Amlogic CPU Boxes

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

Hi team I was trying to install armbian image in S905L 3A-B device but its not booting and i am not able to kill the android on it so can anyone suggest me how can i proceed further with this device. Thanks

Hello I newly installed a community armbian image to my Alfawise H96 ProPlus TV box. All seems to be working except sshd. I found out, that is because of not existing /run/sshd directory. After creating this directory the systemctl start ssh wokrs, but until the next reboot. The image I used is Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.51_Aml-s9xx-box_lunar_edge_6.2.16.img. Thanks

Hi ! I started from SDHC armbian-24.08 on my Magicsee N5+ (s905x3). I installed system on the eMMC. But now, the system can only start on the eMMC, but only with the toothstick method ... And I can't start again on the SDHC to try the 24.11 for example. Is that any solution : 1. to make start on eMMD without toothstick 2. to start system with SDHC Thanks for your help

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.

My box with s905x processor (kinhank super console x nes) does not boot armbian despite trying all kinds of methods and placing the correct files, it boots android in eMMC, I tried the toothpick method.

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 …

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.

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

I have the file .../dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-x96-air-gbit.dts and the patch 004-arch-arm64-dts-amlogic-meson-sm1-ac2xx-tv-boxes.patch. How to patch a dts file and generate a dtb file from it. I am asking for help.

Hello i have a KM9 S905x2 and want to get linux on my box and keep havoing issues trying to boot into Armbian.

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?

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 friends, could anyone tell me if Armbian is compatible with S905X5M? Thanks. Regards.

Attempting Armbian install onto an S905. Hardware specs at https://specdevice.com/showspec.php?id=6653-4ac9-1101-570d0033c587 Kernel begins to boot but gets errors and never completes dropping into initramfs shell. Was able to capture the dtb blob from the Android kernel and decompiled it. Enough differences to the dtb files in the Armbian distribution that I cannot figure out how to create a dtb file that will work. Have looked for other files on the internet but haven't come across something similar yet. Booting gets stuck in a loop of: meson-gx-mmc d0072000.mmc: no support for card's volts mmc0: error -22 whilst initialisin…

Hello, I am very new to Armbian and can not get my wireless keyboard touch pad to work. It worked fine with my android tv box 905w. Any ideas? Thanks, Earl

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

Hi, i have this tv box { H96 Pro+ (ZH01-S912-TVBOX-v2.0) Green board} WISDOM variant the problem is some apps does not work anymore on it and i'm looking for any version higher than the stock 7.1.2 the tv box works now on this firmware s912_q9377-H96_KDMC17.3_50ME_600M_mac-20170918.img https://mega.nz/file/7xFxgJrC#Hrya4fKeKJmZxPu0v2stH-nygBzodSQVm3qRmVDaIgw I appreciate your help and thanks in advance.

Hi, My STB run latest Armbian from ophub Armbian_24.11.0_amlogic_s905x3_noble_6.6.58_server_2024.11.01.img.gz. it run on microsd with change the dtb file location in uEnv. But i made mistake with remove partition on eMMC and format it to BTRFS. Now my box is just bootlop. I try to recover using USB Burning Tool with oem Firmware but it always end with romcode error. I Try using TWRP with boot maker it can enter TWRP. i need to press the toothpick on AV jack. When i try to install the oem Firmware it say that emmc is 0mb. I try to change the file system with advance wipe option but got error that the storage can not mount. I guess the TWRP not recog…

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? 🤔

Hello dear forum! One question please ! A Leap s3+ can do AV1 On my Strong 4250+4150 I don't see any information about AV1 av01! But I tested it with AV1 codecs on the box with S905C1 and it works! Aida64 list the Codec ! So the S905C1 can do AV1, right? It works, but there is nothing about it in the information! Thank you dear forum Sorry for my Englisch - Google Translate https://www.androidtv-guide.com/streaming-gaming/av1-androidtv-players/ https://at.strong-eu.com/de/products/ip-tv-receivers-de/srt-4150-austria/

Hello everyone, how are you? I would like to raise my problem, which is installing the Batocera 35-34-32 system on the x96max+ device..s905x3. After installation, the Wi-Fi does not work. I tried many dtb files and they did not work. I tried on 3 devices with the same type, but it did not work. How do I solve this problem? Thank you

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

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…

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?

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.

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?

