[UNOFFICIAL][Le12][RK3228/RK3229][box]Libreelec builds

ilmich
Thanks for continuing to update this box, great job! I've been testing and these are the things I saw:
1) It plays some videos but it freezes every few seconds, I tried to make the cache bigger but it didn't work.
2) Some videos don't play and I've attached a picture of the screen and logs
3) I couldn't find the AC3 and EAC3 passthrough option that was previously in AUDIO. I saw it in the player but it didn't work, I couldn't get 5.1 sound like I had in LE11.

I hope it helps to keep improving. Greetings and thank you very much!

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log-2024-09-16-20.52.15.zip

Hi, I'm having trouble installing the ROM and now i want to install it onto the box instead of using an sd card, i tried using sd card i mounted the .img.gz onto the sdcard using the recommended way it seemed the box's sd card slot doesnt work i tried using flash drive before booting the device i hold the toothpick on the reset button and then booted it but it only formatted the box and gave an error "unknow volume /frp" and booted back to stock rom. now i want to install it onto the rom but i cant find a proper guide for this.

I believe the model of the board is:
R29_5G_LP3_V1.2_00523

and the android os is:
7.1.2

and the boards pictures:

forgot a picture:

Hey, good to know you're still maintaining this box. I'm on your LE11 build and I think it's the best one yet. I tried out the latest LE12 build and I do notice some issues:

• Wifi still doesn't show any networks to connect to. It's never worked on LE11 either. Mine has the RK3228A + ESP8089.
• My Apple type-c to headphone adapter doesn't show up as an audio device in settings. I did check lsusb and it does show up there so not sure what's up. This also happens in LE11. Currently my workaround is to use a cheap optical/coax to 3.5mm converter, which works with the SPDIF output.
• Framerate on the UI seems pretty low. It was on 720 GUI scaling already but it's unable to hit even 30fps when moving around the menus. In contrast, with LE11, my device occassionally hits 60fps and usually 15 to 20 at worst. This is already with the dtb setup, it was much worse without it as expected. I just use the same one: rk322x-box-mxq4kpro.
  • I do want to note the difference in SD card used. For LE12 i just used an old 16GB Sandisk Ultra w/ nothing but Class 10 certification. On the other hand, LE11 is on a 64GB Sandisk Extreme, notably with C10-V3-U3-A2 certifications. I did use the older card before for LE11 and on the upgrade found that boot and load times to be better but I'm not sure if menu performance should also be influenced by type of sd card.
  • Is emmc install no longer a thing? I have LE10 on my emmc so far but do you think we should just do something like this instead: [HOWTO] Boot from SD card, use internal memory for data - where we move all data to emmc but still need the sd card for boot.

I haven't tried any addons yet. But surprisingly the video playback seems fine? I only tested a couple Hi10p and H265 10bit 1080p videos. Same as LE11, it still struggles with rendering *.ass subtitles w/ complex animations, but maybe that's just how it is since the SoC isn't strong enough.

Again, props for keeping this box alive! For now it's LE11 for me, but I'm curious how far you can push it with this version.

Log file: link 

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the processor may not be able to handle the UI smoothly at such high resolutions

ARM SoC devices need to use 1080p desktop/GUI resolution. You can use 4K for playback as this is hardware accelerated, but the CPUs are nearly all too weak for 4K resolutions.

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After some research, I read that the device actually activates when you connect a device via 3.5mm jack. Can you please try? In the meantime, I'm trying to understand if some drivers are missing.

can confirm this, as it happened to me using a ugreen usb to 3.5 dac. if nothing is connected, device is invisible.

Thank you so muchj for this build, could not find a rom for my i95 tv box until now! and its a great rom!

Just got one of these cheapo boards (branded as x96mini), and you may have saved it from going straight to landfill.
The stock Android is terrible, but LibreELEC seems to run pretty well on it, so thanks a lot!

Ethernet and Wi-Fi doesn't work, although ethernet doesn't work on stock too (ip link reports no-carrier), so might be a hardware issue on mine.
I've gotten around it with a USB ethernet adapter I had laying around.

Some notes from my messing around:

Sadly adb doesn't seem to work with either USB A-to-A (could be the cable idk) or over network, so to be able to poke around I installed TermOne Plus and used a reverse shell so I could test things from my laptop:

On laptop:

nc -l -p 2222 | tee -a shell.log

On box:

rm -f f;mknod f p; cat f | sh -i 2>&1 | busybox nc 192.168.1.8 2222 > f

I also used nc to copy files of it, as TermOne didn't seem to be able to write do internal storage or the USB stick I had in it, even when it had the storage permission enabled. Nor was ftp/ssh etc available by default.

Some files:
dmesg_libreelec.log
dmesg_stock.log
dtb_from_image.txt
dtb_from_proc.txt

Ended up dumping DTB from both image and /proc as I wasn't sure if I did it correctly from the image, both attached should they be useful somehow.

Plus a couple of pics of the board:

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I'm happy, the work behind it was long and sometimes complicated.

I looked at the device trees in the code to see if it was something simple like the wrong GPIO pin to enable the wifi chip,
and yeah saw there was a bunch of patches to get varies things to work, so yeah I can believe it took a lot of effort

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I saw some errors related to missing firmware. Let's see what I can do.

This?

[   16.194157] r8152-cfgselector 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc2
[   16.759131] r8152 1-1:1.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8153b-2.fw failed with error -2
[   16.759213] r8152 1-1:1.0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8153b-2.fw (-2)

That should be my USB ethernet adapter, which does work fine despite that message.
Looking through the logs I can't find anything wifi related at all. From what I found here, this driver might be needed for this chip. Not familiar with how the libreelec builds work, but since it's out-of-tree should probably be added like this package for rtl8192fu?

I'll give it a try tomorrow if I get the chance.

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Hi Lochnair , try this test build where I compiled the driver you suggested (and added firmware for usb ethernet)

https://ilmich.libreelec.tv/libreelec-12/test/

Unfortunately we have to go by trial and error because I don't have your device.

Thanks ilmich, the firmware you added looks like it made error go away.

As for Wi-Fi, no such luck yet. I think the module didn't get included in the build somehow?

Btw is the repository up-to-date? I wanted to poke around a bit myself, so I wouldn't have to take up more of your time than I have to, but ran into issues getting it to build:

Exception: Invalid package reference: dependency optee-os in package u-boot::PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET is not valid
Parallel build failure - see log for details. Time of failure: Sun Oct 27 16:20:43 UTC 2024
make: *** [Makefile:10: image] Error 1

If I remove the optee-os from the device options file, then it gets further, but fails with a patch seemingly being already applied:

patching file arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] 

Apply anyway? [n] 

Skipping patch.

1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi.rej