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Hi there, I am very new here and would like to install Linux on my BOX Beelink GT king. I only read very little about the S922 and couldn't find out any correct information. Can you help me with the image and DTB I need? Thanks.

Hi everyone! Firstly sorry if this question is too basic or already had a solution in other topic, but I couldn't found the answer I'm looking for and I'm new to Armbian. But let's go... We have a standalone system here that plays videos all day long. That kind of "internal TV" from the company, where they put news and other things someone judge it's interesting. It works pretty well so far for roundly 10 years. Thing is: it relies on regular PCs! As you may know, they're big and has bigger energy consumption than this amazing TV Box. During a meeting someone came up with the idea of replacing it for something sm…

Hello, I've just buy a MX10PRO 6K tv box from Aliexpress. In the specs there is written that in an allwinner h6. Which distro could I download and install, please?

hi @all! i find this site by accidentally looking a youtube video named "install ubuntu on a 40$ amlogic tv-box"... ubuntu on the android box, you are great!!! this is what i need and what i like to have for my box too! so i start to try run armbian on my XBII, gangbangdoo TV-box 2017, amlogic s905, yesterday, in the evening. i downloaded the latest version ubuntu mate, install it, and all works fine - until i set the new root pwd. then i get the following message error found when loading /root/.profile: ttyname failed inappropriate ioctl for device as a result the session will not be configured correctly. you should fix the probl…

Looks like an interrupt was encountered during startup.This is the TTL startup log. reading u-boot.ext 650183 bytes read in 376 ms (1.6 MiB/s) ## Starting application at 0x01000000 ... [BL31]: tee size: 0 [BL31]: tee size: 0 [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034] [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.9.0-arm-64 (root@vbox) (aarch64-none-linux-gnu-gcc (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 9.2-2019.12 (arm-9.10)) 9.2.1 20191025, GNU ld (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 9.2-2019.12 (arm-9.10)) 2.33.1.20191209) #20.10 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 14 12:04:42 MSK 2020 [ 0.000000] Machine model: Amlogic Meson GXL …

Hi, I am working on support for running Armbian on the RKM MK39 (based on the Rockchip RK3399 SOC) Strange issue with uboot and I'm wondering if others had encountered the same thing on other RK3399 devices with eMMC I have successfully compiled the kernel and uboot from Rockchips SDK at http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Linux_user_guide Uboot loads but thats it, it seems like it can't find the kernel on my eMMC. Here's what happens on the serial console: Any ideas?? Spoiler U-Boot 2017.09-01593-gd80d7b5 (Jun 19 2018 - 14:39:51 +0800) …

With many users here in this forum owning different SoCs, dev boards and TV boxes, i wonder which one would be recommended to be used as a simple desktop with HW support for GUI. I have one S905 in my mind, but not sure if mali-450 is supported with balbes150 images.

Hi, I plan on running octoprint on my Amlogic S912 china android box. Now I need to connect a filament runout sensor via gpio, in a octoprint plugin one specifies the used pins. Unfortunately my device has no dedicated gpio header built in, so I want to ask: Is there a way (that maybe works easily with armbian) to have gpio somehow? Like some usb stick with gpio on it that can forward gpio in and output? I have a pi zero lying around and found this https://github.com/raspberrypi/gpioexpander/wiki where some pigpio library is mentioned. But no idea if or how this could work on an Amlogic box. Any ideas?

Hello! Hopefully someone got ideas or a working, booting .img. I got an CS918 box, which is based on the rk3188 system. i already played around with probably the most common tools on linux (rkflashkit, upgrade tool ...) Unfortunately there are some dead download links out there, so i cannot download the most interesting img files. I'd prefer a debian img, but ubuntu will do the job too. I also tried out some steps from the "morrison-project" with its interesting scripts, but it didnt work yet. Thank you for any ideas and links. Greetings CS918

Been at this for a few days now and am slowly losing my mind. Got a MQX Amlogic 905 P201. (CS_905MXQ_V1.0) and have been running Armbian for a while now off SD card using meson-gxbb-p201.dtb without any issues. Using Armbian_5.84_Aml-s905_Debian_stretch_default_5.1.0-rc1_20190507 Tried installing to emmc by running install.sh. Everything looked good but rebooted and found the device was bricked. Managed to get it working again by running the usb burning tool and flashing MXQ PRO 4K - p201 - android TV (ATV) - by cOOLio. SoI can at least boot into it and browse the SD card, but now for some reason I can't boot directly back in…

Hello all, I have a box with a S905x that I've been able to get to boot using @balbes150 image: Armbian_5.71_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.20.2_20190118.img Which I found at https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei Everything works (as far as I know) except for the WIFI. I cracked the device open and have identified the wifi chip as S9082C. I've done a fair bit of searching on the web and in the forums and I've found people having issues with this wifi module, but no solutions. I have also tried installing LibreELEC and found that it recognises and uses the wifi right from the start. I tried copying the dtb.…

