Amlogic CPU Boxes

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…

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.

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…

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, I just managed to install Armbian to my Minix Neo U1 on sd card. I read the faq and found that installing on eMMC is better than on sd card because eMMC is faster and more durable. Now I'm curious that if I'm booting from eMMC: 1. How can I boot from sd card again? Just in case something's wrong with the eMMC etc. 2. Can I still use a blank sd card for storage? Or there shouldn't be an sd card attached because it will try to boot from sd card? Thank you

Please, help me to boot armbian on MXQ PRO 4k (AM95AXQ v1.0) I try different dbd files, I can’t boot at all, I try to hold the reset button and turn on the power, but what, just a cyclic reboot of my device, I ask for help, what am I doing wrong?

I have a X96 air P1 TV box，I burn Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img to SD card and rename u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot.ext it boot successful (use meson-sm1-sei610.dtb)，when I was run /root/install-aml.sh write the systemOS to emmc it also can boot successful，but the wifi and hdmi audio don't work，so i search from google and download a new u-boot file name with u-boot-new，I copy the u-boot-new file to SD card and rename it to u-boot.ext then insert the sd card to tv box, the wifi and hdmi audio work great, I'm very excited, but when I run /root/install-aml.sh again, the tv box boot failed , it endless echo "missing envitonment variable: bootfile" and "…

Hello all, After installing armbian, it was given the ip 192.168.1.16 by my router's dhcp. I changed the ip address using armbian-config to 192.168.1.88 Now it has 2 ip addresses and I can access both of them. How can I remove one from dhcp? Thank you

Hi, I have a X96 mini box. I can install old version of armbian like Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0.img.xz but the newest versions are Uefi example Armbian_23.02.2_Uefi-arm64_bullseye_current_5.15.94.img.xz Can I install it ? Or there are no uefi versions ? Best regards

Hi, I have an oldish media center that I wanted to install linux on Mini M8S II 4K Smart TV Box Android Amlogic S905X (p212) I went to https://github.com/armbian/community#optimized and used Etcher to create this image Armbian_23.05.0-trunk-e33842ef2_Aml-s9xx-box_lunar_edge_6.2.9_xfce_desktop.img I followed this tutorial to get the boot process running commenting out the p212.dtb entry which seems to be the correct one for my board. It seemed to be going well, that is, the Armbian image booted the splash screen and I went through the various prompts to set the language, locale, timez…

The latest releases of armbian 23.01 with kernel 6.1 do not run from SD cards on the HK1 box S903x5. If I use USB flash, armbian starts. At the same time, old releases of armbian with kernel 5.9 from balbes150 run from SD cards - but the image with a green background. If you rename U-boot.usb to -boot.ext on the old release 20.10, then USB flash starts and the screen color is normal. Renamed u-boot-s905x2-s922.bin in u-boot.ext - does not help. I've tried a lot of u-boot.bin to try to boot from the SD card. (there is no suitable one). Tell me, please : how to build U-boot_HK1.bin with the correct parameters for HK1 box s905x3 - what w…

Hello, I have an old TV Box model MX-III-4K with S802 CPU and I booted into Armbian from an USB stick. I found an older Armbian version (and dtb) that works on this box and I have network and everything, so I'm happy with it, except that I would like to add also NAND support. Anyone can advise me how can I do that? Basically I would like to be able to access its internal NAND, to read it/write into it. Armbian version is 5.77 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 3.10.108 Thanks

I have a box S905X SOC I want to use the universal asynchronous transceiver device to debug other devices what should I do TtyAML0 is used by the Console as a debug universal asynchronous transceiver and cannot be used.

Help me, please. Ineed install ARMBIAN on tv box Steren. I already tried, but I couldn't. https://photos.app.goo.gl/79cL29fdSD3sA4yLA

Hello there! Before I start I'm gonna give a bit of information about my TV Box MXQ Pro 4K (S905W) 1GB RAM 8GB STORAGE Armbian 20.02 Kernel 5.5 (or that's what I remember) Okey, so I wanna install a Wi-Fi driver on Armbian I think my Wi-Fi chip is RTL8189ES (I'm gonna check tomorrow to be sure) I've looking on the forum and Google and so far I know that i need Linux headers, i installed them from armbian-config but i don't know if they are installed correctly, because I can't find them anywhere Then I need the RTL8189ES driver and run a Makefile Is this right? If so, what are the correct steps (l…

