[ROM] Rock5A/B AndroidTV 12 by mo123

mo123 · June 18, 2025, 4:27am

Rock5A/B AndroidTV 12 by mo123

Improve wifi performance
Fix Lenova wifi card not working
Fix 120hz Display
Small app updates and fixes.

Fixed 8K Youtube playback, improved AVS video playback, HDR improvements
Removed Google trackers for improved privacy
Several speed and optimization improvements
Too many other changes to mention
Fully working AV1, H264, H265.
Updated apps
New launcher activates after connecting internet
Added kvm support to run Linux OS’s from Termux app inside Android
Fix A8 RTL8852BE wifi on Rock5A
Improved touch screen support
Hide unsupported sd card notification

Use TrackerControl to restrict websites opening trackers or individually block certain apps from accessing the internet.
TvQuickActions added to set up a recent apps screen
(Grant it accessibility and Usage access permissions)

Rock5A
Download Link EMMC/SD(balenaEtcher): Here
Boot Image for Magisk: Here
(Use the right side HDMI port)
Pass: Rock5A-2216

Rock5B - 03-04-2025
Download Link: Here
Pass: Rock5B_5513
Flash with Etcher to micro-sd or emmc

Rock5B NVME 03-04-2025
Download Link: Here
Pass: Rock5B_5513
Flash with RKDevTool Upgrade

Rock5B+
Download Link: Here
Pass: Rock5B+_5524
Flash with Etcher to micro-sd or emmc

Rock5B+ NVME
Download Link: Here
Pass: Rock5B+_5524
Flash with RKDevTool Upgrade

(Can message me after downloading for the password)

Flashing Instructions:

To flash EMMC/SD firmware use Balena Etcher
https://www.balena.io/etcher

To Flash NVME Firmware

Use RKDevTool v3.13 or newer Here
Install DriverAssistant Here
Unzip the firmware with 7zip or Peazip
Select the unzipped firmware with the ‘Firmware’ button under ‘Upgrade Firmware’
Connect the device into Maskrom Mode
Click Upgrade

How to Root
Go to Developer Options

Download Magisk
Dump Boot Image
Patch the boot.img in the Download folder through Magisk v28.1
Use Flash Image to flash the patched boot.img in the Download folder and select the ‘boot’ partition
Reboot your device.

Seedvault
It’s a backup app to backup all your installed apps and even their settings to USB or cloud storage and restore it again without root access. You can use the menus in TvSettings to open it’s settings as old versions of the app can’t be used just by the app icon and needs firmware integration. New versions of the app require a newer Android OS and you can only use this Android 12 compatible one.
https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-source-backup-solution/

buliaoyin · March 27, 2023, 5:05am

Downloaded, but need password to decompress.
Did H264/265 10bit nonHDR video playback fixed?

mo123 · March 27, 2023, 5:33am

@buliaoyin
Sent you a message.
Yes, they are fully working.
I would suggest to use Kodi, Just Video Player or Nova to watch videos.
Enjoy watching anime if you do

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 5:49am

wait, do you mean x265 playback is working well? how do you do that,mind to share your secret? do you compiled a modified version of mediacodec library?

buliaoyin · March 27, 2023, 5:47am

Great work! For H264/265 10bit anime playback, I built a modified kodi few days ago…
I’ll try this firmware tonight.

BTW, also want to see nvme boot support

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 5:58am

just wondering if it possible for you to apply patch below? it is known issue that some sd card card are not bootable on android. i haven’t test your rom though

mo123 · March 27, 2023, 6:03am

I did built a nvme, will post later.

mo123 · March 27, 2023, 6:13am

Micro-sd cards are booting correctly, tested with 5 different cards. You won’t have any booting problems. That patch is only for Linux and has no or limited effect on Android.

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 6:17am

good to know. but i could see that workaround (delaying initializing process by 600ms) being applied on radxa official android rom and it sort out my SD card boot issue. never had issue with linux rom, perhaps it never tried to initiate UHS speed.

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 6:36am

form submitted, looking forward for the password
p.s- lol i just noticed that you did send a PM to me on January, silly me for not noticed those early.

localhost · March 27, 2023, 10:24am

Thank you for building, just downloaded and waiting for pw.
Can’t wait for NVME

harukichi · March 27, 2023, 10:06am

Downloaded.
Looking forward to trying it out.

buliaoyin · March 27, 2023, 3:18pm

This ROM works great!
H264/265 10bit works fine with hw decoder, also NVME boot with no problem.
I’ll try this as my daily tv box.

