Amlogic CPU Boxes

Hello, I'm trying to get Armbian (Ubuntu 24.10 XFCE Desktop) running on a retro game stick device with the following specs: CPU: Amlogic S905M RAM: 8 GB Samsung (2x K4B4G1646B) Storage: Samsung 128 GB MicroSD (new, flashed via balenaEtcher) Ports: 1x USB-A, 1x MicroSD slot, 1x MicroUSB power (possibly supports OTG), 1x HDMI male output Original firmware: EmuELEC (working fine from factory SD card) What I tried: Flashed Armbian Ubuntu 24.10 (from debmfc GitHub) to the SD card Tried box=s905_generic in the config file Replaced dtb.img with several DTBs, including: meson-gxbb-p200.dtb meson-gxbb-p201.dtb meson-…

I purchased this fake clone TV box of the classic Tanix TX3 Mini 2GB Ram 16GB Rom for around 20 dollars (including shipping). I discovered that the soc is S905L2-B and before bricking the card with attempts to install it on eMMC I wanted to know if anyone of you found a firmware for this TV box compatible with the Amlogic USB Burning tool. On the internet I only found two tx boxes that mount the S905L2 soc and they are the X7 5G and ipbs9505 and I couldn't find firmware to try to load them on my tv box, it's difficult on the Chinese forums for me to be able to find the downloads. Any advice is welcome because with boot from the SD and the armbian-d…

I have box Ugoos SK1 use chip Armbian S928X-K. how I can install Armbian for it. can you share ROM for it Best Regard

Dear All, First I would like to thanks all the contributors to armbian, What a great OS for our small SBC ! Context: I run succesfully latest Armbian on a X9T 4K TV Box (amlogic s912) from SD Card 2GB (following instructions here The Problem: I would like to run armbian from emmc (16GB on this box) for better reliability and performance. So, I run the install-aml.sh script, I had some error (no boot.ini ...), but the process seems to finish successfully Next Reboot: It's seems my boot partition is Not OK ... something missing ... For reference See bellow for reference the suc…

Hi all, I managed to install Armbian on a X96 Linux TVBox with 4Gb RAM and 32Gb ROM. I've build the image following the Armbian Build Framework. - v25.08 rolling for aml-s9xx-box running Armbian Linux 6.12.37-current-meson64 I reused the DTB that originally comes with the BOX and almost everything seems to work. I tested the system using glmark2 with a score of 197. I suppose GPU is working. Anyway I've some problems with Electron. I have installed the "hello world" app. The application starts but I receive this error: [4150:0714/130924.545719:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for…

Hi @faxe2110, or any other user, how are you? I'm working on a project with an Amlogic S805-based TV box and found your forum posts about custom Armbian images, particularly older versions like 5.67 with Debian Stretch and kernel 3.10.108. Unfortunately, the links you shared are no longer available, and I was wondering if you still have any of those files, or if you could give me some guidance on how to generate them. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can provide! Greetings from Argentina, Ricardo

I have got my T95Z Plus with S912 booting 6.12.24-current-meson64 just fine now. Getting Jellyfin up and running with all my old DVDs and CDs. Seems very capable. When do I push the OS into the eMMC? Is there a downside? Are there only so many times I can do this safely? If I chose to try the Debian builds - don't I just boot from a SD card and try it out? If I like that one better - then don't I just repeat the process and push that onto the eMMC? I believe I have the Android Source - or more precisely - I have a rom called SuperCelleron that I installed almost 10 years ago... That still boots when I don't have an SD card in. Also - …

Sorry - this is probably an easy one for those that know. But I am trying hard to copy my work and progress and build another NAS out of another T95z Plus box for my brother. All is going well - but on the second box - months after building the first - I installed the latest download. So I have Old box = Armbian Linux 6.12.32-current-meson64 - v25.5.1 New box = Armbian Linux 6.12.34-current-meson64 - v25.8 rolling - Support:for advanced users (rolling release) Both show - Ubuntu stable (noble) - which I think I changed on first boot with Armbian-config. Okay - so I don't think I am an advanced user so that warning has got me worried. …

Since some upgrades ago, the wlan0 stopped showing. Maybe it got jealous of the usb wifi dongle. They used to play along as wlan0 and wlan1 but that is no more. https://paste.armbian.com/zokubeduxe

I have TV-BOX Ugoos SK1. how I can Install Armbian for it. My TV-Box using chip S928X-K this is device information: https://ugoos.com/ugoos-sk1-8-128-gb-amlogic-tvbox-s928x-k Best regards

Hi folks, Very new to this community, very new to flashing Android boxes.. But I wanted to give this a shot and make use of an old TX5 Pro that I had in a drawer. Pleased to say, boots from the SD card fine, managed to get logged in and set up... all is working, WiFi, Bluetooth etc... However, I am just not able to get this to boot from the eMMC. I got to the point where I bricked it and had to re-flash Android onto it.. just to find myself in the same loop. I'll provide as much info as I can here, but let me know if you need something more specific. I'm no expert here, so here goes. Booting from the SD starts like this: When booted, all is wo…

I have the file .../dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-x96-air-gbit.dts and the patch 004-arch-arm64-dts-amlogic-meson-sm1-ac2xx-tv-boxes.patch. How to patch a dts file and generate a dtb file from it. I am asking for help.

