MK808 - Finless 1.6 Custom ROM

[Maxtone]

I usually just aim high on the chinese ones. If I need 2A, I get a 2.5A or 3A. It's better to have extra than not enough. Places like Monoprice usually have better quality control standards over the **** ones, so that might be a start. It might be a few dollars more, but it's worth it.

I'm not saying all are bad, but with my history of buying chinese adapters and batteries, I rarely can trust what they claim.

show me a good one to take?

[goallas]

i actually improved my wifi signal by getting power supply straight from tv´s USB!
one question: i still have fullscreen issues! on most streaming sites i still have black bars on both sides and the bottom. any suggestion?

[gor]

Thanks for great work

I want to thank you for this brilliant rom. I received my mk 808 a 15 days ago, and immediately installed your rom, everything works like clockwork.
It seems to me that the device is heated enough so that I will incorporate passive radiator or else device would not have lasted a month.
Thanks mate, because I'm having great fun...

[colinjones]

Hope you're feeling better Bob! Can you help with any advice on this one, please? Really want to get some value out of this crappy Z2C device!
Rgds Col

Sorry Bob, I know you're going to hate me for this question, I understand the frustration for you!!

However, I'm having a really hard time with my Z2C (Zero Devices) stick, bugs in the stock firmware, surprise surprise, and of course the manufacturer incommunicado. I am told that this stick is a rebranded MK808 (not the B, no BT) and externally (other than the silkscreen) it looks identical, not that that means anything. But its possible that this device is the same hardware, rather than just a generic 3066 reusing the MK808 branding.

If that is true, I'm presuming that your ROM will work a treat. However, given it is likely their stock ROM is their own, I'm worried that flash/recovery mode, partitions, boot loader, etc might be sufficiently different that your flashing process and tools may not work.

Do you have any advice? I would really like to try your firmware, because the stock is essentially unusable (GPU clearly isn't accelerating much/any of the UI, the alpha-channel used in some of Android's menus isn't processed correctly so opening those menu's corrupts and leaves trails of artifacts all over the screen, but most importantly, not only does the wifi only sync at very low speeds, it intermittently just drops the network connection completely for many minutes at a time and often won't reconnect without intervention)

[eecsdude]

Hi All

I came across finless 1.6 rom the other day when trying to get cifsmanager working.


I was getting error “no such device or address” which I found was because I didn’t have cifs.ko loaded.

Having no idea how to inject cifs.ko working I came across finless 1.6, which had cifs.ko module add in release notes. Great

I installed the rom and so far I am loving it but I am still unable to mount my NAS with cifsmanager.

I am getting the same error and when I checked cifs.ko was not loaded and I could not find the file although TUN and MD4 ko files were there.

I had no errors when I installed the rom.
Do I need to reflash it or is the file hidden.


Help would be much appreciated.

Are you connecting to smb or NFS server? I am able to get SMB connections working (you actually don't need cifsmanager, just install a file browser like ES File Manager and they have network share access). If you are trying to get to an NFS server, you are running in the same problem as me. You actually need nfs.ko and some others (see a prev post of mine on this thread).

I was hoping Bob Finless would be able to supply these kernel object files, since they need to be compiled from the same source he used for this ROM. But it seemed like I was the only one interested... Hopefully there are more people who can request this.

[KyleK29]

Let me know if it works please. I would like to figure out why. 1.5a was scaled up 1280x672 rez. I think that might be it. But I would like to know please as I think there is a solution for you. Thanks!

Bob

No joy. I guess when I chose to flash my MK808 from 1.5A, it also decided that it no longer wanted to work with my garage TV, period. I flashed back to 1.5A and still no luck. Works with every other device, just not the one I need it to.

I might end up having to pick up an ODROID or something similar. I know the monitors HDMI still works because I plugged my tablet into it and it worked fine (with the MK808 HDMI cable, just to verify).

[RmatriX1218]

i actually improved my wifi signal by getting power supply straight from tv´s USB!

Can TV usb has enough power to run these sticks? Is it OK to use TV usb for power supply?

one question: i still have fullscreen issues! on most streaming sites i still have black bars on both sides and the bottom. any suggestion?

Me to having same issue? any suggestion?

[eecsdude]

kernel source

Hi Bob,

Do you have access to the kernel source used for the 1.6 Finless ROM? If you can't provide the kernel modules for nfs, I can try to compile it on my own and provide it to this forum, but I need access to the source.

I noticed in your changelog for 1.6:
13) CIFS, TUN and MD4 KO modules were also added by request.

