Rockchip CPU Boxes

Hello to everyone I hope i can get some help here So What's my problem? I recently bought a TV Box for use it as Personal Low-Price PC I flash the multitool in my SD Card Put the Armbian Image on the folder "Images" and formated the internal eMMc of my Tv Box with Armbian and it run perfectly I finally had the Armbian OS in the TV Box So I decided to configure some things After that i shutdown the device and only for curiosity i turned on again and... Here's the problem: The screen splashed like it should be The Armbian pre-code was running and then the system doesn't launched it A black screen is the only thing that show I tried to sol…

Hi there, first of all big thanks to this community, what you're doing is awesome :-) Here is my question: I have Scishion v88 4k TV box, it had android 7 I've installed Armbian Buster legacy kernel 4.4.y on nand Configured network, rn it has OctoPrint, Klipper, working webcam etc. No questions, its all working great. But whenever I try to reboot it, it doesn't start up back, I gotta replug the power supply for a few sec, only then it starts up back. While it was on Android, it did the reboot correctly. Maybe it's something about exactly this model of tv box that does not let it to reboot on its own, it doesn't have an on\off buttons, so whenever I use it…

Good evening, after i tried to play armbian image on the box it doesn't start anymore. this doesn't seem to be that rare with this model and now i want to put the box in maskrom mode, because otherwise it will not be recognized by the pc. I took the photos of the circuit board and there 2 pins have to be connected to each other. can someone tell me what pin it is? color or circle on foto.

Inspired by the incredible work @jock and @ilmich have done to make the RK322x platform stable on mainline Linux, I decided to tackle the application side of things. My goal was to turn these "e-waste" TV boxes into fully functional, low-latency Android Auto head units for our cars. This fork of OpenAuto is built as one of my "Is it possible to turn this into that?" projects. It turned out to be one heck of a nightmare to pull off, but at the same time a lot of fun because I can see the potential of these TV Boxes as something you can actually put in your car and turn into a usable head unit! System Requirements Target…

Hello everyone! I'm using rk322x TV box for video decoding through mpp. Mpp requires a system with 6.1 or earlier kernel. When I try to compile Ubuntu 22.04 from this repository https://github.com/armbian/build, the selection for kernel are "current" or "edge". I selected "current", and later I found its kernel is 6.12.21. I have tried to use armbian-config to downgrade the kernel, but the earliest selection is 6.6. Then I tried to downgrade the kernel through apt, but there were no 6.1 edition. Thus, I decided to change the kernel through "Mainline Kernels" and install the 6.1.132 kernel. After the installation finished, I rebooted my system and found that the kerne…

Hello there, I upgraded the newest kernel (`linux-image-current-rockchip64 arm64 24.8.0-trunk.332`) today. Something went wrong and it is failing to find the rootfs and drops in to initramfs shell. Attached are the update logs and login images. How do I fix this? Thanks apt-update.txt

Good afternoon everyone. I need your help. I have an Android TV Box TX9 and I need the ROM (Firmware) for it because I can't find it anywhere. Could someone help me download this firmware so I can resurrect my device? Thank you all.

Hello guys I have a rk3288 POS with Android 7 I heard that the board can run Linux on it who can help me ?

Just burned the station m2 release onto EMMC and sadly found that there is no saveenv command. I used Ctrl-c to interrupt the u-boot into command line mode. Checked the supported command by typing help and found no saveenv in the list save - save file to a filesystem setcurs - set cursor position within screen setenv - set environment variables showvar - print local hushshell variables size - determine a file's size source - run script from memory sysboot - command to get and boot from syslinux files sysmem_dump- Dump sysmem layout sysmem_search- Search a available sysmem region test - minimal test l…

The wifi and ethernet both are not working for my transpeed 8k tv device. it has a rk3528 chipset. 1. I tried resetting it from its android factory setting. it did not work. 2. I found its image which i flashed via RKdevtool. Still the both wifi and lan did not work. 3. i tried external usb wifi dongle but it did not detect it. 4. I tried to install debian OS i found somewhere on internet designed for rk3528 on it as alternative but rkdevtool did not identified the image Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance,

This case is a clone of X88PRO: However i use HK1 rom because regular x88pro lack of many features like saf and without this dolphin-emu and others dont allow use external devices another thing added in HK1 rom is cpu thermals, cpu load and memory load in status bar but use this rom make frontal screen in tvbox dont work In my case armbian works using information from this themes: armbian used is based on station-m2 image from here: https://www.armbian.com/station-m2/ https://github.com/armbian/community HDMI - works (need to check hot plugging) HDMI sound -…

hiya folks! I have a no-brand (MK - 918?) RK3188 Android TV box that I'm trying to install Armbian, but I can't get it to boot Multiboot nor the Armbian image from the SD card. I have tried different SD cards and USB sticks, I am burning the Multitool image with balenaEtcher, but no luck, it boots straight to Android. I have also tried the solution posted by fabiobassa but the program gets stuck on "Downloading bootloader...". here's some more info: ➜ lsusb Bus 001 Device 009: ID 2207:310b Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company RK3188 in Mask ROM mode ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool ld DevNo=1 Vid=0x2207,Pid=0x310b,LocationID=102 Loader ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool rd…

