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Hi @Nick A! I will test it for sure. On another subject, i found my dmesg filled with these messages: These happen on sub second as you may notice. I am worried that this issue will eventually kill my EMMC... Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Hi @Nick A, So i just happened to do exactly that. I used sicXnull's branch and tvbox is finally booting from the sdcard, running my custom image. Didn't have to apply your patch. Any thoughts on merging @sicxnull branch into armbian official codebase? Thanks for your help

@Nick A using the @rafman image that he previously posted (Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.6.44_mate_desktop.img.xz), on the same card, the tv box boots from the sdcard just fine. I am assuming that the image that is being generated by the compile.sh script from the oficial repo, has some kind of problem. Anyway, i will try pushing the button on the AV port, with my image, just to eliminate that possibility. Thanks

Also tried Balena Etcher, and the result is the same... The box does not boot the sdcard. So, to help trying to diagnose my issues, these were the steps i have done: Copied your patch to "patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/board_x96q", then ran: ./compile.sh Selected: "Do not change the kernel configuration" Then entered: CSC and chose "x96q" target. Used the current kernel. Chose bookworm > Image with console interface (server) > Minimal image with console interface. After the compilation is done, i flashed the the sdcard with USBImager and also with Balena Etcher. The result was the same. Tv box skips sdcard boot and boots to Android. Regarding the UART, i had to solder the pins so I don't exclude a bad soldering job... I will recheck the connections. Thanks

Ok, so i had some time to do more tests... Well, in first place i kinda feel a bit stupid regarding the HDMI issue... Actually it was the cable that was not correctly connected... After diagnosing that issue, i tried to boot the image that i created again, but it seems that the board skips the boot from the sdcard and boots directly to the Android system which is still installed on the EMMC. I then tried @rafman image (Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.6.44_mate_desktop.img.xz), and the board boots correctly (with no UART console messages. Is it supposed, or might i have a problem in my UART?) For all the tests i did i used USBImager, so i am excluding problems with the card flashing method. Is anyone else creating the images from Armbian main branch? Thanks

Hi @Nick A! I think your solution has worked because, when compiling, i saw that the build scripts "saw" the patch on the "patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/board_x96q" folder. The box seems to be booting now because i see the blue led coming up, though, i have no image on HDMI . I am running Kernel 6.6.44. Isn't HDMI supposed to be working? I'll try and see if UART is working. Once again, thank you for your hard work.

Hi all! @Nick A i have the same x96 version as @Lancoly. I am trying to follow your instructions on building my image from Armbian official repo, though i am struggling to find some of the folders mentioned on your previous posts. From my understanding it seems that i have to apply the secure boot patch on the official sources, though i can't seem to find the folder "configs" in the armbian build root. This is the root folder of the git tree: I have found the "arm64-sun50i-h313-add-x96q-lpddr3-defconfig.patch" inside "patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/board_x96q". Should i add the "CONFIG_SPL_IMAGE_TYPE_SUNXI_TOC0=y" here? How do i apply this patch? It seems that the structure of the build root has changed. Thanks for your help and effort on bringing Armbian to this great cheap Tv Box.