Finless 2.0a ROM for the Minix X8/X8-H

[jimbobvfr]

The A2 Lite and M1 can wake from sleep as the power button sends IR on those. The original A2 with the speaker doesn't wake from sleep.

[xxmanowarxx]

'' I got it guys... it wasn't in the kernel.


It is now working every time with my K400 keyboard power button.


Thanks to Abdul_pt, he gave me an idea it was not in the kernel. I was chasing the wrong damn thing....


Stay tuned for a patch for my 2.0 ROM!


Bob ''


So umm only keyboars wake up throught usb eh ?

[Finless]

After more testing it is in the kernel so my fix did not work.

Bob

[WangChung]

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[Killerdude]

Dear Bob, thanks for the nice rom.

Dear Bob,

once again thank you for the nice rom you made available for the x8-h.
i installed it and it works very well.

only I've got a little question.

in de apps list there is an app called wireless update, it's an app specially for minix.
blue icon with OTA on the top right corner.
if I press it say to me there is new update.

now I have KOT.49H.20141213 release-keys
but it gives an update KOT.49H.20141224 release-keys

My question is because of the size of the update (450.86MB) I got a feeling this is a complete new rom.
can I install it without losing your rom or is this just a simple update ?

thanks already in advanced for the solution.

[pollicin123]

How is The WiFi? On my minix n8 with lastest firmware don't work well...

[pablo11]

Dear Bob,

once again thank you for the nice rom you made available for the x8-h.
i installed it and it works very well.

only I've got a little question.

in de apps list there is an app called wireless update, it's an app specially for minix.
blue icon with OTA on the top right corner.
if I press it say to me there is new update.

now I have KOT.49H.20141213 release-keys
but it gives an update KOT.49H.20141224 release-keys

My question is because of the size of the update (450.86MB) I got a feeling this is a complete new rom.
can I install it without losing your rom or is this just a simple update ?

thanks already in advanced for the solution.

If you install this update you will lose the rom you are on now.

[Mabs]

I just tested this FOTA update coming from my 2.0a ROM. It will not work. The recovery either TWRP or the stock wont find the update on internal SDcard. I am not sure why. I will fix it next time.


I will make a 12/24 Stock ROM flashable ZIP download for you all so you can update to stock 12/24 ROM without FOTA if you like. I will remove the assertion check so it can be flashed with my TWRP or a basic recovery on SDcard.

Stay tuned for that.

Looks like I will be making a Finless 2.1 ROM now

Bob

As Finless said, that update is most probably not going to work.
If you are using his ROM, maybe u should wait for the 2.1 version. Or go to stock ROMs...

[whereistomo]

Thanks!

Been rocking V1.1 for a bit and had noticed some issues but will update to this tonight! Thanks for the updates.



tom

[Akav05]

OK folks with the Official release of 002a from Minix, I needed to update my 2.0 ROM to the new 2.0a kernel system. There were issues with 002 from Minix like CPU1 running 100% and some other things.

This ROM is the same changes as my 2.0 ROM but now with 002a as the base.

_______________________________________________

This package contains the ROM and a lot of other goodies I always supplied in my tweaker kits. So now you get a full ROM and some patchers for doing other changes I did not want in the ROM itself. See the readme.txt as always or read the features listed below.

Enjoy!

_________________________________________________

Features of my Finless ROM 2.0a

1) This erases NAND /data so YES you lose all data! Sorry I must do this for clean up!
After much testing and making the changes I have, I must erase as the crap left over is not good to have! To make sure you have the best experience with my ROM, it must be erased. So sorry BACK UP your stuff please...

2) It roots the ROM properly.
Let me tell you Rooting on Kitkat in the ROM itself gets harder all the time to do it correctly and not using scripts! Once again due to changes with SuperUser and SU with SELinux, it was more difficult to root the ROM so it did not need to update the SU binary on firt boot! Enjoy...

3) It debloats the ROM of all those pre-installed APPS. This includes Airplay and Minix XBMC!
The reason I removed them is because Minix XBMC may still have bugs and some don't use airplay at all. I have given you those two APPs in a folder called Removed_Apps in this Zip so you can install them yourself if you like. The other APPs I removed you can get from Google Play. They will be updated versions anyway. Minix in my opinion should not be pre-installing old versions of APPs. It just makes a mess of a new flashed system.