Hi, Firstly I have searched the forums, google and docs.armbian.com before posting this. I have and old TV Box (specs below) that I would like to try and re-purpose as a Home Assistant server. I'm not looking to do anything else with it. If you feel I'm wasting time here and would be better off buying some supported device, please say so. So far: 1) Have created and SD Card from @balbes150 repository - specifically buster with no desktop (https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/rk3188/) 2) Device boots from SD Card but no HDMI output. (If I boot the stock Android ROM - HDMI works perfectly.) 3) Wired LAN works and I can …

Hi guys, I have an x88pro 10 with a debian bulleye installation. I bought an external lcd touchscreen monitor to control my klipper printer with Klipperscreen. This screen is sold for a 1024x600 resolution but the system sees it as a 1920*1080. I can control the printer but the resolution is huge and the screens are slow. I tried to set the resolution using setenv video-mode sunxi:1024x768-16@60,monitor=hdmi,hpd=0,edid=0 but nothing change. this is the output of xrandr user@klipper:/boot$ DISPLAY=:0 xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 4096 x 4096 HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal le…

Hello all, I'm trying to setup libwc (preferred) or weston on my Mekotronics R58X (2023 edition) But when I try and build any wayland compositor, I keep gettign this error: ERROR: Dependency "wayland-server" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake But I appear to be running wayland: mekotronics-r58x:weston:% echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE <main> wayland And when I search for it in apt, I'm only seeing libwayland installed/available: mekotronics-r58x:weston:% apt search wayland-server <main> Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done librust-wayland-commons-dev/jammy 0.29.1-1 arm64 Common typ…

This is a sidebar/urgent request for help. I was previously able to install Armbian noble on my YY3568 board thanks to instructions from these forums (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/49775-board-bring-up-youyeetoo-yy3568-rockchip-rk3568/). I now need to use the board for a Debian project to help a friend that lost their backup, and am unable to reproduce the instructions in that post to empty the eMMC and enable SD boot. The poorly written/flawed instructions in this post involve loading a config file into RKDevTool, writing loader, parameters and uboot, then there is a line about "destroying partitions by writing wipe_part" (a file you can download in the post)…

Hello everyone, I’m trying to install Armbian on a TV box with an RK3328 SoC, but I’m running into several issues. Here’s what I’ve done so far and the information I have: Box model: dnetSmart-YSE, version 10 Chipset: RK3328 Kernel version: 4.4.179 PCB info: t9-RK3328-D4, ver 2.0.2018 Design by: Hugsun I followed the instructions I found on the forum to install Armbian, but it’s not working. I’ve tried several methods: Using the microSD card: I tried installing Armbian on a microSD card and booting it from the box's microSD port, but it didn’t work. Using a USB drive: I also tried booting from a USB drive plugged into one of th…

Picked up a couple of these over at the local second hand store... https://www.aopen.com/AU_en/products_info/Chromebox-Mini My guess is that these were digital signage oriented, as they were in a crate with a few Startech USB-DVI adatpers, etc... Anyways - they're end-of-support for ChromeOS... There's a couple of posts over on Alpine to get things running there... It's close enough to TinkerBoard to maybe do some effort, and with Chromeboxes/Chromebooks on the same SoC/BSP...

Hello everyone, I have an rk3318 h96 max , 2gb, 16gb configuration. I've followed installation but couldn't get frequency scaling working. (/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ is empty) I am wondering if anyone can confirm that it works with the latest images. If it does work maybe there is something wrong with my dtb file. Thank you! Regards, Jose

Hi there, RK322A-box with R329Q v2.0 board, during the firmware upgrade [using Factory tool v 1.8] “Preparing IDB failed” occurred, most likely because that image file was wrong. The box is bricked, but boot up from SD card [multitool] and also connects to the PC… Next step: using RKAndroid Tool v 2.96 tried to restore the initial back-up image [the 14 files], but shows “U-boot file is larger than Flash size”…”ReadFlashInfo” detected the Flash Manufacturer: Micron, Flash size 0MB [?] and is disabled, see attached screenshoot: What is the next step fix this issue? Do I have to upload some RK loader.bin file ? P.S. the NAND is a SpecTek labeled PF …

