My N1 box lost connection to USB hard drive after a while, and dmesg shows something like this: [ 1.000000] usb usb1-port1: disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling… [ 1.000000] usbContinue reading

It turns out that Phicomm T1 (not N1)’s firmware could be flashed onto N1, with “erase bootloader” enabled. To connect N1 to computer I need to remove the lid ofContinue reading

Modified from the original script from Armbian 5.67, credits to them. It seems that u-boot on Phicomm N1 hardcoded 0x27400000 for reading / storing its environment variables, and is overwrittenContinue reading

I’m still not clear why but Armbian on Phicomm N1 was unable to get the factory set MAC address. Instead, it uses a random address each time it boots. ToContinue reading

The script install.sh shipped with Armbian works well. But if we’re willing to sacrifice the boot logo, the first partition can starts at offset 128M, instead of 700M as usedContinue reading

Found at offset 0x2400000 of /dev/mmcblk1: Offset 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 02400000 4D 50 54 00 30 31Continue reading

Dump logo from /dev/logo: dd if=/dev/logo of=logo.dmp bs=1M. Unpack dumped partition using aml-imgpack. But note that all opens need to be fixed. The original author uses text mode to manipulateContinue reading

Update: I suggest to use this script instead if you care about (a bit) more free disk space and/or want to change the box’s boot splash image. From GitHub, slightlyContinue reading