Help identify stick: Nurvo

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Edit 3: Pictures of PCB in first reply below
Edit 4: Possible solution, se second reply. Finless 1.7 MK808B original boots up and seems to work.

Okay I've searched the forum, no hits on 'nurvo'. Also read a few pages in this forum of other "help my identify" thread without luck. I'm new to this 'TV stick jungle'

Bought an android TV stick called 'Nurvo DCS' of the brand 'Nurvo'. Seems to be some UK importer of relabeled products. They even have a homepage with specs and pictures:

http://www.nurvo.co.uk/products/android-tv-dual-core-hdmi-stick/

It has a type-A port for USB-host and microUSB for OTG. Also a small (like 3 mm) hole for secondary power supply, seems it can be powered either from the OTG port or this little connector. Got a cable with type-A male connector in the other end. MicroSD slot and a little button to boot into recovery mode. Of course HDMI also.

Anyone heard of it or seen similar casing of the device?

Now I've manged to make it unbootable, of course... It comes to the R-BOX logo but stops (though the animation continues so it hasn't completely frozen).

The device has a button, holding it in makes it go to recovery mode. On the TV the Android robot lies down with the belly open, connected to the windows PC and installing RK3066 drivers it got identified as a "RK 30 device" in device manager. Connected to a linux machine dmesg doesn't tell anything interesting, neither does lsusb. Vendor:2207, ID:300a. Looking through the .inf file for the windows driver I see that's what's identifies it as the RK 30 device.

Is there anything more that I can do to help identify which type it is at this point, without opening it? I contacted Nurvo because the manual states that if it is unbootable one should download a new ROM from the official website, but I can only find a ROM for a tablet there. Hope I can get a new ROM and if my freezing issues remains (possible fixed just before I changed some setting for developer debugging) I might stock flash it and return to the seller for refund. So that's why I don't want to break it open right now.
But if it seems a bit stable I hope to get into flashing some other ROM and that's why I'm asking to find what type of stick it is.


thanks in advance!

Edit: Just realized that RK30 device probably means it is of RK3066 chip. Well then that doesn't help much in identifiying it....


Edit 2: Reading on wikipedia about rikomagic I find that the specification on mine matches most to the MK802III S. Can this narrow it down to select any custom rom and hope it work?

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Well couldn't resist, so I popped it open (wasn't hard to do without damaging it).

The wifi chip is RK903. Reading this thread:

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?5165-Internal-Wi-Fi-Chipset-of-TV-Sticks

I piece together that it can be a OEM MK 808B, although only 4 GB memory.

http://s13.postimg.org/9nvrvbe5j/20140104_164049.jpg

http://s8.postimg.org/ctpm0g0th/20140104_164102.jpg

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Well I don't have any definite answer to what type it is but I can tell you that Finless MK808B Original model 1.7 ROM boots up. Guessed that the 'original' would best fit because of posts I read about it having the RK903 wlan chip.

Haven't tested it much but the WLAN did find some of my wireless networks but I didn't test them because I plan to use wired network, through a Rikomagic USB->LAN adapter which works (fired up the browser and went to a page).

I may try the 2.1 ROM later, but read in one thread from testers that it felt slower than the 1.7 so that's why I went for the 1.7 first.

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Well got 1.7 to hang second time during boot. Tried 2.1, worked and during another boot it froze. Reflashed 2.1 again and been really careful with what I changed and done a lot of reboots to try to track down which change make it unbootable, but thus far it works fine this time.

[kozmo2k4]

Just remember: erase NAND during flash of Finless 1.7c, as per instructions. If you didn't, that may be the cause of random freezing up and even reboots...

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Just remember: erase NAND during flash of Finless 1.7c, as per instructions. If you didn't, that may be the cause of random freezing up and even reboots...

Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk 4

Thanks for reply. Yes, I followed the instructions, including the erase every time.
Managed to get the 2.1 non-working again.
I haven't dwelved so much into Android (app-) development, but I do know about adb. At this stage (seeing the Finless loading screen), is it possible to get an output of what's happening (or just completed before the reboot happened)?