I have a Measy (R-BOX) U4C rk3188. Before I recycled it I thought I would try to get a linux kernel running on it and found this these posts. I experimented with Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Rk3188_focal_current_5.10.6_xfce_desktop.img from 13JAN. (Thanks Balbes!) It boots with rk3188-rbox-cs968.dtb and most everything works but the video ouput is color shifted. So HDMI video output is fine but the colors wrong and HDMI audio is not working. I took apart the Android firmware that was on the thing but with a V3 kernel without uboot it is kind of difficult to see into the kernel. I assume the device tree is somehow off for this system or, more likely the uInitrd is loa…

Hi everyone! 👋 I managed to get Armbian running on a generic RK3518 TV box — mainline U-Boot, onboard Ethernet, and AIC8800D80 SDIO Wi-Fi all working. I couldn't find a single RK3518 thread here when I started, so I wrote everything up to help the community. Full step-by-step guide, device tree, and the loader binaries I built are in my GitHub repo: 👉https://github.com/juliovendramini/rk3518_armbian Happy to answer questions. Hope it helps someone! 🙂

Hi Everyone I installed the Armbian in a TVBOX with 1 G ram and 8 ROM, cpu RK3228a, quadri-core 1.2. (a classical MXq PRO 5G very known in Brazil). I also did a video in PORTUGESE in youtube ... Everything was working fine, but after one aptitude update & aptitude dist-upgrade, I lost the sound. The version that is running: armbian 20.11.3 Buster How can I access the HDMI output and enable its sound output? In addition, the AV output works? In my case it is not recognize it Thanks in advance CLAUDIO root@rk322x-box:/home/ccs# armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://…

Hello, when the tv box loads Armbian, the device shutdown and does not turn on

I'm looking for help porting to an RK3328-based device, the REV Robotics Control Hub. It ships running a custom version of Android 7. The compute board's physical layout is based on the 96Boards CE spec, and is visibly extremely similar to the Dragonboard 410c (https://www.96boards.org/product/dragonboard410c/). It has these specs and ports: - Rockchip RK3328 SOC - Rockchip RK805-1 (I believe from my research that this is a power management chip?) - 1GB DDR3 RAM (2x Samsung K4B4G1646E-BYMA chips) - 16GB eMMC (Samsung KLMAG1JETD-B041) - Oddly, the manufacturer specs list this device as having 8GB eMMC 4.51, but the chip on my board at least is 16GB …

Hi Jock, Your replies are keeping this forum active. My box is not rooted, however can boot by multitool. Can we dump tv box boot.img or extract tv box kernel using the multitool so that i can get dtb. I can see /proc/partitions but not as "by-name"

I brick my tv box HK1 Rbox cpu3528 ram 4gb rom 64gb can someone help me unbrick this tv box, thank you very much for your help

Hi, I have this box, R329Q_V8.0 RK3228A and when you turn on the word ANDROID and the following the 7 lines: E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /metadata (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /metadata (Invalid argument) Supported API: 3 E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:Can ́t mount /cache/recovery/last_locale I've tried to upgrade with several ROM's but to no avail. Any ideas?

edit: Found the solution Got this tv box "x88pro 10" repurposed to run armbian by someone and it demands login/password. The default one(root 1234) doesn't work. Also I can't seem to stop the loading process and get to grub to try and delete passwords manually from there(tried pressing random keys during boot, tried holding shift). Please help And also point me to an armbian image I could use in case I fail to reset the password Armbian version it runs atm is 22.05.0-trunk Bullseye tech specs are: RK3318 Quad-Core 64bit Cortex-A53, Penta-Core Mali-450 up to 750Mhz, 2 or 4Gb ram

Hi everyone, I'm facing an issue with my Armbian setup on an H96 Max Ultra 4K (RK3318). The system boots up normally and works fine for a while, but after running for some time, it completely freezes and becomes unresponsive. I have to power cycle the device to get it running again. This issue keeps happening consistently after some time, and I’m not sure what's causing it. Here are a few details about my setup: Board model: H96 Max Ultra 4K (RK3318) Armbian version: Armbian_24.11.0_rockchip_rk3318-box_bookworm_6.1.114_server_2024.11.01.img SD card format: BTRFS Things I've tried so far: Checking the power supply to ensure it's stable an…

Hello, i am gonna make my h96 max rk3318 to NAS and download manager, so that's why i am going to install armbian, **my question is there a way to install armbian using usb?** cause i do not have sd card and not gonna buy it cause i already have so many broken sd card, so i think sd card is not reliable for me that is why i am gonna using usb flashdrive. My thought about how am i gonna do this, is using android tool to wipe the mmc and then making bootable armbian on usb flashdrive. But i am not sure if the u boot gonna recognise the usb flash drive. Sorry if my english is bad #rk3318 #h96max

Hi guys, To begin, a big thanks to all devs! Unbelievable work done so these boxes do not end up in a landfill of recycle bin. maybe this has been answered before but in this vast ocean of information I must admit I am drowned! I read the instructions and successfully flashed my box but when I run "sudo rk322x-config" I can only choose the CPU and eMMC then it ends and I am back to terminal prompt. I can see in the config screen that the WiFi chip is recognised as "south silicon valley 6051p 6256p" but I can't enable it. Under connections I can only see ethernet. What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance! …

