Orange Pi Zero 2 User manual

THE OFFICIAL
Orange Pi
User's Guide
A USER GUIDE FOR ORANGE PI ZERO 2
1st
Edition
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Contents
Chapter 1: Getting familiar with your Orange Pi 6
Chapter 2: Getting started with your Orange Pi 10
Chapter 3: Using Linux on your Orange Pi 18
Chapter 4: Using Android on your Orange Pi 32
Chapter 5: Building Linux from source 38
Chapter 6: Building Android from source 41
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Installing an OS to a microSD card 46
Appendix B: Connect to the Serial Port 51

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Chapter 1
Getting familiar with
your Orange Pi
Know your new pocket-sized Orange Pi
computer by taking a walkthrough over
its various components and features.
Orange Pi is an open-source single board computer, a new generation of arm64
development board, which can run systems such as Android 10, Ubuntu and
Debian and so on. Orange Pi Zero 2 uses the Allwinner H616 system-on-chip
and has 512MB/1GB DDR3 memory.
Orange Pi Zero 2 is for anyone who wants to start creating with technology not just
consuming it. It's a simple, fun, useful tool that you can use to start taking control of
the world around you.

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Hardware Overview

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Hardware Specification
•Allwinner H616, Quad core Cortex-A53 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
•512MB or 1GB DDR3 SDRAM (depending on model)
•H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (4kp30 decode, 4kp25 encode or 1080p60 encode)
•ARM G31 GPU Supports OpenGL ES 3.2/2.0/1.0, Vulkan 1.1 OpenCL 2.0
•AW859A module Support IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac wireless, Bluetooth 5.0
•1000M/100M/10M Ethernet
•Micro-HDMI ports (up to 4kp60 supported)
•3 USB 2.0 ports. (Two of them are via 13pin interface board)
•26 pin GPIO header with I2C, SPI, UART and multiple GPIO ports
•13 pin GPIO header with 2 USB Host, IR pin, TV-out, Audio and GPIO ports
•5V DC via USB-C connector (minimum 2A)
•OS: Android10, Ubuntu and Debian
•Dimension: 85mm×56mm
•Weight: 30g
Pinout Diagram

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Expansion board
The expansion board is an easy way to expand the functionalities of the Orange Pi
Zero2 board by providing two extra USB ports, One IR receiver, and an audio/video
composite port.
Note: The Orange Pi Zero2 does not support MIC Input on the expansion board.
Expansion board schematic

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Chapter 2
Getting started with
your Orange Pi
Find out what items you'll need
for Orange Pi and how to set up
everything to get it running.
Orange Pi boards are easy to set up and beginners friendly. The Orange Pi
boards are mostly self-contained and only required a few extra components
to get it working. This mini-computer only needs a computer monitor or TV
with an HDMI connection for display. If you want it to run as a mini headless server
then you don't need a display screen either.
The Orange Pi Zero2 is very compact and offers only two USB ports out-of-box. The
USB Type-C port used for powering the board and the USB Type-A port is available
for use. We can get additional two USB Type-A ports with the Orange Pi Zero Addon
board.
As we generally have only one USB port is available to use. We recommend using the
Orange Pi Zero Addon board to get access to more USB ports and other features like
an Audio/Video composite port and an IR receiver.
Optionally, you can use a USB Hub to get more USB ports to connect different
peripherals.