Images for sd card
Hi,
Same as you, I thought that my board was dead on arrival.
Here are few steps to bring android up:
-- USB-C power supply
I'm using a xiaomi PD unit, capable of delivering 15V/3A (45W), connect to port C0 next to HDMI port.
-- Images
images are available from http://en.t-firefly.com/doc/download/51.html
I tried https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L-VcSFvAVxtalCeRfzPn_LgmPay6PvZ-
I confirm it works.
Just use dd to write the image directly to your sd card.
Insert the sd card into the slot above the black button (reset?) and power up the unit.
-- Problem
no google store available in this android image!
I'm still trying to sideload open gapps (https://opengapps.org/) but without success.
Also, I'm unable to boot android into recovery mode.
My 2 cents, hoping it will help some of you.
Please share your progresses.
P.S.
power requirement:
at the bottom of http://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/ROC-RK3399-PC/started.html
"WARNING：The board is powered by PD (15V/3A, 45W), please use it with a suitable power supply."
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I tried this play store APK: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996995
Install is successful but unable to run the app.
If you can flash the recovery partition (Maybe with the Android Tool), here's a RK3399 TWRP image to flash a GAPPS package:
https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs?dev=androidlover5842&dl=androidlover5842/rk3399_box/recovery_rk3399_box-110418.img
For some reason, I wrote the main image in etcher and I keep falling back to recovery
Thanks! I used Flashify app to flash TWRP image to recovery. It has the reboot recovery option, but it is not working correctly. Seems to be related to POWER -> Restart which is also not working correctly.
I haven't had time to mess around with that recovery to see if it actually works... Have you tried rebooting to recovery with flashify or other reboot to recovery app with a stock image? Before flashing the recovery I gave you? I was able to access recovery, but mostly because the ROM I flashed didn't seem to work properly, so it kept boot looping back to recovery.
I'll play with this some more when I have a chance...
I'm trying to test TWRP, but it would not boot into recovery at all, stock or not. It just goes into a weird sleep mode and requires a power cycle to recover from. With ADB over network enabled in dev options, I issued the command:
adb reboot recoverywith the same result.
I imagine we'll need help in order to trigger the recovery partition. When I was able to access the recovery partition, I tried to boot into bootloader mode and I achieved this weird sleep mode you spoke of. So I have a feeling it's triggering bootloader access instead of recovery.
same here, adb reboot recovery (adb over network) doesn't work, weird sleep mode.
Any body with console access?
How to boot this device into recovery mode?
I'm thinking of taking the firefly sd card .IMG file and crash the rootfs partition to force boot into recovery, but that's very troublesome.
Hope the firefly guys enjoyed their chinese new year and they will come back soon
silly me.
Can't we just take the rootfs from the SD card, mount it, unzip the gapps zip over it, umount and burn back the rootfs to the SD card?
That would be awesome if you know how to do that! I googled directions for installing gapps via adb but so far google services and setup wizard keeps crashing