Amlogic CPU Boxes

I have H96 max x2 4gb and 32gb rom, I have tried: aml_s905x2_H96MaxX2_4g_mac_wifi_20190114 h96max_debian_lxde_r2 ubuntu64-16.04.3-mate-odroid-c2-20170927 but they don't work. The only image that works is CoreElec. Can you tell me an Img that works and a dtb that works. Thanks

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

I'm trying to compile an LED display driver: https://github.com/arthur-liberman/linux_openvfd I follow this description: https://github.com/bk3a12/openvfd_enable_for_tx3_mini However, I can't build anything and the whole process ends with errors: sh ./scripts/modules-check.sh /home/user/INSTALKI/linux_openvfd/driver/modules.order make -f ./scripts/Makefile.modpost make[3]: *** No rules to make an object '/home/user/INSTALKI/linux_openvfd/driver/modules.order', required by '/home/user/INSTALKI/linux_openvfd/driver/Module.symvers'. Stop. make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.33-current-meson64/Makefile:1897: modpost] Error 2 make[1]: *** [Makefile:224: __sub-make…

Yesterday, I baught a new x96mini box, booting from sd is ok, but when i flash armbian to emmc, it warned me: Start script create MBR and filesystem UNABLE TO FIND YOUR EMMC DRIVE OR YOU ALREADY RUN FROM EMMC!!! so, i try to usb lsblk to check the emmc status, returns only the sd card: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.9G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 14.2G 0 part / zram0 254:0 0 50M 0 disk /var/log zram1 254:1 0 462.7M 0 disk [SWAP] Something must be wrong. So I opened the case, and found the hareware b…

Hi there, I was a happy user of armbian balbe150's build and wanted to update to the latest one as i was on a very early kernel. I tried to push it on my box freshly factored by default usb burning tool and android img from mecool. Install SD as usual with the settings according to the first post of balbe thread (it changed with the u boot) but after installing on emmc i'm stuck at the u boot and don't know why as it was working correctly on previous builds. If i put SD back it boot right away on it. Guess it is a emmc boot number or something wrong like that. If i do lsblk i can see emmc 0 (sd) and emmc 1 (real emmc) D…

Device: A95X F1 TV Box SoC: Amlogic S905W OS: Armbian Linux Server (v6.12 and v6.18) & Desktop versions. Installation: To NAND/eMMC. The Issue: I am deploying about 10 units. The installation to NAND goes smoothly, and the system boots correctly. However, after running perfectly for a few hours, the devices crash: Video output goes to a black screen. Network is dead (No SSH, No PING). Power cycling the device does not recover the system; it remains in this "bricked" state. Recovery Method: Once the device crashes, I cannot simply reinstall Armbian. I am forced to: Flash the stock Android firmware using the USB Burning Tool. …

Recenly I successfully installed Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.img.xz created by balbes150 (may thanks to him) on microSD in my x96 mini Amlogic S905w tvbox. I need to enable option CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC in kernel # uname -a Linux arm-64 5.9.0-arm-64 #20.10 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 14 12:04:42 MSK 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux When I tried steps from this link on my Ubuntu Focal 20.04 x64 build environment I see only these possible variants according to Amlogic SoC: - lepotato Amlogic S905x quad core 2Gb RAM SoC eMMC; - lafrite Amlogic S805x quad core 1Gb RAM SoC eMMC; - nanopik2-s905 Amlogic S905 K2 quad core 2GB RAM So…

woohoo I got one of my boxes back from the dead lol FYI I used the AML flash tool from here https://github.com/osmc/aml-flash-tool what's the latest armbian I can install on this? I used balbes builds like eons ago but I don't think he supports them anymore thanks

Hello everyone, I have a Tigre 2 TV BOX with Amlogic S905X, 1GB DDR3, and 16GB NAND storage. I'm interested in installing Armbian on this device, but there doesn't seem to be native support for the latest Armbian versions for NAND storage. I'm wondering if there is any way to install Armbian on this box, and if so, where I can find an Armbian version with a graphical interface and a Legacy Kernel 3.4.x that is compatible with Amlogic processors. I appreciate any help in this regard. Thank you in advance.