Find a problem:
The pwm fan seems not work, even if cpu temp raised up to 60℃+.
The pwm fan also works, when the temp raise up to 70℃, it started to run

DarkevilPT · March 27, 2023, 4:59pm

mo123 70C sounds too much… should spin around 50 slower than faster… imo… check out @incognito script its silent and does its job well (suggestion just).

git clone https://github.com/lukaszsobala/fan-control-rock5b
cd fan-control-rock5b
make package
sudo dpkg -i fan-control*.deb
sudo systemctl enable fan-control
systemctl start fan-control

incognito · March 27, 2023, 6:20pm

Thanks but this is android so it won’t work

DarkevilPT · March 27, 2023, 6:34pm

Okie Doakie… thought it could be changed … some how.

thc013 · March 27, 2023, 6:50pm

password ?

it is that your the ATV sensei

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 7:32pm

oh no, didnt managed to pass the boot logo
my board really hates me.
card used:
sandisk extreme 64gb and kingston canvas select plus 32gb.
adb not enabled by default

22.236211][ T274] init: Unable to set property ‘sys.gmali.version’ from uid:10044 gid:10044 pid:792: SELinux permission check failed
[ 22.244721][ T1] init: processing action (sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1) from (/vendor/etc/init/hw/init.rk30board.usb.rc:92)
[ 22.246047][ T1] init: processing action (sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1) from (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:1)
[ 22.246722][ T1] init: Command ‘write /config/usb_gadget/g1/UDC none’ action=sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1 (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:2) took 0ms and failed: Unable to write to file ‘/config/usb_gadget/g1/UDC’: Unable to write file contents: No such device
[ 22.248855][ T1] init: Command ‘rm /config/usb_gadget/g1/configs/b.1/f1’ action=sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1 (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:8) took 0ms and failed: unlink() failed: No such file or directory
[ 22.248927][ T1] init: Command ‘rm /config/usb_gadget/g1/configs/b.1/f2’ action=sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1 (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:9) took 0ms and failed: unlink() failed: No such file or directory
[ 22.248978][ T1] init: Command ‘rm /config/usb_gadget/g1/configs/b.1/f3’ action=sys.usb.config=none && sys.usb.configfs=1 (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:10) took 0ms and failed: unlink() failed: No such file or directory
[ 22.249034][ T1] init: Command ‘rmdir /configusb_gadget/g1/functions/rndis.gs4’ action=sys.usb.config=none && (/system/etc/init/hw/init.usb.configfs.rc:11) took 0ms and fail: No such file or directory
[ 22.330023][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: bt shut off power
[ 22.330088][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: rfkill_rk_set_power: set bt wake_host high!
[ 22.383407][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: ENABLE UART_RTS
[ 22.457172][ T1112] dwc3 fc000000.usb: device reset
[ 22.490057][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: DISABLE UART_RTS
[ 22.490092][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: bt turn on power
[ 22.490102][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: Request irq for bt wakeup host
[ 22.490113][ T472] [BT_RFKILL]: ** disable irq
[ 22.522462][ T1] zram0: detected capacity change from 0 to 1945374720
[ 22.539729][ T1] mkswap: Swapspace size: 1899776k, UUID=e2534c77-53cb-4485-b936-99e55d61698e
[ 22.558253][ T198] android_work: sent uevent USB_STATE=CONNECTED
[ 22.570211][ T1] Adding 1899776k swap on /dev/block/zram0. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:1899776k SS
[ 22.760748][ T198] android_work: sent uevent USB_STATE=CONFIGURED
[ 30.079546][ T1] init: Sending signal 9 to service ‘idmap2d’ (pid 486) process group…
[ 30.436410][ T1] libprocessgroup: Successfully killed process cgroup uid 1000 pid 486 in 356ms
[ 30.436688][ T1] init: Control message: Processed ctl.stop for ‘idmap2d’ from pid: 610 (system_server)
[ 30.436809][ T1] init: Service ‘idmap2d’ (pid 486) received signal 9
[ 32.191913][ T171] binder: undelivered transaction 23967, process died.
[ 34.290297][ T180] binder: release 443:443 transaction 23840 in, still active
[ 34.290313][ T180] binder: send failed reply for transaction 23840 to 771:896
