Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Android TV Boxes
From:    Mindsurfer
Date:    Thu Nov 05, 2026 20:41

@VIA: FUNTOPIA
  Re: Re: Android TV Boxes
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mindsurfer on Thu Nov 05 2026 07:45:10

 Mi>> End of story, i now have a nexbox A95X (former android TV box) with 2GB
 Mi>> DDR3 RAM / 16GB emmc drive, running an Armbian Linux. Ports: 100mbit/s
 Mi>> LAN, 2x USB2, SDcard slot, HDMI (full size), AV, SPDIF, Wifi/BT4 CPU:
 Mi>> Arm, Amlogic S905X Quad Core It comes in a slim case, the size of your
 Mi>> palm, with a remote (don't need that) and including a plug-in power
 Mi>> supply. This device takes round about 2-5W power depending on the load.

 PF> That's intriguing. Did you need to jump through any hoops to install
 PF> another OS on it, or was that simply a matter of booting from USB?

First you prepare a SDcard or USB stick with Armbian. You have to edit a text
file there to match your exact hardware.
To get into the bootloader you have to power on the device while holding down a little switch inside the av port (with a toothpick or so).
Then you boot from SDcard or USB stick, setup your software and eventually use a script that comes with armbian (or armbian-config) to write everything to the emmc flash drive.
There are several tutorials out there. This is one of those:
https://github.com/berci9ke101/nexbox-a95x-armbian

I had issues due to a defective SDcard slot/port. So i had to use an USB stick prepared with Armbian instead of the SDcard.
You could also boot from SDcard /USBstick everytime and work from that boot medium, but i decided to write everything/armbian onto the emmc drive and remove the USB stick again.

Mindsurfer

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