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…

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?

The Android TV box I would like to install armbian on say T95 on the top but inside on the board it says S905-248G-6330. Can anyone help me turn this into a armbian server to run Klipper on please? I have pictures of the board but not sure how to upload them here. Thanks in advance.

Hi All, I've been trying to run Armbian on Minix for the past 2 days with no luck. I did the following: - dowloaded the image Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz and unpacked it - copied it to SDCARD using dd - modified extlinux.conf uncommenting this line: #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb - I uncommented #APPEND root=LABEL=ROOTFS rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 - I renamed u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot.ext - run the update selecting aml_autoscript.zip After reboot the dreadful ima…

Hello, First of all, I am sorry to create new topic on this subject I wanted to reply and ask on the existing topic but closed now I have a X96 Air P3 and would like to use Armbian This box is a S905X3 with a Mali-G31 mp2 4gb and 64gb rom I tested all possible image in the unified topic but no result On the last topic, it say Armbian_20.09_Arm-64_buster_current_5.8.5.img working fine I would like to download it but didn't find in the download section I also would like to know what is the correct dtb file to use I really appreciate your help and especially your work done for this SO…

Hi Everyone, I want to turn my tv box into a Linux server. I watch a video on YouTube and the steps were clear but when I click on the link to get the Armbian Linux server link I get different results than what is shown on YouTube video. In the video I could read Linux server but I couldn't find it here when I open the link. Maybe because it was an old video from 2017 and things changed. Maybe anyone can help me in this? Thanks a lot

can I use a flash drive , or shell I only use sd card. thanks

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/…

i have burn images armbian latest desktop version from official armbian website. but after finished burning, not showing Boot partition as usual. i have to change dtb file with working one from original dtb board.

Hi. I installed Armbian Server on my TV box (Ugoos X3 Pro 4/64 x905x3) to the NAND, and I have some trouble with the RAM size in the system. I use meson-sm1-ugoos-x3.dtb. It turns out that only 1.8GB of 4GB RAM is available in the system. On the Russian forum 4PDA, I found some information on how to fix this. I repacked the DTB file and changed memory@ from 0x40000000 to 0xFF000000. After that, 3.8GB RAM appeared in the system, but it turned out the system was unstable and randomly froze. However, when I installed Armbian from an SD card, all 3.8GB RAM was available in the system, and the system worked fine and stable. I also used meson-sm1-ugoos-…

Need DTB Files for S905x3 100W for ethernet is not working the ethernet speed is 100MBPS, i tried so many DTB files but its not working.

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…

I have an x92 box with Amlogic Meson GXM (S912). The SOC has a Mali-T820 GPU, and the box has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of eMMC. I'm running Armbian 25.11.2 noble on it. While using the Wayfire Wayland GUI, there is a lot of kernel output like this, constantly repeating: panfrost d00c0000.gpu: shader power transition timeout panfrost d00c0000.gpu: tiler power transition timeout panfrost d00c0000.gpu: l2 power transition timeout The GUI works, and hardware 3D acceleration works. But it would be nice to get this spam out of the logs, and I also wonder if there is really some problem. Like, maybe the kernel doesn't know how to change GPU voltages. May…

Hello @all I Have a Tanix TX3 Amlogic S905X3 With 4GB RAM and 32GB ROM. It has a SP6330 Wifi / bluetooth Chip. High resolution PCB Pic: https://ibb.co/zbqW5HH I want to get the Sound and BlueTooth Working. I have used the Premade "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz" and Ethernet Works, Wifi Works (with small tweaks) This link helped me to get wifi working. Armbian Build for Nexbox A95X with AP6330. My armbian info: ``` root@tx3:~# cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=arm-64 BOARD_NAME="ARM-64" BOARDFAMILY=arm-64 BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://g…

Spec: ro.product.model=R3300-M ro.product.brand=BesTV SOC:S905M-B WIFI:RT8189ETV EMMC:4GB RAM:1GB 2 USB（1 microusb port） and 1 TF card slot. Currently I'm running almost every thing is fine except that docker failed to run properly due to the old kernel version. I tried Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.img from https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/ with meson-gxbb-p200.dtb and meson-gxbb-p201.dtb but failed to boot (no error message,just boot into recovery or android system),and I'm curious about the absent of gxbb_p200_1G_100M_RealtekWiFi.dtb (and a lot of other dtb files!) . u-boot-s…

