Hondo's Cabin - Upgrading the Orange Pi One to 1GB...

Fernando

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Upgrading the Orange Pi One to 1GB...
Sep 14^th, 2016, 1:21pm

Not for the faint oh or nervous hands. It requires using Surface Mounted Technology soldering tools.

It requires that one unsolder the two 256MB DDR2 RAM Chips (one on the back and on the front of the board) and replace them with 512MB DDR2 RAM Chips. As simple as that sounds, it is not an easy feat to do. One needs a steady hand to do this and a lot of time and patience to do it. But when it is done, it would be a great mod for the unit.

Here's the You Tube Video on how to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux2U4yvx_Po

https://lynda.videocloudpro.io/video/ux2U4yvx_Po/title?src=Youtube
(Same video but explains why only one side was done.)

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Hondo I. Sackett

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Re: Upgrading the Orange Pi One to 1GB...
Reply #1 - Sep 14^th, 2016, 7:03pm

Nice but not sure my hands are steady enough anymore

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Fernando YaBB Administrator NY City Posts: 2380 Gender:	Re: Upgrading the Orange Pi One to 1GB... Reply #2 - Sep 14^th, 2016, 9:27pm I've done it on a 68K Mac Logic board and managed to get a few dead machines going again but it, for me, requires a lot of concentration and a long time to do it, and I end up with a headache when I am done.
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Hondo I. Sackett

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Re: Upgrading the Orange Pi One to 1GB...
Reply #3 - Sep 15^th, 2016, 5:47pm

I'd need a lot better soldering setup and it would take me a while. My hands start to shake after a while on small stuff like that.

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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out

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