Pipo M6 4.2.2 RileyROM 1.7 [SDK 2.0]

[pulsar123]

Pipo no longer start automatically when charge (when tablet is in shutdown state)..... Its a good thing though i don't ever recall shuting down before charging (coz, there's always a little bit of juice left)

BTW I've also open mine and fix the speaker (i used to pump up the volume using viper4android but the speaker get heated quickly when volume is loud) thankz to u, it doesn't get hot anymore..... But now i think the left speaker is louder than the right!

Exactly: once you fix the speakers defect physically, all the newest ROMs will have the opposite problem, with the right speaker having lower volume. I will try to figure out what exactly Pipo change to do the "fix" (I'll diff the filesystems between an older and newer ROMs.)

[elephraim]

I boost the volume on 1.6 Rom with 1.5 Kernel with the Tool "Viper4AndroidFX", the stock max. volume of this tablet is terrible and way to low. With this tool it is acceptable. I will try your hardware modification. Seems a good way of boosting volume.

Also, i think that with the new firmware, one can charge the tablet while it is off, and it won't start automatically which is a very good thing i assume! Always hated that about Pipo tablets.

I'm currently on 1.5 system with 1.6 kernel its pretty snappy how's yours, never heard of 1.6 with 1.5 kernel

[elephraim]

Exactly: once you fix thel.........akers defect physically, all the newest ROMs will have the opposite problem, with the right speaker having lower volume. I will try to figure out what exactly Pipo change to do the "fix" (I'll diff the filesystems between an older and newer ROMs.)

Pls.. post about it when you figure it out...

[pulsar123]

Pls.. post about it when you figure it out...

I think we are in a pickle here: I diff'ed the whole filesystems of Riley 1.4 vs. 1.7, and didn't see any changes in configuration files related to audio. I did see a bunch of audio related dynamic libraries (*.so extension) differences, e.g.:

Files /mnt/1.4/lib/hw/audio.primary.default.so and /mnt/1.7/lib/hw/audio.primary.default.so differ
Files /mnt/1.4/lib/hw/alsa.audio_policy.rk30board.so and /mnt/1.7/lib/hw/alsa.audio_policy.rk30board.so differ

and so on (many more).

If true that the Pipo's spekaer imbalance "fix" is hard-coded into one of these libraries, than we are in a hard situation - first, it'll be hard to figure out which one is responsible (by copying old libraries over new ones, one at a time, and then rebooting the tablet), and second - sooner or later the old libraries will not work in the newer ROMs, because of the missing dependencies.

Does anyone knows more about the audio system in these Android tablets? I am still confused - it does use a bunch of Alsa binaries (Alsa is a standard sound system on Linux machines, like in my workstation at work), but changes to /etc/asound.conf (the standard way to configure ALsa under Linux) do nothing.

Correction: I only diff'ed system.img contents. Perhaps the Pipo's fix in in another image - kernel, misc?

[gur]

If they made such a setup to balance the sound than original m6 audio level will be so low.. are they crazy?

[mauriga]

Two questions before flash my Pipo (i'm a real newbye):
1) is this ROM also for max-M6? Or only for M6?
2) will I loose italian language if i install this ROM?

tnx in advance for ur answers

mau----

[vjbeltran]

Some changes

Sir riley, it's not that i don't want your rom. it was actually the best so far for pipo m6. two things that i want to suggest is if possible make a nexus splashscreen and google play edition boot animation. i think you wont be needing to flash your name on the rom because you already the one and only creator of pipo m6 roms.

[rrileypm]

Two questions before flash my Pipo (i'm a real newbye):
1) is this ROM also for max-M6? Or only for M6?
2) will I loose italian language if i install this ROM?

tnx in advance for ur answers

mau----

Luckily there is only ONE version of the M6...which is officially the Max M6. I've just shortened it. So your device is correct for this ROM.

Italian is among the languages you can choose from in settings. I change from Chinese to English so people can at least find the language settings easier so they can change to their native language...I don't know if this is "PC" or not, but I think English is easier than Chinese to read at least enough to tell what the settings are. I could pick any language...but since I live in the USA...I choose US English.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

[freaksa]

Two questions before flash my Pipo (i'm a real newbye):
1) is this ROM also for max-M6? Or only for M6?
2) will I loose italian language if i install this ROM?

tnx in advance for ur answers

mau----

Edit: Answered in previous post.

