[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MK808B+ and MXQ

[kiwi_man82]

Please edit your quote regarding MXQ Builds are for the red stripe MXQ Boxes only. This is incorrect as it depends on your Board and remote.
I use the MXQ Arm Builds All black MXQ and it works perfect. If everyone would supply their Board And Version of OpenELEC at the foot of their post/comment we would have a much easier time helping you.

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All Black MXQ: Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.1 On Nand. Board Number: AM_MXQ_A 20150825

Sorry, my bad. I miss understood something I read then. Looks like mods deleted it since I can see it to edit it.
Honest mistake, sorry.

[kostaman]

Sorry, my bad. I miss understood something I read then. Looks like mods deleted it since I can see it to edit it.
Honest mistake, sorry.

Not a problem. It is a lot of reading because too many boards inside these all black boxes.

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All Black MXQ: Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.1 On Nand. Board Number: AM_MXQ_A 20150825

[kiwi_man82]

Guest
I hope this is what you are looking for

[PatrickJB]

PatrickJB I hope you UNPACKED the ZIP and then used the backup tar file which is inside the zip file ??
You cant just try and restore from the ZIP file. I used the zip file just to compress the backup for less upload and download size.

Yes I unzipped it but it seemed to be double zipped and even though OE would read the file/backup on reboot it kept saying 'failed'. So I used the other backup that you PMed me and K a while back and that one worked. As I said in a previous post I think my Kodi settings may have been the problem. I'm going to run your backup and see if I have any problems with judder over the next day or so.

I did notice that the audio out is set to digital on your box whereas I normally have mine set to analogue.

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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.2-test-build from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825
Notes: Reverted to 6.95.1.2-test-build from 6.95.1.3 because of judder on video playback. Further: this may have something to do with audio settings in Kodi.

[kostaman]

Yes I unzipped it but it seemed to be double zipped and even though OE would read the file/backup on reboot it kept saying 'failed'. So I used the other backup that you PMed me and K a while back and that one worked. As I said in a previous post I think my Kodi settings may have been the problem. I'm going to run your backup and see if I have any problems with judder over the next day or so.

I did notice that the audio out is set to digital on your box whereas I normally have mine set to analogue.

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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.2-test-build from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825
Notes: Reverted to 6.95.1.2-test-build from 6.95.1.3 because of judder on video playback. Further: this may have something to do with audio settings in Kodi.

No Idea what happened with the Recent Backup.

@PatrickJB
EDIT RE Double Zip Comment.
I believe you have Unzipped first and then Unzipped the Backup tar file inside the Zip after that.
Do Not Unzip Backup tar files and then try to backup after you have unzipped it.

The Audio is set to digital because of the issue i had back in the following post.
http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...801#post557801

It may be fixed now in the 6.95.1.1. Switching to Digital fixed it back then.

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All Black MXQ: Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.1 On Nand. Board Number: AM_MXQ_A 20150825

[kszaq]

Guest
I hope this is what you are looking for

I have some bad and good news: bad news is that your box has only 512MB of RAM (or you have flashed wrong Android firmware!). Good is that I know what to do to make my future releases run on it.

[PatrickJB]

kszaq kostaman OK I still notice the odd glitch even with Kostaman's back up running on 6.95.1.2 so I think it's just the way it is, perhaps I'm so used to super smooth playback that any glitch grates on me. I have put 6.95.1.3 on my second MXQ with my own current backup and with the Kodi settings changes I made, mainly just switching from 'best match' to 'optimized' in Kodi audio settings, and it seems to be OK, better than it has been for a week or two. I've kind of gone full circle and video is about the same as when I first mentioned the odd glitch a month or two ago. Perhaps there is a bottle neck in the audio processing which could be sorted, but I'm not qualified to say!

I have been keeping an eye on codesnake's WIP regarding the codec and it seems to have dried up! So I'm not sure if playback will get any better than it is. Anyway will be using my second box running 6.95.1.3 from now on and will let you know how I'm getting on.

Just a thought, was there any movement in the changes you made to try and improve video playback? I'm quite happy to try a few test builds as the vid quality is the main thing for me.

A new bug perhaps, pretty sure this is in .1 and .3 (we'll ignore the test build as it wasn't a release), when coming out of suspend in the morning my time is incorrect. I'm not sure if this would sort itself after a period of time as I just turn Wifi on and off in the OE control panel and the time is updated to the correct time.

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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.3 from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825

[fanni2]

Has anyone managed to get openelec running on the new mxq_S805 V3_1 20151230 boards?

As i cant even get the installer to boot from the sd card

[PatrickJB]

Has anyone managed to get openelec running on the new mxq_S805 V3_1 20151230 boards?

