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Hello, I'm trying to follow the instructions here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/2419-armbian-for-amlogic-s905-and-s905x-ver-544/ Downloaded the image Armbian_5.99_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_desktop_20191110.img.xz and burned it to a 16GB sd card, put it in a tanix tx3 mini box and applied power. It booted Android as usual. The I opened Update& Backup app, which didn't even find the SD card. Then I rebooted to recovery, but that too didn't help. Not sure how to continue. Please help. TIA

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

I have a tvbox quad core uhd android5.1 model H97 rockchip 3229. I need linux Wiking on it. Please, Amrbian could help me on it? I hope so.Thanks all.

The start system in Coreelec is not compatible with LibreELECE Armbian etc. If you run coreelec on your TV box, you will no longer be able to run LE and Armbian normally until the full recovery of the standard firmware via the USB Burn Tool and the new activation of the universal multi-boot, which is used in all new systems. Questions that do not specify exact details (the exact image version, TV box model, detailed steps that were performed for DTB settings, and so on) will be ignored and deleted. For all. I don't support s905x3. I don't have this equipment. All messages about this platform deleted. What works or doesn't work from this equipment…

Hello all, I write this topic to be my guide in future reference and maybe some help for other linux noobies like myself. A the beginning my idea was to use AMLogic box to use Octoprint and 3d party software called Klipper for my DIY 3d prinetr. Quick search in google shows that it is doable but there are old topics, posts and old images for s905 processors. At first I had started with newer images from @balbes150 like Armbian_5.98_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_desktop_20191002.img and tried to start WIFI. Like many other before me I tried modprobe wifi_dummy .. etc and nothing good happened - complete linux noob. After …

Anyone has the following box and managed to find the correct dtb?The box is being sold under "Android 9.0 TV Box A95X Z2 4GB RAM 64GB 2.4G 5G Wifi RK3318 Quad Core..." name on aliexpress and ebay. I tried copying armbian to sd-card and it refuses to boot. I checked various DTBs with no luck. Anyone else got it to work?

Hi, This is my first post here. I have a Q-Box which I bought, I believe, in 2016. Chipset: S905 RAM: 2GB Storage: 16GB Software: Android 5.1 I would like to install linux on this box, but after following the procedure in this site, the box doesn't boot at all. I wait for way more than the 7-10 minutes in the tutorial, but the screen is always black. When I remove the external SD-Card it works normally. Phheeewww ! As suggested in the tutorial, I tried several dtb files with no success. From the videos, I have noticed that there is a reset button, but mine doesn't have one. Any one with the same problem, or a…

I took apart a tx3 pro android box I had collecting dust and realized I could put debian on it. I went through the process on Armbians website and got it to sucessfully boot into the user login screen of Armbian Heres the weird part when I login it begins to load and then for some reason opens Kodi 17.3 and I have no way of exiting kodi without it rebooting the box. I believe I only had Kodi 16.0 on the box so I think 17.3 is coming pre-installed in this file they give you for the Armbian Debian install. If anyone has any idea why it would do this I'd appreciate it.appvalley tutuapp tweakbox

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

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

Any projections on when there will be Armbian Linux for these new boxes running the new Amlogic S905X3?

hello have an old s812 box I was going to trash. I came across this forum. Its an m8s device with a m8_v8 motherboard, s812 cpu, and 1gb of ram. i went through this post @ https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3023-armbian-for-amlogic-s802s812/ I think it is a clone with a m8v8 motherboard. I can't figure out which one is the otg port of the two usb ports, or if i need to jump a resistor on that port by the usb port, etc. Amlogic flasher will not find it on a usb 2 or 3 port on ym pc. Basically I want to load whatever version of armbian that works, and install pi hole, the dns sink hole) and a script to keep the logs i…

Googling this question leads to a lot of chromebooks with 8-12 hours of battery life at a cheap price range, and a few Windows/Qualcom Snapdragon laptops with 24 hours of battery life but much more expensive. I would love to see a linux or chromebook laptop with 24 hours of battery life at a reasonable price point but am perhaps not doing a good search. Would any of you know of a really long lasting ARM-based laptop at a reasonable price point?

