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@tERBO Something worked! I flashed that image you shared. It was not promising; as the VFD display was not working. I redownloaded Multitool and a different Armbian image from @jock's stable folder and flashed a different microSD using a different computer. Happy to report that I have a live system now! I wish I had asked sooner before wasting nearly a day going in circles! Thanks for the assistance - was nearly ready to send this board to eWaste recycling.

@tERBO It goes fairly slowly up to 50% or so then more quickly. I'll try the image you linked and a different microSD and report back.

I've been playing with a box that has an X88 Pro B Board (RK3318) for the past week or so. Got it from an Amazon return bin place, so not a big deal if I have ruined it! I had it running with Armbian successfully, but when trying to install Klipper made a mistake and attempted to reflash armbian. This is where my issues started. After much experimentation and possibly flashing the wrong loader with Androidtool (rk322x_loader_v1.10.238_256.bin) I'm now left with a board in the following condition. -I can get it into umask mode with some cajoling can re-flash android using factorytool. -Android boots fine -When in this state, it will launch multitool -multitool will delete emmc and says it successfully flashed Armbian, however it will not boot or even turn on the hdmi. At this point it's bricked and I can start over in umask mode. -I've also tried deleting emmc using multitool and burning the image to the SD card with the same result. -I've also tried after flashing a firmware I downloaded - going back to the recovery .gz I created, then going to armbian. Same result. Could this be because i used a 322x loader .bin? Is there a 3318 loader floating around?

@Elbie Kittens just a quick note to say thanks for posting the photo of the correct pins to short!