I own the m8s mini II ( s905x p212 board )
It has the little sheep on it lol
It has the 4 gold pins refrenced by others that were for ground power tx rx and not used.
Well i bricked mine. And it was dead. No burn tool or usb activity. The sd bootable recovery was not working and wouldn't boot to it.
Pretty much it was booting on and off to the 1st screen and was not able to do anything. The reset button on plug in etc was dead. After reading over and over for the older ones pin shorting was a option i started trying. But then read.. Oh nooo.. Its not a option for a newer on... Shheeesshh... Well at my last attempt i was raking the board with a screw driver.. And had usb burn tool running and waiting for the box to show life.. Finnaly it did and it recovered the box!
I re tested this and actually bricked it 5 more times and revived it this way.. So heres what it took..
Plug in the box using ur usb to usb to ur pc on the usb that's closest to ur hdmi. It should now be trying to boot as is and possibly rebooting.. Now you need to plug in the power cable.. Yes power also.. This was the only way i can get this method to work. Without it wont detect the box!
with these plugged in go to where i have included photo of board and short these pins out trying 1 by 1. If you have it hooked to tv youll see if box turns off or you get color on screen etc.If you change something on display reboot box by unplugging all and re plug in and keep trying. You should have usb burn tool already loaded with ur good system img and have clicked start.. Just keep trying each pin in this section until it goes. You dont need but a 1 sec touch for it to grab and go.
Im going to get the exact pins and a better photo soon for you guys. But just know it can be done on the newer amlogic boards if you spend the time and keep trying with above formula.
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