Anybody know of a good vpn service for my tv box. Purevpn supports linux and even has an 85% off but i havnt used it before

After all accounts that the S922X is much better than the rk3399 I've got running Armbian as a daily driver, I've decided to take the plunge (on 11/11) with this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000268608282.html?spm=2114.12057483.0.0.7f197d9f029O4t If anyone has any thoughts, comments, tips etc, feel free to add to the discussion

Hi, i have installed armbian 5.98 aml debian buster desktop on a x96 mini smartbox tv with the meson gxl s905w p281 dtb file. The desktop run but only 1 gb memory is available. how do i do to have 2 gb memory available ? Best regards.

Hello all, i download the new DEV image 20191025 ( kernel 5.4.0 rc4 ) For the dtb is use : meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb ( h96 pro+ hardware like the k3 pro ) in the file : uEnv.ini change this line : dtb_name=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb install packages : sudo apt-get install nasm sudo apt-get install yasm apt install autoconf automake cmake libtool git checkinstall nasm yasm libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-dev p11-kit libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texinfo wget zlib1g-dev libchromaprint-dev frei0r-plugins-dev gnutls-dev ladspa-sdk li…

Looking to purchase new tv box will be installing armbian desktop logging in remotely i will need wifi to work. Are there any tv boxes anyone could recommend that has wifi working . Thanks: for your help

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…

On my Beelink Mini MXIII, I would like to run a home automation server (Jeedom) and many user based on RaspberryPI have issue with bad sector because SDCard cannot handle a lot of Read/Write cycles. I successfully run armbian from SDCard, but I would like to copy it to eMMC. and change DTD in boot.ini, uEnv.ini, extlinux/extlinux.conf and then did a sudo nand-sata-install (Below is the load result) I've been told that armbian kernel did not support this specitif eMMC controller (Brand FORESEE), I there a a to install drivers on armbian, or should I install armbian on a USBKey (how to boot from USB) Or should I buy a new box (android TV box, o…

Hello, I have a Beelink Mini MXIII. I successfully installed Armbian on an SDCard, and booted from it then I used the "Armbian configuration utility" to install onto eMMC. Now the box is bricked, there is no signal to hdmi. I tried to use the "USB Burning tool" method, and tried to burn the firmware on an SD card, but with no success when booting. What should I do from here ?

Hi, around 2 months ago I installed Armbian 5.75 onto an Armlogic S905W by flashing Armbian_5.75_Aml-s905_Debian_stretch_default_4.20.5_desktop_20190211 . My box is currently out of commission because of a bad HDMI port but I need to know the releases default gcc version in order to trouble shoot a package build issue on a different board. How can I find the default version that the above release would have shipped with? Thanks

Hey guys, I bought the A5X MAX+ and the specification is rk3328, 4GB, 1GIB, usb3, android7. I tried to burn the blewing roms on my USB flash drive and SD card: Armbian_5.76_Rk3328-tv_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.154_20190306.IMG Armbian_5.96_Rk3328-tv_Debian_buster_default_4.4.154_desktop_20190911.IMG Armbian_5.96_Rk3328-tv_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.154_20190911.img And I tried to input the text "rk3328-a5x.dtb, rk3328-a5x-1500.dtb, rk3328-a5x-mx10.dtb, rk3328-evb.dtb" in "/extlinux/extlinux.conf", the system entered android instead of armbian which i really wanted. I followed the steps as belows: 1. Burn the SD card or USB flash drive; 2…

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?

I recently wanted to buy a tv box, but I don't know much about the technical parameters, h96 max vs h96 max plus, I feel that these two products are similar, the main difference seems to be that the chipset is not the same. So rk3328 vs rk3318 Which one should I choose?

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

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?

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.

Hello. I'm new to Linux, a real DAU. my question how do I get twonky Server 8.5.1 running on m9cmax (s905x p212 2gb)? is that possible? can someone help me there? Best reguard

Good Day everyone! I have 4 of these Kata Boxes lying around the house, and due to the poor firmware of which was never updated, I was hoping to have Armbian installed to that I could place these near my DAC's to become essentially DLNA devices (Of which I hope will be painless). However, in trying to boot armbian, I have no luck whatsoever. In Libreelec, I am able to boot fine from the SD Card no problem, and since I have an opportunity to SSH, I wanted to know the device tree it was using by running the command "cat /proc/device-tree/le-dt-id," the result of was "gxbb_p200 LibreELEC:~ #." With that information, I've used the same dtb located in the dtb folder of …

Good Day I have a Mecool K3 Pro (S912 - 3GB) which includes an internal DVB tuner. I have installed images from balbes150 ( https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei) The latest device tree source (dts) for meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb includes the dvb config. So the K3 boots fine without any problems, except there is no dvb interface (/dev/dvb). So I need to load the kernel modules for the AVL6862 tuner, but it is not included in the images. To compile my own modules, I can only find source drivers here: https://github.com/afl1/dvb_tv-aml https://github.com/avlogic/AVL6862 but I am unable to successf…

Hi, I have a tvbox x96 s905w. I have tried to install armbian on a sd card. I took the 5.94 ubuntu desktop version. somme errors appears (files not found). After, i have installed Armbian_5.91_Aml-s905_Debian_buster_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190708. All works fine except wifi and bluetooth. The most important for me is the wifi. How can i do to make it working ? Thank you very much.

