NEW - Finless 1.8 for EM8 Square Box

[warlock09]

Ok i will check..as i did it on usb stick not an sd card...i might use sd card instead....see if it works

[no_spam_for_me]

Tried to install patch through recovery from a fresh install of finless 1.8..this is what i get ..any help would be appreciated..my question is,,. did the patch install successfully or not??..thanks..as i was readin through the install process a part says can not find customized_data.tar to install....skipping....have a look pls..thank u..

I have no idea, because these are the last lines at the update script:

ui_print("Writing boot.img");
write_raw_image(package_extract_file("boot.img"), "boot");
show_progress(0.100000, 0);
ui_print(" ");
ui_print("Select reboot now in recovery menu");

But what I find, if I use google with 'customized_data.tar', are some hits related to MX... so maybe you have some other things at the SD which the recovery also try to execute?

http://www.google.de/search?q=customized_data.tar

[warlock09]

Re: NEW - Finless 1.8 for EM8 Square Box

OK so this was pretty easy. Not sure why they are making a modified XBMC to fix the permissions when it can easily be done in boot.img.

Please test this patch.
All this does is replace boot.img in my Finless 1.8 ROM for the ENY square box.
I have tested and check the permissions of the files after applying and they are correct. Just don't have time to test standard XBMC.

It does not erase or do anything else. The boot.img is a modified one to fix permissions and is to ONLY BE USED with my ENY Square box Finless 1.8 ROM


No instructions! Just apply the update from recovery. If you don't know how to do that then you should not be messing with it.

REMEMBER TO TEST THIS, Remove all the init.d script you may have added BEFORE applying this patch. If you don't then your not testing it!

If this works for everyone I will start to add it to all my future ROMs.

Let me know how it goes...

Download:

PATCH -> EM8 Tomato Square Box - Finless ROM 1.8 - XBMC Permissions Patch (8 megs)


Bob

Tried to install patch through recovery from a fresh install of finless 1.8..this is what i get ..any help would be appreciated..my question is,,. did the patch install successfully or not??..thanks..as i was readin through the install process a part says can not find customized_data.tar to install....skipping....have a look pls..thank u..

[snelsy]

I did a fresh install of Bob's 1.8 rom and used the permissions fix then installed gotham from xbmc.org but still got freezing problems when playing movies.I uninstalled xbmc and installed spmc from the play store and so far it is playing better than any other options i have tried.I played an 18GB Transformers imax version and all i had to do was change the audio from 7:1to AC3, the picture quality on my hd tv was excellent and i had no interlacing or freezing.I am now streaming a movie from mashup and again no playback problems.
Maybe Bob's 1.8 rom with the permissions fix and SPMC is the cure for this box.I am using an original M8 square box.

[thedude2014]

thing is finless 1.8 didnt brick it..but I tried to flash and amlogic oem firmware and now its dead...
Where can I buy safely a box which is compatible with finless roms??

@gordons PM sent...

[thedude2014]

@gggg602 The "android background processes" tip worked great. Appreciate the instructions!

[vinpor]

Great ROM.. Been playing with it over the past few days..

Forgive me if this has been asked before though but I can't get XBMC to output audio to 5.1 channels

I have all the correct settings:
1. Number of channels 5.1
2. Passthrough enabled.
3. Dolby Digital enabled
4. DTS enabled.

Is there something I'm missing?

I have tried to search the forum in case this topic has come up but was not able to find anything. Could someone point me in the right direction?

1080P playback is brilliant. No stuttering or jerkiness. If I can get the audio correct then this would be the perfect ROM/XBMC setup.

[gggg602]

@gggg602 "acceleration set to software and multi thread on"

Can you please post how to make these changes...here or PM is fine. Thank you very much!

Steps to change acceleration to software and multi thread on:
1. open XBMC/Kodi
2. got system/settings/video/acceleration
3. change decoding method to software and just below that is the setting to enable multi thread

Anther setting that helped me is setting android background processes to no background processes.

Steps:
1. On android goto settings/about device
2. click on build number until developer options are enabled
3. next in android settings/developer options, scroll down to limit background processes
4. set that to no background processes

[gordons]

=> http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...l=1#post223697
sorry

thing is finless 1.8 didnt brick it..but I tried to flash and amlogic oem firmware and now its dead...
Where can I buy safely a box which is compatible with finless roms??

[no_spam_for_me]

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=> http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...l=1#post223697
sorry

[gordons]

I only see "Attachment 8058" (as a link) at text but no picture and not allowed to open the link?

[zickler]

installed the boot.img update successfully on a working version of Finless 1.8. Rebooted from recovery, Finless logo, then nothing, just a black screen

edit: tried same procedure on a fresh install of Finless1.8 and worked.

[thedude2014]

@Finless I can do testing for you as well. Just PM if need be. And thanks for your work. Looking forward to 1.9!

[thedude2014]

@gggg602 "acceleration set to software and multi thread on"

Can you please post how to make these changes...here or PM is fine. Thank you very much!

[no_spam_for_me]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]8058[/ATTACH]

This is the PCB

I only see "Attachment 8058" (as a link) at text but no picture and not allowed to open the link?