Quote from Synerworks

Excellent, but surprised that Dtechs "http://libreelec.dtech.hu/3rdParty/S8X2/…-9.2.8.3.img.gz" nor "http://libreelec.dtech.hu/3rdParty/S8X2/…-9.2.8.3.img.gz" images had not initially worked for you. Enjoy.

My neighbor will be very happy, he is the owner of the M8 I just help him keep it working. He is a very nice old gentleman. Thank you.

Quote from dtech

Okay, second act with reverse logic: original n200-based dtb modified with S802 meson-eth layout.

Index of /3rdParty/S8X2/Universal-k200-S802_2G-AP6330/, the new project name: k200-AP6330_2G.

This should boot and there is a good chance that Ethernet will work with this snapshot image. Please give it a try.

The dtb you sent contains m8m2_n200_2G in its header, so that is for S812, not S802.

I decoded from binary to dts with dtc and it contains the same Ethernet entry typical of S812.

Code: kernel.img-second.dts

        ethernet@0xc9410000 {
                compatible = "amlogic,meson8m2-rmii-dwmac\0snps,dwmac";
                reg = < 0xc9410000 0x10000 0xc1108108 0x04 >;
                interrupts = < 0x00 0x08 0x01 >;
                interrupt-names = "macirq";
                clocks = "clk81";
                clock-names = "stmmaceth";
        };

I also checked the Gbox Q Android stock firmware and it contains multiple dtbs with the following IDs:

Code

m8_k200_2gsdhc
m8_k200_2gsdio
m8_k200_sdhc
m8_k200_sdio
m8m2_n200_1G
m8m2_n200_2G
m8m2_n200C_1G
m8m2_n200C_2G

I don't think you sent the good dtb (or you have a Gbox Q2 which contains an S812 SoC). The top four pieces are S802s and the bottoms are S812s.

Unfortunately, wifi is a double-edged blade, because if I make changes in the driver, it will get better for someone and worse for another, so I don’t want to poke the latest drivers (or the options file for each project) anymore. I'm sorry.

However, if you really sent this message to Demetris or datrh (it seems from the description), next time you need to spell their names correctly.

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You did it, the ethernet work very well and everything also so far. I will be doing more test as soon as I install some addons. Thank you

Thank you for the DTB but dint solve the Ethernet problem. One think that I noticed on Dtech image the remote worked right away, on the Demetris didn't work but the WI-FI was about ten points stronger

The back of the box says - OTT TV BOX - Android Player- Model M8N - Made in China -and when it comes on displays M8. I tries the Oleg Ivanov and I get libreelec logo and then reboot over and over again I also tried Demetri "LibreELEC-S802.M8.arm-8.0.RC4.img" with no success. Tanks

Quote from dtech

tico  Synerworks

I compared the dtb source files on the M8 (k200) and n200 and tried to transfer a few things to the M8 dtb that could affect the boot process from the SD card. You should give it a try to see if it boots now.

hxxp://http://libreelec.dtech.hu/snapshots/20211221/

There is also a significant difference in the Ethernet section of the dtb, so if it boots, you should check to see if the wired connection is working.

I tried the new image and it doesn't boot. At first boot it act the same a the other M8 image. Thanks

Quote from Synerworks

Good, so the matter for attention would be to identify what the dependency is on the specific ethernet hardware and not relating to the build release itself. While the "SYSTEM" rename will allow you to drop to a shell and see the "dmesg" information, the kernel-overlays are embedded within the SYSTEM containing all the relevant supporting hardware drivers. These are loaded dynamically once the SYSTEM is mounted, after which the "dmesg" dump would give the much needed details. The output from "dmesg" can be written to the SD card by remounting the /flash partition as read-write instead of read-only from the command line and copying to /flash already containing the kernel and SYSTEM files. When you reboot and take the SD card out, you can take the file from the card and submit it.

You can also look at what LibreELEC is doing on startup by inspecting the "/init" script file, and performing the respective commands iteratively when trying to identify what the problems may be on startup. When the specific hardware component is found, the driver object can be manually added to the squashfs "SYSTEM" file or added to the build criteria when generating from source.