I see tun.ko and md4.ko, but no cifs.ko in /system/lib/modules/ Did you forget to include in the 1.6 package?

Thanks.

[High_Yield]

Status of 1.7 overclock and "CoWorker issues" with Alex

Bob-

I keep chacking back here looking for a v1.7 or better for my MK808, but have not seen any updates.
To me the most important thing is to get the thing past the locked 1.0 Ghz and apparently Alex's(2dark4u) rom with your code (like the 802 version 1.7) would allow me to do that. But, I just red elsewhere on your site that you and Alex have had a falling out , and likely then no 1.7 with overclock capabilities for my 808. So, can you give an overview of the plan for the 808 development - at least as far as overclocking ability goes? Thanks if you have the time.

[thebozz]

Are you connecting to smb or NFS server? I am able to get SMB connections working (you actually don't need cifsmanager, just install a file browser like ES File Manager and they have network share access). If you are trying to get to an NFS server, you are running in the same problem as me. You actually need nfs.ko and some others (see a prev post of mine on this thread).

I was hoping Bob Finless would be able to supply these kernel object files, since they need to be compiled from the same source he used for this ROM. But it seemed like I was the only one interested... Hopefully there are more people who can request this.

Hi eecsdude

I am try to access a SMB share on my NAS and I can access it through ES File manager but I would like to mount the share so I could access the files natively through any program as if accessing an SD. This is why I need cifs.ko and cifsmanager.

Thanks for the reply

Regards, The Bozz

[Finless]

Hi Bob,

Do you have access to the kernel source used for the 1.6 Finless ROM? If you can't provide the kernel modules for nfs, I can try to compile it on my own and provide it to this forum, but I need access to the source.

I noticed in your changelog for 1.6:
13) CIFS, TUN and MD4 KO modules were also added by request.

I see tun.ko and md4.ko, but no cifs.ko in /system/lib/modules/ Did you forget to include in the 1.6 package?

Thanks.

The CIFS module was already in the stock kernel so it is not being insmod like tun and md4.

As for kernel sources, most people making MK808 kernels are using this:

http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechforum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=835

Bob

[slcpunk]

Root & ethernet

Love the ROM, just have a couple of issues. It was suggested the I reflash, and I guess I will, but thought I would post once more before all that. ( flashing means getting a windoz box setup and all that, which I hate

Root: For some reason I don't have Root. "su" is there, but it won't actually run. ( su doesn't get me a new su shell. su -c id doesn't show anything for example ) CheckRoot, Titanium, or any app that needs root to run come back and say they can't. SuperUser shows "denied" in the logs, regardless of the setting to grant/deny/prompt.

Ethernet: After every boot, the network isn't working. I have to disable and re-enable the ethernet connection to get an IP address from the router. Timing issue on some script? Assumption that wireless is enabled? ( I have wireless disabled because its plugged in to Ethernet ) That's pretty minor, but thought I would mention it, might be an easy fix for the future - maybe the assumption is that wifi is the default and enabled.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

S

[KyleK29]

Bob-

I keep chacking back here looking for a v1.7 or better for my MK808, but have not seen any updates.
To me the most important thing is to get the thing past the locked 1.0 Ghz and apparently Alex's(2dark4u) rom with your code (like the 802 version 1.7) would allow me to do that. But, I just red elsewhere on your site that you and Alex have had a falling out , and likely then no 1.7 with overclock capabilities for my 808. So, can you give an overview of the plan for the 808 development - at least as far as overclocking ability goes? Thanks if you have the time.

You can flash 2Dark4U's kernels onto the 1.6 base. It doesn't need to be included in a 1.7. I think Alex is still testing an ocing kernel (not yet released, last I check).

Just open up the 1.6 ROM flash tool and replace the "kernel" area with the one you get from 2dark4u's website (there's a thread here with a link).

[primy]

After 11 days I got my mk808+rc11 today. Thanks to geekbuy for fast shipping.

I plug it on my LG TV for 15 minutes with stock ROM to see how it works.

Then unplug it and immediately install your ROM in less then 5 minutes, but didnt try it yet.

I read other posts and only I can say - awsome job Bob, and countinue your good work.

[xandar]

You can flash 2Dark4U's kernels onto the 1.6 base. It doesn't need to be included in a 1.7. I think Alex is still testing an ocing kernel (not yet released, last I check).

Just open up the 1.6 ROM flash tool and replace the "kernel" area with the one you get from 2dark4u's website (there's a thread here with a link).

Unckeck all the other options except kernel before doing so !!!! Or you might brick it like I did !