OK so I’ll probably stick with factory 2015 boot cause have no idea what is all about, Are there any advantages (R/W speed) worth risking? What are the experience in real life. This thing is working now and I can go back to android if something oddly happens. I’m reading
this thread now. Maybe buy faster SD card is a way to go. Anyway, if there is some guide (for newbies) about using so called factory u-boot 2015 please point to me. Thanks for your time.
Just to say THANK YOU guys, I’ve spent fun weekend installing various linux distros from this forum. My long forgotten device Wetek play 2 , (lost remote control) is alive again. Almost every distro works on WP2 with right dtb and alternative boot.ini. I end up with bionic ubuntu cause it was faster and most responsive than other distros. Arc KDE is most beautiful but browsers are very slow on my device. Samba on bionic is stable and fast ~30-40 Mib/s, so, now i have low power consumption download center running 24/7, and in the future I plan to install nextcloud for personal use. I decide not to install on eMMC (original WP2 installed) cause I’m not certain how to safely do that.
BTW. Is there an chance that SD cards are getting slower with extensive use or is it me?
Downloads generate random I/O and the WP2 has only 2GB RAM so running a load of apps in the background will surely slow things up. Faster SD cards run faster, but it’s not worth a big investment. It will run faster on eMMC but IIRC the internal storage is only 8GB? which is a bit limiting.
Apropos RAM, it never reach more than 1.2 gb on full load. But with all installed on sd card 6 gb occupied, so, yes, tight. I’ve installed plex media server for music only (I know mpd is better ), it was tempting and it works with no more than 30 % of CPU load (plex only).And chewitt , I’m almost certain that I know from some other forum, non related with this but I can’t recall which one. I’ve recognized the picture now. Never mind, small world. Thank You for answering me. And again and last , can somebody point to me reliable way to install bionic on eMMC with old multiboot, so called 2015 or something?
@balbes150
As you mentioned in this post LibreELEC for VIM1 VIM2 VIM3 (SD & USB & eMMC) wi-fi on VIM2 Pro should work on the latest Armbian build.
I’ve tried Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_eoan_legacy_5.3.0_desktop_20191126.img.xz , but no wi-fi module is detected.
Did I miss something? Or Armbian should be 20191216+ ?
The last one is the one that is “younger” than the others at the date of publication of the message. To date, the latest, 20191224. Through 1-2-3 … days, the “last one” is likely to have a different number.
I was looking into this Yandex drive folder https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei for the latest Armbian version.
Use the official forum, there is current information.
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