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    fabiobassa reacted to RaptorSDS in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    But RTL8723as is not 8723bs , you should not mix them . 
     
    8723as has definitive a diffirent firmware than bs https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux/+/rtl8xxxu-8188eu/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h
     
    many of the RTL 8723xx are part of Kernel 5 , it should be detect by linux automaticly with the right firmware/driver combination
     
    have you check the chip by open the box ? maybe its a 8723ds (bs and ds have same format and pinout ) ,8723as has a diffirent board format so its very unusal that this board have another print extra for this 8723as format
     
     
     
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to MattWestB in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @remlei OS agent for ARM 32 and supervised select Pi 3 (not 64 bit version) and also need patching the boot parameters for getting the install working OK by faking GRUB settings.
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    fabiobassa reacted to remlei in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    I successfully installed supervised install of HA using the images here https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk322x/armbian/stable/
     
    what I did usually after armbian is installed is perform apt update and upgrade. after that I follow the most generic instruction how to install supervised install of HA, the only thing you need to watch out is install the right architecture for the os_agent.
     
    after that its just a matter of how to fix that unsupported install to supported.
     
    also a fair warning, do not install esphome on this box, the ram alone will make this box slow to crawl or worst crash the entire thing.
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @guitoscan
     
    Welcome in the club 🙃 
    rk322x are often " assembled" with the first avaible piece of chip laying around in producer factory.
     
    We have spent now more than 3 years reading of rkdevelootools android tools factory tools and so on and yet no clue with some boards we dont own
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from guitoscan in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @guitoscan
     
    Welcome in the club 🙃 
    rk322x are often " assembled" with the first avaible piece of chip laying around in producer factory.
     
    We have spent now more than 3 years reading of rkdevelootools android tools factory tools and so on and yet no clue with some boards we dont own
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    fabiobassa reacted to jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    It is widely known that often they reuse those chips which are not up to the specs. They pick parts from the trash and assemble the tvboxes.
     
    Sure you are not the only one, but helping solve the problem without the board in my lab for tests is difficult anyway.
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    fabiobassa reacted to RaptorSDS in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Let's look into the crystal ball, I see something, it could be that something is not right here and someone has problems with a rk322x box. hope you understand this little fun, it would be of course especially with such a time pressure of only a week surprising if we could really solve your problem with such a crystal ball, so let's start here. Describe your box in more detail, which multitool which problem from which point, why this solution not something else and much much more ....
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    fabiobassa reacted to jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @spinning banner Hello!
    Unfortunately R29 boards seem to have a widely well-known issue with HDMI output, which is not working for some unknown reason.
    Some research has already been done in the past on device trees, inspecting photos and logs, but still the problem is unknown, as long as I don't have such a board in my lab to really study where the problems are.
     
    The S9012P wifi chip also is a no-name chip, as long as I remember it is a chinese chip with no known drivers that "emulates" a realtek chip (not a broadcom one, like those which AP6xxx are based upon), but I can be wrong.
     @RaptorSDS did some research on that chip, but as far as I know, there is no solution because there is no driver for that (see https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12656-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-boxes/page/57/#comment-156548)
     
    R29 is a quite weird board actually; despite being very similar to others, has some compatibility issues all-around and it does not surprise me the multitool has troubles with emmc, although it should have none.
    From the android dmesg I see on android the eMMC runs at 31.25 MHz; Multitool runs it at standard 50 MHz, and that may be the cause of the flash storage issues on multitool.
    The reason could be a  very poor quality board or eMMC,  because ALL the boards with eMMC I have ever seen runs the eMMC at 50Mhz perfectly fine and I never had to downclock the eMMC frequency to solve an issue like that.
     
     
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @Khalid Pro
     
    hello man, are you aware of some terms such as " please", "thank you" and so going on?

