Have Armbian for Tanix TX1 QHZIW_H313_TX1_EMCP_V2.0?

[Lesano]

On internet i can't find any image for this tv box. Anyone have build for this? 

[Nick A]

@Lesano https://linux-sunxi.org/Tanix_TX1 shouldn’t be hard to make a armbian config for this board since it's mainlined. You probably want this patch to add wifi and hdmi.

https://gitlab.manjaro.org/iuncuim/linux/-/blob/eccecabc2ca2d6efb463edc94aa0ef383d8ae200/0650-arm64-dts-allwinner-h313-Tanix-TX1-TVbox.patch

 

You would need to boot over USB cable. I never booted over USB so I can't help with that.
https://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot

Edited December 25, 2025 by Nick A

[billymore]

Hello,

I'm also interested in finding an image and getting feedback on Tanix TX1 QHZIW_H313_TX1_EMCP_V2.0. I bought this cheap box on Temu for 15 USD (2GB/16GB)

 

I tried with USB drive and BalenaEtcher several images, without success (trying to boot on it, with tootpick on button) :

 

• 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v1-3_bookworm_current_6.12.64_minimal.img.xz
• 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_X96q_bookworm_current_6.6.44_mate_desktop.img.xz
• 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.12.64_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz

Based on my other experiences, this box, although close to x96q, is different. With X96Q, you just have to use SD card and boot was succesful. However, here, nothing is working.

Looking for other's experience and advice.

 

[Nick A]

@billymore https://linux-sunxi.org/Tanix_TX1
Use a toothpick or any other non-conductive stick to push the button inside the A/V connector when powering up the box. Connect a USB-A/USB-A cable to the only USB port and a host PC.

https://www.slashinit.com/posts/boot-uboot-orange-pi-zero-2-using-usb-mode/
https://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot

[billymore]

Hello Nick,

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to do this with a basic USB A to C cable, with an adapter on the USB-C part to have a USB male. The TX1 started (LED lit up) but no detection of the TX1 as USB device on my machine

I'm using a Macbook M1 with Debian Linux VM to detect this. And the TX1 is never detected as USB OTG.

[Nick A]

@billymore I was able to detect my transpeed box using the toothpick trick.  

Here are some links that might help figure it out.  Maybe even going on irc and asking the sunxi guys.

https://oftc.catirclogs.org/linux-sunxi/search?q=tx1

https://groups.google.com/g/linux-sunxi/c/OrktE3duFDA

Edited February 6 by Nick A

[billymore]

I'm moving forward.

I managed to get the FEL - a true Male A <> Male A USB cable is required.

FEL mode is now working.
I'm able to transfer the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of Armbian but TX1 is booting on Android immediately (based on Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.12.64_minimal.img - u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin extracted).

This means that I don't have the possibility to boot on the Armbian USB drive (flashed with u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin)

Similarly, I tried with another image based on MiniArch (MiniArch-20240715-6.18.7-board-h313.tanix_tx1-SD-Image.img.xz). 

I was able to transfer those MiniArch via FEL:

sunxi-fel -v -p uboot bootloader/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
write 0x40200000 Image
write 0x4fa00000 dtbs/allwinner/sun50i-h313-tanix-tx1.dtb
write 0x4fc00000 load-kernel.scr

Original made Load-kernel.scr in the MiniArch-20240715-6.18.7-board-h313.tanix_tx1-SD-Image.img.xz  :
 

setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait ram=1024M debug
booti 0x40200000 - 0x4fa00000

With the MiniArch FEL, the TX1 is not booting on Android and I can see 4 penguins with cursor.

I updated the load-kernel.scr to have some verbose by changing the console:

setenv bootargs console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait rootdelay=60 ram=1024M debug loglevel=7 booti 0x40200000 - 0x4fa00000

Result:
MiniArch bootloader and FEL transfer writes allow to boot. USB devices are detected (USB Hub, USB drive, keyboard) but nothing happens further, or it ends up with a kernel panic.

Output of the Linux TX1 console after MiniArch FEL transfer sequence:
 

