MK808 Android mini TV Player - Finless 1.5A Custom ROM

[DrMystic]

ANT and GND in MK808 antenna connection is short circuited by default (dunno why).
initially i thought is soldering problem, i unsolder both the ANT & GND and check the connectivity...both indeed short circuited. both front antenna and back antenna have the same short circuited issue.

i just solder antenna and antenna connector to it and connect external antenna to it. no signal drop issue now...

Hmm. In my case it was short circuited not on antenna itself but where antenna is connected. I played a bit and what I see: if I open case and move antennas far from chip-sets it works more stable. SO it could be that CPU/GPU make some interference on WiFi antennas because they too close (one antenna is on top of circuits). Interference on wifi provoke wifi chip-set drop wifi bandwidth. It is easy to explain if CPU frequency is 1.2Ghz because second harmonic will be at 1.2*2=2.4GHz. Is there any chance that CPU frequency is set to 1.2GHz? Do we have dynamic CPU frequency there when it drops to 1.2 GHz sometimes?
I did not have this issue with original 9/26/12 ROM.

[T68]

Sv: NEW - MK808 Android mini TV Player - Finless 1.5A Custom ROM

Any one else having problems getting another launcher to "stick" as default? I have to choose again every time I reboot.

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[lang]

Geekbuying is saying there will be another factory firmware update within a couple of days or so...

http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42&start=380#p3025

Also, there is a project to port Ubuntu for UG802, MK808 and various other RK3066 devices:

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/40717-ubuntu-linux-for-the-ug802/

The project seems to be based on RK3066 Edison tablet kernel.
"A Spanish company named BQ recently released a copy of the RK3066 Android kernel source for their Edison tablet."

- Jarno

It is real 1080p. Just that android itself not beeing output att 1920 beacuse its meant for max 10"
This dosent mean apps cant output 1080p

[lang]

Hmm. In my case it was short circuited not on antenna itself but where antenna is connected. I played a bit and what I see: if I open case and move antennas far from chip-sets it works more stable. SO it could be that CPU/GPU make some interference on WiFi antennas because they too close (one antenna is on top of circuits). Interference on wifi provoke wifi chip-set drop wifi bandwidth. It is easy to explain if CPU frequency is 1.2Ghz because second harmonic will be at 1.2*2=2.4GHz. Is there any chance that CPU frequency is set to 1.2GHz? Do we have dynamic CPU frequency there when it drops to 1.2 GHz sometimes?
I did not have this issue with original 9/26/12 ROM.

Check ur governer if u have ondemand its changing deping on resource to save battery.

[gepo]

Hy, i have 2 questions :/
this is your last firwmare for the mk808 or it's the 1.5 the last ?
and when i receive this minipc with my pc's LCD i can connect this
and when i past to your firmware 1.4
i see anything..
but on my tv LCD i can see... what's up ?! xD

[rugbygoth]

Just tried the 2 wires soldered on the ant pad... Works like a charm. Had -80db before, now I'm -60db stable!!!! My HTC explorer has the same result at the same spot. divx in DLNA, youtube... Now i have to find some HD footage to see if it can go through my network (802.11g only, so 54Mbps max).

Thanks Finless and Thanks the community!

[aloksinha2001]

Thank's Bob, great ROM. Wifi works like a charm, and I am able to watch Netflix, use samba shares to watch movies (sd and hd), watch tv-streams, and so on. Also clocking with SetCpu works all right.

However, in this topic some people have mentioned using XBMC.
I've searched the internet and noticed that it would be possible to use XBMC with MXPlayer, however, haven't been able to do it myself as being an Android newbie I probably lack some skills here.

The method (allthough for allwinners) is introduced here:

http://www.j1nx.nl/allwinner-a10-xbmc-android-with-external-mxplayer/

More XBMC builds here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1813089

Has anyone been able to succesfully use XBMC with MXPlayer with MK808 ?

If so, a step by step installation guide (for an android idiot) would be much appreciated...

