Armbian for H313 X96-Q LPDDR3 TV-Box

[Frank White]

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

[Nick A]

Which wifi chip do you have? Can you upload your dmesg logs here?

[Frank White]

Here's my board.  I will get dmesg in a bit.  I guess it's the XR819 chip.
 

  

Edited March 28 by Frank White

[Frank White]

dmesg.txt

[Nick A]

Can you extract your dts from your original android.

 

You directory structure might be different.

 

[Frank White]

4 hours ago, Nick A said:

Can you extract your dts from your original android.

 

Not sure I did this correctly but here's what I got.

dtb.0.dts

[Nick A]

Try this image

 

[Frank White]

8 hours ago, Nick A said:

Try this image

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.  

[Frank White]

Off topic question but I don't suppose you could point me in the right direction to get openwrt installed on my device?

[Nick A]

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 March 29 by Nick A

[vok4us]

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!!!

[ketzercat]

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?

 

 

[Nick A]

Hi @ketzercat

I have 4 different images.. Try them see if they work for you.

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

[IronIgel]

Hi @ketzercat,

 

your box is not based on an Allwinner H313 but most likely on a soc from HiSilicon. H313 is rectangle but not square and the silkscreen is different. The board looks
 almost like the one I received some time ago:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/43682-armbian-for-h313-x96-q-lpddr3-tv-box/#findComment-202383

 

So, no chance of running Armbian any time soon....

 

 

 

 

[Frank White]

Any tip to getting HDMI audio to work on version 5.1 of the board?

[akhems]

Hey Everyone.

I have a cheap box from Aliexpress.

On the board it says "Q1 V3.0"

The chip on it says H313.

What would be the best image to use for this?

And how can i get it to boot from SD or USB with the image?

 

thank you!

[akhems]

Just tried booting with a SD card made using instructions from page 2 of this thread. Just boots into normal Android OS

Tried using a toothpick in the audio port, just get a black screen

Any advice on how to get the box to boot from SD card?

 

[Nick A]

Try my latest images maybe they will work for you
https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

[rafaeldavid]

Hello everyone, I have a problem, I hope you can help me.
I have a TV box sold here in Brazil that has an H316 processor. I tried to use the images that were made available, but I only managed to boot successfully when I compiled my own after downloading the build from Git.
Now I can boot from the SD card, create a user and passwords, use the sudo armbian-install command, but after that, a message appears saying "Counting files... few seconds" and freezes on that screen.
Could someone tell me what I can change in the img compilation to fix this?

[Nick A]

Which build are you using? Is your internal emmc detected on boot? 

[eas07027]

On 9/20/2024 at 12:56 AM, sicxnull said:

обновил свой форк, если вы хотите его использовать  https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build/releases/download/v24.8.0-trunk.425/Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_X96q_bookworm_current_6.6.44_mate_desktop.img.xz

The home assistant is installed perfectly, but it does not load on emmc.

 

On 4/18/2025 at 6:13 PM, Nick A said:

Try my latest images maybe they will work for you
https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

It is installed perfectly on emmc, but the home assistant is not installed, according to the instructions https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-supervised-using-debian-12/200253

[Nick A]

@eas07027
That install guide is for x86. dpkg -i os-agent_1.7.2_linux_x86_64.deb
 

Try this 

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-supervised-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-debian-12/247116

 

I haven’t installed home assistant before so I can’t help much.

If home assistant is using docker you need to run these commands.

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Nick A

[eas07027]

I have solved the issue of installing on a new system.

sudo update-alternatives --config iptables

Choose -legacy

 

[rafaeldavid]

22 hours ago, Nick A said:

Which build are you using? Is your internal emmc detected on boot? 

I tried generating some builds, the only one that works (initially) is Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q_jammy_current_6.12.23 (versions with or without desktop). I don't understand much, but I believe that the emmc memory is detected. When I start it, it boots, asks the initial questions (root password, create my user, region settings, etc.). After that, I use the armbian-install command and enter the installer, select to install, ask me to confirm (data will be deleted), ask how I want to format the partition and then get stuck.

 

PS: To mount the image I used this command: ./compile.sh build BOARD=x96q BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=jammy

 

(I tried to use the version BOARD=x96q-mate, but don't work!

As you can see in the video, the image shakes for a while, then stops. I think that's when the device freezes.

Edited 8 hours ago by rafaeldavid

[Nick A]

@rafaeldavid can you show me the output when you type in the command "fdisk -l"