K-R42 Hybrid Firmware (HFW) 1.1.0 by lewy20041

[holli73]

next firmware

hello,

is lan (ethernet) working as well (fix mac)?

1.2.2 is at the moment for my tvheadend env. the best choice - if i could get lan and passthrough working on xbmc this would be great

thanks a lot for your time and good work.

holli

[Gormar]

is lan (ethernet) working as well (fix mac)?

LAN is still working. Random MAC is a feature not a bug. It grants high anonimity for the device .

If you need fixed MAC then you can deploy some temporary countermeasures.
Create new file e.g. 01SETMAC then open it for editing and paste:
ip link set eth0 down
ip link set eth0 address 00:01:02:03:04:05
ip link set eth0 up
Remember to change MAC address to your liking.

Then remount system partition in RW mode:
mount -o remount,rw /system
and copy that file into /etc/init.d directory.

Finaly change owner and access rights:
chown root.shell /etc/init.d/01SETMAC
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/01SETMAC


After that remount system partition in RO mode. a' voala

[Gormar]

But tell me please, is there patched kernel for downloading, or i need to patch them myself? I newer do it yet & i am afraid that finally i get brick'ed device

Probably there is but not for K-R42 box.


Patching and compiling kernel isn't exactly rocket science but without proper config files it can be quite a pain in the ass to just successfully finish that process. Not to mention even getting functional one . Initrd you can salvage from wasser kernel. One good thing is that it is almost impossible to brick a device flashing only kernel because we didn't touch bootloader therefor it is always possibility to run recovery mode and flash complete firmware. And in most cases we shouldn't lose our data from internal memory.


But smartest and easiest thing to do is to politely ask wasser to make changes to his kernel source and compile one more time for as all. Especially now that there are pending problems/bugs which are quite good documented and can be squashed in one go:
1. EDID ver 1.3 misinterpretation for 16:10 monitors: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...EDID#post89590
2. logcat spam: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...ll=1#post91319
3. missing keys from remote control: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...ll=1#post91745

[fredphoesh]

BTW. Does Google Calendar not work only for me or it is one of the problems in this firmware? It was suprise that it wasn't installed by default.

in settings>accounts>google you will not find calendar as an option for syncing.
if you download google calendar and go to settings and choose your email address, it will say no calendars... so somehow the calendar function has been completely removed.

lucky you to have stability on 1.2.2, I cannot use it at all, it shuts off every 5-10 minutes, sometimes even less, especially bad after flashing wasser kernel, but that may have been just by chance.



sent from an android device for TV

[wasser]

Probably there is but not for K-R42 box.


Patching and compiling kernel isn't exactly rocket science but without proper config files it can be quite a pain in the ass to just successfully finish that process. Not to mention even getting functional one . Initrd you can salvage from wasser kernel. One good thing is that it is almost impossible to brick a device flashing only kernel because we didn't touch bootloader therefor it is always possibility to run recovery mode and flash complete firmware. And in most cases we shouldn't lose our data from internal memory.


But smartest and easiest thing to do is to politely ask wasser to make changes to his kernel source and compile one more time for as all. Especially now that there are pending problems/bugs which are quite good documented and can be squashed in one go:
1. EDID ver 1.3 misinterpretation for 16:10 monitors: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...EDID#post89590
2. logcat spam: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...ll=1#post91319
3. missing keys from remote control: http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...ll=1#post91745

all 3 issues are fixed in my new kernel which i will upload soon next week

[wasser]

in settings>accounts>google you will not find calendar as an option for syncing.
if you download google calendar and go to settings and choose your email address, it will say no calendars... so somehow the calendar function has been completely removed.

lucky you to have stability on 1.2.2, I cannot use it at all, it shuts off every 5-10 minutes, sometimes even less, especially bad after flashing wasser kernel, but that may have been just by chance.



sent from an android device for TV

please try to copy the missing GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk CalendarProvider.apk into 1.2.2, Calenders should work again

[fredphoesh]

please try to copy the missing GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk CalendarProvider.apk into 1.2.2, Calenders should work again

Hi Wasser,
I have copied these two files from my SGS4, will these be the same for all android devices running JB 4.2.2?

Here they are, uploaded to my google drive:
note calendarprovider is called seccalendarprovider for some reason.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9WnrFNx0uGjdlNJRFFsTm0yZkk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9WnrFNx0uGjNG9LV0dIaDJzUzA/edit?usp=sharing

paste to system/app

[Tech]

Thank you for the update wasser.

Ill be looking forward to this. I hope it has the same 1080p settings as the 1.2.0 final 1080p kernel as that version img is fine without video loss and sound pop.

[lewy20041]

all 3 issues are fixed in my new kernel which i will upload soon next week

Nice to hear from you wasser.
If that so i will wait with the firmware update for your kernels.
Thanks for helping here

[killer5000]

custom recovery for k-r42

Is there a way to get a custom recovery for k-r42?

[torro]

This is my first post. First of all, thank you for all the development efforts!

Any chance of software enable the device to boot if/when the power is connected, and/or boot the device with an IR remote? My non-bluetooth CS918 is powered by the USB port on my TV, and it would be a nice feature not to have to physically press the power button on this device to have it booting up.

Edit: And secondly, can a Windows RC6 IR receiver be connected and configured to controll XBMC as the IR codes from the included remote are hard as he#$ to import into Logitech's Harmony remote software.

[wasser]

new kernel

Nice to hear from you wasser.
If that so i will wait with the firmware update for your kernels.
Thanks for helping here

i uploaded new kernels 1080p/720p/480p.

* 3 reported issues fixed
* wlan wifi power issue fixed
* TV mode support

http://d-h.st/5wk

http://d-h.st/H3V

please test!

[Tech]

EDIT!!

wasser nice to see some new kernels to test but...

On the 1008p one is still the same lines all over and sound has random snaps and pop's setting it down to 720p is fine.. IDK

EDIT!!

IDK i went out for dinner and now back and noise and lines are gone when leaving the box on for 2+Hr. Reflashed and back with the bad img and snaps and pops are back. Im going to leave the tv on and see what the key warm up time is for this kernel.

[benh]

dropped frames 1080p24

Hi All

I have installed 1.2.2 and it generally works OK, but when I'm testing XBMC on 1080p24 Bluray or HDDVD rips I am getting stuttering and a large number of dropped frames and the video is playing at about 10-15 fps.

Is this likely to be:
a) A hardware limitation
b) An android software limitation
c) An XBMC software limitation
d) A software configuration issue

Is there anyone with smooth (or mostly smooth) playback of 1080p24 material? Can you playback 24fps material on Android?

Thanks
Ben

[Tech]

Hi Ben,

your on the right track.

a) not hardware issue as native player will play them jusy fine.
b-d) xbmc for android was made for true amlogic chips first. thats why you can watch your mvk on a single core 800-1gz amlogic chip.

exynos cpu devices can do the decoding verry well.

devices like this and ouya will rely on how well the firmware is built and support. With the xbmc team supporting ouya im sure it will inly be 3-6months untill we and ouya owners can watch 24fps of all our bd backups.