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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

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 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??

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

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 …

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

I found the correct method to fix the bug that the x96-max-plus(s905x3) gigabit ethernet does not work: Up to now, only HK1Box/vontar x3 is the only s905x3 TV box that can be used perfectly in armbian. So I extracted the bootloader of hk1box and wrote it into x96-max-plus, and it worked. This method is very simple, so it is recommended to everyone in need. Step 1: upload three dtbs into /boot/dtb/amlogic : meson-sm1-x96-max-plus-100m.dtb meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb (Similar to meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb, only the modal name is changed) Step 2: modify /boot/uEnv.txt, replace dtb…

Hi folks, I have a Miniand MiniX Plus 1Gb version that I plan to use as a small home-server with OMV and video-grabbing from my IP cam with VLC. This will be attached to 2 old IDE HDDs via USB-IDE adapter. http://linux-sunxi.org/Pineriver_H24 It has 2 usb ports on the front and a very bad wifi adapter soldered to a usb port internally. I have desoldered the WIFI module to change it for a USB-Ethernet adapter. So I have 2 USB ports and one USB-OTG port. Previously I've used the legacy kernel with fex files modding the USB configuration, to make all 3 USB ports act as USB. Recently I've tried the mainline kernel and I can't make the OTG-USB port to act as a USB port. …

Can armbian run on MINIX NEO U1? thanks

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

The problem (Armbian on U9-H requires physical button after power loss) The discovery process (MCU at I2C bus 0, address 0x15, register 0x11) The fix: i2cset -y 0 0x15 0x11 0x00 The systemd service for persistence That 0x01 = button required, 0x00 = auto power on Note it likely applies to the Minix NEO U1 as well since it uses the same MCU

i have the minix-neo-x8-h-plus running with armbian 21.02.0 bulsseye when i use the meson8-minix-neo-x8.dtb the machine is not booting when i use meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb the machine is running accept wifi and emmc. is there anybody with the correct dtb file for me

The 8189es module for wifi driver has dissapear in Amlogic 5.9.0-arm-64 #20.10 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 14 12:04:42 MSK 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux releas TIA

Hi, I installed an Epson TM-T20 II without problem using the armbian image for z28 tvbox, rockchip rock64 alike board. When I plug it, it creates a /dev/usb/lp0 port that is enough to make the printer work. But I am unable to get the same working on the amlogic images. No port is created when I add the USB printer. Could it be missing UDEV rules? Or usblp driver not being loaded by the kernel? May someone give me a light? Those boxes are optimal for POS installations, and no support for ticket printing is a handicap. BTW, awesome work with all this project, it helped me a lot.

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…

I have install ARMBIAN 5.37 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS 3.10.99 on a MK808b plus. How can i set the Display-Output to 720p 50Hz - it is necassary for a special purpuse. The MK808b is only use for this prepared purpuse. So i need the fix Display-output

Hello there everyone need a little bit of support if anyone can help me? So a couple of weeks back i picked up a retro gaming box filled with emulators, roms etc. After a little digging to add emulators, mess with themes, change settings and stuff i find out the box it's self is just a mix of libreelec, emulationstation, kodi with a few modifications, skins added. So i decided to see if the box can run Linux (if it could i could easily get retropie for Linux running on it) which it can and after a little googling and watching a video by the MXQ Project to get Armbian (Lepotato) running on the box (using the tooth pick method) i followed the steps to get it run…

Hello, everyone need a little bit of support if anyone can help me? So a couple of weeks back i picked up a retro gaming box filled with emulators, roms etc. After a little digging to add emulators, mess with themes, change settings and stuff i find out the box it's self is just a mix of libreelec, emulationstation, kodi with a few modifications, skins added. So i decided to see if the box can run Linux (if it could i could easily get retropie for Linux running on it) which it can and after a little googling and watching a video by the MXQ Project to get Armbian (Lepotato) running on the box (using the tooth pick method) i followed the steps to ge…

