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Thanks to this forum I had installed Armbian buster and it's been running really well and stable for 3 years. For the first time I've arrived at an issue which makes me revisit and also because I have forgotten most of the stuff. Back in the day balbes150 had a bunch of ready made images available and you picked the correct device tree after flash. Appears those links no longer work. I don't want to do a massive upgrade, just from buster to bullseye on my week play 2 box (s905h only uses 4w when running) My question is where can I get those old images again. Or a newer resource for ready made images that will work on my box.

Hw Spec Soc: Amlogic S912-H, (S192 with dolby, DTS) Mem: 2G Ddr3 Emmc: 16G 4K HDMi AV out ethernet ?? Wifi/Bt ?? USB port *1 5V DC-IN IR receiver Reset hole OS: Ali YunOS Steps 1, connect UART from mainboard test points, (I can only find M17's UART port) 2, build u-boot follow q200.rst in u-boot doc, use VIM2 config and use VIM2 fip blobs (hope that works) 3, build Arm64 debian bookworm with default debian kernel to USB driver, and config system. 4, falsh u-boot to USB driver 5, connect to device with UART, hope to stop at u-boot cmdline, and erase emmc. if failed, find other way to erase, maybe Amlogic flash tool. 6, instert USB driver, and reboot device potaintial issues: can't find UART port on mainboard VIM2 mainline Uboot can't boot M16S device does not support boot from USB. No schematics for next step dev.

Guys, please do keep us all updated on the rk3528. I was just about to buy a job lot of boards for a grid computing project when I found it's not supported yet. I found that my old TV rk32xx box was well supported, so am prepared to wait.

Hi all. Bought this one recently Android 14 TV Box but the firmware is buggy. Can't open Chrome (crashes after 2 sec tops), can't install or update various apps, playstore and google are outdated (cannot update) and cannot customize home screen plus some other stuff. Tried to find the company that made this so I can download updated firmware or a custom one but no luck. Can anyone help out identify this or point me to a thread or website that has firmware for this box? I think I need to install new one or maybe reset. Tried using a firmware I found via a specific "rise from the ashes" app but it never starts (possibly incompatible rom). Thanks in advance for the help.

@Ducdanh Nguyen, can you contact seller of your tv box and ask if they can provide firmware (or "firmware update") for it?

So i have found what's we dealing with: it is HiSilicon hi3798mv310. See attached proc_version and config.gz. Furthermore, I've installed eset nod32 antivirus on this box and it found some suspicious apps (see photo). I will send them to eset for more thorough analysis. Overall this news is "Not great, not terrible". @Ducdanh Nguyen, I think there is no pre-built armbian or other linux distro images for this chip. I did a brief google search and found only this SDK: https://github.com/JasonFreeLab/HiSTBLinuxV100R005C00SPC050 As it seems to me, you can compile it and get some clean linux for this box. Let us know if it works. BTW, author of this SDK recommend to burn it using HiTool. But HiTool uses UART (only?) to interact with chip, and we don't have UART wired on our board. There are seems to be option to upgrade it from usb flash, but how will this work - idk... Also, here is related discussion: What about debugging by usb - either through enabling Android "Debug over usb" function or booting with reset button pushed - I doubt it will work. Nevertheless, this tv box is usable for its direct purpose. All that should be done, is replacing heatsink and changing firmware to trusted one (without any trojans and viruses). BTW, funny fact: hi3798mv310 have only 3 USB interfaces, but on our board there are 4 USB connectors. LOL! I'm wondering if there any scam museum in the world? If any, this box will be a very interesting piece for them. config.gz proc_version

No, he's problem is much more simpler. He have JTAG and UART wired on his board, so it's not a problem to do virtually anything with his box. Are you sure? Have you successfully connected adb on PC to this tv box using usb cable?

@Sergey LepeshkinThank you, is there anyway to get it out and reveal the cpu (may fake, but worth trying) Also, i don't even know why they put a fake update screen on a fake tv box but i found a guy with same problem on me : I don't know what to do, my box does have the usb debugging and i will try to debug it

There are those of us that spend months working on these things. There is nothing about this that is easy. It is a hobby to waste a lot of time on. If you really wanted to proceed further you are really going to need to hook up to the debug serial port to get an ideal of the boot messages that are occuring. From an earlier post it looks like the serial connection points were identified and hooking up a USB serial adapter to them would give more information. But getting a random TV box working is usually a many month project as a lot needs to be learned about this while environment first.

