RK3368 04/2017 True Octacore Firmware

[Shomari]

It happens when you disable the "disable hardware overlays"...

... then all you have to do is uncheck disable hardware overlays. I have that checked by default in my firmware. Or do you mean it happens when you leave it checked?

[Shomari]

great. You know I really had a feeling it was somehow related to recovery...Even TWRP is difficult to flash on this box. Even when I was able to boot into TWRP it would'nt see any partitions. May not be related but it was weird.

No, you noticed the right thing. It's the specific blocks it looks for. It uses an odd partition layout. 'Can't find block device', etc, is what it says when trying to flash on Z4 because of that.

[Shomari]

... new fresh, clean thread with latest links/builds to minimize confusion

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/rk3688-devices-aa/641933-april-rk3368-true-octacore-thread

[jit18]

... then all you have to do is uncheck disable hardware overlays. I have that checked by default in my firmware. Or do you mean it happens when you leave it checked?

Confusion perfect!

Thats when...

And yes its gone when i enable it (set to ON) but nevertheless it's a bug and that's what i wanted to report..

[Shomari]

Confusion perfect!

Thats when...

... so you have to check that, or not check that for it to work well on your box? You should also think about trying the latest Z4 builds (not the 4PDA one)

If you use my full firmware, without replacing boot/system, that will always be activated automatically.

[jit18]

But this is always so...

[jit18]

... so you have to check that, or not check that for it to work well on your box? You should also think about trying the latest Z4 builds (not the 4PDA one)

If you use my full firmware, without replacing boot/system, that will always be activated automatically.

Haha

Not check... Then problem...

Is there a particular reason why you always activate this in your Roms?

[Shomari]

Confusion perfect!

Thats when...

And yes its gone when i enable it (set to ON) but nevertheless it's a bug and that's what i wanted to report..

... it's always on, automatically, if you use my full firmware, even after reboots.

If you replace either boot/system, it will be off, and you'll have to re-enable it with every reboot.

That's not a problem with my full firmware, or if you don't replace boot/system.

That's one of the things I did was disabled hardware overlays programmatically to make it persist after reboots.

[Shomari]

But this is always so...

that's confusing. Have you changed anything in the firmware? Because even the hardware overlays should be disabled by default, automatically, always, on my firmware.

I haven't seen any of these issues, including this issue with the apk installer and I use that all the time.

I'm gonna recommend you use the latest firmware for the Z4 I provided in this thread http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...ctacore-thread

Flash the full firmware, then the images in the Z4 True Octacore archive.

[Shomari]

Haha

Not check... Then problem...

Is there a particular reason why you always activate this in your Roms?

performance.

[BEN001]

Hi Shomari,
read the message, problem firmware Z4 4PDA with power supply 4A (stop playback at 4 amperage)
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showt...ost&p=60592903

[Shomari]

Hi Shomari,
read the message, problem firmware Z4 4PDA with power supply 4A (stop playback at 4 amperage)
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showt...ost&p=60592903

Use the new Z4 versions from here: http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...ead#post641933

Other than that, I don't know what to say.

It's possible maybe the devices have different tolerances, if it's a Z4. You have to understand, I have two Z4 boxes and don't have this issue. Good luck..

[dkholm56]

dkholm56 the M8 Pro firmware uses a different misc/recovery configuration, it looks like. Its stock firmware doesn't boot on Z4.

Once I get it figured out I'll post something for you here and let you know. I'm close..

Hi Shomari,
Anything new you want me to try regarding the M8 Pro recovery. Just checking.
thanks much

[Shomari]

Hi Shomari,
Anything new you want me to try regarding the M8 Pro recovery. Just checking.
thanks much

...yup, let's continue over here http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...415#post642415

[aliens]

Hello, nothing new in topic?