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Mini M8S T95N T95X Android 6.0 S905X WIFI SCI 9082C

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Temptation got the better of me and tried to flash a few ATV roms, ended up with no wifi. (even after researching).

Eventually found a Russian thread with a few roms. Perhaps the more talented can extract the wifi drivers if they have time.
For everyone else with a similar box, wifi and the remote work.

https://w3bsit3-dns.com/forum/index....owtopic=782186


A couple of notes

T95n
russian lang to start
play store hangs on download pending - crashed then downloaded apps
wifi ~ almost full speed
BIG mouse pointer
post 918

mxq pro v8
also hangs on playstore download pending, reboot seems to fix
main screen starts in english
wifi ~ seems a little slower on speedtest.net

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...khQNjZGWDRIc3c
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T95N






M8S Pro


Help mapping TWO USB Gamepad with .kl files

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Hi. I have a generic MXQ 4K Rockchip 3229 based box with Android 5.1. I also have 2 controllers, one original PS3 Dualshock (connected via USB) and another generic USB replica (Microntek USB joystick). I like to play some SNES games and I used the SNESoid emulator, it worked fine for me, and also have options to map the inputs. Any controller/gamepad I can make it work solo, but the two...

Well, any of the controllers are recognized by the system, with the directional pads working normally, and in the case of Dualshock, the "X" button works as 'ENTER' and "O" working as something like a return button. The rest of the buttons was remapped using this tutorial here (http://freaktab.com/forum/main-categ...ith-android-tv), so every button is ok now, and I mapped anyway I want inside the SNES emulator.

But for the "Microntek" gamepad, I can't make it work in the emulator. If I don't use some key layout files for it, the directional pad work fine, but none of the buttons works. If I map with a .kl file, the 2 controllers dpad conflict with each other - when the player 1 push right, player 2 also goes right, and so on.

Any of the gamepads are native supported, so was no need to use Tincore Keymapper or USB/BT Motion Joy or Sixaxis apk, but I tried some with no sucess.

Any gamepads returns the keycodes and scancodes when a button is pressed in the KeyTest app. But when for the Dualshock the d-pad returns some scancodes values between 292 to 295, for the Microntek all the pads (right, left, down, up) returns scancode = 0. So i can't map the directional pad in a .kl file. Any hints?

Below my .kl files:
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# Vendor_054c_Product_0268.kl
# PS3 Dualshock

key 292 DPAD_UP
key 293 DPAD_RIGHT
key 294 DPAD_DOWN
key 295 DPAD_LEFT

key 300 BUTTON_Y
key 301 BUTTON_B
key 302 BUTTON_A
key 303 BUTTON_X

key 298 BUTTON_L1
key 299 BUTTON_R1
key 296 BUTTON_L2
key 297 BUTTON_R2

key 288 BUTTON_SELECT
key 291 BUTTON_START
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# Vendor_0079_Product_0006.kl
# MICRONTEK USB JOYSTICK

key 288 BUTTON_Y
key 289 BUTTON_B
key 290 BUTTON_A
key 291 BUTTON_X

key 292 BUTTON_L1
key 293 BUTTON_R1
key 294 BUTTON_L2
key 295 BUTTON_R2

key 296 BUTTON_SELECT
key 297 BUTTON_START

Mini M8S Pro T95N T95X Android 6.0 S905X WIFI SCI 9082C

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Temptation got the better of me and tried to flash a few ATV roms, ended up with no wifi. (even after researching).