Hello all, First straight to the point. Are there some issues with using Amlogic boxes as headless servers with armbian? For some reason ethernet "dies" if I boot it without HDMI connected and it doesn't "come back" even if I connect it back to the monitor and power it on again. I have to reflash SD card with fresh armbian to get it back up. Is this some known issue when using android boxes or is this something else? I tried two DTB files for S912 but there was no change. Now for the whole story. With prices of SBC currently being what they are I thought to try using one of my old Android boxes for simple server. In this case it was Sunvell T95U Pro box…

Can this Community build upgrade by running apt update & apt upgrade?

Hi all, My s905x TV box worked well with Armbian_23.02.0 (03.17.0615/Armbian_23.02.0_amlogic_s905x_bullseye_5.15.100_server_2023.03.17.img.gz). Today I tried Armbian_23.05.0 (03.19.0453/Armbian_23.05.0_amlogic_s905x_bullseye_5.15.100_server_2023.03.19.img.gz) Debian is stucked at first boot with network configuration. Same issue ethernet plugged or unplugged I cannot find anymore Armbian_23.02.0 prebuilt image Edit: Armbian_23.02.0 found in 03.19.0427 Many thanks!

This issue is specifically about an issue where 'sometimes' a box will fail to boot off of emmc (after having booted successfully previously). The workaround is to boot once from SD card and then the emmc boot generally works fine again. I am starting this thread as a central place to discuss this issue that has been reported by a few people that I know. @lgranie and @robertoenr both have reported this problem either recently or in the past and I see it myself frequently. It would appear that something is getting set in the uboot environment that is causing the boots to fail and fixed/cleared by a boot from SD card. I haven't had time to look…

Guys, I need to build a cheap NAND reader/writer to clone few NAND chips, and I have some old android TV Boxes that I'm thinking to re-purpose for this job. It's a one time job so I don't want to buy a professional NAND programmer as they tend to be quite expensive. Do you guys think this would be possible? So, I'm thinking to boot from an sd-card or usb stick with Armbian and get access to the NAND chips that all my tv boxes have (I have some old MX-III and M8 boxes, model K200 I think, with S802 cpus and 8GB NAND). If I manage to get NAND access I can de-solder and solder other chips that I need to write from/to. Does anyone have any experience with this and ca…

Dear Forum, After reading a lot in the forum I have maganed to run get an Armbian version up on my T95MAx+ tv box with network (normally network was not get recognized). Followed the instructions in the forum With the IMG file: Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_bullseye_current_6.1.11.img.xz but tested several DTB files untill the file (/dtb-6.1.11-meson64/amlogic/meson-g12a-sei510.dtb) got me network up with DHCP getting an IP from my router. Run the armbian-install and all went well. but.... I bricked the box, because after shutdown, the box is not booting. Only get a black screen. Now I need any help to: 1- Flash bac…

Hi, I have the following box mini m8s with specs: Mini M8S technical specification CPU – Amlogic S905 quad core ARM Cortex-A53 @ up to 2.0GHz GPU – Penta-core Mali-450MP Up to 750MHZ, OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 and Open VG 1.1 support Memory – 2GB DDR3 Storage – 8GB NAND flash + Micro SD card slot (up to 32GB) OS – Android 5.1 https://androidtvbox.eu/mini-m8s-new-tv-box-android-5-1-powered-amlogic-s905-promo/ I am trying to install armbian but without any success. From different places I downloaded images and dts, but it does not boot and no way I can boot. If anyone has a working configuration I would be grateful to share links and instr…

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.

@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.

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…

Hello, I am trying to add support for H96 Max X4 android box Here are the specs of my box: SOC: amlogic S905x4 RAM: 2GB Pictures I am trying to run this box as a raspberry pi alternative as I can't find a pi anywhere. I know that there is no official or unofficial support for this chip so I plan to add support for this box myself. After some research, I found that there are 4 variants according to coreelec community and they have already added support for generic S905x4 boxes. So my first intuition was to boot coreelec and try to move on from there. I tried their prebuild image and followed their guide but no succe…

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

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 @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…

I have found my old Media-Player and I will use them for a special task. It´s labeled "MK808B Plus" OpenELEC 5.95.5.2 is installed. Now I will run Armbian_5.67_Aml-s805_Ubuntu_bionic_default_3.10.108_desktop_20181207 from @Balbes150. I use the meson8b_mk808bplus.btb. But the WLAN is not working. For the first run I have change the "armbian_first_run.txt" the value "FR_net_wifi_enabled=1" How can I use the WLAN? How can I make a new "fresh" run that the "armbian_first_run.txt" is execute? How can I put the armbian to the NAND?

