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One interface is for STA (client mode / normal wireless) and one for AP (access point, where you connect to) or P2P (Wi-Fi Direct). Some firmware / drivers enables this by default. Usually it is in Makefile (just example https://github.com/armbian/rtl8723ds/blob/main/Makefile) but it could also be deep in the code. Don't know.

I don't have a "boot_a", just a regular "boot". Isn't that "_a"/"_b" thing just a redundancy thing on some android devices? Also do I HAVE to use this "gradlew" program? Because it just errors out with some mystery "25.0.1" error code. qwerty@cod-waw-grenade-spam:~/Documents/compiling/Android_boot_image_editor$ ./gradlew unpack ./bootload er.img WARNING: A restricted method in java.lang.System has been called WARNING: java.lang.System::load has been called by net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.NativeLibraryLoa der in an unnamed module (file:/home/qwerty/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.14-bin/38aieal9i53h9rfe7vjup9 5b9/gradle-8.14/lib/native-platform-0.22-milestone-28.jar) WARNING: Use --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED to avoid a warning for callers in this module WARNING: Restricted methods will be blocked in a future release unless native access is enabled FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: 25.0.1 * Try: > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. > Run with --scan to get full insights. > Get more help at https://help.gradle.org. BUILD FAILED in 795ms Why is this damn thing fighting me tooth and nail? Man I hate when this happens. People mention how web browsers are bloated and slow. This is true, but people should also talk about command line utilities that are bloated and slow. (Why does it have to build stuff on first run?)

Thanks laibsch, A little bit better, but this is a partial solution. Start button still missing. to turn off computer I have enter shutdown on cmd. And "logout" what is the command to log out? I am looking for solution on cinnamon forum but nothing until now.

The first image that boots ok down the list of older images is Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopim4v2_bookworm_current_6.12.28_minimal.img.xz Could not get those images to boot: Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopim4v2_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img.xz Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopim4v2_noble_current_6.12.28_minimal.img.xz Armbian_25.8.1_Nanopim4v2_bookworm_current_6.12.41_minimal.img.xz Anyway, I am happy using the one I found booting. Thanks

Oh I get it. Since you are using another distro with newer versions of everything, my effort to build ffmpeg and mpv in Debian Trixie LOOKS like a backport to you XD

Now I did exactly this and after rebooting the Pi, I just get a black screen with a movable mouse cursor. Nothing more, it doesn’t matter how long I wait. What problem is this now?

With 6.12, no changes as far as I know

I have changed it to public。 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyQGR8kgzhCzmwuXhb8q5j707U9IXFob/view?usp=sharing And images of my board: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mKd1T83COy1KDLsmb9PbNnlm5FhdrBbV?usp=sharing

For the source code, after a bit of searching, I found https://de3.mirror.archlinuxarm.org I don't know if this will help you. I also tried the MiniArch-20240715-6.17.1-board-a527.cubie_a5e-SD-Image.img image, but it doesn't work either.

Try pipewire instead of pulseaudio

Thank you for sharing. You might want to have a look at Shrink Backup as well.

Orange PI has very good hardware (better than RPI) but bad support of software from factory devellopers. Raspberry PI 5 is a bit slower but we have more support and always new versions. I have both.

@Maurizio Finesso Try editing on a linux machine instead of windows. I've seen some windows machines not be able to read the boot partition

In this case ethernet chip is realtek so it should be supported by armbian kernel? So problem is to find or make a modern DTS for this board?

This site deals with Armbian Linux not android. You should direct your question about restoring Android to a more appropriate forum

not recommended for rockchip socs since it cannot handle the rather high baud rate of 1.5Mbaud. Use FT232, CH340 or CP2104 instead.

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Hello all, Ok, I'm going to comment on my own question here... I just now installed the Armbian 25.8.0 6.18.0 RC5 xfce version. It's not yet on the nvme drive but, it's significant faster than the 25.5.1 version. Now HD video works on the 5b+. It needs 2 seconds to stabilize but than it is perfectly fine to watch. I use Firefox as my browser. So thanks to the team! Ernst-Jan

Hi all, I would like to ask support for the board EMB-3531. I'm having problem with booting this board from SD card. Here are some informations about this board. I hope that someone can help me with it. Thank you so much! I try to erase the emmc and flash the MiniLoaderAll.bin but it doesn't help. Or i don't have a correct image with armbian for this board. https://my.kos.org.cn:5154/rockchip/EMB3531/emb3531.pdf

Try from here: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/igorpecovnik/ (this is going to be next release - first test build).

Your best bet is to compile your own image. It's super easy: "git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git;cd build;./compile.sh" https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE

I hope this helps... For the TX3 Mini, I used the distributions listed on https://www.armbian.com/amlogic-s9xx-tv-box/. Here's what I did: * Create a bootable image using Rufus (following the instructions). * Once the image was created, I went to the SD card's storage drive on a PC and made the following changes: * In the root directory of the SD card, I copied the file u-boot-s905x-s912 and pasted it as u-boot.ext. * In extlinux\extlinux.conf, on line 4, I changed it to "fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb". * I ejected the SD card, inserted it into the TX3 Mini, and turned it on. If it doesn't work, try a different distribution.

@laibsch https://u-boot.org/ edit: as I said earlier, it would be better to switch to upstream to get rid of patches and get some nice bugfixes in the process, but I assume this thing is mostly abandoned. A bunch of my containers no longer offer ARM32 support. Home Assistant too at the end of this year.

There are no other images available at the moment. Regarding this, there is some initial but incomplete work in progress here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8831 We can’t merge it in its current state, as it still requires a significant amount of additional work and refinement. Unfortunately, this means there isn’t a quick solution right now, so we’ll need to wait until the implementation is completed and validated.

Apparently the key needs to go to `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/armbian.gpg` too...