Amlogic CPU Boxes

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.

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. 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 follow the method here: My box can now see the wifi, but there are a few quirks: 1. It sees only some of the 5Ghz band. For example, it can't see my own 5Ghz AP, but can see my neighborhood 5G APs 2. when connected with either 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz band, and I did the speed test. It is fine with the download speed, but the upload speed is just less than 1Mbps, always. Thus, the connection is virtually useless, e.g. I can vnc to it, but it shows black screen because the screen can't be uploaded to my vnc client due to the upload speed problem. Is there any work around? My armbian: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img dtb file: /d…

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.

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 all, I've loaded Armbian 20.10 Arm_64 Bullseye 5.9.0 image on a X96(S912). No issues while loading the system, a prompt for login is presented, but it does not recognize any keyboard that I plugin. Tryed out via ssh but isn't possible to ping the server, so I believe ssh connection might not be automatically set. Maybe some one have an idea on how I can solve this issues. Thanks in advance.

Hello Any way to get the ArmBian to this model box Tanix_X4-S905X4? Thank you

I flash the armbian Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS into the box (2GB/16GB S905X X96 mini) internal emmc long time ago and it is still working without problem. Now I need to upgrade Ubuntu to a newer version (at least 18.04) in order to support some software which requires a newer version of Ubuntu. My question is how can I do the upgrade? Any instruction how to do it in my scenario (armbian already running from internal emmc, not sdcard). Thank you

Every time I boot Armbian on my tv box, there is always a 5 second prompt on startup similar to entering startup options on Windows. I'm not entirely sure what it's for, but i'm assuming it's a barebones u-boot command line. The problem is, I don't need it, and it adds a significant amount of time when booting. Does anyone know how to remove it entirely and to boot directly into the kernel? I'm using a Tanix 3 mini with Armbian 5.9.0

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 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

I have an MXIII 4k box with armbian 5.44 ubuntu server running on it. Is there a way I can power the box on when applying 5V to it rather than pushing the power button? The project I am working on will restrict access to the box and it will be powered over eithernet.

Hei there I have a MXQ PRO 4k Leelbox and I'm it using with Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-nexbox-a95x.dtb $ 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 Also other meson-gxbb dtb files are working. More specs below if needed that I can't fully confirm Spoiler Leelbox MXQ Pro Android TV Box Kodi 16.0amlogic Android 5.1 S905 chipset quad-core 1GB RAM 8GB Flash Wi-Fi support Chipset: Amlogic S905 Quad Core Cortex A53 @ 2.0GHz GPU: Penta core Mali-450 @ 600MHZ + Flash: 8GBNAND Flash SD…

Hey,guys.I get a TV/box which use S905L-3 CPU,but I can't install any version of armbian.It always like this(any version) bable150's builds. maybe try other .dtbs ? here is the entire logs. btw,I use tll to flash. ~~~ GXLX2:BL1:3cfee7:42a5ae;FEAT:ADFC318C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; TE: 78176 BL2 Built : 14:48:45, Sep 26 2018. gxl g6d68897 - yao.zhang@droid07 Board ID = 4, adc=302 set vcck to 1070 mv set vddee to 1070 mv CPU clk: 1200MHz DDR3 DDR3 chl: Rank0+1 @ 792MHz - FAIL DDR3 chl: Rank0 @ 792MHz bist_test rank: 0 2a 06 4e 3a 17 5d 24 00 49 3e 1c 61 24 01 47 3a 17 5e 28 02 4f 3a 16 5f 618 - PASS…

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…

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…

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…

Anybody got Armbian working on MINX NEO U9-H? Basic solutions from balbes150 didn't work for me: I can't get it to boot from SD card. MINIX ignores it

