Sorry if I offended you…
There are three Options for X96 Air：
-2GB+16GB+2.4G Wifi+LNA 100 M (No Bluetooth)
-4GB+32GB+2.4&5.8G Dual Wifi+BT4.1+LNA 1000 M
-4GB+64GB+2.4&5.8G Dual Wifi+BT4.1+LNA 1000 M
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A classic case of RTFM - I was just putting the .dtb file into the COREELEC partition, and not renaming it dtb.img
Now booting on the X96AirP2 and a different T95 Max+.
Just need to figure out getting the remotes working.
First impressions
Very good
Tried 4K UI to see how smooth it would run - the answer is very responsive, not sure if it’s needed but why not if it’s possible.
Currently using Wifi streaming 4k H265 over SMB and H264 Live TV from tvheadend without issues. No buffering so far.
Decent little box and chipsets.
I’ve always used MCE remotes so I’ve not bothered with the supplied remote.
Hi.
Can you tell me what mod did you do to reduce the temperature?
Thanks.
A combination of:
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1 mm thick thermal pads per CPU and DDR
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Arctic MX-4 thermal compound
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Drilled bottom plastic plane, following a template.
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Drilled right side of the box to vent out the hot air.
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Soldered the VCC of the fan on the bottom of the baseboard, to an appropriate 5V power source (USB).
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Replaced the box pads with lifted silicon ones, to assure the airflow.
On CE idle (“ondemand” governor): ~42°C
That’s it. 
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Hi, I have a problem with my external DVB tuner (Hauppauge WinTV-soloHD).
On the X96 Air there is only “Silicon Labs Si2168 #0 : DVB-T #0” in the tvheadend configuration.
I need DVB-C, if I do the tuner in the Mecool 905D box there is also “Silicon Labs Si2168 #0 : DVB-C #0”.
I try the other DVB Drivers (…latest kernel and CrazyCats), with these the card is not recognized at all.
What can I do?
How did you open the X96A around the screen ? I manage to get the bottom plare loose on the back and sides but around the front I fail to get the hooks to disengage.
Two screws under the rubber pads, only at the front “display” side. 
THX, I had removed the ones at the back …
Heh, did the same mistake here the first time… 
Here’s my “ugly duckling”:
Bottom:
Front:
Powered by TV set USB only, thus circumventing the CEC power on issue(s)…
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Nice mod. I think many people will tune their X96 
([S905X3] X96Air_P3). Those two thread would be great somehow merged
Hi guys! I downloaded CoreELEC-Amlogic.arm-9.2-nightly_20200201-Generic.img and burned a SD-card with LibreElec installer. But I can’t find the sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb in the device tree folder. Where do I find that?
try the CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2-nightly_20200201-Generic.img.gz file instead.
As a general rule If you can’t find a device tree you expect to find you have downloaded wrong img.
I have one of these boxes and was wondering about installing CoreElec, but as I’m new to this and don’t wish to read a million thread posts etc, I was wondering if I do install this, then do I lose the GUI switch to turn SDR into HDR?
I love playing SDR content as HDR as my TV just looks amazing using this feature. I understand metadata etc and I know it’s not true HDR, but OMG this feature makes all these Android boxes with this feature WORTH IT. I have a Zidoo X9S and I hate to say it, but this cheap box beats it in almost every respect for PQ, sound and motion handling.
Also does anybody know what the dolby vision GUI switches in display actually do? My TV does DV but it is a first gen DV set and will not accept DV content over HDMI, only via USB or built in APP’s. So it’s just a question to help satisfy my curiosity
Just to report I have just experienced a HDMI port failure on my X96Air after about a week of use.
Shoog
you mean something with similiar symptoms as those N2 reports?
Yes fairly much identical to the N2 issue.
Seems to point to a design flaw in the SOC’s.
Might have been a power surge that caused it.
Shoog
Thats strange 
Are you sure it must be HW, not SW? Did you know what happened just before failure? I assume just boot, or some usage before?