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

I have a problem. I try to boot "Armbian_5.67_Aml-s9xxx_Debian_stretch_default_4.19.7_20181228.img.xz" on a S905L 3B TV box, the ditb file use the default one (it works for S905L). I use a TTL to USB device to check signal, and it started to login stage. However, the LAN port and HDMI port seem not work, as I can' t use SSH to connect to Armbian and I can't see any thing on the screen. So I guess maybe the dtb file is not suitable, and there may not be a suitable dtb for S905L3B. Could I modfiy a dtb file based on the S905L dtb file and the dtb file from the Andriod system in the S905L 3B TV box?

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 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

There are two install emmc files in armbian amlogic verison by balbes150. install-aml.sh and install-aml-s905-emmc.sh. What's the difference between these? If install armbian to a S912 TVbox emmc, which one should be choosed?

@hexdump Trying to compile your uboot from github I get this error: arstein@MM8S:~/u-boot-mainline-rk3328-no-sd-boot$ patch -p1 < /compile/doc/u-boot-misc/misc.rk3328-no-sd-boot/rk3328-h96max-no-sd-boot.patch bash: /compile/doc/u-boot-misc/misc.rk3328-no-sd-boot/rk3328-h96max-no-sd-boot.patch: No such file or directory karstein@MM8S:~/u-boot-mainline-rk3328-no-sd-boot$ ls api cmd disk env Kbuild MAINTAINERS README arch common doc examples Kconfig Makefile scripts bl31.elf config.mk drivers fs lib net test board configs dts include Licenses post tools karstein@…

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" …

I try to use image Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_legacy_5.3.0_desktop_20191126.img for device with S905X3. TV box is called X96 Air. Unfortunately, I can't make multi boot. I've got error: -- Install /udisk/aml_autoscript.zip ... Verifying update package... E:footer is wrong Update package verification took 0.1 s (result 1). E:Signature verification failed E:error: 21 Installation aborted. How I can do it?

Hi all, I was running Armbian as a LAMP server on x96Max board on emmc. I was using a USB Wifi dongle, and also a USB thumbdrive for local storage. Everything was working great..24/7 for a few weeks. Then suddenly just stopped. Now the board won't start-up at power-on. Tried toothpick reset, and also I've tried several PSUs, which work ok with other boards. I have a 5V/4A PSU, and a couple of 5V/2A PSUs. There's no LED, and no HDMI signal. And the Wifi dongle doesn't light up (so the OS isn't starting). Also I've checked for voltage 5VDC at different points on the board - eg the USB ports, and there is…

I want to virtualize Armbian images created for TV Box. Which computers allow me to do this? Laptop with snapdragon? Mac Mini M1 or M2 (Apple Silicon)? Any Raspberry model? And what virtualization apps to use: QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels?

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? …

I'm able to successfully boot-up into Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29 but got stuck instead at the root login due to the following issues... 1. Tried using usb keyboard - No response. 2. Tried SSH via WiFi or usb Ethernet - Failed to connect. I'm using 150balbes method of installing the image to SDCard. I also had input the required details on first run armbian.txt file. From documentation, I've understand that USB support in u-boot currently not enabled on all H3 boards. How to enable the usb support? TVBox : S-BOX Amlogic S905X TV Box

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, 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.

hi guys, A while ago I got this x96 Max tv box in the hope to tinker with it at some point, but it turns out I am not able to even boot from the sdcard or USB.... Maybe I am overlooking something basic so I figured I ´d ask people more knowledgable tha me in this matters. The procedure I´ve tried so far is powering the device while pressing the button hidden in the AV plug. The screen just stays black until I power it off. I´ve tested witha few cards and drives, a bunch of OSes (armban, corelec, emuelec) and a bunch of image writing applications. I have not tried some app released by amlogic themselves that I grasped it exists…

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?

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??

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

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?

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, 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

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 to all, I recently purchased a COOLEME brand tvbox (but internally is marked W95T) with S905W, 2GB / 16GB of memory. The wifi chip is SV6051P. I tried to install ARMBIAN Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180203.img and it works all very well except WIFI. I tried several DTBs, both gxl212 and gxl281, I also tried to modify them but I could not make the WIFI work. I saw that in the folder / lib / firmware there is a subfolder SSV6051 that contains a .bin file and a .cfg but I have no idea how to load them. Among other things I tried to install LibreElec and the wifi in that case works ... But I'm interested in Linux because I intend to use t…

