Rockchip CPU Boxes

Hello, I do have a X88 and stopped working, only red light, and nothing else. After watching many videos on Youtube, found that there was a semiconductor getting really hot, and there is a short on in/out. I am sure there is a replacement for that, but the problem is that I cannot find the part number or anything. Attached, picture with a circle on that. Anyone have any idea which semiconductor is that ? This is 5 PIN (3+2). Appreciated it.

Iam a new user to this forum and tv box. As iam interested to run Linux in stb I bought one. Hope the senior members will guide me in the right direction. Pics of my tv box. Device picture Pcb Front Pcb back Just now got shipment from bangood the h96max Android tv box with rk3318 chip. First thing after booting Android from the box, is to open the box took the pics of the pcb front and back. I have been following this forum and noted the mistakes in general users, and not taking backup and difficult in finding pads for maskrom. 1. Where is the pads to short for maskrom mode. 2. Th…

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 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…

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

Hi I have an HK1 MAX with RK3218 CPU. I tried to install Armbian with multitool. I erased the flash from multitool flashed Armbian and the board won't boot at all It doesn't boot from an sd card and when I press the reset button is not entering mask mode, it is just stuck with the red light on Is 100% dead or is anything I can do?

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

🏆 Become a sponsor, help to add other boards in armbian standart, you don't need to be a programmer to help the community, just need a copy of the ARM BOARD and a x86 computer to compile new versions. If you like what you see here and want to help: Donate Armbian the like button only costs a few dollars. This Armbian adventure was summarized in my Public Github Repository. H96 MAX V56 RK3566 8gb EMMC Ning Mainline Kernel: Armbian EMMC official image Armbian Desktop Gnome kernel The Latest official Debian BookWorm Server Kernel Minimal The Latest official Software description: …

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.

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…

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'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…

Hi all, and thanks for your incredible work I just received an "X98k pro" tvbox (sold as rk3566 4gb/32gb ) from T*** The box arrives already rooted. Outside : blue info lcd display --> Sdcard ; usb2.0/OTG ; usb2.0 ; usb 3.x --> Optical SPDIF, HDMI , hole marked "UPDATE" , power (5v 2A); external antenna female. -> EMPTY SIDE What's Inside the black box SOC : Rockchip RK3566 RAM : 8 Micron Technology (MT) D9QBJ memory chips Wireless : RTL8822cs Ethernet : RTL8211F eMMC : SanDisk China 32G Front lcd display controller : AIP1628 TTL rx tx gnd Device Info HW 5.23 and CPU-z confirm it's a rk3566 4/32, mali…

During software installation it went dead and now pc is not detecting it. Kindly tell me pins to short in circuit to bring it back to detection

I Have an A96X with rockchip RK3228 and i tried booting armbian on it, but I got no display on HDMI. I connected a serial adapter to it and here is the information it displays when trying to boot: ▒▒▒▒DDR Version V1.05 20160805_dbg In 300MHz DDR3 Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=1024MB mach:2 OUT Boot1 Release Time: 2016-03-15, version: 2.31 ChipType = c 275 No.1 FLASH ID:2c 64 44 4b a9 0 ECC:60 SdmmcInit=0 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=76f5000 FwPartOffset=2000 , 0 StorageInit ok = 1520008 SecureMode : SBOOT_MODE_NS hdr 0x0:ff a1 0 0 1b 0 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:a4 81 0 0 4e 23 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr …

I have an MK802 IV (rk3188). I read the entire forum, but couldn't figure out how to run Armbian from an SD card. Can someone write a detailed instruction. Or is it still not possible to run Armbian on this device?

I downloaded this image ( Armbian_21.05.1_Rk322x-box_focal_current_5.10.34_xfce_desktop.img) and placed it in the images folder in multitool, and it worked perfectly on my mxqpro 4k rk3229,but now how do i do if i want to run the same image but by sd card ? i dont want to lose my android installed in emmc/nand, could someone do a step by step please?

