Edited by markcross at 2016-1-28 06:16

Hi - I've been struggling....

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on to the miniSD using Phoenix v3.1.0 all I seemed to get was burn errors. I'd tried other versions as well....

It's been driving me MAD. I've watched youtube video till they are coming out of my bottom!

• I used a SanDisk UHS-I card 16GB Class 10
• Under Windows 10
• Did a FULL FORMAT - not quick under Windows
• Ran Phoenix v3.1.0
• Selected .img file
• Select "Startup" Write Mode
• It worked without errors
  

Everytime I followed the instructions on http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html#Install_Android_OS_image

To first format the card to "Format to Normal" aways appears to cause the errors :-(

OK now to actually running it.

• Insert into Orange PI PC
• Switch on
• Get red light on board
• Get "ALLWINNER H3 Quad-Core" logo on screen
• WAIT SEVERAL MINUTES, I rebooted by power-off several times - just takes AGES patience young Grasshopper.
• An initial screen comes up - click right hand side, then another "OK" (I guess...)
• Now get to settings and study the last screen grab
• Click on blocked "A" icon which is "Language & input"
• Next choose the option at the top
• Choose your language - SORTED :-)
  

Edited by bigohshin at 2016-1-28 23:30

I struggled through same phoenix crashes.
I believe the formatting  is important.I use SDFormatter. Don't need to do "full" format. "quick" works. Though I do enable "size adjustment".

Works everytime now, no matter what card, e.g. 2gb kingston 4gb samsung 8gb SD, etc...
The rom I use: Beelink_X2-SC_V1.1-Custom_ROM
AND... Kodi works almost perfectly!

Interesting report thank you, where do you get that ROM from?

As an FYI

I noticed that some of "phoenix write errors" are dependent on the card reader being used.

In my case Phoenix always generates a write errors with my laptops builtin SHDC reader and a cheap SHDC only (single device) reader. But an external USB multicard card reader works just fine - all tested with the same SHDC card.....