Ok, I updated the boot manager so it is now more portable and added some convenience features as well. Be aware that it is not beginner friendly, you need at least some knowledge about writing and editing u-boot scripts, Uart cable is not needed but can be useful during testing and setting up. I rewrote the script in python using curses so It's now more elegent (in my opinion anyway) I tried to get it as close as I can to look like grub2 interface: Now let's explain How it works: First, the sdcard must contain at least two fat32 partitions: -First partition(fat32) (label=RECOVERY) content: This partition contains the main boot manag…

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…

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

First of all, I should mention that the TV box we got was probably a clone one. Original MXQ Pro 4K 5G has an Amlogic chipset. We got an old Allwinner H3 which to my recent knowledge is very old now. This was our first TV box purchase and yeah, admittedly, we should have searched deeper before purchasing anything. Luckily, we got the box dirt cheap.. around $20 only. It runs Android 7.1.2 which is good for media playback, but hella laggy even for light multitasking or even light web browsing. We bought the TV box hoping my siblings could seamlessly use it for their remote learning. I heard Beelink X2 has an H3 and used to have official Armbian support, so I grabbed the im…

Hi, I have this box, R329Q_V8.0 RK3228A and when you turn on the word ANDROID and the following the 7 lines: E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /metadata (Invalid argument) E:failed to mount /metadata (Invalid argument) Supported API: 3 E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument) E:Can ́t mount /cache/recovery/last_locale I've tried to upgrade with several ROM's but to no avail. Any ideas? Running rkDumper appears the message : Partition "system" (0x006000000) Filesystem file size is not equal partition size. Marconi

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 guys, I've been using my MXQ board for weeks (MXQ-S905-D16 DATE:151021). Recently it stop booting Android, even it doens't show bootloader logo image. After connect serial port, in order to debug uboot, seems to not recognize any boot medium. Typical loop GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:800;NAND:85;SD:800;USB:8; Booting a SD card, built with BurnCardMaker, I can enter the uboot console and do some checks. I can't access eMMC at all. gxb_p201_v1#saveenv Saving Environment to aml-storage... MMC init failed gxb_p201_v1#MMC init failed Any help on how to debug further this issue? How can I check eMMC status? …

Hello everyone. I'm trying to install armbian on my tvbox mxq pro 4k p201. From CPU-Z the tvbox have Cortex A53 x64. Anyone knows how i can install armbian on this device? I tried a lot of armbian distro, but every time the device gets bricked and I'm forced to flash the original rom. Thank's in advice

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.

Image: Armbian_5.41.1_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180421.img.xz Status: all working except adding tc rules john@amlogic:~$ sudo tc qdisc add dev wlan0 root handle 1: prio RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory john@amlogic:~$ sudo tc qdisc add dev wlan0 parent 1:3 handle 30: tbf rate 1024kbit latency 50ms burst 1540 RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory john@amlogic:~$ sudo tc filter add dev wlan0 protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 1 u32 match ip dport 17500 0xfc00 flowid 1:3 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error talking to the kernel john@amlogic:~$ sudo tc filter add dev wlan0 protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 1 u…

Hello, First, thanks everybody here for making this possible. Second, I am a newbie on booting Linux on TV box, so bear with me. Thanks. My problem: I have a MXQ Pro+ 4k (2GB RAM - 16GB storage - Android 7.1.2 - 64bit) box and have tried most of the recent images for x905s based TV boxes, following the instructions on the first page of this topic. I have a semi-workable result using Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180203, but still it is not really usable. I wrote this image to USB 3.0 stick and booted after updating via local update on Android. After setting user I can only access desktop after typing ctrl+alt+f1 -> l…

Hi I have TV box as per the subject (MX170 board with no reset switch to be more specific). Wrote this image (on SD Card): Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_legacy_5.3.0_desktop_20191126.img.xz Using this DTB file (updated file name in uEnv.ini): meson-gxbb-vega-s95-meta.dtb (tried all other meson-gxbb-*.dtb files without success) Able to boot and so far everything (including LAN) seems to be working, except wi-fi. The module appears to load, but wireless card does not scan networks or connect to other networks. Extract from dmesg: [ 8.343637] asoc-simple-card sound: i2s-hifi <-> mes…