1.651121] sunxi-mc 4022000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 2048 KB, u
[
top_ops)
1.655936] sunti-drm display-engine: bound 6510000.tcon-top Cops sunBi_tcon_
1.973277] mnc2: new high speed DDR MMC card at address 0001 _tcon_ops)
1.9745881 sunfi-drm display-engine: bound 6515000. lcd-controller Cops sunti
1.9789521 mncblk2: mmc2:0001 HAGZe@ 14.7 GiB
1.9825631 sunBi-du-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller u2.12a wi th HDCP (DWC HDMI 2.0 TX PHY)
p17
1.990428] mncblk2: p1 p2 p3 p1 p5 p6 p? p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 p16
[ iver
1.991663] sunBi-du-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: registered Designbare HDMI I2C bus dr
1.998192]
mncblkbooto: mnc2:0001 HAGZed 4.00 MiB
1.999521]
sunti-drn display-engine: bound 6000000.hdmi Cops sunBi_du hami_o
ps)
2.007404] mncblk2boot1: mnc2:0001 HAGZes 4.00 MiB
2.012147] [drm] Initialized sunfi-drm 1.0.0 for display-engine on minor o
2.723997]
Console: switching to colour frane buffer device 240x67
2.7468481
sunti-den display-engine: larm] fb0: sunti-drodrufb frame buffer device
2.7554683
2.7573363
usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001, bcdDevice= 6.18 of_cis_init
2.7599291
sunxi-nuc 4021000.mmc: allocated
mnc-purseg
2. 763866]
ush usb3: New USE device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
2.766352]
of_cfs_init: 0K
2.771541]
usb usb3: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller
2.7789161
clk: Disabling unused clocks
2.781535]
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 6.18.7 ohci_hcd
2.785297] sunxi-nnc 4021000.mnc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new tinings mode
2.7875991 PM: genpd: Disabling unused power domains
2.7914431 usb usb3: SerialNumber: 5101400 .usb
2.8161741
check access for rdinit=/init failed: -2, ignoring
2.816738]
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[2.822049
Waiting 90 sec before mounting root device...
2.831452]
hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
2.8428851
mnc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
7.4519021
usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
7.6636101
usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0a05, idProduct=7211, bcdDevice= 1.00
7.6718951
usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, Seria lNumber=0
7.679084]
usb 3-1: Product: USBZ.0 HUB
7.684782J
hub
3-1:1.0: USB hub found
7.6896091
hub
3-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
8.115235] usb
3-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform
8.224936] usb
3-1,1: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
8.266936] usb
3-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=059f, idProduct=1022, bcdDevice= 1.00
8.2753821
8.282744]
USD
3-1,1: New USB device strings: Mfral, Product=2, SerialMunber=3
usb
8.2871451
usb
3-1.1:
Product: LaCie lanaKey
8.2912791
usb
3-1.1:
Manufacturer: LaCie
3-1.1:
SerialNumber: 97e0bfb3cfe007
8.501898]
แรง
3-1.2:
new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform
8.6079401
8.6163791
usb
3-1.2:
New USB device found, idVendor=0318, idProduct=2808, bcdDevice= 2.00
3-1.2:
New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, Seria lNumber=0
8.6237581
usb
3-1.2:
Product: 2.4G Composite Devic
8.711901]
uSb
3-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-platform
8.847941] usb
8.8563831
usb
3-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=04f2, idProduct=0403, bcdDevice= 1.65
3-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, Seria lNumber=0
8.865882] usb
3-1.3: Product: USB Keyboard
8.8722631
usb 3-1.3: Manufacturer: Chicony
12.851997]
sun501-h6-prcm-ppu 7010250. power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 1800000. gpu

If I wait, I ended up seeing a kernel panic :

Kernel panic - not suncing: UFS: Unable to mount rout fs
; on unknoun-block(0,0)

 

93.6966821
b30d
93.696690]
03.7097151
b30e
93.7097231
93.7224501
b30f
93.7227581
93.7357951
b310
93.735804]
33.748859]
b311
163B4 mncblk2p9 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe4d
163B4 mncblk2p10 а0085546-4166-741a-a353-fca9272bBete
16384 mncblk2p11 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe4f
16384 mmcblkZp12 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe50
512 mmcblk2p13 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe51
15872 mncblk2p14 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe52
163B4 mncblk2p15 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe53
16384 mncblk2p16 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe54
11423727 mmcblk2p17 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe55
93.748867]
93.761944]
b320
4096 mmcblkZbooto
93.7619521
(driver?)
93.7121621
b340
4096 mmcblk2boot1
93.7121121
(driver?)
99.7835151
List of all bdeu filesystems:
33.7895001
exts
93.7895061
ext4
93.793371] extz
33.7972031
ufat
93.8010141
msdos
93.8048091
93.8120251
Kernel panic - not suncing: UFS: Unable to mount rout fs
; on unknoun-block(0,0)
93.8221681
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G
6.18.7 #1 PREEMPT 56ea6Zc682B4f70bf2
93.9338801 -1 end Kernel panic - not syncing: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) }—

93.836517] Tainted: [WI-WARN

93.841380] Hardware name: Tanix TX1 (DT)
93.8472801
Call trace:
93.8515981
show_stack+0x24/0x70 (C)
93.857135]
dump_stack_lul+0x74/0x94
93.8626511
dump _stack+0x14/0x24
93.8677961
upanic+0x104/0x2d4
93.872767]
panic +0x5c/0x64
93.877447]
mount root gener ic+0x14/0x29B
93.8834131
mount_root +0x16c/0x188
93.8886741
prepare _namespace +0x1cc/0x22c
93.8945131
kernel_init_frecable+0x264/0x284
93.900587]
kernel_init+0x1c/0x140
93.905767]
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
93.9110311
MP: stopping secondary CPU:

93.9166281 Kernel Offset: disable
93.9217681
CPU features:

At this stage, I'm stuck with the TX1 :

- Armbian Image - no boot success - FEL difficult
- MiniArch - boot started but stuck

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by billymore
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