EDIT: SOLVED:
TL:DR:
search online for firmware “HQYG-TX7-nikodi-20180104” , and flash it.
Then follow standard procedure to boot coreelec ng and install to internal.
This procedure may work for other s905x 2g devices as well.
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the installation to internal fails because the bootloader is old and not compatible with ng’s kernel 4.9.
Installing a newer firmware from a different device solves this problem.
this procedure may work for other s905x 2g devices as well.
As posted by kshi in this thread
flashing firmware “HQYG-TX7-nikodi-20180104” which is nougat 7.1.2 for device tx7 did the trick for my device as well.
I haven’t tested the android rom, but it is now possible to boot coreelec and install it to internal using ceemmc
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Hi,
can someone advjice on how to proceed with the following problem?
I can restore the original firmware if needed and use terminal if given instructions
tl:dr:
On a s905x device I cant install ng build to internal using ceemmc tool. the error message is:
Warning: Could not find ‘dtbo’ partition!
Warning: Could not find ‘dto’ partition!
Error dtb magic: a!
Could not remove node ‘/partitions’ from dtb0!
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Hi, my device is a Beelink Mini MXIII II. It’s a s905x, 2gb of ram and everything that I could test works fine either in ng or older kernel builds, with device tree gxl_p212_2g.
Installing to internal works fine for older builds usung installtointernal command,
but although I can boot from usb and run ng build 9.4,2,
trying to install it using ceemmc tool with -x flag fails.
this is the terminal output:
Please choose one option? [1/2/3/4]: 3
Free space of ‘partition CE_FLASH’: 512MB
Warning: Could not find ‘dtbo’ partition!
Warning: Could not find ‘dto’ partition!
Free space of ‘partition CE_STORAGE’: 29144MB
Used space of ‘/flash’: 221MB
Used space of ‘/storage’: 12MB
There is enough free space on eMMC for installation!
Install CoreELEC on eMMC.
Continue? [y]: y
Error dtb magic: a!
Could not remove node ‘/partitions’ from dtb0!
Failed to write the new partition table to eMMC!
I hope I posted in the right place.
thanks in advance,
Vassilis