Greetings I dont know about you all but i still did not find an image of Armbian that installs without broken permissions issue. my box is T95R Pro S912 , 2/8 GB , i have tried every flavour of Armbian 9xxx running kernel 5xxx and tried every " gxm.dtb". everytime is the same error when i type : sudo , i get this : sudo : /usr/bin/sudo must be owened by uid 0 and have the setuid............. I did some home work and fixed it this way; - Ctrl + Alt + F3 , log in as root with the password you entered instead of 1234. - Open terminal and type: mount -o remount,rw / passwd ( enter a new password to reset the old one ) chow…

Following the lead of https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=34963 I did sudo taskset -cp 4,5 $(pgrep Xorg) Now how do I check whether X has improved or not?

help me with: I do to this part, then report an error who knows how to fix it curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-build/master/install/hassio_install | bash -s -- -m raspberrypi3

HI All, Brand new user to Armbian, and fairly new user to linux here! running Debian bullseye desktop version, downloaded and install about a week ago.... First off, loving what Armbian has done to my old S912 box, thanks very much for this fantastic image! i have been able to get it all set mostly the way i would want and have set up a nextpvr back-end server that is working very well feeding other 'kodi' boxes dotted around the house. on to my issue, hopefully it is something easy to address, i have set up openvpn using the network manager gui, and it connects just fine, and 'tun0' shows as connected, however, no traffic a…

I tried to write different images from the h6 family, for example: Arabian_23.11.0_allwinner_tanix-tx6_bullseye_5.136_server_2023.10.20.img to my SD and USB drive, however, this does not work. If you install the SD card and turn it on, then the red LED lights up on the device and that's it. The device simply ignores the USB flash drive and loads android. What could be the problem?

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

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…

Using openvfd and the recommended settings, the display on my box works for me, but I can always only see the exact time. How can I display my own content using openvfd?

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…

I remember some body on this forum was able to successfully install Armbian on the H96 colorfull edition with custom boot loader. Starting this topic so people with knowledge can write and share the steps and required files.

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…

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_…

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

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

So I have this: https://www.amazon.com/Android-Sidiwen-Processor-Bluetooth-Ethernet/dp/B07KS8J85L/ I somehow found this image Armbian_20.05.0_Rk3328-tv_buster_current_5.6.0-rc4_desktop_20200312.img that I cannot remember where I opbtained it. Anyway, I wrote it to a 32 gig SD card using win32diskimager and successfully booted into armbian on the box. Oddly it would not boot from a USB stick from any of the ports. My question is, is there a dtb for this box that has the wi-fi and Bluetooth working? A plus would be the ir and power led as well. I know this is unlikely but couldn't hurt to ask. I do not think that audio over HDMI is working but cannot…

Hello everyone, For the past days i've been trying to install Armbian on my S905 box. I've been able to backup the system with TWRP through a microSD card. I've installed Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_buster_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205 on the SD card and have been trying ever since to find the right DTB file to boot with. Searching the forums (and coreelec/libreelec forums) it seems that some of these boxes come with a S905 or S905x SOC, but none of the DTB files i've tried result in anything else than a black screen on boot. Am i doing something really wrong here? Is it perhaps possible to extract a DTB file for th…

I installed Focal Armbian ( Desktop version ) at my tvbox and everything is so far so good . Only a small issue hassles me : after the desktop launches , I had to use the mouse to click the desktop so that it can receive focus . Only after that , can I use the arrow keys to move the focus between icons. If I press the arrow keys just after desktop launches , nothing happens ---- obviously , sth. steals the focus . Is it a normal behavior as expected ? May I config sth. to avoid using mouse to retrieve the focus to desktop ? Thankyou for your attention :)

I got a TV Box like but reprogram to work as a Point of Sales and found it way to my Local Flea Market a few months back ( before lockdown ) i got it for $1 is there any Linux OS would Work ? it a RK3328 heres some pics of 4by4.co.kr in Google https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRtn-gJF7iCrtPDIymLXs7FXntReO3zk/view?usp=sharing

Hi all, I'm trying to compile open vfd driver for my tx3 mini tv box. It's running Armbian buster with kernel version 5.9.0. Here is what I've done so far. sudo make ARCH=arm64 -C "/usr/src/linux-headers-5.9.0-arm-64" M="/home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver" make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.9.0-arm-64' AR /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/built-in.a CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/i2c_sw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/i2c_hw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/spi_sw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/controllers/dummy.o CC [M] /home/dale/l…

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 …

Hello, I am looking for a cheap SoC (less than 15$ per SoC) that has the most efficient HW based h.264 encoder. I want to transcode multiple 1080p (6-12 mbps bitrate source) TS streams. I will probably use couple of those SoC's. I was reading about Allwinner V3S (~3$ per CPU) based SoCs but can't find any cheap one for sale based on that chip. Also I don't really know what kind of performance this cheap have for HW h.264 encoding. Anyone have any experience with HW 1080p encoding on SoCs? Any suggestions?