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After reading through the forum I found the file I want to download - ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.4.143-rk3328-tv 20181203 +compton. How do I find this file when I don't know which of the almost 100 boards it's under without looking at the hardware specs of each. Is there a way to cross-reference that I'm not seeing?

Hello. I bought a A5x max with android 9.0 https://pt.geekbuying.com/item/A5X-MAX-RK3328-4GB-32GB-TV-Box-398231.html I can only boot in the combined mode (i.e. with an SD card + USB). I tried to boot to emmc doing the procedure described here However without luck so far. It didn't boot. Do I need a diferent uboot.img to be able to boot from emmc ? Is there any procedure so that I can boot from the SD card instead of the combined mode? What is the best dtb for this A5x max tv box? I was hoping this tv box would have a better performance than my rasberry pi 3b+ is that unrealistic? Sorry for my begginer questions.…

I have a number of headless AML S905 / S912 1GB Ram TV boxes running a bastardised Armbian for systems monitoring. I have a 200MB zram compressed block device setup to store temporary data which gets processed locally then synced to a command server every hour because the eMMC's on these cheap boxes do not last very long under sustained write scenarios. I would like to increase the zram filesystem size to 500MB so I only have to sync daily instead of hourly but because 25% of the RAM is allocated to the GPU/VPU I dont have enough available ram All the devices I have seen seem to allocate approx 250MB for the GPU which is obviously wasted in a headless scenario…

According to https://linux-sunxi.org/Optimizing_system_performance adding export XDG_CACHE_HOME="/dev/shm/.cache" to /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager does some good to desktop performance.

Hi All I started playing with Armbian recently with some old S905 / S905X based TV Box devices I had lying around. Im working with a T95 S1, an A95X and an MXQ Pro and using the images from @balbes150 yandisk repo (thanks!) Mostly everything seems to work fine except when transferring data to or from the devices (I havent tested WiFi or BT). My problem is that I cant use the ethernet to transfer any files. Network data transfers start as expected then get gradually slower and slower until after 10-15 seconds at which point data transfer stops and the device becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. Eventually I can SSH back into the device but any at…

SCISHION Model X TV Box Rockchip3229 Android 8.1 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM 5G WiFi 100 Mbps support 4K H.265, I would like to install Armbian, you can ?

https://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_1667603.html RK3399 4GB ram Anyone had any luck running Armbian on this?

Hello all! I have one of these (possibly!) a sunvell R69 tv- box (it says R69 on top and has a green line going around it). I did try to check on its built-in android to see what CPU is in this box; I couldn't really find a 100% answer but it is either an H2+ or H3. I did download and manage to get to work one of the armbian images (but I cannot remember which one it was) but then later used the micro sd for other purposes. I then tried downloading the armbian image for the orange pi one (I can't remember if that was the one I chose earlier; I've seen others use this image for 'a' R69 and some say it works) and writing it but my R69 refuses to boot…

Hey I've managed to boot armbian on my box with S905X using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb. The thing is that the screen resolution isn't properly setup. For some reason it detects Composite-1 when there's none and HDMI default is 1024x768. This isn't that big of an issue as I was able to use xrandr to fix it for my monitor. However when plugged to something bigger like TV the screen is very weird. Colors start to change color and screen has some weird artifacts. You can watch it here https://streamable.com/2615s A friend of mine has another box and it works perfectly out of the box. The TV is not the issue but rather the dtb. the meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb also works but wifi…

Hi. Currently using Kodi on Raspberry Pi. I also run IPTV service on the Kodi Raspberry Pi. It seems switching channels is slow, EPG seems limited as well. I want to know when I buy a TV box, does it come with OS? Can I just load the m3u file so it allows watching IPTV? Does it allow faster switching of channel than using a Raspberry Pi? So many questions regarding TV Box. But seems to me the forum has a lot of topics of people getting TV Box and repurposing the box as desktop. Why is this? Not really using it for IPTV?