Hey all. Does anyone know what image i need to get armbian working on this Android TV box? GOMYHOM TV Box Android 7.1 V9 Smart Box Amlogic S912 Octa Core 3GB RAM 32GB ROM H.265 3D 4K HD 2.4G/5G Dual Band Wi-Fi BT4.0 Link here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075S14NCN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Pictures of board here: https://forum.freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s912/660970-vasteyu-v9-s912-tv-box-android-7-3-32-dual-wifi-bt I have already tried this image on my box: Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_buster_legacy…

Hi there, I'm new to these boards and armbian. I've checked the forums but i have some questions that can be also helpfull for other peoples. 1) hardware specs My board (You can see there https://ibb.co/ZSbw62q) is a AM_MXQ_A 20150825 i can see on the board these chips: - MAIN CPU => AMLOGIC S8005 - GPU => ???? - WIFI => REALTEK IC RTL8189ETV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R - (S)DRAM => 2X HYNIX DDR3 H5TQ4G63AFR-PBC 4Gb x16 x1 1600 29nm FBGA96 √ (792MHz) √ (636MHz) - STORAGE (NAND) => SANDISK MLC SDTNRGAMA-008GK 8GB 1 40bit /1024B 1ynm TSOP48 Note 1 Why ram is 1gb if there are 2x4gb on board?? Are also used…

Hey guys. I need around 10-20 SBC or TV Boxes that can run Armbian. I only need Ethernet support, Wi-Fi and BT isn't required, but I'd like something stable that doesn't overheat. I'll be running Docker on them, is that an issue on Armbian? This can be a deal breaker for me. 2GB/16GB boxes would be the best option if I can flash armbian to the EMMC in board, requiring no SD card to boot, thus minimizing costs. I've seen that the Tanix TX3 Mini is stable and the 2GB/16GB unit is at around 25€, but this is a bit much. I managed to buy some RK3318 2GB/16GB boxes in the past for 18€, but they're gone. I've also seen the HK1 Mini, which uses…

Hi all, I am writing because i took the AMLogic Project to get deeper in Linux. First of all @balbes150 and to every Armbian Developer : GREAT F()/"§! WORK! I used the " ARMBIAN 5.32 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.14.0-rc2-next-20170929-amlogics905x" So let's get to the point. $dmesg | grep brcm .. [ 10.139138] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x16044330 [ 10.140995] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_map_chip_to_name: using brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin for chip 0x004330(17200) rev 0x000004 .. SO actually this is telling me there is a special wifi driver mapped. I was not able to find the mapping. Even not in the decompiled dtb . …

I have checked all the images provided and they all integrate the mali driver r5p1, is it possible to have an image with a more recent driver r6p1 or r7p0 for kernel based 3.14.29 ? When I try to integrate one of the mentioned driver version , I got a lot of compiling errors . Thanks for help,

Can someone please validate the steps I am going to do is correct or does it need any changes. Please experts let me know if any changes is required to the below steps. https://github.com/150balbes/Amlogic_s905/wiki Root of s9xxx (S905 S905X S912) https://yadi.sk/d/srrtn6kpnsKz2 https://yadi.sk/d/srrtn6kpnsKz2/Linux/ARMBIAN/5.64/20181019 Step 1: From the above link download the file Armbian_5.64_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181019.img.xz Step 2: Unzip file using 7zip in windows 7zip => Armbian_5.64_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181019.img.xz = Armbian_5…

good evening, I wanted to install armbian (desktop version) on an android box (x96 mini) ... reading here and there on various forums I saw that they managed to install it, but I (following the various steps) am having several problems. can I ask you step by step the procedures to follow? thanks

Hi All, I'm using Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20171226.img image file on an amlogic S912 board. That image doesn't have a usblp module compiled in the kernel. Does anyone can tell me where I can find the kernel used on that image and the .config file with the used options so I can compile the usblp module to use on it? Thanks a lot.

This is an adaptation of something @SteeMan wrote in this post, but we need to refer to it often enough that I thought I would make it into a sticky. Amlogic (S9xx) Android based TV Boxes 1. They are not supported. 2. A single developer (@balbes150) had worked years on getting things to the state they are. 3. As of October 14th, 2020 balbes150 removed support for Amlogic CPUs, so that is the last build that will maybe work on your box. 4. There is a very small number of people on this forum/club that are able to provide any guidance. 5. Most likely no one on this forum/club has ever seen your specific box. 6. Expectations should be set low (i…

Hello everyone, I would like to build an updated Armbian image for balbes150's arm-64 implementation. Image family found here: https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/ I have started some work on my personal armbian branch here: https://github.com/SLAzurin/build-armbian-custom/tree/arm64tv Currently, I'm not sure about my progress, there were times I was able to build an image, but the machine wouldn't boot successfully. (using xdarklight's kernel files https://github.com/xdarklight/linux/tree/meson-mx-integration-5.14-20210718) At most, it would boot into u-boot, and then hang after trying to start the Linux kernel. When I try using balbes1…

I install armabian success on SD card and make guid : https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-install-to-emmc-nand-sata-usb but error command not found I used armbian : Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_20200205.img.xz Can current armbian be installed on eMMC? please help me .

