New Cs918 type

[beljim7419]

HI, I recently bought a CS918 RK3188T (no I don't know why either) lol.
Anyhow I find it slow and wanted to change the Rom.

Board has CS918_V30 2015_07_23 on it. Which firmware can I use as my wifi doesn't work due to a wrong firmware being applied a few day back.

http://i3.minus.com/ikYNpcMvonSRE.jpg

[beljim7419]

Nobody got this device that can give me a Backup to install ?

[mingho66]

I bricked my device, looking for working rom also.
do u mind post your slow rom here? thanks

[beljim7419]

I don't have it. I was foolish in thinking I could flash any CS918 firmware at the time so mine is also in a none working state. There are a few roms that can be flashed but the Wifi and bluetooth won't work.

Anyhow after a week or so of searching and trying many roms I can tell you there isn't one out there yet that workks for this CS918 for some reason.

I've contacted Banggood.com and they said yesterday they have contacted the supplier to ask for the rom and will email me when they get it.
I didn't buy it from them so not sure if it will happen but worth a shot and if it does and it works, I'll upload it to the cloud and post a link.

Or post here if you do find one

[hereinsd]

Hi, I bought 2 of these boxes and tried to update the firmware on only one of them. ended up with no wifi and remote not working. I have been trying to get the rom off of the other box, but have not been sucessful because when I flash the backup files and boot the box it says I am missing the external sdcard partition and I can't find instructions for extracting that partition using the dumptool. Anyone have any idea how to get that partition using the dumptool, that would solve the problem.

[beljim7419]

Hi, It would be great If you can upload what you have I'll see if I can get it running my end and give the solution if I get it running.

Two heads and all that

[hereinsd]

Ok, here is a link to my dropbox folder with the output from my dump. I can also dump the user.img and the userdata.img if you want those as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73yf224s9uu05ew/output1.rar?dl=0

Hope this helps!!

[radsky]

hello,

i`m also looking for firmare... tried many roms but wifi and bt not working. This box have a chip RTL8723BU. Please help

thx in advance

[beljim7419]

After battling for two weeks with Banggood and their crappy firmware hosting site I couldn't get a working firmware from them.

Tried for a few days tring to get the firmware hereinsd kindly uploaded but couldn't get that going either. Tried mashing parts of that with other firmwares.

Contacted Geekbuying now a s a last resort but douubt they will help but if I get it going one day I'll upload the firmware.

[radsky]

good news

i found it ....

https://mega.nz/#!uZ1jAJaC!N8rIJJaBwonUbbGPFZW0w_qfYv3_tIEDC5OtLj5RDRc

[beljim7419]

Strange. Wifi and bluetooth still not working on mine with that firmware.

[hereinsd]

I contacted my vendor and requested the firmware for my device. He gave me a link to download it and I installed it and everything as far as hardware goes, works just fine. The box has crashed and rebooted itself several times though. I can confirm however that this firmware is not the exact one that came installed on the box originally. Hopefully we can use it though to construct a version that is stable.

Here is the link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0snj6wrs533crro/cs918-1%2B8-15.0.zip?dl=0

[beljim7419]

hereinsd Awesome...Working...so far
I'll test to see if I get any crashing but at least wifi works.

Could your crashing be down to the wrong kernel being installed as when I extracted the firmware I did not see any kernel so it probably just uses whatever was on last.
Try flashing the kernel from your other backup if you haven't already.

[kaito]

I contacted my vendor and requested the firmware for my device. He gave me a link to download it and I installed it and everything as far as hardware goes, works just fine. The box has crashed and rebooted itself several times though. I can confirm however that this firmware is not the exact one that came installed on the box originally. Hopefully we can use it though to construct a version that is stable.

Here is the link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0snj6wrs53...-15.0.zip?dl=0

I've try this FW, but it force me to press and hold power button about 5 seconds to power up my device. I just want to press the power button only once. Could you send me another FW?

[FrogyRU]

hereinsd Awesome...Working...so far
I'll test to see if I get any crashing but at least wifi works.

Could your crashing be down to the wrong kernel being installed as when I extracted the firmware I did not see any kernel so it probably just uses whatever was on last.
Try flashing the kernel from your other backup if you haven't already.

But I have a problem. I got what penguins on the screen. Tell me what to do, or to reset the firmware. Thx in advance.