X96 Max Plus 100W

[luucasmooreira]

    Hi @ophub, I'm current having the same experience with @jbyu for my X96 Max Plus 100W.

Device specifications:

• Name: X96 Max Plus 100W
• CPU: Amlogic S905X3 quad-core ARM Cortex A55
• GPU: ARM Mali-G31MP
• Radio module: W522A
• Memory: DDR3 4GB, FLASH 32GB
• Support 10/100M Ethernet, 2.4 and 5G WiFi, BT4.0;
• USB3.0 x 1, USB2.0 x 1, TF Card
• HDMI, AV, SPDIF

Software informations:

• Armbian image: Armbian_22.11.0_Aml_s905x3_jammy_5.15.62_server_2022.09.13.img
• Used DTB file: meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb

Descriptions:

• At first, I used the meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb file for the OS Installation as the Instructions mentioned, but the system shows only 2GB instead of 4GB, and also the Wifi connection is unavailable.

• I've tried extracting the DTB file from the TV Box's Original Firmware (Android 9), with 4 raw DTS files shown in the drive link. After a few trials of modifying the meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb file (already converted to DTS) based on the extracted DTS file sm1-ac213-4g.dts from the drive link above, I've successfully got the whole 4GB displayed on the Armbian OS as shown in the picture below.

• Unfortunately, after lots of trying on modifying Wifi and PCIE related fields from the DTB file, the Wifi driver is still not available.

Could you please show us any way to fix this problem?

Thank you in advance.

Originally posted by @trvqhuy in #566 (comment)

[luucasmooreira]

How can I put 4 GB of RAM?

[ophub]

meson-sm1-sei610.dtb

/boot/uEnv.txt

[luucasmooreira]

meson-sm1-sei610.dtb works, but it only recognizes 1Gb of Ram, and I have 4 Gb =/

[ophub]

Are you using TF card or EMMC?

# for usb/tf
cd /boot
cp -f u-boot-x96maxplus.bin u-boot.ext
sync && reboot

[luucasmooreira]

EMMC

[ophub]

# Replace local configuration file
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/main/build-armbian/armbian-files/common-files/etc/model_database.conf -O /etc/model_database.conf

# Execute Installation Option 522
armbian-install -m yes

[ophub]

Is the test working?

[luucasmooreira]

yes, it recognizes the 4GB of Ram, but it doesn't get IP Lan :/

[luucasmooreira]

Not concluded, another suggestion?

[ophub]

100w is a 100M wired network, right?

First ensure that the wired network can work normally, and then solve the problem of memory size.

try meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb or meson-sm1-a95xf3-air.dtb
copy u-boot-x96maxplus.bin to u-boot.ext and u-boot.emmc

[luucasmooreira]

I already copied u-boot-x96maxplus.bin to u-boot.ext and u-boot.emmc in the usb pen driver, that way it works IP Lan and 4GB, the problem is in installing armbian in EMMC, it installs the 4GB, but does not recognize IP Lan.

[ophub]

Does the wired network work when using meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb?

meson-sm1-x96-max-plus-q1.dtb.zip

uzip the dtb file, upload it to the /boot/dtb/amlogic directory, modify the /boot/uEnv.txt file, and change the file name to this. Restart to test.