Andre B

thanks for your reply, i'm complete novice in this, do i need to write it to boot section of rkdevtool like screenshot bellow ? i didn't soldering the sdcard reader into the pcb yet, was hoping if there's a way to run armbian without doing any hardware modification.

is it the same as rkdevtool's "Firmware Unpack" in "Advanced Function" tab ? i do find MiniLoaderAll.bin in the output folder and instead of downloading from 3rd party websites, i download the original firmware from their (i think) official website https://www.h96tvbox.com/firmware-download/

@Hqnicolas are you referring to https://www.h96tvbox.com/product/h96-max-v56/ or https://www.h96tvbox.com/product/h96-max-3566/ ? I have H96 MAX RK3566 8/128 (not H96 max v56 ) , trying to : burn this armbian : https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/25.2.0-trunk.86/Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_H96-tvbox-3566_bookworm_current_6.6.63_minimal.img.xz using balena etcher into a usb flash disk. put the burned usb flashdisk into the box holding the reset button using toothpick while plugging the power but nothing happen, led only shows "boot" text, screen only show the "RK3566" logo and then blank. what i am missing here ?

found it ! in case someone has the same board, this is the short pin

doesn't seem to work, if i just break the emmc, will it boot from sdcard ?

Hello, does anyone know the shortpin for this board ? its a fake r98mini tried to search in on internet but nobody discusing this board emmc is SanDisk SD1N7DU2-16G i'm trying to install archlinux for rock64 following this tutorial, now i cannot boot multitool, and usb doesn't detect the board in case the image is not show up, here's the original url https://pasteboard.co/tLDW0zAOzWMA.jpg https://pasteboard.co/0oMYdaPXA6fR.jpg

Hi @Krotosz6 , i have the exact same problem, the multitool doesn't detect internal memory (i guess you mean the emmc ?), i tried your way without succeess, would you mind write a step by step instruction ? i can run armbian from sdcard but still the emmc isn't detected, i was assuming my emmc is dead, but reading your post gives me a new hope 🤣 i have different box, its h96max rk3318 with black pcb but the short pin looks similar, here's the pic : (the green line is the short pin i usually used, yellow line is your short pin from what i understand)

@kruzer recently i did update to kernel 5.19.12 and everything just works, i mean turning on/off wifi led, usb led, lan led,etc . now i'm retrying with kernel 5.19.11 the only work is just the clock, what i miss ?

Hi @kruzer would you mind assisting me to make the openvfd work ? i have the same chip, mine is black pcb but has same FD6551 chip.

hi @jock, i noticed that i can only boot newer armbian images, older images with old method following bellow tutorial doesn't work anymore, i guess it because my broken device related to "idb", is there any other thing to "dd" to the sdcard to run older armbian from sdcard (especially with undetected emmc) ? perhaps idbloader ?

@jock i think that too, but then i see this page http://www.hotmcu.com/wiki/Flashing_Firmware_Image_Files_Using_The_Rockchip_Tool#Preparing_IDB_failed which redirect me to this page http://www.hotmcu.com/wiki/Unbrick,_fix_NAND_on_the_marsboard my flashing error note is same as in that page (Prepare IDB Failed), and since i brick it while messing around with openwrt, perhaps it does corruot the bootloader. i tried to boot latest armbian from sdcard and it did boot, is there any way to fix the bootloader from the armbian without external linux host / desktop pc ? also that page noted about update.img with dead link, which i dont know what it is and since i dont have it, do you have it and care to share ?

Hi, does anyone ever facing "IDB fail' while flashing ? my h96 max is currently bricked, previously i installed openwrt (with armbian uboot and kernel) on internal formatted as btrfs. Tried "Factory tool", "AndroidTool", "RKBatchTool", none worked, tried to boot openwrt again from sdcard (which previously done to install it on emmc) no longer booting, but multitool does boot, but doesn't detect emmc. is there any bash command that can i execute to fix that "IDB" problem @jock ? or is there any modified/improved version of multitool which include more functionality including btrfs filesystem management ?

hi @lucky62, how do you get the values of these : dd if=uboot-rk3318.img of=/dev/<yoursdcard> seek=16384 dd if=trust.img of=/dev/<yoursdcard> seek=24576 i'm trying to boot other disk image and the partition size of BOOT and ROOTFS is different than your disk image

does anyone using H96max rk 3318 ? want to know if there's an easy way to make the led (digital clock) turn on

and also, is it ok to re-run rk3318-config and change some options/parameters after some days usage ? will it cause any problem/conflicts with system ?