Amlogic CPU Boxes

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 …

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

Hello everyone, I tried to erased data from settings menu to start fresh again and prepare this old box not used to give it to another family member. Probleme is that the process reset to factory was shut down before it ended (was taking ages).. So now it doesn't boot properly. I tried to operate wipe data / reset factory in recovery mode but ended in an error (mount failed). Also now i don't have operational remote.. 1)How to reset it properly ? 2)Is there any software to do that ? (i downloaded Aml_burn_tool recently but need help with which image should i load ? 3) Is there any way to force the box to boot …

I've installed Armbian Ubuntu Nobble Cinnamon on sdcard with Polytron PDB F1 and it's chipset amlogic S912 After login with lightdm, my screen turn black, What I should do?

Hello, I am using an X96 Air (S905X3) with Armbian (6.1.127-ophub) and I can see the hardware decoder working: v4l2-ctl --list-devices Amlogic Video Decoder (platform:meson-vdec): /dev/video0 However, the hardware encoder (VENC) does not appear: ls /dev/video* /dev/video0 ls /dev/amvenc* ls: cannot access '/dev/amvenc*': No such file or directory I want to use ffmpeg with hardware encoding (h264_v4l2m2m) for real-time RTMP streaming, but without the encoder device, it is not possible. Could you please explain: Does this kernel support VENC on S905X3 at all? If not, what changes are required to enable hard…

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.

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

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…

I have TV-BOX Ugoos SK1. how I can Install Armbian for it. My TV-Box using chip S928X-K this is device information: https://ugoos.com/ugoos-sk1-8-128-gb-amlogic-tvbox-s928x-k Best regards

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

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

Hello everyone, I have a device from this brand. An ISP in Turkey distributes this device. It needs to be unlocked. I want to install Armbian on it. However, it doesn’t look like any device I’ve seen online. The motherboard is different from all the devices I checked. Is there anyone who can help me? I can access the device via ADB. I can install APK files. The device has an S905X processor and 1 GB of RAM. It is running Android 9.

I installed ambian in this tv box to run klipper for my 3d printer, but its been a years since I last used it and I totally forgot what was the user I created. I really didn't want to wipe the SD card because of my 3d printer's config files etc. Is there anything I can do to retrieve the user and password? Thanks.

Hello , I have an HK1 box Chipset: S905X3 running Armbian, I noticed that the box contains 2 LEDs (Blue and Red). Is it possible to do PWM with one of the outputs of one of the LEDs?

Hello, is it possible to install Armbian on Mecool BB2 S912/2GB ? Whick bootloader/dtb should I use? Thank you.

Hello everyone! I am running Armbian in a BTV11 box (Amlogic S905X3) alongside the "meson-sm1-sei610.dtb". My cabled ethernet connection is working fine but not WIFI. No networks are found. I have already tried alternatives like meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb, that leads to my ethernet to also stop working. At first the Kernel was looking for `brcmfmac4330-sdio.seirobotics,sei610.bin` firmware, that doesnt exist in Armbian. So I made a symlink pointing to a generic `brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin`. Saw that similar fixes worked for other people. This is what I see from logs: `sudo dmesg`: [ 8.451121] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x16044330 [ …

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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!

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

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

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

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…

Hi everyone, I am trying to install Armbian on my X96 Max Plus TV box, but I'm having trouble getting the Wi-Fi and peripheral power management to work correctly. I disassembled the box to gather the exact hardware specs from the PCB. Could you please advise which specific DTB file I should use for this hardware revision? Here are my exact hardware specs and chip markings: SoC: Amlogic S905X3 RAM: 4GB LPDDR3/DDR3L (Micron, FBGA code: D9PQL) Storage: 32GB eMMC 5.1 (SanDisk SDINADF4-32G) Ethernet (LAN): 1000M / Gigabit (Realtek RTL8211F transceiver) Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Module: Broadcom/Ampak under a metal shield marked AM7256 (Android log…

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

What are the possible commands you can use I there a possibility to enable wifi on first boot Or set the monitor resolution Or other settings you can make

Hi i have done a few boxes with armbian installed, some boxes wifi do not work but that is to be expected.But i got a amlogic box now that is giving me intrm error,It seems i can boot armbian and it loads up but after the loading it just get stuck at intrims.This has somethnig to do with the boot process from sd card.When i boot it form usb stick it works fine but the same setup from sd card gives me that error. I suspect the second part to boot the os is controlled by the box,I need to have first boot all the time What can i do to modify the sd card.