Hello, I am starting with this beautiful box which seems in good condition. It boots from eMMC with the tcbox soft and I succeed to boot it with armbian 5.44 on sdcard after some hours on google. Unfortunatly I an stuck on two issue to progress 1) I would like to transfert now the sdcard config on emmc to avoid sdcard issue (I don't care about the tvbox soft) or at least use the emmc for storage and avoid the reliability issue od sdcard my linux does not see the emmc device , perhaps a dtb issue ! 2) the syslog is very quickly flood by : Jun 1 17:31:59 localhost systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Service…

I got a box a month ago off Amazon. Externally its labeled "MX Pro+ 4K" But it is running with 7.1.2 and the firmware I have flashed was a MXQ. The board says MXQ_S905X_D4 v1.2 and I have tried both SD and USB, it is going into uboot I think? (The light is red not blue) but I can't find a dtb that works. There is no display coming on when its trying to load from the uboot. I did mess up the firmware and was able to flash it using usb burning tool Any Ideas on how to make this work????? I messed up the original firmware and bricked it and had to short pins and reflash it with the firmware I could find but I would really like to know more about this box and how to get Linu…

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…

Hello, I have compiled the kernel and bootloader from: https://github.com/150balbes/build It generates *.deb for uboot, kernel and dtb files , i downloaded those file to my ubuntu installed os on my sd card, then I have run dpkg --install *.deb files and rebooted, when rebooted the box won't start, even the LED is not lighted !? , I have tried to make hard reset even I have removed the SD card and made a hard reset , the box won't start at all. I think when I have run the dpkg install command it wrotes the bootloaded into /dev/mmcblk0 which is I guess the internal emmc file. Is there any thing I could do to deblock the situation. …

Hi, Could someone please help, I am trying to install Ubuntu on Mygica 1960 AML S912B currently running android 7.12. I have watched so many YouTube videos and read articles on getting Linux installed on an android TV box and sadly I have not been successful. I have tried all the following images; Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.038_Aml-s9xxx_bullseye_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.038_Aml-s9xxx_eoan_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_buster_current_5.5.0-rc6_20200205.img Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img altlinux_mat…

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.

Hi, I have a Tanix TX9S 2GB RAM + 8GB ROM I flashed on a sd card "Armbian_20.07_Arm-64_focal_current_5.7.8.img" but the commad "nand-sata-install" is missing... How can I install armbian in eMMC/NAND memory without using SD card?

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 =(((

Hey all, trying to throw a Linux distro on an Android TV Box I found at Goodwill. Not too much info on what company makes it, what the specs are etc. -- it's unfortunately too old to connect to the Google Play Store at this point (running android Jellybean). The only markings on it are on the top of the case saying RBOX, but I have yet to find any other device like it on any site. It's a red and black square case, for what that's worth. I also haven't been able to boot to the BIOS/bootloader menu, even holding the reset button -- all that happens is the little Android mascot says its loading then after a few seconds it "dies" (red triangle-shaped …

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

Hi to All , I have a google TV box HEVC H.265 S82 RAM 2GB ROM 8GB. I would like to install Ubuntu desktop / server on it . Can Someone help me which link I have to go and download I need to install ubuntu server (make tv box a webserver) Best Regards,

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

guys i bricked my box and couldnt find recovey files.can any one pm me or post recovery files please. thanks in adavane.

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 !!!

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…

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…

The official git armbian\build adds the tvboxes test branch. Everyone is invited to participate in the development , testing and maintenance of different models of TV boxes. https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/tvboxes

I recently got some new SD cards. When try using them, I found a strange behavior of these SD cards. They allow you to create ONLY one partition on it. When you try to burn the image, the image is written correctly, no error messages. With this SD card, you can activate the multi-boot. But when I try to start the system or to verify the data in the second partition on the SD card, I discover that the partition is created but data is not available (section is blank, no file system). If a single partition (the whole size of the SD card), the data be read and written to the entire size of the SD card. So for all who have problems running from an SD card or Armbian Librelec, …

