Hello everyone,
I've made a custom firmware from the new source.
please note that this firmware is only for T95ZPlus with 9377 (LTM8830) wifi chip!!!
You need to flash with amlogic bruning tool like other firmwares (choose erase flash(Normal erase) and erase bootloaded)
It take about 5-6 minutes to load firmware....
after the first boot, give 5min to preinstall task to finish, you will see apps popping in your menu. do not connect your wifi or open anything during this time!!
If you get this error with burning tool
[0x30702004]Uboot/Temprature Testting/Get result/Out of range
Change temperature setting in VIEW menu for 20 - 60
and reflash firmware as normal
Download Link (2017-03-26)
https://mega.nz/#!90pnhR4Z!PAOMRKjPk...Nh-2bNpe3EvqAE
CPU Heatsink Upgrade MOD
For people that want to upgrade cpu heat sink!
The original heatsink is very small and in my case poorly stick to the CPU. And to help heat dispersion they added a thermal pad between metal plate on the top of the case and heatsink.
So I decide to mod and add a bigger Heatsink
total cost 2$
Aluminum heatsink
E-b-a-y search for : 100x25x10mm Aluminum Heat Sink
Thermal Paste Silicon (glue)
E-b-a-y search for : Hot Thermal Compounds Conductive Heatsink Adhesive
1- With a hacksaw cut aluminum heatsink to the desired length in my case I cut it at 4.5cm
2- remove the old heatsink with a razor blade try to insert blade between heatsink and cpu this will cut some paste, after use a flat head screwdriver and put in between top fins of the heatsink, then twist slowly left and right. heatsink will come off slowly, DO NOT force you may broke the cpu!
3- with heatsink removed use you razor blade to remove the silicon on the top of CPU and clean it with alcohol to remove completely all old paste.
4- apply small and even amount of new paste over CPU and RAM Chips, and put heatsink, apply pressure on the heatsink, you will see paste flow out a little bit.
you want a full contact with chip and heatsink so use enought but not to much paste.
5- In my case i've reuse the thermal pad to link new heatsink and metal plate so I use my razor blade to slice it about 1-2mm thick and place it on top of the heatsink.
6- Let it dry couple hours before reassemble your box
Picture of the new heatsink,
Enjoy a 40c idle temperature and with load 55c
WIFI antenna upgrade MOD
As you know, WIFI is not very good in this box, so I decide to boost it up to full performance.
Stock the t95z plus have a 1-3 dbi tape antenna that have about 1/3 stick on the side and 2/3 stick on the bottom of the plastic case.
So I ordered a SMA pigtail and a 7 dbi sma antenna (2.4GHz+5GHz)
I've un-soldered the original antenna to keep in case I want to revert my MOD. And soldered the SMA pigtail and drill a hole in the only side free of port and connector
WOW !!
In 5GHz AC 433mbps @ 20 feets + 2 walls I'm at 92% signal quality compared to 58% with the original one.
in 2.4GHz N 150mbps @ 20 feets + 2 walls I'm at 100% signal quality compared to 70% with the original one
Resulting no buffering with MKV and MP4 1080 over network share
I've made a custom firmware from the new source.
please note that this firmware is only for T95ZPlus with 9377 (LTM8830) wifi chip!!!
- Removed useless apps
- Added useful apps
- Tweak Wifi config
- Peformance on 5GHz in AC is not good, even at 1meter of my router and get a lot of buffering with a 100% 433mbps link. Don't count on this option with this source!!
- Performance on 2.4GHz is way better, I think they forget to activate dual stream in the config and this is a big mistake!, currently this source only have 1 stream 75mbps. I activated the HT40SGI so if you use your 2.4GHz you have a link of 150mbps. I can stream MKv without a single buffering!!! and this is BIG BIG feature for me. I don't know why I miss that in my other release!! :S
- Beacon filtering was set to 50 this is too low, I change to 100 for stability and performance. since 5GHz is not good I tweak it for 2.4GHz - Fix keyboard map for ENTER
- RGB Option is now available in the display options (from source)
- Fix Dark video in Kodi / Apply bootvideo instead of bootanimation ( think the source was patched but I include my convert into mp4)
You need to flash with amlogic bruning tool like other firmwares (choose erase flash(Normal erase) and erase bootloaded)
It take about 5-6 minutes to load firmware....
after the first boot, give 5min to preinstall task to finish, you will see apps popping in your menu. do not connect your wifi or open anything during this time!!
If you get this error with burning tool
[0x30702004]Uboot/Temprature Testting/Get result/Out of range
Change temperature setting in VIEW menu for 20 - 60
and reflash firmware as normal
Download Link (2017-03-26)
https://mega.nz/#!90pnhR4Z!PAOMRKjPk...Nh-2bNpe3EvqAE
CPU Heatsink Upgrade MOD
For people that want to upgrade cpu heat sink!
The original heatsink is very small and in my case poorly stick to the CPU. And to help heat dispersion they added a thermal pad between metal plate on the top of the case and heatsink.
So I decide to mod and add a bigger Heatsink
total cost 2$
Aluminum heatsink
E-b-a-y search for : 100x25x10mm Aluminum Heat Sink
Thermal Paste Silicon (glue)
E-b-a-y search for : Hot Thermal Compounds Conductive Heatsink Adhesive
1- With a hacksaw cut aluminum heatsink to the desired length in my case I cut it at 4.5cm
2- remove the old heatsink with a razor blade try to insert blade between heatsink and cpu this will cut some paste, after use a flat head screwdriver and put in between top fins of the heatsink, then twist slowly left and right. heatsink will come off slowly, DO NOT force you may broke the cpu!
3- with heatsink removed use you razor blade to remove the silicon on the top of CPU and clean it with alcohol to remove completely all old paste.
4- apply small and even amount of new paste over CPU and RAM Chips, and put heatsink, apply pressure on the heatsink, you will see paste flow out a little bit.
you want a full contact with chip and heatsink so use enought but not to much paste.
5- In my case i've reuse the thermal pad to link new heatsink and metal plate so I use my razor blade to slice it about 1-2mm thick and place it on top of the heatsink.
6- Let it dry couple hours before reassemble your box
Picture of the new heatsink,
Enjoy a 40c idle temperature and with load 55c
WIFI antenna upgrade MOD
As you know, WIFI is not very good in this box, so I decide to boost it up to full performance.
Stock the t95z plus have a 1-3 dbi tape antenna that have about 1/3 stick on the side and 2/3 stick on the bottom of the plastic case.
So I ordered a SMA pigtail and a 7 dbi sma antenna (2.4GHz+5GHz)
I've un-soldered the original antenna to keep in case I want to revert my MOD. And soldered the SMA pigtail and drill a hole in the only side free of port and connector
WOW !!
In 5GHz AC 433mbps @ 20 feets + 2 walls I'm at 92% signal quality compared to 58% with the original one.
in 2.4GHz N 150mbps @ 20 feets + 2 walls I'm at 100% signal quality compared to 70% with the original one
Resulting no buffering with MKV and MP4 1080 over network share
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