I must agree with 5p0ng3b0b, the factory firmware is horrible.
Main thing I noticed was any version of Kodi does not fill the screen, leaves black bars down the right hand side and along the bottom. I tried with a few forks and originals Krypton, and Leia, both 32 and 64 bit versions. All I could find about it says it is because of the writeover of the cpu stats like speed and temp for the notification bar. No way around it apparently.
I flashed the BZ-TX3-20191130_ATV9_davietPDA ATV ROM from pda. (Android TV 9)
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?show...#entry92946437
Very minimal and very fast.
I used the BZ version (same as the TX3 ROM I downloaded).
There is some mention that the Ethernet may not work, but I only use WiFi so haven't checked.
However, as soon as I moved my N5 from the office to the lounge room my WiFi went to crap.
I copied the remote-0xfe01.tab file from my original factory ROM to /vendor/etc renamed the remote.tab1 to remote.tab1.old and renamed remote-0xfe01.tab to remote.tab1 rebooted and remote works perfectly and no issues with affecting anything else either.
Language is set to Russian so go to settings and change first up. (Language is the icon that looks a bit like a globe).
Then I tried
SLIMBOX N5MAX X3 ATV OTA
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?show...ost&p=93085504
First install the N5MAX_X3_152_MGCTV15220191225_8822BS_100M_Magicsee firmware from the manufacturer site and let it load at least once and connect to your WiFi, then flash the SLIMBOX-N5MAX-X3-ATV-OTA zip with TWRP. It says can use stock recovery to do it as well, but I used TWRP.
After running for a few weeks I can say it works great! Hasn't crashed, WiFi great, Very responsive!
Only thing is when I went to pair my new BT keyboard I couldn't see the pairing key. Went into settings and turned on High Contrast and tried again and could see fine. Then disabled afterwards.
Definitely recommend Slimbox!
Main thing I noticed was any version of Kodi does not fill the screen, leaves black bars down the right hand side and along the bottom. I tried with a few forks and originals Krypton, and Leia, both 32 and 64 bit versions. All I could find about it says it is because of the writeover of the cpu stats like speed and temp for the notification bar. No way around it apparently.
I flashed the BZ-TX3-20191130_ATV9_davietPDA ATV ROM from pda. (Android TV 9)
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?show...#entry92946437
Very minimal and very fast.
I used the BZ version (same as the TX3 ROM I downloaded).
There is some mention that the Ethernet may not work, but I only use WiFi so haven't checked.
However, as soon as I moved my N5 from the office to the lounge room my WiFi went to crap.
I copied the remote-0xfe01.tab file from my original factory ROM to /vendor/etc renamed the remote.tab1 to remote.tab1.old and renamed remote-0xfe01.tab to remote.tab1 rebooted and remote works perfectly and no issues with affecting anything else either.
Language is set to Russian so go to settings and change first up. (Language is the icon that looks a bit like a globe).
Then I tried
SLIMBOX N5MAX X3 ATV OTA
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?show...ost&p=93085504
First install the N5MAX_X3_152_MGCTV15220191225_8822BS_100M_Magicsee firmware from the manufacturer site and let it load at least once and connect to your WiFi, then flash the SLIMBOX-N5MAX-X3-ATV-OTA zip with TWRP. It says can use stock recovery to do it as well, but I used TWRP.
After running for a few weeks I can say it works great! Hasn't crashed, WiFi great, Very responsive!
Only thing is when I went to pair my new BT keyboard I couldn't see the pairing key. Went into settings and turned on High Contrast and tried again and could see fine. Then disabled afterwards.
Definitely recommend Slimbox!
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