Orange Pi 5 Bricked?

[Adrià E. S.]

Hey there! I've just bought a used Orange Pi 5, according to the owner he never managed too boot up the first time, because he said it was bricked, for the price he offered for the device and accessories I thought I'd give it a go.. and yeah, I tried to install on different microSD cards, Armbian, OrangePi Os, Android 12 for Orange Pi, many tries but none of them booted or did anything after waiting even 15min. If I set the device into maskrom mode it enters the mode but it gives error to anything I try. I read on a post that using this firmware fixed someones board: https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/sw/images/loader/rock-5b/release/ I tried and I get the following:

Download Boot Start, Download Boot Success, Wait for Maskrom Start and Success and then on Test Device Start, I get Test Device Fail , Note: Comunication issues, Certainly please check usb, Completed... 

 

If I go to the advanced function tab, Test Device fails, Get ChipInfo fails, ReadFlashInfo Fails too Flash ID... all of them,... IDK if I'm missing something or this one is really dead and there is nothing I can do.

 

If someone has any idea of what could I try to do to get it working it would be nice!

 

Thank you!

[Werner]

https://debug.armbian.de

[MaxT]

It seems there is smth on the flash preventing boot, so I would remove SD card, enter mask rom, release button or other contact used to enter maskrom (it is necessary only to "tell" to bootrom that no internal flash is available for boot) and format/erase flash.

After that disconnect the device from PC and power, and then reconnect/power on device, it should enter maskrom by itself since internal flash is empty. Then just boot from SD card with appropriate armbian image.