Installing armbian on Yundoo Y8 TV box (RK3399)

[FucusMeDeep]

Hello all.

I have an Android-based Yundoo Y8 TV box, which I want to use for UPS management.

I want it to be able to run Armbian to install the UPS management software, but I cannot figure out which Armbian I should download.

The board is based on Rockchip RK3399. In cpu-z app I see the board identified as rk30sdk, and the hardware is rk30board.

Can you please help me identify the board so I can understand which version of Armbian I need?

I couldn't find anything in the forum about RK3399...

 

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

 

[nobitakun]

I have the same Android TV, and I've been trying to boot Armbian but I don't seem to successfully accomplish it.

 

I believe we are all alone with this, and nobody will ever help us. Maybe RK3399 SoC is still problematic after 9 years.

[SteeMan]

1 hour ago, nobitakun said:

Maybe RK3399 SoC is still problematic after 9 years

No, the support for rk3399 is quite good.  The problem is that each box/board needs someone to develop a device tree (dtb) for that box/board and each is different depending on the specifics of that box/board.  That is what is lacking to support your box. (and if your box has obscure hardware on it, then those drivers may also be lacking)

[nobitakun]

ohh I see. Anyways I can't seem to make it detectable by the Windows RKDevTool, I turn the maskrom mode correctly but then all of the commands fail.

 

It really sucks to have a device this powerful and not being able to do anything because of those crappy dtb files.

 

Thank you anyways!

[nobitakun]

Finally, I've extracted the dtb file corresponding to the device, from Android. It is for kernel 4.4.16, so I believe it can be done something with it in order to boot Armbian. At least is a beginning

[MaxT]

Hello all.
I have an Android-based Yundoo Y8 TV box, which I want to use for UPS management.
I want it to be able to run Armbian to install the UPS management software, but I cannot figure out which Armbian I should download.
The board is based on Rockchip RK3399. In cpu-z app I see the board identified as rk30sdk, and the hardware is rk30board.
Can you please help me identify the board so I can understand which version of Armbian I need?
I couldn't find anything in the forum about RK3399...
 
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
 

I would open the box make photos of the board with silk prints visible and search similar box in a relevant section of tv boxes on this forum.

Name on the plastic box means nothing, silk prints on the board and SoC itself might help.

[nobitakun]

I attached some pictures of the device inside, I don't know if they can be of any help.

 

I tried to use te dtb extracted from Android with the Armbian for Firefly-RK3399 and it does not boot. I configure the extlinux.conf file as advised, but the same moment I insert the SD card and turn on the device, the red light never turns blue. I tried that board because I've read in some forum that is similar to this device, but I know that's kind of hit and miss. At least I expected to see something on screen, even if it threw tons of errors, because I assume the dtb file is not the problem so the issue should be somewhere else that needs to be modified.

 

Much appreciated for the help

[maka]

You can not use android dtb. You must try without It or try the rk3399 files included in the sdcard.

i cant see the second rockchip (pmic)

Edited 2 hours ago by maka