CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards

[jock]

@http418 Still, the necessity of the boot logs are sine-qua-non condition to understand why the board does not boot, otherwise anyone can't be of any help here. To get the boot logs you need the serial adapter and to find the serial pads/pins on your board. Possibly they are below the heatsink, but I have no such board so I don't know.

 

About your board, an R29, the HDMI port is reported to not work and I can't fix that, because - again - I have no such board. Did you try to access via SSH to the board after 5 minutes it booted to see if is working or not?

[Tiago Tavares Rodrigues]

Hello, i'm geting this error when try flash multitool image.  

 

https://prnt.sc/FXVpe3QkFL8N

 

Can help?

[http418]

3 hours ago, jock said:

About your board, an R29, the HDMI port is reported to not work and I can't fix that, because - again - I have no such board. Did you try to access via SSH to the board after 5 minutes it booted to see if is working or not?

not at all, since it doesn't even boot. also, i dont have a serial adapter. however, i managed to boot an initramfs base of an armbian image (with filename: Armbian_23.05.0-trunk-e33842ef2_Rk322x-box_lunar_edge_6.2.9_xfce_desktop.img)  by using dd with uInitrd and skipping the first 64 bytes(based from openwrt).
for the other partitions, i basically just followed this, the only difference is that i use the stock uboot and trust from stock android rom, then i packed a resource image using the 'rk322x-box.dtb' from mentioned armbian image. sadly after a reboot it wont boot at all. but i managed to get the dmesg log:

 

dmesg.log

Edited April 21, 2023 by http418

[primoitt]

On 4/21/2023 at 11:34 AM, Tiago Tavares Rodrigues said:

Hello, i'm geting this error when try flash multitool image.  

 

https://prnt.sc/FXVpe3QkFL8N

 

Can help?

 

Hi @Tiago Tavares Rodrigues

 

Try this:

- exclude all partitions on your sdcard;

- create one partitiion included all disk space;

- format this partition to FAT32;

- go to balena and burn multiboot image.

 

[mr. madness]

Hello everyone!

I have successfully installed Armbian on my TV box. However, the WiFi is not working, only the Ethernet cable connection. My TV box has a 6051p network card. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

[RaptorSDS]

Am 27.4.2023 um 21:20 schrieb mr. madness:

6051p network card.

sorry for late answer

 

you have to try some LED-Config ( better name GPIO Config) settings inside rk322x-config tool and always reboot after every change, 

it should be support by kernel 5.x , else you can try legacy image ( with kernel 3.xx)

 

 

[Wilcon Barro]

Is there an image file of this armbian where erasing the mmc is not needed? I tried flashing the images to sd card, but it doesn't boot/black screen. Multitool and libreelect works though.

[jock]

2 hours ago, Wilcon Barro said:

Is there an image file of this armbian where erasing the mmc is not needed? I tried flashing the images to sd card, but it doesn't boot/black screen. Multitool and libreelect works though.

There is no prebuilt image of that kind on purpose: whenever you do an update of the kernel/uboot, it will break the system and it won't boot anymore.

[Guest]

Need help

https://prnt.sc/YQkfT_cKwynJ

 

Edited May 13, 2023 by thariu
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[nexposito]

Hello guys, when i try to start multitool on SD Card i got no video, an orange light keep blinking and nothing happens!
Can someone help me?

Edited May 19, 2023 by nexposito

[YanCorote]

Hello guys, I have a problem using multitool. After starting the backup process or simply installing the image, the screen goes black in less than a minute. How to solve it?

[guleli huseynzade]

Hello, my TV box boots only in my mask. multitool opens when sd card is inserted. When using usb cable, prepare idb fails
device:r329q v8.1

[spinning banner]

Hello @jock,

 

I have R29 board and want to help out with the no video problem.

 

Here's stuff i gathered so far:

* CPU is RK3229 (Based on what Android says it is. Couldn't remove heatsink to physically check, it's "glued" on really tight, didn't want to use excessive force to not damage anything).

* On WiFi chip is written S9012P but Android says it's AP6210 (Neither has Linux driver so whatever).

* Standard 1GB/8GB RAM/storage setup.

* Photos of board front, back

* Device tree dumped from running Android

* dmesg of Android

* dmesg of multitool

I've noticed multitool has troubles reading storage too.

 

Let me know if you need anything else.

 

[jock]

@spinning banner Hello!

Unfortunately R29 boards seem to have a widely well-known issue with HDMI output, which is not working for some unknown reason.

Some research has already been done in the past on device trees, inspecting photos and logs, but still the problem is unknown, as long as I don't have such a board in my lab to really study where the problems are.

 

The S9012P wifi chip also is a no-name chip, as long as I remember it is a chinese chip with no known drivers that "emulates" a realtek chip (not a broadcom one, like those which AP6xxx are based upon), but I can be wrong.

 @RaptorSDS did some research on that chip, but as far as I know, there is no solution because there is no driver for that (see https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12656-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-boxes/page/57/#comment-156548)

 

R29 is a quite weird board actually; despite being very similar to others, has some compatibility issues all-around and it does not surprise me the multitool has troubles with emmc, although it should have none.