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

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…

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 everyone, i am impressed by the great knowledge found in this forum. I have been playing for years with a Bealik SEA I tv box with, with great results: a rooted Android system a full Ubuntu distribution 20.04 running in chroot environment kodi v17 android verrsion Recently I bought a X88 pro 10 box (4gb ram and 64gb rom) and started playing with armbian, and I will use this thread to record my progress with this box, still not working at 100% of its capabilities. Using multitool I am able to load and start images on the box, did several install and was able to boot and run: Armbian_23.11.1_Rk3318-box_ja…

Yo guys Recently I've aventured myself into building and installing Arch Linux ARM on my RK3229 MXQ 4K box. It works! Running mainline kernel and U-Boot! Does anyone else tried it or want to? I'm thinking about writing a walkthrough or kinda. This is my first topic here in the forum Thanks for reading this! :)

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?

Hello everyone, I’m new to this forum and I’m currently trying to restore a device that is not booting properly. The device is stuck with the red and blue indicator lights, and there is no further activity. The device does not seem to boot or respond normally. Could someone please guide me on how to diagnose and restore this device? I would appreciate any information about the correct recovery procedure, boot mode, firmware restoration, or the appropriate tools/software that I should use. I’m still a beginner, so please explain the procedure step by step if possible. Thank you very much for your help and guidance. 🙏

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

Hi Jock (Paolo) I had sent a private message, but later I saw many messages from Charles Bauer, heading a project where I am also involved. Here, we are receiving some hundreds of TV BOX, MXQ PRO, model 3228A (probably 1 of RAM and 8 of ROM) and with the task to transform it a Linux machine. Well, this task requires some scalability to do this conversion following a methodology. What I had thought: 1. Install the ARMBIAN in one these box, and configure it with all desired customizations 2. Do a back-up of this box using the Multitool (option for backup) I saw that the Multitool did a copy of whole eMMC (or NAND) memory... resulting in a file…

try to run kiauh to run klipper i get an error when i try to update system arbian update the repository no longer has a release.also i install python 3 and i get an error that i need to install python3 .i install arbian using this https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk322x/armbian/stable/ and follow this guide https://forum.armbian.com/topic/34923-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-box-boards/ maybe the arbian image i downloaded is very old which one you suggesrt me for my old tv box to install

Hello, I have H96 Max TV box with RK3528 chip (4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, Android 13, build RZX.V01.20240924). Board: RK3528_DDR3_8X4_V12. Problem: Box does not boot from TF card at all. No HDMI output, no DHCP lease, nothing. What I have: TF card slot on the box 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port No serial/UART adapter (DEBUG header visible on PCB but not connected) Android 13 still working on EMMC ADB access with root What I tried: Built Armbian with BOARD=rk3528-tvbox BRANCH=legacy BUILD_MINIMAL=yes RELEASE=trixie Extracted DTB from Android boot partition, added to image Wrote image to TF card with dd Verified RKNS header at sector 64 - correc…

I am trying to make bluetooth and wireless working on my board base on rk3328 I am able to boot the board and wired network work i am able to ssh to the board. everything seems to work well except : Wifi / Bluetooth Front led For now i will concentrate on the wifi / bluetoot I can clearly see the wifi chip : RTL8723CS on the board. even if rk3318-config show RTL8703bs Detected board features: x x Chip type: RK3328 - Serial: URKXXXXXx 0000000003242e x x CPU Leakage: 0x0d - Logic Leakage: 0x0b - CPU Version: 0x1 x x Internal flash: eMMC x…

Hi, I need help identifying the Maskrom/eMMC short points for an RK3528 TV box. Device: - TV box sold as H20 Pro - SoC confirmed as Rockchip RK3528 - Board marking: M16-R6B-L3-V1.0-260121 - RAM detected in Linux: 963 MiB - eMMC detected in Linux: 7.83 GB / 7.30 GiB - eMMC name from Linux: P1J95K - eMMC CID: fe014e50314a39354b12739109744200 What happened: - The box originally booted Android from eMMC. - Armbian booted successfully from SD using a customized joilg/x88pro-based image. - Later I wrote U-Boot/idbloader to eMMC: - idbloader.img at sector 64 - u-boot.itb at sector 16384 - After reboot, the board no longer boots from S…

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…

I got an Armbian image from this thread. The image works wonderful, the only thing I would like to do is to install the system to the internal NAND of the device. I have something simillar to Minix Neo x7 mini, with RK3188 SoC. As I say, the image works perfectly, I just wanna know if there's any way to transfer that image directly onto the internal NAND so I don't have to use the SD card. If you need anything I can provide, I will try my best to get it and post it here. Thanks for any future response. Peace

