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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!

Hi all, my tvbox ,Q96X : H313, 4GB DDR3 (8 x Samsung chip), 16GB eMMC (Samsung) , eth100, wifi on SDIO (SV6256P, max150mb/s), optical spdif, 2xusb2.0, sdcard in, android 10. I read somewhere that h616 and h313 are very similar, so, inspired by BigZero, I tried Miniarch, (MiniArch-20230212-6.2.11-board-h313.x96_q-SD-Image) system installed (easily) on microsd. Base system (ethernet, HDMI, usbports,CLI, SSH, updates and new packet installations) appears stable, running for 2 days. main problems are : - cpu scaling seems broken (the 4 cores always run at lowest speed (480mhz) when utilization is 100%, BUT they can reach 1000mhz when utilization is just 5%: no comment) - thermal sensors reporting needs (massive) calibration (report says 84°C minimum, and the heatsink is only slightly warm...). I found two "thermal calibration" recurrences in the device tree, but I don't dare to modify them: one is under an EFUSE voice... XD - system reports only 2GB ram (reporting error or fake samsung chips?) - wifi not detected ( SV6256P (also known as FN-LINK H256A-S)), some wifi card seems to be detected on SDIO bus, but nothing else: (dmesg | grep 'new high speed SDIO' [ 1.968176] mmc3: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001) (i created a device tree file with dtc145 , it reports someting about a wifi card under mmc@4021000 "aliases { ethernet0 = "/soc/ethernet@5030000"; ethernet1 = "/soc/mmc@4021000/wifi@1";" and later ... " wifi@1 { interrupt-names = "host-wake"; interrupt-parent = <0x15>; interrupts = <0x6 0xf 0x1>; local-mac-address = [dc 44 6d c0 ff 02]; reg = <0x1>;" but "local mac address" seems to be a "default" alwinner one; my card is not Alwinner, it's FN-LINK and should have other mac addresses 😕 to be tested: audio; graphical interface (Endeavour os) full report on miniarch's github