[Google TV General] genesan:
Hello all. Okay, now I need some advice/help ASAP, from anyone who has time and advice/help to offer, pretty please...

Just a disclaimer, I have bricked 3 of these ONN devices, now. One stick and two of the dopinder boxes. I follow the instructions very carefully, but the issue seems to be around the dtb/dtbo flashing. My MAIN question is, the LineageOS Instructional Guide webpage indicates to flash both DTB and DTBO imgs, and provides links to both. I can acquire the dtb from "

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" however the dtbo img link (https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/lineageos/full/dopinder/) takes me to a 404 Not Found webpage, stating "The requested URL /pub/lineageos/full/dopinder/ was not found on this server."

So, is this because this method of booting to a Lineage (custom) recovery just no longer working? Or is this supposed to be disregarded and only flash the dtb img that IS obtainable? Because I attempted to boot to recovery without flashing either yet and I got a blank screen...but last time I tried this on the most recent device that is bricked now, I flashed the DTB img only, then flashed the recovery img and then booted into the recovery img file, just as directed, only I never, and have yet to, get to a Lineage Recovery screen...and in fact, when I goto flash the Lineage recovery img I can't ever get into recovery at all...this is how the last unit bricked. I had flashed dtb, recovery, attempted to boot the recovery img...nothing happened...BUT fortunately was able to boot back into the OS. However, I decided that since I had modified the firmware somewhat, I should do a factory reset and like an IDIOT, I chose to factory reset, forgetting that recovery booting was a bootloop, and elected to choose factory reset from the OS Settings, which yes, left me with a device that just constantly bootloops. I even unplugged it from everything and tried again like 2 weeks later hoping it'd not continue trying to boot into recovery since it had gone so long without any power connected to it but NOPE-it's a goner, so I put it away and just recently got another one. I just want to know if anyone can clear up the discrepancy with flashing dtb and a (seemingly missing) dtbo imgs?

I'm not even dead-set on flashing the actual LineageOS. What I really need is just to get into the custom recovery and remove what appears to be malware that's working in the background of this device, and the previous two. Getting into custom recovery and flashing the addonsu or magisk is my main objective, if possible.

By the way, I did run the set env/oem unlocking commands successfully-so until I get a reply I'm going to leave this unit powered off as I think it may be in a vulnerable state with OEM unlocked and my inability to control or administer that at all currently.

Thank you, a huge THANK YOU, to anyone who can reply or help me out with clearing this information up. This is the lineage page I'm using for a guide:

Install LineageOS on dopinder | Odd Solutions Wiki

wiki.oddsolutions.us

Again, thanks for taking the time to read my overly-long request for help, haha, I appreciate all of the work that the people whom have developed this ROM for these units SO much. You guys/gals are awesome! Thank you for sharing your work with all of us to help get us out of this bloatware and hopefully into a custom OS'd but inexpensive Android TV version of our own :)

Thanks-

Gene