MK808 - Finless 1.6 Custom ROM

[enderffx]

force 1080p OKAY

Hi !
Thank you, i found the Omegamoon 1080p kernel which has many options to play around and it works great !
Had to go back to 1400 MHz as 1600 is too unstable for me !

Greetings,

Ender

P.S.
http://www.omegamoon.com/blog/

[miketf]

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing some strange pauses while playing videos. Usually, during a 50min show I'm having maybe 5 to 10 times 2-3sec pauses. The buffering "spinning wheel" doesn't show up, it is just a short pause and continues after that without any intervention.

I'm steaming from a Windows share over wifi and I'm quite sure that I didn't have the issue with the stock rom (currently running Finless 1.6 with latest 2dark4u kernel). The wifi connection looks ok (3 bars signal and stable 7-8MB/s in speedtest).

Looking for some ideas to fix this. Thanks.

[lukesan]

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing some strange pauses while playing videos. Usually, during a 50min show I'm having maybe 5 to 10 times 2-3sec pauses. The buffering "spinning wheel" doesn't show up, it is just a short pause and continues after that without any intervention.

I'm steaming from a Windows share over wifi and I'm quite sure that I didn't have the issue with the stock rom (currently running Finless 1.6 with latest 2dark4u kernel). The wifi connection looks ok (3 bars signal and stable 7-8MB/s in speedtest).

Looking for some ideas to fix this. Thanks.

That can be a tricky and frustrating one to find.
First I would put the file localy to check if it is a wifi related issue.

Now that 7-8MB/s might not be constant all the time. I've seen weird things that were most of the time related to microwaves, wireless phones, cameras in the area etc. These things do NOT show up on any pc, phone etc wifi scanners since it is not a wifi signal. You really need a spectrum analyzer for this.
I also have the joy of having a pile of wifi router in my house. Some of them make me wonder if they have ever been tested properly. I now use an Asus RT-N66U which I highly recommend.
Also placing the 808 like a couple of inches in another direction might lead to better throughput

[Bob_UK]

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing some strange pauses while playing videos. Usually, during a 50min show I'm having maybe 5 to 10 times 2-3sec pauses. The buffering "spinning wheel" doesn't show up, it is just a short pause and continues after that without any intervention.

I'm steaming from a Windows share over wifi and I'm quite sure that I didn't have the issue with the stock rom (currently running Finless 1.6 with latest 2dark4u kernel). The wifi connection looks ok (3 bars signal and stable 7-8MB/s in speedtest).

Looking for some ideas to fix this. Thanks.

I have the same thing only over ethernet using Plex.

[madstork]

Wireless Speed

Is anyone getting N type wireless speeds? I'm getting a great signal, but my speeds are more in the G category.

[Gizfreak]

Will there be drivers for Windows 8 with the upcoming 1.7?

[Finless]

Will there be drivers for Windows 8 with the upcoming 1.7?

Yes. My latest ROMs now have the latest ROckchip driver pack which includes Win8.

Bob

[neoal]

hi today i retried to flash the 1.6 custom rom and well suprise it booted up and is working really great wifi connects with 54Mbps but when i enter the playstore or youtube app it takes ages to download smth. when i download files from the browser it downloads at full speed. any idea, i checked the wifi fix and i did that but still playstore and youtube take ages to download stuff.

oops wrong thread i should have posted it on the mk808b thread. sorry

[haynz]

Hi Bob - ur posted win8 64bit drivers work fine now - ty
And Youtube solved Fullscreenbuttonbug - but u still cannot scroll down the native portrait page

Hmmm ... my wifi works fine, if i plug a repeater into my room - full pipe (12megabits here).
Without repeater in the near MK808 sucks like ever and known .... but tiny socket repeaters are even available in supermarkets here for 30€ ... just it needs some Watts ...

[mhagnumdw]

Bob, great job! Very very nice!
Today I received my MK808 and its already updated to fw (Finless 1.6).
Everything we've tested so far is working very well!

I noticed a small bug. It only happens sometimes. When you hide the status bar. View image.
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1...0223180718.jpg
When the status bar reopen everything back to normal.
The installation was still clean, running at 1080p, and with only one animated wallpaper.

I have three small questions:
1) you want to fix/enable the rotation of the display? I saw you discussing this here: http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechfo....php?f=6&t=352
2) the rotation of the display has to do with the fact that some applications are cropped at the top and bottom? As an example of the excellent game: Subway Surfers. This game is portrait, but the tv is landscape.
3) you want to put support bluetooth adapters?

Thanks!!

PS: LG TV 42 "

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MhagnumDw

[r0t0]

First off, thanks for the effort behind the ROM and related tools.

Flashed to 1.6 yesterday with no issues and was up and running fine.

Used the power off button last night to shut down the device.

This morning I unplugged/replugged the device to power it up and it now gets to the nifty loader screen (with twinkling lights) but no further. Device itself has the blue LED on as expected.

Let it sit 20 minutes like that with no joy.Un

plugged/replugged again and same result.

Has anyone else seen this? Should I try and re-flash?

[orlapa]

will work in ug007_

Hello thanks a lot for your excelent work.
This rom works ina Ug007, it hhhave a same pprocessor, in fact actualy hace a 1.5 version on it and works good, but I will like test this one\
Thanks again-
Regagrds Orlando
QUOTE=Finless;43871]OK guys I spent a lot of time on ths ROM. I think personally it is one of my BEST ROMs yet!
Lot's of cool features you MK808 users have not had from me.

