[ H3Droid ] Make a FEL USB installer+updater

pmpp

Hi, due to change in size of 1.2.8 installer i am sorry to inform that 512MB and less board can't benefit from current FEL installer : you need to use H3ii instead ( require usb keyboard or UART debug, a sdcard , and card reader-burner )

I am retargeting current FEL installer code toward a multiboot solution with a small EFI like partition to correct that. it is just not possible to burn the card with whole installer in RAM, and using a usb key to store the files is not practical.

People with Orange PI PC  and Orange PI PC +2E*  boards can still try the now obsolete test version for windows vista/8/10  32 & 64 here https://www.h3droid.com/fel/, ideas are welcome.

*H3ii can't (yet) burn emmc so FEL installer is very usefull if you have that board.

pmpp

Thanks to Xunlong hardware support, beta testing is about to start for all OPI H3 boards

Beta installer can also upgrade H3droid , be used as a SD CARD writer for h3ii or to build FEL sdcards for opi pc+. once stable  a lot more features will be added as optionnal plugins.

update: OpiZero has now basic support with 1.3.1 version.

pmpp

Thanks a lot to Xunlong and people who took the time to test and report.  FEL Installer has been tested on all Xunlong boards, updated first post with link.

Installer uses the source code directly. The ramdisk is a slightly modified H3Resc. adbd server has been taken from android-5 google sdk. Code can be re used freely and modified provided you give explicit credits to H3Droid.com in a screen with user interaction.

The Zadig tool ( https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi/tree/master/examples ) and ADB driver provided ( XDA ) for windows OS are not our creation , and we decline any liability about them but we thank their authors.

pmpp

Official home of FEL installer and its documentation is now set there :

https://h3droid.com/fel-installer

Windows / Linux launcher :  https://h3droid.com/sdk/h3droid-fel-w32.zip

(  it downloads updated source for all platform from h3droid.com )