Hi all, Since the previous thread got closed due to not sticking to the topic box, I thought I will start a new thread. Let's try and avoid this turning into a general discussion... I have noticed that the price for X88 King (and variants like Pro) have significantly dropped. This intrigued me so I spend a few hours reading the thread over at 4pda.ru via Google Translate and it seems the stock firmware was very buggy initially. Over the last couple of months some OTA upgrades and custom firmware managed to greatly improve stability. Some questions remain as to whether the 5V 2A power supply is enough but in general the box is more usable. …

Hi, I am new to this site, so far I have not been able to find a newbie list of what type of hardware to start with. I do not have any device yet. I have been looking at the android tv boxes on amazon, and I want to start with a $30 box, to be able to load linux on it, and have a graphical interface (ie like a Gnome/KDE desktop view) and then be able to install a vnc server, so the device can be controlled remotely. I have two projects in mind: 1. a chromium based browser install, for viewing webpages and playing any videos embedded in those webpages. 2. later on, perhaps with different more robust hardware?, add the capacity to insta…

ATTENTION MODERATOR... I am starting this topic as i'v not seen it elsewhere.. In short I am working on a homebrew cooling system for this board and as im running the balbes150 img's i thought that maby it would be ok to start a thread here for this Hardware Modification. If this turns out to be a duplicate thread please point me in the right direction and deleate/disregard this thead. SHOULD THIS THREAD BE APPROVED-- it will become my primary meeting room for this project and a place for likeminded individuals to collaborate. Thanks Astr4y4L

Hi! I have an Nexbox A96X Android TV box is it possible to install a distro linux ARM bian or Ubuntu? Thank you and I await your answers.

Hello everyone, and first of all a big THANK YOU @ balbes150 ..! I have an MX10 that I only want to use to set up a NextCloud server. I can boot from my SD card that I flashed Armbian_20.07_Rk3328-tv_bullseye_current_5.7.8_desktop.img.xz with rk3328-box.dtb ( maybe i need use rk3328-evb.dtb ?? ) But I can't install NextCloud Server.. Can you tell me if what I want to do is achievable ? What would be the best img to set up Nextcloud server among bionic, bulleyes, focal, ...? ( first I try focal img but same issue can't install nextcloud server ) Would it be possible to build an img for RK3328 that is only dedicated to setting up a NextCloud Server? ( Nex…

No HDMI output (Amlogic S905X3 - X96 Max Plus2). Armbian *is* running, can SSH in when up. Have also soldered on a TTL UART (CH340G - all good/can putty in to watch boot logs). If flash back to Android stock, still no HMDI out (again can adb in IP address:5555 just fine). So, to clarify, when I say no HDMI out - I mean "No Signal". This includes the vendor Uboot splash when flashed with Android firmware (on the same/original LCD that was previously working just fine). Dmesg registers connect/disconnect HDMI hot plug, but no display. Is there an efuse for HDMI out? Almost certain board is just coincidentally dead at this s…

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

Hello, Can some one to explain me, how exactly armbian set face RTC clock on interface up? I need to synchronize clock on tx3 mini with local NTP server, but no success at this moment. There are no chrony or ntp running... tx3mini@aml:~$ cat /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony #!/bin/sh set -e [ -x /usr/sbin/chronyd ] || exit 0 if [ -e /run/chronyd.pid ] && ip r list dev $IFACE 2> /dev/null | grep -q '^default'; then chronyc online > /dev/null 2>&1 fi exit 0 tx3mini@aml:~$ ls /usr/sbin/ch chgpasswd chmem chpasswd chroot tx3mini@aml:~$ ls /etc/chrony/chrony. chrony.conf chrony.keys

Greetings. I just entered this hobby tonight and read up some on amlogic boxes in these forums. Im trying to boot armbian to a A95xF3 air with the amlogic s905x3 chip off a SD card but hangs at error message "fail to map file in aml_autoscript". I guess I have the wrong dtb file configured in ext-linux, I have not tried all dtb files yet but now I have wasted so much time so I try to ask here if there is any easy way booting the amlogic s905x3 chip. There is a couple of youtube videos using files for Rk3399 from 2019 and perhaps they might work as Im not lucky with the last posted ubuntu 20.20 images ? I did read there is security issues with t…

