MECOOL M8S Pro + TV Box Amlogic S905X Android 7.1 2/16GB Fast Lan, WiFi 802.11b/g/n

[rahzel]

Well, it all comes down to cost. When they sell a box sold for less than $40, they have to cut corners somewhere. My M8Pro+ can get up to 30Mbps over wifi, whereas my other Android box, Himedia H7 4th Gen, wireless AC can reach 90Mbps. I bought a Totolink AC1200 wireless router to use as a wife bridge, and now my M8Pro+ can get to 90Mbps over LAN, but it also bring the total cost to the same level of my Himedia H7 box. Powerline adapter is only needed when the wireless AC has interference or over multiple walls. My Totolink is less than $30 and I would highly recommend it over powerline adapter that cost much more.

In my experience (or at least with my M8s Pro+) it's not a range or interference issue, it's a hardware defect or poor installation/solder job on the antenna. I max out my internet speeds over wifi on my M8S Pro+ when it actually stays connected. I even tried putting my M8S Pro+ right beside my router and it still has the random disconnects.

I suspect that some of the other boxes that I've had WiFi issues with also had shoddy WiFi antennas, because again, where I place the android box is in the next room, probably only 15ft from my router, with only a wall in the way.

I don't want to have to deal with crappy WiFi on these boxes anymore. While I can theoretically get higher speeds over Wireless AC, Powerline should provide me with a more stable connection; good enough for what I use these boxes for.

[ready]

Best easiest to just start fresh with the update to latest OEM . Use built in Update app with the update zip file on a USB drive. Tick wipe data option and you get a fresh install of the new version

Where can I find the latest OEM update file? Can I update using the TF card?

[estimadarocha]

Hi all,

I received this morning 3 m8s pro+ without reset button and with sec 728.

I am trying to flash it by SD using the hold button 1 of remote but no results until now can someone help me?

Thanks

[hansdampf]

Do anyone here has the problem with marking and copying of a text from a website? Because marking works but if i long press to wait for the popup to copy the text, noting comes ;(...tried it with opera mini, opera, cm browser and chrome always the same issue....This copy popup just appears, if i try to copy the stuff in the web adress, same site trying to copy the text from the website, doesn't work....

has anyone a idea?

[stlab]

Is there any way to get LibreElec work with Samsung Anynet+ CEC?
Can't control the device witch the TV-Remote. Under Android everything work fine.

[P.X]

Hi

Did anyone ever see a .zip or IMG file for OEM FW NHG47L 20170914.183646.V0619

This is the first V0619 and is a standard Android base build not ATV. This is the one I was referring to previously.

Later V0619 are ATV based.

[Paulo Rossi]

Hi all,

I received this morning 3 m8s pro+ without reset button and with sec 728.

I am trying to flash it by SD using the hold button 1 of remote but no results until now can someone help me?

Thanks

I believe you need to install Android Terminal app ( in Mecool ) and write reboot update ... It should boot for LibreElec, at least it worked for my box ...

[Shimon]

Hi

Did anyone ever see a .zip or IMG file for OEM FW NHG47L 20170914.183646.V0619

This is the first V0619 and is a standard Android base build not ATV. This is the one I was referring to previously.

Later V0619 are ATV based.

A good question, I've never seen that version uploaded anywhere.

Nor have I.

[bpbastos]

Gonna write this in case it helps someone in the same situation as me.

I got a box with the faulty eMMC and 20170829 firmware. After trying to update to a newer OEM version, I bricked it. USB burning tool always fails at 98%. I thought at least I would be able to use it for LibreElec off an SD card but the light stayed red+blue and didn't turn on.

After trying a hundred different times and many different things, I was able to get it to a point where it reliably loads LibreElec from an SD card and so far it seems to work perfectly. Here's what I did:

- Took the M8S_PRO+-20170829.121614.V0321.img that Magendanz posted
- Opened it with Amlogic Customization Tool
- Opened C:\Program Files (x86)\Amlogic\CustomizationTool\tmp\level2\system in Windows Explorer and deleted everything in that folder.
- Packed it with Amlogic Customization Tool, resulting in a ~67MB img file
- Flashed that img file with USB Burning Tool. Tried all the different "Erase flash" options. "Erase bootloader" checked.

