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@going Yes, git is a pain in ass. I think it's better to teach everyone the git commands. Maybe someone will learn from my instructions and contribute to the mainline Linux kernel and Armbian. Transpeed 8k618-t Tv box will always be supported because I learned how to use git commands and submit patches. I hope others will do the same. A lot of the patches are mainlined for h618. I don't think it will be too long before Armbian only needs a Transpeed 8k618 board config to build an image. But of course there's different variations of the same box. I hope this thread helps them because I won't be here forever.

@Hqnicolas Thanks for your response and apologies being so slow to reply busy IRL and then I forgot I used Google to sign up to this site.... yeah... Okay thanks - I thought it would just be a changing of timing so to speak on x86. In this case if I plan to develop for something I also go for the lowest variant of it, ofc, at this time both were Android. Rather code closer to the "metal" than bringing a whole web browser in to say "hello world" The images came from a link on this thread; either yourself or another member. Yeah I noticed a certain lag on the ethernet with 1GBit connection -- it has all the resources available yet it pings hard and downloads fluctuate. My plans for this Armbian is WiFi Repeater (router is broadcom and no Open- or DD-WRT alternative) to relay the signal. I don't want mesh, I don't need a TPLink account. The box will provide some services to Orange/Raspberry Pi systems. Right. I'm against AI So last thing I'd do. A link was provided but as I said expired. I'm sure there's differences in SDCard holders so didn't want to order two of the wrong type! Ah obrigado! I think your link may have solved it. I'll look in to it a bit in the future. Amazing how an Firestick turned me to Chinese TV boxes which are quite capable once you get rid of the Spyware. What I will say is, I think these boxes may have poor solder joints on the WiFi sub board, was hoping it was a misconfiguration my 8G model no longer recognizes the Wifi board, when I get the SD card holders I'll reflow it ad see. dmesg, lsusb, lspci know nothing of it. my 2G box the WiFi is fine. Regards

if you have tweezers and pin location for Maskroom rockchip will never be bricked thanks for sharing I use the best technique of all, trial and error, tears, screams and anger. Search for the work from @jock as @paolosabatino in github You will find all variants dts files for this chip rk3318 and rk3328 test all of them https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.6/dt/rk3318-box.dts https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.17/dt/rk3318-box.dts also, this chip allready have a topic https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26978-csc-armbian-for-rk3318rk3328-tv-box-boards/ the solution was inside of it, just search ­DISCLAIMER (PLEASE READ): everything you can find in this thread (binaries, texts, code snippets, etc...) are provided AS-IS and are not part of official Armbian project. For this reason not people from Armbian project nor myself are responsible for misuse or loss of functionality of hardware.

Hi, welcome everyone. I’m using an H50 TV box that I was about to throw away because I thought I had completely bricked it. I disassembled it and found the pins to activate maskrom mode. I think this could be useful for everyone. I then installed the current image, and everything seems to work except for the HDMI output (blank screen). Do you have any suggestions? Thanks. Some data and photo below. In case you want to install please note that also multitool fails to activate the HDMI, so you will need SSH to config. SOC: RK3188 (Hopefully - I did not remove the heatsink) eMMC: Samsung KLMBG4GEAC-B001 32GB (64x4) eMCP: Samsung KMQN10006B 8 GB eMMC + 1 GB LPDDR3 RAM Wi-Fi IC 339S0209 2.4G/5G LAN working WIFI Working ---------------------------- root@rk3318-box:~# lscpu Architecture: aarch64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Vendor ID: ARM Model name: Cortex-A53 Model: 4 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per cluster: 4 Socket(s): - Cluster(s): 1 Stepping: r0p4 CPU(s) scaling MHz: 60% CPU max MHz: 1008.0000 CPU min MHz: 600.0000 BogoMIPS: 48.00 Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid Caches (sum of all): L1d: 128 KiB (4 instances) L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances) L2: 256 KiB (1 instance) NUMA: NUMA node(s): 1 NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 Vulnerabilities: Gather data sampling: Not affected Indirect target selection: Not affected Itlb multihit: Not affected L1tf: Not affected Mds: Not affected Meltdown: Not affected Mmio stale data: Not affected Reg file data sampling: Not affected Retbleed: Not affected Spec rstack overflow: Not affected Spec store bypass: Not affected Spectre v1: Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization Spectre v2: Not affected Srbds: Not affected Tsa: Not affected Tsx async abort: Not affected Vmscape: Not affected root@rk3318-box:~# free -l total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1504636 291372 1037440 46940 297848 1213264 Low: 1504636 467196 1037440 High: 0 0 0 Swap: 752316 0 752316 SOME TESTS ON THE HDMI ISSUE: hdmi_debug_20251008_230528.log hdmi_test_20251008_230948.log

I also installed armbian Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.273_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.49_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz di s905x tv box, installed on SD memory card, installation went smoothly, creating username and password was completed, after that load desktop enviroment and dark. no hdmi signal, then i turn it off and on again it can start and load to the password entry screen, and after i enter the password and press enter button, it loads then goes dark no signal Again

