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Generic Devices

This section covers the installation of CoreELEC on Generic devices

Android 7.1 or greater is required to install CoreELEC

Boards and SoC

CoreELEC has been reported to work on a large variety of Generic Devices.

CoreELEC comes in 3 flavors:

Flavor Based on
Amlogic-ng Amlogic Vendor Kernel 4.9.269
Amlogic-ne Amlogic Vendor Kernel 5.4.210
Amlogic-no Amlogic Vendor Kernel 5.15.119

Amglogic NG

CoreELEC Release Kodi Family SoC
20.5 FINAL Nexus GXL S805X, S805Y, S905X, S905D, S905L, S905M2, S905W
G12A S905X2, S905Y2
G12B A311D, S922X
SM1 S905D3, S905X3
SC2 S905X4
21.1 STABLE Omega GXL S805X, S805Y, S905X, S905D, S905L, S905M2, S905W
G12A S905X2, S905Y2
G12B A311D, S922X
SM1 S905D3, S905X3
SC2 S905X4

Amglogic NE

CoreELEC Release Kodi Family SoC
20.5 FINAL Nexus SC2 S905X4
T7 A311D2
S4 S905Y4, S905W2
21.1 STABLE Omega SC2 S905X4
T7 A311D2
S4 S905Y4, S905W2
S5 S928X

Amglogic NO

CoreELEC Release Kodi Family SoC
22.0 ALPHA Piers G12A S905X2, S905Y2
G12B A311D, S922X
SM1 S905D3, S905X3
SC2 S905X4
T7 A311D2
S4 S905Y4, S905W2
S5 S928X

Even though CoreELEC works fine with 1Gb of memory, 2Gb or more are recommended for smooth playback of UHD content.

CoreELEC 9 (Leia) End of Life ⇒ DECEMBER 31 2021 @ 24:00 UTC ⇐

Installation

This section covers the installation of CoreELEC to External Media such as SD Card or USB Flash Drive.

Brief

To create a bootable Class 10 (μ)SD Card or a USB Flash Drive:

  1. Download the latest CoreELEC .img.gz file
  2. Use Disk Image Writing Software to write the downloaded file to the (μ)SD card or USB flash drive
  3. Browse to the Device Trees folder on the (μ)SD card or USB flash drive, and:
    1. copy the correct .dtb image file for the device to the root folder of the (μ)SD Card or USB Flash Drive, then:
    2. rename it to dtb.img
  4. Use a Boot Method to boot CoreELEC from (μ)SD Card or USB Flash Drive

Detailed

Detailed step by step instructions, divided into categories:

Installation Video

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Video by MXQ Project