Sometimes the flashing process crapped out halfway, sometimes it finished successfully. I got many successful flashes but LE still didn't load fully. I'm not sure if I did something different this last time or if it was pure luck, but now it loads LE successfully all the time.

For some reason, LE 8.2-8.2.0.1 doesn't load. It works fine with an older 8.0.2a and with a newer 9.x from http://kodi.adamg.co.uk/libreelec/releases/ (I used 1.0.4.1)

I don't want to try flashing anything again for fear of bricking it again. If you are in the same boat with a bricked M8S Pro+ and want to try loading LE on it, let me know and I'll upload the stripped img file for you to try.

UPDATE: Shortly after posting this, I decided to take the plunge and try flashing the full M8S_PRO+-20170829.121614.V0321.img with USB Burning Tool and lo and behold, it flashed successfully! Everything is back to how it was when I first received it, and so far there haven't been any crashes. So it appears there's hope after all for boxes with bad eMMC, even if they were shipped with 20170829 firmware. As a side note, I did lose Widevine L1, it's now L3.


Cheers!

Hi polpus,
I'm with the same problem, no matter which image or procedure I try, it doesn't pass 98%. Do you mind to share your image? I'd like to give it a try.
Thanks!

[polpus]

Hi polpus,
I'm with the same problem, no matter which image or procedure I try, it doesn't pass 98%. Do you mind to share your image? I'd like to give it a try.
Thanks!

Sure, here you go:

https://mega.nz/#!IhpSHZrQ!VKGr-TLpTOllmORXCB1gbtySi77J85dpvRoXmow3Xw0

Flash it with USB Burning Tool. It might take a lot of tries to get it to flash to 100%, but since the image is so small, it goes really fast. After you've successfully flashed this, you should be able to boot LibreElec from SD, or boot TWRP from SD and try to install an older TVStock OTA (I was able to install 20170730 TVStock, YMMV)

[bpbastos]

Sure, here you go:

https://mega.nz/#!IhpSHZrQ!VKGr-TLpTOllmORXCB1gbtySi77J85dpvRoXmow3Xw0

Flash it with USB Burning Tool. It might take a lot of tries to get it to flash to 100%, but since the image is so small, it goes really fast. After you've successfully flashed this, you should be able to boot LibreElec from SD, or boot TWRP from SD and try to install an older TVStock OTA (I was able to install 20170730 TVStock, YMMV)

Thank you polpus!

[asdf9090]

I purchased several of these items. However, OS version and kernel version are different for each product.

Some are ANDROID OS with OTA version 90633006 and others are ANDROID TV OS with OTA version 90633006.

This is an important issue when using TV BOX. Because Android os and Android tv os have different executable applications.

I can not understand that different os is installed with the same product.

I've asked the seller why the version is different and how to make Android TV OS to standard Android OS, but I have not heard back for a few days.

somebody please help me!

I want to get ANDROID OS with OTA version 90633006!!!

[P.X]

Where are you getting the version number ?
I look in Settings>About

History

The first boxes are built with Android and have FW Builds with date.time. V0321

Latest boxes have AndroidTV and FW is date.time. V0619

Magendanz makes Custom ROMs in ATV and Nexus Full/Nano versions
based on the current release of the base OEM.

[tantrums]

Do anyone here has the problem with marking and copying of a text from a website? Because marking works but if i long press to wait for the popup to copy the text, noting comes ;(...tried it with opera mini, opera, cm browser and chrome always the same issue....This copy popup just appears, if i try to copy the stuff in the web adress, same site trying to copy the text from the website, doesn't work....

has anyone a idea?

Confirmed not working. Also not working on Megandanz ATV rom

[demasiado]

Just a quick question on the TF slot. How would you insert a MicroSD ? To my failing sight it looks like the slot has a different size... I need to know where the MicroSD contacts should be, that is top or down facing and left or right while looking at the box side....
EDIT: with a little more patience I made it...