[ 34.290325][ T180] binder: release 443:472 transaction 22036 out, still active
[ 34.290329][ T180] binder: release 443:472 transaction 21480 in, still active
[ 34.326403][ T1] init: Service ‘vendor.bluetooth-1-0’ (pid 443) received signal 6
[ 34.326496][ T1] init: Sending signal 9 to service ‘vendor.bluetooth-1-0’ (pid 443) process group…
[ 34.441099][ T1] libprocessgroup: Successfully killed process cgroup uid 1002 pid 443 in 114ms
[ 34.657290][ T1] init: Untracked pid 1308 exited with status 0
[ 34.657527][ T1] init: Untracked pid 1306 exited with status 0
[ 34.764494][ T1] init: starting service ‘vendor.bluetooth-1-0’…
[ 35.114840][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845830.346:103): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.169656][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845830.570:104): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.714038][ T773] audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=5 audit_backlog_limit=64
[ 35.714054][ T773] audit: rate limit exceeded
[ 35.716146][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845831.116:105): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.716212][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845831.116:106): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.716242][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845831.116:107): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.716268][ T321] type=1400 aud:108): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“u:objefault_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.716293][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845831.116:109)c: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name="u:object_r:venddev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 tcontext=u:obj_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.716318][ T321] type=11.116:110): avc: denied { read } for comm=“Binder:610_5” name=“uault_prop:s0” dev=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:system_server:s0 :vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.808173][ T1364] libprocessgroup: Failed to open /dev/stune/foreground/tasks: No such file or directoryv=“tmpfs” ino=280 scontext=u:r:sytext=u:object_r:vendor_default_prop:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
[ 35.808223][ T1364] libprocessgroup: Failed to apply HighPerformance task profile: No such file or directory
[ 39.313655][ T272] vcc_mipidphy0: disabling
[ 41.514554][ T143] binder: release 771:1156 transaction 22036 in, still active
[ 41.514571][ T143] binder: release 771:1156 transaction 21480 out, still active
[ 41.514575][ T143] binder: send failed reply for transaction 22036, target dead
[ 41.514578][ T143] binder: send failed reply for transaction 21480, target dead
[ 41.797816][ T1] init: Untracked pid 1186 received signal 9
[ 41.797961][ T1] init: Untracked pid 1188 received signal 9
[ 59.772355][ T321] type=1400 audit(1679845854.826:165): avc: denied { write } for comm=“RenderThread” name=“property_service” dev=“tmpfs” ino=309 scontext=u:r:priv_app:s0:c512,c768 tcontext=u:object_r:property_socket:s0 tclass=sock_file permissive=0 app=com.google.android.tvlauncher
[ 59.785781][ T1622] logd: start watching /data/system/packages.list …
[ 59.786639][ T1622] logd: ReadPackageList, total packages: 69
[ 70.341850][ T140] binder: release 1625:1625 transaction 27199 out, still active
[ 70.341863][ T140] binder: undelivered TRANSACTION_COMPLETE
[ 70.666020][ T1421] binder: 610:1421 transaction failed 29189/0, size 4-0 line 2668
[ 70.666418][ T1421] binder: send failed reply for transaction 27199, target dead
[ 73.358493][ T450] healthd: battery l=50 v=3 t=2.6 h=2 st=3 c=-1600 fc=100 chg=au
[ 132.868180][ T450] healthd: battery l=50 v=3 t=2.6 h=2 st=3 c=-1600 fc=100 chg=au
[ 175.797720][ T143] binder: release 1868:1868 transaction 31048 out, still active
[ 175.797740][ T143] binder: undelivered TRANSACTION_COMPLETE
[ 175.940042][ T626] binder: 610:626 transaction failed 29189/0, size 8-0 line 2668
[ 175.940058][ T626] binder: send failed reply for transaction 31048, target dead
[ 193.141850][ T450] healthd: battery l=50 v=3 t=2.6 h=2 st=3 c=-1600 fc=100 chg=au

incognito · March 27, 2023, 7:31pm

It should restart twice on first boot - maybe try again?

zerorating · March 27, 2023, 7:37pm

it works now on my slower card. maybe im not patient enough