Hello everyone! My sound is only output via hdma, there is complete silence via spdif. And I need spdif specifically Any ideas on how to fix this? My tv-box is H96 max x3, I boot up via the Ugoos x3 device tree. Who has sound via spdif on a tv-box with Armbian? On which tv-box exactly?

A have TVBOX on Amlogic S905l, but this tvbox don't have sdcard, is it possible to boot this board from armbian burned to USB, if yes, can someone share documentation ? I mean to boot from USB before booting from EMMC. I shorted the contacts on the board to disable emmc and I see this message in the TTL logs: GXL:BL1:9ac50e:bb16dc;FEAT:ADFD318C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:1;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:2;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:3;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; looks like chip is asking for USB, but I'm not sure that it can boot from Maybe I need to create a specific bootable USB? I used an image…

Hello there! I have a generic S805 TV box which, I assume, has a dead NAND memory chip. It doesn't boot and only outputs the following message over UART: QA5:B;SVN:B72;POC:3FF;STS:0;BOOT:0;INIT:0;READ:82;BOOT:1;INIT:10;USB:3;SERIAL:4;STS:0;BOOT:0;INIT:0;READ:82;BOOT:1;INIT:10;USB:3; I found firmware for a similar TV box online and extracted the bootloader.bin file from it. I then wrote it to the beginning of an SD card using dd like this: sudo dd if=bootloader.bin of=/dev/sdX Where sdX is my SD card. Now, at least, the box is trying to boot from the SD card and I can get into U-Boot. Here are the logs I see now: …

Hello all, I'm new member on this forum and I want became new user of armbian to install Home Assistant on my box. My box is a Bqeel K12 but i opened box and I see a label on the mother board where is write Mini M8S pro C. So I try to install armbian debian. I used this version "Armbian_23.5.1_Uefi-arm64_bookworm_current_6.1.30_cinnamon_desktop.img" I followed this topic to find the good dbt file : https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus/ I found differents dbt files which look like working properly (I have the desktop, I can navigate, open application...) BUT at each time is not pos…

I have a SDMC DV8040 stb ,SoC-CPU-Quad-core 1.2 GHz,GPU-ARM Mali-450,RAM-1GB,Storage-8GB it currently runs custom made android 9, i tried various methods , none of them work , it doesnt boot with Amlogic S805X,, earlier i tried to boot armbian , nothing happen, i found a way to get the uboot shell , i soldered wires on uart pins , i can interrupt booting process ,i attached the printenv file , now i want is command to manually boot from sd card via uboot and write the os on flash memory permanently. i want to know what is the suitable .dtb file ,,all i know is s805X is low cost version of s905 Amlogic soc. its been 2 years im trying to boot amlogic to stb ;-/. need your h…

So, I'm got this "old" TV BOX as a gift, and I'm try to do something with this ... Now I have booted image for Odroid C1 (after 2 or 3 days work) Req. HW mod: - two resistors / wires for working console are needed - pics later HW & SW info: TV Box Name: Sencor SMP 5000PRO CPU: amlogic meson8b (s805 ??) Armbian build file name: Armbian_25.2.1_Odroidc1_bookworm_current_6.12.13_minimal.img.xz DTB file used: meson8b-odroidc1.dtb Kernel Version:6.12.13 Distribution Installed: bookworm Working Ethernet (Yes/No):??? Max Ethernet Speed that works: 100 Does wifi work (Yes/No): ???? Doe…

Hi I have x96 box with s905x cpu, a long time ago i flashed it with libreelec and it was running from emmc only without a problem. Now flashed armbian to emmc but bootloader works only from usb or sdcard (cannot see mmc). Tried images s905x and s905x-t95 - same result. Is this a result of some misconfiguration/image selection or ..? Currently using sdcard for boot partition only as workaround.

A while ago I bought a TV box that claims to be a TX9 but, by the specifications, it resembles a tx3 mini, I exchanged the standard android for an armbian and the screen stopped working, how can I discover the processor pins for the screen or some script ready?

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I would like to know which recent version of ARMBIAN I can install on my X96 Max+ TV box (2GB ram and 16GB version). I've tried to install several recent 24.5 versions but it won't start. Here is the link to the versions I tried to install(Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.250_Aml-s9xx-box) I simply renamed the file corresponding to my S905X3.............. box to u-boot.ext https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/24.5.0-trunk.250 The only version I managed to install is Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop. So I'd like to know which version is best suited to my box. The CPU in the box is a…

I need your help, I'm not an expert in this, so I'll ask you to explain in as much detail as possible ☺️ as I understand it, I have version q2, which supports gigabit LAN. I want to install lxqt de, but I couldn't find such an assembly. What version exactly do I need to download? I tried to install this version, downloaded it from github: (Armbian_25.05.0_amlogic_s905x3_noble_6.12.21_server_2025.04.01.img) installed it, through armbian-config I installed xfce de, but for some reason I logged into the system as root. and that's why i couldn't do anything with the sudo command. I created a second user, installed lightdm, but when I logged out of the system, everything just…

Hi I have installed an image from the SD - "Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.337_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.6.71.img" installed in EMMC now the question is - how to run WiFi on it?