Hi i'm looking for the older images for the amlogix s905 boards hence the board I have has a very old version of uBOOT AND THE 5.XX Kernals don't work. If anyone can upload the older version or send them that would be great. Many Thanks

Balbes150, I made a image with your git lib and 905X kernel. Using your config-4.9.26+ with settings non debug and 1000Hz timer and using Debian testing Xfce repos. Why it uses only half screen with Sunvell T95Z Plus Amlogic S912? To get this far you need to fix a lot of gcc 6.3 compilation errors from the display driver. In many places { and } were missing in if statements and there were two illegal C code lines like it would be a python program. There is no audio driver and I tried to port it from the 3.14 kernel, but it is too much work. The linux mainline kernel can have support for hdmi and audio soon: http://linux-meson.com/doku.php . …

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,,,

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 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 . …

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Hello, I have read a lot to get panfrost ins a s912 tv box, but always with same result... llvmpipe. I don t know how to make it works... I have a H96 pro plus 3GB 32GB, S912. I tried with a lot balbes150 images, Single Armbian image for RK + AML + AW and S9xx images. Now with 20.5.2, 5.7 focal. malloc@arm-64:~$ inxi -F System: Host: arm-64 Kernel: 5.7.0-rc1-arm-64 aarch64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Machine: Type: ARM Device System: Amlogic Meson GXM (S912) Q200 Development Board details: N/A CPU: Topology: 8-Core (2-Die) model: ARMv8 v8l variant: cortex-a53 bits: 64 type: MCP MCM Speed: 15…

Good morning all, maybe someone could enlight me I own this box who internal board is a Q+ h6 version 3.0 . Despite of what is claimed ( 4 giga ram ) really the board is 2 giga ram. But the biggest problem is that the board is stick on Q logo and doesn't go further I have access to uart and when I try to flash new firmware, DOESN'T MATTER if I use phoenixsuite or the sd I have got this message: [18.838]nand not support! channel 0 chip 0: 2c 84 64 3c a9 04 00 00 [18.843]nand not support! channel 0 chip 1: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [18.849]nand not support! channel 0 chip 2: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [18.855]nand not support! channel 0 chip 3: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00…

I have begun to make some changes to the TV Box 'Club' area. The overall goal is to provide more useful information to users and reduce the support workload of answering the same questions over and over again. To that end there is now a FAQ forum on the menu. While it is currently empty and just a place holder it should provide a centralized location for TV Box information over time. The second new addition is the forum titled 'TV Boxes running Armbian'. The idea here is to provide a maintained list of current information with links to the details for boxes reported by the community to be successfully running armbian. Both…

In the new year, I plan to focus on improving and developing Armbian-TV (Armbian-TV is a version that is based on the official Armbian, aimed at improved support for media capabilities and ease of use by ordinary users) support for the platforms Rockchip and Allwinner (perhaps a few more platforms will be added that are not yet in use). To do this, I have already ordered several popular models based on rk3399 (NanoPC T4, RockPi 4, Renegade-Elite), in a complete set with obligatory Support of nvme carriers (I consider this support essentially important, for transition of TV boxes and SBS to the category of mini-PC, as highly effective and improved replacement of the usua…

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We are currently at a breaking point where cheap Android TV boxes become powerful enough and viable enough to do the following while running Linux: 1. Be a server: self-hosting data, fediverse, home NAS 2. Be a TV box: 1. web browser, 2. other multimedia options, 3. games 3. Be a makeshift PC replacement (run office applications, photo editing, etc) Concerning #1: If you have followed the news then you have witnessed that censorship is increasing and that the nature of it is most alarming. Over the next years, big tech and politics-driven manipulation of online information will only get worse, until the internet essentially devolves int…

