I bought a banana pi bpi-m3 several months ago (before the end of 2015) - I have not been able to use it since the day I bought it. I came to the conclusion that there were problems with all linux images. So I put the board aside, hoping that at some point the problem would be rectified. It is now June 2016, and a couple of weeks ago I received an email (newsletter) that stated that new linux images for banana pi bpi-m3 were available. So, out came the board, and I downloaded the linux image that I wanted. When I tried to unzip the image, I found that it didn't work. My computer had no idea about the name of the file that was inside the zip file, it also had no idea what type of file it was either. The only thing my computer could tell me was that the contents of the zip file was 7.8GB. My immediate reaction was that the downloaded zip file was corrupt. I repeated this process a number of times, but I got the same result every time. So, I gave up on this image and moved on to one of the others - same thing every time. Same result every single time - I now believe that every one of these "new images" are corrupt. I have tried all of the above on a Windows computer, a Linux computer and an Apple Mac - each time I get exactly the same result. Please tell me what is wrong - I still have not been able to use this board from the day I bought it - more than 6 months now
Rob