Amlogic CPU Boxes

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…

Hi, please help me install Armbian. Hardware: I have an X96 TV box with 2GB of memory and 16GB of storage. Software: I'm trying to install Armbian_23.08.0_amlogic_s905x-t95_lunar_5.15.132_server_2023.09.21. I downloaded the image, wrote it to the SD card and successfully booted using the toothpick method. Booting from the SD card is successful, everything works fine. When I try to install Armbian on emmc the installation just stops. If you cancel the installation (ctrl + c), the system continues to work normally. I also tried using the image Armbian_23.08.0_amlogic_s905x-t95_lunar_6.1.52_server_2023.09.12. To install, I use…

Hello Everyone, I'm an armbian user since 2020 and i'm having issues trying to run armbian on a custom TV box made from a company that sell iptv solutions for business. I've got this from one of the company manager as the device was failing HDMI and didn't want to bother themself with RMA, i've got few but really they trew out like 50 pcs. The device has a Amlogic s905x3 soc with 2gb Ram and 16gb memory. 1 usb 2.0 and 1 usb 3.0 otg, micro sd slot and many other component. wifi and bluetooth board and it's PoE. I know that S905X3 isn't supported very much but i've seen some posts from users succeding, so why don't try to let armbian run? …

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 am in desperate need of the WiFi driver for my Mecool M8S Pro L Android TV box. I would like to use it as a Linux computer because of how powerful the Amlogic S912 chip is, but with every Armbian image I find, I can't get the WiFi to work. Please help. Thanks you for your support.

Hi, I cant run armbian (balbes150 version) from SD - TVBOX MINIX U9-H (Amlogic s912 2/16) just dosent boot. TV shows dark screen more than hour. What I'm doing wrong? 1. I downloaded https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz 2. Flashed it with balenaEtcher to SD 3. Renamed u-boot-s905x-s912 => u-boot.ext 4. Made changeds in extlinux.conf LABEL Armbian LINUX /zImage INITRD /uInitrd FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb 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.ifname…

My next step is to build a secure privacy oriented travel router with pi-hole, vpn and openWRT What is the recommend virtual server software for openWRT? docker or pimox? Is there any tutorial here on this community on how to install openWRT on armbian tvboxes, since I wasn't able to find anything, but some users claim they have successfully installed openWRT on their armbian tvbox. There's a tutorial on how to install pi-hole on this community and there's is also an unoffical armbian fork on github that offers out-of-the-box openWRT installation that might even work, but that is not an option for me, since they just stole the armbian name (ac…

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…

Can someone please help me install Linux on my Ninkbox? I have tried various S905X3 images I can find on the net and burned to an SD card but cannot get any of them to boot. I need explicit instructions and a working image for my Ninkbox N8 plus. The image that seemingly works with my unit has a dead link from all the resources on the web so I cannot find this image to download. If anyone can help me and point me in the right direction I would be very grateful. I am particularly interested in running any distro with a good package manger like Debian / Ubuntu.

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 would be immensely if anyone bright enough to help me. I have an android TV box running Android 7.1 on a S912B Mygica 1960. I have tried for days a while back to get this device to boot up with Ubunta and have given up. I opened a case about this some time ago, and have actually given up and now I am tackling it again. The issue, I have let it be via the android os - updates (which does not detect any files) or using the toothpick reset method which gives me the option to select aml_autoscript.zip. Running this results in the following error 21 (see below); — No package file selected. -- Install /sdcard/aml_autoscript.zip Finding updat…

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…

Hello all! This is my story: I have a TV box with S905X Cpu and I would like to install linux on it. I tried to install Armbian via a usb pen and it worked but it was too slow, then I tried to install it on emmc with the command ./install-aml.sh but failed. Then i tried to use Armbian config and i bricked the tv box 😁 After some search, I found some tutorial to resuscitate it with USB Burning Tool, I shorted 2 pins on the chipset, installed an Aidan's ROM with Android 9 and worked well. But I want armbian, and now I don't know how to enter the device again in bootloader mode because when I turn on it boots up on AndroidTV without any other possibi…

I Followed the 2 tutorials, .zip install and toothpick install and i cant even boot from sd card, i dont know what im doing wrong, i changed dtbs in extlinux.ext and tried all the u-boot and with no luck. Any suggestion is welcome.

