Kikat - Wasser Firmware for Beelink R89

[avg]

Hi Wasser,
My issue is flickering screen on streaming video, does Firmware 2.0.9a fix this problem?? Or i have to flash Lollipop version 3.0.0 beta6 ??
i wanna try your firmware 2.0.9a for my R89, can u please teach me how to flash this device? thank you.

[mo123]

Thanks for your advice. I'm using OHC rom with OHC over clock kernel and resource 1800. When I tried wasser over clock resource it's ok but i can't see any improvement during video playback. when i flash the boot.img as well it hangs and i ended up flashing the whole firmware again lol.

Does flashing resource alone enough for overclocking cpu ddr and gpu?

Yes
But not for CPU, if you want 1.8Ghz, you need to unlock it in the kernel with Overclockomatic 1.06

[btso]

You can try it.
Can always reflash if it doesn't work.
You can't brick RK3288 devices, there is a safety boot present called maskrom mode that kicks in if something went terribly wrong.

Thanks for your advice. I'm using OHC rom with OHC over clock kernel and resource 1800. When I tried wasser over clock resource it's ok but i can't see any improvement during video playback. when i flash the boot.img as well it hangs and i ended up flashing the whole firmware again lol.

Does flashing resource alone enough for overclocking cpu ddr and gpu?

[mo123]

Can I flash the resource.img for overclock provided by wasser on my beelink r89 with the OHC rom? Or it works only on device with wasser rom?

Because I know nothing about flashing, I'm not sure if the resource file and the rom would work separately or if I mix them would brick my device? Thanks a lot.

You can try it.
Can always reflash if it doesn't work.
You can't brick RK3288 devices, there is a safety boot present called maskrom mode that kicks in if something went terribly wrong.

[btso]

Can I flash the resource.img for overclock provided by wasser on my beelink r89 with the OHC rom? Or it works only on device with wasser rom?

Because I know nothing about flashing, I'm not sure if the resource file and the rom would work separately or if I mix them would brick my device? Thanks a lot.

[bloodgnome]

Since of now I get a "storage safe to remove" notification with the latest 2.0.9a every time I boot up.

Looking closer it seems it NAND gets unmounted...but why...everything else works fine (All the available space in 1 partition...all apps are there and working)...its kinda just a annyoing message.

Anybody got a clue how to get rid of that ?!?

[amclean123]

Kodi 15 needs to be updated since it doesn't contain the code for passthrough to Rockchip devices.
Heard SPMC was going to be merged with Kodi, so no need to use SPMC anymore on Rockchip devices.
Using passthrough patch, libmedia.so file won't work anymore since there were too many changes the past months from Rockchip.

Thank you mo123

[mo123]

Will this rom be updated to support Kodi 15? I tried Kodi 15 RC2 and the HDMI audio passthrough produces white noise. I am using 2.0.9a with patch.

Kodi 15 needs to be updated since it doesn't contain the code for passthrough to Rockchip devices.
Heard SPMC was going to be merged with Kodi, so no need to use SPMC anymore on Rockchip devices.
Using passthrough patch, libmedia.so file won't work anymore since there were too many changes the past months from Rockchip.

[amclean123]

Will this rom be updated to support Kodi 15? I tried Kodi 15 RC2 and the HDMI audio passthrough produces white noise. I am using 2.0.9a with patch.

[oman]

Pls look at here:

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/rk3288-devices/beelink-3288-devices/512544-finally-we-got-some-patches-from-rk-for-the-micro-stutter-and-hdmi-audio-problem-but-we-want-more-videos-to-verify

[Gormar]

Freezes might be due to the slow EMMC cause everything else i tried doesn't work.

For 100% freezes aren't only connected with slow eMMC which is a fact. I tried many IO schedulers: deadline, CFQ and settings: quantum 4-64, slice_idle=0, low_latency=0, read_ahead 128-512, etc but it didn't help too much.
Right now my worst nightmare is copying data to USB flash card reader (even when source file is entirely in memory by means of tmpfs). It can freeze whole system for almost few minutes (after file transfer) and even disable SystemUI. That is ridiculous!

[bloodgnome]

Short freezes - IPTables tweak mentioned somewhere helps, also increasing SDCard cache help, disabling non needed services/apps running automatically.
I think it might also be a problem with the Nexneon boards that are used, slower EMMC than boards from T-Chip.
Also caching SPMC/Kodi to RAM instead of storage is better.

Freezes might be due to the slow EMMC cause everything else i tried doesn't work.

One thing that is also anyoing is the audio mute bug that all wasser firmwares have at some point....

[Gormar]

Do you have a Youtube 1080p@60hz sample, then I can test.

Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l1BASBt7Ao
And there is plenty more where this came from. After downloading you should check file meta data (i.e. with MXPlayer Tools->Properities) and see if it have 60 fps. So far I didn't got any luck .
I will check on my PC if downloaders (i.e. jDownloader) can access HFR videos from YouTube.

Another thing what I found out about Lollipop is that it seems not particulary happy to handle HEVC Main10 profile videos. I think this problem was introduced after beta 3 because I can almost sware that I watched "Crowd Run" 50fps HEVC Main10 profile video (https://mega.nz/#!IpgG3IhR!9XSas61Mg...Th2cC95WbypOrw) just past week when I had installed that firmware.

[mo123]

Thanks for the hints.
For YouTube I had to use YouTube Downloader but this OGYouTube looks like YouTube app merged with Downloader. Shame that I can not login but this is minor problem.

As to SoC OC. I do not consider setting CPU frequency to 1.8GHz for RK3288 as an overclock. AFAIK every stock firmware have locked frequency to 1.6GHz but it is advertised as 1.8GHz. It isn't right. But there are more urgent problems.

Update: I've just checked that neither OGYouTube or YouTube Downloader can access 1080p60fps quality video or even 720p60 .

Use the Xposed module together with OGYoutube to login.
1080p@60hz, maybe your display and R89 isn't fully compatible with it?
Do you have a Youtube 1080p@60hz sample, then I can test.

[Gormar]

1080p Youtube - Use OGYoutube, easiest solution

Overclock - Have to have a decent heatsink and 3A power adapter otherwise it can be unstable if used for long periods.

Thanks for the hints.
For YouTube I had to use YouTube Downloader but this OGYouTube looks like YouTube app merged with Downloader. Shame that I can not login but this is minor problem.

As to SoC OC. I do not consider setting CPU frequency to 1.8GHz for RK3288 as an overclock. AFAIK every stock firmware have locked frequency to 1.6GHz but it is advertised as 1.8GHz. It isn't right. But there are more urgent problems.

Update: I've just checked that neither OGYouTube or YouTube Downloader can access 1080p60fps quality video or even 720p60 .