Well, I've been tinkering with different dtb's and Armbian versions, matching kernel 4.4 and using H96 Max RK3399 dtb as well, but the device does nothing. In fact, I entered the recovery to see if the SD card could be read and it didn't mount, then turned the device off through the button and now it does not turn on anymore. The red light does not go blue, I can still enter maskrom but if I want to boot Android normaly the device does nothing. I am kind of tired with this crappy TV box, wasting 2 days it's not worth it for something that costed 15€. My time is more valuable. Thank you for the help anyways.

Hi! @Ducdanh Nguyen , which port have you used to connect it through adb? Those on the back side (where hdmi and power connectors located), or one of those on the right side (where sd card slot located)? Was it working in standard Android boot mode ("Debug over usb" enabled through "Developer settings") or somehow else? I also own such tv box and this is what I've found crawling web and playing with this device: 1. More PCB pics is here: https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1016510&view=findpost&p=136516719 2. "Heatsink" (just a small piece of thick aluminium foil) is bonded to SoC using 2-sided adhesive tape (I doubt it have good thermal conductivity). I recommend to replace it with more adequate heatsink. 3. SoC seems to be fake. It doesn't have Allwinner logo on it (there are 2 pics attached: one is ours, and one is genuine). 4. There is no AXP PMIC. Instead, there are 3 separate fixed step down converters. 5. There is no transformer in ethernet circuitry! Signals from jack goes directly to SoC. So be careful with static electricity while handling it's ethernet connection. 6. First button, located near "AV" jack, just resets tv box to factory defaults (if power switched on while it's pressed - and after that "update" screen with Chinese text on it will be shown). Purpose of second button (located near "S/PDIF" jack) is mystery for me. Can anyone suppose what it is for? 7. There are two exposed test points on the bottom side of pcb under SoC. Both tied through 10k resistors to +3.3V. After power-on, one of them seems to be some input (current between pin and gnd is about 3.3/10000=0.33mA), and other is definitely driven by something else (current is about 14mA and varying in both directions). I wonder if it's uart tx and rx pins - I'll see it with oscilloscope later. Anyway, shorting this test points together doesn't influence on boot process. 8. It's highly probable there is some backdoor (something like well-known Badbox 2.0). Original firmware exhibits some suspicious network behavior: just after factory reset, once it connected to network, it opens different connections to tcp port 12000 to hosts located in China. If I close outgoing traffic on firewall to tcp port 12000, after a while, it opens similar connections, but to port 9090 to different hosts. It seems to me it's trying to join some botnet. Furthermore, if you compare process list just after first (after factory reset) connection to network, and after it been connected for a while, you will find some new processes, which doesn't belong to Android and have strange names - I think it downloads something without asking user. Summary: this cheap tv box is a full scam. It seems to me manufacturer made all to prevent re-flashing of this device. But it will be very interesting to make something useful out of it.

Or wait until the end of the year when 6.18 will be the new Linux version, that enables pretty much everything. RK3588 Mainline Linux Status: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md If you really need a bleeding edge working mediaplayer, LibreElec has experimental support for R6S/R6C: Thread: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/29953-le13-testing-for-rk3288-rk3328-rk3399-rk3566-rk3568-rk3576-rk3588/ Downloads: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/

hi, i recently discovered the world of linux in arm, so i wanted to test it, so i can use my retro tv to emulate, i already tried libreELEC and it worked flawlessly, but it had a lot of constrainsts so i installed armbian, first multiboot didnt showed up any image on my tv so i switched to my secondary monitor on my pc and i tworks, i wonder if theres a posibility that armbian could support composite output on the rk3229 platform

Sorry I mean Which kind of output device: TV, Monitor with build in speakers? I have a HDMI monitor with speakers included. Yes.

Sorry I mean Which kind of output device: TV, Monitor with build in speakers? If you try "aplay -D plughw:0,0 your_audio_file.wav", still no sound?

I would open the box make photos of the board with silk prints visible and search similar box in a relevant section of tv boxes on this forum. Name on the plastic box means nothing, silk prints on the board and SoC itself might help.