Hello, Some update after this topic : Find here a possible solution : https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-on-amlogic-tv-box/34662/659

Hello everyone, i'm a noob, can you tell me the step by step procedure to launch this version in good condition for the Ugoos am6B plus please? Thank you Cordially

hi gusy, i have a question. I have an android tv box mecool m8s pro L, I have installed it with armbian linux 5.90 20.10 desktop environment, using dtb meson gxm q201. it's working and can use the internet via LAN cable, but the problem is the wifi doesn't work, the wifi chipset is KM63350510, is there a linux driver for my wifi chipset?

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?

Hello to everyone. I'm new in this forum. I'm trying to install (or adapt to install) armbian in an A95X MAX. I've compiled the entire system on a virtual machine and now i'm trying to boot in the box but no luck, the problem is that I erased the emmc to force the cpu to boot from sd but don´t boot, the only text line i get (via serial console) is "G12A:BL:0253b8:61aa2d;FEAT:F0F831B0:12020;POC:F;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;SD?:20000;USB:8;". Can anybody help me to decode what this line means? I'm broking the head but whitout result. Many thanks in advance. Sorry fot my bad english.

Hi, i booted for the sd card, with armbian, and then i went do terminal and armbian-install, it went well, i formated the eMMC, and then after all i shoutdown, now i can't get it to turn back on, i don't have the remote, is there any pins to sort or any possibility to solder a power button ? tnks.

Hi. I apologize if this is in the wrong section, I'm new to the forum. I'm trying to run Armbian on the Jadoo 4, which is a rebranded MyGica/Geniatech ATV 585 Android TV box. This device has an Amlogic S805 with an "stvm8b" board. I've been trying to follow these two tutorials (Video 1 and video 2) but when I insert the SD card into my device and hold down the rest pin, I end up in the recovery menu instead of booting straight into Armbian. Can someone help me out and give me a specific guide on how to do this? I know this information has probably been said a bunch of times on this forum, but I am genuinely lost. If it's important, I'm looking t…

I've created a new Linux image for the MyGica ATV 495X TV box, based on a Focal CLI image from ophub's github repo. The image includes a 5.10 kernel with HDMI, SD, eMMC, USB, Sound (HDMI+AV), Ethernet and WIFI all working. The image supports installing to the internal eMMC with or with the vendor u-boot. It is available at https://github.com/deonvdw/atvlinux/releases/tag/ATV495X-v1.00.

For a beginner like me this is a difficult box to install Armbian on. Before attempting the installation I had managed to install Armbian on a NexBox A95X (S905), and a M8S (S812). I want to share my experience with others because even though every box is different, what I did to install Armbian may give other users ideas on what to try on their own boxes. It is also good to record what I did in case I have to do it again years down the road 😅 The problem with the unit is that it is heavily customized, specially the boot loader. Even though it has a reset button, the usual toothpick method always result in the built-in rescue, i.e., it ignores am…

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!

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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 - …

The Wi-Fi isn't working. I've been trying to get it working for a week now. My hardware is a board from a TV set-top box based on the Amlogic S905X. I have six of them. Armbian OS v26.2, kernel 6.12.59-current-meson64 There are 6 adapters: noname aic8800 ax900 bt5.4 usb (Two types. Some are detected slightly differently by the system, but I want to figure out the first type first (on the left in the photo)) Photo of adapters: https://disk.yandex.ru/i/x37stQnEgEW52gра As far as I can tell, the manufacturer's website: https://www.fenvi.com/index.php/drive.html?id=1&page=2 What I've tried: https://resource.tp-link.com.cn/pc/docCenter…

I have bought a TX60 Pro with S905L CPU, 16 GB RAM and 256 GB eMMC. I tried to run Armbian on it: wrote several images on microSD, but since it does not have a microSD reader, I plug it in in a microSD reader. Unfortunately, it does not boot from it, not even when I start it with the Reset button pressed. Is there any chance I can run Armbian on this box?

