Posts by doggyofone

Quote from doggyofone

I tried this method, however the aml_autoscript.zip never appeared in the update&backup list. Didn't seem to pickup the SD card. So I tried the toothpick method. The box booted to the Google splash screen, sat there and eventually the screen went blank. I then tried booting to Recovery, but I could not install the script from there. Tried twice, no go. Then I booted without the toothpick and as soon as the Google splash came up I inserted the toothpick. The Libreelec boot came up and installed 18.2. So I am up and running on an MXIII-G 4K.

Have to say, this box is still fast and runs great. Definitely worth the effort.

Thanks again Demetris.

Update - I can't play anything, as selecting any of the options - pause, stop, play, fast forward or reverse locks up the device. So I'm back on 8.2.2, which is working pretty well.

Quote from gthebest

Ok I will try to explain

1.Well first of all I make a format to my SD card with the SD formatter to my pc

2. Then with the Win32DiscImager I install the ".img" file to the SD card

3. I power on my TV box without put in the SD card

4. The TV box will open to Android

5. Then I put in the SD card to my TV box

6. I open the "update&backup "app. In local update we check the select button

7. After a while the files appears in the screen. We select the "aml_autoscript.zip" from the SD card and then select to update.

8. The TV box will restart and then it will install the Libreelec firmware

I notice again than everything is working fine except the power off selection not working (the TV box is restarting) and there is no "Boot to Android" selection in power menu!

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I tried this method, however the aml_autoscript.zip never appeared in the update&backup list. Didn't seem to pickup the SD card. So I tried the toothpick method. The box booted to the Google splash screen, sat there and eventually the screen went blank. I then tried booting to Recovery, but I could not install the script from there. Tried twice, no go. Then I booted without the toothpick and as soon as the Google splash came up I inserted the toothpick. The Libreelec boot came up and installed 18.2. So I am up and running on an MXIII-G 4K.

Have to say, this box is still fast and runs great. Definitely worth the effort.

Thanks again Demetris.

Quote from Demetris

Leia still Alpha stage LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.006 ALPHA – LibreELEC

Nah! i"ll pass OP has it all "i like to go stable so don't ask rolling builds"

Sorry, my bad. I was thinking of the KODI releases (B3).

Quote from Demetris

Am going to start LE 9 builds when kodi 18(Leia) goes into beta/rc stage so stay tuned

Hi Demetris, any news on the Leia Beta builds. Really looking forward to working on these boxes.

Quote from moufa

I tried all, only the the M8S plus one works but without wifi..

Maybe there is a problem with the box. You could try a USB wifi dongle. I've bought several for my S905 boxes, all of which offer extra USB slots and gigabyte ethernet. They are cheap and work well. You need to search this thread and others to find compatible chipsets. I have one that offers gb ethernet, three port USB hub model KY688.

Quote from moufa

anybody...? WiFi doesnt work...

Try different roms.

Quote from Masterjoa

Thanks for the suggestion.

I already tried a few similar roms but most of the time I get a filesystem corruption error or LE doesn't load correctly.

I've just tried using another cable but it doesn't seems to change anything.

Does the remix rom run? Can you navigate its menus?

The file corruption error has happened for me when I try to boot a rom without the nocompat file.

I installed 8.2.2 on my MXIII-G and Beelink MXIII Plus successfully using the instructions shown on the 1504 post.

Try all the roms making sure you use the img.gz and not the tar versions.

Quote from Masterjoa

Thanks for your reply.

I've performed the touch /storage/.update/.nocompat command (ssh over WiFi) and then reboot but unfortunately it didn't help.

I still don't have any internet connection when wire network is "connected"

Try different roms, try different network cables.

Maybe a different issue, but I had PIA on all my devices VIA VPN or through VPN Manager. I moved over to NordVPN because of significant speed problems that PIA could not resolve. It wasn't unique to me as both my sons and a neighbour I recommended PIA to had the same speed problems. Thanks to zomboided's work to get NordVPN working on VPN Manager my VPN is now excellent. Also PIA has been geoblocked in the US all servers. NordVPN works perfectly. I know PIA is relatively cheap, but NordVPN has had great pricing as well and ebates rebates as well.

I tested with IPVanish which worked very well, but they no longer work to resolve geoblocking.

Quote from mitch77

Thanks doggyofone,
I got a "Script Succeeded" on BOTH boxes
#1 - after reboot came up with large words on screen: "There's no place like 127.0.0.1

That is all, and it seems stuck there. I did a search for those words on this forum, No luck.

#2 - shows a screen with 8 folders(?). (TWRP)

I can navigate through all these 8 folders.

Only TWO of the 3 icons on top do things - not the 'home' icon

I read at 1504. I think I did all it said.

The only thing it said that was new was the nocompat.zip file

I did download it but I don't know if or when I need it.

