<![CDATA[PINE64 - Android on Pinebook]]>

<![CDATA[PINE64 - Android on Pinebook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/ Sat, 16 May 2026 23:56:36 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[PrimeOS for Pinebook 1080p]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15288 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:37:15 +0000 teamprimeos]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15288 [Image: proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.c...74187b0a1d]

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PrimeOS is originally an Android-x86 based OS that provide desktop like experience on x86 based devices with top of the line features like Multi-Window, taskbar and Deca-pro Key mapping tool for playing games. Few weeks ago we received our Pinebook 1080p unit and started our work to port PrimeOS 0.5.0 to Pinebook.

Feature Highlights:

Multiple features to give a desktop experience like start menu, taskbar, etc.
Multi-window support with maximize, minimize, close, resize, etc.
Option to disable multi-window for any app in case you need.
General keyboard shortcuts like alt + tab, alt + f4, win + d etc.
Close to AOSP experience with only necessary desktop features.
Taskbar with the ability to pin apps, show notifications, and system icons.
Decapro key mapping tool to play games with keyboard and mouse (Press F10).
Built in Google apps.

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INSTALLATION STEPS:

Download the PrimeOS SD-card image from our FORUM.
Download BalenaEtcher from Etcher.io
Insert sdcard into a card reader and flash the image using Etcher.
Put the sdcard into Pinebook and boot up.

Note: You will need a very good SD Card with atleast 8GB of space to have the best experience.

KNOWN BUGS:

Colors in camera is not good.
Chrome Browser crashes.

! WE HAVE ONLY TESTED THIS IMAGE ON THE 1080P PINEBOOK !

! Report to us if you find any more bugs !

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Multiple features to give a desktop experience like start menu, taskbar, etc.
Multi-window support with maximize, minimize, close, resize, etc.
Option to disable multi-window for any app in case you need.
General keyboard shortcuts like alt + tab, alt + f4, win + d etc.
Close to AOSP experience with only necessary desktop features.
Taskbar with the ability to pin apps, show notifications, and system icons.
Decapro key mapping tool to play games with keyboard and mouse (Press F10).
Built in Google apps.

INSTALLATION STEPS:

Download the PrimeOS SD-card image from our FORUM.
Download BalenaEtcher from Etcher.io
Insert sdcard into a card reader and flash the image using Etcher.
Put the sdcard into Pinebook and boot up.

Note: You will need a very good SD Card with atleast 8GB of space to have the best experience.

KNOWN BUGS:

Colors in camera is not good.
Chrome Browser crashes.

! WE HAVE ONLY TESTED THIS IMAGE ON THE 1080P PINEBOOK !

! Report to us if you find any more bugs !

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PrimeOS for Pinebook is based on LineageOS 14.1 and it wouldn't have been possible without the work Ayufan and Alexandre(/e/) and we would like to thank them for their valuable work.

Please do not mirror without permission.

Consider donating on Ko-Fi to us to keep this awesome project up and running.]]> <![CDATA[SD2emmc custom android build]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8219 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:14:33 +0000 Phie]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8219 I've built my own android rom for the pinebook (the /e/ rom pinned) and I'm trying to create a sd2emmc image. I haven't been able to do it so far, I've tried to replace the pinebook.img inside kde neon, so it flashed android instead of kde neon, then it doesn't boot, looking for a partition that doesn't exist so it seems it is a problem of mount of partitions

fdisk: can't open '/dev/block/mmcblk0': No such file or directory

I'm guessing partitions are not in the right place
Any ideas ?

thanks]]> I've built my own android rom for the pinebook (the /e/ rom pinned) and I'm trying to create a sd2emmc image. I haven't been able to do it so far, I've tried to replace the pinebook.img inside kde neon, so it flashed android instead of kde neon, then it doesn't boot, looking for a partition that doesn't exist so it seems it is a problem of mount of partitions

fdisk: can't open '/dev/block/mmcblk0': No such file or directory

I'm guessing partitions are not in the right place
Any ideas ?

thanks]]> <![CDATA[Privacy of Android and Chromium on new PineBook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8055 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:21:31 +0000 Clea]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8055
I read that "Chromium OS and Android 9 are also available as an option" for PineBook. I wish to buy one.