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

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. Please tell me how to set armbian to Xiaomi Mi MDZ-16-AB CPU "Quad-core Cortex-A53 2.0GHz" something I can not find the firmware for it, tell me please

Hello, I’m working on an s905x3 Armbian system, and having issues with an intermittent watchdog: The hardware watchdog: Meson GXBB Watchdog I’ve got the watchdog service installed. Expected behaviour, happens 4/5 times: when I kill the watchdog service, it starts wd_keepalive, which keeps on pinging the watchdog. Kill wd_keepalive and after a few seconds the device power cycles, as is expected. But sometimes that doesn’t happen, and the device just continues running. The watchdog device is also then writable (which it usually isn’t, due to being kept busy by the above processes) I’ve found this because sometimes the device doesn’t power cycle after…

I want to install linux on rkm mk12 tv box because its pretty much useless with its ancient android and i want to use it as a server mainly alongside my raspberry pis, now i tried to do some research but guides and forum posts are very few and outdated so can anybody help me and tell me what steps do i need to do to install linux on this tv box? Also its powered by an amlogic s812 soc, full specs can be found on this website: https://hometheatrelife.com/rikomagic-mk12-review/ Thanks in advance!

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 …

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…

Hi After booting from the SD card, I try to write to the internal memory and the following error appears. Can anyone help?

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, on my MXQ Pro S905x I managed to install the Armbian_5.88_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190611.img.xz version in the emmc and used meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dtb........when I ran the ls command I only got 2 options Install2018.sh or install.sh I chose install.sh. At startup I have to press the "X" on the keyboard to start the graphical environment, how can I solve it!? thank you!

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

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

Hello to everybody I am trying to setup a brand new X96 max+ 4/64 Tv Box as a small linux machine but its simply doesn't work... I am using Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.img ...I think i have tried all the necessary .dtbs according to this guide : http://mrbluecoat.blogspot.com/2020/10/install-linux-on-x96-max-x96-max.html (i skipped the hk1box-bootloader.img cause I don't have a linux box handy) but nothing just about every time...not a single case where I saw something from Armbian. I have a Franklin9 (judging from the Android Recovery Screen) complaining that block is too short....so what is the deal...is it one way street to downgrade X…

I installed the latest version on an armbian sd and after the update and upgrade it doesn't start anymore. At the end, the terminal shows the following:ln: failed to create hard link '/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-meson64.dpkg-bak' => '/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-meson64': Operation not permitted update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-meson64 The version used is from here:https://github.com/armbian/community-aml-s9xx-box📁📁kinetic-edge-xfce-1319M-6.1.0. I am also attaching a picture. Can someone help me what I need to do to be able to update && upgrade?

I got my H96 pro+ to boot into Armbian using the S912 .dtb file (meson-gxm-s912-libretech-pc.dtb) and u-boot-s905x-s912 I get the loading screen, then a black screen with a cursor, and then repeated [FAILED] messages: about a dozen "Failed to start access point and authentication server for WiFi and Ethernet", then "Failed to listen on OpenBSD Secure Shell server socket" Then [ 177.5586911] systemd-journald[1045]: Data hash table of /var/log/journal/e8131ef5db8049a6a008b6f40cd0e8eb/system.journal has fill level at 75.0 (3415 of 4551 items, 2621440 file size, 767 bytes per hash table item), suggest rotation. [ 177.5586911] systemd-journald[1…

Hi, I am using the Debian from below location. Running Containerized Home Assistant on my H96Max X3. After I started using that distribution instead of the very old balbes one, I have started to get crashes about every 5-7 days or so. Did slow down CPU in case it was heat etc, but no luck. Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this ? It just freezes and becomes unresponsive on network (ethernet and Wifi). I have not tried with keyboard/screen. I do have a WiFi power switch connected to it, so one of my other devices can power cycle it, but that is not the right solution. Tried a few upgrades. Downloaded from a source that uses Armbian's name without pe…

