Follow-up to my earlier Orange Pi 5 Ultra reports: I tested the newer Debian 13 vendor Minimal image on 13 November 2026 (Asia/Taipei), focusing on Bluetooth startup and reboot recovery. Official image: Armbian_26.11.0-trunk.130_Orangepi5-ultra_trixie_vendor_6.1.172_minimal.img.xz; kernel 6.1.172-vendor-rk35xx. Booted from the native TF/microSD slot. I retained my first-boot preset, including Tailscale state restoration. The original image file was not independently hashed this round. No packages were installed, upgraded or repaired during testing, and the beginning/end package inventories matched; this comparison starts after first-boot setup. Bluetooth: rfkill 2.41.5-0+deb13u1 and bluez 5.82-1.1 were preinstalled. Both ap6611s-bluetooth.service and bluetooth.service were active before Bluetooth client queries. The earlier missing-rfkill 203/EXEC failure was not observed. Pairing with Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro initially timed out during confirmation (AuthenticationCanceled); after rediscovery, pairing succeeded. This was not a first-attempt success. Boot recovery: 5/5 warm reboots and 1/1 cold boot passed; the cold test included approximately 30 seconds disconnected from power. Each boot automatically restored the controller, Paired/Bonded state and Tailscale connectivity. Initial checks and another check after 15 seconds found no HCI initialization timeout or failed systemd units. No recovery commands were needed. These limited repetitions cannot rule out occasional failures or establish an upper bound on startup time. Ethernet: negotiated 1 Gb/s full duplex; gateway pings 10/10 and WAN pings 5/5. DNS resolution and the APT endpoint response (HTTP 302) worked. This checks endpoint reachability, not a complete package download or installation. Wi-Fi: the initial dual-interface, same-subnet setup had packet loss. Header capture showed five requests leaving WLAN but their five replies entering Ethernet. With a temporary router-neighbor fixture scoped to this board, WLAN sent and received 5/5 packets with zero loss. Dynamic neighbor learning was restored afterward. This conditional short test does not establish sustained throughput or long-term wireless stability. Remaining observations: /etc/udev/rules.d/60-media.rules is absent; MPP, RGA and DMA heap device nodes remain root:root 0600, without permission changes for testing. Codec-capability -22 warnings remain in the logs; these were not classified as HCI initialization failures. Other kernel warnings also remain. Related work: PR #11331 and PR #11353. Desktop environments, hardware video decoding, Bluetooth audio/application data transfer, the full peripheral matrix and RTC retention were not tested in this round. Commands and log summaries used automation and AI assistance; I confirmed device pairing and the physical power cycle. A selected, sanitized evidence summary is attached as orangepi5-ultra-debian130-validation-evidence.zip. This is a scoped regression report, not formal release sign-off.
orangepi5-ultra-debian130-validation-evidence.zip
