Posts by joransrb

Quote from garyang

you can try similar product firmware like X9 4K Amlogic S905X Android 6.0 Marshmallow 64BitTV Box Firmware 20161125 -
if it boot success, update your zip file.

thanks, will try that one

EDIT:
That did it, thanks, my box is now up and running again, so now on to try libreelec

Quote from garyang

You have to download .img file from manufacture.
What is your box?
check this site Geek Gadgets - GeekBuying Official Blog

Yeah, i have contacted them and waiting for a firmware.

I got the 2GB / 16GB edition of this one: Shenzhen Tomato X96 Amlogic S905X TV Box is Designed to be “Hooked” Behind Any Monitor or Wall Mounted

Quote from garyang

Same thing happend.
Not boot properly.
Cheer up~~~
You can fix this problem!!!!

I did it before and not worked.
You have to use latest usb burning tool.
You have to uninstall old version first.
Dropbox - setup_v2.0.8.exe

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ok, i will try with the usb burning tool method, just need to make myself a USB A A cable first

EDIT:

so i managed to make myself a USB A A cable that works, and usb burning tool sees my box, but which image do i flash it with ? i only got an update.zip with several images inside
trying to get a hold of a factory image, but that is not easy it turns out...

Quote from kszaq

This is to fix your issues with Android update.zip, not installing LE to NAND. To make installtointernal work, you may need to delete dtb.img from SD card before booting into LE - and you have to have Android on internal at the same time!

BTW, here's a next build to test for S905X owners: LibreELEC-S905.aarch64-7.0-devel-20160912122244-r23334-g1790972.img.gz

ok, so i have copied the recovery.img and dtb.img from the update.zip to the SDcard, booting to the recovery, all good.
But when i try to install the update.zip, i get a Dtb chack failed, error in update.zip (status 7).

And as far as i know, this is because the box says it is an nexbox_s905 or something, and not P212, so it wont install the update.zip

EDIT:

using a twrp version for s905x boxes i get this error:

This package is for "p212" devices. This is a "nexbox_a95x"
Update process ended with ERROR 7.

Quote from kszaq

Try extracting recovery.img and dtb.img from inside of update.zip to root folder of your SD card and boot into recovery with SD card inserted.

yeah, i can boot into recovery from the sdcard, but it still wont boot libreelec from the sdcard, or usb
and as i said, it worked fine the first time, booted of the sdcard, and all was working, so i ran the "installtointernal" command to install it on the box, no errors during install, and when reboot, nothing

thanks, gonna try that tomorrow its getting late here, will report back.

I have found out why the update.zip wont work, the box is recognized as a nexbox_905 (or something) not a p212 as reported by ro.product.device

yeah, i dont have a USB A A cable handy, so cant do that right now tho

Quote from dastinger

Use USB Burning Tool to flash a stock img or custom ROM for your box (Android) with a USB A to USB A cable connected from your computer to your box.

yeah, im restoring to the box firmware now, and will try again
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ok, so restore my android box update.zip fails.

here is a screenshot of the recovery menu, with the error message:

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i know that the update.zip is ok, cause i have used it before...

Hey, so i successfully booted up garyang's build, and it worked just fine, so i ran the "installtointernal" command in ssh, and it went trough and did its thing, but now the box wont start at all. Not even from SD or USB I just get a black screen booting normal and from SD, from USB it stays at the "boot" screen, the box logo, and i can see that there are activity on the usb, cause the light lights up.

I got this box here: Shenzhen Tomato X96 Amlogic S905X TV Box is Designed to be “Hooked” Behind Any Monitor or Wall Mounted the 2g/16g version.

So any suggestions on what i could do ?

Quote from garyang

kszaq 7.0.2.007 won't boot properly on S905X.

So I've looked at pulsar's note
diff: eUib

Everything is almost same. excetpt console code.
I've changed one line from your source and rebuilded it.

CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=tty0 rootwait systemd.show_status=auto"
to
CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyAMA0 systemd.show_status=auto"

And Now works well on S905x.
Here is my build
view?usp=sharing

Thanks kszaq and pulsar

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I tried this on my cheap x96 s905x and so far it seems to be working just fine
will test some more,
thanks for sharing