H96 Mini Amlogic S905W

[soldiaz]

flash UNSU_signed.zip!

That deletes MAGISK

[LITUATUI]

flash UNSU_signed.zip!

That deletes MAGISK

Thanks for the suggestion. It did deleted it successfully, but the box continues with the same problem. It stays on boot and if I wait hours I can see the animation that comes after the logo, but extremely sluggish. I can also boot to recovery (with the reset button inside AV hole) and load TWRP If I wait several minutes. However, TWRP is so slow that it takes a whole night to restore a 3 GB backup that I made from another box, yet I always get some problems in TWRP with corrupted data, etc.

This is very strange, I guess that magisk corrupted something (boot.img!?) that can't be fixed with a TWRP backup or a entire flash via USB, that's why the box stays on boot forever and recovery is so slow.

I'll keep on trying to fix it with TWRP. It's a shame that an official firmware for this box isn't available online.

[LITUATUI]

Just did a TWRP restore (all 11 partitions) successfully, yet the box continues bricked.

[trebor]

Geekbuying just let me know that there is a bit of deal with unit

TV Box Amlogic S905W 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM 2.4G + 5G WiFi BT 4.0 Support 4K H.265

$37.99 after coupon: GJERBZQH

[Felix el gato]

LITUATUI

Here is the stock firmware for the H96 mini S905W
Try it. I hope you can restore your box.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...Pa?usp=sharing Let me know if you have succesful

[LITUATUI]

Thanks Felix.

I flashed that firmware via USB Burning Tool version for Linux and the problem remained. I then installed Windows XP in virtualbox and used the original USB Burning Tool.

I got the following error:

Erase bootloader/Switch status/Enum device/Enum error

However, If I untick the option to erase the bootloader I can flash the firmware successfully, but the tvbox remains bricked. So it seems that the problem relies on the bootloader, I need to find a way to erase it.

I'll keep trying to figure this out. Thanks for the support.

[Felix el gato]

I'm really sorry. I have two different M8S S812, that were bricked a couple of times, but always be able to unbrick flashing the stock firmware via usb burning tool.
Yes, problem seems to be the bootloader. I hope you find the solution.

[LITUATUI]

Yes, it's very strange, I also unbricked many tvboxes before, but this one is giving me a hard time. Thanks for helping Felix. I'll share the solution If I find it.

[soldiaz]

Why M8S? It shall be h96 mini firm.

[Felix el gato]

soldiaz

why you do not read post # 20 and #21 ?

[soldiaz]

I read

[LITUATUI]

After reading many forum messages, yesterday I decided to stop using Windows XP in virtualbox on Manjaro and installed Windows 10 on my PC. Then after many trials (USB Burning Tool versions, USB ports, etc), I finally managed to sucessfully upload the firmware without errors but my box continues to be bricked, even with the "erase bootloader" option. I get the same result with the SD Card method with the Burn Card Maker 2.0.3, the firmware is flashed sucessfully, but the tvbox continues bricked. Super strange...

I had bricked boxes before and managed to recover all of them, but this box is bricked in a very strange way. It's like an extremly slow bootloop, it's not even a normal bootloop. With the original firmware provided by Felix it goes from the boot logo to the extremly slow animation If I wait many hours and then stops there. The recovery via reset button can also be accessed with alternative firmwares (X96 and TX3), but not with the original one. It's also very strange that I've to wait several minutes to enter into recovery, and recovey is extremly slow to backup or restore files. When normaly a TWRP backup restore just takes few minutes, this box takes a whole night. Summing up, the box is not only in a bootloop, but in an extremly slow one.

I still don't understand what did the Magisk destroyed that a sucessfull firmware upload can't recover. Is there a boot log where I can see why this bootloop is soo slow? I guess that there are soo many errors that the CPU is always at 100 %. I can acess the box files via TWRP.

Thanks.

[soldiaz]

flashed VORKE Z5..incompatible....

IMG within this thread definitely works! It is for H96 mini S905w just burned with BURNING Tools!

[soldiaz]

I was not able to flash Magisk since error code -1, "boot.bin already patched by other program ".

How you got rid of koush su? Or How u flashed Magisk??!??!

[soldiaz]

try this since I flashed this one and it works: M96X-II MINI 2018.01.31.img.

But same with MAGISK....not possible error code -1