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@fabiobassa oops, you are right of course. my dyslexia strikes again! @jock sorry about that! will edit the post as soon as I get my post edit privileges. @SteeMan could you help with that? looks like I can edit the new posts I make, but not the old problematic one.

hiya folks! I have a no-brand (MK - 918?) RK3188 Android TV box that I'm trying to install Armbian, but I can't get it to boot Multiboot nor the Armbian image from the SD card. I have tried different SD cards and USB sticks, I am burning the Multitool image with balenaEtcher, but no luck, it boots straight to Android. I have also tried the solution posted by fabiobassa but the program gets stuck on "Downloading bootloader...". here's some more info: ➜ lsusb Bus 001 Device 009: ID 2207:310b Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company RK3188 in Mask ROM mode ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool ld DevNo=1 Vid=0x2207,Pid=0x310b,LocationID=102 Loader ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool rd 3 Reset Device OK. ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool ld DevNo=1 Vid=0x2207,Pid=0x310b,LocationID=102 Maskrom ➜ sudo ./rkdeveloptool db MiniLoaderAll.bin Downloading bootloader... it gets stuck there no matter how long I wait. also, I have soldered the UART debug connections and here is the output I get when it boots to its default Android: there's also a "recovery" button, when I push it while powering it boots to a different recovery image, and gives me a simple sh shell with busybox installed. the setup there looks pretty limited, with no Wi-Fi connectivity etc: heres the busybox output: # busybox BusyBox v1.11.1 (2009-03-11 09:17:49 CST) multi-call binary Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko and others. Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for full notice. Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]... or: function [arguments]... BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox will act like whatever it was invoked as! Currently defined functions: [, [[, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash, awk, basename, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cttyhack, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, depmod, df, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dos2unix, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject, env, envdir, envuidgid, ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fbset, fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fetchmail, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifenslave, ifup, inetd, init, inotifyd, insmod, install, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, lash, last, length, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, man, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, msh, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, poweroff, printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pwd, raidautorun, rdate, readahead, readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, resize, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-parts, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, sed, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setsid, setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, slattach, sleep, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv, svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac, tail, tar, taskset, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, tftpd, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, ttysize, udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, vlock, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat, zcip let me know if there is any more info I can give, or anything else I can try!