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 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 to all. I need some help please. I was experimenting between Libreelec and Coreelec images on sd for many years now and somehow i must have deleted the partitions of the NAND. So the device doesn't boot from NAND. I get a bootloop like this: GXL:BL1:9ac50e:a1974b;FEAT:ADFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:AA;SD:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; The bootloader and partitions may have been deleted somehow. Booting from SD still works. I booted Libreelec and tried installtointernal but i got: One of BOOT, SYTEM, DATA or DTB partitions is missing. Make sure that you are using a correct device tree and a device with internal memory! I think…

Hi guys, I am new here. I have a generic board powered by armlogic 905x. I have installed armbian on this board with this image : Armbian_21.08.1_Amlogic-GXL_bullseye_current_5.10.60.img.xz. Everything went OK, I could ssh the server, but when let server idle for about an hour, I couldn't ssh again, ping also didn't work, seem like server went on sleep mode. How to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have a H96 prop plus tv box, which I managed to install and works fine. I want to highlight the work done here, where the dtb modified to be "meson-gxm-q200-mod.dtb" which works well, except that the OS cannot be moved to eMMC. Can I check if this dtb can be the default in the device selection list (203 is the number for this device) . Currently thr default dtb is meson-gxm-octopus-planet.dtb, which does not have the wifi and bluettoth working. Also, can the mainline boot file can be dafaulted to "u-boot-s905x-x912x.bin" file? TIA, RP.

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

Trying to figure out how to initiate toothpick mode in order to flash a minimal iot Armbian image. I found a recovery1 button (accessed from a pinhole) but holding this while powering on, or holding the 'power' button while powering on, doesn't seem to get me anywhere. It seems that whenever I insert my 32G sdcard (maybe not supported?), something happens where the stock android does not boot after the initial MINIX splash screen, but just sits on a black screen (regardless of how I may have powered it on). Initially I thought it was doing something, so I let it run overnight.. I restarted it in the am, but when I removed the SDCard, it just booted…

I manage to build and make working latest Armbian and mainline kernel with the Sunvell T95Z Plus Amlogic S912 TV box. See: https://github.com/debiangamer/build/releases/tag/v2021.05

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-…

X96 mini 2 gb-16 gb I have followed this tutorial.. https://github.com/kdrapel/x96mini_linux I can't get the X96mini to boot. installed image: Armbian_20.10_Arm 64_focal_current_5.9.0.img.xz. renamed the file 'u-boot-s905x-s912' a 'u-boot.ext'. The extlinux.conf file contains: LABEL Armbian LINUX /zImage INITRD /uInitrd #aml s9xxx #FDT / dtb /amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200. dtb FDT / dtb /amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212. dtb #FDT / dtb /amlogic/meson-gxm-q200. dtb #FDT / dtb /amlogic/meson-g12a-x96-max. dtb #FDT / dtb /amlogic/meson-g12b-odroid-n2. dtb APPEND root=LABEL=ROOTFS rootflags=data=writeback rw conso…

Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum. I'm trying to boot armbian on a Mecool KM1 tv box. It's an armlogic S905X3 with 4GB ram,, 32Gb storage. Cant find a viable uboot and dtb combination for it as the usb flashdrive or microSD card simply won't boot. I can, however, run coreelec with no issues. Does anybody had any success with this box? Thanks

I need help, I don't quite understand how the support for this processor is, but I tried to find an image for the amlogic s905x3 and I can't find a specific one, so I come to you to see if you can send me a download link for this specific processor.

Hello everyone, I have three Amlogic S905x TV boxes with a dead EMMC, and one with a desoldered EMMC (since I thought without it, they would boot from the microSD card). Is there a way to force them to boot into Armbian? Holding the power button doesn't work, and desoldering the EMMC didn't help either. I was able to boot Armbian using UART. A workaround is to use Ardruino, which sends commands to boot Armbian after a while, but that's a workaround, and I'd like a more elegant solution. 1) Download the *.img.gz image for the amlogic_s905x 2) Write the image to the microSD card using Rufus. 3) Connect the UART. Steps 2-6 in the brick instructions. …

I use the x96 air 2g_100m (s905x3) version. I used Armbian for amlogic(bulls_eye, xfce) boxes as specified in the tutorial here. I tried with many dtbs, (it even had one named x96 air) all of the didn't work. So I tried the u-boot.ext file from this Manjaro for Arm tutorial. (The link for the archive). This combined with 'meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb' file worked great and I was able to boot from SD card without any hiccups. And for the first time, the onboard wifi was working flawlessly. I could only get it to work with Coreelec before. With this, I decided to write it to emmc . I used the 'install-aml.sh' to do this and it completed successfully. But when I rebooted from em…