Hi, anybory know The STV-2000 Aquário tvbox? It's brazilian make, It a gxl-s905w-p281board, this old product, but can install armbian in interna memory? Thanks

Hi, I am currently using MagicBox M16S to flash Armbian. However, I did try to use VIM2 Armbian img to flash into my magicbox but it wont worked. Currently it seem like my device is bricked ( try to flash original ROM from some china website but it stuck at 1% and fail). Do anyone have idea on this device? Thanks~

Thanks to this forum I had installed Armbian buster and it's been running really well and stable for 3 years. For the first time I've arrived at an issue which makes me revisit and also because I have forgotten most of the stuff. Back in the day balbes150 had a bunch of ready made images available and you picked the correct device tree after flash. Appears those links no longer work. I don't want to do a massive upgrade, just from buster to bullseye on my week play 2 box (s905h only uses 4w when running) My question is where can I get those old images again. Or a newer resource for ready made images that will work on my box.

Hi. geeks So i've installed v25.05.0 armbian bookworm 6.1.21 on my tv box and so far no bluetooth and wifi My chipset is Cdtech 47w3155. rfkill gives nothing. just blank space

Boot stuck at s9xx login, won't recognise any keyboard input. Any advice please?

Hi, I'm trying to repurpose my Vero 4k (not 4k+) by installing Armbian on it. The device is based on the S905X and it looks like the most recent versions include a dtb for 4k, thanks to the work done by chewitt. I used the AMLogic s9xx TV Box edition and followed these instructions in the forums to copy the dtb and u-boot. However, I'm having some trouble getting the device to boot into an SD card flashed with the Armbian image. I was wondering whether anyone else has some experience with this. Here's what I tried so far: Downloaded and extracted the image (I used the Minimal/IoT version) Wrote the image to an SD Card (tried two …

i have buy cheap tv box tripsky mini q3, i have look on recovery is based a95x_r2 and have this specs : and i search on google for dtb is in here : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxlx-s905l-p271.dts i don't know how to port this, because i don't have any experience for porting this support, any support on this ?

I tried to start armbian on my tvbox mxq pro 4k 5g with the s905w architecture and using the Armbian 25.5.0-trunk.256 Bookworm gnome image with the dtb meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb with the uboot u-boot-s905x2-s912 and when it starts it goes to this screen. Screenshot

Hi, I installed armbian on the emmc of Magicsee N5+, it work very well. But after kernel update, I'm unable to restart the emmc system .... I tried 5x on the 3 last month, and I always have the same issue .... Is there any solution ? Maybe it links with this error message after update :

My box with s905x processor (kinhank super console x nes) does not boot armbian despite trying all kinds of methods and placing the correct files, it boots android in eMMC, I tried the toothpick method.

Hi, i have this tv box { H96 Pro+ (ZH01-S912-TVBOX-v2.0) Green board} WISDOM variant the problem is some apps does not work anymore on it and i'm looking for any version higher than the stock 7.1.2 the tv box works now on this firmware s912_q9377-H96_KDMC17.3_50ME_600M_mac-20170918.img https://mega.nz/file/7xFxgJrC#Hrya4fKeKJmZxPu0v2stH-nygBzodSQVm3qRmVDaIgw I appreciate your help and thanks in advance.

Proper way to install Armbian linux on H96 Pro Plus s912 or equivalent CLI ver. for those who have trouble in their existing systems. I have been installing/testing on my old dusty H96 pro plus Armbian Linux tested both flavours Debian and Ubuntu from almost all sources nothing works 100% on emmc except one source and installing method which i will mention below. Problem faced: Even correct SDcard burn with proper uncomment dtb for s912 and rename correct uboot as mentioned all over the forums: - installing on emmc problem, system halt on reboot/shutdown/power on/idle, Ethernet disconnection, no WiFi even with correct ath10…

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Hi , I have a H96MaxX2 (s905x2) tv box I tried installing armbian but its stuck on starting kernel. Can someone tell me the steps to install it perfectly on my H96MaxX2 (s905x2) Thank you

Hello. I'm trying to install Armbian on my KI pro coming from Coreelec, I've succesfully restored the boot logic using this https://wiki.coreelec.org/coreelec:restore and selected the right u-boot, it boots ok. Ive tried several dtb files but no one works like expected, also tried my current dtb from coreelec but same behaviour. I have these messages like this one [ 164.092003] meson-gx-mmc d0070000.mmc: unaligned sg len 720 blksize 512, disabling descriptor DMA for transfer and also some other related to eth port. I guess its due to kernel version or armbian itself version (tried the latest community maintained for tv boxes). My questi…

In the latest Armbian versions, I can't find meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb. Which DTB file should I use instead, or where can I get it?

