Mecool M8S PRO L 4K TV Box Amlogic S912 Bluetooth 4.1 + HS

[thijsnl]

To clear things up (and because of curiosity) i did a little teardown of this device:

- The reset button on the PCB is missing, but the pads are available for shorting or adding button yourself
- The UART pins are available and working (TX and RX, 115200 baud 8N1)

Device boot start with this

GXM:BL1:dc8b51:76f1a5;FEAT:ADFC318C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0;
TE: 221493

BL2 Built : 17:47:29, Jul 11 2017.
gxl gcb74862-dirty - jiaxing.ye@droid05

...... (many lines)

INFO:    BL3-2: ATOS-V2.0.2-g7eeafe5 #4 Thu May 18 13:19:01 CST 2017 arm
INFO:    BL3-2: Chip: Unknown Rev: A (22:A - 80:2)
INFO:    BL3-2: crypto engine DMA
INFO:    BL3-2: secure time TEE
INFO:    BL3-2: CONFIG_DEVICE_SECURE 0xb200000e


U-Boot 2015.01-g559fde8-dirty (Sep 07 2017 - 23:41:07)

DRAM:  3 GiB
Relocation Offset is: b6eb3000
register usb cfg[0][1] = 00000000b7f5acc8

........ (many lines)

00:      logo   0000000002000000 1
01:  recovery   0000000002000000 1
02:       rsv   0000000000800000 1
03:       tee   0000000000800000 1
04:     crypt   0000000002000000 1
05:      misc   0000000002000000 1
06:      boot   0000000002000000 1
07:    system   0000000080000000 1
08:     cache   0000000020000000 2
09:      data   ffffffffffffffff 4

.... (many lines)

Hit Enter or space or Ctrl+C key to stop autoboot -- :  0
ee_gate_off ...
## Booting Android Image at 0x01080000 ...
reloc_addr =b3f38450
copy done
Kernel command line: buildvariant=userdebug
load dtb from 0x1000000 ......
      Amlogic multi-dtb tool
      Single dtb detected
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
   kernel loaded at 0x01080000, end = 0x01f9c288
   Loading Ramdisk to b3cbf000, end b3ea14da ... OK
   Loading Device Tree to 000000001fff1000, end 000000001ffff3a9 ... OK
fdt_instaboot: no instaboot image

Starting kernel ...

and during kernel boot

[    4.245088@0] mmcblk0: emmc:0001 S10016 14.5 GiB
[    4.245223@0] mmcblk0boot0: emmc:0001 S10016 partition 1 4.00 MiB
[    4.245337@0] mmcblk0boot1: emmc:0001 S10016 partition 2 4.00 MiB
[    4.245460@0] mmcblk0rpmb: emmc:0001 S10016 partition 3 4.00 MiB
[    4.246341@3]  mmcblk0: unknown partition table
[    4.247000@0] [mmc_read_partition_tbl] mmc read partition OK!
[    4.247001@0] add_emmc_partition
[    4.247176@3] [mmcblk0p01]           bootloader  offset 0x000000000000, size 0x000000400000
[    4.247317@0] [mmcblk0p02]             reserved  offset 0x000002400000, size 0x000004000000
[    4.247442@3] [mmcblk0p03]                cache  offset 0x000006c00000, size 0x000020000000
[    4.247559@0] [mmcblk0p04]                  env  offset 0x000027400000, size 0x000000800000
[    4.247684@3] [mmcblk0p05]                 logo  offset 0x000028400000, size 0x000002000000
[    4.247803@0] [mmcblk0p06]             recovery  offset 0x00002ac00000, size 0x000002000000
[    4.247922@3] [mmcblk0p07]                  rsv  offset 0x00002d400000, size 0x000000800000
[    4.248051@0] [mmcblk0p08]                  tee  offset 0x00002e400000, size 0x000000800000
[    4.248164@3] [mmcblk0p09]                crypt  offset 0x00002f400000, size 0x000002000000
[    4.248281@0] [mmcblk0p10]                 misc  offset 0x000031c00000, size 0x000002000000
[    4.248415@3] [mmcblk0p11]                 boot  offset 0x000034400000, size 0x000002000000
[    4.248541@0] [mmcblk0p12]               system  offset 0x000036c00000, size 0x000080000000
[    4.248662@3] [mmcblk0p13]                 data  offset 0x0000b7400000, size 0x0002ecc00000

even got console

127|M8S_PRO_L:/ $ ls
acct         factory               init.usb.rc       sepolicy
boot         file_contexts.bin     init.zygote32.rc  service_contexts
bugreports   fstab.amlogic         mnt               storage
cache        init                  oem               swap_zram0
charger      init.amlogic.board.rc proc              sys
config       init.amlogic.rc       property_contexts system
d            init.amlogic.usb.rc   root              tee
data         init.amlogic.wifi.rc  sbin              ueventd.amlogic.rc
default.prop init.environ.rc       sdcard            ueventd.rc
dev          init.rc               seapp_contexts    vendor
etc          init.usb.configfs.rc  selinux_version

M8S_PRO_L:/ $ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.14.29 #14 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 10 16:06:20 CST 2017 armv8l

M8S_PRO_L:/ $ cat [  151.735640@4] tx queueing
/proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : AArch64 Processor rev 4 (aarch64)
processor       : 0
processor       : 1
processor       : 2
processor       : 3
processor       : 4
processor       : 5
processor       : 6
processor       : 7
Features        : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 wp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tlsi vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

Hardware        : Amlogic
Serial          : 220xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa27f

[ememm]

Can someone who has received the Pro L please confirm whether Youtube 4k is working?