Hello everyone, I have been in this world of armbian for a year and I want to develop some projects on this OS ,and at this moment I need to record audio with h96max with rk3318 chip, the system says yes, it has analog input through the stereo plug . Is it possible to put a microphone on this board? aplay -l card 0: ANALOG [ANALOG], device 0: ff010000.i2s-rk3328-hifi rk3328-hifi-0 [ff010000.i2s-rk3328-hifi rk3328-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1...... arecord -D hw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 5 test.wav works but the output file is totally silent, using a hands-free cell phone Where can I put a microphone on the board?

Have an old K-R42. How can this image be flashed? Linux "upgrade_tool uf hirsute-preinstalled-desktop-arm64+raspi.img" results in Loading firmware... Loading firmware failed! Thanks

The image I'm starting with is here: https://www.t95plus.com/forums/downloads/Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_soquartz_jammy_current_5.19.7.img.gz This is the only image I've had any success booting a SOQuartz from microsd card. In fact, the *only* card that will work is very specifically a 32GB Sandisk Ultra A1 U1. No other type of card will boot; not even a 16GB version of same Sandisk series. Baffling. This, however, is not my main issue. The problem is that I have single option for sd card which is forcing me to make sure the image will even fit onto another card -- or Balena Etcher will complain that the drive is too small. This only happens sometim…

Hi, I decided to switch from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 on my MVR9 (Rockchip 3328). The previous version (Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0.img.xz) that I had used, had been realized by Balbes150. Today, I installed the image for the Station M1 by Balbes150 (Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Station-m1_jammy_edge_6.2.0.img.xz) on my MVR9, and everything works except the blue front led that no longer automatically turns on when I agree the PC. I wanted to know if you can tell me which files it is necessary to modify so that the blue LED turns on when the PC is on and that turns off when the PC is turned off. MVR9 has only one LED (Blue). It seems th…

Hi I see that you have added Orange pi 4 SBC. You can also add this device as suitable for testing .: https://pl.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_728990.html https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08/18/videostrong-vs-rd-rk3399-development-board-review-part-1-unboxing-kit-assembly-sdk-and-documentation/ https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/32875114274.html I have successfuly flashed on eMMC this SBC img from orange pi RK3399 first realese. Linux orangepi 4.4.174-rk3399 #31 SMP Sun Feb 10 00:37:23 CET 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Works perfactly ( as suitable for testing ) as on the Orange PI RK3399. I think Orange pi RK3399 may be is produc…

I have an H96Max RK3318 box which I flashed with Armbian. Is there a way to switch back to Android (original firmware). With the original firmware, pressing the reset button at power connection would take the box into recovery mode. This is not the case for Armbian, so not sure how I can flash back Android on this box?

Gnome has win popularity for our boxes because of wayland replacing XCFE. The reason is that panfrost driver works much better with mali in wayland. But LXQT has reached wayland now and is a true lighter desktop. When 2.1 gets the repo this will become true.

Could anyone launch armbian on ebox r99 (Processor (CPU) – RK3399 Hexa Core 64-bit: Dual Cortex-A72 core + Quad Cortex-A53 core/ ARM Mali-T860 high-performance GPU quad-core 800MHZ)? Which baseline and which dtb might function? Thanks for any kind hint! I have tried this image "Armbian_21.05.0-trunk_Station-p1_buster_current_5.10.26_xfce_desktop.img" with the following dtb file, the android box displayed after 10s-20s the typical android recovery menu : FDT /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-roc-pc-plus.dtb FDT /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-hugsun-x99.dtb FDT /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-firefly.dtb FDT /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-evb.dtb FDT /boot…

Good afternoon! I bought a server home assistant. The web used to open. the interface is at 192.168.1.141:8123, and now it’s reaching armbian and I don’t know what to do next and I don’t understand why this happened either. I’m asking for your help. Has anyone ever had such a situation? If I created the wrong theme, can you tell me where to create it, or maybe there is already such a theme?

So I just bought a DQ08 and an app I want to play doesn't because it says my device is rooted .I ve tried super su and managed to delete su and daemon su files from system but nothing seems to be working .Any suggestions to how unroot the device or may even download fresh firmware?

wanted to load balbes150's images but none of his repositories have the tool and my googlefu is apparently shite thanks

Good afternoon everybody, I have a minix mini neo 5 box and I wanted to install Armbian for the home assistant. Specifications: 1G Ram and 16 nand chip rk3066. I've already tried with the multitool and I can't start it. Thank you for help

Hello everyone, grateful for your support, please how do I update the legacy armbian kernel on the tv box, rk322x, to a more updated kernel version, considering that the legacy kernel 4.4 is already obsolete, from the terminal with APT.. ..Thank you for your answers.