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…

Hi Guys, i am owner of this box and i wanted to ask you if anyone is intressted in getting armbian running on it. Dissasambly does not look to be a big problem. and here are som pictures: https://forum.freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/allwinner-tv-players/679476-beelink-gs1-6k-tv-box-allwinner-h6-android-7-1-bt4-1-1000m-lan-usb-3-0-media-player-2gb-ram-16gb-rom from the pictures i cannot tell were the uart pins are, anyone can ? from user froezus post Hi, I have tried to boot the OrangePi One Plus image on my Beelink GS1, but either the UART is bad configured or I have damaged the TXD p…

HI there, I'm a newbie trying to create a specific thread for this TV Box. There is some interesting stuff on the 905x3 thread but I'd rather have a single thread for X96 Air to share owners' experiences and achivements. So, opening the thread here, I'll try now to add anything specific I find about the x96 Air. Please contribute but don't mix with 'similar' boxes. Thanks! Trying to draft a guide based on the other thread notes specific to the X96 Air. dtb with ethernet fix (from ciprian28 post) --> (-- Updated on May 9th --) tried this on the H96 Max X3 and works. Step by step ar…

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…

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…

This is a quick notes post for people that want to setup Armbian on AlfaWise H96 Pro+ eMMC and use it as a Headless Server for Docker Microservices Thanks to @balbes150 @guidol and @Jeycop and all the awsome people of this forum Tech stack used Armbian - Java 8 - Docker - Spring Framework/Boot 2.0 - Node Js - Aurelia Freamework Download Files - Android firmware (Optional, required in case of revert from eMMC flash) - New H96 Pro Plus 7.1.2 firmware download By EBox - Armbian Version Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img …

Hardware : Amlogic S905X , 3x22650 battery, SIM, EMMC SEC 8Gb, RTC with battery, AP6255 WiFi, 4G modem QUECTEL EC25-EFA-512-STD, IR, opt ZigBee Q: Please help me choose a Armbian image to write to the flash EMMC or mSD thanx in advance

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 all I have UART connected to my MiBox S (which doesn't have a SD card slot only 1 usb). I'm trying to see if it can boot from USB, but it says there are no storage devices connected. Is it possible or am i just wasting my time: U-Boot 2015.01-g9a75fc5-dirty (Jul 11 2019 - 19:46:21), Build: jenkins-oneday-699 DRAM: 2 GiB Relocation Offset is: 76ed3000 gpio: pin gpiodv_24 (gpio 43) value is 1 gpio: pin gpioh_3 (gpio 52) value is 1 register usb cfg[0][1] = 0000000077f5db98 [CANVAS]canvas init MMC: aml_priv->desc_buf = 0x0000000073ed3b40 aml_priv->desc_buf = 0x0000000073ed5e60 SDIO Port B: 0, SDIO Port C: 1 emmc/sd response timeout, cmd8, status=0x3f…

Hello @all. I Have a Nexbox A95X With 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM. Also it has a AP6330 Wifi Chip. What I want to achive, is to have a running Server, as a private Git-Server. I Used a Gog-Server on a Raspberry Zero W, but i wanted to see if I can get a Gitlab to run, and maybe more Server thingies like Webservers etc. I used the Premade "Armbian_20.05.0_Arm-64_buster_current_5.6.0-rc4_desktop_20200320" and got it working. I had to set in the "uEnv.txt" following DTB: # aml s9xxx FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-nexbox-a95x.dtb APPEND=root=LABEL=ROOTFS rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 …

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…

Hi I'm in the market for a cheap Linux Bo and from what I see it seems these Android TV boxes are the cheapest. I basically want a system I can just muck around with about, but also one that has working WiFi, can play 1080p video in H264 and H265 and can surf the web/play YouTube without much issue. I'm not interested in the boxes Android capabilities, I'm interested in if it can run a desktop Linux with things above. Essentially Wifi, Hardware decoding of H264/5 video and acceptable video playback on the Internet. Considering a raspberry pi with all the needed things costs more than one of these boxes it is a very nice alternative, but in a sea of…

Hey guys! I have a S905W box, I flashed Armbian on a USB, before it worked fine, no problems, the box bricked cuz I installed Armbian unintentionally, I unbricked it then now with this firmware it doesn't boot, it goes straight to Android. I was trying to find the original firmware but no luck, is there anyway to make it boot?

