H96 MAX Rk3566 4/32GB or 8/64GB Dual Wifi BT4.0 USB3.0 Gig Lan Google Voice Youtube Rockchip Android 11 Smart TV Box

[mitchell4you]

Just do a RMA ( send unit back )

Probably a Quality control Issue... or lack off

Good luck

[nyceyes]

Hello Friends:

I need some suggestions. (Thank you in advance).

So I purchased the H96MAX RK3566 with 8G RAM and 128G SSD from Bangood.

It's to upgrade my older H96MAX RK3399 model, which I love (since 2017).

But I think I received a defective unit.

PROBLEM:

I literally moved the Ethernet and HDMI cables FROM the old RK3399 model TO the new RK3566 model (literally just transitioned the cables over), and the new unit struggles to get about ~20Mbps on a speedtest, while the old unit easily reaches ~320Mbps. Same physical Ethernet cable and port.

Then I said: Let me try using its 5.0G WIFI to see if the issue is unit's the NIC/Ethernet card.

I got the same result: It struggles to get ~20mbps, and most times less than that. The unit was right next to the WIFI antenna, so it had maximum signal strength.

Now, my home network is as well-designed and tight as they come:

• IP-Assesses are all statically assigned (IP, Gateway, Netmask, DNS, etc).
• DHCP is disabled everywhere
• Everything is Ethernet connected except for a laptop and two phones
• All MAC-Addresses are blocked except for those that I whitelist.
• For WIFI, 2.4G radios are turned off, and only a 5.0G radio is enabled.
• I disable SSID broadcast and enter that manually.
• And, finally, I have a 63 character WIFI password, which I manually enter into WIFI devices.

Because of those measures, my network performs extremely well (streaming and otherwise), and I never have issues. Things just work, and for years.

I point all of that out to show that's its not the network. But just in case, I even disabled the Firewall, the MAC-Address filtering, etc. (just in case). That didn't help.

It seems like something in my new H96MAX RK3566 unit, behind both the NIC/Ethernet and WIFI electronics (and/or their drivers) has a problem. That's the only think I can think of. The unit has the latest Android 11.x firmware (I checked for updates).

Perhaps friends here have other ideas? I appreciate it. Thank you.

[mitchell4you]

Request info..
I also have Iptv... and having a issue
i payed for tivimate app, and installed it on 3566 its activated and iptv and epg are working great

But Vod options : play - play using external player - trailer ( don't work at all on any title )
Can someone confirm... if it works on you unit
- trying to figure-out if its a app activation bug or android 11 issue
-- notes : my box has no Googleplay enabled / tivimate about says premium

Using perfect player..on rk3566...it plays vod streams just fine
But perfect player...crashes alot on browsing channels and loading times are long

appreciate the help

update>

So, last night.. i figured it out

I use a Airmouse to navigate tivimate

But the buttons in Vod : play - play with external - trailer - my playlist

are not click-able aka the app is not recognizing users-input on those buttons...in mouse mode (anywhere else it works..except those buttons )

[Trigu75]

not an expert , but developer , and joined the forum trying to find some help from other developers , experienced android/linux users who understand a thing or two on how things work ..

you see an rk3566 android box ..... I see a customized rk3566 sbc ... alot of single board makers are switching to rk3566/8 , even zidoo is releasing a new rk3566 based box , they usually also release source code .. will wait

since these box makers are not so interested on working on their firmwares , but SBC's and rockchip sources are being updated with fixes ... all I wanted is to either build a firmware with all the fixes applied my self for each box (since firmware released contain each device DTB file ) , device tree blob , this file can be decompiled and used when building new images

I tried this and proved it working when I took armbian TV images , and changed the configuration to load my device DTB instead of stationpc-m2

if you compare both boards .... the difference is , station-m2 (firefly-rk3566-roc) have more things added ... like pci express slot , or nvme slot , sata , different wifi chip , camera and lcd ports , etc

all these different ports are actually configured inside that dtb file ... but .. not in my device dtb file .. but aside from that .. all the rest .. is there .. carbon copy .. same addresses , same pinctl ports , same voltage settings ..

they actually made it really easy ... I asked for help from mo123 .. no answer ... sent private message , offered my DTB , nothing .. no reply

I don't think these boxes are bad at all ... just don't like misinformation ... the "settings" app in this boxes is a modified app , not the original android system settings app .... the right way to check if there is a EDID issue is by looking at /sys/class/graphics/card0/HDMI-A-0/modes , that file gets filled with all the resolution modes the connected screen sends through EDID to the box

just saying .. I saw the reviews , even before ordering my box ... technozone included ..

my box is working fine with the iptv channels I watch , or series / movies (even 4k hdr) streamed through stremio , smartyoutube next works using hardware decoder ... I wish mo123 answered my question .... instead of answering "manufacurer said ... blah blah"

[bergamesk]

You guys never buy any of this "new" RK3566 Boxes(in fact they all produced at same factory too!)

