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Moved to Rockchip TV Box forum.

The author has taken down those builds after two years. So for now there are no unofficial builds for amlogic tv boxes. I'm hoping that changes soon. My experience is that this is fixed in later kernels. If I recall correctly this started working correctly in 5.0.18 (could be 5.0.19). I'm hoping to get some new builds based on current kernels made available.

Start here: 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

You would mount the emmc device (/dev/mmcxxxxx) like you would any other disk in linux. Note that not all android partitions are in a format standard linux will be able to understand.

Well youtube certainly isn't an official source. I have no idea where the build you used came from, but it isn't anything I am aware of. Please read the following two TV Box FAQ posts: 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

I'll repeat the above two questions you didn't answer. Without knowing what code you are trying to install and what steps you did during your install, we can't help. We need to know what you have and what you have done.

@incendio First off, what board or box are you working with. Saying 'generic board' doesn't help us help you. Each board will have different hardware and thus require differing help. Then where did you get the build you referenced? And finally what instructions/steps did you use to install.

@Subhash First of what device and what build are you using? Also, please read the following TV Box FAQ item to understand the status of armbian on amlogic based TV Boxes: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

No it isn't currently possible. Mainline linux support for the s905x4 is a way off if it ever happens.

@K 6331 I'm assuming you are following the instructions from here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus As for the dtb, you may need to try a few different ones, using the one that best works for your hardware. If your box is an s905x cpu, then you should try the meson-gxl-s905x-* dtbs.

@Dong You don't provide any information about what you have done to get into the state you are nor what you are trying to do. I will point you to the following TV Box FAQ items as a first step: 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

That isn't surprising really. The old builds of armbian that are available are for kernel 5.9.0. While there isn't a lot of fixes being made to the amlogic code in the kernel, there are some that trickle in and the debian link you provided is just from a newer kernel with a more correct dtb. If someone were to pick up balbes150's work and publish new armbian images with a more recent kernel the armbian images would also likely work better.

I have been playing with this issue for other reasons today. You should be able to restore the default u-boot environment by the following uboot commands: env default -a saveenv Since I doubt you have a serial connection to your box allowing you to debug/monitor u-boot, you can cause these commands to be run by using the attached aml_autoscript file. If you put this file on your usb stick and use the 'adb reboot update' that should run the above commands which are contained in that special aml_autoscript file. After that you can restore the original armbian aml_autoscript file to your usb stick and do the 'adb reboot update' with that one and then you should have a working armbian environment. aml_autoscript

Yes a firmware for that device. It is unlikely that a firmware for a different device will work, even if they share the same cpu.

First you need to read the following TV Box FAQ items: 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 Note in particular from the instructions posted above, that because you have previously run coreelec you will need to find an original android firmware and reinstall that to reset the boot environment to its default state. coreelec and armbian make incompatible changes to the boot environment and you can't use armbian after coreelec. Otherwise, while I haven't heard of anyone running armbian on this box, given the steps you did to get coreelec running, the same should work for armbian. The hack of using "adb reboot update" should have the same effect as the toothpick method to set the multiboot uboot environment variables.

I don't think you understand. First your device isn't supported. Per the previous discussions on the site that I linked and you confirmed you read, no one has successfully installed armbian on your device. And finally the information contained in the previous posts indicates that it isn't possible to put armbian on your device. This is open source, so feel free to work on this yourself if you desire, but you aren't going to get any additional help from armbian maintainers on this.

Armbian doesn't support upgrades between releases of ubuntu or debian. Having said that you can search the forum for others who have asked this same question. While it can be done manually there are things to watch out for. Make sure you have a backup in case things go wrong.

This device is not a supported by Armbian. I moved this post to unsupported -> Off Topic. A search of the forum leads to the following two older discussions about this device: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9606-new-life-for-jide-remix-mini-a64-unsupported https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12378-which-version-to-download

Are you sure that the last batch was an Orange PI 3, not the new Orange PI 3 LTS - similar names but slightly different boards with different Armbian builds.

This isn't a valid issue for the following reasons:. First this report is not for an official Armbian build, second this is an issue in user space software (Ubuntu in this case) not an Armbian issue.

You need to use the Amlogic USB Burning Tool to install the original firmware. Google for examples on where to download and how to reinstall an android firmware on an Amlogic based TV Box.

Closing this very old thread. Feel free to open new posts for the older S805/S812 amlogic cpu based TV Boxes

@mcb777 Please note that posting such resources (i.e. the ophub build "amlogic-s9xxx-armbian" above) in this forum can be insulting towards Armbian developers since the developers behind ophub do not participate in the Armbian development effort nor these forums. In fact they use the Armbian name for their fork without permission. The concern being that users of these other code bases will turn to these forums for support not knowing the code they are running is not Armbian and burden our already scarce resources. I would ask you not to post such links in the Armbian forums in the future.

Here is the link for archived builds for the C1: https://archive.armbian.com/odroidc1/archive/

The short answer is if a board doesn't have anyone who has volunteered to be the maintainer for that board it is not longer support, until someone steps up to volunteer to be a maintainer. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/