    Any way we don t talk of roms here,  google is the best friend in these cases
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    fabiobassa reacted to jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @primoitt perhaps you should consult first page on "Multimedia" paragraph.
    The way to go on mainline kernel is, as suggested by @fabiobassa, use ffmpeg, but AFAIK you still have to patch it manually with some libreelec patches to let it work.
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    fabiobassa reacted to RaptorSDS in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Thank You , ok switching things by adding a part of it
     
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to Vittorio Mori in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @primoitt: @ilmich solved it for me by compiling a libreleec 11 build with mpv binary included- Everything works, h264/hevc/mpeg2 ..... brilliant.
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from ochentay4 in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @ochentay4
     
    What do you mean " inspected by my camera"
     
    Have read, again, the whole post ( no, i Guess)
     
    Because already discussed that even if marked 3229 sometimes are fake and they really are amlogic or allwinner.
    Heve you skills to get a USB TTL converter and give us a serial log ?
     
     
     
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    NAND are not exactly easy beasts, if the multitool does not detect it anymore it is because the kernel rockchip driver does not detect it.
    It is difficult to say what happened exactly, we have spent hours and hours to figure out what was the behaviour of the nand driver and all the other proprietary software pieces of the puzzle.
    Also they are quite "fragile" pieces of hardware, and abusing of them can quickly destroy the cells capacity to work.
     
    In the past, people has restored the NAND functionality restoring original android images with AndroidTool for windows, or uploading particular bootloaders; you should look for such resources in this thread (or with google) because some procedures were described to do so I forgot to bookmark.
     
    For what me and @fabiobassa have seen, what seems to be an apparently random behaviour of the NANDs, in reality it is deterministic and can be understood. What we've found to be totally confusing was the fact that keeping anything attached to the board (HDMI, ethernet, keyboard, serial adapter, ... whatever!) can prevent the NAND from being detected after a reboot.
     
    Also remember to use the armbian image with the legacy kernel, those with mainline kernel miss the proprietary driver. Also you could post a dmesg log after booting such legacy kernel image to see what the driver has to say about NAND.
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to fangis in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Hello friends,
     
    No request this time, just another success story, at least partial !
    I managed to run multitool on a mxq pro tv box.
    Now I will try to edit this image to make a linux image working from
    the sd card, my parents still like too much their laggy android to delete it, hehe.
     
    Installing linux on mini pcs is so useful, I have done it on many different ones.. Im curious on what people here are doing with their desktops and servers !
    ok, all the best, greetings from Brazil, and thanks everyone for the work and research
     
    fangis
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from fangis in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @hexdump 
    In my case study ( and I own many different boards)I always found a uart somewhere, maybe little copper pads but always I found a uart for debugging
    if you post a photo of your board up/down maybe we can identify them

    I can confirm that the buildings from @jock are working fine and never happened that boots and hangs: if boot it works, otherwise no boot occurs, because of 1) wrong ddr settings 2) wrong trust OS but this is easily debugged by uart

    we can summarise 3 BIG categories of boards:
    3228 ddr 2 ( NO dinamic frequency scaling of ddr speed DMC)
    3228 ddr 3 ( DMC is working fine)
    3229 ( well exactly even here ddr2 and ddr3 but.... let's assume newer 3229 have only ddr3)

    3229images will not boot on 3228 because different trst OS (thanks @knaerzche for all those USEFULL infos)
     
    and yes if on the original emmc/nand is present the loader and some other little stuffs then the board looks for uboot on sd , without touching the internal process and the boot occurs from external SD

    Just to be complete, give a try to  this rootfs :

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jmtwGs88iXfCs7UtaEv1d5h7C9-9KGFg
     
    EDIT : if we find the UART put the command line to both ttyS2
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    fabiobassa reacted to Igor in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    https://github.com/armbian/community/commit/2dc0a364c8a31e11d708885e0622f1be30402de1
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    fabiobassa got a reaction from Willy Moto in CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards   
    @DavidJS
    you SHOULD at least know that FAT has a limitation to maximum 4gb for a single file so the problem isn't the partition but the file itself
    Anyway when you insert SD for 1st time without any image inside the fat partition is resized to maximum. Then remove the SD and out the image on it
    you can try to compress .GZ the image and see if it Is under 4gb and fit
     
     
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to speed21 in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    My board decided to crap its pants after flashing armbian for the 10th time but I managed to revive it.
     