I've tried to run Armbian on HK1RBOX V2 with the latest Jammy version (Nov 30,2022). I just replaced the dtb with the one extracted from HK1RBOX V2 firmware. Here is the result -- Jammy XFCE desktop with kernel 4.19 -- Work fine. Need to copy wifi driver from the original firmware to have wifi function. Jammy XFCE desktop with kernel 5.19 -- Blocked. The boot message is as below. Looks like there are something wrong with the dtb compatibility Starting kernel ... [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x412fd050] [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.19.17-station-p2 (root@c0ef8c0946a8) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (G…

In my H96 TV box I have been running Armbian for over an year. Works great. Today I did a fresh install of: Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.256_Rk3318-box_bookworm_current_6.12.19_minimal.img.xz uname -a shows: rk3318-box> uname -a Linux rk3318-box 6.12.19-current-rockchip64 #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 13 12:02:20 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux It is my understanding that Linux 6.12+ kernel already have all the real-time patches in the mainline kernel sources. All one needs to do is to 1. rebuild the kernel after configuring for FULL PREEMPT-RT support or (if kernel already built with this configured) 1a. reboot after providing to 'grub' a bo…

Hello to this great community, I want to comment on the experience I had when installing the armbian operating system on a TV BOX card, RK322x, with 1 Gb of RAM and 8 of ROM. • The system was installed with Armbian 21.05.1 Buster • Linux kernel 4.4.194 rk322x • The installation was done from the image in SD memory • LIBREOFFICE was also installed, in English, which later changes it to Spanish, which is the language I speak. • The internet connection by cable lan or by wifi, is configured normally. • It was also possible to change the Armbian operating system to the Spanish language, without incident. • The libreoffice is workin…

Hello ALL, I have been trying to solve this common issue by myself for two weeks now but I finally gave up. I was able to brick then unbrick and get Armbian running from the emmc on my box but the wifi is still a no-go. Does anyone has this box with a working wifi? I would like to know if there is any specific combination of buster/focal, kernel, DTB and wifi-chip/pins selection that will work. Right now I am running Armbian 21.05.1 Buster with kernel 5.10.34-rk322x I think I tried a dozen of combinations. Thank you Leo

Hi, I'm trying to get the abvoe working but despite trying multiple SD cards, checking power supply, etc. I can't get my TVBox to boot from the SDCard. Any suggestions/tips/tricks? Thanks

Hello. I have this MX10 Box S android TV box, it works well with the latest Armbian community build (Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.309_Rk322x-box_bookworm_current_6.12.35_minimal.img). However, I have this specific binary that is 64bit that I would like to run on my box and this build of armbian is 32bit only. Is there a 64bit build of armbian for rk322x anywhere? Thanks!

New to armbian, I have a H96Max Android TV Box, Initially I flashed it with Armbian_23.11.1_Rock-3a_bookworm_current_6.1.63_gnome_desktop but there was no signal in HDMI, I then flashed it with Armbian_22.05.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_jammy_current_5.15.35_xfce_desktop and Armbian_22.02.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_bullseye_edge_5.15.16_minimal, on both the image I was able to get the armbian running. The issue now I am facing is, in both the cases the WIFI is detected and SSIDs are listed but when I try to connect with password with router, it fails, I double checked if I am using the correct WIFI security. I tried connecting with hotspot on iPhone but having same issue, However if I enab…

Hey guys, i am in trouble with my device (T95Plus, rk3566). Its no longer detected by windows using the usb-otg cable and Android Tool. So i can't reflash the original firmware. I compiled a custom u-boot for rk3566 with bootefi command added. I copied it over to partition 2 of the emmc where the original u-boot was located. Since then its broken. I thought its bricked, but DigitalDaz told me, its only softbricked. Anyway it logs the output over the uart port very well. Its first searching on sdcard for an SPL (secondary program loader) partition and fails, then tries the internal eMMC. It says no misc partition found. I foun…

Hi I'm currently running Armbian on my Minix NEO X7 box. The video works, but I can't really get the ethernet working. The reason for it is that the ethernet is controlled by some of the GPIO pins, so basically the ethernet chip (not onboard, it has an USB external onboard chip) is shut down by the GPIO. I've tried to extract the dts file from my Android ROM without any luck, mainly because the kernel of the image (Finless ROM v1.7) is too old to even contain one. Does anyone have any working dts file that would bring the ethernet port back to life, or do I have to bypass the GPIO, so I can access the ethernet? Thanks for all the replies

Hi, I used multitool and installed Armbian_22.05.0-trunk_Xt-q8l-v10_jammy_current_5.15.35_xfce_desktop.img.xz onto a Hanspree AK01 miniPC. It does not boot and drops into a busybox shell: Starting version 249.11.0ubuntu3 Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... BEgin: Running scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. done. Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/…

Hi all, I'm a newbie The two boxes have similar hardware (RK3566 + Mali-G52-2EE + 8GB ram), and I've searched the forums and seen both have been experimented with Armbian. But I'm still confused about the bottom line: on which of the two Armbian is better supported or easier to run? That'll be the main deciding factor for me, but of course I'll be interested in any other comment or general advice. TIA!