Hi with the curiosity of being able to install Armbian I got a friend to give me an MXQ PRO 4K similar to mine in aesthetics but with different hardware this one has a s905 processor below I release the info screens. I renamed u-boot-s905 to u-boot.ext with .dtb p200 because I understand from the info that this model mounts the hardware, then I boot with the toothpick method and it stops on the screen in the picture below, I tried both from SD and from usb pendrive same result! extilux.conf LABEL Armbian LINUX /uImage INITRD /uInitrd FDT /dtb-6.1.0-meson64/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p201.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlo…

Hello, could you tell please, does x96 max plus(s905x3) armbian see all 4gb of memory?

Hello guys, I have a HK1 Box 4GB/64GB with s905x3. I have followed all the necessary steps. Tried using dd on linux or elena on windows. Tried debian and ubuntu versions from https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/ Followed this page https://zhangyuqing.cn/2988.html as well as this forum's own page https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus (same procedure) The blue light just keeps blinking no matter how long i hold the reset button. Any ideas/clues? Is this chip hopeless? Should i get a box with S905X4 or rockchip, allwinner?? I just want a box with gigabit working for a micro serv…

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

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.

I just bought hk1box with S905x3 chip, 4G RAM and 64G EMMC. It's a great box running android 9.0 smoothly. It has TTL pads so it can be used to check system boot up log. I've tried to run armbian on it. The good news is that the latest version of balbes150 - Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0.img can boot up successfully. The bad news is that the screen is green. I've learned from forum that the issue is caused by Amlogic‘s modification of u-boot and need to have u-boot.ext to solve the problem. But no matter the version with the image file or the version from NicoD can not boot up. Both of them has the following prompt and then reb…

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.

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…

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, 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 …

Hello, i have m96x max tvbox on s906x cpu, i install armbian and all fine works. But. Sometimes when tvbox power turns off and i power on - it won't boot. At monitor i can't see nothing, black screen, monitor go to sleeping mode. This can happen after 2-3 sometimes 5-6 incorrect shutdowns. To fix the problem i disconnect my usb-hub and wifi dongle, insert SD-card with Armbian - and voila, tvbox boot ok from sd card. I see on the monitor until the boot is complete and turn it off by pulling the power out of the outlet.Then i unplug SD card, connect the usb hub and the wifi dongle and turn ON it, boot from the internal memory goes fine. This solution always saves the day, b…

im using x96 max plus, and i built rtl8822cs driver and the wifi + bt is working, but i think the default meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb setting is incorrect, because it keep throw a warning sdio read error (-84) can someone help me to fix the dtb configuration? im using my own driver source that i have fixed all the error and warning https://codeberg.org/Hiyurigi/rtl88x2cs

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.

I just bought the Q96 Mini TV Box with 8GB RAM and 128GB ROM: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004079154677.html I have managed to boot Armbian in desktop mode with "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0_desktop.img" But the problem is that it only allows me to use 1GB of RAM What do I have to do to be able to use the 8GB? I have tried decompiling "meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb" and changing the value to: memory@0 { device_type = "memory"; reg = <0x80000000 0x80000000 0x80000000 0x80000000>; }; and I've recompiled it, but I'm still able to use only 1GB of RAM I don't know what else to try any idea is welc…

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…

Hi. Wifi on x96mini (SV6051P) still not working?

I dug up an older box, a Transpeed 8K, S905X3, 4GB...tried Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Aml-s9xx-box_kinetic_edge_6.0.10.img.xz, with the dtb for X96+ unhashed. I tried multiple times holding the reset button for 15-30 seconds, but it never boots. I'm pretty sure this one was sold under a different name, but haven't confirmed it yet. Anyone got any ideas on how to get this one running Armbian? Thanks, KC

I have a box with a s905w cpu. The idea is to install Linux to run klipper in my 3d printer. My age doesn't help a lot (65). But still love to learn new things. So the box will be used as a server. Am I in the right direction if I use this instruction to install? Any help is well appreciated.

