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Hello. I'm trying to run Armbian on an Acemak KII TV box (Amlogic S812 processor). From the page https://armbian.com/boards/aml-s805-mxq I downloaded the Armbian image Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.792_Aml-s805-mxq_trixie_current_6.12.28_minimal.img Using Win32DiskImager, I burned the Armbian image to a MicroSD card. In the armbianEnv.txt file, in the dtb_file line, I specified the path: dtb_file=/dtb/meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb I inserted the MicroSD card into the TV box. The TV box boots, Ethernet works, but there is no HDMI signal on the monitor. I tried specifying different dtb file variants in armbianEnv.txt. I found that if I specify the path dtb_file=/dtb/ meson8b-mxq.dtb , HDMI works (the console is displayed), but Ethernet doesn't. I decompiled the meson8b-mxq.dtb and meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb files, but I can't combine the files so that both Ethernet and HDMI work. I've attached the decompiled files. Please help me prepare a combined .dtb file meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dts meson8b-mxq.dts

Newbie on Armbian. I have an Allwinner H313 (confirmed) box that I want to to use as a basic Samba server. CPU:Allwinner H313Quad Core ARM Cortex A53 GPU:Mali-G31 OPenGL ES3.2 Memory:2GB Flash:16GB OS:Android 10.0 The actual firmware is a secure image and, no matter what procedure I do, I can't load any other image but the secure one. Debugging shows that 'fastbootd' has the "secure" flag set. My intention is to create a basic secure arm64 Debian image but I am having a hard time in doing so. Any ideas (specific Wiki, procedures) on how to create the secure image or "reset" the "secure" flag will be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Basically it has 1 gb ROM 8gb ram h3 chip and I HAVE put many img files on SD card NONE of them boot and as soon as I take the SD card out it boots into android perfectly fine... I'm lost on words and what to do I have also tried FEL mode on linux but the request times out with error -7 power supply is 5v 2a which is fine for this so not that and I'm using a 256gb a1 rated SD card. This is from a generic Chinese tv box called meecom and it has ADX-H-V1.0 written on it. I also changed the dtb files a lot but it still gave no display or sign that it was booted into armbian idk what to do help ( btw I repasted it that's why it has no thermal putty on it)

Hello averyone I'm trying to download the multitool.img.xz can someone please help me find it or share a valide link?

not getting internal wifi from "amlogic s905x3" "x96 max plus" tv box wifi chip "CDTech 47W3155" board version "Q5X3-141 V4.1"

I recently got this tv box emulator thing but i now emulate games on my laptop for convineince. I decide to download armbian on the tv box so that i can set up pi-hole for network wide ad blocking. Ive tried multiple times but i cant see to get it working. Cpu: Amologic S905L Ram:2 gig DDr3 ive been downloading this version https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/releases/download/Armbian_jammy_arm64_server_2026.02/Armbian_26.02.0_amlogic_s905l_jammy_6.1.161_server_2026.02.02.img.gz been using this dtb meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb been using this u bootfile named: u-boot-s905x-s912 To reboot the system there is no button in the AV port and the box refuses to download any apk or app for terminal emulator, Developer tools are not available,threfore i prefer to do it through the update method. the file structure Ive been following these instructions from gemini https://gemini.google.com/share/1e335432197f https://gemini.google.com/share/0a6ce8a19d0c Please ask me if you need more info I also asked in reddit btw

Hello, I have some troubles with this TVBOX: it runs armbian and other distros correctly, using the meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb but sometimes wifi goes into kernel panic at boot, and when it does, the whole system becomes unstable (i.e. not rebooting, eth0 hangs...). I have extracted the original .DTB from the only firmware that exists for this box, the ancient 6.0 Marshmellow Android (I guess it's a 3.x kernel...). I attach it to this message hoping someone more expert than me can help in making it work ina more stable manner. I attach a picture of the board also, it reads "M8S". Box has 2GB ram and 16GB eMMC, brcmfmac wifi/bt and ZTE PHY chip. meson1.dtb

I am trying to install armbian on my Xiaomi mi tv box 3 I got the image on a flash drive it's a 16 gig USB 3 stick I got the files ready also but I don't know why it freezes when i enter the recovery screen and click on reboot to boatloader so If any on can help me fix this problem or start again that would be really useful thx