Hi, I have purchased The Magicsee N6 Max android box, and I was trying to put armbian on it. Where can I find the steps needed for this? Is there any prebuilt images I can use? I tried to use https://github.com/rockchip-linux/tools/tree/master/linux/Linux_Upgrade_Tool with an SD card but I wasn't following any steps so now the boards doesn't boot anymore. Thanks

Hello all, I buy an another box tv ( ... do not laugh please ... it's only my 3 .... ) A K3 pro with S912 aml soc ( 8 cores = 4c a53 at 1.5ghz plus 4c a53 core at 1 ghz, 3G Ram and 16 G Flash ) with a DVB T2 and DVB S2 tuner ( find promotion at 60 $ ) I play with android 7.1.1 and use ffmpeg , i make an transcode : ( French Channel M6 in DVB T2 in 1920x1080 ) ffmpeg -i http://192.168.1.50:8001/+1:0:19:401:4:20FA:EEEE0000:0:0:0 -s 320x240 /tmp/test.mp4 and speed ( without hardware decoder / encoder , only software ) give : Speed 1x !!! ( my other S905W with 4 cores in same test give Speed 0.65 ) So test last libreele…

How to boot armbian for S912 when EMMC Data is lost (no Factory Rom to flash) I want to boot armbian Amlogic S912 By No booloder,recovery,etc... in EMMC THank you Very Much

Does anyone have an opinion on what the best Kodi streaming box is? I've browsed through Amazon, just wondering if anyone had a more qualified opinion. There seems to be an almost infinite selection of choices.

Ok guys looking for some help on shutting down issue. I installed Armbian_5.90_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190701.img.xz using S905.p212.dtb two days ago. It was logging ADC errors in the kernel log every three seconds but they have gone now , it is now logging the errors below in the kernel log and ttyS0 errors in the syslog and kernel log as well. I disabled the ttyS0 service to stop it logging all the time and around 25 minutes later it shutdown, There are no errors in the kernel log apart from the ones below. It was stable for 1.5 days until I disabled the ttyS0. It keeps shutting down every 25 minutes but was st…

I installed Armbian_5.60_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.18.7 to the EMMC of my s905x TV Box , so far so good . Yesterday I trimmed some drivers and built the kernel successfully . The following packages are generated with armbian build tool : linux-dtb-aml-s9xxx_5.60_arm64.deb linux-headers-aml-s9xxx_5.60_arm64.deb linux-libc-dev-aml-s9xxx_5.60_arm64.deb linux-image-aml-s9xxx_5.60_arm64.deb linux-source-default-aml-s9xxx_5.60_all.deb I am going to ssh into my box and run "dpkg -i " commands to update kernel . Is it safe to do so while Armbian is running ?

Is there an Android TV box that can successfully run Armbian? I got two boxes on the hopes that it would work but I failed in my efforts so far 1. X98: I found out that Linux kernel doesn't have the .dtb files for this box so it won't work for now. Maybe I can derive it from S905W but I haven't tried it yet. 2. X96-Air: I could run Armbian [1] on the SD card but when I tried to install it on the eMMC, it stopped booting altogether. Now it won't even boot with SD card inserted. Is there an Android box which supports 5GHz wifi that can definitely run Armbian? Thanks! [1]: I used a release from a person that uses Ar…

Hi TV boxes hackers, We are thinking of re-purposing an existing Android TV box into a $30 personal cyber-security monitoring server for your home. Good or terrible idea? What caveats should we pay attention to? We will order directly from the manufacturer so we should be able to save some money (no need for a remote or an HDMI cable) and ensure they all use the same components. Giving the current chip shortage, it is though to reach a $30 price point without being creative... (we won't take any profit on the hardware) The project will be open source (no code yet). Current status: Armbian running on RK3318 -…

Hi all, I have a Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos box that I am running armbian 5.76 using an SD card. This works fine, however I would like to boot from a USB to SATA converter instead. It is using a JMicron jms578 which works once Linux has booted however attempting to probe USB devices it prints an error. Is there any way I can make my drive work? I am using the stock Amlogic U-boot, version information also printed below. gxb_p200_v1#usb reset board_usb_stop cfg: 0 (Re)start USB... USB0: dwc_usb driver version: 2.94 6-June-2012 USB (0) peri reg base: c0000000 USB (0) use clock source: XTAL input, div: 1 USB (0) base addr: 0xc9000000 Force …

hello, I managed to install Armbian on an android box. but I can not have a sound I wanted to know how to find the driver to install. thank you

Hi! I saw that, even if not officially supported, there is a lot of discussion about armbian on tv boxes. I read that amlogic ones are not really a good choice and rockchip and allwinner ones should be the right choice instead. I am thinking to buy a tv box to play with armbian, you know...for fun! But I am quite undecided. Would be an Allwinner H6 the best option or should I buy something with a Rockchip 3229, 3288 or 3388? And moreover, what would be the best choice and why between the Rockchip ones? I have already read the thread "Status of Armbian on TV Boxes - Please Read First" but at the moment there are no informations regarding Rockchip and Allwinner.