Hi. Currently, I subscribe to IPTV service, and have it loaded on Kodi (Raspberry Pi 3b). I don't have full EPG. Also, it's slow switching channels. Don't feel like a TV at all. I was wondering if any of these Arm SBC can function like and actual STB provided by cable providers? My IPTV service requires me to load the url to m3u8. I'd like to have something that looks like this Currently, I think I have something that looks like this It's also super slow to start a channel. Is this normal IPTV behavior?

Hey I'm pretty new to this community. I have Mini M8S II which is running libreelec just fine with the stock dtb. I want to turn it into a small server with armbian but it always fails to boot. The box apparently has S905X which should "translate" into this dtb gxl_p212_2g_kvim.dtb. Libreelec refuses to boot with it but when I used older built of Coreelec it booted with gxbb_p200_1G_1Gbit.dtb which should be S905 not S905X. Armbian and libreelec refuses to boot with that dtb. I've tried most of the included dtb even putting them to main directory and renaming them as dtb.img (Yes I've read that I'm supposed to change the location in config file) At this point I think …

Good evening! I've bought the R69 1GB TV-Box on eBay some days ago with the plan in mind to run Armbian there. Sadly the box even dont want to start the kernel, it's stuck in U-Boot Loader when a SD is inserted: U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Jul 31 2018 - 05:08:39 +0200) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 And then nothing happens. I've tried couple of images. Beelink Image with Mainline and legacy Kernel, RetroOrangePi Images and so on - for now I haven't found a working one. In some other Thread someone mentioned that there are different versions of this device, and i found some Thread where someone also has trouble w…

Hi, Long time OrangePi PC user here who was going to get another of these devices but is intrigued by the TV Boxes which some can be get for about $15. I'm confused about what is the 'best' Tv Box chip-set to get here, Amlogic (yeah I noticed the threads about them lying about CPU speed, but I don't care) or Rockchip etc. What has the best, or is likely in the future to have good Linux Kernel support for WiFi, Ethernet, SD Card, Audio, HDMI and Hardware Decoding (and bonus points for encoding!)? Amlogic seems to be a winner right? Any links to Aliexpress products that fit the bill?

Hi, Im running newest build of Armbian on my TV box But in current kernel į dont see ssv6051 firmware. Would it be possible to add it to The build? Ar maybe some One could assist on building it on my system? Thanks

Hi i am traying to install armbian in my new tv box (Mecool km3). i have used the image: Armbian_5.89_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190617 but my tv box only show the initial screen "Tv box" and never follow there. The step to step that i have used is: 1. Burn the image 5.89_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190617 in an usb pen using etcher. 2. I have activated the multiboot mode ( Pushing internal button while a power the tv box for 5 seconds). 3. The tv box shows in its screen "Tv box" and it does not continue. Can you help me??

Since I originally wrote this post Ive re-written bits and included quick videos to guide you through the steps (My original post is still below). As Im writing other posts on other topics related to Armbian, but not relevant to install/setup, Im keeping them all on my new site, so all my updates will be on there. Id welcome any feedback (drop me a comment on here or on https://www.OnDROID.net). Also, if anyone has any specific topics they want me to take a look at, let me know. As always, thanks to balbes150 for his work getting Armbian on ARM boxes. Index of Articles https://www.ondroid.net/armbian-os/ Youtube playlist for the vi…

Hi there, As some of you (i guess) i want to update and upgrade to last debian and kernel version to test if it is better for my tv boxes (S905W, S912, S905X2) but before that i want to backup and possibly restore all the better way. Do someone have a hint for that ? Thanks I personnaly use portainer to manage docker images but never try it yet for disaster recovery or restoring data.

Hi, I have a cheap new box HK1 Pro. It's based u203 board. Is it compatible with the standard g12a-u200 dtb? Here I attached the factory dts. best regards, Gabor hk1pro.dts

I'd like to do hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding on TX3 Mini. I compiled latest Armbian with kernel 5.1.0, however it is not working, when I try to use a h264_v4l2m2m encoder, I get this error: [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] driver 'meson-vdec' on card 'Amlogic Video Decoder' [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] Could not find a valid device [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] can't configure encoder On lsmod, I only see amlogic-vdec, not venc[oder]...