Are these builds of Android and Chromium for PineBook without spyware from Google? Something like LinageOS/F-Droid? Can you please write a few details about the privacy of those builds?

I have no Google account but wish to use/test Android and Chromium. I cant use pure Debian because my toddler Heart

too young for Debian.]]>
I read that "Chromium OS and Android 9 are also available as an option" for PineBook. I wish to buy one.

Are these builds of Android and Chromium for PineBook without spyware from Google? Something like LinageOS/F-Droid? Can you please write a few details about the privacy of those builds?

I have no Google account but wish to use/test Android and Chromium. I cant use pure Debian because my toddler Heart

too young for Debian.]]> <![CDATA[[26/09/2019] /e/ on pinebook, lineage derivative]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7954 Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:05:10 +0000 Phie]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7954

I'm publishing a first really early version of the OS you can try on your pinebook.

Download

https://ecloud.global/s/W67mXRYxmfBxL2i

Archive:
12-09-2019 https://ecloud.global/s/PPcRrgxYdd2trso

Source repository:

https://gitlab.e.foundation/a64/

This was tested on a pinebook 1080p

As for ayufan build, you can change it to batch 1 or 2, and you can try it on other devices

Please tell me which issues you encounter

one that I already know are screen flickering on the pinebook 1080p
you can "fix" it (not a real fix) by enabling the "disable HW layer" in dev options

also
Camera has bad colors

Installation guide

With a linux computer

Extract the gz archive

insert a microsd of at least 8gB

then

Code:
sudo fdisk -l

Try to find your micro sd

should be something like /dev/sdX
be sure you've found the right device, next step will remove everything on it

then

Code:
sudo dd if=extacted-file-path of=/dev/sdX

replace X wil the letter you've found in previous step]]>

I'm publishing a first really early version of the OS you can try on your pinebook.

Download

https://ecloud.global/s/W67mXRYxmfBxL2i

Archive:
12-09-2019 https://ecloud.global/s/PPcRrgxYdd2trso

Source repository:

https://gitlab.e.foundation/a64/

This was tested on a pinebook 1080p

As for ayufan build, you can change it to batch 1 or 2, and you can try it on other devices

Please tell me which issues you encounter

one that I already know are screen flickering on the pinebook 1080p
you can "fix" it (not a real fix) by enabling the "disable HW layer" in dev options

also
Camera has bad colors

Installation guide

With a linux computer

Extract the gz archive

insert a microsd of at least 8gB

then

Code:
sudo fdisk -l

Try to find your micro sd

should be something like /dev/sdX
be sure you've found the right device, next step will remove everything on it

then

Code:
sudo dd if=extacted-file-path of=/dev/sdX

replace X wil the letter you've found in previous step]]> <![CDATA[Lineage + pinebook, havin an issue when porting it]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7871 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:04:15 +0000 Phie]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7871
I'm trying to port lineage to the pinebook however I'm facing an issue with surfaceflinger that keeps crashing

Here is a detailed log

https://framabin.org/p/?f8e00fe257ffa1ab...NOydmmqNc=

I've ported ayufan changes to lineage repo, I'm suspecting the av framework but I can't find my mistake, any ideas ?

By booting with ayufan native frameworks native the bootanimation appears but that's it, it's not going further, then processes are being killed with

Code:
[  362.251756] init: Starting service 'zygote'...

[  362.257818] init: Starting service 'audioserver'...

[  362.265320] init: Starting service 'cameraserver'...

[  362.272544] init: couldn't write 14298 to /dev/cpuset/camera-daemon/tasks: No such file or directory

[  362.273294] init: Starting service 'media'...

[  362.274808] init: Starting service 'netd'...