Eventually found a Russian thread with a few roms. Perhaps the more talented can extract the wifi drivers if they have time.
For everyone else with a similar box, wifi and the remote work.

https://w3bsit3-dns.com/forum/index....owtopic=782186


A couple of notes

T95n
russian lang to start
play store hangs on download pending - crashed then downloaded apps
wifi ~ almost full speed
BIG mouse pointer
post 918

mxq pro v8
also hangs on playstore download pending, reboot seems to fix
main screen starts in english
wifi ~ seems a little slower on speedtest.net

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...khQNjZGWDRIc3c
post 508









T95N






M8S Pro

Firmware. Update Am3 Ugoos blog

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New update for Ugoos Am3 at Ugoos blog.

v.1.1.1 - 09/06/2017

1. Added support Kodi 17 function "Adjust display refresh rate"

2. Fixed support HDMI passthrough function in Kodi 17

3. Improved HDMI self-adaptation function (Settings -> Playback settings)

4. Added fractional frequencies for HDMI self-adaptation function

5. Added support HLS for HDMI self-adaptation function

6. Fixed bug of scaling video

7. Added video frames to screenshots

8. Fixed Original orientation (Settings -> Device -> Screen orientation)

9. Fixed cursor rotation

10. Fixed disappearance of the cursor

11. Fixed Teamviewer blinking (works with root)

12. Fixed dark screen bug

13. Fixed Webview bug

14. Added cpu watchdog

15. Fixed touch screens support

16. Improved Debug Settings

17. New Ugoos update service

18. Added write permissions for ext4

19. Fixed adb serial number

DOWNLOADS: Ugoos AM3 Amlogic Firmware v 1.1.1 Android 6.0.1


Google Play Store has stopped issue

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hello

my tv-box cooleme mb3

firmware Q113_M0 (bee link gt1 firmware)

anyone know how to update google play store to newest version i tried to do it manually replacing Phonesky.apk and reboot but google play store is not installed

MK808B II Mini-PC met Android 4.2.2/8GB/WIFI/Bluetooth/DLNA Dual-Core 1,6 GHz, 1 GB RAM

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can someone tell me to flash to annother firmware of is this tvstick dead and what is possible with kodi version

greatings wim

Sammix R95x firmware?

[Update] New WeOS 3.1 for Wetek Hub

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A new release for WetekHub was launched today!




New update for WeTek HUB




WeOS 3.1




Here's the changelog:




System:

- improved DRM playback

- improved 4K playback

- improved Auto refresh rate system for Kodi

- Update WeOSLauncher

- Update WeTekSetupWizard




Apps:

- Update Kodi to 17.3

- Update Aptoide

- Update Google Apps

- Update file manager




On WeTek Hub to be able to update, please head up to We.Update and start downloading the new update!




BR





How I delete my account?

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I don't find any option to delete my account

thanks

Micro SD Cards for Development Boards – Classes, Tools, Benchmarks, Reliability, and Tips & Tricks (CNX)

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When people plan to use a development board for their project, they mainly focus on the requirements of the development board itself, as well as software support. But selecting the right accessories may be just as crucial for good performance and stability. For example, selecting a proper power supply is important, as the board may freeze or randmly rebooted if it is not feed at the right voltage. Part of this is selecting a micro USB cable, as you’ll want a cable with minimal resistance which can be achieved through shorter cables and/or a low AWG value. Another important item that can impact stability and performance of the systems are micro SD cards when used to run the operating system in development boards. Understanding SD Card Performance Metrics & Classes

Until a few years ago, (Micro) SD cards were primary used to store data such as photos, videos and music. In those use cases, you have large files that benefit from high sequential read and write speeds. That’s why the SD association created different classes to specify a minimum write speed with speed class, UHS speed class, and more recently Video Speed Class.

That’s useful as you won’t need the same write speeds to copy music files, or record videos in a 4K camera, and the cards with a lower class are normally cheaper. Note that most (all?) low cost development board do not support UHS-II or UHS-III interface, so it may work, but you won’t be able to reach the maximum performance of the card. Micro SD card controllers are also often connected via SDIO which limits the sequential performance to around 23 MB/s.

However, those classes are only marginally useful for micro SD cards used in development boards, since operating systems generate a lot of small read and write operations, for example for databases and web caches, rather than handling large files. That’s why storage devices may also include read and write IOPS (I/O per seconds) which are more useful for this type of use case. The table below about Samsung eMMC and UFS flash chip shows some of those numbers.


