trashtonio Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 Hi Everyone, I hope that some good and skilled guy can help me to solve my problem. According to some topics on this forum I decided to buy a vontar x3 because some of you said that it work fully on armbian after some tweaks. The problem is that even if I follow all of the guided steps caught on differents topics of this forum, my vontar x3 fall in an infinite reboot loop as long as I try to boot on my SD card with the toothpick method. Hereunder is the very simple methodology I follow - surely something is wrong but I don't know what it is... - I downloaded a bootstrap image of armbian on the armbian repo of balbes150 (https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/) - the image is Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.9.0.img - I mounted this image on my personal linux; mount -o loop,offset=$((32768*512)) ~/xxxx.img /mnt/armbian-bionic - I made a copy of the dtb files h96max-x3-test8.dtb and h96max-x2-test-bus80-gpu-volt.dtb [grabbed from the gdrive of root-stas] to /dtb/amlogic - I modified the file extlinux/extlinux.conf to take into account one of this two previous dtb file : FDT /dtb/amlogic/h96max-x3-test8.dtb APPEND root=LABEL=ROOTFS rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 - I made a copy of u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot.ext (and u-boot.sd) [this step is ambiguous for me] - I've unmounted my img - I made a Bit2Bit copy to my sd card: dd if=~/xxxx.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress - I switched off my vontar x3; - I plugged my sd card into; - I switched on my vontar x3 while maintening a pressure inside de Jack audio hole with a toothpick - I release after somes seconds (maybe 5s) the pressure and... - vontar x3 reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot .... Also, I see that someone (@ikbel) has the same problem with his vontar x3 at the end of another topic (h96-max-x3-specifics-only) but this topic was closed... I need your help guys. See you, Antoine.
Sag Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 My HK1 is working great with meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb. HK1 is same as VontarX3. I'm not sure if h96max x3 is same hw. You could try meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb from https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15376-methods-to-fix-x96-max-pluss905x3-gigabit-ethernet-problem/
SteeMan Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 I don't have that box, but I would try different dtb files. I have a TX3 X3 box and I use the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb which is part of the distribution.
rodia Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 I have had a similar problem to the one you are describing with a recently bought Vontar X3 box (which had a newish October firmware). I downgraded the firmware to the April one and then I was able to use multiboot from the SD card. Hope it helps.
trashtonio Posted December 29, 2020 Author Posted December 29, 2020 Hi, thank you for all your replies. I think that I will follow the advice of @rodia and downgrade the firmware of my box. Now, I have to find a way to do that with my PC under linux (because I don't have windows at home) . I see that there are some software updater for Amlogic but they are all under windows... Anyway, thank you again and once I'll be able to downgrade my firmware I will give some news on this post for those that are interested. See you soon, Antoine
trashtonio Posted December 31, 2020 Author Posted December 31, 2020 Hi Guys, as stated before, I come back (with very good news ;)) I follow the advice of @rodia and I did a firmware downgrade of my vontar X3 box to the april one (using linux because the card burner tool of windows didn't work as expected - it formatted my sd card to exFAT than Fat32) and now I can boot on Armbian bullseye 5.9 using the meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb (thanks to @sag). After this step, all goes well and now I have a vontar X3 with a armbian installed on my EMMC, 1Gbs full-duplex ethernet, wifi and BT fully working!!! I hope that this topic will help one day someone else. Again, a great THANKS to you guys, armbian and this forum!! Antoine
rodia Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 Glad to hear it worked. I would love to know why though...probably they changed something in their bootloader above my knowledge (not much to be honest). Cheers!
PabloR Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 Hi everyone, this is my first post in this forum. I have TV box Vontar X3 4G/64G I copied u-boot-s905x2-s922 to u-boot.ext and u-boot.sd and I change extlinux/extlinux.conf with the reference to meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb. I tried all the images that are in https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/ with meson-sm1-hk1box-vontar-x3.dtb that I donwloaded from. And all distros work well, but I don't have sound without any of them. Do you have ideas? (I have tried the image from h96max-x2-test-bus80-gpu-volt.dtb with an older image. In this case I get sound with the distro but there is no 3D acceleration) With the bulleye release works fine 3D drivers. Thanks in advance!
SteeMan Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 @PabloR Welcome to the armbian forums. If you haven't already please read: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16407-please-read-first/ I don't have your hardware so I can't provide any further guidance, other than the fact that it looks like the dtb files you are using don't correctly match your hardware.
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