As i cant even get the installer to boot from the sd card

Yes, a few pages back on this thread: http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...nd-mxq/page176


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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.3 from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825

[fanni2]

Yes i did see that but read it as booting from sd card should of explained a bit better that i would like to boot from nand

[PatrickJB]

Yes i did see that but read it as booting from sd card should of explained a bit better that i would like to boot from nand

Should be OK to install to Nand if it works from SD. If your Android Rom is screwed then I don't think you'll damage the box by installing the version Kiwi-man is using. You may want to wait for other opinions as I'm tired at the mo. But the general rule is if it runs from SD it should run OK from Nand.

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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.3 from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825

[kiwi_man82]

I have some bad and good news: bad news is that your box has only 512MB of RAM (or you have flashed wrong Android firmware!). Good is that I know what to do to make my future releases run on it.

Hmm. Firmware I flashed is mentioned to have 8gb rom and 1gb ram which is the same as my box. And as you can see in this pic there are 2x512mg ram chips??? Will boot back into android and see how much ram android is running with but as far as I know it was 1gb not 512MB... will post back my findings as soon as I get a chance

http://s9.postimg.org/4gvuhl2xb/20160330_104315.jpg

http://s24.postimg.org/xckzd5if9/20160330_104326.jpg

Have just booted back into android and checked ram via cpu x. It is showing 824mb not 512MB ☺

http://postimg.org/image/w6eqcqyyr/

[kszaq]

kszaq kostaman OK I still notice the odd glitch even with Kostaman's back up running on 6.95.1.2 so I think it's just the way it is, perhaps I'm so used to super smooth playback that any glitch grates on me. I have put 6.95.1.3 on my second MXQ with my own current backup and with the Kodi settings changes I made, mainly just switching from 'best match' to 'optimized' in Kodi audio settings, and it seems to be OK, better than it has been for a week or two. I've kind of gone full circle and video is about the same as when I first mentioned the odd glitch a month or two ago. Perhaps there is a bottle neck in the audio processing which could be sorted, but I'm not qualified to say!

I have been keeping an eye on codesnake's WIP regarding the codec and it seems to have dried up! So I'm not sure if playback will get any better than it is. Anyway will be using my second box running 6.95.1.3 from now on and will let you know how I'm getting on.

Just a thought, was there any movement in the changes you made to try and improve video playback? I'm quite happy to try a few test builds as the vid quality is the main thing for me.

A new bug perhaps, pretty sure this is in .1 and .3 (we'll ignore the test build as it wasn't a release), when coming out of suspend in the morning my time is incorrect. I'm not sure if this would sort itself after a period of time as I just turn Wifi on and off in the OE control panel and the time is updated to the correct time.

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Running MXQ.arm-6.95.1.3 from Nand on all black MXQ, board number: 'AM_MXQ_A 20150825

I do not have any improvement to share on video playback, actually. I'm also picky when it comes to stutter/judder/frame jumps but for several releases I have seen very few of them. At the moment we have to accept what we have, when any improvements comes up I'll surely include it. I also think that Codesnake is hard at work on the new decoder, you should know that that kind of things take a lot of time to test, debug and so on.... for example, today I worked on resolving some CEC bugs and it took me whole day to resolve one simple bug - and I did not publish any code until I thought it's ready for public release.

Hmm. Firmware I flashed is mentioned to have 8gb rom and 1gb ram which is the same as my box. And as you can see in this pic there are 2x512mg ram chips??? Will boot back into android and see how much ram android is running with but as far as I know it was 1gb not 512MB... will post back my findings as soon as I get a chance

http://s9.postimg.org/4gvuhl2xb/20160330_104315.jpg

http://s24.postimg.org/xckzd5if9/20160330_104326.jpg

Have just booted back into android and checked ram via cpu x. It is showing 824mb not 512MB ☺

http://postimg.org/image/w6eqcqyyr/

I guess that you may a have a wrong u-boot that picks 512MB RAM device tree when it's available. I'll post 6.95.2.1 with more device trees and we'll see.

[kszaq]

kszaq Can you bring in this peripheral driver in your next build? I think this will give us full gamepad navigation support within openelec.

https://github.com/kodi-game/peripheral.joystick

Sorry, but no. This requires PR8807 which is intended for Kodi 17.

[kiwi_man82]

I do not have any improvement to share on video playback, actually. I'm also picky when it comes to stutter/judder/frame jumps but for several releases I have seen very few of them. At the moment we have to accept what we have, when any improvements comes up I'll surely include it. I also think that Codesnake is hard at work on the new decoder, you should know that that kind of things take a lot of time to test, debug and so on.... for example, today I worked on resolving some CEC bugs and it took me whole day to resolve one simple bug - and I did not publish any code until I thought it's ready for public release.


I guess that you may a have a wrong u-boot that picks 512MB RAM device tree when it's available. I'll post 6.95.2.1 with more device trees and we'll see.

Cool as. Let me know when it's updated and I'll try it out and give you the logs so you can look into it 😃