Tencent box Aurora 5 Pro with rk3588s

[Avatar Ng]

Tried to flash it with common Rockchip Box technique with no luck (tried some roms from Armbian, firefly, and some OpenWRT method ... refer Fig. 1.5, 1.6).

 

Anyone who can give some pointer will be much appreciate.

Known techniques:
- enter recovery mode = plug in the HDMI, use screw driver to poke the inner "hidden button" in audio jack, and plug power - working

- another way of getting into the recovery mode = using the command "adb reboot recovery" from either network or USB type C - not able to flash

- enter bootloader mode = using the command "adb reboot bootloader" from either network or USB type C - don't know how this work

- enter mask rom mode =  plugin the HDMI, use screw driver to poke the inner "hidden button" in audio jack, and plug USB mal-to-male cable to PC - not working

- another way, is only accesible via old fashion tty usb through the TX, RX, GND pins (top right of Fig 1.3.), need to open up the box and do some soldering, to directly read and command from the system.

 

References:

- Figure 1.1.

- Figure 1.2.

- Figure 1.3. 

- Figure 1.4.

- Figure 1.5. official rockchip Wiki: https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option

- Figure 1.6. OpenWrt Wiki: https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R6S

 

 

[SteeMan]

What are you trying to accomplish?  Are you looking for help porting Armbian to support this device?  I ask because TV Boxes are not supported by Armbian (see https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first)  and the RK3588 cpu is a very new chip that is only partially working on mainline linux currently.  While there are people working on base support for the CPU, the significant additional work to support a specific box (with all its specific hardware) would still need to be done.

 

[jiangwe]

You can try using the TVBox image of OrangePi 5B. The Tencent Aurora Box 5Pro can successfully enter the desktop, but the original image cannot drive the network card, wireless network card, or Bluetooth. I have compiled the Android image of Orange Pi and packaged the network card driver and wireless network card driver of 5Pro, but still cannot drive Bluetooth(rtl8852be). Perhaps you can give it a try and wait for your good news.

[Avatar Ng]

@jiangwe Sure Jiangwe, I'll give it a try, ... the only thing holding me back now is I'm not sure I can recover it as a tvbox when everything fails, or even brick.
I'm more looking fwd for running an Armbian OS on it, I tried to boot it once, just lack of usb support and all making it useless.

However it's been a while (I've been focusing on playing with opi5 opi5+), and I've no way to reproduce that now, It'll be helpful if you can share some steps here how you did it, or even some screenshots are motivating.

 

Cheers.

Edited September 2, 2023 by Avatar Ng

[Szymon_Zy]

Do you think it make sense to give a try on RK3588 based box H96 max v58 the same image from rock5B or orangepi 5B?

[Avatar Ng]

@Szymon_Zy the way it works is you create a new thread in the "TVBox section" (refer to Fig. 1.1.) of this forum, named "H96 max" and "v58" separately (if they do not already exist), you may cross-reference each other.

References:

- Figure 1.1. https://forum.armbian.com/forum/24-tv-boxes/

[Hqnicolas]

On 11/18/2023 at 1:38 PM, Szymon_Zy said:

box H96 max v58

it will never happend....
I promess you.
my next project will be RK3576
rk3588 desnt make sense for a TV box....
cheap EMMC, Cheap WIFI, cheap RAM, and big price.

Edited June 2 by Hqnicolas

[Avatar Ng]

Yeah, don't know what Tencent is thinking, I don't like the experience at all,
I reason I bought it simply because it's the most affordable and available hardware around at that point of time.
I never notice this one coming --"RK3576", I'll keep my eye on this, thanks for sharing this, very interesting.

[Hqnicolas]

5 hours ago, Avatar Ng said:

Yeah, don't know what Tencent is thinking, I don't like the experience at all,

Tencent box Aurora 5 Pro was probably a better experience than H96MAX could give you
H96MAX V58 = more expensive than an open source SBC
H96MAX V58 = not reliable EMMC or RAM chips