Hello! I have no video output on Nexbox A95 (s905x) after boot (I can see the screen during boot up process), on the Armbian desktop build. Is there any solutions that I can implement to solve this?

Hi, I have an old Android 6 TV box that is slow (1GB ram), i think it's an S905 because it's the only kernel that can boot and its mainboard is a "gxbb p200" as I see on Aida64 : I just tried to boot the Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.139_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.33_minimal.img I flashed it on a 16GB microSD card on an SD card adapter. Then I added the line : FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dtb just after the lines label Armbian_community kernel /Image initrd /uInitrd fdtdir /dtb/ into extlinux.conf file. and then I renamed the u-boot-s905 file to u-boot.ext But the s…

I have a tx3-mini 1G-ram 8G-Rom device and I installed the versions images available on the site on it. I have three questions: why does it stop working when I update the operating system? - The site of benchmark says that the s905w cpu has a speed of up to 2GHz, but my system does not speed up more than 1.2 GHz. And the last question: some of the images available on the site are installed on it, and some are not. The ones that work also stop working with the update. Of course, not with a single update, when it works for a week, you update it during the week, and from some point on, it will not boot again. This is because my device is fake?

Hello everyone, good morning! I own a Super Console X2 Pro (https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNgWh7z) and I am trying to install Armbian on it to use it as a server. I followed the tutorial from the forum, but I can't get it to boot into Armbian: To attempt the boot, I am using an Android terminal app with the command: su reboot update But it always goes to the recovery screen. I also tried through the update app, but the USB drives or SD cards I used do not appear in the Android TV Box, even though their folders show up in the recovery menu. I am attaching screenshots of all the information I found relevant to solving the p…

Hi ! I started from SDHC armbian-24.08 on my Magicsee N5+ (s905x3). I installed system on the eMMC. But now, the system can only start on the eMMC, but only with the toothstick method ... And I can't start again on the SDHC to try the 24.11 for example. Is that any solution : 1. to make start on eMMD without toothstick 2. to start system with SDHC Thanks for your help

Hello all, I installed armbian on my TV box. It work correctly (I installed home assistant and It work properly). however, I have a problem with bluetooth. It doesn't work. I do some investigation : install the bluetooth support with apt-get update && apt-get install bluetooth check if this work with : service bluetooth status and it return bluetooth is running I try to connect device with bluetoothctl and it not working. It return No default controller available version : v25.02.0 for Aml.S912 running Armbian Linux 6.6.67-merry-christmas Packages: Debian stable (bullseye) I use this dtb file : meso…

Hello !! I ordered a box tv H96 MAX X3 With this configuration : -CPU: Amlogic S905X3 quad core BRAS Cortex A55; -GPU: ARM Mali-G31 MP2; - OS: Android 10.0; -Memory: DDR3 4GB, eMMC 32/64GB/128GB -Support: H.265, 8K @ 24fps, 4K @ 60fps, HD 2.1, USB3.0; -Support 10/100M/1000M Ethernet, 2.4 and 5G dual Wifi,BT4.0; I'd like to install Armbian on it to use it as a mini server. Except that I'm a complete idiot when it comes to computers, and I've tried to follow tutorials I've already seen, but I can't get the hang of it. I can't really find the right image and I don't really understand how to do it. When I try on my own and plug …

Hello, I have an issue with my box, which keeps freezing without any apparent error signals. It's probably me not knowing where to look, so I'm kindly asking for your help to understand how to proceed in identifying the root cause. My box is a MXQ PRO 4K (Leelbox), I'm using meson-gxbb-p201.dtb and u-boot-s905. Current version: v25.2 rolling for aml-s9xx-box running Armbian Linux 6.6.66-current-meson64 The box works perfectly for some hours, then it goes offline and disappears. The led is still blue (on), but even if I attach and hdmi cable there's no signal. I tried to leave a couple of ssh sessions opened to see what's happening bef…

I people, I get a tv box model "T96 D", but in the manufacturer site, this model doesn't exist. In the board is writen "T96 Mars" so, I follow the armbian installation steps for this model, but after "Starting kernel" the screen was black. I share images of the board and the screen. Thanks for advance guys.