I have got broken tv box Vontar X3 S905X3. It has broken EMMC. How can I run this Tv box from sd card without EMMC? In terminal putty serial: LOOP:21;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD?:20000;USB:8; It run from SD card recovery with AMLogic Burn Card Maker and froze when it try load firmware to EMMC. How run at sd card something: armbian, LibreElec, or oder linux, android ?

I found the TV box that played couple of years ago... and bricked 😞 The box looks like this one https://bestedshop.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=213 Seems like I flashed it with Khadas VIM bootloader and now it enters a boot loop because it's failing the vim_check preboot script. I tried all sorts of images via the SD card but it seems it ignores all of them. The serial console output: GXL:BL1:9ac50e:a1974b;FEAT:ADFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; TE: 138075 BL2 Built : 11:58:42, May 27 2017. gxl gc3c9a84 - xiaobo.gu@droid05 set vcck to 1120 mv set vddee to 1000 mv Board ID = 1 CPU clk: 1200MHz DQS-corr enabled DDR scram…

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

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

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…

Hello I have Armbian 23.11 installed to x96mini. I use it for HomeAssistant HA argues that cgroup version is incorrect and I have to switch it to version 1. There is a lot of advises about adding "systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=false" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt or /boot/cmdline.txt or /etc/default/grub on the Intrnet But I have not these files in my system. I tried to create them but no results. Does anybody help me tu change cgroup version please )

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.

Hello from France, I look for a firmware compatible with my Box Beelink GT1 Ultimate, and I would like to test the firmware for Beelink X2 but unfortunatly all links are broken. Can you help me Happy new year 20121

Hi guys, I'm new, I would like to know what is the latest kernel available for my tx3 mini with s905w chip, preferably debian or ubuntu. Could you find a link where to download it? Thank you

Hello! So i am newbie on this subject, and i want to try Home Assistant and for that, i need to install ARMBian on an Android Box and i have no idea yet how to do it. First i would like to know which version of ARMBian should i install on a R-TV Box S10? That box has a Amlogic S912 socket 3Gb RAM and 32Gb ROM. Which firmware should i install to achieve my goal and how to do it? Thanks in advance for all the help.

Hi @SteeMan! I have an H96 Max X2 S905X2 2GB/16GB box. I'm trying to get the ethernet port work in armbian for this box. Please see the attached high resolution images of the motherboard of this box. Some related info printed on the boards: S70-905X2-V2 2018-11-15 CZ1830 SX18122 (wifi/bluetooth chip? I get nothing from googling these strings) Red marker is the location of the NAND short to be used to unbrick the box. Here is what I found so far: 1. Wifi does not work even in stock android rom, not to mention any kind of custom rom / armbian, so I have absolute zero hope for wifi. And I broke bluetooth after accidentally performing a full era…

Hello, I am getting following error when compilining https://github.com/superna9999/meson_gx_mali_450/tree/DX910-SW-99002-r9p0-01rel0_meson_gx KDIR=/usr/src/linux-source-4.19.57-meson64/ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ./build.sh make: Entering directory '/root/mali/meson_gx_mali_450/driver/src/devicedrv/mali' make ARCH=arm64 -C /usr/src/linux-source-4.19.57-meson64/ M=/root/mali/meson_gx_mali_450/driver/src/devicedrv/mali modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-source-4.19.57-meson64' CC [M] /root/mali/meson_gx_mali_450/driver/src/devicedrv/mali/linux/mali_osk_atomics.o /bin/sh: 1: scripts/basic/fixdep: Exec format error script…

I was dumb enough to try and update uboot on this little box and then it got sort of bricked. When connected using serial I could see it loop trying to boot from EMMC so I tried the reset button recovery to no avail. Shorting the EMMC pins works putting the device in recovery mode but the usb burn tool is stuck on formatting at 7% after it seems to sucesfull removed (and maybe flashed) uboot but the serial connection still shows it looping on EMMC. So I tried the next thing, shorting EMMC while connected using serial and I could the looping change to include sd and usb. So I made a sd recovery card using the burn card tool and it can boot from it, I can see ub…

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.

