Orange PI PC - android doesn't boot

pjga · Published in 2015-10-9 15:09:51

Hi

I received my Orange PI PC in this week. I installed the newest Debian (XFCE) and Lubuntu (LXDE) and almost everything works properly (except of course full support of GPU and in Debian only one USB port works but this is probably because of the kernel).

But...
Android doesn't start. It starts with H3 logo and stops. Nothing more happen. I waited about 1,5h and nothing.
I installed the image via PhoenixCard just based on the manual.

Any ideas?

crazykill · Published in 2015-10-9 21:10:29

What card are you using ?

pjga · Published in 2015-10-10 01:33:54

crazykill replied at 2015-10-9 21:10
What card are you using ?

Great idea!
I used a SanDisk 2GB and it doesn't work but Toshiba 8GB works perfectly.
Thank you.

crazykill · Published in 2015-10-14 02:14:46

You are welcome.Make sure to use a high speed sd card. UHS-I makes a enormous difference in boot time.

Jannyun · Published in 2015-10-14 17:12:44

Found 3 cases:
1) Debian / Ubuntu. All works but video movies (seems MALI driver problem).
2) Android boots ok, video plays good, but no ethernet
3) Android do not boots even first time, no GUI, uart-ttl console freezes, cpu gets hot.

pjga · Published in 2015-10-15 02:40:55

Edited by pjga at 2015-10-15 02:42

I found the solution!!!
That's a little bit crazy.
I've checked it and the whole problem on the Orange PI PC is the memory card...

At first I used Sandisk 2 GB - Android doesn't boot but the card was too small based on requrements.

The second was Toshiba 8GB (class 4) - Andoid started but Ethernet doesn't work. I received a message that system cannot initialize gmac (hardware error).

And my last card - SanDisk Extreme 32GB - everything works!!!
Android starts and Ethernet works.