4) I removed useless system apps.

5) I updated what APPs are left including Google Play and all the Google framework.
As of this release, everything is updated so when you logon to Google Play nothing needs updating.

6) Installs a cleaned up the AOSP launcher and puts more useful things in the doc bar.

7) I give you a TWRP recovery! Yes this flashes a TWRP recovery to NAND.
However, understand how recovery works.
If you put a recovery.img on External SDcard the box will boot that recovery instead of TWRP in NAND.
In this package I give you a stock recovery flasher. This ZIP will install the stock recovery to NAND if you don't want TWRP.
Or you can open this zip and you will see recovery.img.
Just copy that out and put it on SDcard anytime you want to use the stock recovery instead of TWRP.
See the README in the recovery folder for more details.

8) I set the default settings to allow non-market APPs.
Now when you go to install a APK you wont be forced to go into settings and turn that on. I personally hate that

9) I unlocked the hard coded device ID in boot.img. You can now spoof different devices editing build.prop. REMEMBER THOUGH, if you spoof something other than a NEO-X8 or NEO-X8-H, Minix XBMC will not work. In the ROM I left the device as a NEO-X8-H but I also give you build.nexus which you can use if you like. Just use EX File Explorer, turn on root, set system as mounted RW and rename these as you please.
But see below for an easy way

10) I give you build.prop spoofer ZIP updates in this download!
One will switch build.prop to emulate a Nexus 10.
The other one will switch you back to a NEO-X8-H.
You can use these back and forth and they do not erase anything!
Please note: You may want to clear the cache and data on the Google Play Store, Google Play Services after switching!
To do this, go into settings/apps scroll over to ALL and click on each and clear cache and data.
You know you did it right if the next time you run Google Play it asks you to accept terms.

11) Minix unlocked the low CPU frequency scaling and the governor type.
Thus my old CPU Fix patches are no longer needed as you can now use CPU control APPs.
However I did find something that could be better tweaked for CPU control and that is default and max CPU scaling.
So I supply you with one CPU patcher to fix those and allow them to "stick" when set.
See the README in that folder for what it is and does and how to use them!

12) Did a little "theming" this time. Hope you like it. Also Themed the Metro launcher
13) Other tweaks and mods I do for my ROMs.
14) Updated the boot logo to show if your booting up in 1080 or 720.


______________________________________



DO NOT just copy this download ZIP to SDcard and expect it to work!
UNZIP it and read the README for instructions!


ROM -> Minix Neo X8 - Finless 2.0a ROM (456 megs)


Enjoy!
Bob

hey FInless I'm jus trying to put this rom on my minix but no matter which method I take I get it installed I get brought to the recovery page with tons of yellow script writing saying "failed (no such file or directory) now try read only to mount again" any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[Genem]

hey FInless I'm jus trying to put this rom on my minix but no matter which method I take I get it installed I get brought to the recovery page with tons of yellow script writing saying "failed (no such file or directory) now try read only to mount again" any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.

Your downloaded file is corrupt, so you have to download it again.

[Akav05]

Your downloaded file is corrupt, so you have to download it again.

Cheers thanks I'll give that a try.

[Akav05]

Your downloaded file is corrupt, so you have to download it again.

I downloaded the file again and proceeded to install and still nothing. My screen says
install/udisk...
start copy/udisk/neox8_finless_2.0a.zip/Tmp/sideload
e:failed to set up expected mounts for install; aborting
installation aborted.

[kezzagrace]

hi bob would this rom work on the sumvision cyclone x4 ? if not which one do i need cheers, any advice would be appreciated

OK folks with the Official release of 002a from Minix, I needed to update my 2.0 ROM to the new 2.0a kernel system. There were issues with 002 from Minix like CPU1 running 100% and some other things.

This ROM is the same changes as my 2.0 ROM but now with 002a as the base.

_______________________________________________

This package contains the ROM and a lot of other goodies I always supplied in my tweaker kits. So now you get a full ROM and some patchers for doing other changes I did not want in the ROM itself. See the readme.txt as always or read the features listed below.