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 …

Hello everyone, I have a device from this brand. An ISP in Turkey distributes this device. It needs to be unlocked. I want to install Armbian on it. However, it doesn’t look like any device I’ve seen online. The motherboard is different from all the devices I checked. Is there anyone who can help me? I can access the device via ADB. I can install APK files. The device has an S905X processor and 1 GB of RAM. It is running Android 9.

Hi I am trying to breathe some life into an older generic Amlogic TV box on my workbench and am hitting a brick wall with modern mainline images. I’m looking for a copy of a legacy, community-archived Armbian image (Kernel 5.4.y, 5.10.y, or 4.19.y) tailored for the S905X / S905W (meson-gxl) architecture. The newer automated GitHub builds (6.12+ kernels) completely purge the old asset files, and modern multi-stage boot configurations (boot.scr) are being entirely bypassed by my box's legacy onboard bootloader. Hardware Specs & Current Context: SoC: Amlogic S905X / S905W variant (Generic budget clone box, likely 1GB RAM) Target DTBs I'm t…

Hi, I would like to maintain the kernel version updated on the box (for video reading performance because I still got some stearing when the camera moves horizontaly). Now that there is no more support for amlogic (I can understand why reading the forum), can I use the available bullseye/linux-image-current-meson64 package from the armbian repo (which is now 5.9.6 not 5.9.0)? As I understand is it not that easy to compile a kernel by myself because there is so much patches applied. Best regards, Laurent.

I`m tried to install armbian from USB and Micro SD. I usage image from balbes150. When boot from USB - TV Box show green screen, and the router does not show that the TV Box is online. When boot from Micro SD TV Box restert to recovery. for USB I usage image 20.05, for Micro SD 20.10

Hello, Can someone kindly help me in getting x96 Max+ Android TV box display to show something on Armbian? Even if it shows "boot" only I don't mind. Kind regards

I have an Alfawise H96 Pro + Box with Android 7, how can I boot it? When i press the reset button it boots into Android Recovery

Hi, I was successfully installing the "Armbian_23.02.0_amlogic_s912_jammy_5.15.96_server_2023.02.27.img.gz" image to the eMMC of my new alived Android TV box "Vorke Z6 Plus". Now, it is running as my Linux server for OpenHab and working fine. The "Vorke Z6 Plus" has a small LCD Display which usually shows the text "boot" if its booting in Android system and then showing the current time + some other information. With Armbian it shows continiously the text "boot". Here a general picture of the box (no, this is not my box, but a picture from the web, to show how the box looks like): I'm interested, if it is possible to change the display behav…

Hello, is it possible to install Armbian on Mecool BB2 S912/2GB ? Whick bootloader/dtb should I use? Thank you.

I am using armbian on TV box S905W. with 32gb EMMC memory. actually the free memory in my EMMC is about 24gb i.e. only 8gb. used Currently, I have an additional box of s905w with the same version but with EMMC with 16gb memory. I used emmc 32gb partition backup using dd command and extract to usb, I use gparted to reduce the partition size ( ROOT_EMMC and BOOT_EMMC) to 12gb. I copied 2 downgraded partitions to 1 16gb usb, repackaged it as an img file. Proceed to use dd method to restore img file to emmc of 16gb device. The recovery did not give an error, but after rebooting using the EMMC internal memory, the device failed to boot. I want to know can we back…

Hello everybody, I am french. I bought a Retrostation on X96 Max+ support I used "Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.038_Aml-s9xxx_eoan_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img" with BalenaEtcher and I changed some files like explained on this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_V50MuJ7DE&ab_channel=AmirsafeTechnology But when I boot on my support with Linux, I have a strange display, like not normal ^^ I wanted to know if I can do an update maybe for the display or maybe I choose a wrong dtb file ? If someone know this problem, please help me ^^ Have a nice day/night ^^

