[ROM] Rock5A/B AndroidTV 12 by mo123

I tried the latest version (1.8, SD card) and have some issues:

  1. YouTube playback. I’m using the latest Smart TubeNext. Frame drops at 4k@60 with both AV1 and VP9. See the image below. Am I doing something wrong or it’s common issue?
  2. WiFi/BT is not working (AX210).

Dear @mo123,

Thank you very much, my AX210 Wifi card works very stable on wifi 6 without any issue.
Even without antennas.

@dxg

Are you using a high speed micro-SDCard?

Can you check your wifi card’s vid, pid values?
lsusb in Linux or Device Manager in Windows
Perhaps you have a non standard AX210 card.

What wifi module are you currently using and did you attach antennae or are you using ethernet?
Also try changing the Android Display resolution to 3840x2160x60hz and see if it doesn’t make a difference with the dropped frames.

@mo123 can you send me the password please, thanks.

I’m using SanDisk Extreme PRO. I believe this should be high speed.

AX210 works fine under Ubuntu. Here is lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0032 Intel Corp. AX210 Bluetooth

I’m using ethernet so far, don’t have any other WiFi cards.

As for 4k@60p resolution - I didn’t notice any difference. What I see so far is that AV1 HDR videos do not trigger the scree to HDR, while VP9 does. And the biggest rate of frame drops is exactly with these AV1 HDR videos.

Also it seems that I cannot change colors to 444 unless it’s 1080p. With the other devices (e.g., Ugoos AM8 @ Amlogic S928X-J) 4k & 444 color works.

@dgx
RK3588 doesn’t support AV1 HDR.

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I checked the Intel AX210 chip, WIFI works, Bluetooth unfortunately does not work, I hope you will improve it in future versions.
Rock5B board.

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Mo
Could you please share the password, thank u.

Downloaded. waiting for password.

Rock5A firmware
For testing Intel AX210 bluetooth & Intel 7265 wifi
I added different drivers but perhaps it still doesn’t work.
https://mega.nz/file/MAYhzAQB#yyE6dZLkUK4sQCEHR0xVdp2rkt_F7va_NCPNVe3_WCg

Please provide output of
dmesg | grep -i blue or lspci
(Will upload boot img later if needed)

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Bluetooth does not work. Have you put in any blacklist rules as explained here? And how to get to the console to send these outputs?
https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/guide/radxa-debian#BT_Tip:

OK I am typing this because I can’t copy from Termux.

(...)
[T209] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for intel/ibt-0041-0041.sfi failed with error -2
[T209] Bluetooth hci0: Failed to load Intel firmware file (-2)
[T1] init: Service 'vendor.bluetooth-1-0' (pid 1182) received signal 11
[T1] init: Sending signal 9 to service 'vendor.bluetooth-1-0' (pid 1182) process group
(...)

@incognito
Unfortunately the Linux blacklist commands can’t work on Android as the systems work very differently.
I found out the Intel hal frameworks are completely missing for Android and Intel has no plans to develop it. Rockchip/Radxa also get no feedback from Intel. So I think we can forget about AX210 bluetooth on Android.
The best is to use the A8 RTL8852BE wifi/bt module or if you only need wifi, the AX210 module and then use a USB Wifi airmouse remote.

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Is it possible to incorporate it in Opi5 roms? My opi board is on the way, and I have exactly this RC.
Also pls dont forget about Opi forum, many people are asking for password there, actually last 6 pages or so, hope you’re not abandoned them
Thank you for your great work!

Hello mo 123,
I would like to try your rom on my rock5 model B! Can you please provide me the password?

@mo123 This looks pretty excellent. Could you send me the password so I can give it a try?

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Connecting Bluetooth audio would be nice… To use with the A8 chip I would need the image from the first post, correct?

Yes

I tested bluetooth headphones and speakers and it worked normally on the A8 RTL8852be module.
The images with Intel wifi might cause problems with the A8 bluetooth, so I just have to check if Intel bluetooth was disabled and if not reupload images.

All the bluetooth issues like standby could have been avoided if Radxa used a built-in AP6275P chip instead. Also enabling USB bluetooth dongles cause problems with the A8 bluetooth.
Perhaps this will be fixed by a driver update in future.

I Flash the NVME Firmware with RKDevTool failed
“Download Firmware Fail”
“Note: Image is larger than partition size in the firmware…”

Any suggestions?

I prefer to boot Debian or Ubuntu from mSD Card and flash preferred firmware to EMMC or NVME using balenaetcher for arm. You can also flash all idbloader, firmware etc files under any LinuxOS with dd command.

No need to waste your time with RKDevtool.

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Yeah, please avoid such low quality software as rkdevtool