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@Jerry Falken I am pretty sure you jumped in this 3ad without reading all of it, and this is unfair . You are right, it is huge, but such question you ask have been already answered in the past many times , and I will answer just as a form of courtesy , but will not go back in the future on the same question again If you look at your board you can spot 3 pads : tx rx gnd . That is all is needed, no 5 volts just tx rx gnd Those pads are the "uart" , in other words there you will see ALL that happens when the board starts, if is a rk 322x or other fake print, if it is ddr3 or ddr2 manyyyyy manyyy infos to debug the whole process. For me it is a 3229 with ddr3 memory but uart will tell you Go find in the 1st post the speed of uart to use with putty or minicom ( spoiler :1500000 🙃 ) just for sake of coriousity, this si the setting I have in my lab: ALWAYS and I repeat ALWAYS a uart connected to debug what is going so if you need answer.. post the right questions and not generic ones g on

@Jerry Falken Never seen such board, you need usb-ttl converter , connect to tx-rx-gnd and grab the output

@Jerry Falken well this forum is more oriented on hardware and compiling stuffs rather than generic linux info that you can find every where on the net so I won't answer on this, google it You can remain also on old distros such as debian 9 stretch minimal without gui but with ssh support to run headless ngix apps. I don't think you need newer distros to run such easy apps , the important is improve a good firewall and also a fail2ban app to protect your system but, again, those are more generic linux questions rather than support on tvboxes socs

@Jerry Falken Unfortunately you must remain on kernel 4.4.xxx because as many times said newer kernels doesn t support NAND. About upgrading to newer distros, blacklist kernel update in apt and try doing seguential apt dist upgrades changing repository and starting by a well working distro I have up to Debian bookworm ( Debian 12 ) but only cli, no desktop May I ask what the purpose are you using for your tv box ?

@dale as usual shorting pins 6/7 on the well exposed nand

@Virgilio Junior None newer of 4.4.xxx ( usually 4.4.194) Will let you use internal nand You should spray on sd

@Virgilio Junior R329Q_V3.1 are known board to be a little "difficult" to manage, but they work and work very well because are ddr3 up to 660 mhz ram speed The big problem is that they are mostly NAND thus support is limited to legacy old images with kernel 4.4.194 and NAND support any newer kernel simply will not boot because of NO NAND DRIVERS I said MOSTLY because lately have shown on the market borads 329 with ecmp and i don't know if yours is this with ecmp would you explain in a more detailled way what you did, please ?

@Victor Picinin Hello Victor thank you for your work. Also @jock and @ilmich managed to obtain free source trust and not the proprietary One but i rembember there were issues ( DMC scaling on DDR3 ??? ) Sure jock or ilmich can answer better

@Mateus Lima It Is not the first neither will be the last time that china manufacturers fake soc printing. Have a look on allwinner forum

@Mateus Lima I am not very sure this Is a rockchip board.. i see h3q ...may be an allwinner h3 ?????? Can you check removing the heatsink ? Or check with USB ttl adapter ?

@Kiranmoy Saha I guess you have a box with NAND , not emmc You must use an old image that supports nand , typiclly kernel 4.4.xxx and follow 1st post jump start on nand Any newer kernel doesn't have nand support

@tofamus30 You said box Is 322x You said wifi Is 6330 But then you tried dtbo from 3318 board Not sure if is gonna work

@Benedito Portela you are a long term user on this forum to don't know that debugging is a MUST !!!!!!! And you have such WONDERFULL uart pads, even with names ( tx rx gnd) ... why don't you use them and let all of us know what going in your box ??😇 😉

@Lucas Gomes you should force it go in maskrom ( if no phisical damage occurred) finding the appropriate pins on the board

@Tavares R if you read the 1st post you will see that this box is a half-miracle, in the meaning that it work under some intergalactic forces 🤣😎 since it's harware is quite limited For use such as headless server is fantastic but when it comes to net browsing it shows all it's limits In the first post also is detaiiled a way to install full hw acceleration I tested many many many rootfs and many combinations but with XORG almost any browser is quite unusable. I dont have experience with wayland thought Different approach with playing video and music under libreelec with a reasonable frame rate and hw acceleration , but on this side @ilmich could be more specific

@remlei Yes indeed, sometimes I ask to myself ( and to my friends @jock @ilmich ) who the hell give us so much entusiasm, patience ( and frustration) to deal AGAINST not the box itself, but against the lack of good documentation and support , but when finally a stuff is working after thousands of trials and errors, well then I go sleep like a child with it's christmas gift. This is the pagic called PASSION !!!