Hi all. This is first installation of armbian, and I'm tryng to install armbian on a beelink gtking that use a S922 chip. I followed these steps: 1- flash Armbian_23.08.0_amlogic_s922x_lunar_6.1.54_server_2023.09.21.img.gz on my usb pendrive using BalenaEtcher 2- rename u-boot-gtking.bin to u-boot.ext on root folder 3- edit uEnv.txt as follow LINUX=/zImage INITRD=/uInitrd FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-g12b-gtking.dtb 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 try to reboot with toothpick. The android b…

On x96max+ with sm1-sei610-2 (from dgm78) hdmi sound works perfectly(sd card). However, after installing to emmc i have got dummy output.If i boot from sd card-i get sound from hdmi. dmesg(emmc) [ 15.702435] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 [ 15.702501] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 [ 15.703137] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 [ 15.703793] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 [ 15.705342] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 [ 15.705563] fe.dai-link-0: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for fe.dai-link-0 […

Hi, I have an Alfawise H96 Pro+ tvbox, and installed a community version of armbian image Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Aml-s9xx-box_sid_edge_6.0.12_xfce_desktop. I replaced the dtb with the meson-gxm-q200-mod.dtb, and copied all the firmware to the lib, and it works great! I was able to install HomeAssistant to it, and everything is perfect. To keep the sd card health status longer I planned to put all the HomeAssistant stuff to an external HDD with an USB to SATA extension. Unfortunately the drive does not working. The informations I collected: - dmesg output for the usb [177983.143635] usb 1-3.3: new high-speed USB d…

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 …

@balbes150 leaving is surely a big loss for all TV-boxers... Could you please elaborate - is requirement form "Getting started" regarding install " NAND: kernel 3.4.x and NAND storage " applied to his builds too? Years ago I successfully installed Armbian to NAND of MXQ 805 box (with nand-sata-install these days, I guess), and it worked like a charm, but now I can't find any s805 image with kernel 3.4, the earliest ones are 3.10 already. Thank you in advance if you could give a tip.

Hello everybody, I am new at linux have ubuntu running on n old windows laptop now I found a new use for my old TVBOX i have lying around I need some help logging in to my tv box it is a T95ZPlus with a 912 soc I am booting Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.519_Aml-s9xx-box_plucky_edge_6.18.0-rc6_xfce_desktop.img.xz I copy u-boot-s905x2-s912 to u-boot.ext My extlinux.conf looks like this label Armbian_community kernel /Image initrd /uInitrd fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb append root=UUID=8ba6ae05-2bb2-4d2c-bba6-ce6cd91ed2cb rootflags=data=writeback console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 rw no_co…

I apologize for opening a new thread but I could not find any related thread on this specific problem. I use unified images for Armbian 20.10 recently downloaded from this site. Most things work out of the box. I have however a problem with audio sink not being available for HDMI Tx audio. I tried manually mounting the kernel module (sound/soc/meson/snd-soc-meson-g12a-tohdmitx.ko) but this leads to no output (whether error or dmesg), and the module does not appear in the lsmod output. I am assuming that I use the correct DTB since everything else works. My box only has 1GB, I know that there are 2GB variants out there. I'm …

Hello. I'm a newbie, so bear with me here. I managed to install Armbian on a TV box with the Amlogic s905w CPU. Everything seems to be working fine except for the wi-fi, which is expected based on what I've read on the forum. I had a USB wi-fi adapter with me so I tried to use that as an alternative but it doesn't seem to work no matter what I do. My question is very straightforward actually, and probably a dumb one but it doesn't hurt to ask. When we say wi-fi doesn't work on Amlogic CPUs, we're talking about Armbian recognizing their built-in wifi card, right? If I use something external to that it should be ab…

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…

Some months ago I bought a fake Tanix TX3 mini to use as my personal server, but when trying to install armbian I just realized that the real cpu its not a common s90w, as I would expect, but s905l2. Okay, after many tries and helps one a lot of peoples I discovered the right setup for my devide. Ophub armbian fork with 'Armbian_24.5.0_amlogic_s905w_jammy_6.1.84_server_2024.04.08' image with DTB 'meson-gxl-s905l2-ipbs9505' and u-boot-s905x-s912. That is the set up that I did some months ago, but now I bought a higher capacity sdcard (64gb) to store more files. Ok, the sdcard is working, I flashed this image, made the entire set up, but when I try to boot I alway…

