Notably, I tried to flash a few other OS images, but USB_Burning_Tool never worked again after that one time -- it just won't connect to the GS-King. I also tried making an upgrade microSD card with Burn_Card_Maker (https://chinagadgetsreviews.com/down...er-v2-0-2.html), but GS-King box won't boot off it or upgrade the box. Okay, so I was stuck with Spartan ATV as an OS, but I still needed to get CoreElec running to meet my needs.
I tried 20-30 times to make a replacement bootable CoreElec microSD card using the standard process (https://wiki.coreelec.org/coreelec:beelink) without luck. (Maybe Spartan_ROM prevents microSD cards from booting..?) Anyhow, somewhere in this thrashing I discovered TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) by holding the reset button and plugging in the box.... and I made a right mess of the internal memory trying to reflash a factory 915P0 image. I was getting a "Size of image is larger than the target device" error, and following a YouTube vid I reformatted the system_root partition. Yeah. TWRP says there's no operating system installed now. So that's a problem, maybe not recoverable.
Anyhow, here's where I am:
1. GS-King reboots every 5 seconds to SPARTAN logo. Update: Reboots every 20 seconds. No HDMI output. Fan runs, front skull and ethernet LED amber light up.
2. USD_Burning_Tool doesn't work. No USB connect tones, no device listed.
3. Burn_Card_Maker doesn't work.
4. I can get into TWRP and play around with partitions and images, but I have no idea what I'm doing here. Update: Not anymore. No TWRP.
5. I just want to run CoreElec on my GS-King -- ideally running on internal memory, but at this point microSD would be fine.
Is there hope or should I just admit defeat?
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