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very nice, it boots up and doesnt crash! Thank you very much! Do I still have to prevent bootloader updates? Anything else you want me to test? And yes, i flashed without testing. I was uncautious but lesson learned, I now use my SD until I am sure I want to keep the image. edit: It is still running after 10h, I installed iobroker and test-replaced my Pi, works fine. Noticed there is still no HDMI and Armbian shows 959MB Ram instead of 2GB. I used ledconf7 - the LED now flickers when accessing the SD which is nice. edit2: i made an image of my SD with Win32DiskImager and flashed it with rkdeveloptool in WSL2 Debian. It didnt boot but now I can use multitool without crashing. I found out I have a 1GB RAM & 8GB flash device instead of 2/16 as written on the sticker. The same sticker also says Android 12 but it came with 7. Somewhere else on the packaging it says 64bit CPU, I didnt look any further... edit3: used pishrink with -s on my image (in wsl too), flashed it via multitool to the emmc. works! I know I could have used a fresh image but I had a few things set up already and was curious if this will work. /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-resize-filesystem start to expand the filesystem again. final edit (so far): rkdeveloptool also works, I just tried to flash a too big image and it didnt throw an error. Here's how to connect USB devices to WSL VM. Also I used raxda's rkdeveloptool, the original one gave me an error during make. The windows versions of rkdevtool really are cursed. There was exactly one combination of driver and tool that let me erase the flash (see earlier post), I never got it to write to it.

Little update from my side: I got a serial adapter but was not able to find the points. I checked that 5 pin socket and the 3 pins near the infrared receiver. User @audio kees has the same board with the same name and CPU. After erasing emmc, I was able to boot Armbian 24.5 but after some seconds it turned off again. Also I got no video output but thats not important for me. I tried flashing 21.02 as suggested, but with rkdeveloptool because multitool doesnt stay on long enough to do anything useful. One question here: Where am I supposed to get the rk322x_loader.bin ? I did not flash any loader but proceeded with flashing the armbian image, hoping this loader is integrated or so but after hitting enter, nothing happened. I thought it's maybe copying very slow so i let it run over night but nothing changed. Now I cannot get it to loader mode anymore, I think I have to ask someone to solder me a wire to that clock pin cause my soldering level is too low for that tiny contact.

Thank you all for your replies. I was a bit busy in the last days and it took me some time to figure out how to dump the flash to my windows pc (i didnt want to mess with it before I had a backup) - I used this rkdumper 1.09test with driver 4.5, other versions gave me errors. RK3229Q-221P-V1.3 original android (Google Drive) Tbh I didnt read the whole thread, i stopped after about 15 pages from the beginning before I posted. Indeed @svdmk 's board looks identical to mine. I will look into the bootloader switch next and report back. also I ordered a ttl adapter which should arrive within a week. Have a great weekend everyone!

Thanks for the quick reply. edit: would a serial cable help? i could borrow one from a friend. also added screenshot from the device info android app

Hi everyone. I have a that box here (rk3229 2/16GB) and tried to install Armbian, but the Multitool crashes after a few seconds. The blue LED stops flashinng and turns on and HDMI signal drops (screen goes to power saving). I started backing up my emmc but after 2% or so it happens, the exact time seems a bit random, between 10 seconds and 1 minute maybe. It also happens when I just let it stay on the initial screen. Tried different power adapters and SD cards, one was a brand new Sandisk 32GB. The Android it came with runs flawlessly for more than one hour now. Only HDMI and a generic keyboard are connected. Any ideas what I could try? Thank you