Can you be more specific on how to do that, remember I am new at this. Thanks

Thank you Synerworks for the detailed instruction, they where very useful. I created SD Cards from Demetris LE9 and Dtech K200 images and they all worked well, but they all had the same Problem

no ethernet just like the Dtech original k200 image. I also renamed "SYSTEM" and was able to run

"dmesg".  

It printed the log file but I don't know how to save it or how to read it from the top. So it looks like

I have hit a brick wall. Thank you guys for your help and if you have any more suggestion feel free

to ask, I am willing to learn.

Thank you Synerworks for trying to help. My knowledge on this subject is zero, but I took the challenge and I got Android Image Kitchen unpacked and then I unpacked LibreELEC-M8.arm-9.2.8.3.img.gz to get the image file( LibreELEC-S8X2.arm-8.2-M8.img. Then I dropped this image file in the Android Image Kitchen folder and then I run unpackimg.bat form that folder, but I got "unrecognized format. Error!). You wrote: "use Android Image Kitchen to unpack the "kernel.img" file". Which file are you referring to? What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Error message: unpacking.txt

• Have you tried the Toothpick method? (If not, please give it a try.) Yes I did. Every time I boot with a new image I use the Toothpick method.
• What is the size of the SD card you wrote the image on? (If it's larger than 32GB, it isn't good. Please try a smaller one.) SD cards are : 2GB ,4Gb,8GB and 16GB. All of these SD cards work with no problem with the n200 image but not with the new M8 image.
• If there is a write-protect switch on the side of the SD card (or SD adapter), make sure it does not switch to "read-only" position when inserted into the box. Yes there is switch and I made Shure it was not on the " read only" position.
• One other think I noticed on the first boot is that the n200 image takes a lot longer (60+seconds) were it print out "RESIZE PARTITION" and then it reboot, compered to the M8 image first boot
• (5 -6 seconds)
• Thank you.

Thank you for your effort.

After looking at the sd cards using MiniTool Partition Wizard I noticed that the k200 sd card has two partition one labeled libreelec and the other one is unallocated. The sd card with the new M8 has an extra partition called Storage. All of the sd card were created the same way using LibreELEC.USB-SD.Creator.Win32. I also noticed that at the boot loop it says: " rm: can't` remove '/Storage/.please _rezise_me' : Read_only file system". I hope that this new information will help pinpoint the boot loop problem. Thank you'

I redid two new Sd card (two different makers) and I am getting the same results as the first one. I was doing some search of dtb files for M8 and I found this one in txt format, but I don't know if it is the wright one. I thing it came from the original rom k200-ota-20140807. Here is the link.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/05/12/how-to-extract-a-device-tree-file-from-android-firmware-files/. Thank you.

M8 Device Tree File.txt

Thank you dtech for the new file, but it didn't work. I tried to update first, no luck (it was saying there was compatibility issue). So I made a new SD card and it went on a boot loop. Thank you for your effort.

I was running : LibreELEC-S8X2.arm-8.2-M8.img.gz from Demetris (S802/S812-Libreelec images for 7/8/9). Thank you.

I am running LE-9.2.8 from sd card on a M8 S802 (k200) box. Everything work great except I cant connect to my network using Ethernet, WIFI works great. I would really appreciate any help to solve this problem.

My log file. ix.io/3Hvw

Thanx for the great work.

Thanks you very much for your help.I managed to fix the problem by re-installing the original Android and everything is working great.Thanks

Sorry I dont` know much about Linux commands.If you could walk me through it,I would rely appreciate I am a fast learner.Thanks

I have a G-box MX2 and I installed Libreelec on sdcard and everything works great except when I reboot it reboots on internal.To reboot on sdcard I have to use the toothpick method every time I want to boot into Kodi.Can somebody explain to me how to modify or fix the bootloader setting so it boots on sdcard. I searched every ware how to do this with no luck.Thanks in advance.

Quote from l3g0r

hi

I have working s82 version but I can`t update it with update folder+tar.

New all are S8x2.. and it says no compatible s8x2?

thanks .

You need to make a .nocompat file and put it with the tar file in the update folder.

Instruction are here: S802/S812-Libreelec images for 7/8/x