[thijsnl]

Can someone who has received the Pro L please confirm whether Youtube 4k is working?

Seems to be working. My TV can't display 4K and resolution in Mecool M8S is set to 1080P60, but Youtube is showing the 4K icon

EDIT: With 'Stats for nerds', I played 4K@30 and 4K@60. Both play smooth despite the frame drop nerd stats in the 60fps.

[Dope101]

I just installed Kszaq's LibreElec to an externalSD card on this box and wireless and bluetooth works out of the box (Ethernet too, with correct dtb file)
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/58...-8-2-for-s912/

installed via the recovery method (2nd variant):
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/55...x-s912-device/
just picked any zip file in the root of externalSD card using update program

used wrxtasy's remote.conf for the remote

http://wrxtasy.libreelec.tv/MECOOL/

switching from LibreElec to andriod is reboot from internal

from andriod to LibreElec is just
settings>about>restart

[thijsnl]

Netflix 720p and 4k Youtube
And pretty snappy I find...

More later with this crazy ATV playstore part don't know yet, forcing a person to use a remote at my age, this will have to change

Thanks to Gearbest

Netflix is 1080P for me on this device.

I agree that the ATV version forcing remote control is a big downgrade on my Remix mini with Remix OS that ia perfectly controllable with a mouse. Maybe someday i can port Remix OS for this box.

[trebor]

Yes it maybe 1080 but i can only prove to 720 with netflix test pattern.
Things will change...

[wrxtasy]

I just installed Kszaq's LibreElec to an externalSD card on this box and wireless and bluetooth works out of the box (Ethernet too, with correct dtb file)
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/58...-8-2-for-s912/

installed via the recovery method (2nd variant):
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/55...x-s912-device/
just picked any zip file in the root of externalSD card using update program

used wrxtasy's remote.conf for the remote

http://wrxtasy.libreelec.tv/MECOOL/

switching from LibreElec to andriod is reboot from internal

from andriod to LibreElec is just
settings>about>restart

For a bit of a helper App to get LibreELEC Kodi Dual booting started from a microSDHC card you can use this App:

Reboot to LibreELEC .apk

[thijsnl]

For a bit of a helper App to get LibreELEC Kodi Dual booting started from a microSDHC card you can use this App:

Reboot to LibreELEC .apk

Somehow this app is not compatible with the ATV Mecool M8S Pro L

[Guest]

Note that this ships without a Reset button.

[trebor]

Updated post 3 bit with info and moved..

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s912/mecool/670554-mecool-m8s-pro-l-4k-tv-box-amlogic-s912-bluetooth-4-1-hs?p=670755#post670755

[scooter2014]

Thread clean keep on topic please. Supplier or manufacture complaints can go to those sections with order number ect posted for help if needed.

[Floki]

Hi guys, a couple of questions:

- This box play netflix at 1080p with the factory firmware or a person needs to install the custom ATV rom first?
- Has anyone had any over-heating issues?

thanks.

[thijsnl]

Hi guys, a couple of questions:

- This box play netflix at 1080p with the factory firmware or a person needs to install the custom ATV rom first?
- Has anyone had any over-heating issues?

thanks.

Yes plays 1080p with shipped firmware. No overheating issues for me since i got the box

[Floki]

Yes plays 1080p with shipped firmware. No overheating issues for me since i got the box

Great. Thank you.

[Guest]

So, I finally got my 2nd M8S Pro L today (after bricking the first one by accidentally flashing the M8S Pro bootloader)...and it's definitely my new favorite box.

With the TVStock ROM, it's everything you get in a Nexus Player but with the ports I really need (Ethernet, USB & microSD) for half the price. The only thing not quite right is the Google Cast receiver, and we're working on that. I know it's a little bit more than the M8S Pro+, but to me it's worth it for the Bluetooth, 5GHz WiFi, faster SoC, and reliable eMMC.

My biggest frustration is the lack of a damn reset switch.

[ClarkKent]

Magendanz;: So, I finally got my 2nd M8S Pro L today (after bricking the first one by accidentally flashing the M8S Pro bootloader.

Say it isn't So!
No, really....surely such an error couldn't lock out a M magic resuscitation. Would it ?

If I can get an .img fille for this device, I should be able to resuscitate it by shorting pins on the eMMC for Mask ROM mode. So far, though, that's been hard to obtain.