Frank White Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) Hi Nick, I was able to burn the following image to my SD card and it booted up perfectly. I have version 5.1 of the board. The only problem I noticed is neither the wifi nor ethernet port were working. Any tips? Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-ddr3-v5-1_noble_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz Edited March 28 by Frank White 0 Quote
Nick A Posted March 28 Posted March 28 Which wifi chip do you have? Can you upload your dmesg logs here? 0 Quote
Frank White Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) Here's my board. I will get dmesg in a bit. I guess it's the XR819 chip. Edited March 28 by Frank White 0 Quote
Nick A Posted March 28 Posted March 28 Can you extract your dts from your original android. You directory structure might be different. 0 Quote
Frank White Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 5:29 PM, Nick A said: Can you extract your dts from your original android. Expand Not sure I did this correctly but here's what I got. dtb.0.dtsUnavailable 0 Quote
Frank White Posted Saturday at 12:13 PM Posted Saturday at 12:13 PM On 3/29/2025 at 3:09 AM, Nick A said: Try this image Expand Everything seemed to work except sound. Thanks for your help. My first impression is that while super cool, the hardware isn't up to the task of running a desktop OS. I'm going to try out the server version and see how that does. 0 Quote
Frank White Posted Saturday at 04:14 PM Posted Saturday at 04:14 PM Off topic question but I don't suppose you could point me in the right direction to get openwrt installed on my device? 0 Quote
Nick A Posted Saturday at 05:22 PM Posted Saturday at 05:22 PM (edited) Sorry I never played with openwrt on these boxes. I found this.. not sure how it works. But I see x96q-lpddr3. https://github.com/armarchindo/ULO-Builder Edited Saturday at 06:00 PM by Nick A 0 Quote
vok4us Posted Tuesday at 07:52 PM Posted Tuesday at 07:52 PM Hi. In October 2024, I wrote that I had a problem installing Armbian on eMMC of the tv box. I managed to solve this problem. Here's what you need to do: 1. Download the image from the link - https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/download/20250306/Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-lpddr3-v1-3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz 2. Burn the image to microSD using Rufus or BalenaEtcher 3. Insert the microSD and turn on the tv box 4. Install Armbian 5. Next, launch the terminal and enter sequentially: armbian-install -> Boot from eMMC - system on eMMC -> ext4 (waiting ~5-10 minutes) 6. Turn off the tv box and extract the microSD 7. Turn on the tv box (Wi-Fi is not working) 8. Next, launch the terminal and enter sequentially: armbian-config -> System -> Kernel -> SY210 - Manage device tree overlays 9. Turn off the tv box (waiting ~5-10 minutes) 10. Turn on the tv box (Wi-Fi is working) Special thanks to @Nick A Good luck to all!!! 0 Quote
ketzercat Posted yesterday at 06:50 PM Posted yesterday at 06:50 PM Good afternoon, I picked up the next X96Q. I was deceived, of course. But the price is not something that will upset me. Instead of the 2 and 16 written on the sticker, there are 1 and 8 inside. Otherwise, there is an extremely unsuspicious serial number. But here I come to another question, how realistic is it to launch Armbian on this? 0 Quote
Nick A Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago Hi @ketzercat I have 4 different images.. Try them see if they work for you. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306 0 Quote
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