Posts by jsotelo5150

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    There are a few of us that couldn't get the mSD card to work, AFAIK we just ended up installing right to the device. Someone posted that for what ever reason the mSD card is getting coded as read only but I don't know if that's the case or not.

    I never tried to use internal memory for data so I can't help you there. Hopefully someone can come along and help.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Did you go into the advanced settings and activate the different options your receiver supports?

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Couple of odd things. First I actually sat down to watch a movie last night and I'm getting some intermittent micro stutter. It was late and I didn't bother checking to see if there were dropped frames but I'm just putting it out there.

    The second is more of an immediate concern. When I shut down down the MINIX U9 I then lose all HDMI audio in all other devices. The Minix snags control and won't relinquish it and that includes the Audio Return Channel. Yes I can disable the auto switching but then it's a PITA for my wife and kids. Right now I'm just going to leave the MINIX on, it can't draw that much power.

    I played with the CEC controls and took control away from Kodi, now it seems to work fine. I can shut off the MINIX and it auto switches back to ARC.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Quote from wrxtasy

    Strange looks like the Samsung EVO+ and the Select microSDHC's have issues with AML S912's for some reason ?

    They work on all other AMLogic S8xx/S9xx platforms. Will change my SD card recommendations then.

    So IDK what's going on. I got the Sandisk Extreme micro SD card, used Rufus to load the LE image and the gxm_q200_2g.dtb file and after the Minix logo it's NOTHING but a blank screen, I reformat the LE image and this time I load up the gxm_q200_2g_minix_neo_u9.dtb, I get the LE splash screen, it installs, does the whole countdown to reboot, reboots, shows the LE splash screen then goes to black, just like the EVO card did with the OTHER image. So I then grab my 6 year old Patriot 8Gb USB drive, stick it in and BAM it fires right up.

    Is something wonky with the sd card reader on these things?

    I need to now decide if I want to just install to the device or boot from the Patriot stick and then use the internal memory.

    ETA in a fit of frustration I just installed to the device and it's working PERFECT. Guess I'm sending this card back to Amazon as well.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Quote from feerlessleadr

    So a couple things, I was getting the black screen using wrxtasy's dtb on both my EVO+ & usb drive, so I decided to try the default dtb in the OP 1 more time on both. This time on the EVO, I got the couldn't mount Libreelec Disk error on the splash screen. However, using the OPE dtb and my sandisk usb drive, it booted right into LE. Keep in mind, I had tried a few other USB drives before (I had a few kingston laying around that I had used for LE in the past) and I always either got the black screen with wrxtasy's dtb, or the diskmount error using the OP dtb.

    This was the first time I had tried this thumb drive and it worked straight away, so the U9 must not have liked something with my other thumb drives and the EVO to not be able to mount the LE disk.

    I have since installed LE to the internal memory however, since running LE from the thumb drive had a 'crazy long startup time' according to my wife.

    The model usb stick that ended up working was a sandisk SDWS4. I hope this helps somewhat.

    Thanks feerlessleadr! I used the gxm_q200_2g.dtb file on a different USB drive and it works perfectly! The 4K game is strong, I'm bitstreaming like a champ and it's FAST. It's slow as hell to boot but when skipping around in files it's WAY faster than my chromebox. I can pull up a 4K movie, start it, skip to 20 min in and it begins playing almost instantly. FWIW I'm running an unraid server NFS connected to a gigabit network. What seems really strange to me is my Samsung TV remote actually kind of works with the Minix U9!

    So to recap, the Evo select card didn't work at all regardless of which IMG file I used, my old Patriot 8Gb usb drive didn't work with wrxtacy's file but it works great with the gxm_q200_2g file.

    I just returned the Evo card to Amazon and ordered a Sandisk extreme, we'll see how well that works. If it doesn't I might consider loading to the device.

  • [8.2.2.3] LibreELEC 8.2 for S912

    Quote from feerlessleadr

    So I just tried using the EVO+ sdcard with your dtb, and while I didn't get the same error, after the libreelec splash screen, it went black and nothing happened. I left the box like that for over an hour and it never came back on. I restarted the box (holding the power button on power up) and I got to the LE splash screen again which said something to the effect of expanding storage (or something like that), and it restarted automatically, then same thing, booted to the LE screen, went black, and never came back up.

    I tried the same dtb with another usb stick I have that I used to install LE on another device I have, and had the same problem. I then switched back to the original dtb from the OP and the EVO+ gave me the tty error, and the usb stick booted into LE.

    Could it be a problem with the EVO+? I used the LE usb creator tool as well as rufus on the EVO, and had the same results.

    ::EDIT:: well, at this point it doesn't matter. I took the plunge and installed LE on the internal memory, and after some really dumb mistakes on my part, I have everything up and running, and this thing runs like a beast. I'll return the EVO+, since I no longer need it.

    @feerlessleadr I have this exact same issue, EVO select card, MINIX U9-H, it shows LE splash screen and then goes black and nothing else shows up. I'm using the file that wrxtasy posted.

    How were you able to install to the device? I can see the assigned IP address in my router as LibreELEC but it won't let me SSH into it, keeps refusing the connection.

    ETA the LE computer shows up in Windows Explorer and I can now navigate the directories but I still can't SSH into it, screen is still black.

    Adding more info I just tried another display, time time a 1080P instead of my 4K and it does the exact same thing, LE splash screen then it goes black. Once the screen goes black the only way to reboot or turn off the U9 is to unplug it.

    I just tried a USB drive and the exact same thing happened.

    I tried just booting into the stock OS and it appears my remote is DOA as I can't navigate at all :/