I have a samsumg evo sdcard, one of the tops in performance according to So trying this with very slow sd cards probably wont produce a benefit Im using balbes 5.55 armbian I installed a swapfile with 2G , with sudo apt-get install dphys-swapfile sudo vim /etc/dphys-swapfile look for #CONF_SWAPSIZE= and change for CONF_SWAPSIZE=2000 then restart the system or sudo dphys-swapfile swapon It can take seconds (in my samsung evo) or 20 minutes (on an old kingston and raspberry pi running raspbian), so dont worry if it takes half hour the fir…

Hello, i'm trying to burn with balena etcher but my sd card is unreadable with my macbook at the end of burn. I tested all versions from /armbian/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive. Is there any instructions to burn? thanks

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Hi there, I can't seem to be able to download the files for the Beelink X2, looks like dead links. Any other place I could look for them? Thanks.

Hi. I need restore emm in tv Box with sx905x2. I need help, I doubts Emmc.IMG.7z has 2.13 GB compressed The image uncompressed has 31.27 GB. What file should use? The methods is with USB Burning tool? I need confirm (sorry for my English, is ver bad) Thanks

my box is a H96 pro plus TV box, installed Armbian 23.08.0-trunk Lunar. was working well stand alone, had ethernet and wifi, I decided make use of this box as a network-bridge I wanted to connect a 3d printer that only has ethernet to wifi, just to transfer files. so finding instructions on this (reverse network bridge?) was difficult, some say's it can't be done, found one person said he just did it but was for a rpi I think using dhcpcd. but anyways when I installed dhcpcd it removed nmcli and now my wifi is disconnected and ethernet is no longer listed. still messing with it to see if I can get it back, but I attached the script he gav…

Hey guys, i don't know if it's a stupid question but, i'm trying to install KDE on my box (KI pro) under Ubuntu (Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20171212.img) if possible, can you show me how ? thanks

Hello all! And no by an old arm box I don't mean a box full of proshetic limbs! :-) . I'm referring to this device: http://rikomagic.co.uk/linux_mini_pcs.html https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/09/25/rikomagic-announces-mk902ii-le-ubuntu-mini-pc-powered-by-rockchip-rk3288-soc/ The device was badged as a "RKM Mk902II" and claims to have a rk3288. Dug it out today (it has sat unused and untouched for quite a while). Found that its plsatic box which has that strange gunk that is applied to to the box to make it look "shiny" has started to break down so it has become sticky. Anyway since I am clearing things out …

So, i managed to .... my box A95X, S905X, 2GB/16GB, I wrongly flashed to the internal the sd-card variant u-boot bin from the original firmware, on the serial console all i see is looping this message "EMMC:0;VEAD:0;CHK:AA;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:7" Anyone can advice on what do to next (beside the obvious "buy another one") ? Thank you.

So I Bought a tv stick and used it on a tv off and on over the years and at one point wanted to run Linux on it and see if I could get it to recognize a usb network card and run asterisk or something. i tried all sorts of things gave up. Its been a long while now I still have this and a A10S version and I have scoured the internet trying to find some sort of support. Heck of alot of support for diffrent A10 a20 stuff but almost nothing for the MK802 tv stick. I think i bought mine when they first came out. Can someone give me a link or push me in the right direction. i would love to run Arbian on it. i am a huge Debian fan I run all my servers for clients on De…

Hi , Thanks for developing armbian , i try very image of armbian but no success in boot . I Accidental found the image and it was booted successfully on x96mini but another image won't booted. why ? i use official armbian was not booted i use amlogic-s9xxx-armbian github repo was not booted. why top image wasn't boot but booted successfully on x96-mini ?

I would try that but I tried flashing a rom for it and now I keep getting a disk error at 7%.... This is the file I'm trying to flash: https://mega.nz/#!VnhjTSYa!t6w10yz0zXHFCRugsvZJibyjISz_g7uN-jAJp9OVKZI Also tried: s905w_atvXperience_v2FF the above link worked and flash sucsessfully but I can't boot it, the box doesn't show anything on my TV. tried multiple too. I keep getting a disc write error???????????????? How long does android take to boot after a successful flash? This is the error: I've tried Windows 10 and Windows 7; both the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is …

Hi guys, I hava just installed Amlogic into TX3 mini, but dont have sound. I tried some versions (Armbian_20.09_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.8.7.img.xz, Armbian_20.05.0_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.6.0-rc4_desktop_20200314.img.xz, Armbian_5.77_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.0.2_20190401.img.xz), but no sound for all of those versions. Could you please help me ?