Hi everyone!!! After a some time away, I decided to deep in an installation of ARMBIAN on S912. I follow the steps described above, complemented with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qzfOOPbYA and https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0094.html Some cares must checked (and minors workaround) to boot from micro-SD, but at the end, everything runs fine. My box is a Diamond A9 (RUPA) with 2G/16G (RAM and ROM) The sound only by the HDMI and the AV/SPDIF does not work neither. The final result was reasonable due the speed, my expectations were bigger. But everything is runs stable but slow. Thanks for all, specially, balbes and steeman …

Hello everyone, I read a lot of threads regarding my problem but couldn't find the solution. Could someone kindly help me? I have a TVbox with S905x and Android installed, I would like to install armbian, I downloaded the ISO, renamed the u-boot file for S905x to u-boot.ext and modified the file "/extlinux/extlinux.conf" leaving only the line without comment with S905x. When I do "update" from Android it makes me choose a .zip file, copy something and then reboot. Unfortunately, however, the system restarts with Android as if nothing had happened. What am I wrong? Thank you very much.

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)

My MXQ TV box died today, I was running Armbian stretch, and I had been listening to Mplayer playing Mp3s for several hours as background music, when the player stopped because it ran through the list, I went to change directories, but there were none found( I was running off the SSD), so I tried the root directory, also no files found. I closed the terminal window, and tried to restart, which just resulted in a boot loop. Thinking the file system was corrupt, I disconnected the SSD,and tried to boot the Android system from the internal Nand? which also resulted in similar behavior, I tried a different monitor, and removed all peripherals , Android partially booted, then…

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/…

The android tv box(Jio STB) is completely locked down. It can run apps only that the manufacturer has included and through their store. adb is disabled. There is almost no way to sideload apps. I have tried to use UART with usb to ttl converter to gain access to root and below is the screen that I have got. I just want to just sideload apk files in it. Anyone please help. output on putty after turning on the stb : - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1viB7AEZr_634XNDCq6A7cdoEbi90Q_lI/view?usp=sharing

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,anyone intrested in porting armbian linux to Ugoos AM9 s905x5(64bit) I can provide necessary files from root partitions,device tree and stuff like that. Any help is appreciated 😊

Hi, I am running Armbian on x96 mini with S905W chip. There are four K4B2G0446D chips which from data sheet is 512MB each. The only DTB's files that work for me are `meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb` and `meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb`. Is there a way to validated for sure if I have 2GB of RAM? Is there other dtb files for the 2GB variant?

Today I was installing bullseye on it, then when me try to ssh with wifi, it just shows me : kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer Connection reset by 192.168.1.X port 22 I installed the 20.10 version of Armbian, so if someone knows how to fix this, please reply. Thanks.

Hello, I use androidbox Minix U1 where I successfully used Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img via SD. It worked well for me with: meson-gxbb-vega-s95-meta.dtb FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-vega-s95-meta.dtb 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 So I gave the command to install on internal memory, but the problem occurred during booting. A black screen occurs and the box is not readable even via USB_Burning_Tool. I tried different options and nothing. The only thing that works is if I give the USB ke…

Hi, I have problem to enable multiboot on TV BOX Evolveo H8 ( https://www.evolveo.com/en/android-box-h8 ) Amlogic S912 3gb Ram 16gb rom 1gbit WiFI LTM8830 CoreElec starts from SD card without any problems. Box don't have Backup&Update app (only OTA update) so I try to use dedicated reset button and adb reboot update but always finished with recovery menu and massage " Support Api.3 Recovery is listening adb sideload... Waiting adb sideload command.. E: cannot load volume /misc!" I tried differnt sd cards (32gb/64gb) and dtb files without any success with balbes armbian compilation. Some photos of box board : https://photos.app.goo.gl/8wmR329H…

Hi, booting from sd is okay, but ihave this message after i try to boot from emmc.Is there any chance to get armbian booting from emmc?

Hi, So I trashed the eMMC on my Amlogic s805 based TV Box, with 1GB RAM and 2GB eMMC. Getting it into mask ROM mode is easy enough, but how to resurrect the eMMC, so that I can boot Armbian off an SD card, is a total mystery. Can it be done, and if so...how? Any advice, or direction to said, greatly appreciated. T.

