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@nokirunner this was exactly the same question when I approached to linux study on those devices: well . thanks to study and many people that explained to me now I know that linux IS NOT android and the opposite is also true, and YES they violate the GPL but if you are able to go in China to yell on this, well buy a ticket for me too. In case of wifi they don't violate any since is proprietary driver and nowhere is written that they must open the code to every one the desktop subsystem is perfect on Android with all jingles and bells, now you take the SAME kernel they use, the same modules and libraries they have in rootfs and NO!!! it doesn't work at the same manner under linux, and since we must adapt something to linux phylosophy and we HAVEN'T documentation sometimes at all, sometimes half-half , I truly believe that is quite a miracle we have a true linux platform on those devices sadly to admit it but this is the truth

@nokirunner ciao Nokirunner, you are half true half wrong Is the starting point that is different , not the operating system Raspberry is a single board computer that is BORN to be a computer so the kernel ( because we must speak about THIS, the userland part is just something that we can change as we want having the appropriate modules and libraries ....) is well supported in community and researches mxq 4k pro, andowl tv box, shishion, hk1 mini etc etc etc are TVBOXES and it happened that thanks to some intuition, efforts, botta di culo even, we discovered how to have a decent linux running on those evil things Is not armbian or fedora for arm or even mageia for arm, is the lack of trustable documentation , as you said "conveniently stupid for some obscure reason" because have a 10 dollars SBC to decently compete against more expensive boards could have done some market instability that is all ;-)

Sure, you have two: 1) don't use network manager and for eth0 put the config in /etc/network/interfaces where you can define a mac address too : auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.xxx.x gateway 192.168.xxx.x netmask 255.255.255.0 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 hwaddress ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 2) in network-manager you must CLONE the actual mac address shown by ifconfig and it will be overwritten at every reboot with same mac address content of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections [connection] id=Wired connection 1 uuid=xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxx type=ethernet autoconnect-priority=-999 interface-name=eth0 permissions= timestamp=1586859373 [ethernet] cloned-mac-address=C4:2A:FE:23:82:82 mac-address-blacklist= [ipv4] address1=192.168.xxx.x/24,192.168.xxx.x dns=208.67.222.222; dns-search= may-fail=false method=manual [ipv6] addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy dns-search= method=ignore put attention on the line cloned mac address and edit as per your needs

@Alex83 glad to see that everything is OK. Yes, @jock did some surprising enanchments to the whole process and now is working even the dual band ssv6x5x wifi chip, but yet on legacy For mainline kernel the work to do is rewrite the wifi driver , but really it could take some expensive time consuming efforts , while now energies are concentrating on desktop usage and acceleration side on mainline kernel

@Alex83 when you do all this flashes... do you REMOVE dc plug or just issue the command " reboot" ? remember that nands are very problematic. You should remove dc pover, remove sd card, wait few seconds to allow capacitors discharge and boot back

@nokirunner and others pardon if i say a totally dumb thing, but on legacy kernel there was a way to obtain both x org and accelerated things: was to EXIT xserver with a init 3 , go into a shell and from there , from cli, launch the appropriate video player with appropriate libraries. It is necessary to unload some dll and charge back some others. At least on 4.4 When it comes mainline kernel I hold my arms in air Again this is what PERSONALLY have understood ater 1.000.000 of post read

@nokirunner 1) download the kernel headers and compile on the board itself, no cross compile. the board is powerfull enough to compile 2) ehmm.... that repository is another work of jock :-)

Personally haven't a 3328 but most part of work on 3229 was " social engeneering" Is quite un-probabily that in rockchip have made 2 millions different bootloaders and/or 2 millions ddrbin for all the mostrous amount of chip they have Most probabily they have some generic that EARLY boot on 32 bit and some others that boot on 64 bit In effect most of code of 3229 was related to ancient 3036 so should NOT be that difficult adapt to your particular case !

@Reddwarf what processor is inside that A5X ? Rockchip too ?

