Amlogic CPU Boxes

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

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

Long story short -- I was dumb and attempted to install armbian to the emmc on my s905 box because reading is hard. So now I have a box that won't boot. I have the original firmware image, which will restore the boot partition (from what I understand, this is the problem with s905s now, though I distinctly remember running debian on this via the emmc in the past, but that's a tangent that doesn't matter if I can't get it to boot anything). I have it connected via usb/ttl uart and can send commands. But what commands do I send? The amlogic usb burning tool doesn't see this box via usb, but if I run `usb start` it finds one usb device (presumably my …

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.

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...

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…

need help regarding wifi, i tried different server img and found no working wifi, should i just install armbian full or keep searching,,,,,plus is latest recommended or older versions......my device is 1gb ram with 8 rom, it may sound cheap, but i got this piece for free just tryin to repurpose it rather than getting a pi, i need it only for klipper, i got no lan ports left(lan ports are filled with different uses), only wifi, or should i just give up

is there gpu acceleration support/drivers for s905w? if yes, where can i obtain that?

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

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…

@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.

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

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, 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.

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 im trying to install armbian on a t95m s905x box but for some reason it dont want to boot i installed batocera in the past, could it be the problem here?

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!

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…

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

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Hello there, I have found another problem. My setup: Monitor Samsung syncmaster 2032mw Windoze 10 reports 1280x768 60Hz T95Z plus box cpu amlogic meson(s912)arm cortex-a53 mali t820 gpu dtb used: amlogic/meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb everything works including WIFI. But I have overscan in the terminal and in de Cinnamon desktop I am looking for info https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Configuration/ enable a custom screen resolution whitin x.org for a resolution when i open a terminal and run xrandr --listmonitors the result is: Monitors: 1 0: +HDMI 1920x1080/90+0+0 HDMI-1 then i type cvt 1628080 1768 but the next c…

Hello, I have a TV Box X96 Air P3 with old Armbian (Armbian_20.05.4_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.7.0-rc6_20200518.img = Debian 10.4) installed 6 years ago (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12988-armbian-for-amlogic-s905x3/page/7/#findComment-101885). Now I need to update to Debian 11 (at least) or 12 (better). For that, I need the new img and dtb files but I'm lost to find them. So, many thanks for your support Greetings Armin

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, this is my first post so please be generous. After much experimentation I have managed to to set up Armbian on an old Zidoo x5 box. I may add that neither the .zip or the toothpick method worked for me but finally got the booting sequence to run the S905 Autoscript by altering some variables using the setenv command through the serial interface. I have installed several OS's and finally settled on the 20.10 focal 5.9.0 desktop image. Most things work but I am getting problems with setting up an Access Point through the armbian-config program. I have left the default settings as proposed and was able to "see" the hot spot…

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

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 […

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

Recently I've installed armbian on my 905 TV box using this article as a guide: https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0269.html After some experiments with dtb files and tuning everything seems to work fine except of one thing: the box can't be turned off, it boots immediately after shutting down. I've found a similar problem described in several articles, for example: https://gist.github.com/george-hawkins/a897a6fe116093a4c1f29ad19df088de It is suggested to enable XHCI HCD quirks in grub. But there is not such file in the system I've installed, the closest thing I found was config-5.9.0-arm-64 file. What is the right way to modify it to add XHCI HCD qui…

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

Hello, I have a problem after update on strong leap s1, it is stuck at the android tv loading screen, I found this method (1) Mecool KD3 Stick recovery reset | XDA Forums . Basically because this box doesn't have reset button, this method is can be used to get into recovery mode from where you can factory reset the box. Problem is that it's not working for me, is there anyone with same problem ? How did you solved it, please ? Thanks