Note;ignore it Trigu75 as what he say;because of he is expert/pro Box user!
but 90/95% ppl are as "normal" user
So,there is a lot of diffrence between Trigu75 and us

BTW,this Russian guy(or Ukranian guy) well known and very handy and trusted man

what he said "trash" right+

he also said that same thing to "X96 X6"(another trash RK3566 Box and I got this Box and its Bricked-thanks to Banggood Co. they paid me full refund)

This guy destroyed X96 X4 Box!
just watch it and laugh hahhaaaaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQ9mV0tEZA&t=31s

++

Seems that RK3566 Boxes is over
like RK3399 destiny in the past!

if y'r looking a new and kinda cheap Box than go to AML 905X4(BUT I never say these are perfect!)
or wait new Shield(probably they will release very soon)

[Trigu75]

1) , this is from MAY .... before all the firmware updates

2) this is the guy who took the hk1 rbox r2 box , and shoot it saying HDR was not working , no 4k60p ,no 5g wifi and other things ....

no idea what is the deal with that guy , all is garbage for him , I guess that's how he makes money and bringing viewers / subscribers


when in real life ... my box have everything working just fine , wifi , HDR , and 4k60 (with latest firmware on july) .

and not only that .. is the only box which came with ROOT enabled , and even is able to boot a different OS from sdcard (that was built for firefly-roc-pc-3566 / stationpc m2)

compiled libmali , mpp , ffmpeg with rkmpp support , mpv , ligdrm and librga and playing smooth hardware decoded videos under armbian linux

my 4k60 / HDR pictures ... were taken using a samsung 4k TV ..

and the fact that all these boxes , come from the same factory is what pisses me off

it's one maker , running the same command , with different "software customizations" depending the "brand name

even the so called "ROM DEVELOPERS" from here .. are keeping it all a secret just like the chinese .. don't know why

did you see any link to github source for any released firmware mod? , custom firmware? they just release "new firmware" without showing what "changed" although is all GPL OPEN SOURCE

[djdram]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wrPBkwtU1s&vl=ru

turn on english subtitles
bug EDID video - 4:23
update_H96MAX_RK3566_05.07.2021.zip (July) Fix 1080P [Max 4k30p] - only 4k60p is still not available on many TVs
8G_RK3566_userdebug_H96_Max_RK3566_11_20210810.192 0.img (August) - BUG again and the maximum became 1080p

[Trigu75]

hmmm , so 1st you said they used hdmi 1.4 plug instead of 2.0 to save money , which is not true .. since there is not physical difference between hdmi 1.4 and 2.0

now it's samsung and LG tv's not "defining the box" as 4k60p? do you know how EDID works? , it's pretty standard thing ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identification_Data

I wish you could try a different box firmware without bricking your device to see it working fine at 4k60p ..

[djdram]

djdram ... you will solve your HDMI version mistery once you connect your device to console ...

device with hdmi 2.X and support 4k60p, but not with all devices, this is a mistake firmware of the developers of this TV box.
not working correctly in all firmware - Extended Display Identification Data (EDID)
New Samsung and LG TVs do not define this TVBox as 4k60p

[Trigu75]

any UVC compatible webcam should work (although none of the software installed includes Hardware encoding)

any USB / BT game controller should work

[Kenzoshaq]

Information as Found:





OS Android 11.0
CPU RK3566 Quad-Core 64bit Cortex-A55
GPU Mali-G52-2EE
4GB/32GB, 8GB/64GB
WiFi 2.4G/5G, Bluetooth 4.0
Power Supply DC 5V/2A
Support 4K/8K H.265/VP9/VC1/MPEG-4
USB host 1 High speed USB 3.0 ,1 USB 2.0
Card reader TF cards
OSD type of languages English/French/German/Spanish/Italian/ etc multilateral languages
LAN Ethernet:10/100/1000 standard RJ-45

this box can use webcam and joystick?
Which webcam for video call compatible for this box?
and what joystick your recomendation?