This is an Android TV box using the 922 chipset. Under Android, I have been using stock firmware but also recall trying that from the Ugoos AM6. I have managed to get it to boot using u-boot-s905x2-s922. I have tried several of the DTB files starting with the g12b prefix. I had initial high hopes that the one for the Ugoos would work. And it did boot all the way into the desktop (I have auto-login enabled) but the mouse would not move nor would the keyboard respond. Since then I have tried many others - still working my way through them all one-by-one. And I have found some (gtking-pro.dtb, gsking-x.dtb) that appear to work pretty "normally" (not that I am sur…

I found a .dts file for my TV set-top box on an amlogic processor, and I want to compile this file for Armbian, please tell me how to do this, my TV box is K1 plus. https://github.com/CoreELEC/device-trees-amlogic/tree/master

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…

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 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

Thanks to this forum I had installed Armbian buster and it's been running really well and stable for 3 years. For the first time I've arrived at an issue which makes me revisit and also because I have forgotten most of the stuff. Back in the day balbes150 had a bunch of ready made images available and you picked the correct device tree after flash. Appears those links no longer work. I don't want to do a massive upgrade, just from buster to bullseye on my week play 2 box (s905h only uses 4w when running) My question is where can I get those old images again. Or a newer resource for ready made images that will work on my box.

Hi. I have an old Tanix TX3 box that I want to use as a backup [1 part of the 3-2-1] drive. I installed Armbian_24.8.0_amlogic_s905x3_noble_6.6.46_server_2024.08.15.img and I'm currently in Armbian OS 24.11.0 Noble with Linux 6.6.53-ophub. I tried to mount several USB drives and even an nvme external drive and can get it to work. Can, anyone, please help me? Thanks. Miguel

Hello everybody, My Box is a oxtagon shaped t95z plus 2 mb 16 mb chipset: processor arm cortex -a53 mali T820 GPU AP6255 wifi ac + bluetooth 4.2 sandisk SDINAD1F4-16G 16G emmc 16G rom lanson L5TC4G63CFR x2 dram 2GB I try to install armbian_community_26_2 _0-trunk.100 aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.63_cinnamon_dektop.img.xz I use meson-gxm-vega-s96.dtb And u-boot-s905x-s912.dtb copy and rename as u-boot.ext It boots to ash then it stops No asking for password and user I have no clue what to do next I have entered armbian-config but this returns a error Any tips?

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

Hi, I'm using the image Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_bullseye_current_6.1.11.img on my Box TV Tigre 2 with Amlogic S905x processor and the dtb meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb and all the things I need are working, except the HDMI Audio output. Using the command "aplay -l" it shows no soundcards found but using the command lsmod | grep snd it shows different sound modules so I think it's a driver problem Also using armbian-config and going to system->hardware it shows an empty list. Any ideas on how to make it work?

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.

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

There are 2 TV boxes. I put Armbian on both, on the x96 mini you can see 2 gigabytes of RAM, but on the m9s you can see only 1 gigabyte. Physically, both have 2 gigabytes of RAM. Please tell me what can be done? x96 mini(s905w): m9s pro(s905x):

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

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Right now I am using meson8b, I wanted to install armbian on my Android TV box but after some research and searching on Google I didn't find any of image file and their may not have any building guide. Please help me to do it so.

Hi all, I have this Amlogic S905x2 (ddr3l) android tv box which I'm trying to boot Armbian on. Firstly, I was having issue with the default bootloader always booting into android, no matter if I used the sd card or usb. So then I lifted the emmc chip, in hope that it will then choose to boot from the sd card. However, I failed to notice that BL2 is stored in the emmc, and as you guessed, I need BL2 to boot into linux. Now I've read that you can use USB burning tool to send and start BL2 from RAM. However, I've no idea what to do next and what file am I even supposed to send via the USB Burning tool. I would be very thankful …

Hello all, did any body able to login to Cinnamon version (screen shot below from here ) ? The box is A95X F3 Air first edition. For me it Bootes well and after root and user passwords are set it shows up desktop login screen and then after user login the desktop simply goes blank. On reboot again user login screen appears on the desktop but again blank screen after login. On the other hand the Armbian 24.8.0-trunk.399 Bookworm Gnome worked fine. I don't want any troubleshooting or run through logs and spend time on this but if any body faced such issue before just reply back if this happened with your box as well.

A while ago I bought a TV box that claims to be a TX9 but, by the specifications, it resembles a tx3 mini, I exchanged the standard android for an armbian and the screen stopped working, how can I discover the processor pins for the screen or some script ready?

