RK3368 04/2017 True Octacore Firmware

[brickmojoccatz]

Just tried the resource but it didnt work, the display stays completely blank. Only blue led power indicator is on.

[Shomari]

Just tried the resource but it didnt work, the display stays completely blank. Only blue led power indicator is on.

whoops! I had a mix up. I'll resend later. Just go back to the one before that for now

[Shomari]

Just tried the resource but it didnt work, the display stays completely blank. Only blue led power indicator is on.

Try this adjustment for your HW clock. I made some changes to video handling on your device as well, so you may want to retest your (H265) video playback again, just in case.

[Shomari]

Perhaps, my download was corrupted, but it installed and is working, but there are no apps. No Google Play Store, or any other apps, except the browser. When open the browser, I can't get back to the desktop. As, I suspected, my Ethernet and remote do not work. None of the icons at the bottom of the screen work.

UPDATED - See post #1

[brickmojoccatz]

Hi shomari really thanks for the work you are putting in this project. Im really happy to see my RK3368 box relive as it was gathering dust when my s905x box took over. This r68 device has many benefits over the s905x, like controllers working out of the box and the better graphics card with opengl 3.1 thanks again mate.

[Shomari]

Hi shomari really thanks for the work you are putting in this project. Im really happy to see my RK3368 box relive as it was gathering dust when my s905x box took over. This r68 device has many benefits over the s905x, like controllers working out of the box and the better graphics card with opengl 3.1 thanks again mate.

Thanks for testing and no problem - enjoy!

[shivattaque]

My i68G heats a lot so I changed the radiator but that is not enough, I use the firmware of Ionix 9.5 which works rather well but it would squeeze it To make the Vcore, memory and 64bits improvements of this version. I do "Moonlight Game Streaming" and it lag after a while because of the heat.
I dare not try your version because the heating is already too large base.
Thank you in advance.

[Shomari]

My i68G heats a lot so I changed the radiator but that is not enough, I use the firmware of Ionix 9.5 which works rather well but it would squeeze it To make the Vcore, memory and 64bits improvements of this version. I do "Moonlight Game Streaming" and it lag after a while because of the heat.
I dare not try your version because the heating is already too large base.
Thank you in advance.

Are you basing that off an actual measurement of heat or a guess? A lot of people blame 'heat' for issues that are not really heat related. There's a lot more going on in this firmware than just a souped up CPU. (I haven't seen anyone complain about overheating with this firmware, either)

I mentioned it before, but I'll say it again, I've had zero issues with heat in six months running these builds with nothing but the stock heatsink on my generic Z4.

Even before tuning, the RK3368 is already one of the coolest running RK processors. Nothing like the RK3288 - that thing runs blazing hot.

EDIT: by the way, there's almost no way for an RK3368 to overheat wth stock factory values. Any instability noticed by users with their factory firmware is due to other issues, very unlikely to be due to heat.

[shivattaque]

I'm not sure this is the processor's problem but rather the memory too close to the processor.
Is it possible?
And thanks for the quick reply.

[freakkid]

Hi Shomari,

Ready to try out your update on my Nexbox Z68...flashed your latest...this one booted up ok...some flickering of the screen when moving the mouse only on settings menu...Can you set me up to use my own resource.img for this device so I can get wi-fi, ethernet and bluetooth going?? Tried AP6330 resource.img you posted here for i68 device..was able to connect to wi-fi but than screen would freeze after using it for a minute or 2....Thanx again for taking care of us abandoned RK3368 users...

[Shomari]

Hi Shomari,

Ready to try out your update on my Nexbox Z68...flashed your latest...this one booted up ok...some flickering of the screen when moving the mouse only on settings menu...Can you set me up to use my own resource.img for this device so I can get wi-fi, ethernet and bluetooth going?? Tried AP6330 resource.img you posted here for i68 device..was able to connect to wi-fi but than screen would freeze after using it for a minute or 2....Thanx again for taking care of us abandoned RK3368 users...

Most likely because that's for a different device. I'll port the firmware for your z68. Also, remember, sometimes the power supply may not be strong enough to run at this level; that's the only thing I've changed other than software is the power supply on mine. I'll post a link for you in a bit

[Shomari]

I'm not sure this is the processor's problem but rather the memory too close to the processor.
Is it possible?
And thanks for the quick reply.

No problem! You know you can try it on your device without losing any data - flash just the i68 AP6330 resource - and see how it runs on your box, let me know if you have any other questions. There are users running these builds on their i68 without problems, it's worth a shot. If it doesn't cause issues you can then flash the full firmware.

[Shomari]

Hi Shomari,

Ready to try out your update on my Nexbox Z68...flashed your latest...this one booted up ok...some flickering of the screen when moving the mouse only on settings menu...Can you set me up to use my own resource.img for this device so I can get wi-fi, ethernet and bluetooth going?? Tried AP6330 resource.img you posted here for i68 device..was able to connect to wi-fi but than screen would freeze after using it for a minute or 2....Thanx again for taking care of us abandoned RK3368 users...

here you go - Z68 - let us know how it runs.

[Shomari]

scooter2014 do any of these run on your geekbox?

[scooter2014]

I try later tonight testing some other devices right now

[Shomari]

... cool. Let us know, thanks.