Hi, I run Armbian 20.10 with kernel 5.9.0-arm-64 on a S905x TV box and ~20 times a day the following lines appear in the logs : 525418.166366] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1966008 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:932 hrtimer_forward+0x88/0xc0 [525418.166372] Modules linked in: nfnetlink bnep 8192eu zram nls_ascii rtl8xxxu mac80211 cfg80211 crct10dif_ce hci_uart btqca meson_vdec(C) btrtl btbcm v4l2_mem2mem btintel videobuf2_dma_contig lima bluetooth videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 gpu_sched meson_ir videobuf2_common rc_core ecdh_generic videodev dw_hdmi_cec ecc rfkill mc ao_cec display_connector fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [525418.166505] CPU: 2 PID: 1966008 Comm: k…

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 …

Image: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0.img.xz dtb: meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb u-boot: u-boot-s905x-s912 Board: Front: https://i.imgur.com/Fc2rZtd.jpg Rear: https://i.imgur.com/zTvPdCZ.jpg Other info from Device Info HW App: http://deviceinfohw.ru/devices/item.php?item=561897 , https://i.imgur.com/U6gPqeM.jpg , https://i.imgur.com/fZTB8No.jpg , https://i.imgur.com/oX37xze.jpg I think it has 2G RAM but none of the device tree I tried worked out. I tried pretty much all meson-gxl-* and a couple others. Board name on android says p201 but I can't find any GXL device tree for p201, I also looked around an…

Hello guys! I have android TV box called netup with PCB called S905X inside of box. First of all i installed TWRP. Then i tried to use manuals, but my PCB doesn't have reset button. In android i couldn't press "update" and run zip script. Software didn't see any zip. Screen was empty. Then i somehow killed android and got a brock with TWRP. Then - i found zip file with libreelec firmware. I uploaded zip file TWRP-LibreELEC-S905X-1GB-8.2 and pushed update >> boot partition into TWRP. And it wrote this zip to boot, and now i have libreelec and it works. But i need armbian (i would like to have small server for IOT, not Kodi).…

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Hello everyone. No matter how much I try, i can't find any combination capable of successfully flash armbian to my emmc. I have a 16Gb ROM 2Gb Ram nexbox a95x. I am using balbes150 images from https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/ And i try to follow this manual https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus . So, we have 3 vars that i must find the perfect combo to work and I am here asking for help on those, assuming i am trying with the right armbian images.and this 1 - what uboot.ext shall i use? » u-boot-s905, u-boot-s905x-s912, u-boot-s905x2-s922 » …

Dear all, Ok ok, I realize my previous post with $100 for this task is a bit low. Please do keep in mind, that this is only my personal hobby project. With that in mind, I hereby offer $500 to anyone, who can update the DTB file to work with the current version of Armbian. BTW, I have a freelancer.com account with a 5.0 rating as employer (as well as freelancer): https://www.freelancer.com/u/LeHawkDeLaNight - I can start a new project for you there, so there is no doubts about getting payed the $500. Thanks again, Roy Original post: Dear all, I have an Android TV-Box which is not a co…

dear, please help me, my trouble is can't run after running install_aml.sh. i am use image from :https://disk.yandex.ru/d/_rQgn_FosYuW0g/20.10/20201014 version Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz hardware used STB ZTE ZXV10 B860H RAM 1GB, detail log version dtb detail after run Sdcard and install_aml.sh status success after i am halt and unplug sdcard, armbian not running. sincelery yours, yunus

my board S902x I have download Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.xz from https://disk.yandex.ru/d/_rQgn_FosYuW0g/20.10/20201014 I extract xz -d Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.xz then burn using balena some changes are extlinux/extlinux.conf LABEL Armbian LINUX /zImage INITRD /uInitrd FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.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 boot.ini become ODROIDN2-UBOOT-CONFIG if test "${devtype}" = ""; then setenv devtype "/dtb/am…