Hello to all; These are VERY exciting days for me as I installed ARMBIAN 5.37 on my s-805 MXQ box and its running beautiful! Thanks for all that made it happen. There is but one issue where I need some help: Running ARMBIAN 5.37 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 3.10.99, the system is unable to find my wifi adapter. Any help in how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Eddy_T, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hello, I'm running ARMBIAN aarch64 on H96 Pro Plus (S912 with Mali T820) 3gb ram I have built new Mesa 20 with Panfrost support ,all is fine but NO OpenGL 3 support at all, just until 2. Is there a reason ? From what I know Mali T820 should be capable of GL3. Is there a new driver to be installed ? PS I boot using the following dtb meson-gxm-q200.dtb or meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb Thanks

Hi. I am trying to connect a bluetooth speaker that also has a microphone to armbian. When using it as a plain speaker via A2DP, it works fine. However when i switch it to HSP/HFP in order to use the microphone, i get a lot of static, random crackling and very low volume on both the microphone and the speaker. Using a usb bluetooth adapter for this. I've used the same adapter + speaker on a different machine (x86 running lubuntu 19.10) and i did not have any static at all when using HSP/HFP (sound was indeed a bit lower quality that A2DP but nothing major). Also i could not get the speaker to switch to HSP/HFP with the default audio tool in armbian desktop, nor on …

Hi, I bought x96mini with 2G RAM and 16G emmc and booting to android works fine. I want to run armbian on it so I followed this post: https://blog.danman.eu/bricking-and-unbricking-vontar-x96-mini/ to solder serial console. Aftre plugging to pc and starting minicom I cannot see any info out of serial console. Does anybody experience similar or something else must be done to have output on serial console? Thanks a lot. Marek

Hi, Can someone explain to me, How to compile à driver for my tvbox. The WiFi chip is ssv6051 and my tvbox is x96mini with s905w processor. I have installed armbian from balbes version 5.91 debian desktop. thank you very much.

As I have been watching the development of Armbian for TV boxes, there is one area that my needs haven't been addressed yet. And since this is open source that means I needed to read a lot of posts and get into the code to understand how things are working. I have been doing that over the last six months or so and wanted to report back on what I am now doing to solve my issue as it may help others. I have a number of TV boxes running as headless servers for a variety of projects. Once I install Armbian on them I then get OS updates through ubuntu (I am using Ubuntu Bionic on my boxes). That gives me bug fixes and patches for the software running on these b…

Hi, I've just tried mainline kernel 4.19 with my two TV boxes and first impression is wow! it works! It's faster than expected! Thanks! With Magicsee N5 I can't access the internal eMMC. I use factory bootloder, meson-gxl-s905x-p212 dtb, released 4.19 kernel. I got: root@lepotato:~# dmesg|grep mmc [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyAML0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 [ 0.979648] meson-gx-mmc d0070000.mmc: Linked as a consumer to regulator.2 [ 0.985812] meson-gx-mmc d0070000.mmc: Linked as a consumer to regulator.1 [ 0.992676] meson-gx-mmc d0070000.mmc: Dropping the link to regulator.1 [ 0.999184] meson-gx-mmc d0070000…

i have stb with s905x , ram 2gb with essencore brand, 8gb emmc essencore. after install armbian with mason_gxl_p212.dtb it boot fine. the problem is system only can use 1gb at max and the system start to unresponsive. while the free -m still see available 800mb free. how to make the system can use all available ram?

I couldn't find anything on the web, I looked everywhere. With the dd command I can of course create a complete image of the eMMC anywhere, even on a network path, but I can't find anything that allows me to do what the "nand-sata-install.sh" script does, which formats the eMMC and populates it with all the contents of the MicroSD, appropriately adapting some files needed for booting. It would be many useful to be able to do the exact opposite as well, i.e. clone eMMC to MicroSD, which would be useful to have a bootable backup with all the customizations performed on the eMMC, without having to go through the process of creating an image file. I tried modifying the …

I know that this topic actually concerns all ARM boards, but I've chosen to post in TV-boxes, because they really need some kind of harddisk attachment, especially when used as servers (so you don't wear down the SD-card). Some time ago, Western Digital made a USB-drive, which was specially designed for the Raspberry Pi. https://www.wdc.com/en-ie/search-results.html?q=pidrive Personally I'm using two 1TB WD-blue with my CubieBoard2, because the CubieBoard2 has buit-in S-ATA interface. But TV-boxes usually don't have S-ATA, so the PiDrive is an option worth considering. What's special about this drive ? At a glance, nothing really. It's…

using bionic, eoan & focal on x96max+2 (meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb) y always get a cyan background as shown in attached image: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VmgmZ5nCSkYKnPgR7 solved!, writing from the device, just renamed u_boot.sd to u_boot.ext and it worked

Hello there! after some tinkering i finally managed to boot Armbian_20.09_Arm-64_buster_current_5.8.10 from SD on my X96 box, using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb Now i want to install to eMMC and i learned that sudo /root/install-aml.sh should take care of that. From what i understand i also need to copy u-boot.ext and name it u-boot.sd (although im not sure if that applies to my situation) After doing those steps and booting with sd card removed, i am getting the following: I tried to search for answers, but i'm completely lost. I dont have a lot of linux experience, let alone armbian. If someone could point…

Hi, i have a Flow fon F1 (Gearbest) with allwinner H6 and i've been trying to put a linux working with it. Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks.