[pulsar123]

If they made such a setup to balance the sound than original m6 audio level will be so low.. are they crazy?

I am sure that's what Pipo did - I heard many people who said "the newest ROM fixed the speaker balance" also said "the overall volume became even lower". You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that they simply lowered down the volume of the right speaker by a factor of 2-3, to fix the physical imbalance.

I am thinking of writing to Pipo to ask to provide users the means to choose which balance to use - those who didn't do the physical mode would use a "fixed" balance, people like myself who did fix the tablet whould be able to revert to the original (flat) balance. It could be made as a tiny app, with just two selectable options.

[jxu000]

Noob question... I just got the device and want to flash it to this ROM right away... however I get this error when I try to reboot to flash at the beginning of the process



"device can not do switch, because of no drive"

I'm on Windows 8, the tablet was just opened out of the box, usb debugging off, windows automatic driver update off... I tried searching this error on Google and these forums but didn't find anything

any help is appreciated. thanks

[rrileypm]

Many of us have run into this on Windows, lately.

I think I explained this in another thread...but here goes again.

There are several ways to get your tablet into flash mode...the easiest way, however, is through the flash tool...if it works......

If that doesn't work, you have to do it the manual PITA way.

First, go find a paper clip.

Locate the little reset hole on the back of the tablet.

Have your USB cable plugged in to tablet and PC and the flash tool running. Make sure the flash tool recognizes the tablet in mass storage mode.

Press and hold the "back" button on the tablet.

Then, Click and hold the button inside the reset hole.

Press and hold the "power" button.

Watch the flash tool screen.

When it says "Loader Found", let go of all of the buttons. First release the "back", then "reset", then "power" in that sequence.

Watch to make sure "Loader Found" stays on the screen. (on one device, I had to hold the power button through the whole flashing process...but I think it was a hardware problem...not by design).

Wait about 5-10 seconds before you click Erase IDB.

Then click OK

Then click Flash ROM

Once you have my ROM installed, there is a reboot app that has the option of "rebooting to bootloader". You can use it to flash from then on.

[gur]

Sir riley, it's not that i don't want your rom. it was actually the best so far for pipo m6. two things that i want to suggest is if possible make a nexus splashscreen and google play edition boot animation. i think you wont be needing to flash your name on the rom because you already the one and only creator of pipo m6 roms.

I was just about to comment on this issue.. pls a simple nice and cool bootscreen riley. This may be a taste issue as well however a simple one with even riley info will be enough.. unfortunately current roms boot screen is really messy.. thanks

[gur]

I am sure that's what Pipo did - I heard many people who said "the newest ROM fixed the speaker balance" also said "the overall volume became even lower". You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that they simply lowered down the volume of the right speaker by a factor of 2-3, to fix the physical imbalance.

I am thinking of writing to Pipo to ask to provide users the means to choose which balance to use - those who didn't do the physical mode would use a "fixed" balance, people like myself who did fix the tablet whould be able to revert to the original (flat) balance. It could be made as a tiny app, with just two selectable options.

I wish they do this although ı have doubts propably they may fix the hardware issue in the future but sound will be low for our devices.. we have to find a way to fix sound on our own..lets see if some one come up with a solution..

[jxu000]

Many of us have run into this on Windows, lately.

I think I explained this in another thread...but here goes again.

There are several ways to get your tablet into flash mode...the easiest way, however, is through the flash tool...if it works......

If that doesn't work, you have to do it the manual PITA way.

First, go find a paper clip.

Locate the little reset hole on the back of the tablet.

Have your USB cable plugged in to tablet and PC and the flash tool running. Make sure the flash tool recognizes the tablet in mass storage mode.

Press and hold the "back" button on the tablet.

Then, Click and hold the button inside the reset hole.

Press and hold the "power" button.

Watch the flash tool screen.

When it says "Loader Found", let go of all of the buttons. First release the "back", then "reset", then "power" in that sequence.

Watch to make sure "Loader Found" stays on the screen. (on one device, I had to hold the power button through the whole flashing process...but I think it was a hardware problem...not by design).

Wait about 5-10 seconds before you click Erase IDB.

Then click OK

Then click Flash ROM

Once you have my ROM installed, there is a reboot app that has the option of "rebooting to bootloader". You can use it to flash from then on.

thanks for your help, sorry to make you write it out again, I didn't see your post in another thread. I will try this and report back