Click to Enlarge

The only problem is that until very recently, there was no way you could know minimal IOPS R/W numbers for SD cards since they were simply not made available by the manufacturers, so instead people were recommending Class 10 micro SD cards which may or may not best suited to their use in development boards. However, since the introduction of Adoptable Storage in Android, where micro SD cards could be used for apps instead of just data, IOPS values became more important, and the SD association has now introduced
Class A1 & Class A2 application performance classes for SD cards specifying minimum IOPS R/W values together with a 10MB/sec minimum sustained sequential write speed.


That’s great! Problem solved then? Not quite, as manufacturers have only started to use application performance class logos in their higher-end SD cards with high capacity like 256GB, which usually cost several times the price of your typical development board. So we need to rely on the community to test IOPS R/W values, or random read and write speeds. Software Tools for SD Cards

There are several program that can test performance. hdparm and dd are popular, but the former only test sequential speed for a very short time, and the latter only test sequential speed, and many people may not include the time it takes to flash the cache to the actual card (e.g. with sync), leading to potentially misleading results, and mostly irrelevant to our use case.

So instead, there are specific tools to tests both sequential speeds and random I/O performance.
Bonnie++ is one, but recently iozone has become the reference for disk I/O testing, and that’s the one used in the benchmarks below.

Many tutorials recommend to flash firmware using Win32DiskImager in Windows, or dd in Linux. However, while I have not experience the issue myself, I’ve been told the latter may not always detect errors while flashing, and a new tool is now recommended:
Etcher. It works in Windows, Linux, or Mac OS using a GUI or the command line, and will verify the SD card after flashing making sure nothing has gone wrong during the process.

SD Cards Benchmarks

With that in mind we need micro SD cards with good random R/W performance, which we can test with iozone3, and for many applications 8 to 32 GB capacities are enough. We were planning to test ourselves, but Andreas Spiess has already published a videos – embedded further below- leveraging pidramble work, with benchmarks using several micro SD cards on a Raspberry Pi 3 board. You’ll also find more results and discussion on Armbian forums. Linaro also made a survey of micro SD cards a while ago.


Random Read & Write Speeds in MB/s – Cards Sorted by Random Write Speed – Click to Enlarge

Here are the main takeaways from the tests:
  • Larger cards are usually faster but not always (See Samsung EVO+ 64GB results).
  • Benchmarks vary a lot between runs for a given card with 10 to 20% variations
  • Most Low cost micro SD cards / clones have really bad random write performance.
  • Samsung and Sandisk cards get the best random I/O performance
  • It’s not always necessary to buy to most expensive card for usable performance.


Debian Jessie Boot Times on Raspberry Pi 3

The boot performance varies a lot too between cards, and the results are quite unexpected, for the time difference between Samsung Pro+ 32GB and Samsung EVO+ 32GB which are pretty similar benchmarks (both ramdom and sequential speeds). A
boot chart for each test would have been useful to analyze the results.



The conclusion is that for the best performance select cards like Samsung EVO+ 32GB or Samsung Pro+ 32GB selling for respectively
around $18 and about $25 on Amazon US. A cheaper card that should work decently is Sandisk Extreme Pro 8GB sold for $8.
The Problem of Fake Micro SD Cards

It looks like we have now found a decent list of micro SD cards to use with our development boards. There are still problem has some are copy, even on sites like Amazon , as manufacturer of fake card may insert them in the supply chain. One way to double check if you have an original is to check the CID (Card Identification) number. In Linux, you can do so as follows:
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cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/device/cid
035344534c3038478049731d9201063d

The first two digit represents the manufacturer ID. There’s no public list, but “1b” is for Samsung. You can decode the full CID on here.

If you’ve bought a Samsung SD card, and the Manufacturer ID is difference from 0x1b, then you almost certainly have a fake Samsung SD card. If the number is 0x1b, you can’t be 100% sure you have a genuine SD card however, as the clones may have also cloned that part.

