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FAQs

About CubieTech

TBD

General

  • What is difference between Cubieboard, Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck?
Cubieboard 1 Cubieboard 2 Cubietruck(Cubieboard 3)
CPU Cortex-A8 1GHz dual core Cortex-A7 (912MHz each) dual core Cortex-A7 (912MHz each)
RAM 1 GB 1 GB 2 GB
Storage 4 GB onboard + expandable sdcard upto 32GB 4 GB onboard + expandable sdcard upto 32GB 8 GB onboard + expandable sdcard upto 32GB
VGA No (Available via baseboard/hdmi-vga convertor) No (Available via baseboard/hdmi-vga convertor) Yes
Wifi+blutooth No No Yes
Ethernet 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 1 Gbps
RTC No No Yes
Android ICS 4.0.4 4.2.2 Jelly Bean 4.2.2 Jelly Bean

About CubieBoard

  • Backup/Restore a SD card system image

If you're not going to specify a block size with dd, you can simply redirect from/to /dev/sdX:

gzip < /dev/sdX > bkp.img.gz
gunzip < bkp.img.gz > /dev/sdX
  • How to use whole SD card

you may use GPARTED to make it, but you may use other PC to help you, you can check http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ for more information. Also you can try to use the resize2fs command, e.g.

#resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

About CubieTruck

  • Where I can get a default kernel config and sys_config file?
http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/common/
  • Why Cubietruck pcb shape is different than Cubieboard?
TBD
  • Why Cubietruck pcb has gap in rectangle shape?

This gap was designed for HDD(Hard disk) adding.

  • What is meaning of different color LEDs on cubietruck?
COLOR MEANING DESC
1 blue heatbet running
2 orange cpu0 cpu0 load
3 white cpu1 cpu1 load
4 green mmc0 mmc0 load
TBD
  • How to put case on Cubietruck?
TBD
  • Wich battery voltage and type should be used?
TBD
  • Is there any Linux application where you can monitor battery level?

exported via sysfs

  • It´s possible to switch betwen DC Adapter to battery without booting it

Of course yes.

About Roadmap

  • 2013 Q3: Cubietruck(Cubieboard3)
  • 2013 Q4: Cubieboard4(8 cores, big.LITTLE architecture)

About Business

TBD

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