Min210 versus Min2310s

Well Hello Out There!

I have a Mini210 and a Mini210s on my desk. Poor me, RIGHT???

Yep... I'd have to say the Mini210s is a half-baked Mini210. Lol.

The Mini210s has only four buttons whilst the Mini210 has 8..
How is one supposed to flash the Mini210s with those 4 buttons?
I tried and I can move the cursor up and down but no YES/NO to load OS.
This is because the K7 and K8 keys on the Mini210 are wired to EINT26 &
EINT27 and those keys are not on the Mini210s.

Perhaps there is a different Superboot?
Possibly, but who knows... YOU MIGHT KNOW! But I doubt it...

Anyway I just wired up an external K7, K8 (same as K1, K2 on the schematic)
through the 8x8 matrix header. Lets see if it works...


Regards,
BurlyNeckBeard

Aah back again, glad to see this forum is not dead like my Mini210.

Yes it died. Without recourse to reflash it's useless junk. Expensive
useless junk. I really tried to like the FriendlyArm stuff but to be
honest, it just doesn't cut it.

I have decided we are dropping the FriendlyArm line completely from our
product. The core board is ok but the SBC and SDK boards are well...
*blarg*. Don't get me wrong, I've been using these commercially (Tiny210V2)
for over 2 years now and started with the family over 4 years ago. And they
have been successful enough. However, the two problems we have are the
real-time clock and the sd-card.

Neither of these work reliably. The RTC gains time and we find the battery
lasts between 9-12 months. Some of the deployments are in inaccessible
places, like 800-1200 kilometres from a service depot.

Additionally, the SD Card drivers cause intermediate file system problems,
ie corrupting the SD Card. We found we can copy the files off the sd card,
reformat it then copy them back and its (usually) ok. Can't do that
remotely...

Then there's the price...

Anyway, its been fun.

Byee!