Hi guys, I try to install Armbian on my Amlogix G11pro (S509X2 based) TV Gamebox. It keeps booting only into my Emuelec SD card, if I plug it or with anyhting else it only boots into Android that is on eMMC. I understood that I have to use the toothpic method to press the reset button to get into the recovery mode. I tried this but failed as my toothpic didnt reach anything I could click, it just went through. so I opened the box and found that behind the audio jack there is nothing (see attached pic). there is empty space with three connectors on the board, maybe that is the place where usually the micro switch for the reset button sits, but I am not sure. Before …

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

Old TV Box stucks on GoogleTV screen. As i read in this forum its not possible to find firmware and rewrite it? So whats the best option? To do dual boot? Is there are detailed guide how to do it and what OS to write into SD card for TV Box?

I'm been trying to install Armbian on this TV.BOX console. I already test bookworm xfce image of Armbian as like the last XFCE image → Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.357_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.18.7_xfce_desktop I als test minimal images ad they don't work. The spces of console are : Processor (CPU)Amlogic S905X3 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A55, up to 1.91GHz Graphics (GPU)Mali-G31 MP2 RAM4GB DDR3 Storage (ROM)32GB eMMC Video OutputHDMI, supports up to 8K@24fps (Android system) and 1080p (EmuELEC system) Connectivity2.4G/5G Dual-band Wi-Fi, 10/1000M Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth 4.0 Ports1x USB 3.0, 4x …

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

I’m using the DEVMFC version [https://github.com/devmfc/debian-on-amlogic]. Additionally, I took the `/boot` partition and copied all the files from the Devmfc_Ubuntu-Oracular_6.12.11-meson64_Minimal-25.01.24.img.xz image. Then, I downloaded the same version available from the Armbian community, but with a graphical interface: Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.4_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.12_xfce_desktop.img.xz. I first flashed the Armbian image onto a USB drive. Then, in the `/boot` partition, I moved all existing root files into a `/backup` folder. After that, I copied the files from the DEVMFC version into the root of the `/boot` partition on the USB driv…

Is possible to make Armbian to work on the FlowBox F1 from Telecom Argentina (SkyworthDigital HP20A)? I attach a photo of the device

I've spent the last couple of months playing around (low-end testing just to see what the software and I are capable of) with Debian and docker: RSS, Nextcloud, navidrome, immich, nothing earth-shattering. I was doing this in a VM so I could wipe and restart in case of failure/learning curve issues, which was great. Everybody's got to have a hobby, right? After much foibles, I had gotten the setup into something I liked and understood the pratfalls to expect in installation. Ready for primetime, I didn't want to leave this in the VM (I have constant paranoia about usage on my power-sucking desktop), but I have a T95 Max plus TV box sitting around doing nothing but K…

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 everyone! I want to know what is this marked pads? Blue -> Red -> Yellow -> Green -> Thanks a lot...

Good morning, I'm trying to remove the Android layer from my T95N Mini MX+ and install ArmBian. Can you help me please? Thank you for your reply

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

I installed Zabbix 7.2 . as a result, I get a network scan error "'ICMP ping' checks failed: "/usr/bin/fping: can't create socket (must run as root?)"

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 guys! I have a T95Z Plus TV BOX with 3GB RAM, 32GB ROM, and an arm S912 CPU. I can run Armbian just fine from the SD card, but when I try to install it on the eMMC, I get an error message saying something like, "You're already running from eMMC, or the eMMC was not found." And, obviously, I'm not running from eMMC, so it seems like the system just isn't detecting it. I did some research, and it seems like there might be different eMMC manufacturers for the same T95Z Plus model. So, I might need to adjust the "Max frequency" parameter in the .DTB file for the T95Z Plus in order for Armbian to recognize the eMMC on my device. D…

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

Dear Friends I am a new member and I need some help. I bought a Tanix Tx3 Mini (2GB RAM/16GB RAM) from aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000105067526.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.221c44cfVXLRVh&algo_pvid=46ac1e7f-a34a-4faa-afac-5c1ed840e0ab&algo_expid=46ac1e7f-a34a-4faa-afac-5c1ed840e0ab-0&btsid=0b0a556516097846131604394e6757&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_ I want to install Ubuntu but I searched in the forum: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8434-the-list-of-models-that-are-running-armbian-amlogic-rockchip-allwinner-etc/ that is working with the image Sincerely Kons…

Hello i have an Tanix tx3 mini,with s905w processor. After a boot fail i can restore armbian, and i must to flash again android, and the box Is work again. Now i can't flash armbian because the box don't boot from microSD, any help?

