it should work with this 4gb dtb
check that you installed -ng Generic image and renamed dtb file to dtb.img
In android just download from google store the app terminal emulator. Then run the app and write the command reboot update. The pen with CE should already be in USB 3 slot when you apply the command.
It should reboot in CE.
Just tried and it still boots to stock android recovery. I’ve verified it’s a s905x2 and has 4gb ram and 32 gb rom and wifi is ap6356sa. I tried with dtb.img from boot2k3 and it’s definitely the -ng image I installed.
I also have “Reboot to LibreELEC” installed and tried that but same result - boots to recovery.
Weird that it installed ok, but now won’t boot. Is it a dtb issue or locked bootloader???
try different usb stick or sd to usb adapter.
Thanks for the help guys!!
Used an old USB 4gb pen drive instead of new 32gb micro sd and USB sd card adapter and all is working fine now.
Thx again 
Any chance we could get it to boot from micro sd slot in the future??
Yes it will be working in tomorrow’s nightly.
CEC, IR also works now and Bluetooh/Wifi will work in some devices.
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Brill!
BTW, which device do you have?
I’m finding rebooting with a USB pendrive in USB3 slot is very unreliable. Sometimes it works, but when it doesn’t work, I have to do a fresh re-install to get it back again 
Terminal emulator just reboots to android recovery, and only a fresh install revives it.
I have the T95X2 which was the cheapest 4GB device I could find for development but it doesn’t have Gbit but it does a half decent wifi chipset.
If your having problems with USB booting then you must have a poor flash drive because I haven’t had a single issue, I prefer to use flash drives as they are much faster and easy to swap around than SD cards.
Thanks for the info. I did post in an earlier message the android device tree from my firmware for the x96 max 4g/32g box. File is called “fdt” -fdt (88.1 KB) - it may be helpful in the future - also the wifi chip is AP6356SA. Ethernet is something I don’t use.
Are the changes you made for the S905x2 in “coreelec-9.2” branch? If so, I can compile the image myself - thx
It is, I can’t remember if the top off my head if the firmware for AP6356SA is added though, the driver is there already though.
If it doesn’t work then SSH to your device and type dmesg | paste and paste the link.
I just tested CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.1-nightly_20190722-Generic.img.gz with 2gb dtb on X96S, an Android TV stick that’s based on S905Y2 (it’s the same as S905X2 except designed for TV stick). There is no Ethernet on the TV stick, only WiFi (both 2.4GHz and 5GHz band). The stick boots right away to CoreELEC with this image…
Boot: OK (with g12a_2g.dtb)
WiFi: No
Audio: OK (didn’t check passthrough though)
IR Remote: No (perhaps there is no config file comes with this image but I couldn’t build a config file as I have no network access)
x264: Plays OK
x265 10bit 1080p: OK
CEC: OK
WiFi chip on the X96S is Ampak AP6255 which is the same as that on Khadas-VIM.
Thank so much for making such progress. Before today, I thought my X96S stick could never run Linux based media player.
Thanks again for all developers’ hard work.
The tanix tx5 max, I do not recommend it in my case I stop giving image. I think it was defective.
Great work team, just installed 22/7 nightly on X96Max (4g/32g) boots from SD card no problem, used the, “g12a_s905x2_4g_1gbit.dtm” renamed to dtb.img of course. loaded vfd.conf and remote files. Displays works, wifi works, bluetooth works, wired ethernet all good, remote works. seems vert stable, will use over the next few days and report any issues. Thanks all 
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Managed to compile and install “coreelec-9.2” ng branch and must say I’m well impressed! Using X96 Max with 4GB/32GB configuration with S905X2 SOC. Installed on micro sd card without any issues.
I don’t use IR remote (USB RF remote instead). Wifi is working - both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz. CEC is working, playback is awesome (HW decoding is doing a great job so far). RAM is showing as 4gb and flash as 32gb (both correct). Bluetooth is enabled but I don’t use it - I don’t use ethernet either - I am using the “g12a_s905x2_4g_1gbit.dtb”.
So far, excellent playback on a very nippy device.
Much kudos to you and your team 
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X96MAX 4g/32g
Installed on sd, and boots normally.
Vfd works after copying vfd.conf file
Audio works in hdmi and passthrough is perfect.
2K files work perfect.
4K files still coloured stripes problems.
CE no go
Ethernet go
Wifi go only in 2.4 Ghz
Bluetooth go.
Very happy and thanks again to all CE devs.
No idea what you mean here?
Change your 5G wifi channel and then 5G will work also.
This is 4K HDR files playng on my LG TV
I already reported this in post #66
CEC does not work
I think CE refers to CEC. I’ve found that CEC is a bit hit and miss on the X96 Max 4/32. At kodi main menu after powering on, get the error about “Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter” “couldn’t initialise” etc. It’s worked a couple of times, but mainly it errors out.
I enabled debug logging and “verbose libCEC library” and debug log link is below:-
Problem seems to start at line “2019-07-23 15:55:42.492 T:3867091840 ERROR: OpenConnection - could not opening a connection to the CEC adapter”
and a few lines before that “2019-07-23 15:55:41.712 T:3813671808 WARNING: CecLogMessage - Write: write failed”
I guess you mean CEC not CE…
yes sorry for the mistake