I thought that was for boxes that choke or brick. Perhaps I misunderstood.

Any idea what I need to do for either of these boxes?

Thanks again!

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"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 - this is the splash screen for the Remix rom. The rom should load up after that.

#2 - shows a screen with 8 folders(?). (TWRP) - I don't know what you are looking at. Can you take a picture?

Yes, you need to include the nocompat file when you flash Demetris's rom to the box.

You need to burn the Demetris img.gz to the SD card. Use Rufus to extract the img.gz files to the SD card. Option 2 extract the img.gz to a .img file and then burn it with Win32diskimager. After doing this open up the SD in file explorer (Windows) and add the nocompat.zip to the SD card along with the original remote.conf and toothpick boot.

If you don't have the remote.conf the rom may contain the correct one. If not you need to search for it. It may be in here -

remote.conf repository

Quote from moufa

btw, I have also another box M8S (not Plus with 100M Ethernet). I cannot find a version for this.. Is there any?

You may have to try a few, or go to balbes 150's post. He has a Lan100 rom on his Yandex post.

Quote from mitch77

I'm a complete noob here:
Here is what I have:

M8 on top outside

Model Number: K200

Android version : 4.4.2

Build number : KOT49H.20150626 test-keys

Kernel version : 3.10.33 ubuntu@ubuntu188 #8

Thu Jun 13 10:17:07 CST 2015

on the bottom - OTT TV BOX.

(ON boot) 8 core Mali 450 - AMlogic S802

SO, I downloaded "RemiX_115k4" and put it on an 8GB SD card.
Could someone direct me to the link that spells out the steps I must take to do the deed?

Thanks very much,
Mitch

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Make sure that the SD card is formatted to Fat32. Extract the remix rom to the SD card. Do not unzip the Remix 115k4 zip file that was extracted to the SD card. You should see this on the SD before you boot:

Then put the SD into the box and toothpick boot. Hold the reset in until you see the Android robot appear. You should see the install progress to completion. After reboot let the system settle down and do what it has to do. Maybe reboot a second time. Pull the plug. Then go to post 1504 and follow those instructions.

You can find lots of information in you browse through this forum post.

Quote from Masterjoa

Hi there,

First of all, thanks Demetris for supporting these old boxes

I've installed the LibreELEC-S8X2.arm-8.2.3-MXIII-PLUS package on my MXIII-G (S812, 2GB RAM, 1000M LAN) but wired network is not working.

Did I miss a step? Here's what I've done :

1. Download LibreELEC-S8X2.arm-8.2.3-MXIII-PLUS.img.gz

2. Burn it using LibreELEC USB-SD Creator

3. "toothpick" boot install with the microSD card

I can see that Kodi is connected using wire on eth0 ("connected" status, IP & mac addresses are showing in the network settings) but when I try anything that require internet access, I get an error (couldn't connect).

Note that I don't have ethernet issue when using the stock Android firmware and that WiFi is working with LE.

I've seen people with S802 solving ethernet issues by using the S82 build but this one gives me a filesystem corruption error

Any idea ?

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Did you include the nocompat file as instructed on page 1 and elsewhere through this post?

Quote from doggyofone

Could you please make the process a little clearer for me?

Do I create a subfolder called 99-mac-address.rules in the 'udev.rules.d' subfolder under 'configfiles' folder?

Then I create these two lines, but change the mac address to my box address and the second mac to 1 number different as shown?

SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wlan0", RUN+="/sbin/ip link set dev %k address D8:FC:93:6F:29:01"

SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="eth0", RUN+="/sbin/ip link set dev %k address D8:FC:93:6F:29:02"

Do I do this on both boxes?

The reason I ask is that I want to install openvpn onto my router and need to create static ip's for each of the boxes. At this point the traffic monitor on my Asus router shows this:

Even though the boxes have static ip's I get this.

Thanks for your help.

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Anyone?

Quote from zomboided

The repo is up to 5.0.6. I'm slacking updating the Github releases though - I'll get around to it when life is less hectic.

OK, thanks for getting back to me.

Quote from zomboided

Pushed 5.0.5 onto the repo which re-introduces support for NordVPN using their API. You can now select which country you want to connect to and it'll do the right thing.

They also have their own branded add-on if you'd prefer to use that and want some friendly support.

I only see up to 5.04 in releases. Is the master the actual 5.05 release?

Quote from Fosphatic

I have put the remote.conf in the config directory, this one was always working but it does not in the latest image somehow. It's same box as beelink and orbsmart and in the image from the user dreshel it was working with the s82 image. This tree s82 image is doing something different unfortunately.

Try this - Create remote.conf from scratch

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Would you be do kind and help me with my my vega s89-h remote too? I have a remote conf that worked in all Libreelec or openelec versions but somehow it's not recognized in latest m8 image with s82 I had even problems with power button on the box.

Follow the same steps as shown in post 1534.