Posts by ilikenwf

ilikenwf · [S812] MIII Plus 2Gb\16Gb eMMC ilikenwf May 13, 2017 at 12:19 PM

Quote from balbes150

Uploaded a corrected version of the image MXIII Plus (20170513).
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I'll see what I can use from these data.

Thanks! Even when there is crossover on some you already have, I notice many differences in some, if you run a diff against them.

You may want to ignore the bcm4335 one in my case at least, it does not work. I just found what should be the OEM firmware image on a Russian forum, and will test the firmware in a moment...

The dtb/dts are now in the mega drive, too (m8m2_n200_1G).

edit: I think that m8m2_n200C_1G is the only one that works so far as far as android is concerned.

ilikenwf · [S812] MIII Plus 2Gb\16Gb eMMC ilikenwf May 13, 2017 at 11:30 AM

balbes150 I believe that myself and others who have the same device as I do may have been operating under a slightly false assumption, in that it seems that these OTT M8S clones (down to even the sticker) with both the AP and BCM wireless are actually 1G/8G when they are sold and advertised as 2G/8G, unless there's just not a working firmware out there for them.

Even back in the day early Openelec builds never worked with 2G ram enabled...

Anyway, here are the 1G/8G dts and dtb files for both the AP and BCM versions (m8m2_bcm4335_n200C_1G and m8m2_n200C_1G):
MEGA

If I wanted to test using either of these dtb/dts files, would I need to actually build LibreElec? I have a server rack in the basement, but my Android/Openelec/Rockbox ARM build VM is probably out of date. And I haven't yet built any of the OpenElec based software before.

ilikenwf · [S812] MIII Plus 2Gb\16Gb eMMC ilikenwf May 13, 2017 at 10:15 AM

Quote from balbes150

Anyone can try the new test version for Minix\bcm4335.
Pay attention, I have not tested this way.

Yandex.Disk

These fail to boot with no useful output

I seem to recall that the old M8S s812 build of Openelec 6.x from this guy used to work:

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Rom from then:
OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-S812-6.0-update.zip
OpenELEC-AmlMedia.arm-M8S-6.0.0.4.zip

ilikenwf · [S812] MIII Plus 2Gb\16Gb eMMC ilikenwf May 13, 2017 at 8:34 AM

balbes150 I have an "Ott" M8S S812, which I think is an odd version, and so far none of the LibreElec or Armbian builds have worked. Because there aren't any Lollipop builds that I can find that will run on this device, I'm desperate to find an *Elec or Android build that can run a modern Kodi with hardware acceleration.

I just get the dreaded disk related errors on boot, currently...

The android firmware from the thread below works, but note that really the second one ( Stage2-NEW-M8S.BCM4335.Oct29.2015-SDflash.rar ) is the only real/proper one for the device. Is the DTB used in that second one different than any that you have currently? If not, any suggestions on why it won't work?

[WARNING][UNBRICK-How-To] OTT M8S Owners [WARNING] - FreakTab.com

Thank you for all your hard work!