I wonder if there is a way to restore /dev/system... as you pointed that appears to be the issue. I've ran installtointernal successfully before the last time when it froze. So if the eMMC isn't bricked, I'm assuming the partitions are corrupt. I have access to terminal through TWRP, which may not be as limited as LE.
You should investigate where /dev/dtb is mounted from... And in general what you can reach (mount) on /dev/mmcblk0, when booting from sd...
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I got a problem. I got Mini M8S II with broken NAND. One possibility to run my box is:
1) create a bootable SD card with Amlogic SD card maker, copy files from orginal firmware on it except recovery, recovery is TRWP for S905x devices,
2) create USB flash drive with LibreELEC USB SD creator.
3) both devices must be connected at the same time.
Box starts, works very well, but...
Is there any possibility to create AIO sd card and use ONLY sd card?
I'm newbie here, I'm trying to learn a bit about amlogic/android devices but no luck yet
Could somebody help me with this problem?
hello,i know the topic is years old,but im kinda stuck with my box which has the same problem *broken nand*,could you please guide me how to use the sd card and flash drive method,my box is a95x f3 equiped with the s905x3 processor,thanks in advance
S905X3 devices can be (or should be) recovered from broken boot firmware (e.g. flashed the wrong image) using the Amlogic Burning Tool app and an appropriate firmware image (look on freaktab). You need to connect the box to a Windows PC using a USB > USB cable and flash the image directly to internal eMMC (not NAND). It can be fiddly, but with modern Amlogic devices, unless you cause electrical damage to the eMMC chips there's really no such thing as a bricked box.
S905X3 devices can be (or should be) recovered from broken boot firmware (e.g. flashed the wrong image) using the Amlogic Burning Tool app and an appropriate firmware image (look on freaktab). You need to connect the box to a Windows PC using a USB > USB cable and flash the image directly to internal eMMC (not NAND). It can be fiddly, but with modern Amlogic devices, unless you cause electrical damage to the eMMC chips there's really no such thing as a bricked box.
Thank you for the reply
I already tried to flash it using amlogic burning tool,the computer recognises the box,but it gives errors when flashing and stops exactly at 7% formatting, I tried different firmwares besides the original firmware from the supplier himself, always the same error, I tried the sd card method but still nothing the box doesn't even turn on, (there's just a red diode that turns on).
First I used to get this error
0x32030201]Uboot/Get result/DiskInitial error
But lately I've been having this one
0x10303004]Romcode/Switch status/Identify/ Error result
I'd like to mention that the problem started when I forced shutdown the box by unplugging the power, because it just froze and didn't respond anymore.
This is not really a LE problem, you might get more help in the Freaktab forum.
Hi,
I will be glad to be able to launch LE from the SD card as I have the same issue as op.
But what are the steps exactly ?
1. Create SD card with one of those images for S905x.
2. Then add the uboot with this tutorial.
sudo umount /dev/sdX*
sudo dd if=aml_sdc_burn.UBOOT of=/dev/sdX bs=1 count=442
sudo dd if=aml_sdc_burn.UBOOT of=/dev/sdX seek=1 skip=1 bs=512
synccp aml_sdc_burn.ini aml_sdc_burn.UBOOT [device-mount-point]
cp XXX [device-mount-point]/aml_upgrade_package.img
sudo umount /dev/sdX*But what to use for aml_upgrade_package.img ? I tried kernel.img from LE but it gave green screen so it means it does not the correct image.
Or is it possible to boot USB stick using the SD Card ?
Thank you for your help.