[HELP] Philips HMP8100/93 player based on Amlogic 8726MX, android 4.1.1, how to flash HMP8100/98 ROM?

[Nobita]

Good evening, I bought a Philips HMP8100/93 recently, it works well but the virtual button bar always showed in any APPs except the Media Player which is original by Philips. I want it to watch a full-screen image without any bars. And then I searched this thread. Even I haven't tried them, but I think that would worked in my player.


But now I found that was a problem, the HMP8100 got 2 models, one is HMP8100/93, which was released in China only, and another one is HMP8100/98, which could be a international version. The original software carried on HMP8100/93 are quite fewer than HMP8100/98, even there was not Media Center APP, which worked for NAS and DLNA. But that was my important for me. So I want to flash with HMP8100/98 ROM. After downloaded the HMP8100/98 ROM and unzipped them on a SD card, I found that the played couldn't update with that. It crashed with "Install abort" on the screen. I think it had done the verification. But I can't find a way to cheat it.

Now I just want someone to help me to get a way to flash it with HMP8100/98 ROM, then I can have the full function.


[device details]
# Philips HMP8100/98 official overview:

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?slg=en&scy=sg&ctn=HMP8100/98

# Philips HMP8100/93 official overview:

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=HMP8100/93&hlt=Link_Overview&scy=CN&slg=AEN

# The rom file in the philips official website:
For HMP8100/93

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/h/hmp8100_93/hmp8100_93_fus_aen.zip

For HMP8100/98

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/h/hmp8100_98/hmp8100_98_fus_eng.zip

[stane1983]

Problem is that device is not running recovery image from sdcard.

You have 2 options for that:
1. Try to rename uImage_recovery to recovery.img
2. Remove board and build date checks from updater-script (this):

assert(!less_than_int(1398087905, getprop("ro.build.date.utc")));
assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "HMP8100_ATV" ||
       getprop("ro.build.product") == "HMP8100_ATV");

resign update.zip and installation will pass. But make sure they are same devices, you might brick it. 93 version is based on g02ref, while 98 version doesn't mention g02ref in build.prop.

[Nobita]

Will the 1st method be safe?

Problem is that device is not running recovery image from sdcard.

You have 2 options for that:
1. Try to rename uImage_recovery to recovery.img
2. Remove board and build date checks from updater-script (this):

assert(!less_than_int(1398087905, getprop("ro.build.date.utc")));
assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "HMP8100_ATV" ||
       getprop("ro.build.product") == "HMP8100_ATV");

resign update.zip and installation will pass. But make sure they are same devices, you might brick it. 93 version is based on g02ref, while 98 version doesn't mention g02ref in build.prop.

Thank you for you reply.

I'm not sure if the 98 version is based on g02ref. I thought the 93 version might be quite same to the 98 version. Because it seems that Philips release the 93 version for China only for user habits and Internet censorship reasons, some APPs can't be used in China had been removed or replaced.

Is the 1st method safe? I think I can only try with this method, the 2nd method is quite hard for me. To remove the board may break warranty. I have just bought it.

[stane1983]

Thank you for you reply.

I'm not sure if the 98 version is based on g02ref. I thought the 93 version might be quite same to the 98 version. Because it seems that Philips release the 93 version for China only for user habits and Internet censorship reasons, some APPs can't be used in China had been removed or replaced.

Is the 1st method safe? I think I can only try with this method, the 2nd method is quite hard for me. To remove the board may break warranty. I have just bought it.

None of this is safe if you're not 100% sure they are exact same boards and you do not have knowledge how to unbrick bricked devices.

[Nobita]

None of this is safe if you're not 100% sure they are exact same boards and you do not have knowledge how to unbrick bricked devices.

Well, let me search more information about these 2 models' boards. If they are really same, then I'll try your method. Thank you all the same.