December 2, 2025Dec 2 Stock rom of this tv stick is so bad that it lags even with just watching youtube and it wrote it can play 4k. So I need armbian/any other linux distro for this tv stick.
December 2, 2025Dec 2 @Maxim Shell Does it have a SD card slot? If not then it won't be easy to install Armbian.
December 3, 2025Dec 3 Author @Nick AIt has only usb and hdmi, no any SD card slots. Also I dont know anything that it has, I just need graphics acceleration, sound and support of usb, its all.
December 3, 2025Dec 3 @Maxim Shell it’s possible to boot using USB OTG. You’ll need the latest u-boot. You can use my mainline build. Not sure if your stick has secure boot enabled. You can remove the secure boot patches if you don't need it. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/mainline/patch/u-boot/u-boot-mainline git clone https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build.git --branch mainline cd build ./compile.sh build BOARD=transpeed-8k618-t BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED=browsers DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base EXTRAWIFI=no KERNEL_BTF=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm https://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot#Mainline_U-Boot_.28v2015.04_and_newer_versions.29 build/cache/sources/u-boot-worktree/u-boot/v2025.10/spl/u-boot-spl.bin You can mount the compiled image to get the other files. sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dtb uImage boot.scr I haven't done this before. Let us know how it works out for you. Edited December 3, 2025Dec 3 by Nick A
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Author @Nick Aforgot to add, it has allwinner h313, also how do you backup or dump stock? I need it so I will be able to return if something won't work. Also thanks for help.
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