PERSONAL ASK PLEASE! Please respect my work! I ask that this ROM not be uploaded to file sharing sites or distributed elsewhere! I want ALL users to get my ROMS from FreakTab. This way you KNOW your getting my work and the latest ROM available. This is not a difficult request. Please respect my ask as if not, one day I may stop making ROMs.
Thank you!


WHAT THIS IS NOT:

THIS IS NOT FOR THE MK808-B or any other OEM that has bluetooth support! If you use this ROM good chance your wifi will NOT WORK anymore! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This is not a true 1080P kernel ROM!
2dark4u is still working on a good 1080P kernel for you. It's not done yet and that will be in a MK808 1.7 ROM. HOWEVER, I have spent a lot of time tuning this for best look at scaled up 1080P. Trust I think you will like how it looks
It will also be the base for 1.7 (I hope )


WHAT THIS IS:

Release notes:

1) This is NOT a true 1080p ROM! 2dark4u is still working on a 1080 kernel for the MK808. So that will be 1.7 ROM. However I have CUSTOM TUNED this ROM so it looks good "set" at scaled up 1080P!!! Font's Icons, etc!
On first boot I have DEFAULTED this ROM to boot at 1280x720 for compatability with older TVs!
Some people cant boot custom ROMs unless EDID is ignored. So I forced this to 1280x720 on first boot! If you want the BEST look and your TV does 1080, then first thing to do is go into display settings and change it to 1080! I think you will like how it looks scaled up now from 720!

2) Hide status bar NOW has a easy return. My previous hide status bar the only way to get it back was to change apps. Now all you need to do is put the mouse at the botton edge of the screen and click and swipe up! Status bar is back!

3) Remote Control using RK Remote APP is now fully supported! In the ROM kit is a RKRemoteControl.apk. You install this on your phone or tablet and now it can remotly control your TV player! Just put the APK on sdcard or something and install it on your Android phone, tablet, etc. ENJOY this one! I had a HARD TIME getting it to work!

4) Powering your device down STABLE without it bricking! Included on the status bar is a power down soft button. USE IT! I have also added reboot APP by Petrus to allow you additional reboot options. NEVER JUST UNPLUG your TV player. It can brick the device and cause you to reflash ROM. Android does not like to be unplugged. It can corrupt the ROM or user data area. WHY early units did not have this feature is beyond me! It bricked MANY PEOPLE! Now it should work well.

5) Two boot.img's available. While this is NOT a 1080P ROM for those that want to use Kriz MK808 or other 1080 kernels and do not want the boot screen all jacked up, I have added a boot1080.img file.
The boot720 is set as default. If you decide yto use another 1080 kernel, just change to boot1080.img
To change a selection for boot, in the flash tool click the empty box to the far right of boot line.
A file browser will open. Navigate to the FinlessROM folder and select the boot1080.img

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Features in 1.6 ROM:

1) Optimized for scaled up 720 to 1080 for best look!
2) Hide status bar soft button with "easy" bring it back up by dragging mouse from bottom up!
3) Shut down soft button! USE THIS instead of unplugging and causing a BRICK of your ROM!
4) Fully rooted with the latest SU and SUperUser.apk
5) Debloated of china and other junk APPs you an get back from Google Play
6) FULL GOOGLE PLAY mods! Onlive and other Apps shouls show up now.
If you want more compatabiliyt like Gameloft, you must edit build.prop. See Freaktab.com for that info.
7) Soft volume buttons on status bar.
8) Special add for this ROM. Full init.d support! If you do not know what that is... ignore it.
If you do, you can now install and use boot time scripts like V6 SUper Charger!
9) All APPs are up to date! So you will not get any Google Play APPs needing updated.
10) Cleaned up the file system so it is not fragmented! Basicly I used linux tune2fs when making the images.
11) I added a reboot APP that will allow optional reboot options like reboot to bootloader (flash mode).
12) The Xbox XPAD.KO module is now injected on boot. This was by request! Enjoy!
13) CIFS, TUN and MD4 KO modules were also added by request.

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In the ROM kit there is a read me! This has full instructions for how to upgrade. So PLEASE read the read me!

Here is my Finless 1.6 MK808 ROM:

ROM -> MK808 Finless 1.6 ROM (244 megs)



Enjoy,
Bob[/QUOTE]

[Randykc]

Just received my MK808 this week and the first thing I did was install this rom. Really awesome work. Quick question that I couldn't find on this thread - After powering down the device with the soft power down button, is there a way to power it back up using the keyboard, or do I need to do a power cycle?

[audiophonicz]

I believe pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del will power it back on, but I hear it does not work on every device.

[r0t0]

First off, thanks for the effort behind the ROM and related tools.

Flashed to 1.6 yesterday with no issues and was up and running fine.

Used the power off button last night to shut down the device.

This morning I unplugged/replugged the device to power it up and it now gets to the nifty loader screen (with twinkling lights) but no further. Device itself has the blue LED on as expected.

Let it sit 20 minutes like that with no joy.Un

plugged/replugged again and same result.

Has anyone else seen this? Should I try and re-flash?

Disregard... was able to reflash without issue.