Table of Contents

Introduction

The ODROID-C2 is esteemed to be the most powerful low-cost single board computer available, as well as being an extremely versatile device. Featuring a quad-core Amlogic processor, advanced Mali GPU, and Gigabit Ethernet, it can function as a home theater set-top box, a general purpose computer for web browsing, gaming and socializing, a compact tool for college or office work, a prototyping device for hardware tinkering, a controller for home automation, a workstation for software development, and much more.

Some of the modern operating systems that run on the ODROID-C2 are Ubuntu, Android, Fedora, ARCHLinux, Debian, and OpenELEC, with thousands of free open-source software packages available. The ODROID-C2 is an ARM device – the most widely used architecture for mobile devices and embedded 64-bit computing. The ARM processor’s small size, reduced complexity and low power consumption makes it very suitable for miniaturized devices such as wearables and embedded controllers.

It can run Ubuntu, Android 5.1*, and other Linux OS distributions.

Download USER MANUAL for your ODROID-C2 C2 User Manual

ARM 64bit is a very new platform and some system specific Linux softwares are not working stably at this moment.
So there might be the compatibility issues frequently and we may need longer time to fix the issues.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is also on the alpha stage and it causes the instability and incompatibility problems.

C2 PCB revision history

LOT PCB Revision Description
EL-1510 rev0.1 20150930 Changed to MP62551 from NCP380 due to component shortage.
RILIM of MP62551 is 20kΩ.
EL-1602 rev0.2 20151218
EL-1604 rev0.2 20160226 RILIM of MP62551 is changed to 12.4kΩ and USB current limits at 1.7A.
Added a J8 header holes for easier soldering of alternative power input.

ODROID-C2

Hardware and Peripherals

Software Platform

Expansion IO and Accessories

Ubuntu/Linux

Android

Software Release

Please read **THIS** once before you start to download and flashing S/W release on your ODROID device.

Other Operating Systems (Unofficial and Official)