HELP - TV110 (S805) Can't Access Partitions on Internal SD Card

[Marty95]

I have a TV110 (Amlogic S805, 1gb/8gb) Android TV Box. I was trying to replace the stock ROM with Openelec v5.0.8 from Kerber. The update went fine until it rebooted to launch Openelec then it hung at the Openelec logo for over an hour. I thought the box was hung so I removed power and rebooted. It hung again in the same place so I decided to use the reset button to launch recovery. I must have cycled power too quickly because it would only show the boot logo and would go no further. Something was seriously wrong with the box.

I created a bootup SD card with TWRP recovery on it. I booted up into TWRP 2.8.6 without any issues but could not restore any of the partitions. TWRP was getting errors trying to mount all the partitions. I figured I could go back to stock (I have a NAND backup). When I try to wipe or restore it fails because the partitions are not mounted. I tried to install the old firmware using the install from TWRP and I get "Error executing updater binary in zip".

At this point I am stumped. What do I do next?? How do I get my box bootable again?? Can I somehow re-create the partitions??

Any help would be appreciated.

[312BhP]

The OpenELEC from kerber doesn't contain a compatible boot loader for my TV110 based box (Sumvision X4) so after flashing it and before rebooting I have to flash back the original boot loader or it just hangs.

Are you using the TWRP port by daemonium, 2.8.6.0, perhaps try just writing back the original boot loader if you have it?

[Marty95]

Thanks for the reply. I have tried both the 2.8.6 Demonoid version and the 2.8.1 Abdul version of TWRP for the TV110 box. I will take a look tonight and see if TWRP can see the boot partition. I know it cannot read or write to the system, data, cache, or recovery partitions.

[Marty95]

I checked when I got home and TWRP cannot access any partition on the internal SD card. I there some way to re-partition or recreate the partitions for the TV110 box? I really don't see any other way to correct this.

If the partitions cannot be recreated, is there a way to connect the TV110 to the AML flashing tool. The only ports on the TV110 that I can see are the 2 USB ports but no OTG port. Is there some other way to connect the TV110 to a windows computer to re-flash the images?

[noderat]

I checked when I got home and TWRP cannot access any partition on the internal SD card. I there some way to re-partition or recreate the partitions for the TV110 box? I really don't see any other way to correct this.

If the partitions cannot be recreated, is there a way to connect the TV110 to the AML flashing tool. The only ports on the TV110 that I can see are the 2 USB ports but no OTG port. Is there some other way to connect the TV110 to a windows computer to re-flash the images?

You could try using aml_sdc_burn.ini method.

[Marty95]

The aml_SDC_burn.INI method worked!!!

thanks to stane who documented the process so well.

Thanks to all who helped out. You guys are great!!