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@SteeMan srry for not posting more info lol last night i was gassed out, i spent all day digging into that issue. Apparently its working now, i had to add a pull-up resistor to the RX line, somehow now having it was causing issues while booting. I soldered male pin headers to the board, maybe those were acting as some kind of "antenna" causing the garbage input on the RX line, thats why when its propperly grounded and connected to a device like the ESP32 was booting fine. Not sure about the forum etiquette but i'll update my first post with everything i did in case someone has the same issue.... but i doubt anyone is as dumb as me hehe. For now, i was able to make it so it boots from EMMC or SD if present. I still have to try and see what happens if there is an SD without any boot info, not sure if it will try to boot and fail. I lack the propper knowledge on uBoot to see if all my enviorment variables are ok or i messed up any while messing with it. I should be home in about 2 hours so, i'll grab as much info as i can and post it here just in case

Im still having some issues, for some weird reason it wont boot without the ESP plugged in. Even when i just set it in monitor mode (so it doesn't stop the boot or sends any commands). I wonder if its caused by the UART floating?

I was able to finally boot propperly into the emmc via UART commands. Now the question is.... how do i make it so it boots from SD (if present) or EMMC automatically

UPDATE: I was able to boot from the SD Card changing it to if fatload mmc 0 0x1000000 u-boot-s905x-s912; then go 0x1000000; fi; im trying the install script once again to see if it finally works i'll report back...

@SteeMan Progress!!! I got video output from emmc using if fatload mmc 1 0x1000000 u-boot-s905x-s912; then go 0x1000000; fi; now what? XD

gxm_q201_v1#mmc dev 1 mmc dev 1 emmc/sd response timeout, cmd8, status=0x1ff2800 emmc/sd response timeout, cmd55, status=0x1ff2800 init_part() 278: PART_TYPE_DOS [mmc_init] mmc init success switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device gxm_q201_v1#fatls mmc 1:1 fatls mmc 1:1 35090944 image 4921724 system.map-6.12.17-current-meson64 38518 boot.bmp build-u-boot/ 269902 config-6.12.17-current-meson64 dtb/ 174 emmc_autoscript extlinux/ 23863802 initrd.img-6.12.17-current-meson64 609247 u-boot-s905 646455 u-boot-s905x-s912 851352 u-boot-s905x2-s922 798672 u-boot-s905x3 854424 u-boot-s905x3-ugoosx3 23863866 uinitrd 12 file(s), 3 dir(s) gxm_q201_v1#mmc part mmc part Partition Map for MMC device 1 -- Partition Type: DOS Part Start Sector Num Sectors UUID Type 1 1953792 999424 98280000-01 0c 2 2955264 58116096 98280000-02 83 gxm_q201_v1# Contents of emmc_autoscript if printenv bootfromsd; then exit; fi; if fatload mmc 1:1 0x1000000 u-boot.emmc; then go 0x1000000; fi; there is no u-boot.emmc its supposed to be the u-boot-s905x-s912 or at least thats what i would expect Im going to try: if fatload mmc 1 0x1000000 u-boot-s905x-s912; then go 0x1000000; fi;

@SteeMan im really deep into the booting process now lol, i got an esp32 trying out dtb files. So here's the issue. I flashed the SD Card with a brand new "Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.87_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.15.img". It has 2 partitions, i went to the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and configured it to boot using FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb That same partition has a file "Image" wich seems to be the zImage file but uncompressed, the thing is that everytime i load it it fails. mmc dev 0; fatload mmc 0:1 0x1080000 Image; fatload mmc 0:1 0x13000000 initrd.img-6.12.15-current-meson64; fatload mmc 0:1 0x1000000 /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb; booti 0x1080000 0x13000000 0x1000000 i get Wrong Ramdisk Image Format Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid i wonder if its the case of an uncompressed zImage...

Update: Im able to send commands through UART I can confirm the emmc was indeed corrupted, it has only 2 partitions instead of supposed 7. Im trying to boot manually but afaik i'll need a zImage file wich i have no idea where to get

@SteeMan built it from two spare usb cables. EDIT: just grabbed an ESP32 to use it as a bridge for the serial comunication. It should give me more control in trying to stop the boot process, the timeout is instant so hopefully i will be able to catch it with a script

@SteeMan negative. I was using Armbian on it before i screwed up. I still cant get to see the device on the Burning Tool, tried every possible combination but it just wont work. The only thing i havent tried is to invert the D+ and D- wires on the usb to usb. It should be the same pinout for both right?? USB A Pin 1 - USB B Pin 1 USB A Pin 2 - USB B Pin 2 USB A Pin 3 - USB B Pin 3 USB A Pin 4 - USB B Pin 4

@SteeMan Just got this from my box. Im in the process of reading it to see if it contains any clue. EDIT: Plugged in the SD Card and now i got a different output. EDIT2: With the button pressed for a fey cycles. It seems like it is trying to boot from SD but fails. [OSD]fb_addr for logo: 0x7f851000 [CANVAS]addr=0x7f851000 width=3840, height=2160 amlkey_init() enter! amlkey_init() 71: already init! [EFUSE_MSG]keynum is 4 [BL31]: tee size: 0 [KM]Error:f[key_manage_query_size]L507:key[usid] not programed yet [KM]Error:f[key_manage_query_size]L507:key[deviceid] not programed yet gpio: pin GPIOAO_2 (gpio 102) value is 1 InUsbBurn noSof card in init_part() 278: PART_TYPE_DOS [mmc_init] mmc init success Device: SDIO Port B Manufacturer ID: 1b OEM: 534d Name: GC2QT Tran Speed: 50000000 Rd Block Len: 512 SD version 3.0 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 59.6 GiB mmc clock: 40000000 Bus Width: 4-bit Device: SDIO Port B Manufacturer ID: 1b OEM: 534d Name: GC2QT Tran Speed: 50000000 Rd Block Len: 512 SD version 3.0 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 59.6 GiB mmc clock: 40000000 Bus Width: 4-bit reading aml_autoscript 800 bytes read in 4 ms (195.3 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 01080000 ## Error: "bootfromsd" not defined Saving Environment to aml-storage... mmc env offset: 0x27400000 Writing to MMC(1)... done reboot use default mode: normal bl31 reboot reason: 0xd bl31 reboot reason: 0x1 system cmd 1. putty.txtputty with SD.txt putty with button Pressed.txt

