Mele A1000

Specifications

 * Allwinner A10
 * 512MB in 2x Hynix H5TQ2G63BFR H9C 143AK
 * 4GB Nand Flash 29F32G08
 * AXP 209 (PMU, Power System Management IC)
 * 1x RJ45 10/100MBps Ethernet with Realtek RTL8201CP PHY.
 * 1x SATA port with power and docking (except the A100 variant)
 * 1x HDMI output
 * 3x USB host
 * 3x RCA (1 CVBS video, 2 left/right audio)
 * 1x VGA
 * 1x Optical
 * 1x SD card slot

Mele A2000


If you've bricked all and booting from SD doesn't work you can short 11K1 jumper to enter FEL mode (Zoom the image and look at the red part) and use LiveSuite tool with a stock firmware.

Mele A100
The Mele A100 is identical to it's brethren with 2 small exceptions: there is no SATA header present (you may solder it on); the LED, IR & power have moved to the center. The same Fex for it's brethren work perfectly for it.

= Caveats =

VGA Connector
Even though the Mele comes with a blue VGA connector, and blue signifies that this is a DDC enabled VGA connector... And even though there are wires for DDC SCL/SDA all the way to the 8-pin connector on the motherboard... These wires are simply floating. The Mele A1000 and derivates simply are unable to to talk to a VGA connected monitor and query it for what modes it supports.

Similarly, it seems impossible to do load detection on the VGA RGB DACs on the mele A1000.

Everything about using VGA on the mele will have to be hardcoded in either fex or dt in future.



=Adding a serial port=

The Mele has a connector available on its UART0 port. The connector is the same as available on some 90s analog audio cables ran from a CDROM to the sound device. More information is available at our UART howto.

GPIO Access
The Mele A2000 (and probably A1000) have a number of pins accessible for GPIO use. Here are some that have been identified. See image for color coded locations.
 * GPIO_PH10 (main red led)
 * GPIO_PH20 (main blue led)
 * GPIO_PH22 (unused?)
 * GPIO_PH23 (unused?)

Firmwares
See also: Flashing Official Images
 * Official Android ICS Mele_HTPC_20130116_v1.3.1 ( 2013-01-16 )
 * Official Android ICS Image v1 ( 2012-06-29 )
 * Official Android GB Image v1.6 ( 2012-05-11 )
 * Official Android GB Image v1.5 ( 2012-03-29 )

In the wild
A Mele server cluster with 32 nodes (32 meles)
 * Mele A2000 Server Cluster
 * Installing HDD inside Mele A2000