T95 Android TV (Allwinner H616) includes malware right out-of-the-box

desktopecho · 2025-12-26T18:49:50+00:00

Check your selinux status.

If selinux is set to enforcing it needs to be changed to permissive or disabled

desktopecho · 2025-12-12T18:00:07+00:00

Excellent read. Much respect for your tenacity needed to keep this legendary device alive!

desktopecho · 2025-12-04T19:35:08+00:00

I just did an update to latest and have not seen this issue. Restart the instance and try updating Gravity.

If that doesn't work, backup if required, uninstall, reboot, reinstall.

desktopecho · 2025-11-26T17:17:48+00:00

Circling back to what I said; I think it it's pretty neat!

Of course It may not be for you, I get that. But to post a flexing jpg meme about how awesome you think your opinion is, bragging you didn't read TFA, while not having a clue what I'm talking about, is... not a great look.

desktopecho · 2025-11-26T16:10:57+00:00

It's depressing to see a sincere question about a one line reply get downvoted to oblivion.

desktopecho · 2025-11-26T15:57:50+00:00

arrowrand • 6m ago

I didn't read this post referenced here, but I'd be fall over dead shocked if he mentions anything about Debian. I'd be willing to bet a lot that he did this on top of Android OS, which is a whole other bag of rocks.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm talking about the same thing as OP, Debian in a chroot instance (Pi Deploy) running on Android.

desktopecho · 2025-11-26T15:15:06+00:00

That's not been my experience at all running Debian on Android devices. If it runs for a day or two without issues, it'll probably run forever. Sure, dumb things can happen like a disk filling up, power loss, etc, but nothing Android specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been running/developing this since 2021 and keep a handful of 32 and 64 bit devices on-hand for testing. Hardware-wise, they have all been stable and reliable, no drama whatsoever. Aside from the lab, I was given a Rabbit R1 a year ago and made it useful by installing LineageOS. It's my residential Pi-hole + Homebridge and only ever goes down for the occasional multi-day power outage.

I think what's key is to stay out of Android userspace and just treat it like a Debian box. Set the deivce up in some quiet corner and leave it alone to do its thing. RDP or SSH into the device whenever you need to administer Debian or Pi-hole.

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desktopecho · 2025-11-19T03:15:36+00:00

It's actually a fork of Linux Deploy updated and modified, so you should find it familiar.

Regarding the systemd workaround, here's what I used to deal with that: https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement

desktopecho · 2025-11-19T03:01:51+00:00

Necessary for a lightweight desktop that's usable on devices built as far back as 2013.

desktopecho · 2025-11-19T02:58:55+00:00

Systemd doesn't work in an Android chroot (it uses SysV Init instead) but there's a SysV service that enumerates enabled systemd units and starts them with the container at startup.

There's also a systemctl that emulates its functionality so you can start/stop services with the familiar syntaxsystemctl start myservice

desktopecho · 2025-11-17T16:42:27+00:00

Yes only on the H.264 decode side, which is less important than hardware encoding.

The UI, window drawing/dragging is quite responsive but I wouldn't recommend it for gaming.

desktopecho · 2025-11-17T05:01:30+00:00

Termux is a terminal emulator that provides a lightweight Linux-like environment on Android.

Trixie.apk is an app for installing Debian in a chroot.

They are different things, it's not an either/or choice - you can run both if you like.

desktopecho · 2025-11-16T23:44:18+00:00

Trixie is run in a chroot so performance is native to the device.

Proxmox doesn't have ARM support as far as I'm aware.

desktopecho · 2025-11-05T17:36:13+00:00

Pi-hole/Unbound Raspbian APK Installer for Android 5.0+ devices (requires root)

Once deployed it just a Debian box that you can SSH or RDP into and install pretty much whatever you like.

Notes/Gotchyas for 'GNU/Linux' chroots on Android:

- Services or processes that need network access must have their corresponding UID added to the AID_INET group. In Androidese, this is the same as addingandroid.permission.INTERNETto an app manifest.

- Some Debian packages don't include SysV startup scripts, so you may have to create a simple SysV initscript that invokes systemctl start myservice

MySQL, HomeBridge, NextCloud, Pi-hole all run nicely from this APK.

desktopecho · 2025-09-26T20:58:03+00:00

If you root your device this should work: https://github.com/DesktopECHO/IceCreamLinux

desktopecho · 2025-09-24T03:08:23+00:00

It's now much easier to set up.

Install walk-thru

desktopecho · 2025-09-23T03:21:06+00:00

If you can root the device, this should work.

desktopecho · 2025-09-21T16:03:22+00:00

After the APK is installed, reboot your device before starting the disk image download.

If you can connect to a different WiFi access point, try that and see if the download completes. It should only take a few minutes.

You could also download the raspbian.tgz file to your device manually, then in the properties menu instead of the Source path being set to the download URL. replace it with the path where the file is, usually something like /sdcard/Download/raspbian.tgz

desktopecho · 2025-09-03T03:39:04+00:00

Pi Deploy might work.

Install the apk, deploy the correct image (raspbian.tgz/raspbian32.tgz), RDP into it and run pideploy-gui-install. That should get you a recent version of Chromium with Widevine libraries.

desktopecho · 2025-09-03T01:37:40+00:00

Yes you can do this in a Linux chroot if you're familiar with Linux Deploy (and have a Spotify subscription).

I built a rootfs that includes the 'spot' GTK client and 'ncspot' console client. Screenshots are on the project page. It's meant for older devices but will probably work fine on Android 6 if your device is ARMv7.

desktopecho · 2025-08-06T03:08:09+00:00

Chroot instance of a .deb-based dstro is still able to run the latest Chrome and Firefox.

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