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So I used the 5.32.170706 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.11.8-sun50iw2
Locked Kernel in Armbian-Config and did a

apt-mark hold linux-firmware
apt-mark hold armbian-firmware
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
 

 
And Wifi is working

The I unlocked the Kernel and did an upgrade, but didn't unlock linux-firmware & armbian-firmware
 

 
And Wifi is working
 
Then apt-mark unhold armbian-firmware
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
 
And WIFI is gone

1) The included Android image gives a lot of CPU failures when checking with the TTL cable.

2) When adding an Gigabit Ethernet dongle (in this case a Plugable one ~ ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet), the interface name will something similar to  enx+Mac address.  To replace this a file as the following one must be created:

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Containing (remember to replace THE_REAL_MAC_ADDRESS for the displayed enx+Mac interface address:
 
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="THE_REAL_MAC_ADDRESS", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

3) When making an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, some errors can be displayed ... but it works in general.

Unpacking linux-headers-dev-sun50iw2 (5.31) over (5.27) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.0-sun50iw2/scripts/mod': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.0-sun50iw2/scripts/kconfig': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.0-sun50iw2/scripts/basic': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.0-sun50iw2/scripts/dtc': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.0-sun50iw2/scripts': Directory not empty

Before update:
Linux orangepizeroplus2 4.11.0-sun50iw2 #3 SMP Sun May 14 17:34:53 CEST 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
After update:
Linux orangepizeroplus2 4.11.1-sun50iw2 #17 SMP Thu Jun 15 03:10:38 CEST 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
 
4) Before or after the upgrade, the micro usb port DOES NOT WORK even in host mode.
 
5) After working for a while, the temperature it is normal.  (39 in the H5 machine, with a NAS extension and an USB SSD attached there).
 
6) armbianmonitor really doesn't work (all, but the temperature, it is zero, and CPU frequenncy is ---).

7) The nand-sata-install works well.  No SD is needed after that.

I will check the micro-usb to see what happens.  In the while I will ask for some H3 models of this card.

Completely forgot this stock androids on eMMC... It's not that uncommon..  
 
There's a reason why we push people to the usb-ttl.  
Even if it's not solved everything yet, you see now what's going on during boot. 

You have to try use this build . There is wifi working, but without 802.11n support, and without usb.