Hello guys, it's day i'm trying everything to let my S905x TV Box run Armbian but i keep struggle at toothpick multiboot. Android recovery stays with the green android with the ! out of its tummy and hang with the "Cannot load volume /misc!" error. I opened the log and find out "failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 on /sdcard by read-only (Device or resource busy)". I downloaded the image and wrote it on a 32GB MicroSD card via Rufus, Could someone please suggest me how to proceed? Thank you, Marco

meson-gxm-m8s-l.dtb I created a working dtb for Mecool m8s pro L: LAN+WiFi+Bluetooth; H1601SG + QCA9377. The Bluetooth GUI doesn't work under XFCE, but you can use "bluez" console app. meson-gxm-m8s-l.zip

Hi, my previous Armbian (21.08.1 focal 5.10.60 desktop) was successfully installed to emmc. (install_aml_gxl_emmc.sh) After I tried the latest firmware (Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Aml-s9xx-box_kinetic_edge_6.0.12_xfce_desktop), I felt a big change in speed. The problem is, I've tried several times to move it to emmc and it always fails to boot. (install-aml.sh) Any suggestions I need to look into before running the script again? Thank you

I have an OTT TV Box, model ABOX-A1 ( 1G + 8G, S905X ). It is running Armbian 23.11.1 bookworm. How can I have hardware video decoding? Hardware video decoding support seems present in the 6.1.63-current-meson64 kernel. It seems only the V4L2 M2M API is present. Some firmware seems missing. I was getting "meson-vdec c8820000.video-codec: Direct firmware load for meson/vdec/gxl_h264.bin failed with error -2" in dmesg. I don't know what package I need to install. I was thinking maybe firmware-linux-nonfree, but that conflicts with armbian-firmware due to firmware-ralink. The files are available at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-fi…

Hi all, and thanks you all so much for sharing time, effort and knowledge about this boxes. I'm reading this forum a lot and also learned from advanced users. Me only start to play around, doing some test with trial and mostly errors! First all, I'm not sure if this goes here, please move it if necessary. This box come with a S905X2 SoC, and while working fine with an ATV12, I think I brick it and I only partially can boot from SD-Card burned with a full image I take with an Armbian version (SD-Card), doing dding of their eMMC. So the first I notice is that in UART console first line I see is hex character in a loop, I don't see normal …

Hello I have a vontar x3, S905x3 tv box and I have installed the latest Armbian 24.11.0-trunk.66 Noble Gnome version. If I made an apt upgrade the box does not boot. If I freeze Armbian Kernel Update through armbian-config utility (freeze update of armbian-firmware linux-dtb-current-meson64 linux-image-current-meson64 packages), I can make apt upgrade and the system boots and working fine. Is the above behaviour normal or I am missing something? Thank you in advance.

Hi, I own a Mini Mx III - II (S905X) that I "flashed" with an micro SD with install script. The tv box without any micro sd card inserted boot perfectly afterwards. I keep it but today, after few months I see that I have this image installed: Bookworm 23.11.1 Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63_xfce_desktop.img.xz I have seen now that we have this version: 25.2.0 Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.63_xfce_desktop.img So I have tried to use armbian-config system firwmare update to get up to 25.2.0. After waiting to download and installa pack…

I was looking for a low-cost S905W tv box. I discovered this counterfeitby accident because I couldn't boot any armbian image for S905W soc and I accidentally tried the multitool and it started right away 1GB/8GB version and not 2GB/16GB. So be very careful what you buy and if possible send it back to these dishonest Chinese sellers!

I have this box for years now, I want to run linux on it, can it actually happen, this device is very old though. It has 2gb ram, with 26gb storage

Anyone have Armbian image for Amlogic S805? Android Box Infomation FDT: m8b_m201_1GB UART Log: QA5:B;SVN:B72;POC:1DF;STS:0;BOOT:0;INIT:0;READ:0; U-boot-00000-ge0c1103-dirty(m8b_m201_v1@) (Feb 02 2018 - 15:47:12) clr h-ram DRAM: 1 GiB relocation Offset is: 2fec4000 aml_card_type=0x200 MMC: [mmc_register] add mmc dev_num=0, port=1, if_type=6 [mmc_register] add mmc dev_num=1, port=2, if_type=6 SDIO Port B: 0, SDIO Port C: 1 power init out reg=c110804c,value=dfffffff IR init done! register usb cfg[0][1] = 3ff67d4c register usb cfg[2][0] = 3ff6ac98 NAND: EMMC BOOT: not init nand do not init nand : cause boot_device_flag without nand get_boot_devi…

I wanted to ask if any of you tried to install Armbian on this TV box Mini M8IIS with (S905x ampak6212) I know it may be old but maybe it will work

Help, with my TV box, it keeps restarting and does not load Armbian. Its specifications are as follows: Processor: Amlogic S905X quad-core, 64-bit, Cortex-A53 at 1.5GHz (4-cpu) Graphics Processor: ARM Mali-450 MP3 RAM: 2GB Internal Storage: 8GB Operating System: Android 10 api29 Audio Formats Supported: AAC, WAV, MP3, and others Video Formats Supported: H.265 10-bit 4K * 2K @ 60fps, VP9 4K * 2K @ 60fps, H.264, MPEG, MKV, MP4, and other video formats Image Formats Supported: JPG, BMP, PNG, and other formats Network: Wi-Fi 2.4G / 5G 802.11a / b / g / n / ac; RJ45 10M / 100M Power: Input AC100-240V 50/60Hz – Output DC 5V/2A

Hi, My STB run latest Armbian from ophub Armbian_24.11.0_amlogic_s905x3_noble_6.6.58_server_2024.11.01.img.gz. it run on microsd with change the dtb file location in uEnv. But i made mistake with remove partition on eMMC and format it to BTRFS. Now my box is just bootlop. I try to recover using USB Burning Tool with oem Firmware but it always end with romcode error. I Try using TWRP with boot maker it can enter TWRP. i need to press the toothpick on AV jack. When i try to install the oem Firmware it say that emmc is 0mb. I try to change the file system with advance wipe option but got error that the storage can not mount. I guess the TWRP not recog…

How do i boot and install armbian on a T95m tv box? i held the reset button, plugged in power and released after about 5 seconds but it keeps booting into android...