Sadly there’s no easy other way to check if a card is real or fake. Checking the performance is similar to other reports online may help confirm you have a proper card.
That 2010 article by Bunnie has more details about fake SD cards.
Longevity and Reliability of micro SD Cards

I’ve been using micro SD cards for about 5 years both in development boards, and my phone, and I have to say I’ve had to throw away many of them due to I/O errors after a while. I’ve also found my card readers also only last a few months. So far, I mostly bought cheaper ones, so it could be an explanation. Sadly, manufacturers do not provide any MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) for SD cards so there’s no data like on hard drives and SSDs.

However, there are ways to limit wear and tear on micro SD cards by limited writes, either by making the rootfs read-only which is fine for embedded projects, less if you plan on using your board as a computer, or using log2ram, extending the write buffer commit interval, etc… More discussion about SD card lifespan can be found on
Pete Scargill’s blog.

Some people will also encounter corrupted flash that won’t boot anymore after a power failure or a crash because the file system has been corrupted. It is not directly related to the SD card itself, and it’s more likely to occur if you have a poor power supply. Steps to reduce the probably of corruption involves the same steps as previously mentioned to limit wear and tear with a read-only file system and so on.

Another solution to avoid most the issues mentioned above is to use boards with eMMC flash, but of course going that route would mean that you’d have to avoid Raspberry Pi boards, baring the RPi Compute Module. Neverhteless, a combination of carefully selected power supply, USB cable, and micro SD card should still give you a good experience, and avoid many potential headaches, with your board.

Thanks to Karl and Thomas for tips and insights.

Source: CNXsoft

Box getting hot? Add a cooling fan

Can't play some movie files

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I think this is the same device I have. It looks exactly the same but I just checked the amazon page and it's marketed under the name EVANPO, but it looks identical.

Anyway I'm trying to stream some movie files from a local media server I have set up on my LAN. The videos will appear to buffer and load but then it doesn't play. When I bring up the OSD the clock is advancing as usual, but there is no video or audio. I can skip forward and the picture updates but it doesn't move. It stays frozen as the clock advances. This seems to happen to random files, both MKV files and blu ray rips. Some mkv and blu ray rips play fine. I can stream all files with no problems to my laptop.

Any ideas?

Firmware Version 20170602 for H96 Pro+ (q9377)

Gearbest service upgrade - Check your orders and get updates on Messenger now!

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Amlogic - boot android from sdcard is possible?

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Does anyone know - is it possible to run android from sdcard on TV box witch Amlogic direct from SD card? I saw that it can be done on RK processors.
On my M8S I launched ubuntu, I did dualboot. However, burn Android img image to sdcard - does not launch. I would like to burn Android img to sdcard to test the firmware. I do not want to risk bricked up.

New WeOS 3.0.1 for Wetek play 2 with Netflix 4K!

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Guys, Wetek launched a new update for the Wetek Play 2 that features Android 6.0 and streaming in 4k

I've checked and now we have netflix with 4k!

Here's what masterchief wrote on kodi forum
WeOs 3.1 is out for WeTek Play 2

What's new?

System:
- Kernel Fixes
- Streaming apps in 4K

Apps:
- Added Kodi 17.3
- Aptoide Store updated

WeTV:
- Added XMLTV for Sat
- PG Fixes for ATSC
- Now allows ATSC-T and ATSC-C

To be able to download it:

A notification will pop up under the dashboard.

You can also check We.Update

Please bear in mind that this update will format the device.
Please make a backup of your data!