Hello, I am using an X96 Air (S905X3) with Armbian (6.1.127-ophub) and I can see the hardware decoder working: v4l2-ctl --list-devices Amlogic Video Decoder (platform:meson-vdec): /dev/video0 However, the hardware encoder (VENC) does not appear: ls /dev/video* /dev/video0 ls /dev/amvenc* ls: cannot access '/dev/amvenc*': No such file or directory I want to use ffmpeg with hardware encoding (h264_v4l2m2m) for real-time RTMP streaming, but without the encoder device, it is not possible. Could you please explain: Does this kernel support VENC on S905X3 at all? If not, what changes are required to enable hard…

I've just started looking into installing a Linux distribution on my X96 Air P3 with 4 GB RAM and 64GB eMMC, but as it seems there is a lot of conflicting info around, especially concerning the gigabit ethernet port that is supposedly only working with 100Mbit/s? Is there any tutorial on how to get started and choose the right image + proper DTB? The intention is to install to the eMMC and use the box as a small home server exclusively

Hi folks, I have an old S905X Box that I want to install Armbian on but am completely lost - I tried following this page https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12162-single-armbian-image-for-rk-aml-aw-aarch64-armv8/ But it talks of things like editing uEnv.txt but I cant find that file. Can somebody talk me through, step by step how to install Armbian on an S905x box? I can boot from SDCard as I have one formatted with Coreelec but Android is still on the internal hardware.

hello i need help to decode 720p H264 videos using meson-vdec or any other solution , is it possible ? im using balbes Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop (X96 mini S905w)

ey i have a SDMC DV8040 stb ,SoC-Amlogic S805X,CPU-Quad-core 1.2 GHz,GPU-ARM Mali-450,RAM-1GB,Storage-8GB it currently runs custom made android 9 i want to install Armbian linux to it .. i tried almost every youtube video methods to install but none of them worked .. but i was able to serial communicate with it but functions are limited ..please help me

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?

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

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 …

Hi! i installed armbian on my tvbox with SOC s905w 2gb and i would like to control a relay via linux .... is it possible? and how? thank you

Hi, I would like to play some DVD (armbian/balbes on x96max with weston). I follow the instructions from https://wiki.debian.org/CDDVD#Watching_Video_DVDs # apt install libdvd-pkg # dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg Then I launch # mpv dvd:// I've got some error to decrypt and the sceen stay black :/ Is anyone manage to play dvd from our favorite boxes?

Hello, I would be grateful for some assistance on a sound issue. I installed Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz on a YUNDOO Y6 TV Box with S905X. It worked fine, but I believe that there is no support for Armbian 20 anymore. Useful info, the sound was OK and the audio card was identified as GXL-S905X-P212. Then, I tried various versions of Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63 and Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.63. Most of them do work, but none detects the sound card. Now I am playing with Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63_xfce_desktop.img, which actually has meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb in b…

Hi, I have a probox2 S905X3 I tried to flash it a while back and it bricked, recently I got a serial adapter and attempted to get some data this is the output SM1:BL:511f6b:81ca2f;FEAT:A0F83180:20282000;POC:F;RCY:0;EMMC:800;NAND:82;SD?:20000;USB:8; LOOP:1;EMMC:0;READ:E;READ:800;READ:800;SD?:20000;USB:8; LOOP:2;EMMC:0;READ:E;READ:800;READ:800;SD?:20000;USB:8; LOOP:3;EMMC:0;READ:E;READ:800;READ:800;SD?:20000;USB:8; ..... As far as I can understand it looks like it is not booting and has some kind of read error, I tried to boot while holding down the reset btn w/wo usb/sd card, but I get the same result. Can I do anything?…

Hi all. I'm newbie. I have a TX3 mini, I read some guides to download image and flash to SD Card to run Armbian in TX3 mini. But there are no suitable image file for S905x Soc in these URLs https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei https://mega.nz/folder/j9QSDQSQ#6WpasOlbZYIInfw6yo4phQ https://www.armbian.com/download/ So please share me link to download this image file Thanks so much

Hi, newb on this board, am so stuck with this box I had no choice but to register. I can run "LibreELEC-LePotato.arm-9.0.2.img" from usb without problem. I can also run "Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20180601.img" without further meaningful problems. trying to get this MXQPro 4k (S905XQ p212 8gb) running with Balbes150's last 20.10 Armbian but without any meaningful progress. As per Instructions/FAQ I copied u-boot-s905x-s912 to u-boot.ext also edited extlinux.conf label Armbian_S905X-p212 linux /zImage initrd /uInitrd fdt /dtb/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb append root=label=rootfs rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyAML0,115200n8 co…