Hi, I have installed Armbian on an SD card and can successfully boot from SD by holding reset button during power plug. Given that it is not possible to install Armbian to eMMC on S905, is it possible at least to make it always boot from SD?

Hello Guys. What Armbian version and image would you recommend? I have a TESLA MediaTech X700 Pro with soc s905x2 in it. I would like to use it to play movies via kodi and play retro games e.g. via RetroArch. Previously I used CoreELEC on an sd-card that is great for movies. Retro gaming only with wired Xbox One or Xbox Series controllers (xone driver for MS USB Xbox dongle did not work there). I would like to use my Xbox controllers wirelessly. Thank you for your advice.

After trying the 6.1.11 version of the system (XFCE Edition), I could get the system to start, but the loading proccess get stuck on "random : crng init done". I've been waiting for about 20 minutes now and the proccess stay on like the attached image. Downloaded file: Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_bullseye_current_6.1.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz

I woud like to contiune "Armbian for Amlogic S805 and S802/S812" here. Any firmwares or tutorials are helpful.

Hi. I have an old Tanix TX3 box that I want to use as a backup [1 part of the 3-2-1] drive. I installed Armbian_24.8.0_amlogic_s905x3_noble_6.6.46_server_2024.08.15.img and I'm currently in Armbian OS 24.11.0 Noble with Linux 6.6.53-ophub. I tried to mount several USB drives and even an nvme external drive and can get it to work. Can, anyone, please help me? Thanks. Miguel

Got Armbian to run on those $20 TV Boxes sold at Wal-Mart. This is for the Dopinder variant, i have not tested on the newest version (YOC) but I will likely pick one up just to see. -removed- Requires a few changes outside of the norm for armbian builds, so it's on my own fork. Likely will not be doing a PR. That said, it pulls the latest armbian source when building. https://github.com/sicXnull/Onn4K-TV-Box-Armbian Needed: OTG Cable (required) USB Hub (recommended) USB to Ethernet adapter (recommended) Working HDMI Audio Bluetooth Wi-Fi Building: git clone https://…

Hello community, I have this TV box which came rooted, so I was able to extract the dtb from /proc/device-tree with the command from the running android dts -I fs -O dtb -o d9.dtb /proc/device-tree but the box keeps rebooting when I try to use it I've been able to boot this box with armbian 24.04 and the # FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905l-venz-v10.dtb DOESN'T WORK # FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905l3b-m302a.dtb BOOTS # FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905l3b-e900v22e.dtb BOOTS # FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-g12a-s905l3a-m401a.dtb DOESN'T BOOT # FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-g12a-s905l3a-cm311.dtb DOESN'T BOOT # FDT=/dtb/…

Hi, I have these 3 Android TV boxes, chipset : Amlogic S905D Quad core ARM Cortex-A53 Amlogic S905-B, Quad core Cortex A53 Amlogic S905 Quad Core Which of these boxes can have Armbian installed on it, specifically onto the internal eMMC memory? I am willing to use even older versions of modified armbian that can be installed on the emmc without upgrading. Especially if it can be installed in emmc. If it is not possible to install it in the internal emmc memory, how can I at least use the internal emmc memory for data (Boot from SD card, use internal memory for data) ?

Hi, does anyone here have a download link for armbian version 22.04? I need it, because the info says Casa Os runs well on Armbian version 22.04, Thanks in advance

I was unable to get Armbian_community_24.11.0-trunk.66_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.47_minimal to boot on my TV-Box (X96Max+ 100 vA 4GBRAM). I tried using the meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb because this is the model I use for Coreelec. This did not boot at all, the system just boots to Android (Slimbox). I also tried this image “Devmfc_Debian-Bookworm_6.6.49-meson64_Minimal-24.09.05.img” from this project: https://github.com/devmfc/debian-on-amlogic This image at least tried to boot. I got a blue screen and a stuck boot loop. Back to Armbian, I tried copying the Devmfc file “meson-sm1-x96aira100.dtb” from the into the Armbian boot folder an…

Hi everyone i have wanted to do something wiht my useless tvbox and wanted to turn it into ubuntu pc and followed the guides to do so butit doesnt want to boot the img file how do i do this???

I've been trying to run Armbian using the Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.554_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.45 image along with a 16GB Sandisk Ultra SD Card (flashed using balenaEtcher), and my main issue is initramfs not being able to mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 as a root file system. I've tried using the solution listed here, but it didn't work. How can I resolve this?

