[2017-07-04] SADIE -- Simple way to flash Android to your Rock64!

[fire219]

SADIE - Simple Android Download and Install Executable
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SADIE is a script designed to make it painless and easy to install Android (specifically ayufan's A7.1 images) to a Rock64 board.

It does the all of the following for you:

- Installs all required utilities (if you are on a system with apt or dnf package manager)
- Downloads the Android image of your choosing
- Prepares image for use (unzip)
- Guides you through how to put your Rock64 into the required "Loader Mode"
- Flashes the image on to your Rock64

Github repo

Direct Download (Linux)

Windows version is in the works!


How to use:

1. Unzip the downloaded zip file from above.
2. Run this in a terminal: sudo chmod +x sadie.sh
3. Run SADIE and follow the instructions!

[pfeerick]

Looks nice fire219... will have to give it a try later on tonight

btw, I see you said you had trouble working out how to select the latest image automatically... maybe look at how ayufan does it in the install_to_eMMC script, and see if you can re-jig that for this?

[ktulu909]

SADIE - Simple Android Download and Install Executable
====================================

SADIE is a script designed to make it painless and easy to install Android (specifically ayufan's A7.1 images) to a Rock64 board.

It does the all of the following for you:

- Installs all required utilities (if you are on a system with apt or dnf package manager)
- Downloads the Android image of your choosing
- Prepares image for use (unzip)
- Guides you through how to put your Rock64 into the required "Loader Mode"
- Flashes the image on to your Rock64

Github repo

Direct Download (Linux)

Windows version is in the works!


How to use:

1. Unzip the downloaded zip file from above.
2. Run this in a terminal: sudo chmod +x sadie.sh
3. Run SADIE and follow the instructions!

Is there any update for a potential Windows version for us linux dummies who have boards coming soon?

[pfeerick]

Is there any update for a potential Windows version for us linux dummies who have boards coming soon?

Yeah... install VirtualBox, install Linux on that, and quit asking for windows version! :-P

The process isn't as polished as fire219s SADIE, but there is a Windows section in the "Installing Android on eMMC" guide from the rock64 resources page which should get the job done on Windows. Basically you download a driver and the flasher tool, and also download the "-update" version of the release you want to install.

[Jakr]

A couple of notes on using SADIE (if i am wrong, please correct).

SADIE is designed to run on a separate Linux machine ...

Also you need a USB a to a cable ( commonly called a USB 2.0 male to male cable).

I have so many USB cables laying around, assumed I had every type I could possibly ever need. . but have discovered, this is the one USB cable I do not have.

I did open the SADIE script, and look at the coding .. very impressed, looks like a very well written script. I plan on using it, once I get the right cable ( probably run it from Debian, on a pi 3.

I don't have a emmc card yet, so I am thinking this is the only way I am going to get android on a sd card.

Jake

[ayufan]

fire219: I pushed new Android releases that are marked as "release". I also release raw disk image now

[stuartiannaylor]

A couple of notes on using SADIE (if i am wrong, please correct).

SADIE is designed to run on a separate Linux machine ...

Also you need a USB a to a cable ( commonly called a USB 2.0 male to male cable).

I have so many USB cables laying around, assumed I had every type I could possibly ever need. . but have discovered, this is the one USB cable I do not have.

I did open the SADIE script, and look at the coding .. very impressed, looks like a very well written script. I plan on using it, once I get the right cable ( probably run it from Debian, on a pi 3.

I don't have a emmc card yet, so I am thinking this is the only way I am going to get android on a sd card.

Jake

Yeah my previous one was a nasty and dirty fix as 2 USB cable got snipped and soldered with some black nasty (insulation tape) but yeah you can get one.
I am even a proud owner of an eMMC to SD card converter from oDroid but still waiting for the board.
Wasn't in the oDroid shop so I emailed em and they sold me one and for a couple of quid will just be so much easier.

[Jakr]

I went ahead and ordered a usb a to a cable.. Should be here by the end of the week.

Will go ahead and set up a Microsd card for Android once it arrives.

Jake