A95X F3 Amlogic S905W2

riicsii123 · January 10, 2022 at 9:29 PM

Hy. I have a A95XF3 with Amlogic S905W2

With Android the Kodi is lagging with some movies like Avatar bt2020 version. what libreleec version works on this device ?

**chewitt** · January 11, 2022 at 3:40 AM

The AMLGX "box" image here https://test.libreelec.tv/ has a device-treee for the A95XF3 box, but SM1 (S905X2/D2/Y2) boards currently have no support for 10-bit HEVC (and playing it wiill crash the board) so you won't get a better experience. You'd be better off with CE images that use the legacy vendor kernel.

riicsii123 · January 11, 2022 at 2:24 PM

Thanks for reply, in the future the 10bit HEVC works?

**chewitt** · January 11, 2022 at 5:15 PM

I hope so

riicsii123 · January 16, 2022 at 7:14 PM

And I can install this on my tw box with amlogic s905w2 processor this works ? And how can I install ? Simply like any other libreleec builds ?

**chewitt** · January 17, 2022 at 2:41 AM

I'm not sure anyone has tested with an S905W2 chip so you'll have to go first and let us know. I would start with "meson-sm1-a95xf3-air.dtb" in uEnv.ini as that's quite simple hardware and probably a close match. I've no idea what WiFi module is in the box so it will be Ethernet only until someone shares some close-up photo's of the board inside. The Android boot log would also be useful.

riicsii123 · January 18, 2022 at 7:44 AM

Thanks for reply. How can I make a bootable usb with this files ?

**chewitt** · January 18, 2022 at 11:47 AM

Create a USB or SD card from https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…85.0-box.img.gz the same way as you made any other LE or CE image (Etcher, Win32Diskimager, the LE app, dd on Linux, etc.). Then set the correct dtb name in uEnv.ini.

riicsii123 · January 18, 2022 at 12:30 PM

Thank you

riicsii123 · January 18, 2022 at 6:23 PM

this is correct for dtb name set?

dtb_name=/dtb/@@meson-sm1-a95xf3-air.dtb@@

bootargs=boot=UUID=1601-2724 disk=UUID=e4570653-0af3-49ad-928c-185fb0e9d4ff quiet systemd.debug_shell=ttyAML0 console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0

**chewitt** · January 18, 2022 at 11:47 PM

Code

dtb_name=/dtb/meson-sm1-a95xf3-air.dtb

drop the @@ from dtb_name, like ^ this, the other line is fine/unchanged.

riicsii123 · January 19, 2022 at 11:32 AM

Thank you I tried . Not working . Only Android logo coming and rebooting the device

**chewitt** · January 19, 2022 at 1:59 PM

You will probably need to force recovery boot via whatever method works on your box, e.g. holding in a reset button when power is applied to the box and releasing after a few seconds (so-called toothpick method) etc.

riicsii123 · January 19, 2022 at 5:24 PM

I tried this is . Only Android logo coming and restarting again and again

riicsii123 · January 20, 2022 at 1:34 PM

Any other idea ?

**chewitt** · January 20, 2022 at 8:32 PM

It's the first time someone shows up with an S905W2 board and it's hard cum impossible to diagnose these things without seeing the UART (serial console) output from the box. That requires a UART cable and cracking the box open to connect it, which often involves soldering pins to the board. I'm always game for that - but most users aren't?

LITUATUI · January 30, 2022 at 8:15 PM

Devices now being sold as S905W2 and S905Y4 have actually the long-awaited S805X2 SoC with efficient A35 cores and AV1 support. Naming in Amlogic devices is getting very confusing...

New Amlogic S805X2 Android TV devices with Full HD AV1 decoding

long with Amlogic S805X2 chipset also appeared on the market new Android TV devices. That's why we decided to introduce you to a few Android TV Box and

androidtvbox.eu

In my A95X F3 Air II the device tree is s905w2_ap201-4g.

**chewitt** · January 31, 2022 at 12:20 AM Best Answer

Amlogic started upstreaming core board support to the mainline kernel, but it's a slow process so I wouldn't expect LE support anytime soon.