<chewitt>
I'm not planning to open them anytime soon
<f_>
Ok.
<chewitt>
WP2 is a bitch to open. Hub is a bitch to close again.
<f_>
I did discover that the WeTek Core has the same RAM chips.
<f_>
But it uses a different SoC, and there are no FIPs for it.
<chewitt>
WP2 schematics claim it has the same RAM chips as your box
<chewitt>
but whether that's true is another thing..
<f_>
Hmm
<f_>
Might be true after all.
<f_>
I did discover some low-quality pics and saw that the RAM chips are made by the same manufacturer.
<chewitt>
if you have a ROM image that can be flashed via Amlogic Burning Tool; erase emmc and see if you can boot the LE image for WP2
<chewitt>
it might not 100% boot, but with a uart attached to the board you can see early boot
<chewitt>
as long as it boots u-boot, the rest is just packaging
<f_>
The big question now -- where's the UART?
<HackerKkillinghi>
hey
<HackerKkillinghi>
f_
<chewitt>
normally 3-4 pins on the board marked gnd/tx/rx
<HackerKkillinghi>
check dm
<HackerKkillinghi>
let help me u to replace the uboot
<f_>
There are 3 pins labeled TX, RX, and GND......but there are 4 more pins labeled TX, RX, GND, and 5V..
<chewitt>
some boards omit the actual pins to save pennies, but the pads might be there
<f_>
HackerKkillinghi: I'd like to do that here, not in DMs.
<HackerKkillinghi>
ok
<chewitt>
you don't need to connect the +5v pin
<f_>
Yes I know.
<chewitt>
so try connecting .. one of the two sets of pins are probably working
<HackerKkillinghi>
yeah
<HackerKkillinghi>
tbh pm os should has actess to to the internetl stonge
<chewitt>
as long as you're not trying to feed +5v to something you aren't going to break something
<f_>
I'd need to solder the wires though, and my soldering skills are......well
<HackerKkillinghi>
so we can wipe the stock uboot frpm emmc
<f_>
There's room for improvement..
<HackerKkillinghi>
in pm os
<f_>
HackerKkillinghi: Let's not do that.
<HackerKkillinghi>
let replace it with stock uboot
<HackerKkillinghi>
in pm os
<f_>
We need to figure out where the FIPs are.
<f_>
HackerKkillinghi: ?
<HackerKkillinghi>
* mainline uboot
<f_>
Not now.
<f_>
As said before we need FIPs that are known to work, else we won't be able to replace it.
<HackerKkillinghi>
x96 mini is using fip from jethub
<HackerKkillinghi>
in pms
<f_>
We need to do all that carefully, not blindly wipe the eMMC and sticking in a U-Boot that, chances are, doesn't work.
<HackerKkillinghi>
ok
<f_>
You probably were lucky with that, but I don't want to do it.
<chewitt>
even if the RAM chips are the same, there's no guarantee one vendor used full-price A1 spec chips and some no-name vendor used low-bin parts that need different timing data
<HackerKkillinghi>
yeah
<HackerKkillinghi>
but we can try
<chewitt>
it will *probably* work, but there's no 100% guarantee
<f_>
Yes
<HackerKkillinghi>
try it then
<f_>
No(t yet)
<chewitt>
and you don't try without assembling the tools/knowledge to recover from a mistake first
<f_>
Yeah
<chewitt>
and with older boards, there's a big lack of software/images these days
<HackerKkillinghi>
ok then find the stock first
<f_>
I do know for sure there's a KII Pro image laying somewhere.
<f_>
And I know for sure there are custom ROMs for it.
<f_>
2
<chewitt>
folks like minix/beelink who are making some of the better (or least-worst) boxes all deleted their S905 SDKs around 2018 to free up disk space
<f_>
There's one that's just stock converted to Android TV, and another one that isn't worth trying (in my opinion).
<chewitt>
ultimately you don't care how good/bad the image is; you only care that it boots the device and can be persuaded to boot Linux
<f_>
Yup.
* f_
afk for a sec.
<f_>
I'm back.
<f_>
chewitt: So. How am I supposed to enter the flashing mode?
<chewitt>
using what?
<f_>
Enter the mode where you can use the USB burner/update to flash?