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Thank you for the blazing fast reply! I would have replied quickly too but the forum would not let me post more than once a day and then Christmas got in the way... Anyway, yeah I never expected any of those things I listed to work, no problem there! In fact, I've installed Armbian on my box regardless of all those missing things, mostly because I really prefer using my TX3 as an underpowered mini-pc over it's stock android tv uses (and I never managed to make the stock android just behave like a normal desktop-like os). I know that getting linux to work on these things is quite a lot of work on it's own, and I also noticed that you guys seem to have dropped support for Amlogic devices on the new kernel, which, I guess, goes to show quite clearly how much you've had it with these Amlogic chips! I realize that spending a few dollars on a cheapo usb-wifi dongle is waaaay easier (and cheaper!) than having one of you guys wasting your time on such a meaningless task. It would be like asking to re-invent the wheel, I guess, and I agree with you, it would never be worth the time spent on it. I asked you if you managed to get the wifi to work on your boxes just because, while roaming the forum, I have seen quite a lot of people claiming that they got it to work, though not one of their methods managed to get the wifi to work on my box. After wasting quite a bit of my time on those fruitless attempts, I just ordered a usb-dongle and forgot that my box has a wi-fi/bt chip in it (I mean, it's such a garbage chip anyway, no 5GHz support and also, even though it is supposed to be a wifi/bluetooth chip, the bluetooth never worked on the stock OS, go figure...). Thank you very much for the effort you guys put into your code, and in this forum too!

Hi, don't know if it might help, because I have a TX3 Mini with a 1.2 board, but if yours can dualboot stock Android (Alice UX) and LibreELEC, like mine does, then perhaps they are similar enough. On mine, pressing the reset button does nothing either, in order to boot from SD card I have to: -boot on the stock Android first; -open the upgrade & backup app; -press on select an upgrade package; At this point a menu will pop-up and after a brief search the app should find, on the SD card, an "aml_autoscript.zip" file, which I guess is a package the image creator has made in order to trick the upgrade app into thinking that the Armbian image is an upgrade package, but anyway, select it; -press the upgrade button; The app ask if you're sure, would you like to make a backup first, yada yada, click ok and it should reboot for the firmware upgrade; On reboot, instead of the firmware upgrade that Android expected, you should have Armian booting, no need to press buttons or anything, just click reboot and wait to be prompted to input a username and password. Since I have no wi-fi (my TX3 has the dreaded SV6051P SDiO Wi-Fi and BT chip) and since many around the forums claim that they fixed it by changing their dtb, I have tested several dtbs: meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb meson-gxl-s905x-nexbox-a95x.dtb All of them worked, meaning that I could boot into Armbian no matter which one of them I used, but I noticed that audio through HDMI works on the s905w ones and not on the s905x ones (sometimes I had no HDMI audio on s905w either, just try reflashing the SD card if that happens). None of them fixed the Wi-Fi, none of them had hw acceleration for videos (meaning that video playback relies on CPU and it sucks), no IR remote, no VFD, no audio from the AV jack, but that was to be expected. Since we're on the subject, I wanted to ask SteeMan (the man who owns 4 TX3s, with different board revisions) if he managed to get the Wi-Fi to work on any of them and if yes, on which ones. But anyway, yeah, let me know if that works.