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Thanks for the reply, I've just done some digging & found some firmware, (I kept the manual so know it's marketed as an OTT MXQ box which helps), but they all have an earlier date than the one listed on the recovery screen (it shows 20160303), & my previous experience with Android phones tells me that may be an issue as they dont like overwriting newer firmwares. I'll try it anyway when ity finishes downloading. Fingers crossed!

Nope, no joy. Searched high & low but cannot find the same date firmware or a later one than 20160303 so it won't install. Guess I have a paperweight now unless there's something more extreme I can try.

Thanks for the reply, I've just done some digging & found some firmware, (I kept the manual so know it's marketed as an OTT MXQ box which helps), but they all have an earlier date than the one listed on the recovery screen (it shows 20160303), & my previous experience with Android phones tells me that may be an issue as they dont like overwriting newer firmwares. I'll try it anyway when ity finishes downloading. Fingers crossed!

Okay, apologies.

I read through post 1 in this thread twice, then followed it as I worked (as I always do when flashing etc).

The box is an all black MXQ Amlogic S805.

I downloaded LibreELEC-S805.MXQ.arm-7.0.3.3c.img.gz

unpacked & burnt it to the sd card as per the instruction on the installation page.

I then powered off the box, inserted SD card & inserted toothpick to press the button. Kept in held in & reconnected power, but no hdmi output whatsoever even after a few minutes. Took out power & toothpick, tried same again.

I then tried another SD card & redownloaded the img file in case it was corrupted. Same process again, nothing.

Again, with yet another SD card, same process, again nothing. Tried repeatedly the same process & had no hdmi output, box light stayed red & no signal sent to TV at all.

I dont have debug logs as it was a physical process & the box wasnt able to log anything as wasnt booting.

I then gave up & removed SD card & toothpick & rebooted.

This is when the box went into recovery mode, but either choosing reboot from there or pulling power & reinserting will not boot into anything but the recovery mode.

Thanks for the quick response.

I've read & re-read the OP but cannot find anything related to being stuck in recovery, only what to do if the recovery doesn't work.

The only thing I can think of is to find the original firmware for the box & flash that, then try the whole process again, & hope that the toothpick method makes the box boot from the SD card this time? Is that right?

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I've got experience with a fair few raspberrypi's running OE/LE, & have flashed android custom roms & bootloaders etc, but I have never flashed an android box to another OS before.

Looking for some advice. I tried to do this earlier today & could not get the toothpick method to work.

After countless attempts I gave up & removed the toothpick, & booted as normal. Now it finally goes to recovery, but only recovery, reboot on recovery menu or pulling power just sends me back to recovery.

How can I install this from the android (3e) recovery menu? Is it install from ext? If so do I need to write the img as a non bootable one first?

Just want to check before I take any further action. Thanks for your time & the effort into making this in the first place.