Cinnamon desktop environment is bugged for me, both my a95x r2 (amlogic s905w) and a95x f3 slim (amlogic s905x3) showing no display, blank screen like no input after loging in. My suggestion for desktop ubuntu based varian, better change it to Mate desktop. The armbian desktop cinnamon varian based on ubuntu is now work for me after switching to mate desktop

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~

I have an old MXQ Pro 4K (based on the original S905, not S905X or S905D, the original S905) which I tried to install armbian on, but I didn't know extra things were needed to set up uboot and dtb correctly, so I just flashed the image, put the SD card in my box, ran `reboot update` from Android to boot to the SD card, it showed the MXQ Pro logo, rebooted, went back to the MXQ Pro logo, and I can't get it to go past that. My box has a weird firmware issue (started immediately after a firmware restore so I don't think it's hardware damage) where the button in the headphone jack just... doesn't work, even when holding it, it still tries to boot to the eMMC, and now I have n…

I had an error when installing armbian on my M96H androidtv S950L3. Anyone any idea to resolve this?

I was running armbian on emmc on an X96Air 4GB/64GB 1GBit S905X3 box a while ago and then after a power down it bricked. No boot screen, no android (obviously) - it sent a HDMI signal, but nothing. Managed to recover it and get Android flashed on it again then Armbian again on SD then emmc. Just done "apt upgrade" to get things up to date. All went well, then a reboot, and..... bricked again. Nothing obvious, no issues. I'll go through the process again - Android -> armbian sd -> armbian emmc But is there a known issue with any boxes that just brick themselves? Any ways to avoid it? This box is par…

Hello guys, im trying to install armbian to internal emmc, but armbian-install neither the other file exists, please help, thanks

Hi, I’ve installed Armbian to my Vero4k+ and all works fine except wired ethernet, the thing is it kind of works, but when I use different dtb files: meson-gxl-s905d-vero4k-plus.dtb wifi works, bluetooth works eth doesn’t, eth0 interface is UP but can’t get IP or set one, meson-gxl-s905d-p230.dtb wifi works, bluetooth doesn’t, eth generally works but when testing with iperf3 in server mode it’s great cca 930mbps 0 errors, but in client mode it depends of OS (ubuntu or debian) and kernel (5 or 6) used from 1-350mbps but with looooot of errors (cca. 67000 for 10 sec test) and if I limit link speed to 100mbps it doesn’t change much, also lot of errors, if…

Hello, I have some troubles with this TVBOX: it runs armbian and other distros correctly, using the meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb but sometimes wifi goes into kernel panic at boot, and when it does, the whole system becomes unstable (i.e. not rebooting, eth0 hangs...). I have extracted the original .DTB from the only firmware that exists for this box, the ancient 6.0 Marshmellow Android (I guess it's a 3.x kernel...). I attach it to this message hoping someone more expert than me can help in making it work ina more stable manner. I attach a picture of the board also, it reads "M8S". Box has 2GB ram and 16GB eMMC, brcmfmac wifi/bt and ZTE PHY chip. …

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. I have a problem that's been driving me crazy, and I think I'm not the only one. I'm using Armbian version v25.05.0 for Aml.S905x running Armbian Linux 6.12.19-ophub Debian stable (bookworm), and I managed to install RealVNC Connect, for which I have a license. The problem I'm having, and I can't find a solution, is that by default the GDM3 desktop launcher uses Wayland, and when I connect externally to the server, I only get a black screen with a message saying "the desktop cannot be displayed at this time." I'm using GNOME, and I've tried different desktop environments, but they never work, even after selecting them from the gear icon. It just acts like it's goin…

Hello. I'm trying to run Armbian on an Acemak KII TV box (Amlogic S812 processor). From the page https://armbian.com/boards/aml-s805-mxq I downloaded the Armbian image Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.792_Aml-s805-mxq_trixie_current_6.12.28_minimal.img Using Win32DiskImager, I burned the Armbian image to a MicroSD card. In the armbianEnv.txt file, in the dtb_file line, I specified the path: dtb_file=/dtb/meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb I inserted the MicroSD card into the TV box. The TV box boots, Ethernet works, but there is no HDMI signal on the monitor. I tried specifying different dtb file variants in armbianEnv.txt. I found that if I specify the path dt…

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…

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.

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…

Hello Im a begginer and dont know Linux. I have a tv box : enyBox x98q Cpu amlogic s905w2 2g ram 16g rom My need to install MetaTrader5 on linux on this tv box. I downloaded both files on site this link: debian 13 ubuntu 26.04 I need to learn the install way by watching a video clip. I request you for making it

I fried SOIC-8 IC (Probably power management) on H96 Max X2 PCB (I-BOX TV) by applying 12V If anyone (@Thang?) has a board like that, please take a close up of that chip on the back side. I might be able to source it and replace it. Original related topic by Thang is here. BTW, there is native console available on pretty much all Armbian boards, that lets you see linux messages before they appear on the HDMI port. It helps to understand the bootloader sequence, u-boot sequence and gives you root access.

Downloaded the official version Armbian Imager. Created a bootable USB drive. Edited the file extlinux.conf for the TV box. I tried to install it, but nothing happens (I pressed the button inside the mini-jack; the USB indicator flashes five times, and Android boots up). REGLinux boots up and installs, I can play games on it. What am I doing wrong?

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?

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 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, 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…