Hello, can someone help me with Armbian for this Android box, which seems to have a good configuration for a media center? I would like to know how to flash it and which firmware image I can install on it. Thank you. BBox 4K Specifications: Dimensions: 15x15x3.6cm SoC: Marvell BG4-CT Processor RAM: 2 GB Internal Memory: 16 GB 4K – UHD: Ultra HD, for 4 times better image quality DTS and Dolby sound with S/PDIF and HDMI audio output 128 GB TV recorder, to be completed with the media of your choice Connectivity: SD card reader / 2 USB 2.0 ports Wi-Fi Bluetooth

Hello SliTaz community, I would like to know how I could install SliTaz on an Android TV box powered by a Rockchip RK3229 processor. I understand that the standard SliTaz ISO is for x86 architecture, but my device uses ARM. Is there any ARM-compatible version of SliTaz that could run on this hardware? Or is there a way to build a custom ARM rootfs with the SliTaz ARM toolchain and use it with a compatible kernel and bootloader? Any help, guidance, or example would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have the same TV Box and would like to install Armbian Linux. Could someone tell me which version to install and how?

I have a TV box with 1.5 GB lpddr3 that has been running Manjaro Arm without any problems for a long time. I used this TV box to add lpddr3 support to the dram driver many years ago. You can get the latest patch for 6GBIT lpddr3 support here: https://github.com/iuncuim/manjaro-h616/blob/main/uboot-t98-h2b-lp3/0007-shrink-ram.patch

Hello everyone, I got a tv box: J15 pro with rk3328 inside I tried the trunk version but it failed to boot then I tried the achived 23.11.1 version, It can boot normally, but if i do a full upgrade , the box failed to boot again. I think maybe the box do not compatible with kernel 6.12 so i tried to hold the 3 packages: linux-dtb-current-rockchip64 linux-image-current-rockchip64 linux-u-boot-rk3318-box-current and then upgrade , It works what can i do to help to fix the compatible problem? ps lshw shows the box comes with a wifi chip: rtl8189es

What you are reporting is quite common with tv boxes. The case markings often are different than the internals. What is it you are looking for? Your post didn't really ask for anything other than to report that you got a common tv box with internals that differ from the case.

Are there any chances to enable i2c? I use the tv-box as a 3d printing server (klipper) openvfb is working fine, and I also managed to configure the G-Code Shell Command to display the remaining print time. I want to connect the g-sensor via the i2c bus, please tell me if possible. klipper@transpeed-8k618-t:~$ dmesg | grep i2c [ 1.374462] mv64xxx_i2c 5002c00.i2c: can't get pinctrl, bus recovery not supported [ 1.683314] axp20x-i2c 2-0036: AXP20x variant AXP313a found [ 1.683791] axp20x-i2c 2-0036: AXP20X driver loaded klipper@transpeed-8k618-t:~$ sudo /sbin/i2cdetect -l klipper@transpeed-8k618-t:~$

The wifi and ethernet both are not working for my transpeed 8k tv device. it has a rk3528 chipset. 1. I tried resetting it from its android factory setting. it did not work. 2. I found its image which i flashed via RKdevtool. Still the both wifi and lan did not work. 3. i tried external usb wifi dongle but it did not detect it. 4. I tried to install debian OS i found somewhere on internet designed for rk3528 on it as alternative but rkdevtool did not identified the image Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance,

Hello, I have an Android M98-Y6 HDMI stick that reportedly has an Allwiner H313 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. When I opened the case, I identified the emcp memory module KMQNW000SM-B316. I don't have access to console mode. I can only access adb commands as root.The RAM type DDR3 seems LPDDR3 ( version ??) I've tried different Armbian images without success. Unfortunately, Secure Boot is enabled. I read this post and test Armbian-20240716-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Transpeed-8k618-t_bookworm_edge_6.7.12_xfce_desktop_Secure_Boot.img.tar.xz from Nick, without success I have an Android image named M96-Y6.img. EDIT1: Also it has a AP6330 Wifi Chip ( thanks to "dmesg") It has a internal AC300 PHY ( thanks to "Device info HW") Attached is the "dts" file devicetree.dts device_tree_dump.txt

@samircobra these TV BOXes with Rockship are very robust and well documented here in Armbian. Once, I even caused a short circuit (a true hard-reset) in its memory system, and the board reverted to its original ROM. Regarding your question, follow the instructions for the classic Rockchip devices on the main Armbian page. The steps described there are detailed and clear. Good Luck

THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED Bbut since I'm on edge anyway: I could not apply the patch as I did not have .dtsi file anywhere in /boot/dts/rockchip. So I tried to enable it manually by dts/dtb conversion, but that just did not work. So there is more to it than the patch alone. So I tried a different hackier route: I replaced the dtb with one from LibreElec, just to see if it would work, and it does: cd /tmp wget https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img.gz zcat LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img.gz > LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img sudo fdisk -l /tmp/LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img | grep img1 ## /tmp/LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img1 * 32768 1081343 1048576 512M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((512*32768)) LibreELEC-RK3588.aarch64-12.90.1-nanopi-r6c.img /mnt sudo cp -p /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb.orig sudo cp -p /mnt/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb sudo umount /mnt ## reboot the machine Hey, I got sound, yay! @The Tall Man Will this work on other boards ? Idk ymmv. But it has dtb's for orangepi-5/b/max/plus/ultra In short: the kernel has sound implemented since 6.15rc1, so its just the Device Tree that needs to be updated. Otherwise this would not have worked.