Good evening I am new to the forum and I have a request, who can help me with the wifi solution for my T-TV box S10 Amlogic S912. I have installed armbian version Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Aml-s9xx-box_kinetic_edge_6.0.9_xfce_desktop with DTB meson-gxm-q200 - mod. Bluetooth works but not WIFI. The chip is Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377. I have no experience in linux. Thank you

@hexdumpI have a s905x box with secure boot enabled, I can run armbian from usb drive with your chainload uboot, and trying to run it on emmc. It looks like both chainloaded mainline uboot and armbian cannot find any partitions from emmc. My box have secure boot enabled so there is no way to replace the original u-boot. I have no idea how to deal with that.

Anyone try to install the OS into nokia box?? The box has amlogic s905X3 chip, but when I press reset button and try to start from usb, the box boot on recovery mode android. How should i proceed?

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…

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 Please help to install armbian on this box. What dtb should be used to have internet and wifi+bluetooth

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 mr. @SC Nik Bed i have t95x with 2/8 rom, i want to install armbian with that. can you help me which tutorial work with it? i follow tutorial on youtube but no change. thanks

Good Morning. I have an MXQ Pro box with Amlogic P231 GLX. How to install an Armbian on it and which version?

im trying to install armbian or any kind of linux on it cuz i want a small home assistant but cant get any to work It has a S905 cpu, i removed the heatsink and 1g of Ram with nand storage If any of you can help me with a image for it would be awesome

Help me find information on installing armbian on the S905L processor on the X96 MINI TV set-top box. I used to buy an X96 MINI on an S905W processor and there were no problems with the installation. I read that the processor S905L and S905W are almost the same, but I can't run armbian. Now I'm trying to start armbian from a USB card, before connecting the power, I press the button to start the download from USB, but the console freezes until I release the button. __________________ Помогите мне найти информацию об установке armbian на процессор S905L в приставке X96 MINI TV. Раньше я покупал X96 MINI на процессоре S905W, и про…

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.

I bought a TX3 Mini with Amlogic S905w, I'm following all the steps to boot, but the board does not have the reset button, and it simply ignores the connected SD Card and starts Android. I also tried resetting Android to see if it would boot, but it didn't work, has anyone experienced this? Thanks!

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Hi there, I'm very knew to this forum. Yesterday I successfully installed armbian 20.10 on my bqeel M9C MAX on sd card following this thread (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12162-single-armbian-image-for-rk-aml-aw-aarch64-armv8/page/48/) I had no desktop manager available and tried several times to fix it by installing xfce4 and lightdm but with no success (I always had "xserverrc x not found" error). After that I accidentally run the script install-am.sh which properly completed the installation. After removing the SD and reboot I can no longer access Android :-o I surely went wrong running the script. The question is: there's any possibility to fix …

Hello to everyone, i have a China no name tv box with s905 cpu. I try to install armbian but no success, don't have any experience in amlogic procedure. Can anyone point me to the right img file and some instructions please. My box is named as mxq pro 4g but i know its a fake one. Thank you very much.

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…

I recently came into possession of a Z69 Android TV Box (3/32GB) with a S950X chip. I tried @SteeMan's Amlogic guide, but can't seem to find @balbes150 files referenced in the post (only RK/Allwinner). I then tried compiling an Armbian img from https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian (build jammy; s905x; kernel 5.10.135_5.15.50). I tried amending the config file but found it quite different from the ones in youtube videos or on the forums. There was a "u-boot-s905x-s912.bin" which I renamed to "u-boot.ext". However, when I did the toothpick method, the S905x bootscreen came up, followed by the splashcreen of the android box. The screen was …

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 guys, I have a generic tv box from a local Internet Provider in my country. They called it Fiberhome HG860p. This TV box is powered by Amlogic S905X and has eMMC installed with Android TV 6. I can ran armbian server with micro sd card on this box, is it possible to copy, browse or delete eMMC files via armbian server? If possible, what is the command or is there an app like file manager to do it? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I have amlogic s905w device with sp6330 chip on which wifi is working but not able to start bluetooth. Which driver we can install for bluetooth to start and able to pair with other devices. Thanks