[  364.871632] CPU Budget hotplug: cluster0 min:4 max:4

[  364.877332] CPU Budget:update CPU 0 cpufreq max to 1152000 min to 480000

[  364.886352] CPU Budget hotplug: cluster0 min:4 max:4

[  364.891917] CPU Budget:update CPU 0 cpufreq max to 1152000 min to 816000

[  366.918650] binder: 14483: binder_alloc_buf, no vma

[  366.924122] binder: 1608:1637 transaction failed 29201, size 68-0

[  366.944339] binder: undelivered transaction 32999

[  366.949649] binder: undelivered transaction 32997

[  366.970261] binder: 1608:1636 transaction failed 29189, size 68-0

[  367.024959] init: Service 'zygote' (pid 14293) killed by signal 9

[  367.031700] init: Service 'zygote' (pid 14293) killing any children in process group

[  367.040363] init: write_file: Unable to open '/sys/android_power/request_state': No such file or directory

[  367.051115] init: write_file: Unable to write to '/sys/power/state': Invalid argument

[  367.059725] init: Service 'audioserver' is being killed...

[  367.065990] init: Service 'cameraserver' is being killed...

[  367.072520] init: Service 'media' is being killed...

[  367.078196] init: Service 'netd' is being killed...

[  367.089154] init: Service 'audioserver' (pid 14294) killed by signal 9

[  367.096496] init: Service 'audioserver' (pid 14294) killing any children in process group

Thanks]]>
I'm trying to port lineage to the pinebook however I'm facing an issue with surfaceflinger that keeps crashing

Here is a detailed log

https://framabin.org/p/?f8e00fe257ffa1ab...NOydmmqNc=

I've ported ayufan changes to lineage repo, I'm suspecting the av framework but I can't find my mistake, any ideas ?

By booting with ayufan native frameworks native the bootanimation appears but that's it, it's not going further, then processes are being killed with

Code:
[  362.251756] init: Starting service 'zygote'...

[  362.257818] init: Starting service 'audioserver'...

[  362.265320] init: Starting service 'cameraserver'...

[  362.272544] init: couldn't write 14298 to /dev/cpuset/camera-daemon/tasks: No such file or directory

[  362.273294] init: Starting service 'media'...

[  362.274808] init: Starting service 'netd'...

[  364.871632] CPU Budget hotplug: cluster0 min:4 max:4

[  364.877332] CPU Budget:update CPU 0 cpufreq max to 1152000 min to 480000

[  364.886352] CPU Budget hotplug: cluster0 min:4 max:4

[  364.891917] CPU Budget:update CPU 0 cpufreq max to 1152000 min to 816000

[  366.918650] binder: 14483: binder_alloc_buf, no vma

[  366.924122] binder: 1608:1637 transaction failed 29201, size 68-0

[  366.944339] binder: undelivered transaction 32999

[  366.949649] binder: undelivered transaction 32997

[  366.970261] binder: 1608:1636 transaction failed 29189, size 68-0

[  367.024959] init: Service 'zygote' (pid 14293) killed by signal 9

[  367.031700] init: Service 'zygote' (pid 14293) killing any children in process group

[  367.040363] init: write_file: Unable to open '/sys/android_power/request_state': No such file or directory

[  367.051115] init: write_file: Unable to write to '/sys/power/state': Invalid argument

[  367.059725] init: Service 'audioserver' is being killed...

[  367.065990] init: Service 'cameraserver' is being killed...

[  367.072520] init: Service 'media' is being killed...

[  367.078196] init: Service 'netd' is being killed...

[  367.089154] init: Service 'audioserver' (pid 14294) killed by signal 9

[  367.096496] init: Service 'audioserver' (pid 14294) killing any children in process group

Thanks]]> <![CDATA[1080P Android 7?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7574 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 19:05:46 +0000 toca180]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7574
Is it just Android 6 that runs on the 1080P Pinebook or does Android 7 run on 1080P Pinebook too?

Many thanks
toca180]]>
Is it just Android 6 that runs on the 1080P Pinebook or does Android 7 run on 1080P Pinebook too?

Many thanks
toca180]]> <![CDATA[Stock Android for 1080P Pinebook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6835 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:09:57 +0000 pineadmin]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6835 Wiki and PINE64 Installer.]]> Wiki and PINE64 Installer.]]> <![CDATA[Android for 1080p Pinebook?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6776 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 22:51:27 +0000 Tomash]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6776
Therefore, does anyone know when any Android for 1080p Pinebook will be released? When will the official one appear?