Hello everyone, I have an old POS machine that uses the Rockchip RK3288 processor. It has a 1920x1080 screen and works fine, but I don’t have any root or bootloader unlock permissions. I would like to flash Armbian on it and make better use of the device. So far I’ve tried: ADB access (only recovery available) Tried using adb reboot bootloader, but the device just powers off Identified some test points like KEY, T3, T2, T52, T51, but not sure which one is for MaskROM shorting Found no physical recovery button, only a reset and power button There might be a UART port, but I’m not sure 👉 Can someone please help me: Identify …

Hi all, Firstly I want to state this this post in not about an Armbian device. I am posting here though, as it seems to be one of the most relevant places that I can find. Also, I want to commend the help and engagement that seems to be offered here, it reminds me of a good old fashion forum (clearly I have been spending far too much time on Reddit lately..) haha Ok, so the situation is - I have an Android e-reader tablet that is powered by a RK3566 chipset. Upon tinkering I got it stuck in a bootloop, then in my efforts to "fix" it I deleted the userdata partition (via fastboot) and now the computer doesn't even detect the device at all. I now bel…

Hi guys I have been at this for a week now. I came up with an idea to use MXQ pro tv box for my 3d printers as I am running klipper. Keep in mind I have klipper installed and it works perfect. But in order to make things easier I need wifi the internal ethernet is working perfect. I have a few beaglebone blacks that i used for another project I used wifi dongles with them and tried to install the driver on the rk3228 box but keeps on getting the following error. v24.11 rolling for rk322x-box running Armbian Linux 6.11.4-edge-rockchip Packages: Debian stable (bookworm) Support: for advanced users (rolling release)…

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 everyone! I'm new to the community, so please excuse me if my question seems silly. I'm following the topic template: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/34923-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-box-boards/ My TV box has NAND memory and I'm having trouble downloading an ISO with the legacy kernel (ideal for NAND memory). Could you please help me?

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 all! I want to build home server on the this tvbox (H96 max) I already burned the minimal version to emmc and its work fine. But wifi no (and led display too, but its no mater ) img and instruction was geting in: I want to fix wifi problem, but not know from what I should to begin I have information: Multitool write in the header : Wifi device: Broadcom BCM4334/Ampack ap6334 id:02d0:4334 but wlan0 device not exists dmesg | grep bcm: * * * brcmfmac:brcfm_fw_alloc_request: unknow chip bcm43342/1 I tried to move firmWare like in but it not give me some result :( If …

CPU : RK3566 / Mali-G52 GPU RAM : 2GB/4GB LPDDR4 ROM : eMMC 16G/32G/64G Bluetooth : BT 5.0 DC In : DC 5V/2A USB Host : 2 High speed USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0 Card Reader : TF Card reader Lan : RJ45 Ethernet port 1GiB Wifi : Built-in Wifi, 802.1.1b/g/n/ac ; 2.4G/5G SPDIF : Coaxial(Optical) DTB: rk3566-slzn.dtb

Hello everyone! I'm using this patch set from github to run armbian on x88pro13 (which has RK3528 with Mali 450 MP2). Everything seems to work fine (even wifi), but i'm not able to enable hw acceleration on kodi interface (it shows llvmpipe, so it's sw rendering) Do you have any hints on how to do that? Because at the moment i get 80% cpu just for the kodi gui. Thanks!

Hello i got a Android TV X88PRO 20 Ultra HD 8K (X88PRO-RK3566.4D32-v1.0), with RAM 8G, and ROM 128G. MALI G52. Id like to install Linux on it but i'm not sure what firmware would run on it. I understand most RK356 firmwares would work; but where should i start? Is there a guide for new people? I have enough knowledge to follow instructions in a linux pc and any guidelines would help a lot. i just want a stable linux to run some services from it. I did found an old post that had some files that seem to be dead links now. Thanks for your time. pd added some images in case is interesting to someone. I guess i can make a back up of the …

which pin connected to WIFI_WAKE_HOST and which pin connected to WIFI_REG_ON. wireless-wlan { compatible = "wlan-platdata"; rockchip,grf = <&grf>; wifi_chip_type = "ap3300"; sdio_vref = <1800>; WIFI,host_wake_irq = <&gpio? ? GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; status = "okay"; };