Hi All Unable to start Armbian on my Smart TV Box, I would like to ask your opinion on the correct boot procedure. I describe my test: I took the file Armbian_5.87_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190521.img.xz I took the Etcher program version 1.5.39. With the program Etcher I flash the "file.Armbian_5.87...img.xz" in my SD (16 GB). in Windows 7 with notepad ++ I modified the uEnv.ini file as follows: test 1 dtb_name=/dtb/meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb test 2 dtb_name =/dtb/meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb I left the other information written in the uEnv.ini file unchanged I inserted …

Hi, I got a Phicomm N1 TV Box, which is Amlogic S905D. I'm trying to build libreelec/coreelect for it. I saw there is a step in the build script to build and write the u-boot to the header of the output disk image. I don't understand the purpose of this step. In my understanding, u-boot is already in the NAND of the box. What's the purpose to write it into the disk image? Is this step needed for my device? Currently I can see these u-boot env variables with my device: start_autoscript=if usb start ; then run start_usb_autoscript; fi; if mmcinfo; then run start_mmc_autoscript; fi; run start_emmc_autoscript; start_emmc_autoscript=if fatload mmc 1 1020000 emmc_…

Hello, this is my first post after lot of reading in this forum. First of all, my goal: use the M16 TVBOX as Think Client to use as RDP client. M16 TVBOX spec: Android 7.1 S905X RAM 2GB Space 16GB PCB: M16_V8.0 171109 The problem would be solved, except that for functional reasons, I have to install Armbian on internal memory, replacing Android. I've tested Armbian_5.77_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.0.2_desktop_20190401.img.xz successfully, boot from SD, no errors, installed Remmina, RDP comes up. Too good to be true. Too bad I can't install it on the internal memory…

I am French so I apologize in advance for my english. (and thanks google trad lol) I bought a kvm box to use the same keyboard for my desktop pc and my box with armbian. It works fine on my desktop pc with manjaro but the keyboard is not detecting on armbian, would anyone have any idea where it might come from? Thank you in advance.

Wanting to build a new Armbian server from a TV Box. Video is not a requirement here as the device will be headless. Just a quickie picture relating to the size of this box. I am impressed. It will be mounted inside of a security panel (Leviton Omni Pro 2) and serve as a console to said security panel using automation software. Ideally though want: - Gb NIC - 32 Gb eMMC - 4 Gb RAM Bluetooth and WLAN is nice to have but not necessary for my use. Been only tinkering here with Octocore ARM CPU TV boxes but not necessary. I am currently wanting to add a firewall (2nd NIC) and am familiar…

Hi, I have just made some decode test on my amlogic boxes. The result is strange because I got performance decrease on S905X board vs. S905 Does it have weaker VPU? The test was made with 150balbes kernel version 5.0.2+ and ffmpeg 4.1.3 v4lm2m hw decoder.

I purchased this TV box for my project to make an Hybrid media player/server based on Linux. I selected the Excelvan TV box as it Is the only based on S912 and with a SATA Port to add an hard disk. The idea is to: - install Armbian - install and activate Kodi stand alone - install Media server (Plex or Emby) Anyone succeeded in getting a fully working Armbian installation? Can It boot from the SATA disk? So far I succeeded in installing Armbian (dtb gxm-q200) from USB but ethernet port is not working. I am waiting for an HD Firecuda 1TB to test of it can run from the SATA disk. Appreciate any help on my project. Inviato dal mio MI 8 Lite utilizzando Tapatalk

can someone please help the idiot (me) to install armbian into internal emmc ? there is no /dev/data device so install.sh doesn't work after reboot from android or even after two or 51 reboots. what i did 1. made micro sd with etcher and Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_3.14.29_server_20180729.img. as i can see 3.14 kernel is the only kernel that works with my meecool. 2. copy gxl_p281_2g.dtb or gxl_p212_2g.dtb to sd's root into dtb.img 3 run update with aml_autoscript.zip from android 4. reboot to armbian booted from sd. make new user and so on. ethernet works. 5. reboot again 6. run install.sh that fails with no /dev/data …

Hi Balbes, I am M-tech student and trying to do R&D on S905 image. I need the remmina-next plugin for ARM-64 board. Please try to make it for me. So, that I can continue my research. Also, I have try to modify the S905 image with the help of my senior then I am getting S905 black Xorg. Can anyone guide me on this that would be a plus point to my work. Please reply to me ASAP as I have to give update of my work in this week earlier. Thankyou !!!

