Any working custom Android 12 image that installs on NVME?

ROCK 5 Series 5B/5B+
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As the Titel says, i am trying to install the custom ATV versions of A12 Firmware onto my NVME in Rock 5b+ since 1 Week, but i am not able to succeed in it.

I tried all the methods that has been adviced to do but my NVME simply fails to install any custom A12 ATV Firmware on it. I can only boot from official Radxa A12 Image on NVME which is available on Github, but it is Tablet version which is very annoying to use on TV.

So i am requesting any Radxa-Developers to kindly cook an ATV version of Android 12 for our devices(5b+).

Thanks in advance… waiting for a possible help.

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I don’t use android and have never installed it. However, if you have an SD image just burn it on to your NVMe using Pi imager. Scroll down to custom and select the image and let run. That is all we do with here with our yocto and Radxa factory images, don’t know why that would not work for android.

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It’s not so simple, Rock 5b+ can’t boot from nvme kiedy like that.

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It is booting the debian 12 just fine from NVMe. Mine is 5B not the plus model.

fred@rock5b:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 3922460 8 3922452 1% /dev
tmpfs 813008 2116 810892 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3 480337364 24638720 436093988 6% /
tmpfs 4065032 0 4065032 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 24 5096 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p2 306992 0 306992 0% /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p1 16318 2 16316 1% /config
tmpfs 813004 84 812920 1% /run/user/1002
fred@rock5b:~$ uname -a
Linux rock5b 6.1.43-20-rk2312 #3e26818dc SMP Tue Nov 19 07:21:24 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
fred@rock5b:~$

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This is because you have a bootloader on the SPI, which is pretty much specific to every operating system

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I tried that using RPI imager and wrote SD/nvme image separately and each time it failed to boot. I don’t know why.

I am just eagerly waiting for someone from Radxa-Team to help me get a working ATV version for our 5b+. Otherwise it’s a huge mistake for me buying this another IT waste in search for better 4k Media box

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Forgive me since I don’t do android. I was assuming they also have a bootloader that can be loaded into spi. How does android boot?

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I don’t mean the android bootloader, but the board bootloader that tells it to use the NVME as a boot device.
I don’t know how android boots, sorry.

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Any help from Radxa-Team in this regard? Have they abandoned the customers support?