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Freshman Page [A.K.A. Quick Start Guide]

Needed:

  • Pine A64 or A64+ board
  • Power Supply (PSU and micro USB cable), make sure spec at +5V @2A
  • MicroSD card, 4GB and above, speed at least class 10. Please note that there are a lot of fake microSD card in market. If the price too good to be true considers fake.
  • HDMI cable except for headless build
  • Input device(s) - (keyboard, mouse, remote, pointer, etc)

Steps:

  • 1.Firstly, be careful handling the Pine A64 board to make sure it is not subjected to electrostatic discharge. Wearing and correctly utilizing a grounding strap can help to mitigate the risks of ESD. At any rate, handle the board at the edges, avoid touching components on the board, and place on a safe surface (avoid carpets and any other material that is prone electrostatic build-up).
  • 2.Then you'll need a reliable 5 volt, 2 amp (or higher) power supply. This is very important. If the amperage rating of the power supply is too low, the board will not boot properly. A marginally higher voltage for the PSU is ok (such as 5.1 volts - due to the nature of the micro usb connection, a 5.1v supply can help protect slightly against voltage drops which can cause undesirable function), but a significantly higher voltage more than 7 volt will damage the Pine A64 board and may render it inoperative.
  • 3.If using a power supply with a separate micro USB cable, make sure to use a cable with low resistance. Cables with high resistance will cause improper function and the unit may have trouble booting up. The thicker the internal cabling, the better (i.e. AWG (American Wire Gauge) 20 is better than AWG 28). In General, the power-only micro USB cable comes with red color USB header.
  • 4.You will also need a decent microSD card. There are many sub-standard and fake microSD cards in circulation, and using just such a card will cause issues booting up. There are ways of testing microSD cards prior to installing the operating system to make sure they are ok for use. The main one is H2testw 1.4. Another is F3.
  • 5.Next, you'll want a decent HDMI cable. As with micro USB cabling, quality of HDMI cable can vary a lot, so try and go for quality rather than cheapness. If you are using a HDMI to VGA/DVI adapter, be aware that some work better than others.
  • 6.Finally, you will want to have a way of controlling the on-screen cursor and of typing, thus you will need a keyboard, mouse, touchpad/trackpad, or some kind of combo device that combines these two things.
  • 7.After you have all the physical things you need, you will need to download and install the operating system to microSD card. Using Win32 Disk Imager in Windows, or via the dd command in Unix-based systems to burn the microSD card.
  • 8. The onboard LED light just indicate power on status, LED will not blink during boot up or encounter error.

Recommended OS build DD image for Freshman

  • using 8GB class 10 microSD card

File:8GB microSD.jpg

Debian Linux with Mate GUI 20160422 by lenny.raposo with Longsleep kernel

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Ubuntu Linux Image base on Longsleep 20160421 image, Pine64

File:Logo ubuntu.jpg

  • Suitable for 1GB/2GB Pine A64+ Board, not suitable for 512MB Pine A64 Board due to system memory constrain
  • Direct download from pine64.org
  • Torrent Download
    • MD5 (Zip file) : 1cd06bdcbc1ceaf80b81c46638045ff7
    • File Size: 1.8GB
  • Base on longsleep xubuntu-xenial 20160415
  • Added xubuntu-desktop GUI
  • Login with
    • username: ubuntu
    • password: ubuntu

Android 5.1.1 Image Release 20160303

File:Logo android lollipop.jpg

Remix OS 2.0 Image Release 20160415 Beta

Logo remix.jpg

  • Suitable for 2GB Pine A64+ Board, can runs on 1GB Pine A64+ Board with performance lagging, not suitable for 512MB Pine A64 Board
  • Direct download from pine64.org
  • Torrent download
    • MD5 (Zip file): efeb178d28593d4d928f70c8506953a4
    • File Size: 1.2GB

SoC Specification

  • Based on Allwinner A64

CPU Architecture

  • Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1152Mhz
  • A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
  • 64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
  • Support NEON Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instruction for acceleration of media and signal processing function
  • Support Large Physical Address Extensions(LPAE)
  • VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
  • 32KB L1 Instruction cache and 32KB L1 Data cache
  • 512KB L2 cache

GPU Architecture

System Memory

  • Main Memory Option: 512KB, 1GB and 2GB.
  • Storage Memory: No build in Flash memory, fully base on bootable microSD Card or USB attached storage.

Board Features

Video

  • HDMI 1.4a (Type A - full)

Audio

  • 3.5mm stereo earphone/microphone plug

Network

  • 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet(Pine A64+ version), 10/100Mbps Ethernet(Pine A64 version)
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with Bluetooth 4.0 (optional)

Storage

  • mricoSD - bootable, support SDHC and SDXC, storage up to 256GB
  • USB - 2 USB2.0 Host port

Expansion Ports

  • DSI - Display Serial Interface, 4 lanes MiPi, up to 1080P
  • CSI - CMOS Camera Interface up to 5 mega pixel
  • TP - Touch Panel Port, SPI with interrupt
  • RTC - Real Time Clock Battery Connector
  • VBAT - Lithium Battery Connector with temperature sensor input
  • Wifi/BT Module Header - SDIO 3.0 and UART
  • 2x20 pins "Pi2" GPIO Header
  • 2x17 pins "Euler" GPIO Header
  • 2x5 pins "EXP" Console Header

Power Usage

  • Input Power: DC 5V @ 2A, 3.7V Li-Ion battery connector, microUSB connector, Euler connector
  • Power Consumption: 2.5W

Software/Image Download

Board Dimension

  • 133mm x 80mm x 19mm

Pine A64 Hardware PCB information

Datasheet

Pine A64 POT

Related Information

Other Resources in the Net

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