[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MXIII-G & Tronsmart MXIII+

[vn800art]

I love the 805 soc!

[MinixCrazy]

Hi MinixCrazy ,

This is rather unfortunate, as the original MX3-G (which I have) came with Kitkat. Another way to prove if the box is a genuine MX3-G, is to try loading the Tronsmart L106 firmware on it, as this is the rom that I derived most of the MX3G port of OE from, & as such has the greatest chance of working 100% with my builds.

It looks like the sheer variety of "MX3-G" devices flooding the market at the moment are suffering the same identity crisis that the "All Black MXQ" are. My hats off to kszaq for being able to get so many varieties of it (mostly) working with his build - He's certainly been able to delve far deeper into it than I have to date (Happy owner of 4 x "All Black MXQ" that work almost faultlessly with his 5.0.8 build - Purchased for family so that they all have a common box for me to support

Wilro, tI tried the L106 Tronsmart and many others, nothing worked. The funny thing is the box would not toothpick boot to revovery without the sdcard, it was like they didn't want the box reprogramed? The performance was very sluggish. The hardware is not even close as you can see in the photos. I played with them for two nights straight and gave up. I'm steamed because I'm certain the seller is trying to pull a fast one on the public and just wondering how many people have these clone boxes that have experienced problems with your ROM.

Frank

[MinixCrazy]

Wilro,

Just tring the new test beta 6.95.1, did a toothpick install from a fresh KitKat wipe and I'm getting similar CPU issues from some of your earlier builds, CPU2 & CPU3 are frozen not cycling like normal. They worked fine on the 7.0 test build...

Edit I was wrong, its on the OE 7.0 as well... I'm stepping back to 6.0.3b (Its working fine)

[ilfrance]

hey wilro, are you aware of this https://libreelec.tv new fork being born?

[roolmapool]

Hello roolmapool,

With the exception of one of my older no-name TV's here (which refuses to boot when cec signals are sent to it), cec mostly works - Have you gone into your addon's (wetek hdmi cec) & enabled & turned it on? The addon defaults to being disabled on new installs to ensure maximum compatibility, & is one of the 1st things I disable when I experience TV/remote problems

It works!!! Thx a lot Wilro... i had to enabled wetek hdmi cec
Now i use your beta OE... nice so far.

[Bigredfan]

How is the oe7.0 build running for everyone. Trying to decide if I want to take the plunge or not

[red-i]

How is the oe7.0 build running for everyone. Trying to decide if I want to take the plunge or not

For me it ran slower. Mind u I didn't do a fresh install. So I reverted back to 6.0.3

[MinixCrazy]

For me it ran slower. Mind u I didn't do a fresh install. So I reverted back to 6.0.3

The CPU governor isn't working correctly I noticed it was slow as well and two of the cores were frozen. Went back to 6.0.3b

[wilro_6276]

Wilro, tI tried the L106 Tronsmart and many others, nothing worked. The funny thing is the box would not toothpick boot to revovery without the sdcard, it was like they didn't want the box reprogramed? The performance was very sluggish. The hardware is not even close as you can see in the photos. I played with them for two nights straight and gave up. I'm steamed because I'm certain the seller is trying to pull a fast one on the public and just wondering how many people have these clone boxes that have experienced problems with your ROM.

Frank

I sympathise with the frustration - It's always bugged me that as soon as we get a good understanding of one of these boxes, they change just enough of it with a new "revision/version" that introduces just enough incompatibility with the previous one, that we have to almost go back to the start to get them fully functional (It doesn't help that they maintain the same labelling/model no - I'm kind of kicking myself now that I didn't buy more of the original MX3G's, because I know if my current one dies, I'll end up with something that is the same in name only, with a whole slew of new/different problems to my current one...

Wilro,

Just tring the new test beta 6.95.1, did a toothpick install from a fresh KitKat wipe and I'm getting similar CPU issues from some of your earlier builds, CPU2 & CPU3 are frozen not cycling like normal. They worked fine on the 7.0 test build...

Edit I was wrong, its on the OE 7.0 as well... I'm stepping back to 6.0.3b (Its working fine)

My next build will default with the "interactive" scheduler (It's easy enough to change this with the current build in autostart.sh) - I found the hotplug scheduler works well here (it also keeps the temp. much lower), although kszaq has patched a minor quirk that stopped the 4th core from powering up (It is normal for this scheduler to only be using 1-2 cores, for the most part

hey wilro, are you aware of this https://libreelec.tv new fork being born?

Yes, I noticed this - It's produced from a few of the core OE developers - It's currently pretty much identical to OE, but I'll be keeping an eye on it to see if it brings anything useful for our build
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[wilro_6276]

Howdy All,

Another OE7 test build posted HERE

This build brings "boot from Nand" option when you have booted into this build from sdcard (thanks kszaq ), so that you can boot off nand without removing your sdcard - You need to toothpick/install to update the uenv on the device in order for this to work.

There have been a few tweaks for kodi + I've changed the default scheduler back to "interactive"

I will release a new OE 6 "stable" build once I'm sure I haven't broken anything else

[Bigredfan]

Before I do this. I want to make sure I understand this correctly but using an sd card and the latest oe 6 build I can run the whole thing from the sd card right? So that everything is stored on the sd card and not the internal memory correct?

[ukmark62]

Yes - I run OE 6.03b from a micro SD card - and the android box itself is untouched. All data is stored on the micro SD.

[pithboss1972]

I have 2 question are you able to install other apps, for example if I want to run an emulator program to run iptv is it possible, and my other question is there an openlec tom for the MXV

[gthebest]

Howdy All,

Another OE7 test build posted HERE

This build brings "boot from Nand" option when you have booted into this build from sdcard (thanks Guest ), so that you can boot off nand without removing your sdcard - You need to toothpick/install to update the uenv on the device in order for this to work.

There have been a few tweaks for kodi + I've changed the default scheduler back to "interactive"

I will release a new OE 6 "stable" build once I'm sure I haven't broken anything else

Hello. I want to ask what do yo mean by saying to update the uenv? What is the uenv and how can we update?

[baalho]

gthebest ,,,> "You need to toothpick/install to update the uenv on the device in order for this to work."
if you have been dual booting, then its nothing new, just do toothpick/install ...well if you have not, then its a little more involved.

burn the img on a sd card first, then tookpick install.
for windows: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/HO...ge#tab=Windows

today I started from sctract..
Flashed Android 5.1 stock...then flashed dual boot zip...
then on one SD have Stable 6.03b
on another SD chard have OE7 test build.

so far, working like a champ
thanks Wilro...