@Vinicius Guastala @jock indeed is a semi-god on those boxes 😅 ✋

@Vinicius Guastala first of all thank you for so much detailled infos and your efforts to find any relevant pin on your board. Yes china manufacturers are well known to use the first avaible chip they have unused on desk so I am not at all surprised to have this frankstein model of a 322x Unfortunately I don't own such board, so really at the moment I have few clues to point you on the right direction. Mine are generic considerations: 1) no separate chips apart from cpu, just one big big chip = ECMP usually 8 giga rom, 1 giga ram ( good for you if it is 16/2 but i doubt) 2) to me looks more interesting the FGHI part for uart, REMEMBER that uart speed is 1500000 ( yes!!!!! one million 500000) but follow the tracks for any missing resistor/missing short that stop the uart signal from CPU to pads 3) if you have a radio-aficionado or a tv technician that owns an oscilloscope finding the uart pads will be easier Sorry if I am not any further useful for your case, cannot buy every single new board that comes out on market, but if for you is important feel free to send me one sample for study and development EDIT : I just remebered that if you are lucky because not all boards have enabled. you'll find a uart on the sd card reader, starting from most right pins and counting 4 . Let me be more clear : two small and two big, from right....on the 4 you will have a uart at 1.500.000 Of course if you put the sd in you will lose this signal, but at least confirm you have any readable character on that pin )

@Void Spirit the easiest thing to do in such cases is connect a ttl > usb converter to those well exposed pads to see what is going on putty or any serial terminal you desire, and help understand why the box doesn't boot As you can see from photos @Alexander has it's debug wires attached semi-permanently with hot glue and this i suggest to you. Saying " I am already tired" really doesn't help a lot , instead giving as much infos as possible will lead to successfully run the box If libreeelc boots, armbian will boot. I have the same box, among many others, and I can say it boots fine and works fine too with armbian

@Enzo Esteban can you check with great precision the stamp on the cpu ? In second image To me it seems a 3328 ......... and not a 3228 . Great difference my friend !!!!!!!!!!!! If it is really a 3328 you are simply doing ALL WRONG . They are totally different cpu's and totally different drivers The 3328 is a 64 bit aarch64 architecture The 3228 is a 32 bit armhf architecture BTW if you are in Brasil, try to contact this people . Basing on our early study they did a distro fitting on these cheap tvboxes https://github.com/educabox/educabox/tree/main

@Enzo Esteban unfortunately ssv6051 and ssv6256 present themself as "South Silicon Valley 6051/6256p device ID: 3030:3030" if you have ssv6256 it will not work is a 5ghz wifi tvbox? can u supply some high resolution board photo ?

@Joshua allen asking for private chat to solve personal issues is the most unappropriate way to act in a public forum. For several reasons: 1) your problem could be the same problem for other people sharing your issues, so solving for you could be solving for many 2) this is an hobby for us and not job. Job is paid, hobby is for free. if you need help for your personal issue you can give an advice asking for paid help 3)this really is the worst approach to an open community of people that friendly and mutual try to help each others that said.... would you share what is your problem, since you already asked for help ( private help..) in another post ? describe what is working, what not, attach procedures and photos of board , explain your moves and results We will try to give you a helpful hand.

@toro2077 If I remember well, and you can confirm by yourself scrolling in older posts, thiw wifi will never ever work since there aren't any driver avaible for this ( infamous) chip s9012p

@Tavares R https://users.armbian.com/jock/web/rk322x/multitool/

@Obmor Welcome in the fantastic world of cheap tvboxes 🤪 post scriptum: it happens time to time with mouse, too