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

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

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, 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

Hi. geeks So i've installed v25.05.0 armbian bookworm 6.1.21 on my tv box and so far no bluetooth and wifi My chipset is Cdtech 47w3155. rfkill gives nothing. just blank space

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 Forum members, I have a Beelink GT1 Ultimate tvbox (RTL8211f/LTM8830) which came to me with Coreelec, so not the stock Android firmware. I had to install the Android firmware (found somewhere on internet, not from Beelink) in order to be able to run Armbian (off sd card) and no matter which .dtb I try, there is no LAN in Armbian (no phy), but also it doesn't work in Android. Am I right in that I cannot make it work in Armbian if it doesn't work in Android? Case 1: Eth port/rtl8211f chip is damaged Case 2: the Android firmware image does not fit my tv box Is there a chance that case 2 is the situation so if I find an Android image with working LAN t…

Hi all, I have some x905 boxes and I'd like to use one (an old TX95 -> x905w IIRC) as a midi sequencer with fluidsynth. I found the hard way that the default kernel has no midi sequencer support (in kernel or module) so there's no way to use aconnect and have it as a midi box. The only solution seems to be rebuild the kernel with the added module support but it's been decades since last time i rebuilt a kernel and S905 kernels (with added balbes150 mods and stuff to have it working on those cheap boxes) seems a bit too complex for me. So the question is: is there a way to get a working kernel with midi support, and how to put it in. If this was…

Hi, I'm doing some tests on my BTVe10 Box TV. I tried the image "Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.11.img" with the dtb "meson-g12a-sei510.dtb" and it booted but the wifi didn't work. I used the command iwconfig and got the error "no wireless extensions". How can I make the wifi work?

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?

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: /…

Hi everyone i have wanted to do something wiht my useless tvbox and wanted to turn it into ubuntu pc and followed the guides to do so butit doesnt want to boot the img file how do i do this???

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, 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 all, I’m working with an Amlogic S805X (P241) board and I’d like to run Armbian on it, but I need a kernel 5.15 LTS build that boots reliably (especially from USB/SD). I see Armbian community builds with kernel 6.x for Amlogic TV boxes (e.g., Armbian_community_26.x), but these do not boot successfully on my P241. I previously successfully booted Armbian with kernel 5.9, but I want an image based on the 5.15 LTS kernel if possible. Is there an existing downloadable image for S805X/P241 with kernel 5.15? If not, can you share build parameters (BOARD=, BRANCH=, kernel target) to compile a minimal Armbian image with 5.15 that uses…

hello I want to install the new version of armbian or alexelec on my m8s+ s812 2gb ram 8gb rom device, could you please share the imgs you have?

I have a tx3-mini 1G-ram 8G-Rom device and I installed the versions images available on the site on it. I have three questions: why does it stop working when I update the operating system? - The site of benchmark says that the s905w cpu has a speed of up to 2GHz, but my system does not speed up more than 1.2 GHz. And the last question: some of the images available on the site are installed on it, and some are not. The ones that work also stop working with the update. Of course, not with a single update, when it works for a week, you update it during the week, and from some point on, it will not boot again. This is because my device is fake?

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

I’ve been testing Armbian on an Amlogic-based TV box, and wanted to share a short user experience. The device originally runs Android, but thanks to the Amlogic S9xx platform, it can boot Armbian from an SD card without touching the internal firmware. In my case, the system booted reliably and was usable for basic tasks like SSH access, light services, and general Linux testing. Ethernet and USB worked out of the box, while Wi-Fi and power management still required some manual tweaks, which seems common for community-supported TV boxes. For reference, the hardware I used belongs to the category of Amlogic TV boxes that are widely available on the m…

I have an Amlogic s912 box, been trying to follow @balbes150 directions but it al gets confused. (from here First I tried to install an old version until I found out config. method was changed, so I downloaded a newer version. (current Debian and Ubuntu "desktop" based images) I burn them on sdcard, but there's no file "u-boot.ext" to rename. And now I have just read I need to burn both things on separate processes... It's quite confusing and misleading. It would be great if instruections were completely reworked and reordered so not to induce others on error. I'm techa savvy, I've done some programming, I own servers running Linux, I have instal…

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

Has anyone been able to use the remote control that comes with the tv bos under Armbian? Does it reqire additional driver(s)? I want to run Kodi (or any better mediacenter) under Armbian.

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

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

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I have a HTV5 box with Amlogic S905. I have tried every combination trying to load from the SDCard. Just wondering if anyone else have success and can provide a guide to get it working. Thanks

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…

I have no problem installing Manjaro , emuelec , or ALT Linux. I was trying to get a buster distro working , or figure out how how to set up the SMB.conf , I'm trying to use it as a Samba share for the Playstation 2 an OPL I can't seem to get the SMB up an running at all though. Any help would be appriciated also a bit new to linux stuff i have class 10 sd cards booting from them , so I dunno I guess let me know what other info you'd need to help me figure this out. I'd like the be able to use something like OMV but I have no idea how I'd get it to boot. Thanks for your time everyone . I've set it up on a Pi4 before but that was a while ago an seemed a lot easier to do.

While clearing out a load of old computer bits I found an old Keedox M8N android TV box I had years ago. Before I dump it, is it usable for anything now? Can I install Linux on it for example?