Hello everyone, My university recently purchased a few hundred of these RK3288-based tablets. They're used to display room schedules, control printer confiurations, and control TV inputs throughout our engineering and computer science buildings. The buildings are littered with them; you can't walk 10 feet in any direction without passing one mounted on the wall. Given that they have cameras and microphones, and they run an ancient Android, maybe this wasn't a great idea... Anyway, the no-name eMMC on these things tends to go bad pretty quickly, and the board has no microSD slot, so SD booting is not an option. The university has given me access to …

i tried building an image and i tried using prebuilt images but it just doesnt want to boot basically what i did: erase emmc flash img to emmc (no signal) restore emmc from backup rinse and repeat for like 5 different images

Here's all the information I dumped via adb: I'm new to this so I'm not sure if the efforts for rk3566 are 100% usable for this device, or a custom configuration is necessary.

Dear community! Could any one launch armbian or any other linux distro on ebox r99 (Processor (CPU) – RK3399 Hexa Core 64-bit: Dual Cortex-A72 core + Quad Cortex-A53 core/ ARM Mali-T860 high-performance GPU quad-core 800MHZ)? Which baseline and which dtb might function? Thanks for any kind hint!

Hello everyone i installed correctly "Armbian_21.08.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_focal_current_5.10.41_xfce_desktop" ( !! ) on this machine: CPU rk3318--GPU mali 450 after the installation I have updated everything with "apt install update & upgrade" video drivers detected: mesa 20.2.6 i tried with some player ( mpv-xine..) with videos (mp4) hi-res.and low-res. with identical results....good video texture but played jerky... can I optimize some settings? ...install original video driver mali? is it worth it? thanks a lot to everyone...!!!!

Good morning everyone, I was able to install Armbian on my RK322X board, everything is fine, although YouTube plays slowly and with stops, .... here I ask for your help, is it possible to improve the configuration to speed up video playback in some way? .... another query, what commands are used in general to configure the system? .... example (sudo armbia-config) .... thank you very much for your answers ...

Hello, greetings to everyone. It is long i mind doing something but while i search cannot find some guidelines to reach something i meaning to do and really do not know it it should work. Here what i had and what i mean. I own since long ago a thing : NAGRACE HPH NT-V6 Tv Box as today running Android Nouget 7.1 custom rom made by https://forum.freaktab.com/member/30977-mo123 It run well as android thing can do. Powerful sock and ram more graphics stuff. But i had it sometimes away anywhere and sometimes plugged in. Also using since long on desktop's and laptop some Debian flavors i am curious giving new life to that thing. And…

Hi, I have a basic doubt regarding the booting of multiboot vs armbian Multiboot gets booted from sdcard even if the tv box has Android. If multiboot can do it, why not armbian. I can see multiboot has vfat partition having kernel file. And another partition as ext4 that had Linux files. If we make armbian by modifying the initrd, will it get booted like multiboot, without erasing Android and not loosing Android functionality. It will be like dual boot also.

Hello everyone, thanks to this community I managed to install Armbian on Tv Box, with RK322x board, everything is going well ... I just have a little problem, the internet is very slow, (my connection is good and stable) the youtube videos are reproduced slow and with pauses, please if someone has the solution or how I can improve the video playback, I will be very grateful .... best regards to this great community ..

Does anyone know if the H20 soc RK3228A TV box is compatible with installing the multitool on eMMC? I don't think so, on the PCB the model is H20_221_V1.71_230617. I couldn't find any pads on the pcb to try to force access to the mask rom. On the forum I seem to have read about others who have had the problem of bricking this TV box, I think it is still not supported by the multitool.

HI, I'm use armbian on old rk3188 TV box. someone can help for adding support to ch34x driver? I've a module compiled for raspberry (not working) and the source code. thanks

Good afternoon, I am new at this, maybe I was not specific, excuse me, my question is if I can install armbian in a TV box that has an RK322x board, how would the procedure to install in an SD memory be, I will be very grateful if you can guide me ... thank you blessings

Can anyone help me? Need stock firmware for A95X Mini Q2 with SP6330 WiFi chip. I have instaled H96 Max firmware but wifi not working. I need stock firmware for this box. Thanks.

