CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards

[jock]

On 11/21/2025 at 4:02 AM, QwertyChouskie said:

Is there any chance of this image running on a device using the RKPX30 chip?  From some research, it seems to be a variant of the RK3326, and I'm not sure how similar the 3328 and 3326 are or are not.  Or is there another Armbian image for the RKPX30/RK3326?  Specifically looking to run Armbian on this: https://docs.revrobotics.com/duo-control/control-system-overview/driver-hub-specifications

rk3326 and rk3328 are not the same thing, neither is px30. Definitely no chances to run this on those SoCs; I don't know if there are images for boards using px30/rk3326 in armbian.

[sailorbg]

Good day,

@jock the link of the Multitool is not valid anymore. Please help where I can download from?

Thank you for your efford.

[ДынеЗаур]

https://users.armbian.com/users.armbian.com/jock/web/rk3318/ 
It seems like old firmware is stored here.

[Leneren]

Hi,

First of all, sorry for lengthy post and that I ask a lot of things at once, I am very new to linux and this would be my first real experience. 

I am trying to set up home automation and home assistant server. As I am just getting started to learn all the ropes, I thought about what could be used for sečrver and I remembered that I have an old T9 android TV box see the attachement, I read through this thread and tried to follow the instructions throughout the posts. 

 

I burned the armbian image to sd card, which insterted into the sd slot on the T9 board, however I am unable to get the board to boot from the sd card. 

 

The box boots normally into android, when no SD card is insterted. When the card is inserted, nothing happens and the box does not turn on at all. It may be a big ask, but would someone be able and willing to help me find out the next possible steps? I feel a bit overwhemed as I am not very knowledgable in this field and unsure how to follow the instructions, or better said, I am not sure if I am following the instructions right. 

 

Thank you! 

[jock]

16 hours ago, Leneren said:

I burned the armbian image to sd card, which insterted into the sd slot on the T9 board, however I am unable to get the board to boot from the sd card. 

Probably you have to read again the installation instructions in the first page, in particular you have to use the multitool

[0230826]

Excuse me,jock. My TV-Box is the H96Max rk3318 4+64G.The box was installed Ubuntu 24.04,kenel 4.4，desktop vension by the seller。But now, i want to install the armbian system in the box.There are some problem for me that i have no HDMI-wire and no usb-keyboard,just only an usb-A to usb-A data-wire and a notepad computer。i think that i can't use the multitool.img to help me install the armbian. So, can you give me some help to install the armbian by USB-A to USB-A data-wire?I through some search some article to know maybe the RKdevtool can help me，but the tool need the loader.bin to flash the image. I don't know where is the loader.bin for rk3318.can you help me?

[jock]

@0230826 you can follow instructions in this page by @fabiobassa The loader is there too

[0230826]

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26978-csc-armbian-for-rk3318rk3328-tv-box-boards/page/66/#findComment-231768

 

Thanks your help,jock.  I hava a try to use the rkdevtool to install armbian. I just choose the iamge in url https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img.xz.

 

But,there catch a error message in the tool. I don't known is this image is error or other reason?

[OmegaCyclops]

Hello everyone, I hope I'm in the right place. So I got an H50 tv box (T98) that I found lying around, and installed via the multitool everything including armbian itself, which works properly. The issue that I have is that I had to do all via ssh and haven't been able to get any HDMI output, tried updating lightdm, switching it to sleek, and at this point idk what else to do.

 

Thank you in advance!

Edited 9 hours ago by OmegaCyclops

[0230826]

 

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Thanks your help,jock.  I hava a try to use the rkdevtool to install armbian. I just choose the iamge in url https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img.xz.

 

But,there catch a error message in the tool. I don't known is this image is error or other reason?

@jockLater, I tried to install rkdeveloptool on another Linux server and flashed the loader.bin first and then the image by entering the command. Finally successfully flashed. But tragedy is about to be born, when the flash is successful, I did not SSH to connect to the new armbian and configure the relevant configuration immediately, but shut down and prepare to re-enter maskrom mode to flash the desktop version of the image again, the result is that this time I can no longer enter maskrom mode, no matter how long I press the reset button to plug in USB 2.0 OTG or press it, the box will no longer enter maskrom mode. Along with this, it could not start the Armbian system that was flashed before. I began to wonder if it was painted into bricks, but this board shouldn't be so fragile.

Edited 1 hour ago by 0230826

[0230826]

55 minutes ago, 0230826 said:

@jockLater, I tried to install rkdeveloptool on another Linux server and flashed the loader.bin first and then the image by entering the command. Finally successfully flashed. But tragedy is about to be born, when the flash is successful, I did not SSH to connect to the new armbian and configure the relevant configuration immediately, but shut down and prepare to re-enter maskrom mode to flash the desktop version of the image again, the result is that this time I can no longer enter maskrom mode, no matter how long I press the reset button to plug in USB 2.0 OTG or press it, the box will no longer enter maskrom mode. Along with this, it could not start the Armbian system that was flashed before. I began to wonder if it was painted into bricks, but this board shouldn't be so fragile.

@jockNow, I've finally solved this problem. Successfully flashed the latest version of armbian, https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_noble_current_6.12.63_gnome_ desktop.img.xz

Next, I will share my problem-solving journey. I found that I couldn't enter maskrom/loader mode anyway, and when I accidentally inserted the USB flash drive into the multitool.img into the TV box and powered it directly on, I found that it actually started the system directly in the USB flash drive. So I guess that it may have changed the boot order after flashing the loader.bin before, and the armbian system I flashed in before it continued to toss before it could be configured, probably because the system files of the root partition were corrupted, causing it to not boot normally. Therefore, I simply tried to flash the firmware of the rk3188-box in the official community directly into the USB flash drive, because after these images are flashed into the USB flash drive, there is only the root partition, that is, the system. And there is no boot partition. I guess the boot partition may have been written somewhere else, and I don't need to worry about it anymore. So, I plugged the USB flash drive into the latest rk3318 firmware into the box and waited for a few minutes after powering on it directly and starting it, it obtained the IP address assigned by my router DHCP, I was so excited, I quickly connected to the rk3318-box through SSH, and made the preliminary configuration. Quickly enter the command armbian-install and select item 2, and immediately write the system on the USB flash drive to emmc. After the writing is completed, turn it off, unplug the USB flash drive, power on, wait for a few minutes, and the startup is successful. It means that I have successfully flashed the phone this time. Thank you very much for your help. @jockand @fabiobassa, You're passionate and highly skilled.