I am saying goodbye...

[s-petersen]

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...

[Edy Cretu]

hello! since u got it working can u share the files cuz im not able too get  a s905 mxq pro 4k to boot

[s-petersen]

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?

[brusli]

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

[s-petersen]

I will try to find the other files, I know that I have seen them recently

[s-petersen]

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

[SteeMan]

@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.

[s-petersen]

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!

[SteeMan]