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 happen to have got a Android tv box with a s905Y5 processor. I got this by a tv subscription from a company airtel in India. I unsubscribed from the subscription and my tv box is completely useless. it asks money for watching youtube!!!. I am extremely frustrated from this approach by this company so please help me save this from getting into e-waste. From my research i found that it runs android 14 with a custom launcher which checks for the subscription and a locked down kernel/bootloader which checks for signatures before boot. I came to know these from the uart output. I also found that it is basically a customised version of this box https://www…

G'day all this is my first post here, the title describes the brand model, apparent ram size and storage capacity of my tv-box, I know the chip has to be an S905* because I can boot coreelec with the dtb of s905W, but in armbian's case no luck yet. The device doesn't have an sd slot, however I was able to boot coreelec by using a usb drive and ADB. basically adb-connected to it and issued "adb reboot update". I have a similar device as this guy I think if not exactly the same: https://forum.atvxperience.com/viewtopic.php?t=6432 So what options do I have? Any help is welcome 😀

Hi Guys, I am looking for latest Armbian image which works for Beelink GT1 Ultimate 3/32GB (S/N = G912) Amlogic S912 TV box. My requirement is only wired network to be working and that Armbian image must have kernel headers. The only old image that work is Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20171226.img but missing kernel headers & not able to find kernel headers that matches kernel in the image. I tried Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img with 3 different dtb files as follows: dtb file: /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb dtb file: /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-gt1-ultimate.dtb dt…

Hi, I have M8S+ ( it's run normaly android 5.1). I have tested many images and many dtd. Nothing works. Only one image works it is LibreELEC-M8S-Plus.arm-9.2.8.6.img.gz from http://libreelec.dtech.hu/images/S8X2/ I change the uEnv the name of dtb. Last teste /Armbian_20.09_Aml-s812_bionic_current_5.9.0-rc7.img. from https://disk.yandex.ru/d/-MwoNitZonsRCg/Armbian/20.09/20201002 I do not know what else to do.

Hello, This is my first post here, I don't know if this the right place, I just want to know if it is possible to install armbian on an M8S+ tv box, it has a amlogic s812 chip. I already downloaded the image file from : https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/s8xx/ I just want to ask if I have only to follow this guide of there is other things I need to know https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ thank you

My tv box: x96max 2+. Cpu: s905x3. Gpu: mali g31. I found the suitable Armbian here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12162-single-armbian-image-for-rk-aml-aw-aarch64-armv8 I installed the Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img to tv box. It works. But the picture quality is not good enough and hardware decoding is not used when playing video. The panfrost driver is used for mali g31. I would like to try some other driver. In the Ubuntu repository I found the following packages: mali-midgard-dkms mali-t62x-x11-driver mali-t76x-x11-driver The mali g31 family is bifrost. In the Debian wiki I had read th…

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!

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'…

Hello and thanks for this great posting. I have a Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos. The boot logo from AmLogic says simply S905 and that matches my understanding of the unit. I managed to boot Armbian from the SD card using the reset button. I played with it for a while and all seemed very good. So I went ahead and executed the /root/install-aml-s905-emmc.sh script. In general it seemed to work. Took a huge amount of time, especially in copying USR. But it did complete. However, when trying to boot thereafter all I get is a black screen for many minutes. Finally, I gave up and pulled the plug. Has anyone any idea what I might be doing wrong here? Thanks so…

I own a T95Z Plus box and tried that armbian build (lunar and sid). It works, but none of them have sound working. Sid does not have wifi working either. Tried also this and the sound works there. What may be a problem? https://github.com/debiangamer/build/releases/tag/v2021.05

