s-petersen Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 My MXQ TV box died today, I was running Armbian stretch, and I had been listening to Mplayer playing Mp3s for several hours as background music, when the player stopped because it ran through the list, I went to change directories, but there were none found( I was running off the SSD), so I tried the root directory, also no files found. I closed the terminal window, and tried to restart, which just resulted in a boot loop. Thinking the file system was corrupt, I disconnected the SSD,and tried to boot the Android system from the internal Nand? which also resulted in similar behavior, I tried a different monitor, and removed all peripherals , Android partially booted, then died again, it seems like a video or memory issue. I had an interesting time getting everything working, and also the ability to get GPIO working with a USB GPIO was feeding my Raspberry Pi withdrawal problem. After all of this, I don't feel I will buy a newer TV box, There is no real support, and most of the officially supported boards cost much more than a Raspberry Pi Zero, and are not nearly as flexible. Raspberry OS Or Raspian just works, and the GPIO requires very little fiddling to get working. I would have gladly contributed if some TV boxes were supported, but it was made clear that would never happen, I am sincerely happy that balbes150 and SteeMan put the effort in all those years ago, and got my box to a usable condition, I only wished I had joined when the TV boxes were supported back then. Thanks for the memories... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edy Cretu Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 hello! since u got it working can u share the files cuz im not able too get a s905 mxq pro 4k to boot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-petersen Posted November 21, 2022 Author Share Posted November 21, 2022 My box used a S805 processor, but the 905 is supported by other files pretty well I believe. Does your box lock up on boot? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brusli Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 It just shows the the s905 logo and thats it, i have tried to found other files for it but most of them are not online anymore 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-petersen Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 I will try to find the other files, I know that I have seen them recently 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-petersen Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 (edited) You can try here, but I am not positive it is a safe site https://androidfilehost.com/?w=search&s=Armbian&type=files&sort_by=name&sort_dir=DESC Edited November 23, 2022 by s-petersen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeMan Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 @brusli Also given that the archived builds @s-petersen linked to are over 3 years old, I'm not sure they are something you would want to use anyway (even if you trust a random third party download site). Three year old builds equal three years of unpatched security vulnerabilities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-petersen Posted November 26, 2022 Author Share Posted November 26, 2022 Can you point to a more recent place to find files that may work?, I know you are one of the most knowledgeable people on this topic. I had trouble finding the files that made my box work also, I know the files are old, but this category of hobby type equipment is not something I would even care if it were compromised, as it is a "toy" for experimentation. My goal was for a jukebox if it didn't fail, a replacement for a Raspberry Pi. Thanks for your efforts, so we have a place to start tinkering with these boxes! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeMan Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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