Hello, Is there an easy way to migrate from python 3.7.3 to python 3.8 ? Thanks in advance for your help. Cordially. Ricardo Ps: my configuration. Hardware : X96 Mini, SOC: Amlogic S905W, CPU: ARM Cortex-A53, RAM: 2GB DDR3, e-MMC: 16GB Build : Armbian_20.07_Arm-64_buster_current_5.7.9.img.xz OS: Armbian Buster with Linux 5.3.0-aml-g12 - aarch64 Software: Home Assistant 2021.1.4

Hi, I own a mxq pro 4k 2gb ram, 16 gb emmc. Yesterday evenning i installed armbian on it. Linux amlogic 3.14.29 #150 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 26 16:55:23 MSK 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux On sd it was ok only with mxq_s905.dtb file, so i writted on emmc But this evening my box is very slow, long time to have an answer on ssh terminal. I tried to reboot... with TOP cpu is 2% charged/occupied...nothing what should i checked? Thanks A frenchie

Hello, i am youness from morocoo It is possible to use X96 Q TV Box Amlogic S905W 2gb/16gb as wifi repeater Tank you.

Dear armbians, Recently I bought a Tanix TX6 H6 4Gb 64 GB TV box loaded with android9 and tried to change the stock rom. Unfortunately with the new rom, the wifi and bluetooth are not working. Shall i have any solution to solve this issue? The chipset is allwinner H6 and the wifi-bluetooth module used is RTL8822CS. How can I integrate the module with the kernal using dtb file coding? I found some codes in the forum but I don't know how to acces or edit the dtb file. if somebody have any idea about this kindly share it here so it will be very helpful to solve this issue.... please find attached image links.. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19gp3OOA94w…

Hi, I've tried booting into Armbian on a TX5 PRO and all i have managed up until now is to get stuck on the boot screen . Most tutorials I found are for older versions of Armbian. What i did: From here: [REMOVED LINK], i downloaded both the bionic and eoan versions, hoping a newen/older version might help. Both produced the same result. Even tried the newer RC2 version. After downloading the image, i used xzcat IMAGE | dd of=/dev/sdc to write it to a microSD card (also tried with usb stick) copied each *S905X* dtb file to the root of the same partition, and renamed them to dtb.img. None behaved any different. From the update app inside…

Hi guys!! Im trying to install Armbian in a MX10 PRO 6k TV box (Allwinner H6, a Quad Core with ARM Cortex-A53 processors), following same steps for the main firmware. The trouble here is that there is no armbian option to this distro, so i tried create an image with the allwinner configuration (editing uEnv txt and dtb.img) for orange pi 3 (which has allwinner h6 too), but, when i startup the tvbox (plugin power wire) the box dont recognize the image >__< And also, in youtube there is a tutorial that said i must push the "AV hidden button" when i plug the power wire, but never send image signal :shrug: anybody has tried with this box? (a…

I have a ShellCloud TV Box, below are the parameters: CPU: RK3328 RAM: 2*512M=1G emmc: 8G 4*USB3.0 (usb hub) 1000M Ethernet port -RTL8211F Android 7.1 I want to install Armbian on it, but when I used Armbian_5.75_Rock64_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.174.img , it could not start, if I use omv4-rk3328-0.7.9-armhf-image, it can be started, but no network, the box could not get IP address. it seems that the dtb file did not choose correct, right? As it's a new box,what should I do?

Hi! Which ARM processor? Would be RK3399? Armbian support is good? Second question: What is the best cost-benefit option?

According to 2019 intruction post of TX3 mini tvbox, here https://www.codedbearder.com/posts/mainline-linux-on-tx3-mini/ I would like to know that the newer hardware are possible to go with linux on internal storage or not? i'm planning to buy it. I would like to have linux running on the internal memory. I wonder if there is an issue with changing from eMMC to NAND on this model and the internal memory can't be used for linux installation anymore. Please anyone help clarify this issue?

I have a problem. “ddbr” can not make a backup of a andriod system in a Amlogic S905 TV box with a NAND flash, see this link for more details. When I use 'ddbr' in an Ambian system booted by USB drive, it shows below: root@SumavisionQ5:~# ddbr DO YOU WANT TO BACKUP OR RESTORE ? BACKUP=(b) RESTORE=(r) b UNABLE TO FIND ANY EMMC OR SD DRIVES ON THIS SYSTEM!!! I think someone else must have the same problem. Can we make an improvement of 'ddbr' , so that it can be used for a NAND flash.

Can anyone help me to install linux on the box i testet Armbian_5.76_Aml-s905_Debian_stretch_default_4.20.5_20190224.img whit etcher on usb stick and 905x-p212.dtb as dtb.img then i test Armbian_5.78_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0-rc1_desktop_20190409.img.xz whit meson-g12a-x96-max-rmii.dtb dont work but after update the box only an error write the image to USB stick whit etcher what for files i need for beelink gt1 mini?