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…

I have a T9 4GB/64GB TV BOX (RK3328) TV stick, it got bricked. I searched the internet and tried many methods to recover it, but failed, please help if you know a better solution. I used RKBatchTool to restore it, and got a blue square, but after I click "restore" button, it failed at "Prepare idb fail" I also tried RK Android Tool, my stick is loaded as "Found one MASKROM Device". I played around the tool, but every time it failed at the same reason "Prepare idb fail ". I have no ideas, anyone please help! Flash Info: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG,value=00 Flash Size: 0MB Block Size: 512KB Page Size: 2KB ECC Bits: 0 Access Time: 40 Flash CS: Fla…

problem with the wifi mac address are the same at all s905 tv box hi i have a problem about the mac address on the android box. i use 3 boxes and the wifi mac address are the same. 1. i'm using firmware "Armbian_5.77_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.0.2_20190401" - use the uEnv.ini to flash the ubuntu into the box. 2. the box CPU: Amlogic S905D, ARM Cortex-A53, Quad Core 2GHz WIFI/Bluetooth: CYW43455 (same as Raspberry Pi 3B+) 2.4G/5G WiFi IEEE 802.11n/ac with Integrated Bluetooth 4.1 could you let me know is it the firmware change the wifi mac address? if so, which part of the firmware will not change the mac address? thanks you

I've been running ARMbian on my "H96 Max" for 36 hrs now, ha in VLC, i have noticed that if i play the 720 in the native default window, and don't maximize it, it plays perfect with no dropped frames, but it still tears now and then !!. it's because the video does not have to be rescaled. So obviously, the problem is that Hardware Decoding will not work with VLC, and that VLC and ARMbian are just not optimized and not up to the job !!. I have heard that with my "H96 Max"ARM and almost any other SoCs, that they can just not handle the task in ARMbian and in general, , , i was suprized to see the 4 CPU's run a 50% !!, i expected it to be no more than 10 …

I installed armbian 20.04 on my beelink GT1 TV box on a fast SD card https://androidtvbox.eu/beelink-gt1-review-smart-tv-box-with-android-6-0-powered-by-amlogic-s912/ works great, but I noticed that even when almost idle, running command line utils has a delay of 2-3 seconds at least commands like docker, npm, node and more. internal commands such as df work instantly. some are rapid the 2nd time and some delay on every launch npm is probably the worst and can take up to 5 seconds is there a way for me to trace what is it doing or waiting for during that time?

To avoid off-topic discussion, suggested by @balbes150, i started this thread in hope that someone wants to get involved contributing to Armbian!?! I want to make an Android app that can: Extract your DTB.img. Burn Armbian distro to USB/SD card. (no PC required!) - it will require root OR custom recovery. Targets: AMlogic first, Rockchip after, Maybe more (MTK)? The app will use: 'EtchDroid' (open source - F-Droid) to burn the .img's to USB/SD card. 'Amlogic DTB tool' (open source - GitHub) for DTB extraction. What i need: HELP!!! i cannot do it alone! i will need ATLEAST so…

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…

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 have a sunvell Qplus TV Box with Allwinner H6 I write the img by @balbes150 into SD Cards And I use the dtb by @hexdump The Qplus Box boot into Armbian but failed connect to the Ethernet of WIfi （found no device） So is there anyway to make it fine? Thanks!

good day im so new in this and wanna afk u for this starting quetsions i have tv box "Qplus" with arm allwinner H6 4 gb ram memory and 32 nand from this post https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12162-single-armbian-image-for-rk-aml-aw/ i get .img file and just transfer to sdcard if im try to use file some_name.img im get "data" type and if try to mount get error if just install sdcard in tv box im see they launching but asking me about login and password i wanna edit and adding some other setting and pack's and i have queston how to edit, how to see, how to unpack and repack what this im fin…

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…

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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?

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…

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 All, Ive installed docker via the arbian-config -> Softy option but I don't see the option to remove/uninstall software Upon trying to remove the software (root) via apt-get/dpkg, I get an error that docker is not installed. What is the procedure for removing software install via Softy? Board: T95Max+ ArmbianVER: Armbian_20.05.1_Arm-64_buster_current_5.6.2_20200408

I have ANTIK Set Top Box and want to replace it's original OS/Firmware with any common linux/android (linux preferred), because the original OS is locked & proprietary, and i want to use OS that are more flexible. STB brand : Antik machine : b2067 cpu family : sh4 cpu variant : st40-300 cpu type : STxH205 Is there any OS/firmware that i can use? or any help/guide on how to do this is much appreciated, Thank you.