It's a wonderful low-cost linux laptop, but for consuming multimedia content (streaming services) Android would be much better.]]>
Therefore, does anyone know when any Android for 1080p Pinebook will be released? When will the official one appear?

It's a wonderful low-cost linux laptop, but for consuming multimedia content (streaming services) Android would be much better.]]> <![CDATA[OpenGL ES3]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6182 Sun, 17 Jun 2018 02:27:29 +0000 Bram]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6182 I would use it for developing Android apps.

Can I just hook up the pinebook via USB to my PC, and have Android Studio install apps on it?

Also, does this device have OpenGL ES3 support?

Thanks.

Bram]]> I would use it for developing Android apps.

Can I just hook up the pinebook via USB to my PC, and have Android Studio install apps on it?

Also, does this device have OpenGL ES3 support?

Thanks.

Bram]]> <![CDATA[android 7.1 v0.3.10-r66 wifi issues]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5024 Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:40:08 +0000 m1ntamorph]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5024
I have noticed the 90% of the times when I turn on the pinebook the wifi does not work. If I check the settings it seems to be active and stuck at looking for hotspots. No amount of starting /stopping the wifi works. The only way to fix this is to activate Flight Mode and then deactivate it after a few seconds. Any idea? Any suggestion for a permanent fix ? Thanks]]>
I have noticed the 90% of the times when I turn on the pinebook the wifi does not work. If I check the settings it seems to be active and stuck at looking for hotspots. No amount of starting /stopping the wifi works. The only way to fix this is to activate Flight Mode and then deactivate it after a few seconds. Any idea? Any suggestion for a permanent fix ? Thanks]]> <![CDATA[Android Oreo?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4995 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:45:25 +0000 epigon]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4995
Any chance of Oreo on the Pinebook?

Thanx

Fred]]>
Any chance of Oreo on the Pinebook?

Thanx

Fred]]> <![CDATA[Bliss OS for Pinebook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5058 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:45:08 +0000 tllim]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5058 (08-05-2017, 09:28 AM)amilino Wrote: What is the ETA. for Bliss? With working VPN of course. Smile

The new Pinebook batch just released and we have reserved for BlissROM folks. Their pinebook will be shipped out on few days time.]]> (08-05-2017, 09:28 AM)amilino Wrote: What is the ETA. for Bliss? With working VPN of course. Smile

The new Pinebook batch just released and we have reserved for BlissROM folks. Their pinebook will be shipped out on few days time.]]> <![CDATA[No sound after suspend]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4826 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:13:18 +0000 kurai021]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4826 ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Do not update SudoSu on A 7.1]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4727 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:46:35 +0000 Luke]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4727 do not update SudoSu in the A7.1 image as it breaks the installation.

You can permanently prevent SudoSu from nagging you about updating by following these steps:

Open the Google Play Store, go to Menu -> Settings.
Tap on the "Auto-update apps" and select one of the two "Auto-update apps" options to enable it.
Go back, then go to "My apps" section, locate the app you want (e.g. anti-virus app that you mentioned) and tap on it once.
Now tap the Menu button and the first option should be the "Auto-update." Ensure the checkmark is present for this app.
For all other apps that you have installed, you will need to follow steps 3 and 4, but this time disable the "Auto-update" setting by unchecking it.

(source: https://android.stackexchange.com/questi...ingle-app)]]> do not update SudoSu in the A7.1 image as it breaks the installation.

You can permanently prevent SudoSu from nagging you about updating by following these steps:

Open the Google Play Store, go to Menu -> Settings.
Tap on the "Auto-update apps" and select one of the two "Auto-update apps" options to enable it.
Go back, then go to "My apps" section, locate the app you want (e.g. anti-virus app that you mentioned) and tap on it once.
Now tap the Menu button and the first option should be the "Auto-update." Ensure the checkmark is present for this app.
For all other apps that you have installed, you will need to follow steps 3 and 4, but this time disable the "Auto-update" setting by unchecking it.

(source: https://android.stackexchange.com/questi...ingle-app)]]> <![CDATA[Apps not working]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4702 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:43:56 +0000 milkaca]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4702