BR

t95n 2g 2g/8g firmware

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i am looking for a newer android for my t95n mini m8s pro, it currently running a custom 5.1 firmware and things are not installing. i cant contact the seller as they are no longer trading. when i open the box on the circut board it says mini-s9205-160503-v1.3 and in settings it says build lmy47v.20160604 test keys. is there any newer android for it or none custom firmware for this box. thank you to all who reply

TX95 - X1 TV Box Android 6.0 1/16GB Fast Lan Dual WiFi BT4

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Model: TX95 - X1
Type: TV Box
System: Android 6.0
CPU: Amlogic S905X
Core: Quad Core
GPU: Mali-450
RAM: 1G
RAM Type: DDR3
ROM: 16G
Max. Extended Capacity: 128G
Decoder Format: H.264,H.265
Video format: 1080P,4K,4K x 2K,H.264,H.265,MP4
Audio format: AAC,DTS,FLAC,M4A,MP3,OGG,RM,WAV,WMA
Photo Format: BMP,GIF,JPEG,JPG,PNG,TIFF
Support 5.1 Surround Sound Output: Yes
5G WiFi: Yes
Bluetooth: Bluetooth4.0
Power Supply: Charge Adapter
Interface: DC Power Port,HDMI,RJ45,SPDIF,TF card,USB2.0
Antenna: No
Language: Multi-language
DVD Support: No
HDMI Version: 2.0
External Subtitle Supported: Yes
Power Comsumption: 10W
RJ45 Port Speed: 10 / 100Mbps
System Bit: 64Bit
WiFi Chip: QUALCOMM 9377
Power Type: External Power Adapter Mode
Remote Controller Battery: 2 x AAA batteries ( not included )
Product weight: 0.1710 kg
Package weight: 0.6200 kg
Product size (L x W x H): 10.30 x 10.30 x 2.30 cm / 4.06 x 4.06 x 0.91 inches
Package size (L x W x H): 19.50 x 11.50 x 6.50 cm / 7.68 x 4.53 x 2.56 inches
Package Contents: 1 x TX95 - X1 TV Box, 1 x Power Adapter

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M96X Smart TV Box Android 7, WiFi Fast Lan BT4

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● Amlogic S905X Quad-core Cortex A53 CPU gives you a high-speed feedback and smooth response
● 2G RAM and 8G ROM, games and videos ran smoothly
● With 2.4G WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0
● Android 7.1 version provides you the benefit of using all the latest updates and having access to all the tools, games, and Apps at the play store smoothly
● Supports 4K x 2K video, gives you high-quality video experience
● Support full video format decoding. Support H.265 hardware decoding. H.265 and H.264 decoding will offer you high definition pictures and movies
● The remote control is powered by 2 x AAA batteries ( not included )


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Alfawise Z28 Pro Smart TV Box A7 2/16GB Dual WiFi Gig Lan BT4

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Brand: Alfawise
Model: Z28 Pro
Type: TV Box
System: Android 7.1
Processor: RK3328
CPU: ARM Cortex-A53
Core: 1.5GHz,Quad Core
GPU: Mali-450
RAM: 2G RAM
ROM: 16G ROM
Maximum External Hard Drives Capacity: 64GB
Decoder Format: H.264,H.265
Video format: AVS,MPEG-1,MPEG-4,MPEG2,MVC,RV,VC-1,VP6,VP8,VP9
Audio format: AAC,APE,FLAC,M4A,MP3,OGA,OGG,WAV,WMA
Photo Format: BMP,GIF,JPEG,JPG
5G WiFi: Yes
WIFI: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth: Bluetooth4.0
Power Supply: Charge Adapter
Interface: AV,DC Power Port,HDMI,Micro SD Card Slot,RJ45,SPDIF,USB2.0,USB3.0
Camera: Without
System Bit: 64Bit
Power Type: External Power Adapter Mode
Suggest Input: 5V 2A
Product weight: 0.1200 kg
Package weight: 0.3900 kg
Product size (L x W x H): 10.00 x 10.00 x 1.60 cm / 3.94 x 3.94 x 0.63 inches
Package size (L x W x H): 18.00 x 11.00 x 6.60 cm / 7.09 x 4.33 x 2.6 inches
Package Contents: 1 x Z28 Pro RK3328 Smart TV Box, 1 x Power Charger, 1 x Remote Control, 1 x HDMI Cable, 1 x English User Manual

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