- Jarno, Finland

MK808, Dovado 4GR router with NAS, LG50PK350 full hd plasma-tv, Deltaco TB-220 wireless multimedia keyboard with touchpad

With 1.6, you do not need any additional application to run xbmc - here is the link to the non-neon version... LINK TO XBMC for android - 13Nov update
( I have not tried this latest version, but the version just before this - and is still working like a charm)

Alok

[andromedainc]

Google voice search you mean?
I think it is shutting down because no microphone!

Bob

No, just google search, the one that appears at top of the screen at the left, besides the little microphone

[bthoven]

Re: NEW - MK808 Android mini TV Player - Finless 1.5A Custom ROM

Now I copied the file, but the program say "click ok when movie has ended" - external player

It seems working OK on online HD videos only, e.g. Vimeo, CBS. I got the same message when trying to play movies from my NAS.

[dv8]

WiFi problems and partial solution

Hi guys,
first of all I would like to thank Finless for his time and work on these roms and his support in this forum.
I'll definitely make a donation soon (waiting for some funds to arrive in my PayPal these next few days )
I have the mk808 for a couple of days now and was pretty disappointed in the beginning - crappy resolution, WiFi problems, etc. My search brought me to this forum and I'm now running the Finless 1.5a custom rom, which fixed most of the issues I was having. However the network problems were not solved for me. In my frustration I decided to open my unit and check for the ANT and GND short circuit. They were indeed shortened and I removed both antennas and soldiered them only to the ANT pin. I turned on the unit without closing the plastic cover, just for testing and I found that my signal had full bars and was steady on 65Mbits. And it stayed that way . So happy with the result I turned off the unit and closed the plastic covers. Once I turned it on again, the signal was weak and crappy again and kept dropping the connection. Once I opened the case again and spread the two parts of the case as far as the antennas wires go, the signal was excellent and consistent again. I'm not sure if the un - grounding the antennas had any influence but now I'm 100% sure these WiFi problems come from some sort of interference with the unit's chips. I encourage everyone with similar WiFi problems to try and open the case of their units. The easiest way to do that (at least for me) is to insert just the tip of a straight screwdriver (no more than 1mm of the tip) into the MicroSD slot and gently rotate in any direction until the two parts of the cover separate from each other. Then just spread them away from the unit as far as the wires allow. It's that simple!

The above solution worked for the WiFi connection stability, however I still have some peculiar problems with the Google Play and the YouTube applications. Google Play does not load any icons and screen shots for any of the programs. It displays the default Android icon of all the programs and gives an error message and a RETRY button where the programs pictures should be. Pressing the retry button brings the network error again even though the network is just fine and I can browse the internet with the browser. And the YouTube application does not load any thumbnails of the videos. It just displays black rectangles. However Google Play can download and update any program and YouTube pays the selected video with no problems at all - just no thumbnails and icons. No problems browsing web pages in any browser whatsoever.
I would be grateful if anyone can think of a reason for these problems and point me in any direction on solving them.

Thanks again!

Edit: The problem with Google Play and YouTube appears to be an ISP issue, because with the same router and configuration, the problem is gone when I change the ISP WAN cable to the other ISP that I have available.

[T68]

Sv: NEW - MK808 Android mini TV Player - Finless 1.5A Custom ROM

What's the best way to see and adjust cpu speed on this rom?

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[Drosco]

Google Search

No, just google search, the one that appears at top of the screen at the left, besides the little microphone

My Google search app won't run either, starts and crashes, the text search used to work on the old rom although the voice search always crashed without a mic.
Strange thing is my Playstore app does work fine.
WiFi is working good to and although it does get slow from time to time, have found interference to be a major cause of this and its best to keep any USB drives/hardware as far away from the unit as possible.

[anarekist]

i can confirm my google search crashes too.

also i cant get droidmote to work, i even bought it but im gona look more into and see what i can come up with.

[pumple]

hey,

i just got my mk808 and want to flash it.
but no matter how i connect it to the pc it does not get recocnized.
if i plug it into the tv he stick stars normally.
did i miss something i shoud ave done?

[Maxtone]

This firmware is also good for the VG-20?
anyone has tried it?