Again to make the following query: is it possible to install armbian on box tv with RK322x processor? And can you please send me the steps to follow to perform this installation? Thank you in advance for your support and help to this humble follower of the forum ... thank you.

i'm trying to save rk322x-config but after restarting it happens my tvbox is a R329Q_V8.0 and it looks like the card configuration is correct soc type rk3229 flash type nand led led-conf2 wifi module think is the second module but I tested both I dont know much about linux, so I apologize for the lack of information here

Hello, buddies! I have a MXQ-4K (RK322X) device and I`ve installed on it BUSTER 4.4y and choose zsh instead of bash. I would like to use it like a regular Desktop, so I could simply surf on web and write some stuff on LibreOffice. But once I command "armbian-config" then I go to system > "install desktop with browser and extras" it finishes but when I reboot the device, it doesnt start the desktop, it goes straight to the terminal, asking me to log-in Am I doing something wrong? Could please somebody help me with this?

I am running root@rk3318-box:/home/gthaker# uname -a Linux rk3318-box 6.1.50-current-rockchip64 #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 30 14:11:13 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux on a H96 TV box that I am using as ADS-B hobby receiver. Generally works great. I was curious why I can't run "hwlatdetect" on my box. I get: root@rk3318-box:/home/gthaker# hwlatdetect --duration=10s Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/hwlatdetect", line 553, in <module> detect = Tracer() File "/usr/sbin/hwlatdetect", line 324, in __init__ raise DetectorNotAvailable("hwlat", "hwlat tracer not available") __main__.Detec…

I have tried the latest image 20.11, focal and buster. System seemed running stable at first, but in a few hours, there was kernel panic which was caused by CPU. Issue happened randomly, under load or when practically idle. Is it possible u-boot i used is causing it, or is that bugger just needed to boot? I wanted to play with it and run it as a server, but sadly it's not stable enough.

Hello to everyone and greetings for the great work they do, just to tell them about the experience of having armbian, installed in my tv box, to the purpose the operating system I have installed it in a tv box, with rk322x processor, of 1gb branch and 8 storage, so far it is working with normal detail to the following: wifi: works with your own wifi, if I put external antenna (door dongle) also works the same. bluetooth: it works perfectly with outside dongle. searched by voice with external microphone (in fact the tv box, has not incorporated), works perfectly with ob-type sound card. print documents? of course, with any printer connected to the ob port. scan d…

Hello everyone, I am a new Armbian user and don't have much experience with installing Armbian (both hardware and software operations). I have an old TVBox with an RK3399 chip as shown in the attached picture. Although I have spent time searching the Internet about installing Armbian on this hardware, all my efforts have come to a dead end. So I ask for help from you to install Armbian on this hardware of mine. Thank you very much. Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

It seemed like EVERYONE was talking about "looking into" getting Armbian going on this box. I did my best. Built from the Rock5b images. WiFi: Broadcom BCM43752 / AP6275P 802.11ax "WiFi 6" Panthor + Mesa GPU stack Open PanVK Vulkan + Panfrost GL GPU driver Gpu no longer pinned to 800MHz. Power toggles cycle it 600MHz, 800MHz, and 1000MHz. (the CPU also scales) Desktop compositing on the GPU A command is needed to set monitor resolution. Default is 1080p. Other Findings: CPU frequency was scanned under load: LITTLE cores (Cortex-A55): 1800 MHz BIG cores (Cortex-A76): 2208 MHz Those were t…

I’m using an Android TV Box X96 X6. Right now, I want to find a way to install Armbian on it, but I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. I’d appreciate any help or guidance from the community.

I've installed Armbian legacy kernel 4.4.194-rk322x on a Rockchip box (RK3229, SSV6051 wireless chip). Most things have worked thus far but I've hit a major roadblock with the network interfaces. Output of nmcli shows that all devices are unmanaged (this includes ethernet). I've tried several remedies: - explicitly setting a managed connection (nmcli device set wlan0 managed yes) has no effect: the device remains unmanaged - in the file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf the option of setting devices to be managed by NM was already set to true (managed=true). I have changed this to false and back with no change in either scenario …

I got a board and want to test if it turns on at all. Is there any way to short the pins somewhere to get it to turn on? I don't have the remote but I suppose connecting the DC barrel should be enough to get some lights but nothing happens? Any help is appreciated.

Hi, I'm trying to get working sources compiled mainline 5.0.5 on beelink a1 rk3328. Kernel boots fine but I have following issue with eth (see attached png). Kernel config is like this: https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/blob/master/script/kernel/linux-5.0/files/linux-5.0-arm64-armv8.config Can somebody hint me: is this issue of 5.0.5 mainline or rather something is missing in kernel config or i.e. lacking of required kernel patch?

How can I force the resolution on these boards? My board is RK3318 (x88 pro 10) The board is not automatically getting the maximum resolution the HDMI monitor can show. Is Armbian preventing this somewhere? Can I set this somewhere I am no expert. Any help would b appreciated. u-boot? armbianEnv.txt?

