Pinebook Software Releases

Linux Image Releases

Special thanks to Sunxi community, ayufan, and longsleep for their contributions.

Below you will find useful links to various resources and forum threads:

• Sunxi Pinebook Page

Xenial Mate eMMC

Xenial Mate Community Build Image [0.6.2-77] [MicroSD to eMMC] by ayufan

• This is the default OS comes with Pinebook
• Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
• This is MicroSD install to eMMC version. Please follow bootup screen to complete eMMC installation process
• Included Mate Desktop, Firebox Browser, and LibreOffice Suite
• Not yet optimize for Graphic and Video HW acceleration
• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above):
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file):
    • File Size:
• Login with
  • username: pine64
  • password: pine64

Xenial Mate

Xenial Mate Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot] by ayufan

• Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
• Included Mate Desktop, Firebox Browser, and LibreOffice Suite
• Not yet optimize for Graphic and Video HW acceleration
• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above):
  • Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for xenial-mate-pinebook-bspkernel-x.x.x-xx.img.xz
• Login with
  • username: pine64
  • password: pine64

Xenial Minimal Image

Xenial Minimal Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot] by ayufan

• This is the latest Xenial 16.04 image provided by ayufan based on longsleep base image. NB. This is a base image and doesn't come with a DE.
• Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
  • Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for simple-image-pinebook-x.x.x.img.xz
• Login with
  • username: pine64
  • password: pine64
• Execute sudo /usr/local/sbin/resize_rootfs.sh script to resize the root partition in order to fully utilize the SD Card
• To update to the newest uboot, kernel and fixes use scripts found in /usr/local/sbin/
• Install Mate DE using: sudo /usr/local/sbin/install_desktop.sh

Armbian

Armbian Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot]

• Armbian provides a build system and images for Debian/Xenial with BSP kernel and mainline kernel (beta)
• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
  • Pinebook Armbian download mirrors
• Login with
  • username: root
  • password: 1234
• To find out more about Armbian and available options please visit their site.

Q4OS

Q4OS Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot]

• Q4OS is advertised as a 'fast and powerful operating system based on the latest technologies while offering highly productive desktop environment'
• To learn more please visit the forum or official Q4OS website
• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
  • Direct download latest release build from SourceForge and look for q4os-x.x-pinebook.xx.zip
• login with:
  • username: adminq
  • password: adminq

i3

i3 Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot] by ayufan

• DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
  • Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for xenial-i3-pinebook-bspkernel-x.x.x-xx.img.xz
• Login with
  • Username: pine64
  • Password: pine64

Android Image Releases

Android 7.x

Android 7.1 Community Build Image [MicroSD Boot] by ayufan

• Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
• Please use good random IO access performance microSD card such as Samsung EVO when try out Android 7.1
• DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
  • Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for android-7.1-pine-a64-pinebook-x.x.x-xx.img.gz
• Please allows some time (around 5 minutes) for the initialization process on 1st boot

Android 6.x eMMC

Android 6.0.1 Stock Image [20170605] [MicroSD to eMMC]

• Rootable build, online update (OTA) only work when the build still not root
• LCD resolution is 1366 x 768
• Rooted DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
  • • Direct download from pine64.org
      • MD5 (GZip file): C99BF459C6724BA73F12C532E87A8BA5
      • File Size: 776MB

Bliss OS

Bliss OS [20170919] [MicroSD Boot]

• An Open-Source OS, based on Android, for phones, tablets & PCs.
• Multi-Windows Android Build
• You can visit the Bliss OS website here
• DD image:
  • Direct download from blissroms.com
    • MD5 (GZip file): 6B5BC28D69D575BA5448AD8081A0D356
    • File Size: 921MB
• Use the Taskbar launcher for Desktop mode UI

Linux BSP SDK

Linux BSP [3.0]

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 898ACF446851DF3BE7B643F62CE3CE84
  • File Size: 4.18GB

Linux BSP [2.0], kernel [v3.10], with GPL compliance header

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 2EE11C9AED246C17995493F213A6A6DA
  • File Size: 6.41GB

Android SDK

Android Nougat [v7.0]

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 5D23D65BC1AA32B9048F62A4176BD9B3
  • File Size: 22.60GB

Android Marshmallow [v6.0]

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (Zip file): 12362D0B63EBF29FC363A50A942346D5
  • File Size: 12.17GB

Mali-400 64-bit Driver

Mali-400 64-bit Driver [20160622]

• Mali 64-bit Driver Download

Other Tools

• Allwinner PhoenixCard Bootable SD-Card Creator
• Allwinner DragonFace V2.2.5 software that will let you edit and modify A64 Android Build PhoenixCard image
  • Direct download at Mega

Checking microSD Card Performance and whether it is Counterfeit

• H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives
• F3 - an alternative to h2testw

This will help you to determine if the SD-Card is Counterfeit Drive or not