[CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards]

2 minutes ago, jock said:

Uhm, I see that you have and old full-hd monitor. It should not be an issue, but apparently it is.

From the hints about your experiences (working on Android, working on multitool, not working with armbian), I guess you installed armbian with mainline kernel: there are some tweaks in the mainline kernel that alter the HDMI timings, thus they may be better with some monitors and worse with others. In your case it may be that your monitor does not like those timings.

You may give a chance to the legacy kernel image, you can just put in on sdcard, plug the sdcard and boot: the box should automatically boot from sdcard, so you can easily test if HDMI is properly working with legacy kernel at least.

Great, thank you very much!

[CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards]

1 hour ago, jock said:

@Matteo Venturi

This post may be somehow helpful. Post the logs and the results of the get-edid command

 

Thanks @jock
When the box was with Android i used it with hdmi. Also, when i used multiboot i used hdmi monitor. When Ubuntu booted, HDMI stopped work.

Here get-edid result:

This is read-edid version 3.0.2. Prepare for some fun.
Attempting to use i2c interface
Only trying 4 as per your request.
128-byte EDID successfully retrieved from i2c bus 4
Looks like i2c was successful. Have a good day.
Checksum Correct

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "X243H"
    ModelName "X243H"
    VendorName "ACR"
    # Monitor Manufactured week 5 of 2010
    # EDID version 1.3
    # Digital Display
    DisplaySize 530 290
    Gamma 2.20
    Option "DPMS" "true"
    Horizsync 31-83
    VertRefresh 56-76
    # Maximum pixel clock is 180MHz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1152x864, 75Hz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1440x900, 60Hz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1440x900, 75Hz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1600x1200, 60Hz
    #Not giving standard mode: 1680x1050, 60Hz
    Modeline     "Mode 0" 138.50 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1082 1087 1111 +hsync -vsync 
EndSection
 

[CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards]

Hi everybody,

someone has got this box?

I have installed Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_hirsute_current_5.10.68_xfce_desktop following the guide, then run rk3318-config. 
I can connect to it with SSH and RDP but HDMI shows nothing.

Ideas?

Thanks.

[CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards]

Hi. This is my experience with H96mini (CPU 3228A without sd slot).

 

Download and compile rkdeveloptool (https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkdeveloptool)

Download rk322x_loader.bin and your favorite OS image from forum (decompress image from .xz format to .img)

 

While continuing to press the button inside AV port(use toothstick), then connect power cable to device.  Release the button insiede AV port, then connect the TV box to the PC using USB port number 1, the closest one to the edge. 

Device will boot in mask rom mode.

Run following commands:

./rkdeveloptool db rk322x_loader.bin

./rkdeveloptool wl 0x0 your_image_os.img

./rkdeveloptool rd

 

Don't poweroff device.

Connect devide to monitor or TV using HDMI.

 

Wait while device booting.

 

Good luck!

[Armbian on RK3228A 2g/16g H96mini - NO SD SLOT]

On 9/7/2020 at 9:26 AM, jock said:

If the image is missing the right signature the soc will stay in maskrom mode.

Maybe you wrote the wrong image? Where did you take that Focal_legacy_desktop.img file?

 

The right images are from the Download page or from the forum thread if you want the cutting edge features, don't forget to decompress them first!

 

Damn....i downloaded image with wget and flashed it as is because file had not extension.
Thanks for patience and help!!!!!

[Armbian on RK3228A 2g/16g H96mini - NO SD SLOT]

21 hours ago, jock said:

You forgot the most important command: rkdeveloptool db rk322x_loader.bin

This one loads a minimal loader into the device RAM that let rkdeveloptool work. This is called rockusb mode.

 

You should then be able to directly write the image using rkdeveloptool wl 0x0 your_image.img

 

Thank you jock very much.
These are the commands I executed:
rkdeveloptool db rk322x_loader.bin -> Downloading bootloader succeeded.
rkdeveloptool wl 0x0 Focal_legacy_desktop.img -> Write LBA from file (100%)
rkdeveloptool rd -> Reset Device OK.
But...Tv box is still in maskrom mode.....

[Armbian on RK3228A 2g/16g H96mini - NO SD SLOT]

15 hours ago, jock said:

Use rkdeveloptool to directly flash one of the images for rk322x. It should work without any other step.

Thank you jock.
This is lsusb command output about tv box : 
"Bus 003 Device 005: ID 2207:320b Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company RK3228/RK3229 in Mask ROM mode"

I tryed to execute "./rkdeveloptool wl 0x0 Focal_legacy_desktop.img" but i received "Write LBA failed!"
I tryed also "./rkdeveloptool ul rk322x_loader.bin" (rk322x_loader.bin downloaded from forum) but i received "Upgrading loader failed!"
Finally i tryed "./rkdeveloptool ef" and i received "Getting flash info from device failed!"

[Armbian on RK3228A 2g/16g H96mini - NO SD SLOT]

Hi, I have H96mini (RK3228A). With RKDevTool v2.74 I erased flash and now the box TV is in maskrom status. I tryed to power on the tv box with usb into OTG USB with Multitool but no luck. Usb stick does not blink so I thing the tv box does not reading it.
Any ideas?

Thanks.