@pochopsp - you can buy two tv-boxes of the same type at once from the same seller and they might have different hardware internally still - that is the reason why it is not prossible to provide really good images for tv boxes: the hardware is simply too random and often also low quality

I know an expert in rk3528, his name is @fensoft we are depending on him finding a weekend to dedicate to the community https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/rk3528-tvbox he will help us by taking this repository and including it in armbian with a wonderful pull request I would like to buy this board and join the fun that you have, but my country has literally started an embargo on all TV boxes

I also purchased this MXQ Pro 4K 5G TV box but I'm not sure if it's rk3128 or rk322x, how do I know for sure? the host name print rk322x but cpuinfo print rk3128: rk322x_box:/ # getprop ro.hardware ro.hardware.chipname rk30board rk322x_box:/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 1 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 2 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 3 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 Hardware : Rockchip RK3128 Revision : 0000 Serial : b57642ed91a64924

Per the install instructions on this site, if you have ever booted a different distribution then your box will be incompatible with the Armbian build. Although it is generally using coreelec builds that will do this. I don't know about the libreelec builds. Also you need to provide a lot more information about what you are doing. There are a number of steps in installing armbian on a TV box and you haven't specified any of the steps you performed. Finally debugging boot issues often requires that you find the debug serial console connection on the board and hook up a usb uart reader to get at the boot messages.

How do install armbian in my TX98 TV BOX Processor:Allwinner H313 I bought it on tiktok shop

@RealAn DTS for Kernel 6.1: Unfortunately, all boards for TV Box device are embargoed upon landing in my country's territory. If any Golden Knight wants to do the development, I believe this is a good time.

@pochopsp - as you contacted me via message directly, let me respond here: i can only repeat what @SteeMan already said - you can either do your own research and experiments if you get some newer u-boot built and working (which will be a lot of learning and effort and can also fail in the end) or you accept that running from emmc will not work on your box and continue to use an sd card (which should work nearly as good as running from internal storage) - there is no easy tutorial to get it working, either it works out of the box (as the box is closer to one of the supported and tested ones) or you have to find your own way to get it working with those tv boxes ...

Ok, figured it out My first mistake was not copying the proper u-boot file to the /boot folder cause the folder didn't exist when I flashed it with Balena Second, this box has a weird set of hardware that had issues with CoreELEC and even the Official Android upgrade, hence bricking into the Android dead robot and allowing me to force an upgrade with the official Android that fixed the partitions so I could run Armbian Third, the correct DTB for this box was meson-gxm-q200.dtb that makes everything works (attached a hw info file for future references) As of the moment, the Armbian is working perfectly. SSH works and it's displaying everything correctly. Not going to mess with Wi-Fi cause I don't really care about it. Again, thank you so much SteeMan for the help, the instructions and everything. I'll upload the hw_info and the URL for both "official" Android 7.1.1 upgrades (PC and SD flash images) for anyone to find cause it took me around a week to find those. Official MeCool BB2 Pro Android: https://www.geekbuying.com/geekgiz/2018/06/mecool-bb2-pro-s912-3gb16gb-tv-box-firmware-update-20180202/?admitad_uid=b4ee2a23c13552c70bd97fdfc0371b76&utm_source=4pda.ru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ilia hw_info.log

Hi everyone, I’m trying to run Armbian on my old Mecool BB2 Pro TV box but I can’t get it to boot at all – the device always goes straight into Android. Device specs: Model: Mecool BB2 Pro CPU: Amlogic S912 (octa-core Cortex-A53) GPU: ARM Mali-T820MP3 RAM: 3GB DDR3 eMMC: 16GB Connectivity: 2× USB, HDMI, AV, SPDIF, Ethernet Gigabit Wi-Fi/Bluetooth: (chip unknown, maybe AP6255) What I tried so far: Burned several Armbian images with Etcher and DD in Linux. Tried both SD card and USB stick. Tested multiple DTBs: gxm_q200_3g, gxm_q201_3g, p212_3g, and some generic ones. Formatted SD card partition as FAT16 as suggested in some guides. Flashed u-boot.bin manually using dd with byte skipping (e.g. bs=1 skip=444 seek=444 conv=fsync). CoreELEC partially boots, so the box can boot from external media. With Armbian, however, it never even attempts to boot – it just goes straight into Android. What I’m looking for: Confirmation if Armbian can run on this device at all. Which DTB (if any) is recommended for this specific model. Any tips for debugging why Armbian is skipped but CoreELEC boots. If anyone has managed to run Armbian on this box, I’d really appreciate your guidance. Thanks in advance!