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

Hi, I am trying to install/boot latest Armbian Jammy minimal on Tanix TX3-H box without success. Technical Details: Box: Tanix TX3-H (BZ) CPU: S905X3 Memory: 4 GB Storage: 64 GB Box: https://androidpctv.com/review-tanix-tx3-s905x3-opinion/ Board Images: Attached I created bootable both usb and sdcard but the box boots into a dark blank screen. I followed the Amlogic boxes instructions but no luck. Tried the different DTBs from the Meson SM1 series, none booted up. Any guidance on using Armbian on this box will be very helpful and appreciated 🙏

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'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 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,…

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

The latest version Bookworm cannot start up when use udisk Perhaps the latest version of the kernel does not support USB drive startup。 The name of image is "Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.71_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_edge_6.4.2.img" The log is as follows： scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf reading /extlinux/extlinux.conf 522 bytes read in 28 ms (17.6 KiB/s) 1: Armbian Retrieving file: /uInitrd reading /uInitrd 22828930 bytes read in 679 ms (32.1 MiB/s) Retrieving file: /Image reading /I…

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

I install Armbian on my K1 plus via SD card, I have already solved many problems, but now this one popped up. I couldn’t find any information on the Internet, I’m using the file meson-gxbb-p200.dtb, I really hope for your help!

Hi everyone, I'm trying to boot Armbian on a TiVo Stream 4K (Model: IPA1114HDW, Board: SEI500BS/Pyxis, SoC: S905X2, Android TV 10). I've flashed S905X2-compatible images (like Armbian_23.02.2...6.1.11) using Rufus/Etcher/Armbian Imager with different DTBs, but I cannot get it to boot from SD or USB. Toothpick method (short press): Enters Fastboot (limited permissions, no flash/dump). Toothpick method (long press): Enters USB Burning Mode. adb reboot bootloader and adb reboot recovery work, but there is no root access via ADB. It seems external boot is disabled, U-Boot is locked, or secure boot is enforced. My next step is hooking up a UART USB-TTL…

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;

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

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.

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.

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, 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…

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

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

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

I want use linux for a light web server on a very small cheap tv box. I am looking to buy a TV STICK, because it is very small, and also I do not need LAN, but only wifi. I saw that the TV Stick X96S with Amlogic S905Y2 have the most powerful cpu. I can install linux on it? The TV stick have the physical hard reset button to update the firmware. https://androidpctv.com/x96s-tvstick-amlogic-s905y2/ P.S. If you know other tv stick or very small tv box with powerful CPU under 50€ tell me.

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

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…

So I've got two of these old android tv boxes, both running the S912 chipset, and both are pretty much dead at this point. Trying to figure out if it's worth the effort to revive them or if I should just toss them already. On both boxes: no display through hdmi at all, not even a logo or flicker. Tried the toothpick trick for recovery screen with power plugged in, no reaction. Keyboard and mouse don't get picked up when connected. And when I hook them up to my laptop with a usb to usb cable, the boot light does turn on so they're clearly getting power, but the box itself never shows up anywhere on the laptop, not even in device manager after installing the usb burning t…

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

I 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!