Hello everyone, I have three Amlogic S905x TV boxes with a dead EMMC, and one with a desoldered EMMC (since I thought without it, they would boot from the microSD card). Is there a way to force them to boot into Armbian? Holding the power button doesn't work, and desoldering the EMMC didn't help either. I was able to boot Armbian using UART. A workaround is to use Ardruino, which sends commands to boot Armbian after a while, but that's a workaround, and I'd like a more elegant solution. 1) Download the *.img.gz image for the amlogic_s905x 2) Write the image to the microSD card using Rufus. 3) Connect the UART. Steps 2-6 in the brick instructions. 4) Insert the microSD card with Armbian into the console. 5) Turn on the console, close the testpoint, and at a certain point, the UART boot log will stop at gxl_p212_v1#. 6) Execute the following commands: mmc dev 1 env default -a -f;save setenv preboot 'if fatload mmc 0 1020000 aml_autoscript; then autoscr 1020000; fi; if fatload usb 0 1020000 aml_autoscript; then autoscr 1020000; fi; if fatload mmc 1 1020000 emmc_autoscript; then autoscr 1020000; fi;' save reboot Is there a simpler way to boot from a microSD card to default settings? Maybe I need to cleverly write a bootloader to it?

Hello community, I am looking for help to boot Armbian on a generic TV Box sold as "MXQ Pro 4K 5G". I have tried multiple images (including official and community builds from sicXnull), but I only get a black screen or signal loss immediately after the boot attempt. Device Specifications: Model on case: MXQ Pro 4K 5G Board ID: IK316Q-EMCP_V4.1 SoC: Allwinner H313 (identified as sun50iw9p1 in Android) RAM: 1GB (Single chip configuration) Storage: 8GB eMMC Current Status: I am able to boot into the stock Android. To attempt the Armbian boot, I am using the reboot update command from a terminal emulator within Android. The issue: Upon executing the reboot command, the Android system shuts down, the display signal cuts off (or stays black), and the device never initializes Armbian (no HDMI output, no LEDs blinking differently). What I have tried: Builds from sicXnull repository (Kernel 6.x). Ophub community builds (H616/H313 variants). I have updated the extlinux.conf / uEnv.txt to point to the sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb (and others like x96-mate), but the result is always the same failure to initialize. Has anyone successfully booted this specific board revision (IK316Q_V4.1)? Is there a specific bootloader argument or a different DTB required for this MXQ clone? Photos of the board are attached. Thanks!

Hey i am looking for a suitable armbian distro for my tv box with the allwinner h313, 2gb ram and 8bg emmc.

I’ve been testing Armbian on an Amlogic-based TV box, and wanted to share a short user experience. The device originally runs Android, but thanks to the Amlogic S9xx platform, it can boot Armbian from an SD card without touching the internal firmware. In my case, the system booted reliably and was usable for basic tasks like SSH access, light services, and general Linux testing. Ethernet and USB worked out of the box, while Wi-Fi and power management still required some manual tweaks, which seems common for community-supported TV boxes. For reference, the hardware I used belongs to the category of Amlogic TV boxes that are widely available on the market. These devices are not officially supported by Armbian, but they can still be interesting low-cost platforms for learning, testing, or small home projects. I’m curious if others here have experience with Armbian on similar Amlogic TV boxes, and which SoCs or configurations worked best for you.

Is it possible to switch the operation to the OpenWRT system OR Linux OR DTB Q17 android tv box = Tanix TX11 android tv box = Q1 android tv box .... Works but ≠ X96Q android tv box AND ≠ Tanix TX1 android tv box .... It doesn't work current system firmware: Android 14 specs: - ARM Cortex-A53 - 32 bit - Mali-G31 - Allwinner H313 - arm,sun50iw9p1 4 GB RAM DDR3 32 GB HDD model = "sun50iw9"; compatible = "arm,sun50iw9p1";

I installed ambian in this tv box to run klipper for my 3d printer, but its been a years since I last used it and I totally forgot what was the user I created. I really didn't want to wipe the SD card because of my 3d printer's config files etc. Is there anything I can do to retrieve the user and password? Thanks.

Stock rom of this tv stick is so bad that it lags even with just watching youtube and it wrote it can play 4k. So I need armbian/any other linux distro for this tv stick.

How I can install armbian on Xiaomi Mi tv stick 4k with SoC Amlogic S905Y4 & GPU Arm Mali-G31 MP2? Specifications Output Resolution - 4k CPU - Quad-core Cortex-A35 GPU - Mali-G31 MP2 RAM - 2GB Storage - 8GB Operating System - Android TV™ 11 Wireless connectivity - Wi-Fi 2.4GHz/5GHz, Bluetooth 5.2

