My BPI-W2 brushes a LAN port after Android 7.1.1, RTL8822BE Bluetooth function, audio out, two SATA ports (plugged in Intel DC 3710 400G solid-state hard disk) can not work properly. USB3.0 mounts 2.5 inch 4T mechanical hard disk, data indicator flashes, unable to display storage devices.
Hi, my purpose is to have a BPI-W2 running OpenWRT as the router and on top the Android as a media center.
I got the BPI-W2 stock board (which have both OpenWRT and Android) but the router function was incomplete (Kernal 4.1).
Then I followed the instructions to upgrade the OpenWRT with Kernal 4.4
Which is finally working now. Have the router able to connect to WAN and routing to my PC via the LAN port. Console is good. SSH to the router is good.
However, the Android disappeared and now I have to install the Android back. I follow the instructions here.
Downloaded the image “2019-01-14-Android7.1-bpi-w2-emmc-gms.img.zip”, unzip and copy the install.img into root directory of a U-disk, copied the essential 4 files to the root directory of U-disk as well.
And do the following in the recovery console as instructed:
Realtek> usb start
Realtek> fatload usb 0:1 0x01b00000 bluecore.audio
Realtek> fatload usb 0:1 0x03000000 emmc.uImage
Realtek> fatload usb 0:1 0x02100000 rescue.emmc.dtb
Realtek> fatload usb 0:1 0x02200000 rescue.root.emmc.cpio.gz_pad.img
All comes out without error until:
Realtek> boot all
Which said, “no this command”
And Android seems still not there (can only verify from HDMI output a blank screen).
So what’s been wrong with the steps?
P.S. I tried different ways of creating SD card images but even more errors on BPI-copy so I gave up the SD approach…
FIrst, I am not going to use Android + Ubunto. I want to use Android + OpenWRT which gives me the router function (which I already upgrade the OpenWRT to a version with Kernal 4.4, since the stock one with Kernal 4.1 is a NON-functioning OpenWRT.)
Secondly, I finally could create an image of Android 7 into a SD card from here:
with the image file “2019-03-07-android7-sd.img.zip”
I boot from this SD image (SW4 = 0), Andriod appears on screen. But when I check the OpenWRT by clicking into menus from Android, it comes back to the old “Kernel 4.1 OpenWRT”!
That is, I suspect this version of “Android Image” comes with the old NON-functioning OpenWRT.
If I write this image (which is a 8GByte full image) to the EMMC, I will just come back the point ZERO without a good router.
So I think I need to go for the second method as described in top of this post, just to install the Android part from the file “2019-01-14-Android7.1-bpi-w2-emmc-gms.img.zip” (an image of around 8MBytes), without touching the GOOD OpenWRT which I upgraded. I suppose I just to load only 5 files to the FAT, as by below instructions.
However, I as said I got error when executing the final command of “boot all” and the android did not come out as expected.
Could SINOVOIP FAE provide a complete, detail step-by-step instructions on:
How to upgrade the OpenWRT (with latest image)
With the upgraded OpenWRT untouched, how to install the Android (with latest image) to another partition, then how to update the necessary U-boot (with image) so that the system will boot from the Android not the OpenWRT?
with the image file “2019-03-07-android7-sd.img.zip”