Hello Guys , I have ordered Micro SD Card Breakout for Exporting UART and JTAG Pins to get serial output on the SD card port without making any welding on the box. I have test it and it seems to work. The problem is that the output is some king of unreadable characters. I don't know whether it is a config issue or something else ? Does any one have used the UART over SD port ?

Hello all, I have a a95x r1 with a amlogic s905w 2g 16g I have tried all the awesome linux Images that Balbes150 decated so much time too. I want to try and take the ubuntu 18.04 image released for the odroid c2 sbc and run it on my box , all the main hardware is the same on both devices. The reason i wish to use this img is because it has all the mali 450 drivers setup for x11 ect... So my question is can someone point me to so documentation explaining me how to setup the uboot to use this image Thanks Donny

My English isn't very smooth. First of all I'm sorry. I installed the arbian on a tv box. Model number X88 mini, Rockchip 3328, 2GB RAM, 16GB Flash. I installed version 5.75 Ubuntu rock64. The problem is that the internet does not connect. The WiFi and ethernet card certainly do not recognize. I've also installed and run the same version Debian and slackware onto this device. No one connects to the internet. I know it's a mismatch problem. These versions are designed for rock64. I want to use the X88 mini device as a Linux lover to be able to use. Can you help me? http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_Main_Page

Settled here on using the AmiLogic S912 for my KODI boxes replacing the current Aopen Digital Engines. Purchased another AmiLogic S912 here to be utilized as a headless automation server running: 1 - Mono 2 - Homeseer 3 3 - Home Assistant - docker 4 - Node Red 5 - MQTT (and be a Mosquitto Server). Note mini automation server started with an RPi (years ago), MiniCube (dual AMD) then a Pine64 (currently running with Armbian). Moving this one to the Leviton Media panel. Looking to modify hardware a bit adding a RTC with battery. I have modded a few non RTC tabletop tablets and OpenWRT routers…

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 …

Hello, i'm using wvdial in order to connect my box to the internet which brings up the ppp0 interface, but when i try to ping an external host i get packet filtered. i was wondering which kind of rule should i set. Also i noticed that issuing sudo service networking restart wasn't enought after i edited /etc/network/interfaces in order to connect to the internet, instead a full reboot was needed. which comand should i use in this case?

Just installed Armbian on a TicTid X9T Pro which has: - 3Gb of DDR3 - 32 Gb eMMC - Amlogic S912 with an Octa-Core CPU - WiFi Dual band - Bluetooth 4.1 - Gb LAN port - GPU which does 4K HD fine Also installed the desktop which presents itself in HD 4K mode (connected to my new LCD TV just fine). Then installed Kodi from default repository. Noticed that it would crash on startup. Changed the default Desktop resolution to HD (1900X1200) afterwards and noticed that KODI started fine in HD mode. Seeing now though that KODI is not using the GPU rather it is doing the VM for video driver t…

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?

What do you guys think of this? https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/23/nexdock-2-laptop-shell-full-hd-display-usb-c-port/ https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/3250487/video-949059-h264_base.mp4 This and your tv box or smartphone, you're good to go

Mornings all :) i was in china for a business trip and i bought 2 android box's called T1BOX , but when i returned to my country egypt i found that it's all with chinese firmware and i am unable to install google play or youtube or any app and cant go to developers mode and also cant root the box , i opened it and took a snap from he mother board as below , tried to reset the box with the reset button with no use as the power do not come up while pressing the button , i got a male to male usb cable and with phoneix i put a firmware but for sorry the box now dont want to power on , can any one support me with a firmware i can flash my box , if now i have another box how ca…

andrew@m9cmax4k:~/Benchmarking/Linpack/hpl-2.1/bin/Aarch64$ uptime 13:43:47 up 39 days, 14:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 andrew@m9cmax4k:~/Benchmarking/Linpack/hpl-2.1/bin/Aarch64$ uname -a Linux m9cmax4k 4.19.7-aml-s9xxx #5.67 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 28 10:16:25 MSK 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux 39 days uptime. Ubuntu 18.04 running from eMMC. I practically never have to reboot this box (used as a file server with a USB hard disk), it is that good. As always, I am grateful to Oleg and the entire Armbian development team for their amazingly good work.

Hi all, I've just installed @balbes150 excellent Ubuntu image on the X96 tv box. Everything seems to work fine, thank you! Did anyone get WireGuard to work on the 5.0.2 kernel? I've got the following MODPOST compile error, and not sure what to do: https://paste.lollipopcloud.solutions/?6e76f1f1c8557c13#CalHYFsKZ9HSk4/jUPAgSr/EoUDysq6joShsZx41Cgo= If I try to create a wg interface, the system would hang: # ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard Thanks again Qooerr

Source from: https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/source Wonder how hard it is to cross compile to Arm?