[Trigu75]

djdram ... you will solve your HDMI version mistery once you connect your device to console ...

my device shows this during load .... look carefully at the HDMI line ... where the HDMI version device is detected.

it begins with

1. Starting kernel ...
2. [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x412fd050]
3. [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.19.172 (user@epyc) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170404 (Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05), GNU ld (Linaro_Binutils-2017.05) 2.27.0.20161019) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 14:10:45 CST 2021
4. [ 0.000000] Machine model: Rockchip RK3566 BOX DEMO V10 ANDROID Board
5. [ 0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at MMIO32 0x00000000fe660000 (options '')
6. [ 0.000000] bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
7. [ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x0000000010000000, size 8 MiB
8. [ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: initialized node linux,cma, compatible id shared-dma-pool
9. [ 0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
10. [ 0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
11. [ 0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs
12. [ 0.000000] psci: Trusted OS migration not required
13. [ 0.000000] psci: SMC Calling Convention v1.2
14. [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 24 pages/cpu s58968 r8192 d31144 u98304
15. [ 0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0
16. [ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: Virtualization Host Extensions
17. [ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: Hardware dirty bit management
18. [ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: Speculative Store Bypassing Safe (SSBS)
19. [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 963080
20. [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: storagemedia=emmc androidboot.storagemedia=emmc androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.dtb_idx=0 androidboot.dtbo_idx=0 androidboot.verifiedbootstate=orange androidboot.slot_suffix= androidboot.serialno=JPX53POBYZ console=ttyFIQ0 androidboot.baseband=N/A androidboot.wificountrycode=US androidboot.veritymode=disable androidboot.hardware=rk30board androidboot.console=ttyFIQ0 androidboot.verifiedbootstate=orange firmware_class.path=/vendor/etc/firmware init=/init rootwait ro loop.max_part=7 androidboot.selinux=permissive buildvariant=user earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xfe660000 androidboot.boot_devices=fe310000.sdhci,fe330000.n andc
21. [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288

and continues ....l the hdmi part

1. 0.182236] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 10 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
2. [ 0.182805] fe650000.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfe650000 (irq = 45, base_baud = 1500000) is a 16550A
3. [ 0.184231] random: fast init done
4. [ 0.184392] iommu: Adding device fe040000.vop to group 6
5. [ 0.184425] rockchip-vop2 fe040000.vop: Linked as a consumer to fe043e00.iommu
6. [ 0.184515] random: crng init done
7. [ 0.186808] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: Linked as a consumer to fe040000.vop
8. [ 0.187347] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: Linked as a consumer to fe0a0000.hdmi
9. [ 0.188252] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: defer getting devfreq
10. [ 0.188478] rockchip-vop2 fe040000.vop: [drm:vop2_bind] vp0 assign plane mask: 0x15, primary plane phy id: 4
11. [ 0.188501] rockchip-vop2 fe040000.vop: [drm:vop2_bind] vp1 assign plane mask: 0x0, primary plane phy id: -1
12. [ 0.188514] rockchip-vop2 fe040000.vop: [drm:vop2_bind] vp2 assign plane mask: 0x0, primary plane phy id: -1
13. [ 0.188666] [drm] unsupported AFBC format[3432564e]
14. [ 0.189178] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: bound fe040000.vop (ops vop2_component_ops)
15. [ 0.189303] dwhdmi-rockchip fe0a0000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v2.11a with HDCP (DWC HDMI 2.0 TX PHY)
16. [ 0.189772] dwhdmi-rockchip fe0a0000.hdmi: registered DesignWare HDMI I2C bus driver
17. [ 0.190051] dwhdmi-rockchip fe0a0000.hdmi: failed to create debugfs dir!
18. [ 0.190184] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: bound fe0a0000.hdmi (ops dw_hdmi_rockchip_ops)
19. [ 0.190210] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
20. [ 0.190222] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
21. [ 0.441575] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: fb0: frame buffer device
22. [ 0.441979] [drm] Initialized rockchip 2.0.0 20140818 for display-subsystem on minor 0
23. [ 0.446513] mali fde60000.gpu: Kernel DDK version g2p0-01eac0
24. [ 0.446603] mali fde60000.gpu: Linked as a consumer to regulator.6
25. [ 0.446661] mali fde60000.gpu: dev_pm_opp_set_regulators: no regulator (shadercores) found: -19
26. [ 0.446734] mali fde60000.gpu: leakage=10
27. [ 0.446837] mali fde60000.gpu: avs=0

[djdram]

this board of another device on h96max rk3566 all connectors in one row

https://hd-mediaplayers.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h96-max-rk3566-2.jpg

[mitchell4you]

H96max not sd-card slot

see:

https://apkintvbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h96-max-3566-newest-rk3566-android11-chipset-1536x1536.jpg

old version = no sdcard...but you can solder one
New version = has sdcard ( it seems )

[djdram]

H96max not sd-card slot