I have and old tv box wifi is not regognized.i install Armbian_community_24.11.0-trunk.253_Rk322x-box_noble_current_6.6.54_xfce_desktop.img. i own tv box q9pro andowl rk3229

I'm looking for a flash for this box. 16/2 x88 pro-b-rk3318-d4-v1.2 16/2

Hello SliTaz community, I would like to know how I could install SliTaz on an Android TV box powered by a Rockchip RK3229 processor. I understand that the standard SliTaz ISO is for x86 architecture, but my device uses ARM. Is there any ARM-compatible version of SliTaz that could run on this hardware? Or is there a way to build a custom ARM rootfs with the SliTaz ARM toolchain and use it with a compatible kernel and bootloader? Any help, guidance, or example would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Good evening guy's and happy New year.......Need some help to install armbian 22.05 jammy in tvbox mxq-4k ....... I have installed successfully 21.08 buster with multitool.... When ill try to install jammy i have error...i suppose run only legacy version and not find this version......little help to fix kernel

Is there a armbian firmware for this model? Also on the case is written RK3318 user@user-Z370-HD3P:~/Downloads/Linux_Upgrade_Tool_v2.4$ rkdeveloptool ld DevNo=1 Vid=0x2207,Pid=0x320c,LocationID=101 Loader

Hi is it possible for a tvbox RK3318 with armbian OS (jammy current 5.15.35 xfce) to run an ftp server?

Hey all, anyone had any luck getting a PS3 Eye camera working with this distribution? I'm running an MXQ Pro Rockchip box, and while more modern webcams seem to be plug-n-play, I'm having no joy with the good old PS3 Eye. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello friends, I am convinced that playing videos from a browser is disappointing, it plays with poor resolution and is very slow, my query is, how to install SMTUBE, an application to play YouTube videos, please can you tell me the steps ... many Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing a recurring and very specific issue with my TX2 TV Box, with the following specifications: SoC: Rockchip RK3229 RAM: 2GB DDR3 Storage: NAND flash (not eMMC!) Board: Generic TX2 board 🛑 Main Issue The system shuts down abruptly at exactly 29 minutes and 47 seconds of uptime (i monitoring via htop). It always shuts down at this time. It’s not a clean shutdown or reboot — it behaves as if the power was cut off. No meaningful logs appear in journalctl or dmesg, and the shutdown is instantaneous and silent. 🧪 What I’ve Tried: Disabled idle and sleep functions: Masked syste…

Hello all's, after several tries, I have functional path how to install latest Armbian with functional Wifi (perfectly work) and Ethernet (semi-functional (slow speed) to emmc, on Hannspree 80-AK000001G002 Android TV Box (RK3288). !!! Use at your own risk !!! Download Multitool https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk3318/multitool.img.xz Create SD card with Multitool using balenaEtcher https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher Download old Armbian image (Armbian_21.05.0-trunk_Rk3288_focal_current_5.10.27.img.xz) from balbes150 https://mega.nz/folder/j9QSDQSQ#6WpasOlbZYIInfw6yo4phQ/file/Sw5nHADY Put image onto SD card, into images folder …

is there a solution bot H96 Max RK3528

Hi all, I have a S96 mini 4K tvbox with Rockchip 3228A and rk3228a-v30 mainboard, the emmc is a Foresee, and I don't remember the model, but I'll post it if necessary! my tvbox doesn't have the SD slot....I read the method of the tool rk developertool...I wanted to know if it is possible to start the multitool in usb...thanks!

Hi there, I’m trying to run armbian on cs918 plus tv box with rk3288 cpu. I am using image from this site for xt-q8l-v10 boards. It boots into uboot and shows Ethernet error “ethernete@ff290000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete. .. TIMEOUT” and after showing this error around ten times uboot just stucks and shows arrow. So how can i fix this error. Thanks in advance

Hello everyone this is my first thread here on the forum, I would like to know if it is possible to build an arm's archlinux image using armbian kernel.

Hi does anyone have backup of images by balbes150 from below topic? All the links seems to point to a dead end. Even the web archive has nothing so would be grateful if anyone could provide the images. Thanks!

hi, i recently discovered the world of linux in arm, so i wanted to test it, so i can use my retro tv to emulate, i already tried libreELEC and it worked flawlessly, but it had a lot of constrainsts so i installed armbian, first multiboot didnt showed up any image on my tv so i switched to my secondary monitor on my pc and i tworks, i wonder if theres a posibility that armbian could support composite output on the rk3229 platform

sorry my box tv is burned Hello , I got out my old cs918 1GB Ram 8GB Rom RK3188 with rtl8201 rj45 and rtl8723 wifi i search armbian img for this , no desktop just console does it still exist ? if where i can dowload ? thank you

Hello, I have a rk322x TV box. I installed multitool on it. I put the armbain img file in the images file. A black screen appears when the TV box boots