I have successfully booted armbian 20.10 bullseye 5.9.0 on a tx 3 mini powered by an S905W chip. I am trying to control the diplay on the front and while searching for answers came across this openvfd library for the tx 3 mini. I've followed the instructions but to no avail have succeeded in controlling the display. One key difference i've noticed, is that the controller on the board is an FD6551 model, as opposed to the standard FD628. After some reading I came to the conclusion that FD655 is supported, so i'm under the impression that this library should support my board (picture below). When following the install instructions from the openvfd library, I m…

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 a board (x301) that contains a T962X2 (which is supposed to be like a 905x2 but for smart TVs?) I am trying to boot armbian, but I cannot manage to make anything load the DTB I obtained (tl1-t962x2-x301-2g.dtb) thru dumping the android boot partition. Since a t962x2 is supposedly equivalent to a s905x2 I thought I'd use a s905x2 uboot.ext and change the DTB, but even if I change it the old one is used... How do I make u-boot load this dtb? I tried with both balbes150 build and a build from here But the u-boot logs keep referring to the previous device. (I changed the fields in extlinux.conf - FDT and the…

Hello there I've installed Armbian on my MXQ Pro 4K 5G TV box's eMMC, but now I want to upgrade to a better external storage. I've flashed Armbian on it and done the usual configuration but I always boot into the eMMC's Armbian. I've read that one way to fix this is to restore Android with the Amlogic USB Tool, but I found that my board has no reset button, not even hidden inside the jacks. So I'm afraid I won't be able to enter recovery mode to flash the default Android image. Here are some pics of the board: Is there any other way to force boot from USB, or force recovery mode? Thank you! I've found a solution…

my device is using amlogic s905 U-Boot 2015.01-ge1b7b3f-dirty (Jul 22 2017 - 16:51:56) Linux version 3.14.29-g9b417e7-dirty (wulinkui@A23131934) here is the detail, device has been rooted https://pastebin.com/H7NskL64 I have make bootable my sdcard with Armbian_5.89_Aml-s905_Debian_buster_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190617, but maybe original firmware doesn't support multi boot, which one that compatible with my amlogic and how to do that. I have read there is 2 method to make multi boot, toothpick and and update mode of the standard firmware I have try to dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/block/bootloader it won…

Hello there, I have a problem. I've just received my new MXQ Pro 4K 5G, which was listed on Aliexpress as having a RK3228A. However, when I received it, I noticed the multitool SD card I had flashed wouldn't boot. I got Cpu-Z and noticed my board has an Amlogic p212 instead of the Rockchip I was promised. What should I do? Is there a way to run Armbian on this bootleg TV box?

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?

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

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, 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…

Hi, I've got some kind of development TV box based on S905X, but I don't see any push button on whole board except power on button. There is no separate button or even AV socket. I looked everywhere and no idea. Do you guys have any other way to run multiboot on this type of board? Just to let you know, I was able to run Armbian on other devices but with some annoying Mediatek WiFi chipset which doesn't have proper drivers. You can see some picture below for probematic board. https://ibb.co/2K55RTk

Good evening everyone, I bought 10 x96mini TvBoxes to give / donate to schools in my city. I wanted to install Armbian Ubuntu but I couldn't start it, one of the many guides is the following: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15864-pi-hole-on-x96-mini-tutorial/ When I hold down the reset button it does not boot and the x96 mini screen does not appear, what can it be? I have tried several sign but without success. I hope you can help me to give these minipcs to children. p.s attached photos https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rNc1ifkqKefaZONrktLT4aM8GwLskqPa/view?usp=sharing https://drive.go…

Hello. I installed an armbian TV box for home automation. Everything works fine, but if the hdmi cable is removed, the TV box does not start. It starts successfully only when the hdmi cable is inserted into the TV box. Tv Box X96 Mini the system is installed on a USB drive I ran it according to this instruction https://github.com/kdrapel/x96mini_linux

