I have once again returned to this post in need of assistance. I have recently acquired from my tech wizard father a MXQ Pro 5G 4K TV box, which not even he managed to get working. According to him, its eMMC. Attached are photos of the motherboard, i did some looking at previous recent pages, so i have my suspicions, if someone though knows if this is a false print, or a just a freak motherboard please do tell. The problem itself is that it wont boot to the SD card, sometimes it will boot in sometimes not, but every time it boots if i try to access the files or sd card the Android freezes up. CPU: According to the print, RK3228A If any questions about any other components arise, please circle them in a photo because my knowledge on hardware electronics is limited.

@PH Ph You need to find the correct GPIO# for your emmc. Extract the boot.bin from your original Android to get the device tree (DTS). Follow the steps in this link. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29794-how-to-install-armbian-in-h618/#findComment-187672

Hi everyone! I'm obviously new here, and I simply wanted to give my profile a picture, but failed to find that option in the "profile > account settings". I assume it's easy, and to be honest I like to take the time to ask a real person here. Is there an option to upload an avatar image? Thank you!

I will definitely look into that. "mplayer -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb0 videofile.mp4" with desktop disabled worked perfectly by the way, no issues. I've used both X11 and wayland though and also there is nothing in the logs which I find extremely weird. However I will look into it further the upcoming week, I am most definitely missing something.

Hi @tmb Helios64 and Armbian are still very relevant in 2025! Thanks to this amazing community! I used mine with OpenMediaVault until a couple of MOSFETs failed and some drives stopped to spin up. Unfortunately, the original components were quite cheap. Even though I found better replacements, I didn’t want to pay for micro-soldering services, which can be pricey compared to the parts themselves (just a few euros). Instead, I built my own NAS using an Intel N100. It’s now a low-power device running a dozen Docker containers, using Home Assistant image as base. I’m totally in unsupported territory, but it works great! With this setup, OpenMediaVault can go into sleep mode when needed, and so far, it’s been working really well for me.