbian Bullseye and has be very reliable, including periodic loss of power. It runs the postfix email server.

Anyway to the point. Pine64. I have seen frequent blogs and how-to's about using the Raspberry Pi for an Audio wireless connection to any speaker.
Can we use the Pine64 for this purpose. I would probably need a dac on it, and power supply. Has anyone done this? Do you see any problems?

The Pine64 is no cost while the Raspberry Pi would be an additional cost for this idea.]]> The Rock64 works quietly away in the corner. It runs on Armbian Bullseye and has be very reliable, including periodic loss of power. It runs the postfix email server.

Anyway to the point. Pine64. I have seen frequent blogs and how-to's about using the Raspberry Pi for an Audio wireless connection to any speaker.
Can we use the Pine64 for this purpose. I would probably need a dac on it, and power supply. Has anyone done this? Do you see any problems?

The Pine64 is no cost while the Raspberry Pi would be an additional cost for this idea.]]> <![CDATA[GPIO performance]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15057 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:31:24 +0000 sgjava]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15057 https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...using-perf. My mapping file is https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...properties Is this reasonable?]]> https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...using-perf. My mapping file is https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...properties Is this reasonable?]]>