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Review on πŸ”₯ Upgrade to Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 - Quad Core 64 Bit, WiFi Bluetooth (4GB) for Enhanced Performance! by Nolan White

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Serious - not yet fixed - download errors.

RPI 4 is notorious for startup issues. If you have one of these POS, here is the PI website solution: Recovery If your Raspberry Pi 4 won't boot, the SPI EEPROM may be corrupted. To check, remove the SD card, unplug the device, and then plug it back in. If the green LED does not blink, this indicates that the EEPROM is corrupt. Raspberry Pi Imager offers an easy way to solve this problem by automatically preparing an SD card that flashes your Raspberry Pi 4's EEPROM: Locate an SD card that is blank or doesn't contain any data you want to keep ; all data will be completely deleted. Download the Raspberry Pi Imager for your operating system from the list at the top of this page. Click on "SELECT OS" and select "Miscellaneous Service Images" and then "Pi 4 EEPROM Boot Recovery". .Insert an SD card, click SELECT SD CARD, select the inserted card, and then click WRITE. Once the SD card is ready, insert it into your Raspberry Pi 4 and then connect your Raspberry Pi to a power source. When complete, the green LED will flash quickly and steadily. Disconnect the device from the power supply. Now you can remove the recovery SD card, insert a regular SD card and continue using your Raspberry Pi. Alternatively, you can download the bootloader and create a recovery SD card manually: Download the bootloader. Extract it to a blank SD card in FAT format. card and plug it into your Raspberry Pi. 4. Connect the power supply and wait for the green LED to flash rapidly. This may or may not work. It hasn't worked for me on any of the RPI4s I've had. If that doesn't work, you're doomed to spend hours searching forums and YouTube videos for solutions. Which may or may not work. The simplest solution is to do what I did: keep sending junk back until you get one that works. So far I haven't been so lucky.

Pros
  • Broadcom BCM2711 Quad-Core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5 GHz --- 4 GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM
Cons
  • The list goes on.