From the android dmesg I see on android the eMMC runs at 31.25 MHz; Multitool runs it at standard 50 MHz, and that may be the cause of the flash storage issues on multitool.

The reason could be a  very poor quality board or eMMC,  because ALL the boards with eMMC I have ever seen runs the eMMC at 50Mhz perfectly fine and I never had to downclock the eMMC frequency to solve an issue like that.

 

 

[spinning banner]

Well that's disappointing.

 

So if I erase flash with rkdevtool (already made backup with it) in order to boot from SD, can first boot setup be done via SSH? I intend to use it headless anyway.

[jock]

@spinning banner Yes, it should work that way (except your board has some more other flaws which I'm not aware about...)

[Wonder Xyril]

Hi, I want to install armbian with my tv box that has rk3229 chip. But it seems that I cannot install it due to compatibility issues, can you help me please? I also noticed that your multi tool has bash script, we have a project and it needs to be done by this week, I was hoping that i can use your multi tool since it has the same function as the armbian (bash script) and I want to have an access where i can install mariadb, ssh, apache2 for our requirement. Can you please help me? Thank you so much! 

[RaptorSDS]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Wonder Xyril:

compatibility issues,

Let's look into the crystal ball, I see something, it could be that something is not right here and someone has problems with a rk322x box. hope you understand this little fun, it would be of course especially with such a time pressure of only a week surprising if we could really solve your problem with such a crystal ball, so let's start here. Describe your box in more detail, which multitool which problem from which point, why this solution not something else and much much more ....

[Wonder Xyril]

@RaptorSDS I bought a fake tv box (https://shp.ee/w5h2xzg), it says that its amlogic, but in reality it is RK322x. 

I've tried flashing most of the builds that is related to RK322x, but none of them worked. I have flashed it directly to the sd card and used the multi tool to burn and nothing worked. (direct sd card - nothing happens, not booting) (multi tool - eMMc not showing, and the image cant be found.) 

[RaptorSDS]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb Wonder Xyril:

amlogic, but in reality it is RK322x

how do you know , do you open the box and remove the heatsink ? , maybe after all really a AmLogic maybe?

we seen like sell as amlogic , print on die as rockchip and after all allwinner chip  or stupid things like sell as rockchip print as amlogic and really is rockchip older model

 

please show and tell us more

[Wonder Xyril]

@RaptorSDShi, i've removed the heat sink, and it says allwinner h313. can i still install it?

 

[RaptorSDS]

vor 2 Minuten schrieb Wonder Xyril:

allwinner h313. can i still install it?

now you have your answer thats not working because not compatible anyway

[Wonder Xyril]

@RaptorSDScan i still install other armbian that are compitable with allwinner h313?

[fabiobassa]

@Wonder Xyril

 

You should ask in allwinner forum 

[Himera]

Hey everyone, I have tv box same as user Md Ashik Khan, I have tried to burn multi tool, or burn armbian image to SD card but it does not boot. It shows black screen and nothing happening so I have no idea how to debug this 😞 any suggestions? Thanks

Edited June 6, 2023 by Himera

[Himera]

 

[fabiobassa]

@Himera

I am not sure it is a rockchip

It could be an amlogic s915

if you have a usb-ttl adapter you can try to grab more infos or you could try to GENTLE  remove the heat sink and read cpu code

[Himera]

I have removed heat sink and this is RK3128. Is there armbian for that?

[fabiobassa]

@Himera

no, we actually don't work on 3128 that is very very old comparing to 322x

[guitoscan]

Hello guys, I'm having a little trouble with a board and need some help to solve it.

I don't know if this is the correct place for this question, so I'll be strictly to the point.

I have a MXQPro with a RK3228A and the board is freezing during the boot.

 

I've tried a few Images, from Multitool and directly from the SD Card (and then a flash drive, since I was sloppy and killed my SD in the process). 

I've follow the steps from de first page, but the freezing happening:

1 - 60s after I power up the board (with Multitool);

2 - while the boot is happening (from the directly boot)

(this 2 situations happened with the SD and the usb flash drive)

 

I've spend a few hours searching about this problem and I found a post from 2022 from a guy called Eliel. This post was answered by @jock and he said that's probably was "garbage" from another OS, but i didn't find the conclusion from this situation.

 

I'm using Pop!_Os and "burning" the images with Popsicle and the Multitool build is df794d4 - 19/10/2022

 

But after Eliel's post and the comments from Jock, I don't believe that the problem came from the images, power supply or heat (since Eliel tried this possible solutions and doesn't had success).

 

Here are pictures from the board (idk if could be helpful somehow, but...)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YZSEf9mWCnjaVFp37

 

So guys, I'll be very glad if, somehow, you could help me with this situation (even if the answer be throw the board in the recycle bin and buy another)

TKS

 

Edited June 11, 2023 by Guilherme Toscan da Silva
Remove unused image from the draft