Hi With a web search and in Kodi wiki I found only outdated info. Which ARM board with much better performance than Raspberry (I want 4K streaming) and good Linux support? Which is the flagship of 2023 for TV box? Installation and setup should be easy, like a x86 PC. I am not yet sure if I run LibreElec or armbian Thanks

Hello, can someone help me with Armbian for this Android box, which seems to have a good configuration for a media center? I would like to know how to flash it and which firmware image I can install on it. Thank you. BBox 4K Specifications: Dimensions: 15x15x3.6cm SoC: Marvell BG4-CT Processor RAM: 2 GB Internal Memory: 16 GB 4K – UHD: Ultra HD, for 4 times better image quality DTS and Dolby sound with S/PDIF and HDMI audio output 128 GB TV recorder, to be completed with the media of your choice Connectivity: SD card reader / 2 USB 2.0 ports Wi-Fi Bluetooth

Hi, I am posting from work, so do not currently have access to my MXQ box, meaning what I am about to explain is based on last nights attempt at running Armbian from a SDCard I will try to be as detailed as I can.... I have been following a tutorial at the MXQProject website in order to install the Mate Armbian distro (5.41) onto a MXQ / S805 Android box (although I have chosen to use the XFCE distro instead). All seems to goes well, until I get to the first Armbian login prompt (the bit where I enter 'root' as the user and '1234' as the password). As I understand the MXQProject tutorial, after successfully loggi…

I converted the .dtb file to .tds and saw that the 2G ram information is correct. I did everything I can never use more than 720Mb of RAM, after that, use the zram. As the free command shows. my box is S905x 2GB and kernel 5.1.0-aml-s905 #5.90 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 1 15:40:37 MSK 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux oot@fenix:/boot/dtb# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1849584 713516 883136 41232 252932 1019832 Swap: 2774372 381696 2392676 It appears that in 2GB of RAM but only uses 720Mb what to do? I turned off the zram0 sw…

Hi folks, I have one of those cheap boxes based off Amlogic S905X, and while ARMbian boots properly, I really wanted OpenGL support and 2D and 3D acceleration in Xorg. After looking for a while I found Amlogic's buildroot package , which has full wifi, hdmi, and full mali support including GL, and cross compiled an image based off gcc-linaro-6.3.1, uboot-2015-next, and kernel 4.9. I managed to build the whole thing with no major issue, and flashed it using USB Burning Tool. But the box was then stuck in an infinite reset loop. I connected the serial console, and this is the output: Spoiler GXL:BL1:9ac50e:a1974b;FEAT:ADFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0…

I'm trying to download and reinstall android os on an x88 pro 10 to try and get it working. I have downloaded the file and flashed the device several times but cannot get past the boot up screen I have attached a usb keyboard and mouse but no luck.looking for someone i can chat with step by step

I went to https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/ui/r/rpi-chromium-mods/ and then wget https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/ui/r/rpi-chromium-mods/rpi-chromium-mods_20180910_armhf.deb after that control+alt+F3 and logged as root apt-get update apt-get install chromium-browser:armhf dpkg --force-all -i /home/user/rpi-chromium-mods_20180910_armhf.deb vim /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/00-rpi-vars look for change it for if you want to put the last version, you can look the number here https://get.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/ …

Device: Android TV box t95z Plus 3GB/32GB (SoC S912) device. Purpose: Running Home Automation docker images pretty much same setup than @Petee is running, but also as a Zigbee2MQTT coordinator using a CC2531 dongle. have tried over the few weeks several combinations of releases and DTB files with no luck. If it is any help got corelec (CoreELEC-Amlogic.arm-9.2.1-Generic) running smoothly with gxm_q200_3g.dtb but since there is no docker support it is a no go for me. Cant even get it to boot, if you have a working setup with this device please help find a correct combination.

Hi guys. I'm just wondering if I can install Linux on it. STB in DEVELOPER mode, I can connect ADB and I see some stuff here: vip6102w:/ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 1.9G 917M 1.0G 47% / tmpfs 822M 492K 821M 1% /dev tmpfs 822M 112K 822M 1% /mnt /dev/block/dm-1 488M 77M 401M 17% /vendor /dev/block/mmcblk1p22 8.8G 1.4G 7.2G 17% /data /dev/block/mmcblk1p8 0.9M 34K 970K 4% /dev/hwcfg /dev/block/mmcblk1p15 5.6M 120K 5.2M 3% /cache /data/media 8.8G 1.4G 7.2G 17% /storage/emulated vip6102w:/ $ uname -a…

Hey everyone, SO Odroid N2 looks like to be quite a bit more powerful (and expensive). Odroid C2 is more on par with this Android boxe real value, for me, was probably the time I spent figuring this out and I thought I might as well share it. It's true that you have to figure everything out on your own but the state of the ARM distros today is getting pretty good, so if you can get it running initially you should be able to just update with the package manager without problems.https://nox.tips/ https://xender.vip https://testmyspeed.onl

Hi, everybody, i am using the x96 mini (Armlogic 905w) 2GB/16GB version, on it Debian 10 and PiVPN, so it is possible to use OpenVPN but unfortunately it is not possible to select Wireguard, is there a way to get Wireguard running? (It works on my RPI's). Thanks for the effort.

hello there, i bought this box wich is pre rooted! i burn the image to usb, and also copy dtb.usb image to boot directory but i dont seem to be able to get into linux! I go into update and select the linux script and it reboots, but it shows an android figure saying " error" and then i have to restart back to android.. im trying to boot armibian or ubuntu or similars... So anyone got lucky installing linux into this box? i really need it thanks in advance..even libreelec would make me happy, i wanna test other Os into this! followed all tutorials on internet but no lucky =(((

I'm doing a project on a board with s905w processor. but the wifi isn't working on it. Can anyone please upload the source code of s9012p wifi chip?

