The X96 X4 S905X4-based box seems to be widely available in the UK. I’ve just bought one (4GB/64GB refurbished) - has anyone had any luck installing CoreElec on it? If I put a CoreElec nightly in the uSD card slot on the box (with or without using the toothpick reset button in the 3.5mm AV socket),…

Yes - today’s nightly with the non-Gigabit dtb is now booting to CoreElec. I’ve opened a dialogue with the seller to see how they approach an incorrect description…

No problem. Even if this box was falsely advertised with 1GbE, 100M version it is still probably the version of X96_x4 which is sold in largest numbers, because it should be around 10$ cheaper.

Yes - it was £39 in the UK. I think refurbished referred more to the fact the box had been opened and the cables weren’t tie-wrapped.

[image] noggin: I am using a 32GB SDHC Samsung EVO Plus uSD card. Will try a USB 3.0 flash drive just in case though. EDIT - Using a 16GB USB 3.0 Flash drive in the USB 2.0 port I get the same result as using the SD card - and with or without the toothpick inserted I get a frozen zoomed in chun…

I have the X96 X4 (S905X4) box with 4GB/32GB and 1GBit LAN. Android works fine. With CoreELEC (19.5-Matrix_rc2) the network adapter (LAN) is not working. I can’t activate it and the box is not visible in the network. Otherwise everything looks ok I used “sc2_s905x4_4g_1gbit” for the installation …

Use 100mbit dtb instead if there is any available.

It doesn’t work with sc2_s905x4_4g either. According to the network, the box has 1000MBit under Android. This also confirms the manufacturer’s information. There is still a problem with the network driver

[image] Niltok: The remote control doesn’t work either This should get you going for the remote :wink: Maybe if you could provide the “chipset” of the embedded network adatper or a log , someone might be able to help with that also,

Maybe try dmesg | grep PHY to see if you might have a JL2101 chip. Also maybe try the 100Mb driver anyway there are other reports of mislabeled boxes.

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