Problems Installing Android

dtison · Published in 2017-8-14 05:50:57

Have tried to install Android for OP Prime, and OP Lite.

Downloaded the proper image files.

[OrangePi_Prime_Android_V0_1.img.rar
sun8iw7p1_android_dolphin-p1_uart0_PiLite.rar]

Also have tried a few versions of the Phoenixcard utility.

After format Normal, and select install for Startup it reports different errors.

Not able to get any Android TF set up.

Has anyone gotten this to work? If yes, which OP model?

Tina · Published in 2017-8-14 12:07:28

Edited by Tina at 2017-8-15 13:23

Hi,
Have you checked your µSD/TF cards?
Have you tried to write an other image like armbian etc. ?
How did you format them?

Has anyone gotten this to work? If yes, which OP model?

Yes with a OPI PC. But the android images are far away from stable. I use armbian and RetrOrangePI.

dtison · Published in 2017-8-15 11:05:49

Yea the TF cards work fine with Ubuntu or Armbian.

But it is probably a good idea to try some other ones.

They have been ordered and will update after they are tried.

Tina · Published in 2017-8-15 13:22:16

dtison replied at 2017-8-15 11:05
Yea the TF cards work fine with Ubuntu or Armbian.

But it is probably a good idea to try some other ...

I just remembered, long time since I tried the android, that I had to use the SD Memory Card Formatter. When I tried to format my sd cards with the windows tool, they would not be able to write the android image with the pheonix tool. But when formated with that tool it worked. I hope that helps ;)

dtison · Published in 2017-8-15 23:16:32

That's extremely interesting because - when the mysterious Phoenix Card tool runs, it works with a format to normal first, then yet another format when it's told to Burn the image. There could be something happening low-level with the TF card. Please Allwinner - we are not all winners with the non-free software Phoenixcard tool!
Let us have the source so we can fix this.

dtison · Published in 2017-8-19 01:25:56

dtison replied at 2017-8-15 23:16
That's extremely interesting because - when the mysterious Phoenix Card tool runs, it works with a f ...

Update:

Using 16GB TF card - Phoenix utility worked for OP Lite image (android), but not for OP Prime image.

But - Android was all in Chinese. Does a workaround exist?

Tina · Published in 2017-8-19 02:44:31

I cannot believe that Xunlong messed that up, again... selling a piece of HW w/o having software to run....
Have you tried the armbian? They have at least a work in progress version here

To the Chinese: I ran into the same problem. I did a google search how to change the language from Chinese to English and I think there was a youtube vid. I followed that and tada...