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…

Hi all, I'm trying to boot Armbian from USB on a Foxconn BANDOTT BA101 (Amlogic S905D, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC — same SoC/RAM/storage as a Phicomm N1, originally shipped with Android TV 7.1.2). I'm running purely from USB, never touching eMMC. What works Armbian_24.5.0_amlogic_s905d_jammy_6.6.28_server_2024.04.25.img (ophub build) Flashed to USB with balenaEtcher Plugged into the box, powered on Boots directly with no modifications — no manual u-boot.ext, no dtb edits, no extlinux changes Network, IR, HDMI all good What doesn't work Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.821_Aml-s9xx-box_resolute_current_6.18.26.img (official community build…

Hello All, I apologize if this subject is already located somewhere in the forum's threads, I spent some time looking and I could not find it. I am seriously an amateur with Armbian. I have an x96 mini, first generation possibly, 1GB RAM 8GB Storage. I wanted to use it to create a linux process that would be running 24/7. The focal image that was release a while ago and was linked on one of the yandex drives works fine, from usb. When I install using install-aml.sh and then try to boot it, it attempts to look for a network, at least that is what appears to do. I don't want this unit accessing the network just yet. Is there a…

Hi, I have A95X F4 android tv box with Amlogic S905X4 processor I'm trying to run Linux OS but it is not working, please help me to get appropriate Linux OS for this device. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I have installed the armbian bookworm version with xfce on it, 6.1.30 kernel on my 32gb usb flash drive using balena etcher according to the instruction, I have tweaked the boot.cmd file, and only tweaked the video settings and regenerated using the mkimage command, Using linux to setup. and when I tried booting on the tv, everything worked till bam it kernel panics and starts flashing the red status leds on my android box. The kernel panic error is not syncing asynchronous SError interrupt, I cannot get anymore logs because I dont have any loggers, There is an uart port on my tv's motherboard but i dont have an usb to ttl device. Keep in mind, i cannot use sd…

I have Android TV box Tx3 mini with 4GB RAM and 32 GB ROM. I install Armbian followed a guide. When I logged in it showed Memory usage: 20% of 918 MB, Usage of /: 57% of 5.8G. How can I get it recognized full memory the box has? Thanks.

Hi wifi work from SD card, after installing to emmc WIFI HW not recognized. Image from https://github.com/armbian/community bookworm edge minimal 222M 6.2.14 How to solve it? instal via armbian-config dtb: meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb IMG: Armbian_23.5.0-trunk.140_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_edge_6.2.14_minimal.img HW: mbox s905x v0.3 WIFI: RTL8723BS

I have an M8 S802 box that I am trying to install armbian to. I am using 5,44 Ubuntu bionib 3.10.108 server. I can boot with the SD card, but when I try to install to emmc I get a message saying cannot parse config file '/etc/fw_env.config' invalid argument at the end of install. After this, the TV box will only boot from SD. I tried copying the fw_env.config file from my backup of android, but I still get the same results.

Hello, I am a owner of a Nokia streambox 8000. I have been trying to install Armbian on it, but without luck. The board specification of the tv box: Board: Amlogic S905X3 ARM Mali-G31-MP2 I have been using the images from here: (external link to site not affiliated with Armbian). I tried the S905X3 jammy and bullseye versions. The installation procedure that I have been trying out is as following: 1. Download armbian_s905x3 img from github repository releases. 2. Use balenaEtcher to burn the image into a USB stick. 3. Once burned; Open the BOOT drive. 4. Rename u-boot-s905x2-s922.bin to u-boot.ext 5. Edit …

H96 Pro Plus android TV box stuck at 2%, Tried to re install many, but stuck on 2%, any clue from fellows.,.,regards H96 Pro Plus CZ-S32-V3 (DDR4) 2016-12-15(A15)

Hello, I have android tv box with S912. On boot logo was GOOGLE TV and after android app. I put armbian on usb. I boot from usb with armbian by pressing reset button. I backup eMMC with ddbr and save this backup android img file on my computer. I put armbian on my android tv box. No logo, only messages. I don't know how armbian boot usualy, but I think it is same than usb. I think it works well (dual wifi ok, ethernet 100/1000 do not work, bluetooth I don't know). Before add anything, now I want backup eMMC again and save this backup armbian img file on my computer. I need boot from usb with armbian to do ddbr. But it is not possible …

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…