I have just received my two X96 Air P3 4G/64GB boxes and I think I have bricked one of them.
I have checked the stock firmware first to confirm it’s P3. The plan was to first replace the stock firmware with SLIMBOX before installing CoreELEC for dual boot, but this is what happened now:
I have burned the correct SLIMBOX AOSP onto a micrSD card and tried to install it, but every time I plugged in the power while pressing the reset button I just ended up in the stock recovery. I have tried several times, then I rebooted the box to the bootloader by accident, the “X96 Air” picture showed up on the TV but nothing else happened. I left it several minutes without anything going on, then I have disconnected the power and now the box is just dead. When I plug in the power, nothing happens, the front display stays dark and the TV only shows “No Signal”. When I try to plug in the power while the reset button is pressed (with or without inserted microSD Card), it’s the same, nothing happens, the display and TV stay dark.
Is that box dead now or can it be saved?
Is it maybe stuck at the bootloader now and if yes how to get out of it (though shouldn’t it display something in the front display and on TV when booting to the bootloader)?
I really don’t know what happened, because the update to SLIMBOX just worked fine on the second X96 Air box with the same (unchanged) microSD card.
BTW I do not have an OTG cable available, which is why I went the microSD card way.
You need to prepare a uSD card with Amlogic burn card maker with your vendor image.
Open the device and shorten the eMMC. You need to google about your hardware what exactly you need to do to unbrick it. Every Amlogic box can be unbricked! Good luck!
The diffference between the two are essentially that the first is considered a stable build and the nightlies contain new features and bug fixes but may potentially results in some errors.
Nightlies are an opportunity to be at the cutting edge and report back issues to developers so that fixes can be applied until such time as another stable build can be released with great confidence for all users.
The differences are highlighted in the changelog at every new nighty release.
You can look through all the changelogs here but unless you are highly technically proficient then some will make no sense to the average user.
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Just remember that if you choose nightlies then you must expect potential issues and should report them.
You can try a nightly and then revert back to stable if desired (and the same in reverse).
So yesterday I have successfully installed the current stable version of CE on my new X96 Air P3 4/64GB. Everything seems to be fine, except the following:
I have downloaded the Big Buck Bunny short film from the Blender Foundation YoutTube channel to test 4K@30Hz and 4K@60Hz:
The 4K@30Hz version works as expected, but the 4K@60Hz is stuttering badly, clearly visible from the vertical pan within the first 15 seconds of that video. Both version use the h264 codec.
The equipment should be well capable of 4K@60Hz, so what am I missing here?
I just purchased my second X96 Air 4/32.
I cant get it to boot up using microsd card. I have try all of the s905X3 DTB images.
Get this error
*** Error in mount_storage: mount_common: Could not mount LABEL=COREELEC ***
Same card inserted in usb card reader works and coreelec boots normally.
I have tray to install coreelec on USB pen and that works too.
But i want to have installed on microsd.
My first X96 Air normally works with coreelec installed on micro sd.
Any solution?
Same result with Etcher.
Image is CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2.5-Generic.img
DTB is sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb
With brand new microsd card is the same result.
Coreelec working only on USB pen drive with this new box.
Guys what temperature do you have with this device?
How you fix this high temperature?
Mines currently running for 6h and I have 72 Degree.
I’m buyed it new and I think to give it back and choose maybe a Tanix Tx3 instead.
I heard it should work cooler.
I got a X96 Air P3 in the 4GB / 64GB version and installed Coreelec 9.25 and everything works fine. Now I decided to flash Coreelec to the internal emmc by booting a working installation from a 32GB µSD and using the ceemmc command with the option 3.
This works fine, but with one flaw: ceemmc only detects 32GB of the internal flash, while the ( now removed ) Android version reported 64GB of emmc. I am using this device tree: sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb
The mystery is solved: I have been cheated. The box has been sold as 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM version. It has a label on the bottom which claims 4GB and 64GB. And as I wrote, the original Android reports 64GB ROM. Nevertheless, on the inside is another label which claims “4 + 32”. And on the backside of the PCB I found one flash chip of the type “KLMBG2JETD-B041”. This is a Samsung flash chip with 32GB capazity. The compatible type with 64GB would have been the “KLMCG4JETD-B041”.
So the manufactorer used a 32GB chip and then patched the Android image to falsely report a capacity of 64GB. Nevertheless I will keep the device because the 4GB / 32 GB version is only a few bucks cheaper.
First seen with Beelink. They cheated their users with the same trick. I would like to blame chinese companies but there are also fair players. I would mostly blame consumers greed to get cheaper and cheaper.