@SteeMan i tried the usba to usba method using the USB Burning tool v2.2.3 and v3.1.6 The driver was installed successfully but when i plug in the box on the usb 2.0 it powers up with red lights and it doesn't do anything else. What is the process of connecting it to the pc? just open the app and plug it it should work? Do i have to press the reset button? Should i have the SD card inserted?

Hello, i think i bricked my H96 Pro Plus, like a year ago i installed Armbian on it. Today i flashed a SD with a new version, reinstalled octoprint etc and finally tried to burn it to the emmc using "./install-aml.sh" it seemed to work the process ended and i powered it off, removed the SD and tried to boot it up. The only thing i see is the H96 Pro+ Logo and thats it. I tried to boot from the SD Card again but it didn't work. I reflashed the SD card, changed the dtb file etc, just to make sure it would boot normally but nothing. Im at that point where i think its bricked and i need to do some maskrom magic but i have no idea what to bridge Any help would be much appreciated. I was following This guide Model: H96 Pro+ Motherboard: cz-s32-v2.2 EMMC: thgbmfg8c4lbair ???

@Krypton Hey Thanks for this guide. I followed this guide and successfully flashed my SD Card booted using the button on the card and installed everything i needed. When i ran ./install-aml.sh everything seems to have worked but i can no longer boot, neither from EMMC or SD Card. I've got a H96 Pro +, all i see on the screen now is the logo but nothing happens after that. Any advice would be much appreciated

Added a little bit of Turbo EDIT: This thing is a little toaster.... even with the new heatsink its getting quite hot (65-70°C tops) at full throttle

@jock Apparently that file did the trick, no idea why it was unavailable for me before. @paradigman thank you for uploading it Is there any point in messing with this settings?

@jock Here in the forum i couldn't get the original file. Downloaded it from the repository at Github but that one didn't work on my box. Same issue, i was able to see the networks but not connect to them EDIT! Weird stuff! i just tried again and now its there... been unavailable until now

@jock The nvram file seems to be unavailable here in the forum, i tried looking at This File from the repository, uploaded it to my box and rebooted. It didn't seem to fix the issue so maybe thats the original ( figured because of the date of modification). Im kinda lost at this point, hopefully @paradigman still has the original file somewhere?

@jock Everything seems to be working "fine" from the SD Card but so far after using rk3318-config and choosing the YX board, while i get Wifi it doesn't connect, i can see the networks (sometimes it says that the resource is busy) but even when i plug in the SSID and Password it just goes back to the menu and doesn't work. Right now i was able to access it via Ethernet and SSH so that works as intended. EDIT: Tried to get some more info and it seems that there is a driver issue, dmesg gives me the following output Did a search for that.blob file but couldn't find it, maybe i could get it from a Stock rom?

@jockIf i have an image already on the EMMC will i be able to boot from multitool without shorting the pads? Or since i'll have a working EMMC boot it will no longer boot from SD?

@jock after much suffering i was able to boot the multitool and delete the emmc image, i can now boot into the multitool without having to short the pads. Now... i need to find a suitable image for my board... Downloading... Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.87_Rk3318-box_bookworm_current_6.12.15_minimal.img Flashing.... Done... Booting.... HOLY it worked lol! Im at the login screen... im guessing the default is something like "root" "1234" or similar. Now i need to write the image to the emmc... EDIT: The image seems to work but for some reason when connected to my tv i tried to connect to wifi and the image started to stutter i couldn't get it to connect to wifi but it did see my network. weird... need to keep trying i guess

@jock Hey, yeah... i messed up big time hehe So.. i made my own DIY Male to Male USB, used the pads suggested by Constantin and i was able to boot into maskrom mode, at least it says it found a device when i plug it in. Using RKDevTool v2.86 i get the prompt that it found the device but nothing works, i cant seem to do anything with it, not sure what im doing wrong.

@otus thanks for the link and advice. At this moment I'm even struggling to get to boot from SD I was following a guide and it told me to write the image to the Flash and now i cant even get the Multitool to boot from SD. I tried to use the EMMC pins method but either i did it wrong or i dont know what im doing. I shorted those pads with a dupont jumper wire and plugged in the power then unshorted it but nothing seems to happen when i do that

@jock Hey! Thanks for all your effort trying to bring Armbian to the TV Boxes. I wanted to ask if there was a chance to port it to the BQEEL U1 PRO, it has the RK3328 CPU. I totally screwed the flash up doing some experiments and i couldn't get the flash backup so im kinda lost on that front. I tried to download the images from the first link but every link is broken. I wonder if there is a mirror or any other way to get the images Tried searching for them elsewhere but got nothing but a very weird image This one that kind of works but it just blinks the led blue and red without any Video output. Maybe its just a dtb issue but im too new to fully understand and fix the issue Edit: I was able to boot using the Multitool and tried to burn an image to EMMC but now it doesn't boot with either option. I tried to short the pins like Constantin did here Very similar board if not the same but couldn't get it to boot, maybe im missing something.... Here are some images