Enjoy!

_________________________________________________

Features of my Finless ROM 2.0a

1) This erases NAND /data so YES you lose all data! Sorry I must do this for clean up!
After much testing and making the changes I have, I must erase as the crap left over is not good to have! To make sure you have the best experience with my ROM, it must be erased. So sorry BACK UP your stuff please...

2) It roots the ROM properly.
Let me tell you Rooting on Kitkat in the ROM itself gets harder all the time to do it correctly and not using scripts! Once again due to changes with SuperUser and SU with SELinux, it was more difficult to root the ROM so it did not need to update the SU binary on firt boot! Enjoy...

3) It debloats the ROM of all those pre-installed APPS. This includes Airplay and Minix XBMC!
The reason I removed them is because Minix XBMC may still have bugs and some don't use airplay at all. I have given you those two APPs in a folder called Removed_Apps in this Zip so you can install them yourself if you like. The other APPs I removed you can get from Google Play. They will be updated versions anyway. Minix in my opinion should not be pre-installing old versions of APPs. It just makes a mess of a new flashed system.

4) I removed useless system apps.

5) I updated what APPs are left including Google Play and all the Google framework.
As of this release, everything is updated so when you logon to Google Play nothing needs updating.

6) Installs a cleaned up the AOSP launcher and puts more useful things in the doc bar.

7) I give you a TWRP recovery! Yes this flashes a TWRP recovery to NAND.
However, understand how recovery works.
If you put a recovery.img on External SDcard the box will boot that recovery instead of TWRP in NAND.
In this package I give you a stock recovery flasher. This ZIP will install the stock recovery to NAND if you don't want TWRP.
Or you can open this zip and you will see recovery.img.
Just copy that out and put it on SDcard anytime you want to use the stock recovery instead of TWRP.
See the README in the recovery folder for more details.

8) I set the default settings to allow non-market APPs.
Now when you go to install a APK you wont be forced to go into settings and turn that on. I personally hate that

9) I unlocked the hard coded device ID in boot.img. You can now spoof different devices editing build.prop. REMEMBER THOUGH, if you spoof something other than a NEO-X8 or NEO-X8-H, Minix XBMC will not work. In the ROM I left the device as a NEO-X8-H but I also give you build.nexus which you can use if you like. Just use EX File Explorer, turn on root, set system as mounted RW and rename these as you please.
But see below for an easy way

10) I give you build.prop spoofer ZIP updates in this download!
One will switch build.prop to emulate a Nexus 10.
The other one will switch you back to a NEO-X8-H.
You can use these back and forth and they do not erase anything!
Please note: You may want to clear the cache and data on the Google Play Store, Google Play Services after switching!
To do this, go into settings/apps scroll over to ALL and click on each and clear cache and data.
You know you did it right if the next time you run Google Play it asks you to accept terms.

11) Minix unlocked the low CPU frequency scaling and the governor type.
Thus my old CPU Fix patches are no longer needed as you can now use CPU control APPs.
However I did find something that could be better tweaked for CPU control and that is default and max CPU scaling.
So I supply you with one CPU patcher to fix those and allow them to "stick" when set.
See the README in that folder for what it is and does and how to use them!

12) Did a little "theming" this time. Hope you like it. Also Themed the Metro launcher
13) Other tweaks and mods I do for my ROMs.
14) Updated the boot logo to show if your booting up in 1080 or 720.


______________________________________



DO NOT just copy this download ZIP to SDcard and expect it to work!
UNZIP it and read the README for instructions!


ROM -> Minix Neo X8 - Finless 2.0a ROM (456 megs)


Enjoy!
Bob

hi would this rom work on a sumvison cyclone x4 ? if not which one would I need.cheers

[glockman4519]

I downloaded the file again and proceeded to install and still nothing. My screen says
install/udisk...
start copy/udisk/neox8_finless_2.0a.zip/Tmp/sideload
e:failed to set up expected mounts for install; aborting
installation aborted.

Where are you putting the files at and what slot are you using on the device to put the rom on? I recommend an SD card and not a USB stick. There is a slot for an SD card on the device for this. I have never had an issue when doing it this way. Just some thoughts.