I have the same Android TV, and I've been trying to boot Armbian but I don't seem to successfully accomplish it. I believe we are all alone with this, and nobody will ever help us. Maybe RK3399 SoC is still problematic after 9 years.

TV Box Status Information Template Version 1.0 TV Box Name: MXQ Pro 4k 5G (fake 16GB RAM/128GB ROM) CPU: Allwinner H3 Armbian build file name: Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_focal_current_5.10.60.img.xz / Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz (both works) DTB file used: <none> Kernel Version: 5.10.60 Distribution Installed: focal and buster Working Ethernet (Yes/No): yes Max Ethernet Speed that works (100/1000): 100M Does wifi work (Yes/No): yes Does bluetooth work (Yes/No): not available Does HDMI audio work (Yes/No): yes Additional Comments (provide any additional information you feel is important): all other functionalities for Orange Pi PC Plus is not available (eg OTG function of USB and no GPIO). You can also run "nand-sata-install" command to install armbian to emmc, works fine, no issues.

This is an H96Max Factory default work around, no TV box device really turn off, it's the way the factory deal with the "remote control" power on function, the device is always waiting for a IR remote control to trigger. You can find a way around it on the pmic section from DTS. Thats a problem caused by BOM of materials in the factory, they start to use a new wifi card because of chip shortages. You can work around it using this method

Context of the TV boxes section might be helpful, especially in the sticky thread re their status in Armbian.

There are probably 20 different CPUs that have cortex a53 (cpus from Allwinner, Rockchip and Amlogic). TV box manufacturers all the time will use different CPUs in TV boxes that have the same external markings. Which ever component is the cheapest at the time of manufacture is what gets used. The only way to really be sure what you have is to look at the chip on the board (but even then there are cases where chip markings have been altered to make you think you have something else). Welcome to the world of TV boxes (and why Armbian doesn't support them officially because they are a mess).

Hello, I am new to arm board, I had this android tv stick called S moon mx10 5G, it have rk322x cpu, 2GB Ram, and ap6330 wifi chip. I tried armbian on this device but wifi chip was not detected, I tried using "rockchip-rk3318-box-wlan-ap6330.dtbo" as user_overlays, but still not working, could anyone tell me how to make this wifi chip working on rk322x armbian?. I attached some files for information: dmesg.txt s_moon_mx10_5g.dts

First off, I would recommend using the "psuedo official" instructions from this site: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33676-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus And there you will find the following warning: Note: If you have previously run other distributions on the box such as coreelec the below installation will not work. You will need to restore the original android firmware before attempting the install. coreelec changes the boot environment in ways that are incompatible with these Armbian builds.

I have a ssh connection with my TV BOX (it is a AMLOGIC with S912), in my etc/ssh/sshd_config I have "UsePAM yes" and without any delay for connection, and probably it was not the problem of your delay in the start connection. In addition, I installed a vnc service to work remotely using the graphical interface. Either ssh and vnc Viewer (xtightvncviewer in my Debian Desktop) run pretty well. Please, check your basic network services, as well, fix the IP in the TV BOX. In my case I did some adjusts such: cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.15.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.15.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 There are some network services that can be impling in your delay by ssh (it is robust, old and fast application of Linux) I hope to help you too.

Hello everyone, I’m trying to install Armbian on a TV box with an RK3328 SoC, but I’m running into several issues. Here’s what I’ve done so far and the information I have: Box model: dnetSmart-YSE, version 10 Chipset: RK3328 Kernel version: 4.4.179 PCB info: t9-RK3328-D4, ver 2.0.2018 Design by: Hugsun I followed the instructions I found on the forum to install Armbian, but it’s not working. I’ve tried several methods: Using the microSD card: I tried installing Armbian on a microSD card and booting it from the box's microSD port, but it didn’t work. Using a USB drive: I also tried booting from a USB drive plugged into one of the box’s USB ports, but without success. Connecting a male-to-male cable between my PC and the box: I couldn’t retrieve any information this way. Connecting an UART (FTDI): The result is unreadable on the terminal. I haven’t received any specific details from the manufacturer. I’ll attach some photos to help illustrate the situation. My goal is to figure out if it’s possible to install Armbian on this box and, if so, how to proceed. Thank you in advance for your help!