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Emmc will be faster and emmc is more more reliable (i.e. supports more writes before wearing out) than an SD card. Though as you point out, an SD card generally provides more storage. Also the quality of SD cards varies tremendously. With SD cards if you pay a premium you can get a good reliable card, but many are inexpensive and low quality.

There is no Armbian 23.11 of Bionic. You have the latest updates for Bionic on your system.

Also, you may need to install armbian-firmware-full as the default firmware package in the images is a trimmed down set of firmwares to minimize size. So the firmware for your device may not be installed by default.

The easiest thing to do would be to start over with a new download/SD card. The default is root/1234 and if you didn't change it, that should still be the case.

That image is over two years old and not maintained. In general TV Boxes are not supported by Armbian. There was some support for the r69 in the past, but there is no current maintainer. I haven't seen anyone touch it in years.

You need to be more specific. What image are you referring to?

Did you do anything special for your original install? What dtb file did you use? I would suggest rolling back to an older Linux kernel to see if the issue is there (use armbian-config)

But we need to know what you upgraded from.

Can you be more specific? Having the system information for the working system would be necessary to understand your situation and the differences between working and not working.

This is already specified in the FAQ: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus/#comment-168724 We shouldn't have multiple places with the same/similar information or over time they will get out of sync.

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Updates do remove the entire dtb directory. So you would need to put the custom dtb file somewhere outside that directory and then adjust the extlinux.conf accordingly.

A couple of comments: First don't expect wifi to ever work: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/#comment-118794 Second you mention a wifi dongle not working. Have you installed armbian-firmware-full? By default the Armbian builds only include a limited set of firmwares out of the box.

@Opertron No you don't use usb_burning_tool with Armbian images. Please read the following: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus And I think the following thread is for your box: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/24220-8gb128gb-media-player-h265-q96-max-smart-tv-box-android-11-amlogic-s905l-quad-core-24g-wifi-4k-set-top-box-home-theater/

Ok. So the Armbian build you are using uses the android uboot bootloader on emmc to boot. Given what you report this looks like a bug in the android bootloader as it happens on Android as well as Armbian.

What armbian build are you using?

If you build from source the 'edge' kernel, you will get 6.6. FYI. Device dtb files do not persist across kernel updates, You will need to reapply for any kernel updates you receive.

Have you tried an armbian build with a kernel newer than 6.1.x? The upstream patch you mention was incorporated after 6.1 and not back ported to 6.1. So the fix should be included in mainline (and thus armbian) in any kernel later than the 6.1 lts series.

If you have the skills and knowledge to port Armbian to the box then yes. If you want to use existing builds then unlikely. In a quick search I found that the box uses an amlogic CPU, but didn't find out what exact model. Please read the following for more info: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

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@Ya_super_grafiti dts/dtb files are specific to the linux kernel. Armbian focuses on mainline linux kernels and others out there use vendor kernels (which usually are a ported android based kernels from ancient sources). The differences between vendor kernels and mainline linux are usually significant preventing direct reuse of a dts/dtb from one to the other. If you know how dtb's work and have the hardware specs, you could port the dts into mainline, but that is expert level work.

@Silv3r_18 Welcome. Anything is possible, but it won't be easy. Search for other threads in the forum about TV Boxes and H616 support. Also read this FAQ item to understand that allwinner on TV Boxes is the least supported as there is no one that is actively focused on that cpu family on TV Boxes.

No not the same thing at all

These forums are for Armbian software. You need to go to ask your questions in a forum/site that supports the software you are running. If it isn't Armbian we can't help you.