Hello. I installed an armbian TV box for home automation. Everything works fine, but if the hdmi cable is removed, the TV box does not start. It starts successfully only when the hdmi cable is inserted into the TV box. Tv Box X96 Mini the system is installed on a USB drive I ran it according to this instruction https://github.com/kdrapel/x96mini_linux

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…

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 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 to all January of 2020 I installed armbian on my Mini M8s (S905X). The installation is on e-MMc and I did not keep a backup of the original eMMc firmware. It is Debian Buster. So I am stuck on linux 5.3.0-aml-g12. What is the upgrade path to a more recent kerner and/or Debian version? If possible I would like to keep my root filesystem, I have some servers running on it. Thanks for any help

There is Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos, installed armbian on it, everything works fine, except for one moment, it is not entirely clear how to enable the sata port. Who installed armbian and knows how to enable the sata port on this TV box?

There is Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos, installed armbian on it, everything works fine, except for one moment, it is not entirely clear how to enable the sata port. Who installed armbian and knows how to enable the sata port on this TV box?

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 there! I'm trying to boot from USB using Armbian, specifically LibreELEC, but it doesn't boot, it boots to Armbian, Armbian detects the USB but when i disconnect it and I connect it again, it turns off then turn on but to Armbian again The thing is, how can I boot from USB? Or how can I boot or install LibreELEC/CoreELEC while having Armbian on the eMMC?

I have problem with tvbox x96 mini (s905W) armbian not starting correctly. I have only this https://ibb.co/r5XVkwmvv . Why? I did everything correctly but I have this error list only. What gone wrong?

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. Running buster on Amlogic 912 arm box T95Z Max. As mentioned, the ethernet doesnt work but wifi does. Tried all the dtbs, no dice. Also, wanted to transfer the OS from SD to EMMC but neither does armbian-config have the boot option nor does nand-sata-install work. It says unrecognised command. Have absolutely no clue where to go from here. Any help appreciated.

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.

I have an ASUS RT-AC57U router and a USB drive is connected to it. I would like to use my X96 MINI to copy some files from this drive. I turned on SAMBA (in armbian config) in the ARMBIAN settings. On the monitor in the device manager, under the address 192.168.1.1, I can see all the folders created on the router's disk. Unfortunately, when I try to connect to the terminal, nothing works. When I use smbclient, it says "command not found". In addition, I also tried the commands: smbclient //192.168.1.1/folder/ --user user% pass sudo mount -t cifs -o username = user, password = pass //192.168.1.1/folder/ / media / share / open 'smb: /…

Hello I have a TV BOX X96 MINI (S905W 2/16GB). I prepared the SD card thanks to the image: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz and also: - changed the name of the corresponding u-boot-s905x-s912 file to uboot.ext - I edited the extlinux.conf file, below is an excerpt about the S905W processor: # aml s9xxx FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-p281.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 console = ttyAML0,115200n8 console = tty0 no_co…

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…

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…

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…

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

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?

Hi All, This is my first post. First of all let me thanks all the ones are hard working on this project. I have installed Armbian Buster on my Bqeel Y4 Max (S905x2) and I have managed to fix some little issues although the wired connection still not work. However, at the moment I'm trying to understand why Armbian sees only 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB. I have search google and the forum and, if I'm not wrong, the issue is in the boot file. I noticed someone has fixed it by installing the latest Ubuntu image, but I'm wondering if would be possible to get the 4GB without re-installing everything. I have inc…

I am trying to install armbian on Tanix TX3 mini with cpu Amlogic S905W. Which version should i download?

Hi, I have an 5.9.0 arm 64 installed on my x96 mini. 905w soc. Wifichip 5061. Wifi in not loading. I have in lib/firmware a ssv5061.bin and cfg. Need help in loading the module. When I write modprobe 5061 it returns module not found in directory lib/modules/5.9.0-arm-64. Please help,

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

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…

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.