The purpose in this guide is to make installation simple for those who wish to follow what I did. This is specifically for the Yoka TV KB2 Pro which uses the S912 chipset with 3GB RAM and 32 GB ROM. It was successful and works for setting up windows mapped drives just fine with Samba. (for example Z:\) I am using it off the SD card, I left Android 7.1 on the EMMC. Notes: My intentions are to use it for a file server for use with USB 2.0 drives I have laying around that are old but still technically usable. The file transfer speed is only expected to be around 30% of the 1GBPS wired network. The bottleneck will definitely be the USB 2.0, but for what I am using it for, it should work just fine. Leaving it on 24/7 is only slightly more power than a Raspberry PI 4, so very low cost. The Wireless and Bluetooth do not work as is, I am not sure if you can get the drivers to make them work, I did not try. The 1GBPS network port works just fine. There is also no GPU/VPU acceleration, but for a file server who cares? This was done with windows 11 and win32diskimager (note the original website is https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) the other links are not what you are looking for and likely viruses and malware. Balena Etcher did not like the image file, win32diskimager had no issues once I extracted the .img file. Head to https://www.armbian.com/amlogic-s9xx-tv-box/ Download the Armbian 26.2.0-trunk.22 Noble Gnome - I did not test any of the other images. Burn it to an SD card - note (it says it will only work with up to 32GB micro SD cards. My 64GB amazon micro SD card worked just fine after upgrading my Yoka TV KB2 PRO to android 7.1 earlier, go figure.) I would suggest for this get a name brand SD card that is 32GB or less (the image uses around 2GB) At the boot partition you have to rename the file u-boot-s905x-s912 to u-boot.ext Now you have to edit the /extlinux/extlinux.conf file, look for the line that says FDT /dtb/meson-something (and change it to say FDT /dtb/meson-gxm-q200.dtb save the file This lets it know what chipset/model you are using, this is for the S912 chip that is in your Yoka TV kb2 pro You will need a usb keyboard and mouse, you also have to have it plugged into an HDMI cord that runs to a monitor or TV. Now for booting it in multiboot mode - hold the reset button (between AV and HDMI ports, this button is inside and very small, google suggests a toothpick, I used a phone sim remover tool) for 10 seconds before and while powering it on, do not let go until you hit 10 seconds. Now every time you restart it, it defaults to SD card first. It may take 2 or 3 attempts, but it does work. To boot to Android, just remove the SD card. First boot username and password is root and 1234, it will force you to change the password. When it asks for bash or zsh, I chose bash because I am way more familiar with it. When it asks for locale I used en_US.UTF-8 Time zone is based on wherever you are I used America/Chicago It will also ask you to create a new user account (non-root) and a password) This should get you up and running. The button to access everything is in the upper left corner, then you can access all your apps. There are tutorials to upgrade it to android 7.1 - it does work and well documented. I upgraded mine to android 7.1 it worked just fine. Do Not try to upgrade to android 9 slimBOXtv, there are no successful attempts proven, just bricked devices. I did not see a single picture of anyone having it running. I did however see plenty of complaints for bricked devices. Good enough for me to steer clear. I know this is rather long, but it will get you through the entire process, be safe, and hope you enjoy this how-to guide.

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!

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

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

Hello there, I followed from afar the advancement of the support on TV boxes for a while already, and I happened to stumble uppon a very cheap one on my local market. The specs are the following : -Amlogic S905W -2GB of ram -16GB of EMMC Following are some pictures I took, that shows the bare PCB. I hope that it will help answering questions I have. After looking into many written tutorials on getting armbian to boot on such machine, I have tested all .dtb files that are available, as long as quadruple-checked the u-boot file that needed to be used with that specific chip. I made sure to also press that buttom behind the jack-port before plugging in the board to hopefully boot onto the armbian install. Here are a few things I have observed. On all 3 available DTB files for the s905w, when using the u-boot-s905x-s912 file, none of them got me a picture after the first "splash screen". I have watched the power consumption during the "boot" and have seen the power fluctuating between 1.6 and 2.4W, until it setteled to 1.4W and stopped fluctuating. My very premature conclusion is that it somehow booted armbian but did not give me picture. The display that I am using was also showing that something was powered on, trying to send a picture but was not giving correct signal. Here's where my abilities end off. I do not know where to go next and what to try. I have not seen obvious pads to try connecting to UART, and I need assistance with going forward with that specific board. If anyone with experience can guide me, I'd appreciate it grately! Thank you in advance and hope this message finds the right person PS: The board boots fine to Android 7.1 otherwise, when not trying to boot to the SD card, so the machine is confirmed to be working!

Has anyone been able to use the remote control that comes with the tv bos under Armbian? Does it reqire additional driver(s)? I want to run Kodi (or any better mediacenter) under Armbian.

Aliexpress item: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005006249858881.html Extracted dtb and dts files attached. It boots Warpme/miniarch image for X96 with LPDDR3 RAM https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases/download/f3b14fbae071/MiniArch-20240715-6.16.1-board-h313.x96_q_lpddr3-SD-Image.img.xz However internal Ethernet port is silent. It can work through USB->ETH adapter though. Any Idea on how to make Ethernet working? sun50.dtb sun50.dts

I'm trying to install Armbian on the Tanix Tx1 Soc Allwinner H313 Mini TV Box, but this box doesn't have an SD card slot. How do I install Armbian on this box without an SD card?