2 Day Old Tronsmart CX-919 - Had HDMI Flicker after flashing with NEOMODE 1.3 - NOW DEAD!! Help me resurrect it!!!!

[xlux]

did mention the words 'bad' and 'fail' so im guessing its RIP!

Look dude, let me start by saying that I've been there with a bricked stick and I was ready to drop a bowling ball on mine before I brought it back to life.

All this cheap android sticks have different build qualities. My friend's cx-919 reacts to just a tad on pin 7 & 8 but mine you have to leave it shorted for several seconds before it is recognized by my pc. My first advice is not to use windows vista, 7 or 8. You need an older windows xp becuase legacy works better in these sort of things. Take a magnifying glass if you can't see the pins well & count slowly from pin 1 to 8. The chip has a dimple indicating where pin 1 is located.

I have a set of precision screw drivers that have small heads which will only make contact with 2 pins at a time. Make sure you find something similar that's small enough to do the trick. I use double sided tape on mine so it will stay firm while I slightly put pressure on the pins with a small screw driver. You don't want to put too much pressure because the pins will break or easly bent together & create permanent contact. Just barely rest (whatever you're using to short) on the pins so they make contact.

Have the micro end already plugged to to your cx-919 & use your free hand to plug the other end to your usb port. Give it a couple of seconds (no more than 10) and you should here a sound follow by the icon on the system tray. If you don't hear or see anything, unplug cable count again & start the precess once more. You won't get it on the first try, it will work when you least expected. Once it does, remove contact with the pins. The usual green color on the rom flash tool turns blue and you should flash a stock rom.

I had to do this several times because even after a good flash, my stick gave me a black screen. Usually once you have recovered your device with a working rom (even if it doesn't give you signal) you won't have to short the pins just attempt another flash.

[cluster_danneggiato]

my cx-919 had screen flicker on all roms as well and this is the only one that has zero flicker;

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?8469-Rescue-Package-RK3188-AP6210-S400-All-in-One

the only bad thing is the kernel is clocked at 1.4ghz max, I'm hoping to find a compatible overclocked kernel for this rom to try.

Also I have the same problem. My CX-919 works without flickering and black screen only with the Rescue Rom... But why? What difference has this rom than the others? And what difference has my CX the the others? I would want to understand...

[Smokez]

I personally think it must have something to do with the hardware and that every device is different. I mean I'm just speculating, but I had a tronsmart cx-919 and it said it was a 2gb/8gb version 2.0 latest WiFi chip, defo a rk3188, all components seemed legit but it was dead after flashing a couple ROMs.. Like completely dead, no amount of short circuiting or recovery options would help. I used my initiative and ordered a new cx-919 - non tronsmart and swapped over the boards and sent it back! Yeah - coz I had nodded the case on the old one to accommodate a heatsink and weren't gonna be hit with the old you've altered the device so no refund malarkey, I only cut a while in the housing the device functioned fine after this up until flashing a new ROM, so it had to be done. Anyway the new OEM cx-919 is running finless 1.6b its functioning as good as my neo x7 both getting antutu scores of 20300+ running oc kernels. Have flashed multiple ROMs to it and it works like a charm. So ... I'm not sure of what help this info could be, but this screen flashing, flickering issue needs to be resolved and got to the bottom of by the devs on here. I feel like buying a tronsmart cx-919 for Bob, neomode, wasser, whoever and letting them put it through its paces and finding out what the catch is. I think its shameful that geekbuying sell these devices and openly encourage buyers to add custom firmware and over clock them

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[Finless]

I am posting this yet again....

I bet all of you with flicker have the new 3188T cheaper processor.

ONLY WAY TO KNOW is to take the device apart and look! On the processor it will say if it is a T.

If you have a T, I am pretty sure this is the problem.

See here:

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?9829-Blacklist-of-locked-Down-Version´s-of-RK3188-CPU

Bob