Hello. I have a TV-Box Android MXIII-G. Recently i installed armbian (3.10.108) from this image https://yadi.sk/d/wc2jqGsHuKy48. The image has been installed pretty good, i can get into the system with ssh service and apparently the system work good less the usb ports. This device have two ports USB 2.0 and one port OTG. I was read on the forum what you have to turn on them from echo on > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/power/level but i can't do that. I can't create the file level on the folder power and i don't have it on there, when i try to write the file on that folder i get this error: [ Error writing lock file ./.level.swp: No such file or directory ]. …

sir i installed "Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img" its working perfectly but i want to upgrade current version of 2022 version JEMMY please any one guide me to upgrade from terminal

AdHi all , I'm new here but have just been given 2 X TV boxes and am hopeful one or both might work for Armbian but I don't know what I've got or where to start to be honest 😆. One box says T8 on top and underneath Smart TV BOX quad core T8 V3 S/N 052014120002441 This one is in a solid metal case . The other is in a square ish plastic shell and on top says M8 underneath says OTT TV BOX Android Player Model : M8 Are either of these suitable please ?

Hello, a few days ago a bought this box so that i could run Linux on it with ovpn server. The problem is that a can' t get the box to boot from sd. I tried different cards but no success, the toothpick method brings me to the recovery screen. I tested the mentioned sd's on a Beelink GT1 and they work just fine (boot Unbuntu without any problems). Can someone give me some advice on how to get this box on Linux because this is the only reason i bought this box. It would be running only Linux for 24/7, so installing linux on the box itself would also be an option. Thank you in advance for your ideas and suggestions.

Hi All, I have bought an android tv box (H96 MAX) with rk3399 inside. I want to install ubuntu on it and have access to mali gpu as well. Is there a version of ubuntu (with desktop-GUI) stable or unstable that I can use. Thank you in advance.

Hello. I have victsing vitv-2 android tv box based on rk3368 processor. I want to try to install some sort of linux on it. So, my question is: is there any chance armbian will support this processor? I see some other rk32*/rk33* are supported...

Is it possible to extract the DTB file from a working Android TV BOX? I'm having fun with a new TV BOX TX3 Mini with Amlogic S905L2B (I was sure to find S905W) and before asking for help I wanted to know if I can recover the DTB file from the Android image that works correctly. Thanks

Hi there, Minix Neo X8-h plus any tutorial or similar cpu? I think it's aprox like s802 or s812... not sure

hello could you helpme i am lookinig for a imagen to installa a Linux in my Coby tv box it is mx4n board, now it had installed Android 5.1.1 regards

I have trouble with Open Hour Android TV Chameleon previously I was going to change to armbian and it didn't work and I also tried burning with firmware T032_AP6330_public_20140915.img to 8 Giga MMC contained in the package for what I'm facing now, is there a solution,.. pls help i want to use Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0.img for this tool,,,

what difference between armbian and debian Linux Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk

Hello, I have bought an x96mini with a uboot version from 03/2019, everythings works perfectly when booting from SD, but when I try to boot from internal the kernel boots and it stops at "waiting for root device", after an investigation I have noticed that the partitions layout is different from the standard one, I have updated the dtb to be inline with that layout but the problem remains the same, unable to boot from internal. Here is the original dts file from that box, Any help would be appreciated, knowing that I am using the kernel version 3.14. Thanks, 01_dtbdump_Amlogic.dts

Please help me I follow all instructions on videos but I still get this message! Eror! Block map file is too short https://imgur.com/a/9gd62fB

I'm having problems installing Armbian on the tx3 mini. I can't boot. I already tested the two dtb for s905w that you have in the folder and none worked. Can someone help me? I'm from Brazil.

Hi, I spend two days trying to get the wifi dongle Dlink DWA-131 rev E1 working, but there is no way. I am running armbian ubuntu in a z28 pro (rock64 like) Could someone give me any help? Tks

I strongly want to buy T95Z PLUS, but I noticed that its operating system is Android 7.1. I am a bit worried that this version will be out of date, causing software incompatibility problems. I have searched on Google for a long time and have not found an answer. Does anyone can answer it?

Hello Armbian'ers, I'm a veteran Debian user and occasional system administrator, but - have zero experience with TV set-top boxes / media streamers. I now find myself in a position of needing one: In a rental apartment, I have a wall-mounted TV with HDMI in but an old, custom, non-upgradable vendor-specific OS and no network connectivity. To be honest - I don't particularly need my box to be ARM-based, nor do I need my OS distribution to be Debian. I mean, that would be the nicest, since my desktop is Devuan Chimaera (~= Debian 11), but I would definitely settle on any reasonable Linux distro. Anyway, my questions: 1. How c…