I tried some steps. 1. The image is Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180209.img.xz 2, The arm box is Amlogic S905X 2+16 emmc. 3. Printf the save.log when run "ddbr" and "./install.sh". 4. It no boot when run reboot, see reboot.log. 5. I don't how to save the image to emmc,no boot from TFcard. save.log ******************************************* Done copy ROOTFS ******************************************* Writing new kernel image... 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 33554432 bytes (34 MB, 32 MiB) copied, 0.828127 s, 40.5 MB/s /dev/boot: no Android Magic Value /dev/boot: not a valid Android Boo…

I have successfully installed armbian on my EMMC . The systems works perfect but the Av Jack doesn't work. I have installed the Armbian_5.76_Aml-s912_Debian_stretch_default_5.0.0-rc8-g8201cd167-dirty_desktop_20190304.img.xz image. Any sugestion? thanks

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 …

Hi, ____ ___ / ___|/ _ \__ ____ ____ __ \___ \ (_) \ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ / ___) \__, |> < > < > < |____/ /_//_/\_\/_/\_\/_/\_\ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.44 user-built Ubuntu Disco Dingo (development branch) 3.14.29 System load: 1.51 1.42 1.39 Up time: 1:26 hour Memory usage: 57 % of 781MB Swap usage: 34 % of 390Mb IP: x.x.x.x CPU temp: 40°C Usage of /: 52% of 27G [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] I have a server lamp actif, when I use mastodon (firefox) th…

I have a board of S905W with 1GB+8GB. I want to configure sound with HDMI output during RDP (Remmina) but when I do RDP and plays a video no sound comes out. I have a kernel version of 3.14.29. Please let me know how can I enable a sound on this board during RDP.

hdmi.sh ? Will someone help me by telling me the parameters of hdmi.sh ? I use Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_3.14.29_mate_20180729.img.xz my box is KM8P (S912)

These days I am playing with an inexpensive ($25) Amlogic S912 TV box that I managed to get Oleg's excellent Armbian Ubuntu 18.04.2 image 5.75 with Linux 4.20.5 kernel running on. For the moment it has shown excellent stability and performance. I am attaching the results of running sbc-bench by Thomas Kaiser on this diminutive Linux box: it beats just about every other SBC except the RK3399 SBC's, and even matches or is faster than these in some cases. However the best part is that it is running a mainline up to date Linux kernel, not some heavily patched vendor kernel from a couple of years ago. Right now I am running the more extensive Phoronix Bench…

Hi everyone I am a novice in linux and it's software development, please bear with me. I have Tanix TX92 2GB/16GB TV Box which runs perfectly on CoreElec using gxm_q201_2g_1gbit.dtb with Wi-Fi and IR remote working okay however on Armbian 5.XX versions using menson_ gxm_q201.dtb none of network interfaces work whereas with menson-gxm_vega_s96.dtb physical interface works while wireless interface doesn't. Can anyone help to transform CoreElec's gxm_q201_2g_1gbit.dtb such that it works with Armbian? Help me please.

Hi, it is possible to flash the ABOX A1 Max with linux? So far I have tried some dtbs, but the boot process aborts when loading the desktop. thanks a lot Maik

Variants of alteration of the cooling system. For example, three models MVR9 (rk3328), MX10 (rk3328) x96mini (s905w). In the body, above the radiator of the processor, a large hole is made and on the sides of the body a large hole is made for the free passage of air. On x96mini had to add a new radiator. Note need necessarily two holes, one for air intake, the second for exit. This is a very common mistake TV box manufacturers, they sometimes make only one type of holes, which is not enough for the normal operation of the cooling system. The air must pass freely through the body. The direction of air supply for TV boxes is optimal from the hole on th…

Just wanted to report that I have been experimenting compiling the kernel for Oleg's various Armbian images for S9XXX TV boxes and have managed to compile and boot mainline kernel, but this required a small change in Oleg's S905_autoscript in /boot. Basically I just added a couple of lines that bootm the uImage if it is present. If there is no uImage it proceeds to booti Oleg's zImage: setenv boot_start_ml bootm ${kernel_addr} ${initrd_addr} ${dtb_mem_addr} if fatload mmc 0 ${kernel_addr} uImage; then if fatload mmc 0 ${initrd_addr} uInitrd; then if fatload mmc 0 ${env_addr} uEnv.ini; then env import -t ${env_addr} ${filesize};fi; if fatload mmc 0 ${dtb_m…

Hello Guys I am new to this forum and I want to ask if there is any possibility to install armbian on T95Z Plus and how? I have downloaded USB_Burning_Tool, I have installed and plug the T95Z Plus to usb port, it detected it but when I tried to load an image (raspbian or armbian) displayed a message that "parsing of the image failed". Any suggestions?

