New stock firmware for Tronsmart MK908, tester needed!

[fonix232]

Hi everyone. I just received my tronsmart mk908 and the extra connectors to get it up and running. I have had it up and running and can connect it to my computer through the otg port; however, I can't get it to pass over into flash mode. Neither of the firmware load apps can see the device to tell it to reboot and mine doesn't seem to have the holes that are mentioned for the blue led and the flash mode switch. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.

If you cannot find the button (check all around the device, there should be one! Also, upload some pictures please, so we can see it), plug the device in to your computer with the USB-MicroUSB cable. When it connects, do three things:
- Enable USB connection in Settings-USB
- Enable USB Debugging in Settings-Development (you need to enable Developer options first on top)
- Switch to Mass Storage mode in Settings-Storage-(click the top right tripledot menu button)-Storage Settings.

If all this is done, both RKBatchTool and RKDevTool should be able to see the device, as "RKUSB Mass Storage Device". Then click the Switch button, it should reboot to bootloader mode and then you should be able to flash.

If these won't work, get a microSD card, at least 1GB. Plug it in the device, format it, then pull it, jam it in a card reader/phone/whatever else you can use to connect to your computer, and plug it in your PC. Download the update you want, get the .img file, rename it to update.img, put it on the SD card (no folders, nothing, just open it in File Explorer and copy it there). Then put the card back to your stick. It should detect the update, and pop a message that there's an update, press yes if you want to apply it, etcetera... Just press yes, and it will reboot to recovery, flash the image, and you are done. With a newer firmware you should be able to see your device on your PC too.

[kmellon]

If you cannot find the button (check all around the device, there should be one! Also, upload some pictures please, so we can see it), plug the device in to your computer with the USB-MicroUSB cable. When it connects, do three things:
- Enable USB connection in Settings-USB
- Enable USB Debugging in Settings-Development (you need to enable Developer options first on top)
- Switch to Mass Storage mode in Settings-Storage-(click the top right tripledot menu button)-Storage Settings.

If all this is done, both RKBatchTool and RKDevTool should be able to see the device, as "RKUSB Mass Storage Device". Then click the Switch button, it should reboot to bootloader mode and then you should be able to flash.

If these won't work, get a microSD card, at least 1GB. Plug it in the device, format it, then pull it, jam it in a card reader/phone/whatever else you can use to connect to your computer, and plug it in your PC. Download the update you want, get the .img file, rename it to update.img, put it on the SD card (no folders, nothing, just open it in File Explorer and copy it there). Then put the card back to your stick. It should detect the update, and pop a message that there's an update, press yes if you want to apply it, etcetera... Just press yes, and it will reboot to recovery, flash the image, and you are done. With a newer firmware you should be able to see your device on your PC too.

Thanks for the in depth reply. I'm quite embarrassed to say this, but I had been looking on the end of the device where the hdmi connector is not on one of the faces on that end. The holes were so small that I didn't see either of them. I found everything and dropped the rom with a 4 gig partition. It just booted up and I will start tinkering with it. Thanks again.

[HK Le]

hi,
I tried for few days, the performance of playing video is good (5% still that problem with using MX player in same video, don't why). But Wifi is unstable, sometime is perfect and sometime is very bad (I test it with samsung note 10.1 in same time).
overall is very good

Thanks

[Legitsu]

works but the video playback isn't great and its no ware near as nice as finless or HFW(sadly neither of those firmware roms load on the 3.0 boards )

[mrecko]

I wiped the mk908 and did a fresh install of the new firmware at the start of this thread.

Video playback is excellent, no noticeable frame skipping, XBMC works well, all videos appears to play via hardware decoding


The only problem is with the WiFi it's still slow but a USB Ethernet adapter fixes that.

I just wish it was able to do audio pass through for Dolby Digital and DTS then it would be just about perfect.

what version of xbmc are you using?