The v5 firmware works just fine on v1 boards and I recommend you to upgrade. Worst-case, you can always downgrade back.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bill Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Looking into this further I see that the Mint is a > V1 board, I'm thinking it might be a little risky to try to get V5 firmware > running on it and maybe not worth the trouble. I think my best bet is to > use the Mint as-is for now with the downrev firmware, it is convenient for > breadboarding on the bench. I'll just buy another IOIO OTG to mount more > permanently on my projects, they are not very expensive. At some point I > suppose I could swap out the old-style IOIO board in the Mint with a OTG. > > > On Saturday, August 16, 2014 5:11:04 PM UTC-5, Ytai wrote: >> >> You should be able to upgrade to v5. You cannot upgrade over Bluetooth, >> only USB, and you'll need an Android version < 4.2.2 with IOIO manager >> installed on it. >> Keep in mind that the IOIO mint is not ideal over USB because of its >> small battery that would not be able to keep an Android charging for very >> long. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
