[Armbian 22.05 Jammy XFCE on S905X3 F3 Air box]

which files do I need to rename??

[MXQ Max 4gb 32gb]

@SteeManI finally got to a shell, I downloaded debian's dtb from here and replaced "meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb" with the one from debian and surprisingly it worked

[MXQ Max 4gb 32gb]

It worked! I was able to boot armbian, but not actually get to a shell, it gets stuck during boot so I'll try different dtbs, so far I did this. for coreelec I had used gxl_p281_1g.dtb, I thought meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb would work fine but you never know

[MXQ Max 4gb 32gb]

Ok looked into using the "Amlogic USB Burning Tool" but here it say mxq didn't really provide any firmware and probably never will, so I might be out of luck, do you happen to know of any distro I could try or am I stuck with coreelec?

[MXQ Max 4gb 32gb]

Thank you very much for answering. With firmware I assume you mean a ROM for that device? If so, I don't think I can find the exact ROM it uses ; Maybe a ROM for different box with the same cpu could work, but I don't know.

[MXQ Max 4gb 32gb]

G'day all this is my first post here, the title describes the brand model, apparent ram size and storage capacity of my tv-box, I know the chip has to be an S905* because I can boot coreelec with the dtb of s905W, but in armbian's case no luck yet. The device doesn't have an sd slot, however I was able to boot coreelec by using a usb drive and ADB. basically adb-connected to it and issued "adb reboot update". I have a similar device as this guy I think if not exactly the same:

 

https://forum.atvxperience.com/viewtopic.php?t=6432

 

So what options do I have? Any help is welcome 😀