Hi there! Firstly, a huge thank you to all the maintainers for this amazing project. I was hoping you could assist me with two questions: Which version of Armbian (Desktop or Server/IOT) would be better for running TVHeadend on my device? How can I add the DVB-S2 drivers to my device? I've come across this post: However, I'm unsure how to add those drivers myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

I'm using, TV Box Name: X96 mini CPU (example: amlogic s905w): amlogic s905w Armbian build file name: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz DTB file used: meson-gxl-s905w-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb During the boot time stacked(freeze) the screen.

I need some help for My TV Boxes / STB That Run Armbian Debian Because The kernel panic every im booting , Any Solution ??

Hello all, did any body able to login to Cinnamon version (screen shot below from here ) ? The box is A95X F3 Air first edition. For me it Bootes well and after root and user passwords are set it shows up desktop login screen and then after user login the desktop simply goes blank. On reboot again user login screen appears on the desktop but again blank screen after login. On the other hand the Armbian 24.8.0-trunk.399 Bookworm Gnome worked fine. I don't want any troubleshooting or run through logs and spend time on this but if any body faced such issue before just reply back if this happened with your box as well.

I have recently found this great project and have converted my old unused and dusty s9xx TV Boxes to ARMBIAN for use as remote NAS and other applications. I have X96 Max Plus 2 T, Beelink GT1, and 2x Beelink MiniMXIII II (total of 4 boxes). For the Beelink MiniMXIII II I used the meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb out of the box and it works great (100Mbit Ethernet and WIFI) For the X96 Max Plus I had to go to https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/releases and extract and use the meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb file (Gbit Ethernet works but WIFI doesn't) For the Beelink GT1 I again extract and used (from https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-…

@SteeMan - in case you want to experiment (i.e. not sure if it really works), you might play around with chainloading the g12a-u-boot.bin (s905x2) and sm1-u-boot.bin (s905x3) from https://github.com/hexdump0815/u-boot-misc/releases/tag/200926-01 or gxb-u-boot.bin (s905) or gxl-u-boot.bin (s905x) from https://github.com/hexdump0815/u-boot-misc/releases/tag/200718-01 ... basic chainloading goes like this - https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/blob/master/boot/boot-amlogic_gx-aarch64/s905_autoscript.txt - maybe compare it to the balbes150 boot scripts for fancier ways and most probably better armbian integration ... the files mostly exist in a serial version for seria…

I use Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Aml-s812_focal_current_5.14.0 and tried to find the method on the website. But I still don't understand. Thank you.

Hello, I took out my old m8s (s812) 2go 8go, i put Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Aml-s812_focal_current_5.14.0.img with meson8m2-m8s.dtb it stop at "starting hostname service " can you help ? thank you

Hi. I can't boot my HK1 S905X3 1000m box 4GB 32GB. I've tried many dtbs, u-boots, and releases. I've attached a copy of the picture of the box I have. I've tried these releases, among others. https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/releases/download/Armbian_bullseye_lts_2023.05/Armbian_23.05.0_amlogic_s905x3_bullseye_5.15.110_server_2023.05.13.img.gz https://armbian.chi.auroradev.org/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive/Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_bullseye_current_6.1.11.img.xz I renamed u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot.ext. I changed the DTB in extlinux.conf. I've tried fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb among many others. …

Hello , I have an HK1 box Chipset: S905X3 running Armbian, I noticed that the box contains 2 LEDs (Blue and Red). Is it possible to do PWM with one of the outputs of one of the LEDs?

It's a s905w2 chip. I can only find dtb 2gb. It's a newer chip so I'm looking for a boot one. Not at all. Thank you for answering.

After trying to update using an SD card, my box powers on but does not send anything to display. I have previously tried to flash using USB 2 cable with the USB burning tool but I get a "Romcode/Initialize DDR/Read initailize status/USB Control setup error" message at 2%. I have tried 3 different files to the same effect, hence why I used SD cars and I am unable to fix the box using the USB tool. I need a boot image so I can try to fix it via SD card but I cannot find one anywhere. Please does anyone have a boot image I can use or can point out where I can find one or a way of fixing this by SD image?

In at least a couple of occasions, my AMLogic box failed to boot after an attempted upgrade of `armbian-bsp-cli-aml-s9xx-box-current`. I did not keep a detailed report of the first time it happened, but at the time I am pretty confident it was due to the issue addressed in PR #6287. Now, it happened again, I believe following PR #6659. Maybe @SteeMan you can take a look?