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

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 . …

Ok fairly new to ARMBIAN.... Possibly 3 hrs in. I have it running on an MXQ media box, all fine but no wi-fi... Put in an old D-Link DWL-G122 usb stick and whilst it's recognised by the usb sub system no driver gets loaded. I have installed armbian-firmware-full and there seems to be relevant firmware for the RALINK devices. but iwconfig does nothing and the device does not show up in "nmtui" I have to admit it's probably 13-14 years since I had to manually do anything with a linux driver so I am rusty! Any ideas? Cheers TT

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.…

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

hello cracks, i own a TV Box and would like to run Armbian with PiHole and CheckMK - PiHole is running as far as i can get CheckMK for ARM Debian not installed here it seems there are many dependencies to Apache which i can't get installed i have already created a thread in the arm checkmk programming and hope for a solution https://github.com/chrisss404/check-mk-arm/issues/20 furthermore i haven't found a way to install armbian directly to the internal memory eMMc - all described instructions don't seem to work because some .sh scripts are missing or menus are not available under armbian-config Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translato…

specs: hi3798 ram 1g rom 4g sd/usb boot or emmc boot any help appreciated

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Hello Armbian team. 1st I would like to thank everyone for your great work. I've been using a Minix TV box with Armbian 5.41 (kernel 3.14) for many years. Recently I have decide to try Mr. balbes150 build. The system works perfectly from SD, but after installing to emmc the boot process fails to load OS. I would be thankful if someone could point to the right direction. [1] Hardware: Minix Neo U1 ... S905, 2GB RAM / 16GB Flash. Emmc is Toshiba THGBMFG7C1LBAIL (AFAIK same as Samsung KLMAG2GEND-B031). [2] Software: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bullseye_current_5.9.0.img.xz Using DTB meson-gxbb-vega-s95-meta.dtb Here is my extlinux.conf: …

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

I just buy a tv box, X96 MAX PLUS. But i don't konw how to boot from usb stick? Can anyone help me? Thanks.

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

I have now burned an image to SD card, Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205 That is supposed to be compatible, what is the next step to get this to boot on Tanix S912. Is there maybe a simple script to change the Tanix to boot alternatively from SD and Android installing required changes, or do i have to edit some file and install something on the Android device to get it going? A stepwise explanation would be nice, what file to edit where it resides, and what extra software to install. JT

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…

Hi, new to armbian here! I'm coming from libreelec looking for a less limited operating system keeping mediacenter features of libreelec (mostly kodi) I installed Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_server_20180601.img.xz (it boots only versions with 3.14 kernel, others don't work), I found that it has not wifi drivers because it is not working, just eth0 is shown with "ip a". Is it possible that drivers for this box are missing? With libreelec it works like a charm. Thanks in advance!

Hello, everyone! I have an S905M device (Sumavision Q5, RAM:1G, ROM:8G), I made a bootable USB with an Armbian image( ARMBIAN 5.44 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS 3.14.29, use gxbb_p201.dtb file ) . I want to use "ddbr" then “b” to make a backup of the EMMC. However, root@SumavisionQ5:~# ddbr DO YOU WANT TO BACKUP OR RESTORE ? BACKUP=(b) RESTORE=(r) b UNABLE TO FIND ANY EMMC OR SD DRIVES ON THIS SYSTEM!!! then I use command "lsblk", I found all partitions(cache, params, ... , data) of the internal storage (8G ROM) for andriod system are treated as seperated disks as shown below: root@SumavisionQ5:~# lsb…

Hello, I have an old Android TV Box (affectionately named RBOX) -- having trouble finding any specs or hardware information for it, and I'm trying to see if I can throw on a Linux distro to turn it into a micro-server (either via USB or SD Card). Has anyone ever seen one of these, know what kind of hardware is in it? (CPU, firmware, etc.?) Any reccomendations on which distro to use? I tried Bullseye Armbian to no avail.

Hello, I am about to buy a TV box with the following characteristics, I would love to know if it is compatible to install a distro CPU Cortex-A7 Quad-Core Procesador gráfico Mali-400

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

Hi folks, I'm currently running @150Balbes "Armbian_5.27_S812_Ubuntu_xenial_3.10.99" on a S812, but with some minor issues. Ethernet only 100Mbits (Realtek 8211F). Kernels newer than 3.10.99 won't boot (but will try to determine why, when I get my UART Adpter.) So after all, I'm thinking to replace this box, with a more current one. Purpose of this box: running an "Emby-Server" with external HDDs and probably "Pi-Hole". Which box is recommendable for these purposes? thanks in advance

Hello to all I am trying my best to install Armbian ubuntu server on the above described Android TV box and cannot succeed. has some one been able to make this work? Any hints would be greatly appreciated!

