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Hi all, and thanks for your incredible work I just received an "X98k pro" tvbox (sold as rk3566 4gb/32gb ) from T*** The box arrives already rooted. Outside : blue info lcd display --> Sdcard ; usb2.0/OTG ; usb2.0 ; usb 3.x --> Optical SPDIF, HDMI , hole marked "UPDATE" , power (5v 2A); external antenna female. -> EMPTY SIDE What's Inside the black box SOC : Rockchip RK3566 RAM : 8 Micron Technology (MT) D9QBJ memory chips Wireless : RTL8822cs Ethernet : RTL8211F eMMC : SanDisk China 32G Front lcd display controller : AIP1628 TTL rx tx gnd Device Info HW 5.23 and CPU-z confirm it's a rk3566 4/32, mali g52 Other infos from Device info HW : Device : rockchip X98k PRO ; Platform rk30board Android 11 , Wifi rtl88x2cs, kernel 4.19.232 (ubuntu...) CPU : Rockchip RK3566 BOX DEMO V10 ANDROID Board After installing termux I tried to find this box's dtb, but the only dtb file I found until now is /sys/firmware/fdt (no .dtb extension just "fdt") I don't know if it's the right one. Anyway, I de-compiled it using dtc to "X98k_pro_4g-32g_from_fdt.dts". I'd like to try armbian on this box If u wanna know something else let me know. Update 1)pressing the hole with a pin + power on takes to Android recovery (see photo) seems I can just boot froom sd from there ... 2) Trying to make Rockchip Driverassistant (modified 4.2 or 4.5) work to connect the box to a PC via usb2.0/otg. But nothing. 3) after trying to start with generic armbian for arm64 and then Station M2 (both just gave blank screen), I had a first success with a miniarch image (20240715-6.17.1-board-rk3566.x96_x6), hdmi and usb keyboard works, but ethernet is not working. Lets see what comes next. X98k_pro_4g-32g_from_fdt.dts

hi, I've an H313 tvbox (same as H616) How did you manage to take the .fex files from the box? (couldn't they be useful for restoring stock rom?)

Q96X (H313, ddr3L, eMMc5) + miniarch update: Frequency scaling and thermal reporting fixed ; 2Gb reporting solved (fake specs) ; Wifi sv6256p will only run with kernels 4.4.x. (sv6256p problem was "fixed" on armbian with a sort of legacy (kernel 4.4.x based) edition.) frontal led minipanel doesn't work; audio (OPTspdif, analog) still to be tested Anyway , miniArch seems stable on H313/H616, I will try to push it a bit Now, a different question I've another Android tv box : s905x (p212-like board) + Stock android 6 on eMMC and Armbian on SD. 1)On the board there is a white 10 pins connector. All pins are on the same row. I already have 4 holes for console (RX TX GND ...), so, we could exclude that the 10 pins are for console. What could these 10 pins be for? Led display? touchpad? IO? Could I find some hint by generating and looking into Armbian's device_tree file ? Should I manually search for some node in the file system? How could i probe the pins using a multimeter? UPDATE (multimeter): - pin 4+5 restarts the system - 1+4 gives +5V , so pin1 should be 5v and pin4 could be GND 2) wifi chip is a chinese "SCI S9082C", (32 pins mounted on a 44 pins module). It should be a clone of rtl8189ETV, just with a different VID/PID . How can i force the rtl8198etv driver to work with that VID/PID ? 3) Could I substitute the horrible stock Android 6 actually on eMMC with , say, LibreElec and keep a working Armbian on SD? So that if SDcard is IN system loads Armbian, and if SD card is OUT system loads LibreElec from eMMC? . OR, as a simpler alternative, could I safely switch Armbian SD card and LibreElec SDcard? 4) Just to be on the safe side : how do I backup my stock Android6 rom before playing a bit with armbian and LibreElec? Stock recovery menu is enough for a full stock ROM backup or should I use something like TWRP/CWM? ) Thnx!