Hello, this thread https://forum.armbian.com/topic/13477-a95x-f2-с-soc-amlogic-s905x2-432-lan100/ and https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12162-single-armbian-image-for-rk-aml-aw-aarch64-armv8/ is closed, so i'm opening this thread. I tried installing Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz on it. I'm getting an error on aml_autoscript.zip via UPDATE in Android. It reboots into the android boot menu (i guess?) with the following error. Opening update package E: Block map file too short:3 E: Map of '@/cache/recovery/block.map' failed E: failed to map file Installation aborted When i'm trying…

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, I came across two similar TV boxes - "Evolveo H4 4k" and "Evolveo Q5 4k" - and found this great Armbian site! Thanks for your great work guys! I set my expectation low and tried with latest "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0". The H4 seems to be an S905/p212 2GB/16GB (not sure whether w/ 1Gb lan) board and it boots here with selected: uboot-s905 and FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb (set in extlinux.conf) The Q5 seems to be an S905/p200 2GB/8GB board (lan w/ 1Gb) and it boots here with selected uboot-s905 and FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dtb or FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-vega-s95-telos.dtb (I added into …

Hello i booted with armbian in a usb pen. It installed correctly, i guess, but removing the usb pen and rebooting the Tanix TX3, boots again to the tanix tv box and not with armbian. What i did wrong ??

I have an X96 mini Tv box with S905W CPU. I'm booted from SD card roughly successfully (image by balbes150: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0.img.xz). Unfortunatelly the end of boot failed a important component and SSH don't work. Do you know a solution?

Good morning all, I share my Armbian experience on the Beelink GT-King Pro, and therefore after several tests where the system often ended up frozen, I currently have a stable armbian system running. I was able to install my web-server at home (Yunohost) and everything seems to be working fine .. So I share : I used Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img from https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/? which I flashed on a USB key I recovered the meson-g12b-gt-king-pro.dtb file from the last Manjaro Manjaro-ARM-xfce-vim3-21.03.img I recovered the uboot.ext file on the debian 5.10 build by @darkstar => http://forum.bee-link.com/forum.php?mod=…

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

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…

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 ?

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 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…

I've installed kernel 5.11 and I can't have both sound and ethernet. I've tried some dtb's like meson-sm1-se1610, meson-sm1-x96-max, meson-sm1-x96-max-plus-100m.dtb Has anybody got sound and ethernet working? Thnks

@balbes150The original topic. I just use Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz and find out that I cannot boot from USB anymore after installing the Armbian into EMMC. My device is phicomm-n1, and my steps were: 1. Edit /extlinux/extlinux.conf 2. Rename u-boot-s905x-s912 to u-boot.ext 3. ./install-aml.sh Now the EMMC is at the highest priority. However, the USB was always the highest when using previously published images such as Armbian_20.06.0_Arm-64_buster_current_5.7.2_20200619.img.xz What could I do to make it boot from USB first? Thank you.

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…

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 Everyone I have one Matricom G-Box Android with Lollipop 5.1.1. But, they discontinued an Android for this box. So, after a well succeeded Armbian installation in a MXQ PRO with RK3228A, I want to do the same with this box. As I can not find nothing about these steps, except the kernel generation (https://github.com/SLAzurin/armbian-aml-s8xx-kernel-build-steps). Well, someone could be provide all the steps by-steps for an ARMBIAN installation in this box? How to generate a SD or USB card? Which kernel .Image or zip file should burn it? For instance, for box with Rockship are well described here in Armbian site, but nothing for Amlogic boards,…

Hello, I use armbian on a mecool m8s pro+ but i want now to use a x96 max for usb 3.0 and 1000mb network. I start armbian on a sd card, it's ok but i don't have wired network acces. I try with static and dhcp configuration but i can't ping on my network. I don't understand why ? My x96 max have an amlogic s905x2 with 4G of ram and 64G emmc. I use the file Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img and i've select meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb. Thank you for your help

I want to install armbian for my board. I like the 3.10.XXX version. Currently tested: 1. Armbian_5.64_Aml-s812_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.10.108_20181022.img 2, Armbian_5.77_Aml-s812_Debian_stretch_default_3.10.108_20190326.img 3. Armbian_5.77_Aml-s812_Ubuntu_bionic_default_3.10.108_20190326.img After the above version is installed, the startup screen will be blurred, how can I solve it? I tried "Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Aml-s812_buster_current_5.10.0_.img" dtb can run normally with meson8m2-m8s.dtb. But I want to use the 3.10.xxx version. Can you help me?