G'Day, I have anold 10" Onix AT-101-1215 tablet that I bought from Aldi in 2016 and would like to tinker with it and attempt to install Linux on it. Is this possible? If so can anyone give me some guidance as how to best do this?

Hello everyone, I am hoping to get some advice on the possibility of running Armbian on a TV box I have. I understand this is a niche device, and I am new to this process, so any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Device Information: Device Type: TV Box Manufacturer: SkyworthDigital Model: SK Hailstrom Ref 1325 Board: HPR3E1325_4k Hardware/Platform: rtd1325 Product: HPR10X Hardware Details (from system info): Core Architecture: 4x ARM Cortex-A55 @ 1700MHz Instruction Set: 64-bit ARMv8-A (32-bit Mode) Supported ABIs: armeabi-v7a, armeabi Scaling Governor: schedutil I have …

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

Are this box "RIKOMAGIC MK05 S805 box " could use linux armbian or ubuntu or some linux , full like others MXQ boxes ?? Here I find it here http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Rikomagc-RKM-MK05-Android-Mini-PC-Amlogic-S805-1G-RAM-8G-ROM-1080P-H-265-Hardware-Decode-WIFI-Bluetooth-Miracast-DLNA---Black-339967.html

I wonder if there is some Armbian/another distro for RK3066A based chipset. I heard something about Picuntu, but seems that the download links are no longer working and it is based on some outdated Ubuntu distro. Any idea what else can I find for this device?

[ This thread started more or less here : And what do you think about porting to a cheap Android TVBox ] If anyone's interested we can discuss Armbian or linux for those rk3288 devices here. I'll start with mine (Q8 without front panel) which is the XT-Q8L-V10 from enybox (Chiptrip Q8 on gearbest or that other EKB328 on Aliexpress with front panel). I have a feeling that those boards are discontinued and being put on sale as end of stock. There are various other boxes with rk3288 which prices are pretty high (>80e) and were probably seen at some point as high end boxes. Other threads for that board can be found here…

Hello, Just some word to know MX10 RK3328 can have an uboot legacy 4.4 working in emmc with the defaut rk3328-evb board config. I follow the guide [RK3328_Linux-Debian_V1.1_Development_Guide-20170711.pdf]. I suggest before trying anything to be sure you have an working usb loader for your BOX (usb loader from rkbin github don't work for example). You can find it in android update firmware image, unpack it with https://github.com/TeeFirefly/rk2918_tools.git And try on box in recovery mode : To remenber information about your emmc (in case it show 0MB capacity) Be carefull with the default parameter_gpt file, it's setup 512bytes page size and if you erase you…

I have been happy user of Vscission V88 Piano board for some months running Armbian and ZFS, but yesterday after some trouble rebooting like 20x after the box hang during an attempt to clone a Corsair 32GB USB drive, i can't get it to boot Armbian any longer! I've verified i'ts' not the SDcard nor the content in it (correct dtb.img etc) and i even downloaded another image from dl.armbian.com and tested a new SD card with no luck. It boots Android just fine when SD card is not inserted, but when inserted i see a red light and nothing on the screen. Sad since this one has enough RAM to run a lot of stuff. What could this be?

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?

I'd like to provide this information in the event that it might be useful some day, if/when support for Rockchip boards are added to Armbian. Before you flash-program anything, make a backup of your current NAND if this is at all possible for you. As a precaution, I thought I had make a backup using rkflashtool, but it turned out that my backup was only the first 192K repeated over and over; I've reported this as a bug. I may be the only one experiencing this problem, but I'd like to tell you, so you can check using hexdump -C before you start overwriting your NAND. It might be difficult for you to find information on the CS918 TV-box. It appears that there are s…

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.

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

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…