Hi, here I want to report Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop boots and run on a Beelink Mini MX S905,1gb, 8gb rom, using meson-gxbb-p200.dtb The wlan, an external usb hub, a usb Keyboard and a mouse work as expected, but the lan appears disabled and a recursing error message is reported. Also the bluetooth is not working. Despite that and of the low amount of ram, the system runs surprisingly smoothly if you avoid opening heavy applications ( even firefox can run, but opening a second windowd can freeze the box). I've also been able to install Arduino-IDE and it works, the driver for CH340 nano compatible board are already installed, and I've b…

Good afternoon, I have a problem with my TV BOX (MEOOL KM3) when I start it freezes on the TV BOX screen and it doesn't work. Does anyone know how I can select this problem. I thank you in advance for your contributions. Thanks

Hi new here i am trying to run Armbian on a Kingnovel X10 MAX TV box these are the common as muck $40/£40 TV boxes called the x10 max you see all over ebay, now I cannot use termux to build this dtb tried it fails to make the file and I my self other than being able to copy and paste text know nothing about how to make it, I have however recently made a spare one of these X10 MAX TV boxes with a bad nand into a Arcade system using this file dtb sm1_s905x3_2g.dtb in the device tree folder of emuelec on an SD card for this X10 MAX S905X3 chipset box it actually has 4gb ram but the 2gb file is what works for emuelec, now all I need is a way to run linux using Armbian maybe …

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 located a G11 pro and would appreciate guidance on how to install Armbian on it. I have attempted various solutions, but none have been successful. Additionally, I am unable to select from the recovery menu without a remote control.

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 I get an error when I want to install armbian t9 my device. I read all the instruction and did it correctly. I didn't install any other custom firmwares to it I just run coreelec on sd card. nothing has written to emmc at all. please help me what is the problem and how to solve it.

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

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 everybody, I need help because I screwed up when trying to install the system on emmc. The emmc is formatted and does not allow to initialize a boot sequence😢 A connection on JDEBUG1 shows that the box loops on this initialization sequence again and again. GXM:BL1:dc8b51:76f1a5;FEAT:ADFD718C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; TE: 136356 BL2 Built : 14:17:47, Apr 18 2017. gxl g95dc662 - xiaobo.gu@droid05 set vdd cpu_a to 1120 mv set vdd cpu_b to 1050 mv set vddee to 1000 mv Board ID = 1 CPU clk: 1200MHz DQS-corr enabled DDR scramble enabled DDR3 chl: Rank0+1 @ 912MHz - PASS Rank0: 1024MB(auto)-2T-13 Rank1: 1024MB(auto)-2T-13 DataBus test pas…

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 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 - …

I have an old MXQ Pro S905 box I wanted to install Armbian on. I'd done this in the past, then I had coreelec on it, then decided to go back... But that's irrelevant. I got the image Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63.img.xz from https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive/ and went through the whole process of getting it ready to boot. I started up the box and went about some other stuff because I remember it taking some time on the first boot. When I came back there were a lot of messages on the screen so I pressed Enter to see where the cursor was. It showed me a prompt, I typed `ls` to make sure things were …

Hello I use TV Box model Vontar X3 it has amlogic 905x3 with 4g ram and 1gbit eth I installed armbian bullseye in emmc and it works fine. but I want recover my TV box to original firmware USB Burning tool(Ver 2.2.4) can't get TV box driver I use USB A to USB A cable, and use toothpick with reset button but USB burning tool not work My tvbox just boot with armbian. Please help

Hello everyone, I would like to test Armbian on my GS King-X (S-922X). I have prepared a SD Card by using Armbian Imager. Then I have followed the instructions here: modified the "armbi_boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf" file, specified: "fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-meson-g12b-gsking-x.dtb"; copied "u-boot-s905x2-s922" as "u-boot.ext". Now before trying to make the device boot from the SD Card, I would like to know: If I do not install Armbian to the internal eMMC, will I be able to boot back to Android, by just removing the SD Card and powering off then back on the device? Later, if I decide to install Armbian to a USB drive or an internal…

Hi, Does Someone have a dtb file that enabled the ethernet network for mecool the km3 tv box? The meson-g12a-sei510.dtb file does not enable the ethernet network card in my mecool km3 tv box. The speed of the ethernet network card of my mecool km3 is 100 MB. The motherboard is km9 X2 LP4 v 2.2 Two year ago i installed armbian in this tv box with network ethernet card running without problem, now i need to install armbian again but i do not remember that dbt file i used...It only i remeber is that i download from this forum and it was shared per someone but now i hasn't found the dbt file. The error that is showed in Dmesg files …