@jaum20 oh, SMH , I missed the point that the dump itself is corrupted Well this is a chicken egg problem. Try this: unpack the firmware I send you (rk3229_8.1_MX1VR_SSV6256_zhongx_20180925_v002_Spectek.zip) with imgRePackerRK_106.zip you can find some post earlier You will obtain even recovery.img and system.img . Try to dd those parts on the board Just a test not sure if will work

I have seen quite all kind of boards https://ibb.co/1m81xth and if you have the whole dump you can restore it with @jock multitool with a simple dd I guess

I don't know if there is a limitation in reading less ram due wrong dtb. Sure if you have 2 giga and dtb is for 1giga it will read only 1g but I am not aware of the opposite . Sure @jock can be more precise on this. My shishion is 16 giga/1giga ssv6x5x and that firmware is ok on it Sorry no whole dump but a male male usb would definitely help you in reprogramming or if you still have original partitions ( boot trust resources etc etc ) you can unpack the firmware as DD it from Linux. But if your nand or emmc is erased I don't know a procedure for dding unless a whole dump The limitation about one post is because you are new on here I guess Would you post some photos of board for helping in recognizing it

@jaum20 it was some post earlier https://chinagadgetsreviews.com/download-android-8-1-stock-firmware-for-scishion-model-x-tv-box.html and in particular http://download.appinthestore.com.s3.amazonaws.com/201811/Computer and network/2830928 SCISHION Model X TV box firmware ROM pack.rar if we speak of ssv 6x5x with android 8 and kernel 4.4.126 here we go

@victroniko Ty for all tests, combinations, ideas you are experimenting/experiencing. People such as you and other great persons ( and this post is full of clever minds) are ALWAYS welcome. Cheers

@victroniko But I putted here a tool for extracting pieces from androd tool may be it was not clear. you can use this imgRePackerRK_106.zip imgRePackerRK_106.zip

@victroniko wow compliments for the idea of extracting the dtb via binwalk, a bit long but a ingenious idea !!imgRePackerRK_106.zip any way just for you and others here is a tool to unpack originals android roms It works under dos prompt and the sintax is imgRePackerRK.exe /2nd name_of_file.img hope it helps

@DaviMesquita For those boxes is really a jungle !! Those Chinese tend to grab the first avaible cheap chip and put inside so a big variety of possibilities. @Jock contacted me and maybe now is the moment to " put hands " in this sluttish driver. @Ztrawberry the driver for ssv6051 doesn't suit sv 6x5x this is the problem and that project for a universal image is a nice idea but me and jock and other clever programmers ( the same man that bring libreelec to life on those boards @knaerzche ) own so many different boards that has been reached great maturity on rk 322x . Mostly bugs are well known ( ssv6x5x among others) and still working on them Of course support , ideas and suggestions are highly appreciated

@DaviMesquita first of all let say my appreciation for your effort to bring cheap computers for people who hasn't access to better resources, this does justice to you. Those boxes are perfect for this purpose and the performances are overall good. Now straight to problems: nmtui wants NO arguments. Just NMTUI and you will have a pop up new window nmtui -connect is a unknown command Your wifi will NOT work unfortunately. We tried some ideas but the driver is incomplete so no luck.And the driver for 6051 wil NOT work . I can realize it is important but you have to use wired or with wifi dongle. We are waiting for new kernel release.. maybe we are more lucked. Last question I didn't understand. Do you want just know where download the rom or do you physically need it ? Cheers edit: https://chinagadgetsreviews.com/download-android-8-1-stock-firmware-for-scishion-model-x-tv-box.html and choose the amanonaws link

@Luis have you tried the command startx is unusual that the x11 doesn't start automatically, maybe a fesh installation or jock's suggestions

@nokirunner you should put in the env also an olive, some martini and mix, not shake ok other than this , yes would be anice idea have both , compliments for the idea

as jock said the process was in reality starting from respeaker and going to tvboxes !! all I can say that you respeaker will work perfectly and you only need some tuning

@Reddwarf @jock will answer more completely to this question, but I guess the short answer is : NO

Commercial names of those board = giving number on the lottery !! A little , but little better approach is name ON THE PHYSICAL board or (the best approach indeed ) is trying to get those basic infos: 1) nand or emmc ( multitool will reveal it) 2) 3228 ( a/b doesn't really matter at this point since the difference is a bunch of MHZ speed but less than 10% ) or 3229 ( efuse command will reveal it ) 3) ddr2 or ddr3 ( at the writing moment only uart will reveal )

Thank you so much @Alex83 yes I had even a vpn on a broken WiFi chip ubiquity nano loco CPE with openwrt and somewhere I read that wireguard could perform better. Anyway the performance was ideal to do in real environment ( two different remote ips and not in perfect environment such as intranet) but anyway your results are awesome. Ty

@Alex83 ok it is a real 3229 thanks for efuse 00000000 52 4b 23 92 >>>> 2392 >>> 3329 This iperf is done trhought wireguard ?