Amlogic CPU Boxes

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.

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

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…

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…

Hello ! I have a new x96 mini that comes with stock android 11. Model X96 Mini B00-M96-EMCP-REV1.4 Kernel 4..9 113 #87 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 9 20:08:30 CST 2023 Android 11.1 The design is different the usual u-boot and dtb don't work. I connected it by UART and I have this boot log and console mode. boot&env.zip Is it possible to find working u-boot and dtb?

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.

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

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…

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

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

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…

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.

Hi all, and thanks you all so much for sharing time, effort and knowledge about this boxes. I'm reading this forum a lot and also learned from advanced users. Me only start to play around, doing some test with trial and mostly errors! First all, I'm not sure if this goes here, please move it if necessary. This box come with a S905X2 SoC, and while working fine with an ATV12, I think I brick it and I only partially can boot from SD-Card burned with a full image I take with an Armbian version (SD-Card), doing dding of their eMMC. So the first I notice is that in UART console first line I see is hex character in a loop, I don't see normal …

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?

On my S805 with stretch I used this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4471 with this driver, and Python to be able to use the TV box with python, and GPIO like a Raspberry Pi https://github.com/nonNoise/PyMCP2221A i am reading 1 of the i/o pins and writing to 2 I/O pins for a color changing LED for a MP3 jukebox conversion.

Hi @faxe2110, or any other user, how are you? I'm working on a project with an Amlogic S805-based TV box and found your forum posts about custom Armbian images, particularly older versions like 5.67 with Debian Stretch and kernel 3.10.108. Unfortunately, the links you shared are no longer available, and I was wondering if you still have any of those files, or if you could give me some guidance on how to generate them. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can provide! Greetings from Argentina, Ricardo

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?

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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 …

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

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

Hi, I'm new to this forum but I've been researching this topic for quite some time. I have a Mecool KM1 Deluxe with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and an Amlogic S905X3 chip. I wanted to install Armbian to use it as a Linux device, but I've tried several versions and it hasn't worked. Someone mentioned on this forum that installing CoreELEC would prevent Armbian from booting. I installed emuelec and it worked perfectly, but I haven't been able to run Armbian. Could this be the reason? Thanks.

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?

Hi! I'm having problem to flash a image on a flashdisk using the armbian imager. The download is completed but the sha256sum validation fails. The manually downloaded image from https://armbian.com/boards/aml-s9xx-box -> Resolute_current_xfce shows an sha different from Resolute_current_xfce.sha https://paste.armbian.com/givixasaya

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

Hello, I traced and worked around a USB enumeration failure on an X96S TV stick (Amlogic S905Y2, 4 GB RAM / 32 GB eMMC). I am posting this as an RFC and test request, not as an upstream-ready Armbian patch. Important environment note • Userspace: Armbian OS 26.05.0 Noble • Kernel: Linux 6.12.91 from the OPhub/unifreq TV-box tree, not an official Armbian kernel package • Exact source baseline: unifreq Linux commit 7f96286d7ef097465fe46dbea8002fa27a6a6bbc • DT reports model "AMedia X96 Max" and compatible "amediatech,x96-max", "amlogic,g12a". This is not an accurate X96S-specific identity. Symptoms HDMI and Wi-Fi worked, but USB2 devices would…

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

Hi, 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 …

I wanted to ask if any of you tried to install Armbian on this TV box Mini M8IIS with (S905x ampak6212) I know it may be old but maybe it will work

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 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 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, 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.

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):

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!

Hello, I want to install openmediavault on my S905 based TV box, but for arm, the openmediavualt debian packages only support "Jessie". Does anyone know where I could find a S9xx images for Jessie The link to the images only shows the newest images "Stretch" https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei

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

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

Hi, I am currently using MagicBox M16S to flash Armbian. However, I did try to use VIM2 Armbian img to flash into my magicbox but it wont worked. Currently it seem like my device is bricked ( try to flash original ROM from some china website but it stuck at 1% and fail). Do anyone have idea on this device? Thanks~

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

Hi all, I managed to install Armbian on a X96 Linux TVBox with 4Gb RAM and 32Gb ROM. I've build the image following the Armbian Build Framework. - v25.08 rolling for aml-s9xx-box running Armbian Linux 6.12.37-current-meson64 I reused the DTB that originally comes with the BOX and almost everything seems to work. I tested the system using glmark2 with a score of 197. I suppose GPU is working. Anyway I've some problems with Electron. I have installed the "hello world" app. The application starts but I receive this error: [4150:0714/130924.545719:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for…

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…

It's a s905w2 chip. I can only find dtb 2gb. It's a newer chip so I'm looking for a boot one. Not at all. Thank you for answering.

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

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.

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

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?