Hi, can you somebody tell me how to get the WIFI working on my box? build: Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.63_xfce_desktop.img.xz boxname: Mecool KIII Pro SoC: s912 Ram: 3GB I have also tried with WL-167g USB WLAN adapter but without proper driver no succes. I am also not able to install driver ralink because of conflicts and possible dependencie issues. I also have no ethernet since I am using Huawei WIFI LTE Dongle Modem for all my devices and I have no ethernet adapter to plug it into my box. So I have 2 options, either use built-in WIFI chip or WL-167g USB WLAN adapter. I have trie…

Hello, I'm new to ARMBIAN, a very poor linux user, but I think I can handle myself. I have a X96 Max Plus android TVBox, and I want to put it on a remote place with home assistant and be able to access it with teamviewer. I've managed to make all this. The thing is I can only access the box shell, so I cannot open a web browser to use HA directly on this box. (but I can access from other device on network without issues). So I thought of installing a desktop platform on armbian that there I can install a browser, so I'm then able to access the place router if needed and also home assistant web interface. I've manage to install a desk…

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…

I have MagicSee N5 Max x4 TV Box run on aml s905x4, i can not boot to armbian by SDcard

Hi, I am returning to Armbian after quite a few years. I was trying to follow guidance from nexbox-a95x-armbian and after a search found the debian & Ubunt images (https://www.armbian.com/uefi-arm64/) which I downloaded and wrote to a USB using Rufus (also balenaEtcher). I then tries to look at the FAT32 partition contents but the GPT was corrupt - tried many windows tools and Linux.I "repaired" the GPT using Linux tools but then the FAT32 filesystem was corrupt. What am I doing wrong? any help much appreciated

Hello, I need your help to solve my problem with the eMMC internal disk of my TV box. This is the VONTAR X96 mini model, purchased in June 2019, with 2GB of RAM and 16GB disk. The processor is an Amlogic S905W. I transformed this Android TV box into a Linux server several years ago and I was satisfied with it. A few months ago, during a reinstallation, the internal 16GB eMMC disk became READ-ONLY! It is still visible and accessible (mmcblk1) but I can no longer update it! I tried to transfer the contents of the SD-Card to the internal eMMC storage, but no update is done. Thank you in advance for your help ! Ricardo PS : 1) I used these settings during installa…

Hi everyone, long term lurker to this site, however I see a whole trend in S905X Android TV boxes with sound issues. As far as I understand the SPDIF and AV ports are not supported with Armbian, however, HDMI Audio is I think. My box Rupa Pyramid A5x with the Amlogic S905X CPU boots great, followed the guides to the letter. Graphics are great, performance is as expected, 4K video is a little struggle sometimes, I suspect this is Firefox though, I actually use this same box for many years as a headless Plex/Docker server and it was amazing for this! I mean really really good. 4/5/6 steams at the same time to TVs, iPads, phones and then some more!. The issue I a…

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

not getting internal wifi from "amlogic s905x3" "x96 max plus" tv box wifi chip "CDTech 47W3155" board version "Q5X3-141 V4.1"

Hello, I have a problem with a tvbox named "powerme 4k", with a board MX4VB0200R MX4VB-V02 and 1gb of RAM. The Android version is 6.0.1. I coundt find the "BACKUP&RESTORE" app, because of that, I cant load the aml_autoscript.zip file. I trie to load another firmware to the tvbox, but all the firmware that I find, dont work. Finnaly, I find a firmware to this board, but it doenst have the "BACKUP&RESTORE" app. My question is: exist another way to load the aml_autoscript.zip and the aml_autoscript? Thanks to all and sorry for my english.

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!

Did anyone know how can I see if my TX3 has NAND or EMMC? I not sure if this is right but I'm facing some issues when trying to install armbian in my TX3, I burned and image with balenaEtcher in my sdcard but always says kernel panic or mainline 'bootfromsd is not defined' when booting armbian. It could be because of mem type?