Hello everybody. Finally I have signed up for the forum. Been reading here for awhile but never really had a reason to signup until now. I got a tv-box the other day which I have been playing around with. I dont have much experience working with the arm64 architecture, I have mostly been playing around with ultrasparc and the mainline architectures. I have no problem getting the system to boot and work but I cannot get all the boards features to work so my OCD is not allowing me to let this pass without exploring all options. The box in question is a s905x MXQ Pro 4K. It has 1gb memory, rtl8189etv wifi chip and what I think is a nand chip…

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.…

Hello, Is it possible to run the Armbian system on the A5X Plus MINI based on rk3328. I am looking for a place to find a matching DTB file. Can I ask for help in this matter ?? Regadrs, Piotr

I propose to discuss the use of TV boxes (SbC) as a multifunctional complex that can be used as a PC and a universal media center. I've been testing a lot of different models lately that may qualify for this role. Later I will publish General notes, which I got on different models of processors and specific models of TV boxes.

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.

Hi. Thanks so much for the effort that's been put in to this. It's really quite amazing what I can do with my little TV box! I've had some issues getting armbian to work fully though, and I believe it's entirely down to the dtb.img not being quite right. I'm using: gxm_q201_2g.dtb On the xenial mate version found: https://yadi.sk/d/srrtn6kpnsKz2/Linux/ARMBIAN/5.44/kernel_3.14 Which, while booting up fine, gives me no WiFi. When I run: dmesg | grep wifi I see several lines like: aml_wifi wifi.36: [wifi_dev_probe] no power_on_pin2 ... (…

Hello I am new at the forum. My english is not good but i can understand all :) I have a Magicsse n5 android box (S905X) and i like to install Armbian on it (on a micro sd card) I have done everything in the manual but I'm only assigned to the user and assigned root and then linux should start. But it does not do it, it only flashes in the top left of an arrow. I tried it with this file "meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb" but it does not work .... Do you have any idea why it is not working? Thank you :)

There is a acestream for armv7 processors here https://github.com/sshmanko/acestream-armv7 And this is how I installed it cd /tmp wget https://github.com/sshmanko/acestream-armv7/archive/3.1.30.tar.gz cd /opt sudo tar -zxf /tmp/3.1.30.tar.gz sudo mv acestream-armv7-3.1.30 acestream cd acestream sudo leafpad acestream.conf under --login, change re.place@me for your mail under --password change ReplaceMe for your own password sudo ./acestream.start Open this url on your browser http://127.0.0.1:6878/webui/app/ReplaceMe/server#proxy-server-playlist Click "Add Content" …

Is there any way to flash armbian (or other linux distros) to Nand flash ? all i see is option to boot from SD. While this is fine, nand flash seems to be faster than most sd cards + its wasted otherwise.

Hey folks - spend my money... I have a current TV box - Beelink X2 (Allwinner H3 based) getting subscription services for IPTV from Japan via Hong Kong (long story...) - what's nice is that I have not had to do odd things with VPN, etc... Anyways - while the X2 has been a stable box, it's Android is getting old (4.4.2), and perhaps it's time to move on - actually I'm being forced to move on to some degree, as my agent not longer has ability to renew subs for HikariTV, so I'm running out of time Basic Wants: 1GB RAM - minimum 8GB eMMC - minimum 100BaseT (Gigabit is a plus) 2.4GHz 802.11n (stable) is a must, 5GHz 8…

Hello Guys... I would like to install home assistant on this boxes soo i need armlinux to install it ... does anyone know how to install it on this box with this chip ? Thanks in advanced ..

Hi, long story short I managed to flash a rom that killed my dual booting and my recovery, it now locks up on splash screen just after boot BUT i can still launch armbian from a SD card and only armbian (I tried a libreelec build which worked previously dual booting but no longer works). I am no where near knowledgeable enough to know where to start or if its even possible to flash a recovery through armbian? Any help will be hugely appreciated, thanks.