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

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…

Hello guys, and thanks for all your work ! I recently wanted my old MXQ pro 4K to become a little server :-) I found your work and tried everything, starting from following your tutorial, then tried to change the dtb with another because I saw that my mxqpro4k have a S905 (not a S905X), but it seems like it's impossible for me to boot onto the SD CARD (nor USB), with or without the toothpick method. Here's the thing : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01FH8DL46/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I tried to boot on Multitool and on Armbian img aswell. It's seems that i'm missing something. …

when excute : ./compile.sh x x odroidc4 Amlogic S905X3 quad core 4GB RAM SoC eMMC GBE USB3 SPI xx x ============================================================================================================ report an error： [ error ] ERROR in function source [ main.sh:241 ] [ error ] No board selected [ o.k. ] Process terminated How do I need to compile it? Does anyone know? pls advise。

Hi Balbes150 and All, Thank you very much for your hard work and what you are providing for free to the community! It's my first post and I have a question. Have been running the latest build (Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.img) from eMMC, on couple of my boxes here (AMlogic S905X meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb) and it is very stable. LAN, WiFi, IR, HDMI with audio, all work great without any additional work! THANKS :-) But there is one feature that I need badly that doesn't work for me: Sound from the analog AV port. For now I have a cheap audio USB dongle plugged in but I'd rather use the onboard audio card if I can (I am ma…

getting started with Amlogic s905x3 Android tv box - Magicsee c500 pro hi everyone i am here because i want to install armbian on this tv box and i don't want to mess it up and brick it this box it's similar to Odroid C4 or n5 max n5pro tvbox i try to boot from an SD card but it dosn't work, and with the reset button i it's possible to access to android recovery but notting more i don't try yet with amlogic usb burning Tool and try to flash the eprom or the bootloader any suggestion where and how to start

@robertoenr I have installed Armbian 20.10 Focal 5.9.7 in my OTT TV BOX X96 mini 1 + 8GB and it works well, only the wifi that does not work, I want to know if there is a more advanced kernel to install it on these equipment. Equipment information: - Amlogic S905W chipset * Quad Core 1.2GHz 64bit Cortex-A53 Mali-450 * 1 GiB of DDR3 memory - 8 GiB of eMMC flash - 10/100Mbit Ethernet - HDMI output up to 4K30P - Model: X96 mini. I would like to install one such as: Armbian 21.xx Focal 5.10.x, if some one knows please let me know.

Anyone else ever get just a blank screen? I’m trying to install onto a Trongle S3 box. I’ve tried a number of dtb’s but as it’s a relatively rear box nothing is definite. Tried to match them by spec but hoped it would at least register an output on my monitor. I get a no signal notification. I will be trying to tty the com port but this includes soldering so wanted to see if anyone else knew of a possible solution before I spent time doing this.

Hi All, So i have decide to update my system with a clean install. First of all i have a Beelkink Mini MXIII S905 box, i had running so far 19.04 Ubuntu (updated to 19.10). I have downloaded this image: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz and wrote to an SD card, booted up. extlinux.conf: FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.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 use s905 u-boot > u-boot.ext The dtb should be the good one as i used that for my pr…

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 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.

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…

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 […

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo di questo forum e vorrei sapere se ho aqcquistato un prodotto valido e cosa ci si puo fare con x96 mini. Grazie....

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…