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 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 an OTT TV Box, model ABOX-A1 ( 1G + 8G, S905X ). Inside it looks very similar to NEXBOX A95X. When it starts up while connected to a Protron PLTV-26 TV, the TV EDID gets changed. This happens both with the original Android and when booting Armbian. I don't think it's due to Armbian. I wonder if it is due to startup code on eMMC or SOC ROM. The changes happen at every startup and are always the same. It writes a 1 at EEPROM offset 2, and a 0 at offset 0x20. Normally, the EDID EEPROM chip is at I2C address 0x50, and many devices write protect it. On this TV it responds to addresses from 0x50 to 0x57 according to i2cdetect, and it is not write protected. T…

Hello everyone, My Tmall Magic Box 3 emmc clear Unable to boot what should I do. Repeated display:EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:AA;SD:800;USB:8;

Is there any solution to achive hw decode with any video player or maybe in rdp session? I try to use my tv box (TX3 mini) as rdp client, but video playback is very laggy...

Can anyone direct me to an image for the Magicsee N5 Plus (S905X3)? Looks like I may have made a mistake buying this box as I can't seem to find many references to it, and I saw something on this forum about stopping support for S905X3. Any info would be much appreciated.

Hello, I'm newbie on ARMBian. If I wrote in the wrong place please let me know. Because Android 6 is becoming oboslote. I followed this process for installing ARMBian on my MXQ PRO mini Nexbox a95x. https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0185.html I booted on my USB key well but the box is staying on starting kernel message with this log I copied from my screen : 2 USB Desvoice(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Dovice(s) found ## Error inserting "stdin" variable, errno=22 Card did not respond to voltage select? Card did not respond to uoltage select? ** No partition table - mmc 1 ** ** No partition…

How I can install armbian on Xiaomi Mi tv stick 4k with SoC Amlogic S905Y4 & GPU Arm Mali-G31 MP2? Specifications Output Resolution - 4k CPU - Quad-core Cortex-A35 GPU - Mali-G31 MP2 RAM - 2GB Storage - 8GB Operating System - Android TV™ 11 Wireless connectivity - Wi-Fi 2.4GHz/5GHz, Bluetooth 5.2

Hi, I tried to install Armbian in the recent days, but I wasnt unable because the image says "Map file error" or the update app will not read the Micro SD card (Armbian 23) I was wondering, where can I get this image of Armbian "Armbian_20.05.1_Arm-64_focal_current_5.6.2_desktop_20200408.img" ? It worked in a similar TV Box tutorial and I tought it could work in mine. Thanks for any help given This tutorial "http://www.galipe.net/guide-mecool-m8sproplus-armbian/"

Hi expert, I have a tv box Mini M8s with the following characteristics: SO: Android 5.1 Lollipop CPU: AmLogic S905 – Quad Core, Cortex A53 2.0 GHz GPU: Mali 450MP (2K, 4K e Encoding H265/HEV) RAM: 2GB ROM: 8GB eMMC (Espandibile con Micro SD fino a 32GB) WiFi: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac (No Dual Band) Network RJ45: 100 MBps Audio Ottico Digit.: 1 Porta SPDIF USB: 2 porte USB 2.0 HDMI: Versione 2.0 I would like to know where can I find an Armbian IMG working. I downloaded a lot of images but all damaged the only one correct looks to be "Armbian_5.34_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.40_mate_20171112.img" but I think is not good for my devi…

Hi, I am a owner of the Amlogic S905X3 with 100MB (Not 1GB) Ethernet card (using with meson-sm1-sei610.dtb). It works but VFD screen doesn't work. What can I do? Thanks Best regards, Wojciech

Hi due to repository balbes 150 offline, you can share the linux headers and 8189es.ko? thanks

I've been trying to install linux on a S912 chip, there are tons of tutorials on how to do it but when I check for the img file it is not there I've been referring to this forum p.s I know this has been outdated for a loooong time

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?

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

Hi! I'm new to armbian and just installed it on my KI PRO , AmLogic s905d . I've compiled my own version using the last build . Use the image to generic tvb for s905 with debian 11. to configure the boot I use the KII PRO dtb : /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf The box is running very well , however I have two issue with it. One of them is with eth0 doesn't recognize the cable connected . I saw the answer here about @mrv issue and found no solution until now. I'm not sure where I can try any other module to test my ethernet card... Generated my armbianmonitor : https://paste.armbian…

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) ?

hello, I have mqxpro s905 tx box. armbian 23.05.0. I installed ffmpeg. If I try to play a video with ffplay I always get "segmentation fault" . I never tried any other sw that use graphic. Maybe I need to setup video? thanks in advance

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…

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 )