Hi, I'm new to the Armbian community, but I have used Linux before. Recently, I followed this tutorial: https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0316.html to flash Armbian 20.10 Bullseye on what I suspect is a fake TX3 Mini. It has a red motherboard probably not a p-281 board, it could be a q201_N device as twrp said before installing Armbian. Anyways, Armbian detects 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage in it. It most likely has either an S905X or S912 CPU since I used "u-boot-s905x-s912" during the process. After flashing the SD card with Armbian, I was able to boot successfully. I then installed Armbian using the terminal with "inst…

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…

Hello. I have easily managed to get armbian up and running of a usb stick, in fact everything worked perfect (hdmi, wifi, gbit ethernet, etc.). The tv box is h96-air-gbit (as the dtb is named), amlogic s905x3 soc, 32gb mmc, 4gb RAM, gigabit ethernet, 2xusb 2.0, 1xusb 3.0, sd card, hdmi, av port (reset button inside), spdif. The thing is, I wanted to benefit from the 32gb internal mmc storage, since I was running armbian from a 8gb usb stick (had a lot of those hanging around, and didn't want to buy a bigger one). I did notice the image I used had not armbian-install script, nor nand-sata-install. I did a manual install (snapshot copy) of my current system with the help of…

I've been trying to do this for about a month already, just subscribed because instructions were so messy (and found a lot of closed+deprecated threads that simply could'nt follow up) I can't find these files: They are nowhere. Followed instructions from almos every thread/tutorial, even the closed ones that point to a newer one to no avail. ¿What am I missing?

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

hello , it's possible upgrade armbian Linux vegas812 3.10.108 #5 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 13 10:50:53 MSK 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux if yes how to ? thank you

Friends, as shown in the image, I am trying to install a Linux system on this BTV: OTT BOX, model B11 with an Amlogic S905X3 CPU. However, I am not succeeding because it cannot read the USB drive. I have already tried changing the .ext, attempted to burn the image using Rufus, Balena, and nothing worked. I am using a Multilaser USB drive which I believe is 2.0. At the moment I don’t have another USB drive or memory card to test. Any suggestions?

I need to use this UART on an S905 system installed with Armbian 22 and Kernel 5.15 through Python. I am able to do this by changing the permissions of /dev/ttyAML0 from 640 to 660. However I need to avoid having to issue the CHMOD command each time I power up. I have written a service in systemd to do this automatically at startup but the CHMOD command has no effect on the port permissions or else they are being overwritten later on during startup. The service is functioning correctly since CHMOD on another dummy file alters permissions as expected. Any suggestions please?

Hi Everyone, I hope that some good and skilled guy can help me to solve my problem. According to some topics on this forum I decided to buy a vontar x3 because some of you said that it work fully on armbian after some tweaks. The problem is that even if I follow all of the guided steps caught on differents topics of this forum, my vontar x3 fall in an infinite reboot loop as long as I try to boot on my SD card with the toothpick method. Hereunder is the very simple methodology I follow - surely something is wrong but I don't know what it is... - I downloaded a bootstrap image of armbian on the armbian repo of b…

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

i am trying to install armbian on a vorke z6 plus s912 amlogic box. As there is no S912 dtb, i tried using /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb with this iamge: Armbian_26.02.0_amlogic_s912-t95z-plus_trixie_6.18.15_server_2026.03.01.img.gz renamed u-boot-s905x-s912.bin to u-boot.ext After inserting and pressing the reset button, before applying power, i get into the recovery menu What dtb file or image can i use to get armbian running?

Hello everyone, is there any way to boot from USB when my emmc is dead? this is my board

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

I 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.

Hi there I bought X96Q box without warranty, supposed to be 4gb\16gb, allwinner h313, android 11, but turned out to be fake box with soc amlogic s905w, with android7.1 rooted (fake android11), I tried to flash it with different firmwares but it is stuck on blue light, the usb flashtool recognizes it but nothing responds, I tested all the methods on the forums without success please is there a solution thank you here are the pictures of the box https://1drv.ms/u/s!At0NUPMBpbubbsXudVg-DCPQL1c?e=qWZI5L

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

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