It's an Amlogic board. Rockchip developer tools won't work as far as I know.
The board showed in the instructions to short the pins also looks very different from mine... I'm scared I might short some wrong contacts and fry my board forever.
Is there, perhaps, some way to edit the boot order from Armbian itself?
I've found in my armbian-config settings an "Edit boot.ini script", which currently shows this:
Could this be the way?
Upon further testing, I tried plugging in my SD card I've originally used for flashing Armbian to the eMMC and it does boot from the SD itself.
So I think the boot order is:
- SD Card
- eMMC
- USB(?)
I'm not sure USB is even possible, since I can't just unplug the eMMC. I hope somebody who has worked on this firmware will be able to tell me.
I'm also wondering - Is it possible to flash the stock Android rom on an SD Card? Then I could run the Updates app from the SD.
Another update: I was finally able to boot into what I think is recovery mode.
After shorting these two spots, the LED stays blue instead of turning red shortly after the "Android" screen disappears.
What is weird is that some guides mention that I should see an Android robot, but I don't see it, my TV just doesn't get any signal.
My Linux computer also recognized the device as "Amlogic, Inc. GX-CHIP", and the Windows utility I'm running in a Virtual Box with USB passthrough installed some WorldCup drivers which had never been previously installed, which is a good thing. But at this point, I see the amlogic toolkit fails to recognize my TV box, even after loading the image and following this tutorial, when I plug in again the box in recovery mode it just doesn't get recognized.
I'm also afraid I might not have the correct firmware image - there are many sites offering downloads for some, but none of them shows the board and since there are tons of different revisions I'm scared I could flash a wrong ROM.
PS: I read on the section for another SBC on this forum that a way to enable USB boot is, in fact, having it to be the only device with a bootable partition. So I wonder if I could just erase the boot partition on my eMMC, but again I'm afraid it wouldn't work and since I can't even get Amlogic usb burning utility to work, that'd be a problem.