SCISHION V88 RK3229 4K Android 5.1 KODI TV BOX 1G/8G WIFI LAN Dolby DTS

[Maeg]

Hi all , anyone else with Netflix voice out of sync on this box ?

Tnx

[hussyka]

Best device i have already bought this one from

[MetalSlugger]

I have had an RK3229-based Scishion V88 for a couple of days. These are my observations so far.

General remarks
- It's about twice the size (in volume) of other Chinese TV boxes I have. Otherwise, build quality appears adequate

PROS
- The hardware is good value and powerful enough for what I wanted - retro emulation, SNES, older MAME, Megadrive games etc
- All hardware features appear to work adequately, as tested so far, WiFi, USB, card slot etc. Have not tested LAN, SPDIF yet
- It recognised my Chinese PS3 clone gamepad instantly, unlike my Amlogic S905 box which takes some fiddling

CONS
- SuperSU is installed but there are "No apps configured" and root checker says it is not rooted!
- It has a full size SD card slot which is very shallow, cards protrude from it a lot which makes it easy to remove them, but unsightly to leave in permanently
- It has Android 5.1 but is not compatible (or is not working for some bizarre reason) with the latest versions of some emulators. I had to install older versions of MD.EMU and SNES 9x EX for them to work. Maybe it is using some out-dated protocols/drivers of some kind? The latest versions of said emulators just show a black screen as soon as you open them (before you even get to the point of choosing a game). I have no idea why this is but they appear to be kind of working even though you cannot see them.
- On a friends TV, it was not possible to scale the screen area down enough to fit on his Sony Bravia KDL-32BX300, so the edges are not shown. This might just be some weird HDMI compatibility with that model TV, the problem does not occur with my Samsung TV, on which I can scale it down to a small area.

[tomsag]

Also Just got this box. Seems built OK (for the price). Compared to my MXQ 4K (with stock firmware) it is stable.
Noticed that CPU temperature does not rise so high as on the MXQ on which I've installed a much bigger heat sink.

Anyone has an idea whether this is probably the reason that V88 is slower (some kernel change) than MXQ 4K?

[scooter2014]

Cheap memory is the reason not firmware 😁

[tomsag]

Cheap memory is the reason not firmware 😁

Due to my understanding, memory chips can be:
Either faulty or working,
slow or fast,
So, if a RAM chip is not within specifications, the system will likely hang.
If we are speaking about eMMC, the write rate can be slow, but it affects only the write process.

Anyway, I will try to run Antutu and see what are the results compared to MXQ.

[scooter2014]

Cheaper chips

Slower performance..

Let us know your test results.

[tomsag]

Cheaper chips

Slower performance..

Let us know your test results.

Antutu (newest): 22226

3D: 1180
UX: 8901
CPU: 8941
RAM: 3204

[scooter2014]

Not to bad for low end device

[tomsag]

Just bricked it. Tried to install another firmware, failure was noticed from the tool, tried to connect again and afterwards I cannot get the RKBatchtool to even recognize the Box while connected to PC. Any ideas?

[ngrigoriev]

Just got my V88 box. It was already running the latest firmware. Obviously, my first action was to get SSH on it and check for spyware. Enabled dev mode, allowed 3-rd party apps, placed SSHDroid APK on SD card, installed, got it working.

Guess what? Started checking the running processes, found something that I did not like - "com.adups.fota". Googled it and looks like this is one of these things

Will continue searching this device for more funny preinstalled apps...

[ngrigoriev]

I have not found anything else on that box so I have it up and running. Quite impressed with the quality of H.265 video. For $23 this is a great Kodi box, I think. Except that it is somewhat spyware-sponsored, but as long as it is easy to remove that's OK

[kandilak]

Just got my V88 box. It was already running the latest firmware. Obviously, my first action was to get SSH on it and check for spyware. Enabled dev mode, allowed 3-rd party apps, placed SSHDroid APK on SD card, installed, got it working.

Guess what? Started checking the running processes, found something that I did not like - "com.adups.fota". Googled it and looks like this is one of these things

Will continue searching this device for more funny preinstalled apps...

i think that the "com.adups.fota" is OTA udates related apk.

[mo123]

i think that the "com.adups.fota" is OTA udates related apk.

It's a backdoor, beware.
http://www.brandsynario.com/research...-messages/amp/
http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/hac...martphone.html

[Kabelventje]

I got a fake MXQ Pro 4K , what was in fact a V88 with MXQ printing an modded V88 firmware with a MXQ Pro shell.
I flashed this with your image an after that the update. And with succes.
Before the flashing I had occaisional system restarts, I hoped this would be solved with the new image. But the system still restarts sometimes.
Thank you for posting your image file.

Yes you can flash back the image that i created but i am not 100% certain that it will work. when i tried to flash i had to switch my box in the Maskrom mode. I would appreciate a feedback from someone with a bricked box.

Disclaimer:
The usage of this firmware is on your own risk and i am not responsible for any damage caused by flashing the image.