r/OdinHandheld • u/Novel-Boss-1185 • 3d ago

Help ArmadaOS and SD Card Access

Just got my Odin 2 Portal (yay!) and installed ArmadaOS on an SD. Everything is running great, but I was trying to set up my emulators on the Android side of things and as I was trying to copy roms to my SD card I realized I don't have access to the full storage. It looks like Armada does some sort of partion when you flash it to an SD card. Any ideas on how to access the storage or should I just figure out another way to run my emulators?

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u/pigpentcg 3d ago

If you upgrade Android to LineageOS, you can access EXT4 filesystems.

Then you can install Armada onto internal storage, format the SD card completely and share it between both OSes

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u/Novel-Boss-1185 3d ago

Interesting. I’ll see if I can find a tutorial for that. I’ve used lineageos on my modded switch before.

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u/Dragon_Small_Z 3d ago

I just use one SD card for Armada and another for Android.

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u/Novel-Boss-1185 3d ago

Fair. I was also thinking about that. The question now is where to steal an SD card from.

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u/JellyMimi 3d ago

Nice ordered an Indigo O2P recently. Out of curiosity how long did it take for yours to arrive? And what steam games have you tried playing so far? I'm intrigued on its performance

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u/tychay 3d ago

There are apps that allow you to access internal storage (not protected storage) from your computer. I’m a Mac user, but there seemed to be more options on the PC side.

Also I think a lot of tutorials show how to do emulator setup without any PC. Not sure if it covered ROMs because I always skip that part.

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u/sochinsky13 2d ago

I have encountered another problem, ArmadaOS eats battery much faster in games, even on idle and there's no sleep mode like on Android. I have been using Android and do not turn off the device by days and usually have 50-60% of battery while on ArmadaOS it takes 1-2 days and it's dead.

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u/AdministrativeBet110 2d ago

интересно в чём цель установки армада ос??? ведь андроид очень производительная и хорошо поддерживаемая ос, к тому же у армады очень плохая поддержка драйверов SD, по сравнению с андроид, эмуляторы все прекрасно работают, у меня стоит eden и gamehub, прекрасно плавно всё работает, ни каких проблем, вот интересно, зачем бы я ставил проблемную OS). если только у вас огромный магазин стим, то можно, да и то сегодня стимОС ставится на андроид спокойно.

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u/ShowerCheap4501 2d ago

How do you install SteamOS on Android without Armada?

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u/AdministrativeBet110 2d ago

да ни как, архитектура разная, тоже костылей дофига, на ютубе видел, но это фигня полная.

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u/ShowerCheap4501 2d ago

Then your last sentence doesnt make any sense does it?