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Success story regarding MXQ box without reset button.

I bought a MXQ PRO 4k box from ebay and planned on installing Libeelec on it.
When I received it I booted it and it was running the standard Android from MBOX. It was already rooted with a installed SuperSu and I could access Google play store.
It also had the app Update installed and when I followed the instructions kszaq it would not boot to either SD card or USB disk. No matter what I did it never booted from other then NAND from recovery. The recovery menu was also missing any option to select any other type of boot selection.

I then tried ith the Toothpick method and I could not find any switch inside the AV port. So I opened the box and of course the board was missing a switch behind the AV port. I even tried shortening the empty solder points on the board but it did not work (probably disabled in firmware).
And since the reset switch was missing I could no use USB loading tool either.

The board as a label that say : mxq905 20160420 v2.0

So if you have a similar then you can follow this guide.

I then installed Rashr from Google play and granted it superuser rights, and also installed TWRP APP from google play.
After that I installed TWRP 3.0.2 using Rashr TWRP for Amlogic devices. - FreakTab.com . Be sure to select the TWRP3_T8x.img

Now I could boot into TWRP recovery but it still would not let me boot from SD or USB.

I then found this thread on freaktab : LibreELEC 7.0 For S905/X - FreakTab.com

Pinguy that is the author of that thread has made a TWRP image of Kszaq's Libreelec images. I installed the image that he made : https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=CRLm&id=0B21a8VVM4QfGS3RsclVtei1veTg to NAND.
And the box booted right into Libreelec! SUCCESS!

But the Pinguy build was using the wrong dtb.img for my box so I had no ethernet or wifi and the remote was not working...
I then put Ksaq's newest build 7.0.2.008 with the gxbb_p200_1G_100M.dtb (renamed to dtb.img) files on a USB stick and mounted the /.update folder from within KODI and copied the files from the USB stick to the update folder and rebooted.

VOILA now network and Wifi worked but not the remote.

I then tried with different remote files from Pinguy's thread but none worked so I made my own version that is included in this post.

I did some special key assignments for the remote, Browser key opens the "O" function detailed video data, and also mapped the play/fastforward/skip etc keys to the keyboard commands. I also removed the power key assignment because if you shutdown the box it does not wake up again without power cycle. So I keep it running all the time.

BEWARE this will install Libreelec to NAND and it will not be possible to boot Andorid after this!

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I was able to get it into boot mode by placing a jumper across the two solder points directly behind the empty connection holes and the plugging in the power