Problem: It starts to boot, I see the Armbian splash screen, it stays for around 10 seconds then goes back to console with the (initramfs) prompt. Last 2 lines of boot process are: Begin: Loading essential drivers . . . done. Begin: Running /scripts/pre-mount . . . (initramfs) [ 37.824201] random: crng init done (initramfs) I got it to boot once into GNOME by putting a USB flash drive with the burned image AND a SD card at the same time. But that was only once and I could never repeat it. This happens on both versions of the X96 I have. And I've followed everything here: I've tried bookworm…

Hello everyone, I tried to erased data from settings menu to start fresh again and prepare this old box not used to give it to another family member. Probleme is that the process reset to factory was shut down before it ended (was taking ages).. So now it doesn't boot properly. I tried to operate wipe data / reset factory in recovery mode but ended in an error (mount failed). Also now i don't have operational remote.. 1)How to reset it properly ? 2)Is there any software to do that ? (i downloaded Aml_burn_tool recently but need help with which image should i load ? 3) Is there any way to force the box to boot …

Hello, I have a ZTE B866V2 tv box that has an Amlogic S905X2 - b processor. Try to install armbian in all possible ways, with different versions and methods, always following the instructions on the forum. My problem is that when I try to boot from the SD, the TV box simply starts its own operating system and does not load armbian. I got my TV box because my television company gives them to watch programs, but after I no longer paid for the service they gave them to me. They run a modified android tv system. I mention all this because I keep in mind that it could be the root of my problems. I leave you the link of the exact model: https://www.androidtv-g…

This is an Android TV box using the 922 chipset. Under Android, I have been using stock firmware but also recall trying that from the Ugoos AM6. I have managed to get it to boot using u-boot-s905x2-s922. I have tried several of the DTB files starting with the g12b prefix. I had initial high hopes that the one for the Ugoos would work. And it did boot all the way into the desktop (I have auto-login enabled) but the mouse would not move nor would the keyboard respond. Since then I have tried many others - still working my way through them all one-by-one. And I have found some (gtking-pro.dtb, gsking-x.dtb) that appear to work pretty "normally" (not that I am sur…

hello I want to install the new version of armbian or alexelec on my m8s+ s812 2gb ram 8gb rom device, could you please share the imgs you have?

Hello! Can someone help me with installing Armbian on this tv box: eu.strong.tv/en/products/ip-tv-receivers/leap-s1 ? This does not have the recovery button in AV slot so i am accessing the android recovery boot through adb from my pc. But the "apply update from sd card" doesnt have any files. I can see the folder structure on the sd-card but i dont have any file to choose. I am using this build: Armbian_23.5.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.30.img. I also have chosen the correct u-boot.ext file. Thank you in advance!

Many years ago, I fooled around and managed to get this old, Android TV box to boot/run Armbian from external SD card. As I recall, I followed Steelman's instructions. It appears to have kinetic (Unbuntu?) installed. I ended up not really using it and it went back into a box. Now I have a use for it. I want to run this software. And all of my apt commands fail in one way or another: bad repository (I changed to old-releases and that "helped"), then no release file (so I used insecure options on apt and that "helped" a bit but ultimately failed again), etc. So I guess I am being forced to upgrade. But all of the suggestions I have found to do this f…

So i've been using the build: "Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.6_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_edge_6.8.10" and trying to burn it with balenaEtcher. The issue is that when ending to verify and configuring - inserting the sd card into a TX3 Mini (board is v1.6) goes into a bootloop. This does happen with all of my sd cards and flash drives, and no, its not that they're faulting, CoreELEC does flash and boot correctly in all of them. I also did the f3 test, and no issues were found. Something particular that I have found is that macOS does detect very easily the corruption and ejects the drive/card, while Windows just lets it pass "as intended" I'…

Hi Guys, I was trying to install Armbian in a couple of boxes buit I had no luck. One is a SEI500W from SEI Robotics with AML 905X2 and the other is a Sagecom DIW 585 with AML 905X I followed the process and after trying to boot to recovery they start Andoid tv as normal (just takes more time). In the other hand I was able to run EMUELEC (Gaming emulator) on both devices with an image on SD so I'm assuming the problem is not a block. What do you think? Is there any ideas to try? Thank you in advance!

Attempting Armbian install onto an S905. Hardware specs at https://specdevice.com/showspec.php?id=6653-4ac9-1101-570d0033c587 Kernel begins to boot but gets errors and never completes dropping into initramfs shell. Was able to capture the dtb blob from the Android kernel and decompiled it. Enough differences to the dtb files in the Armbian distribution that I cannot figure out how to create a dtb file that will work. Have looked for other files on the internet but haven't come across something similar yet. Booting gets stuck in a loop of: meson-gx-mmc d0072000.mmc: no support for card's volts mmc0: error -22 whilst initialisin…

hello i'm having a issue with my old tx9 pro s912 3g 34gb the problem is the wifi sometime will stop work and when i do a apt upgrade i have to replaced the dtb file because it get delete, i using a dtb file that a user post on github, i wonder if any of you have this issue, it cant be the wifi controller is dying, or my dtb file is wrong

Does anyone know what is the real specs of this board. I try to boot armbian in pendrive into it but it always boot to the android system or in recovery. I try the different device tree but it always the same result.

stuck on boot screen after software reboot... command sudo reboot on terminal Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.563_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.30.img.xz this does not happen on the desktop version Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.563_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.6.30_xfce_desktop.img.xz