Greetings In my case , I only needed to re-install network-manager , I did it this way: - Connect box via Ethernet. - apt install wicd. -open synaptic and uninstall network-manager , network-manager-gnome and network-manager-vpn. - Rebbot - open Wicd and check if WiFi networks are detected , otherwise use dongle. - In terminal, apt install network-manager && apt install network-manager-gnome. - Reboot. - Check if WiFi networks are detected and tadaaa, yes they are. -open synaptic and uninstall : wicd, wicd-gtk, wicd daemon and python- wicd. - final reboot and everything is working fine. Hope …

Hello guys. Why my tv box mxq pro 4k doesn't start automatically from sdcard with armbian on it? i'm using it like server, so i don't want load android for reach armbian. Thank's

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! I have an X96 box, with 2G Ram and 16G Rom, it has an S905X inside. I was using it with armbian, but after installed armbian-firmware-full and rebooted the box was dead. I tried to put it in burn mode with no luck: aml burn tool for os x does not exists and from a virtualbox machine with linux can't see the device, av reset button is not working, bridging pins didn't work and from my raspberry I can see the device connected but cant put it on burn mode) Anybody can help me with this?

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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, I have build my own RK322x - Armbian Kernel (legacy) for RK3229 Respeaker, because the standard armbian configuration for rk322x doesnt boot (kernel pancic). The respeaker isnt a TV Box, but a smart speaker device from seeed studios https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_Core_v2.0/ Thats why I'm using the patches from respeaker source builder https://github.com/respeaker/source_builder Armbian boots now successfully from sd card. I've got 2 problems and maybe somebody can help me with this. 1) Wifi The Respeaker uses ap6212. It needs a proprietary firmware, which armbian holds in /lib/firmware. Bu…

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

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Hi guys, first post! I took the plunge and installed armbian on my android box. It boots and runs fine off SD but when I try to install to eMMC it just boots and hangs on the original Google TV splash screen. I noticed while reading tutorials that when I run and-sata-install it's supposed to ask me where to boot from, but all it does is copies all my files to /dev/data. How can I tell it to boot from eMMC? I notice near the end it says four times: /dev/boot: no Android Magic Value /dev/boot: not a valid Android Boot Image. Any help appreciated thank you!

I've just bought A5X max Box with RK3328 and 4Gb Ram. It seems to run the latest sw that i've found really full of stupid bugs. Anyway, the most important issue is that AMAZON PRIME VIDEO does not work at all. It seems that this is due to DRM related problem Can you suggest me any solution (if any)? Here the build Ver. 8.1.0 Latest Patch 5th july Kernel version: 4.4.120 BUILD RK3328_box-userdebug 8.1.0 OPM6.17019.040.b1 KIND REGARDS

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Hellow there, I installed Armbian_5.67_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181117 to my Phicomm N1 box and found that the WIFI/Bluetooth is not available. Anyone can help me install the drivers? ____ ___ / ___|/ _ \__ ____ ____ __ \___ \ (_) \ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ / ___) \__, |> < > < > < |____/ /_//_/\_\/_/\_\/_/\_\ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.19.0-rc7-aml-s9xxx System load: 2.45 1.19 0.57 Up time: 9 min Memory usage: 16 % of 1844MB IP: 192.168.9.46 CPU temp:…

Hi everyone, I have 3 these weird kind of boxes, which have allwinner h3 processor, 1gb Ram and 8gb NAND flash. I want an armbian image that could work with this. beelink x2 link is down l. and I have tried Orange pi pc plus image. but it does not boot.

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…

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! Does anyone using GPU acceleration in S905X3? Have any tutorial?

I have tested video playback on: X96max plus (S905x3) TX5 pro (S905x) M96X (S912) -1080p youtube playback from chromium h264ify addon. -Video playback 1080p from MPV in full screen, window mode often lag. On bionic video plays fine from chromium and youtube , but in focal video lags. Testet on kernel 5.7 rc 2 before and after apt upgrade to kernel 5.7.16 Tested on latest focal and earlier versions on focal. No setting are changed Even when running same kernel on focal and bionic the same thing happen (video lag on focal). Why does focal videoplayback lag. What settings are changed i focal ? …

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

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