To run latest desktop build on F3 Air one can use below steps. I am not sure if there is an easier way exist. 1) Downloaded the image Armbian 22.05 Jammy XFCE from Odroid HC4 section. 2) Write to SD CARD, this will create ext4 partition. 3) Use Partition tool of your choice and create another Partition at the beginning of disk and format as FAT type. 4) copy the files from /Boot to FAT drive and place the u-boot.ext file from old release which worked for you earlier. 5) Place the extlinux folder with extlinux.conf file and update the FDT. 6) Rename the files like image and initrd as required. …

hi is possible run armbian on x96 max plus ultra Amlogic S905X4 4GB/32GB ... openelec working I tried run armbian and it does not boot , maybe someone help thanks

I have an older A95x box, S905X, 2GB I am trying to install Armbian on. I hate to admit it, but I am lost with what to do with the dts file entry. Anyone feal like pointing me in the right direction to get this thing working? I flashed the SD with Armbian 20.1.0_Arm-64_buulseye_current_5.9.0.img Thanks, Kenneth

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;

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 😀

So my mxq box with a amlogic s805 wont boot from the sd card and just bootloops and never starts and i dont know why i even tried the paper clip in the av port trick or used a reboot manager app and that didnt work. What do i do @balbes150

Hello, Thank you for the guide how you do that? I've succesfully installed armbian in my X96max+, but the "thootpick" doesnt work anymore, so cant use any usb_burning_aml to "rollback" into original android.

Hello, I need to ask this stupid question... I have an aging m8 tv box.(k200)..so i would like to ask if it's viable to run Armbian on it... Currently i have a beelink x2 running just beautifully armbian ....GREAT job to all the devs .....but i am thinking of using it more as a TV box and less as a linux server....so it would be great if i could replace M8 with beelink and use m8 for linux ... TIA

Hi, the only stable running build ive found is Armbian_5.67_Aml-s805_Ubuntu_bionic_default_3.10.108_20181207 its a 2018 build so pretty old. what would be need to done to compile latest armbian for this device, and would dtb also need to be updated? thanks in regard

Hi there, I'm a newbie in armbian. I have a generic amlogic s905x2 android box and used "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz" (downloaded from "https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/") to boot from my SD. I saw in some videos that after logging in, it continues to desktop environment. (I've attached those images together with my test result) But when I started armbian and logged in, after appearing the message "Please use this account for your daily work from now on." it continued with terminal and did not start the desktop environment. I've tried a couple of times but it continues with terminal. How can I start the desktop environm…

All the steps described by @SteeMan are fine. The details are the particularities of each TV BOX, in case of Brazil, the box are the low quality and price (the cheapest box of the market). I had many difficulties with a RUPA A9 Diamond with S912. Initially, the problem was the network, so I created new dtb´s files based in a post of someone. All the steps are described here: linux_variety/notes.txt at master · claudiosa/linux_variety · GitHub some steps to generate dtb and dts Later, the sound was not working, fortunately I tried some others dtb without the procedure describe above, i.e. without network. Fortunately, the first experiment with "MeCool K…

Hi everyone! my name is Maximos and i want to install armbian to H.265 mxq pro 4k 5g armlogic TV BOX and i can't find a topic for my tv box (!!!!!!I'M NOOBIE IN THIS AREA!!!!!) can someone help me? 😅😄 Thanks for your replies and sorry for bother!!! Thanks✌

Can the S805 boot from usb? I would like to connect a SSD to a usb port, and boot from it. I have a great working system, and a SSD is much more durable than a SD card.

Hey all! I hope i can find here some help for my problem.. Beelink GT1 (Amlogic S912) Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) with Linux 5.9.0-arm-64 Installed from this file: "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0_desktop.img" Moved everything to emmc xorgxrdp version (1:0.2.12-1). xrdp version (0.9.12-1.1). Enabled RDP in armbian-config, tried editing startwm.sh in /etc/xrdp/ ... While trying to connect with RDP from Windows or MAC, the screen looks like that: rdp glitch (Same on windows) (desktop via hdmi works great) Any suggestions? 🤔

It is now 2 weeks I run linux-image-current-meson64 with no problems. I manage to get rid of tearing while playing video with vlc by using wayland/weston instead of X11/openbox (picom did not help). While playing video cpu goes from around 40% in X11 to 20% with weston \o/. You can find vlcd.service, scripts and config files in attached files. TODO list : - Move vlcd.service to weston.service and try to replace vlc-xxxx.sh scripts with ~/.config/systemd/vlcd.service - format /boot in ext4 vlcd.service vlcd-start.sh vlcd-stop.sh weston.ini vlcrc.wl