Issue - Transpeed 6K (Allwinner H616)

[TigaX]

Hi there. Yesterday I tried to use my tv box to watch some stuff, the majority of apps was having crashes (force close). I rebooted but nothin changed, actually it got worst cause the wifi wasn't turning on, so I got angry and gave up fixing it for that day. Today I tried to turn on the device to do a soft reset and it suddenly bootlooped, but it wasn't a common brick since the tradicional toothpick method doesn't fix it nor trying to install stock firmware (device doesn't recognizes on phoenix suit). This device already got bricked some months ago but I managed to fix it with the toothpick reset, but this time aint working. Thanks in advance for those who try to help

[tmerle]

'boot' is displayed by the android firmware, so I guess it tries to boot. Strange that phoenix suit is not able to connect.
I got issues due to a USB hub that was disconnecting the device as soon as It was powering-up.


... and my story with this device is sad. I bought it a while ago and experienced may application FC. In the adb logs I saw that android memory killer prevents any memory consumption over 1GB RAM (many E lowmemorykiller: Kill 'xxx'). I opened the device and decrypted de RAM chip reference (although they attempted to erase the figures). The amount of wired RAM is 1GB and not 4GB, whereas I bought it at the 'Official Transpeed Store' as a 4GB RAM/32GB FLASH device, they lied (the android firmware is compiled to display 4GB RAM but his does not reflect the actual RAM size).
I wired the UART line (easy to find out on the PCB, they kept 'GND/RX/TX' prints on the board). The early boot log confirmed that only 1GB is installed:

[824]DRAM BOOT DRIVE INFO: V0.521_hongxin
[828]the chip id is 0x5000
[831]chip id check OK
[833]DRAM_VCC set to 1500 mv
[836]DRAM CLK =600 MHZ
[838]DRAM Type =3 (3DR3,4DR4,7:LPDDR3,8:LPDDR4)
[844]Actual DRAM SIZE =1024 M

All this to say, avoid to waste too much time on this device. It may work out of the box with preinstalled apps, I installed XBMC that works correctly, but any other bigger application gets killed and now I know why. Avoid this brand at least.