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@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 ?

@Alex83 thank you so much for reporting your test on wifi speed Please would also report you experience with wireguard and/or any other vpn method since my expereinces were NOT so happy , neither with openvpn neither with wireguard. I must investigate if depends by my isp carrier or/and wrong configurations. thanks in advance EDIT: share also the efuse infos and if you have some board photos

@Alex83 the only way to declare the processor inside is this command, as we said many times hexdump -C /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/rockchip-efuse0/nvmem And even with this command we still unsure if a 3228a or a 3228b; so if you say that is a "3229 for sure" ( and not because you read by the stamp on processor.......) I believe you, even if you have the same boards of the photos i doubt it is a 3229 but mostly a 3228. this could be also proved by the fact that rk322x-box (Generic RK322x TV Box board) is working With this chinese people never say never thought and I surrender to all their fake statements ( just an example some producer say that an all winner has 4 giga ram even if is well know that h6 has PHYSICAL limitation to 3 giga....) EDIT: I have a board called sardine... wll advertized as a 3229 chip on the processor also 3229 this is my efuse: hexdump -C /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/rockchip-efuse0/nvmem 00000000 52 4b 23 82 >>>>>> 3228 and since some erratic problems quite sure a 3228 A

@Alex83 if NONE of profiles with name " rk3229" brings life to your board is simply because your boad probabily isn't a 3229 but a 3228a or 3228b The rk322x-box (Generic RK322x TV Box board) because it is just generic The mxq you have is a 3228 with ssv6051 so try any of the other combinantions but with 3228 in name and yes nands don't like to many rewrites but you cannot imagine ANDROID how much stress them p.s did you try the moltipurpose tool and steP-nand tool to help you identify the board ?