Mini M8S II 4K Smart TV Box Amlogic S905X 2/8GB WiFi 10/100 LAN BT

[Invisable]

Ordered one of these boxes yesterday from gearbest. And just spent the last hour reading every post in the thread.

I'm not new to Kodi, however I am new to Android TV boxes and it seems I'm going to have fun with this one.
Thanks to everyone who has posted in this thread seem like a lot of good info is buried in here and I'm sure I'll come up against many of these problems soon enough.


#### edit
#### Figured the below out thanks !!
#### https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9688

One thing I didn't quite get, are we disabling video hardware acceleration, or not ? Early on in the thread it says to disable but later on it says to enable it ?
Am I right I thinking if we leave it enabled it starts Kodi in "full hdmi range" which will result in a darker appearance until a video file is played, solution is to add a intro video to kodi.



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[NuBoBoNe]

Hello ppl.my problem is that i try to use this tv box for some days now but i cant.....used it on 2 different tv s and with 2 different hdmi cables on different resolutions according the tv resolution its plugged in and everytime after a minute or 10 or 30 i get black screen...message on tv always the same...resolution isnt supported etc..and t gets stuck i cant shut it down fro mthe remote control so i unplug it then plug in again the power supply and again same story...desperate for a solution.thanks in advance

[Luke.Aaron.Barrass]

I haven't had a purple screen and I have had the box from the beginning pre-ordered from gearbest with all updates I've had a few issues but never a purple screen and always used hdmi

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[Terminou]

Is the purple screen issue solved? I am using HDMI to VGA cable to solve this but believe me it is worse than HDMI since it always refreshs itself automatically.

[Luke.Aaron.Barrass]

Hi does anyone know if there is going to be anymore updates as the last update caused some issues and it has been a couple months since the the last update that slowed the processor down caused issues when copying files to and from the device and caused spmc to crash made better by disabling amcodec on old version of spmc but still can't use the latest spmc as always get web server failed to start but fine on other devices and fine when using older version of spmc the current firmware I have is p212-user debug 6.0.1 mhc19j 20161013 or has there been an update that my box isn't receiving like I had trouble when the last update was released thank you in advanced for your reply

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[LostEchoes]

Hello i want to ask smthing if anyone knows...

Is there any way to set a specific LAN IP and not a random one?

Thanks in advance!

Hello.

Something like this, I guess:

https://droidbox.co.uk/how-to/manual-ip-addresses-switching-from-dynamic-to-static/

[velox]

Hello i want to ask smthing if anyone knows...

Is there any way to set a specific LAN IP and not a random one?

Thanks in advance!

[marsele]

Hi,

I have bought the mini m8sii 16gb rom,2gb ram with s905x amlogic processor and I have some problems.Fist of all when I started the tv box a message is appeared in the screen which is said:"UPDATE & BACKUP application has stopped".Also the other problem is that when I have enabled the amlogic acceleration in the video settings of kodi, the movies run very well but every time when I stopped a movie and going to the main menu kodi is crashing and stopped suddenly.Do you have any solution to these problems??The tv box has Android 6.0 (version 109)

[Xannytech]

I have installed your v109 and works well. Used "Amlogic USB loader" and the toothpeak method.

I managed to make work passthrough for DD and DTS both for Kodi and SPMC , and SPMC even pass DTS-MA, however not luck for TrueHD on both and DTS-MA not working for KODI

I am suprised because I did not find any Marshmallow boxes with the "HDMI Passtrough" Option at SETTINGS-> Digital Audio Device. To my knowledge previous versions were able to configure Android as "RAW Passtrough" or "IEC Passtrough" (At Android Audio Settings) but I can't find this options on the settings. KODI seens to take this setting from the system and don't let it change, SPMC let it change though.

Regards

That's due to lack of amlcodec developing, without a total rewrite of the codec the kodi developers cannot do nothing so they give up.
Koying the SPMC developer left AMLCODEC in but i'm not sure he can do something more than this.

[Xannytech]

Hi, I am very much a noob so bear that in mind please!

I just got my Mini M8S II and I am trying to install Kodi 17 64 bit version - tried a few times but no luck. The 32 bit version does install - what will I be missing due to the "slower" version? I did remove ver 16.1 first so that it is easier to get things exactly the way I would like them.

Simply MINI M8 SII uses a 32bit Android, so you cannot use 64bit apps on it.

[gday]

Hi, I am very much a noob so bear that in mind please!

I just got my Mini M8S II and I am trying to install Kodi 17 64 bit version - tried a few times but no luck. The 32 bit version does install - what will I be missing due to the "slower" version? I did remove ver 16.1 first so that it is easier to get things exactly the way I would like them.

[jasabel]

I saw none posted new V109 (07/11/2016) for MINI M8 SII (not V106 customized by Vontar ) here it is:
https://mega.nz/#!f543XRIY!47GUGzdTV...HEawRRbFHIjexA V109 ROM .img file

Then if you like there is my mod ready based on it
XTMOD thread

I have installed your v109 and works well. Used "Amlogic USB loader" and the toothpeak method.

I managed to make work passthrough for DD and DTS both for Kodi and SPMC , and SPMC even pass DTS-MA, however not luck for TrueHD on both and DTS-MA not working for KODI

I am suprised because I did not find any Marshmallow boxes with the "HDMI Passtrough" Option at SETTINGS-> Digital Audio Device. To my knowledge previous versions were able to configure Android as "RAW Passtrough" or "IEC Passtrough" (At Android Audio Settings) but I can't find this options on the settings. KODI seens to take this setting from the system and don't let it change, SPMC let it change though.

Regards

[soulfunkdjx]

I'm just leaving this page link here, as it has a list of all the specs and quite a lot of solutions / fixes for this TV Box. Can be very helpful.

Those who do not speak / read Russian will have to translate the page (e.g. via Google Chrome, etc):

http://4pda.ru/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t762717-220.html

p.s. Strange thing: No mention of the MHC19J20161022 firmware version !

Thanks i'll give it a try...Russia Rulez!!!!

[LostEchoes]

I'm just leaving this page link here, as it has a list of all the specs and quite a lot of solutions / fixes for this TV Box. Can be very helpful.

Those who do not speak / read Russian will have to translate the page (e.g. via Google Chrome, etc):

http://4pda.ru/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t762717-220.html

p.s. Strange thing: No mention of the MHC19J20161022 firmware version !

[soulfunkdjx]

Please, has anyone solved the purple screen on SONY tv? A friend of mine has a serious problem with that. Will the hdmi to rca convector fix the problem? Can anyone confirm?