Tronsmart S89 Standard Finless 1.2 ROM

[Brinis]

Think something went wrong at me. My box is just showing the robot where it says a finless bob rom it's been like that for 20 min now. Is there something I can do about that ?

[Lokie]

Thanks Bob,

Piece of cake taking apart. Bear getting it back together, but I did it. I used the 99.9% silver paste. We'll see if that takes care of it.

Lol yea... If i did not take that pcb out myself i would not believe it fits in there. Almost broke my casing putting it back. My IR sensor was completely bent back by the original assembler - probaly also struggling and cursing along the way with the assembly. Glad i noticed it because my remote was really giving me hassles especialy when aiming it from an angle below the unit.

[wolfe]

Thanks Bob,

Piece of cake taking apart. Bear getting it back together, but I did it. I used the 99.9% silver paste. We'll see if that takes care of it.

[Finless]

It's easy to take apart. Remove the rubber feet and the screws are there.
Make sure NOT to leave a SDcard in it or you might break the SDcard slot!
Also watch out for the antenna. It's taped to the cover.

Bob

[wolfe]

Any other cautions?

Yes 2 things maybe.
1) The stock heat sink is held on with thermal tape. Not the best stuff. You can use PC heat sink thermal paste and this should improve the heat sinks ability to move heat. Not if you use something conductive like Arctic Silver, be care NOT to get any on the processor pins! You only need a very thin coat of thermal paste not a messy blob!

2) Active cooling e.g. a fan of some kind to remove heat from the sink and out of the box.

Bob

Thank you Bob.

I'm fairly good at stuff like that, ...
...but are there any other warnings about possible pitfalls taking this apart and putting it back together?

And, ...
... any pointers about special any special procedures or hidden screws?

Again, thank you for your previous post.

[Finless]

Yes 2 things maybe.
1) The stock heat sink is held on with thermal tape. Not the best stuff. You can use PC heat sink thermal paste and this should improve the heat sinks ability to move heat. Not if you use something conductive like Arctic Silver, be care NOT to get any on the processor pins! You only need a very thin coat of thermal paste not a messy blob!

2) Active cooling e.g. a fan of some kind to remove heat from the sink and out of the box.

Bob

[wolfe]

Overheating

I have the 16GB Standard, I left it on running the "Koi" fish pond live wallpaper, for 2 days. No other apps were left on.

When I then tried switched to it (selecting its HDMI) and installed a simple bowling game, the screen went black and the unit was frozen.

I had to pull the power plug, then rebooted.
I then uninstalled the bowling game.
When I tried to run any app, it went black and froze again. I checked the units temperature and found it to be extremely hot to the touch.
I tried the pull power and reboot sequence twice more but had the same result.

The unit was sitting in open space slightly behind and underneath of my 55" TV. Ambient temperature was 68 F degrees.

I have not touched it and have left it off (power unplugged) for 2 days now.

Is there a reasonably easy way to improve the heatsink?

[nutzu]

Yes there will be.

Bob

Nice thx Bob for your support I hope u will fix the 5G problem and the Bluetooth the rest I'm ok

[Finless]

Bob, it will be an finless 1.4 based on the last firmware?

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Yes there will be.

Bob

[Catadarius]

Bob, it will be an finless 1.4 based on the last firmware?

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[Drum]

This has been noted, and I believe fixed (or just shut off for now??) on finless 1.3

My mistake - this change has been made on the new 101k4 ROM, not on Finless 1.3Sorry for the confusion.

[Lokie]

What do you guys recommend buying the S89 standard or elite... which has better support so far?

They get supported just the same. The standard has 16gb flash instead of the 8gb (more than enough at this stage). Also the standard has dualband wifi which has performance advantage with high bit rate advantage.

I have a standard but have 12gb free flash and oly have 2.4ghz wifi ap which stream my movies just fine so to be honest, a elite would have been just fine for me

[Jimandroidpc]

Standard or Elite?

What do you guys recommend buying the S89 standard or elite... which has better support so far?

[Drum]

I've noticed that when the unit is off, red LED. Every once in awhile the LED turns blue for about 1 - 2 seconds then goes red again. I think to does this around every ten minutes or so. It has actually woken me a several times. Anyone else notice this as well?

Mike

Sometimes when I shut my unit off the red light comes on for a couple seconds, then the blue light comes on and stays on even though the unit is still off. It is not consistent though, sometimes the red light just comes on and stays on when I turn the unit off.

[ilovemymac]

NEW - Tronsmart S89 Standard Finless 1.2 ROM

I'll try 1.3 again wouldn't work with the remote first time


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