    Not sure if this is useful but I found the clock pin that I can connect GND to make the box enter MASKROM mode my board has an emcp chip on it
    My model is MXQPRO_V71
    you can solder a wire to this point and short it to ground then plug in your sdcard with multitool
    short the clock pin to the ground and plug the power, wait till the led indicator turns red then remove the jumpers. if the led starts flashing then you are all set! you can try flashing armbian or your stock firmware to your box

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    fabiobassa reacted to Maker39 in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Wow !!! it's magic !
    I have WiFi
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    fabiobassa reacted to jock in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Hmmm, I did not understand if the board crashes or OMV becomes unresponsive (and which part, since OMV leverages nginx and php for the web admin and samba/nfs/ftp for the file serving services).
     
    You say that you can "ssh the box", but you mean that you can login via ssh and the board still operates normally or the ssh service is apparently responding but you can't login?
    I have a board with debian buster that is running OMV perfectly fine for several months right now, but also I'm experimenting with an eMCP board that has Home Assistant and running as wireless AP without any issues. Both of the board are running headless with no problems or crashes. The eMCP board is a MXQPRO_V73, should not be far different than your MXQ_V71 (I may guess it is a MXQPRO_V71? You could post some high resolution photos that may be helpful identifying the board and its components)
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    fabiobassa reacted to im_chc in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Hi @jock and @fabiobassa, it's great that you guys support the TV boxes that Armbian won't, amazing!
    I have a HDMI stick with a RK3229 SOC, and this pathetic stick/board is a clone of a product with the brand "Any-cast", which at the same time is a clone of the Google Chromecast.
     
    I thought I had bricked it, but I wonder if there's anything to do with it? 
    I didn't expect to run Armbian on it, but if I can ssh into it and run something like lighttpd, it will be already great
     
    I think the two soldered spot near the USB port is the UART serial, but I'm not sure
    I also managed to do
    rkdeveloptool db rk322x_loader_vxxx.bin , seems that the image is flashed successfully, but it still show "Maskrom" mode after I do
    rkdeveloptool ld But I'm afraid to say that I'm not too clear about what I am doing 😅
    (Oh there is an external WiFi chip that is soldered to a USB cable, you can look at the last three photos)
     



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    fabiobassa got a reaction from Seth in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    @marras

    if you need just for 3d printer no desktop at all and it will be fast as lightnening
     
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    fabiobassa reacted to donluca in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    A terrible suspicion came to me right as I was writing the previous post, so I did a quick cat /proc/cpuinfo... and it has an H3 CPU.

    Everything that was written on the box and on the eBay auction was completely off.
     
    It looks like this one: 
     
     
    Apologies for wasting your time, I'll go and try out another image for the correct CPU!
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    fabiobassa reacted to donluca in CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards   
    Sorry for the late reply, it looks like I'm allowed only one post per day due to bot/spam prevention measures.

    The board is marked as MXQ-HX-V2.0 and has a sv6256p wifi chip which means no wi-fi for me (not that I really needed it, but still...)
     
    Here's a picture:
     

     
    I can clearly see the serial port pads marked between the USB and SPDIF connector so I should be fine if anything goes pear shaped.

    Still, I'd feel more comfortable knowing if there's been any test done on this board.
    I don't need video output or anything else as this is going to be the DNS server of my local network (Pi-Hole, DNSCrypt and all that jazz), but I'd really appreciate not having to sacrifice an SD to hold the rootfs and, more importantly, the ethernet MUST work.
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