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Published in 2015-2-3 23:44:54 | Show all floors |Read mode
Edited by gaara at 2015-2-3 23:52

Hi all,
The upgrade key is the button next to the VGA interface.
I think it's used to boot the orange pi with a USB key (or a cd/dvd rom ?), but how to use it?
I tried to push it at the same time the power button, without SD card, just a USB key. Nothing appears on the screen. The USB key was written with the same method than the SD card (bananian-141102.img & dd on Ubuntu).
The SD card is it mandatory to start with this method?

Thanks for all informations
Gaara
Published in 2015-2-5 14:45:04 | Show all floors
You use usb burn image with pressing upgrade key.

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Published in 2015-2-6 02:28:25 | Show all floors
Steven you mean that I can just dd an iso file to an usb device then connect it and with the upgrade key boot from it?
If so does it matter which usb port I use?
You can also reach me on freenode irc, channel #orangepi username eFfeM

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 Author| Published in 2015-2-6 06:15:22 | Show all floors
I've tried the 4 usb ports, the button pushed. The key was burned with dd. Nothing append on the screen
I don't understand
Published in 2015-2-6 17:26:43 | Show all floors
You use usb otg burn image with pressing upgrade key. Mainly in order to burn onboard NAND flash.

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Published in 2015-12-30 07:31:34 | Show all floors
I am trying to clear the onboard nand. I installed the android image and it went to the onboard memory. Now I am stuck with it. Not totally useless but not as useful as linux. Tried the otg usb and sd card slot. tried upgrade key. nothing works. I can tell the board is reading the usb stick, just won't do anything with it.

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Published in 2015-12-31 23:39:42 | Show all floors
Hi,

I installed my Debian to EMMC (=NAND) with sdcard; installed OS into card and then used provided script install_to_emmc to overwrite existing OS on nand.
Instructions here: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepi ... &extra=page%3D1 and crediz to loboris!

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-miha
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