Hello everyone, I have two identical-looking "arm-64" Amlogic TV boxes (S805X-based, meson-gxl-s805x-p241.dtb), both running the same Armbian image (kernel 5.9.0-arm-64 from balbes150 build). Both boxes have BCM43430 WiFi+BT combo (AP6212 module) on SDIO (mmc1). Problem: - STB 1: WiFi works perfectly (BCM43430/1 stepping) - STB 2: WiFi fails to initialize (BCM43430/2 stepping) — always ends with "HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50" Key dmesg from STB 1 (working): [ 7.719726] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x1541a9a6 [ 7.736079] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1 …

Sorry - this is probably an easy one for those that know. But I am trying hard to copy my work and progress and build another NAS out of another T95z Plus box for my brother. All is going well - but on the second box - months after building the first - I installed the latest download. So I have Old box = Armbian Linux 6.12.32-current-meson64 - v25.5.1 New box = Armbian Linux 6.12.34-current-meson64 - v25.8 rolling - Support:for advanced users (rolling release) Both show - Ubuntu stable (noble) - which I think I changed on first boot with Armbian-config. Okay - so I don't think I am an advanced user so that warning has got me worried. …

Boot stuck at s9xx login, won't recognise any keyboard input. Any advice please?

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

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…

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.

I'm trying to follow the SteeMan's Installation Instructions for TV Boxes with Amlogic CPUs. I'm want to install Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63_cinnamon_desktop on a Tanix TX3 with a S905X3. Looking at other posts I think I got extlinux.conf correct but I can't find any ext files and I don't where exactly they are supposed to be. The boot folder in root is empty and there's not boot folder in the boot partition. No idea what tag is relevant so I choose one at random.

In at least a couple of occasions, my AMLogic box failed to boot after an attempted upgrade of `armbian-bsp-cli-aml-s9xx-box-current`. I did not keep a detailed report of the first time it happened, but at the time I am pretty confident it was due to the issue addressed in PR #6287. Now, it happened again, I believe following PR #6659. Maybe @SteeMan you can take a look?

hello, I use this Image: Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_bullseye_current_6.1.11.img..gz I can't find a way to autologin a user and execute a script. I need login because I need to see output of script in the screen. thanks in advance.

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…

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

I use Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Aml-s812_focal_current_5.14.0 and tried to find the method on the website. But I still don't understand. Thank you.

Please help, I can't figure out this error for a month now. I've tried all the .dtb files, but nothing works.

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-…

i was installed armbian on hg680fj with schipset amlogic s905x2, replace dtb with spesific hg680fj and change xtlinux config, after that starting boot, but looping on armbian screen. please help ehat shoud i do.

Does This Brick My Tv Box?

Hello In the past I installed armbian into emmc (a95xf3-air) with a USB key. All was ok. Now I would like to do a fresh install with the current release : I burned the image, make the changes (extlinux …) Boot with the "toothpick" method, ssh , the armbian release is the old one from the emmc, not the recent from the key. How is it possible to boot with the recent one with ssh (no display no keyboard) ? And after copy the new release to emmc. Thanks for help

hello everyone i have an dreamstar a5 (S905X3) i tried using x2 uboot it tries to reset but fails never got it to boot into armbian grabbed dtb from coreelec it freezes at black screen so i think the display drivers dont work (attached dtb file) my configs attached below aswell Website for the files specs etc : https://dreamstar.com.tr/UrunDetay.aspx?KatID=3&UrunID=47 im using old version of armbian 20.10 due to only working with update method (couldent make it work on the new version) sm1_s905x3_2g_1gbit.dtb u-boot.ext boot.ini s905_autoscript extlinux.conf

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! I have no video output on Nexbox A95 (s905x) after boot (I can see the screen during boot up process), on the Armbian desktop build. Is there any solutions that I can implement to solve this?

I was searching for WI-FI Drivers for my X96 Mini because I was using my device with Armbian ophub's build. The only-ethernet thing kinda annoyed me so dived in and found there's a fix. A guy named lukas-kuna found a fix for the WI-FI chip (HERE). So I tried the fix and It really worked. So I decided to create a driver myself for Future use and for my fellow users. I used the Driver on Armbian 26.08 Build by ophub and the kernel version is 6.18.37. I created a Github Repo so I could share how I did it and how you could do it too. I Used DKMS to Automate the installation process, theres other ways to do it too. Also the DKMS method ensures driver doesn't disapp…

I've been using this setup for a few good weeks without issues, same powered hub and everything, however after accidentally unplugging the server and being unable to boot I decided to reimage the SD Card and now the box refuses to detect my external 1TB 2.5" HDD (powered hub). Currently running latest server Debian (Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.22_Aml-s9xx-box_trixie_current_6.12.59) on X96 Mini (Amlogic S905W). I've tried to recreate my setup as close as possible to what I had before, however, now I cannot seem to be able to detect the HDD. The OS is installed on the SD Card. lsblk looks like this: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOU…