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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phamxp426:
I think the general consensus will be to try them out yourself and see what you prefer and don't prefer. I'm wondering the same question myself as well, but I'm gonna experiment with a couple right now before deciding on a daily driver.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvin.durant:
I would like to try every Custom ROM but problem is i have a hardtime downloading roms due to my slow internet connection.. :o

By the way hope that you can provide some feedbacks regarding on what rom you are using rightnow. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnwiredDroid:
Some says DarkyROM and Resurrection are among the widely used Custom ROM. Personally I use stock rom with 3rd party Launcher.

I will just wait for CM9 to become stable and move out from stock...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvin.durant:
So the lockscreen issue and MMS are fixed on darkyROM?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pissyhun:
hi

that was my question too. i read alot and when xxlpq were available i choose galaxy rom.

i installed galaxyrom lpq since 1 day and no fc's at all. it has also ota updates for lidroid pack and theme restore. deep sleep ok, battery ok but lets see after 3-4 cycles. no contacts editing fc, wifi and data ok, market ok- 3.4.7. restored and frozen some apps with titanium 4.8.4. sync ok for contacts, notes and calendar with phone explorer. its a rom close to stock and uses apex launcher. i now waiting for jkay work. only thing is that scrolling is not smooth as in gb roms.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Answer has to be non .

How can a firmware be issued and a perfect rom built in a few days with no testing .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DerTeufel:
Lockscreen works, haven't send an MMS since installation
[General Questions and Answers] ang1dust:
Anyone know if XDA will be opening hacking for some of the new tv's with apps built in? Or if anyone knows of a site that supports it?
[General Questions and Answers] intel352:
I'd like to find this as well. We essentially have computers built into our TVs that are likely capable of running a basic Android or Google TV install. It would be quite nice to extend the functionality of such smart TVs... Especially as Vizio's own VIA apps seem quite poorly built.
[General Questions and Answers] weazen:
I'd be a little hesitant to flash custom software to a tv that's potentially worth $1000s. Bricking a TV is a little more severe that bricking a smartphone IMHO.
[General Questions and Answers] Morgan Greywolf:
maeenm appt.

Nah. A 42" Vizio TV can be had for $500. That's cheaper than some smartphones.
[General Questions and Answers] devwithzachary:
While there might be a good amount of interest with this. I dont see work being done on it, as theres no central OS each tv would be completely different.

Plus its alot easier to attach a small computer to the tv and go from there
[General Questions and Answers] JustJinxed:
I have a Vizio E3D470VX and decided to probe the wazoo out of it. nmap reports on an OS request it's replying Linux, but it's also responding and sending out SSDP requests (most likely the multi media network detection that's incomplete in this model).

The only open port through the network hookup is 13000. I started this little adventure in a hope of finding a backdoor so I might control my TV with my Kindle (yes, I'm that darn ?lazy? :)) I can't seem to figure out what this port is yet.. No matter what sequence I try sending the port, it closes after a varying input sequence (UDP). Via TCP, it just auto closes.

nmap hasn't the foggiest either, even after a deep scan+UDP run on the port. But it does look like the TV has a sort of firewall response to SYN flooding, that was comical as I saw the spread between identification attempts widen from 10ms to 8000ms over a period of 6 minutes.

So, I'd be VERY interested in taking a closer look at this particular port opening. I might not go as far as to jack with the USB ports, sides, who knows if they are even active for sideloading. My real question is... is there some port connection software out there already that will run input/output test sequences to an ip address via TCP/UDP/etc and log the results to a log? I hate recreating a wheel if there's already a tool.
[General Questions and Answers] DownloaderZ:
Here with E601i-a3 and very interested. How can I help?
[General Questions and Answers] mattpik2:
BUMP for a good cause

The Vizios seem to run a modded version of ubuntu 10.4... so yea its linux lol... hmm now how to get into terminal?? or is that even possible? also its a yahoo tv platform so visit here to make apps "omit" sorry just google yahoo tv dev and stuff, but it would be awsome to be able to upgrade to a version of android on here (a google TV version!)
[General Questions and Answers] kennethcolman:
Awesome so is it possible to flash like our phones

I would be extremely interested in this seeing as how I'm outside the US and would like to use Hulu. Also a internet browser like chrome would be awesome on this thing. I have the VIZIO E3D320VX :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] phxmerlin:
Just getting a browser on this thing would be awesome. Anyone have a hack to install chrome?
[General Questions and Answers] tadr:
Vizio

I can confirm that my Vizio e701i-a3 has port 13000 (and only port 13000) open. I am trying to figure out a way to control the TV using TCP/IP commands. According to nmap, the TV is running a 2.6 linux kernel.

I tried connecting over telnet to port 13000 but wasn't able to get any response from the TV. Putty connects but just sits there.

Any idea on where to go with this next?
[General Questions and Answers] DownloaderZ:
I have the 60" e-series, I've also been playing around with this. Does anyone have any solution to the flooding firewall problem?
[General Questions and Answers] hcfte:
Vizio e601i-a3 Hack for a browser or Android

I also am looking for a Hack for the Vizio E601l-a3 for my dad he bought one hoping to view internet on it and doesn't really have the money to run out and buy a mini TV PC or a STB just so he can browse the web. I know their is a lot of people that are looking for a way to browse the web and also be able to download other apps that just what Vizio and Yahoo will let you.

The other possibility would be hope that Vizio now comes out with an update to Google since it looks like they have switched platforms for the 2013 line up and hopefully they will release an update capable of using the Android platform.

Anyone hear of any rumors yet??? I was hoping after CES in Vegas this weekend some more info will be released as to Vizios plans.
[General Questions and Answers] ingramator:
I'm interested in this also, any word on current dev work?
[General Questions and Answers] z0oinks:
Hey, I've also been wanting to hack my Vizio Smart TV, the XVT323SV. I'm not looking for anything in particular, but I'm looking forward to what people could make for TV like this!
[General Questions and Answers] hcfte:
Forgive me if this is a stupid question as I have no idea about programming.

Is there any way to take a laptop running on the same linux and go in using the USB port.

From what I have read maybe rename a file or ??? to trick the TV into thinking it's a file that Vizio will let you open.
[General Questions and Answers] purplekush:
I also have a Vizio E3D470VX ... after getting used to the LG smart 3D tv my parents own, I expected much much much more 'smart' from this smart TV.... on the LG, available DLNA/UPnP servers show up on the 'inputs' menu, as do USB devices like thumb drives or portable hard drives plugged in. I didn't mind the fact that the 'Smart TV' part was more like widgets for somewhat poorly developed apps along the bottom, but I did mind when not only could I not play 75% of my video files from the DLNA/UPnP server (some .avi files wouldn't even show up)... then when I tried loading a few 3D movie files on a thumbdrive, turns out it used the same 'app' as the DLNA/UPnP media, and I found out they wouldn't play either!!! (files were .mkv AND .mp4) Even if the files did show up, or play - the UI was utterly horrible... and I don't mean it didn't have thumbnails or wasn't pretty - it was horrible even for a text based, folder browsing UI... I was so disappointed, that instead on moving my xbox 360 into my bedroom, I kept it in the family room to give the new Vizio 'smart' functions and the ability to play some video, and instead I got a WDTV box for the bedroom... For 3D videos, I'm back to using my computer via HDMI - which isn't bad, its just.... that is the point of a smart TV!

So I will be VERY interested if you find out anything useful in regards to hacking this firmware or some way to modify it... whether it be something similar to the LG firmware hacks, or a linux-based XBMC port, or the Google TV version of android... anything seems like it would be better than the stock offerings :good:

The Co-Star is what I first saw regarding Google TV.... kinda ticked me off seeing the EXACT same remote next to a little Vizio box w/ an article about Vizio being Google TV's new partner. I never read/saw anything about it being included into the new line of TVs, but I imagine they would at least switch from the current yahoo! based VIA .... However, even if the new 2013 line up had the same 'smart tv interface' as the Co-Star box w/ Google TV - I doubt that previous models would receive the new firmware.... as that is more of a complete firmware change than an upgrade. Also, there may be issues with their partnership w/ yahoo! TV on the current models w/ VIA :confused: who knows... but I'd be extremely surprised if they rolled out firmware upgrades for older model TVs based on the firmware for the new line coming out.

I must say though, I thought it was genius to put a keyboard on the back of the remote - until I set up the TV and saw how 'not smart' the apps were.... Would have been a great remote for my parents LG smart TV though, or if I could use it w/ my xbox... but upon seeing the 'co-star' box with the same remote next to it for Google TV - I almost wanted to call up Vizio and demand the same Google TV firmware and/or co-star box for free, with the argument that the TV was advertised as a 'smart TV' :silly:

now someone with more knowledge than me get to hacking this thing!!!
[General Questions and Answers] goldenpipes:
maybe theres a way to download the firmware from the new model tv's and flash it to the older tvs?

i have the vizio E422VL which has no uPNP/DLNA support but the E422VLE has UPNP support. I thin kits like 1 year newer or something so this sorta bums me out. :(
[General Questions and Answers] jonas18:
Wireshark the TV on power up

Grab a small 5 port switch.

Plug your laptop in and the tv to the switch.

Start wireshark - see what protocols are coming from the tv. TCP dhcp request likely first and probably some other boot protocols.

My guess is the tv looks for a tftp server first and then attempts to grab stuff to update or look for messages to update.

Wireshark should be used in conjunction with angry ip scanner, to determine what's listening and on what protocol.
[General Questions and Answers] JasonZech:
Nothing recent on these ideas? I got the vizio 42" smart TV hoping I could play mkv. But at last it don't.
[General Questions and Answers] rdcflorida:
developing for VIZIO TV

I have a Vizio E601i-A3 60" tv, with VIA = Vizio internet apps.

to develop apps for Vizio TV you go though Yahoo

//connectedtv.yahoo.com/developer

i looked at being a yahoo tv developer, it seems excessively complex.

my compliant is Vizio media player just seems to be poorly written.

I currently waiting for new version of firmware, called Vizio and they tell me its automatic,

It is most likely magic, there is hardware, software and vaporware.

I am looking for a manual method of firmware update. This TV has two USB ports, Ethernet.

There must be technician access to update, and diagnose.

Anyone have a repair manual?
[General Questions and Answers] pseudus:
The answer?

Alright, long story short, I am opening a store/lounge and bought (2) 55" VIZIO Smart TV's..

...fast forward...

Read all the threads and was about to give up on streaming media to them and Voila!, this:

thebitplague.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/play-stream-video-from-pc-to-vizio-tv/

I have not tested this yet, but I will over the next few days, will post again with my findings...

TL:DR - You can stream movies and media contect to your Vizio Smart TV with the DLNA compliant PS3 Media server found here:

sourceforge.net/projects/ps3mediaserver/

Have a nice day!
[General Questions and Answers] z0oinks:
This only works for DLNA-compatible Vizio Tvs, which not all of them are, unfortunately
[General Questions and Answers] hcfte:
New VIA Plus

Just so you know I don't have the Vizio TV my 75 yr old dad does and I am trying to help him.

I have been reading about Vizio's new VIA Plus for their new M series TV's and it sounds like the have really upgraded the software to do what most of us are wanting to accomplish.

http://store.vizio.com/news/cat/news/post/vizio-unveils-next-generation-smart-tv-platform

My question is does anyone know if the E series TV got or will get this update or can this be "hacked/ported" to work on the older TV's?
[General Questions and Answers] w0lf13:
I know this thread is a few months old, but I too am interested in messing around with this as I have two I recently purchased.

Now as someone has said before developer(dot)yahoo(dot)com/connectedtv (cant post links yet :( ) has a plethora of information regarding the software running on these TVs.

Now on that site they mention that tv's running the connectedTV software have approx. 128MB of RAM(10MB of which is reserved for the ConnectedTV platform, and 50MB for the Dock that displays at the bottom of the screen) Which leaves about 64MB for App Usage.

For an alternative OS, I feel Ubuntu is going to have a bit too much overhead to run on these, not too mention the architecture is probably very different from what we're use to seeing on a normal x86 or ARM based board. Maybe something more along the lines of TinyCore linux or even an old version of Android that could possibly run on a platform with lower specs such as these, but ultimately it's going to require ALOT of effort and quite frankly, I don't see enough people with extensive knowledge interested.

I would like to see an alternative OS(not likely) as well but would also suffice with a web browser for the connectedTV platform as well.

The apps are supposedly created using a combination of Javascript and XML as well as the KONtx framework.

I don't know if a browser can be created with these but I'm willing to give it a shot.

If anyone is interested drop me a message
[General Questions and Answers] darkensx:
I relize this thread is a little old but as far as a alt os what about the Google tv platform seeing as vizio has tv's that have google... alot if not all of the vizio Yahoo tv's have a Intel® CE 3100 System On a Chip CPU which is Atom Based Arch. and 256MB RAM and all this crap :p

Video Codec: HD: H.264, VC1, MPEG2, WMV9 SD: Flash-lite 3.1 (On2 VP6, Sorenson, h264), MPEG4 part 2, DivX3/4/5/6, WMV7/8, MPEG1

Audio Codec: AC-3, WMA7/8, WMA9, WMA Pro, MPEG1 L2, LPCM, MPEG2 L2, MPEG4 AAC-LC, MPEG1 L3, MPEG2 L3, HE-AAC, Dolby Digital Plus Optional Codecs: DTS 5.1 core, DTS HD, Dolby TrueHD

Multichannel Audio: 2 channels for WMA up to WMA Pro. Up to 5.1 channels for AC3, DTS, AAC

JPG, PNG image support

DRM Support: WMDRM-PD/Janus, DTCP-IP

Container Format Support: MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS, MPEG1-System, AVI, ASF, MP4, MOV*(QuickTime), FLV, F4V

DLNA Client and MyMedia widget

Flash Storage with Optional storage support

if the tv runs linux and ubuntu version my bet is its a netbook version as most netbooks have crap for Ram 256MB or 512MB being the most common. with these in mind probably anything that would run on a cheap 256MB netbook would work but loading/flashing it is the issue.
[General Questions and Answers] juggalo818:
i wanted to add alittle to this about 2 months ago we upgraded to dish network and something crazy happened all of a sudden my tv went from HDMI 1 to Dish Hd Hopper witch was never there .... might be something or nothing

there has to be a hack crack or upgrade to this mine is a e422va
[General Questions and Answers] Robertjm:
Your HDMI ports can be renamed in the television's setup so having it go from one to the other isn't a surprise. My guess is that that Hopper you hooked up pushed the new name, somehow, to the television.
[General Questions and Answers] blackhalk123:
I don't know if anyone knows this but on my e3d320vx I have a option to update my firmware through USB it is in the menu some where. It showed up after the last big update last year. I'm replacing my power supply at the moment, But when I change it I will share the exact location to find it. I think the biggest problem right now is the os mystery if I can upgrade the firmware through USB I should theoretically be able to access the os or at the least dump the info for it with the correct tools and go from there.
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
I know how old this is and im still interested in seeing if we could go through the process of creating an app through sdk yahoo and making it work for our tv's "BROWSER" means that UC browser seems to be loaded with options I wonder what it would take to work as an app on our tv's over on the yahoo site for vizio gives you the basics and to me shows it being similar to android. Iam not saying it's identical to android but i know our tv's uses linux os.

another cool thing would be to use this bluetooth remote with keyboard on my galaxy s3 would anyone know how this could be done.. Im willing to test I only paid $40.00 for my 47 in M470NV.

i REALLY REALLY WOULD LOVE TO SEE A WEB BROWSER ON MY TV.. PLEASE
[General Questions and Answers] juggalo818:
Me to I'm still waiting for this to happen
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
i understand why a developer would not want to make this happen because you can just simply add a computer to the darn thing.

lol but think of all the clutter and wire mess it makes having this around your tv. I would be the coolest thing ever if we could turn our tv into a small base android pc. :o)

if someone could just lead me into the right direction I would like to start on this myself. I have googled countless hours on topics of doing this but nothing on this topic that makes it clear as to how to's

I have many of cool ideas I would like to add to this if I could get this thing going... thank you everyone have a good night.
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
Guess no ones interested in helping a friend on this idea.
[General Questions and Answers] Molikai1988:
From what I've gathered so far:

The auto update method the tv uses is OTA of some kind. It only updates when turned off. Vizio is not willing to supply the image file for USB flashing. Also, be very careful about future updates, my 24" e241i-a1 got one and decided it was a e390i-a1. This is beyond a minor issue! Now my TV thinks it has 3 HDMI ins and no RGB. Also the display looks like its out of phase or whatever one might call the vertical being slightly misaligned. Hope this helps.
[General Questions and Answers] CuF:
I recently got a couple Vizios for my family and find the media player disappointing.

Out of box it supports DTS, but a firmware update yanked that away.

Subtitles are not supported in any form, not even .SRT.

I'd love to see this project accomplished. and have a suggestion.

Instead of trying to hack up the existing player, wouldn't it make more sense to take an OS compatible version of VLC, make whatever tweaks if needs to make it work on a Vizio and get it put onto the Yahoo App Store? VLC has pretty much already been ported to everything you could think of. Just check out the list of VLC downloads available on Videolan (dot ORG)'s site.

Then it would provide wide format support, be easier to update and anyone could grab it.

I'd suspect there are peeps on the VideoLan forums that would probably want to get in on this.
[General Questions and Answers] DownloaderZ:
get a nexus player and move on with your life. There are low cost solutions that are incredibly more powerful than this
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
Did we all say this before modding android phones no...

To each of us has our ideas n thoughts. You don't like our ideas so what. Thats why theres more topics for you to choose from. So how bout you move on.!!! Pal n stop disrespecting other members of the forum. Before this goes down the wrong road that it don't have to... I personally would like to see something come from this "VIZIO MOD TOPIC" MEANS THAT YOU LEAD OFF TOPIC...
[General Questions and Answers] DownloaderZ:
Why, whats the point here? The hardware is underpowered, there seems to be almost no way in, and you wont gain anything by running code on the native chipset. However, you have access to the most important parts: input, output(video& audio).

I was watching this thread for a long time. The time to put effort into this has passed.
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
My point is how is a so called smart tv have wifi usb video audio abilities n yet no web browser... lol strange really????? Win 3.0 had a web browser n it was seriously under volted at 4 megs of ram n a 75 mhz processor so hell why not able to...

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So wheres the web browser app hack.

Then i feel were onto something its like yahoo has abandon their support to these tvs

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Back when these tvs were metioned of a hack or firmware it was a pricey game price vs bricking a $1.000 tv now the prices are down now is perfect time to play with them to see what could come of these things just like blood did to the samsung m890 long time ago.
[General Questions and Answers] EhudBenjamin:
I'm in the same spot, I'm a truck driver and have a E32-C1 in my truck. I have lots of places I can connect to WiFi, but with no browser I cannot log in or accept the terms and conditions. At least for me that makes the WiFi useless along with all the apps.
[General Questions and Answers] jaymzway:
If u had wifi tethering on your phone you could share your internet to the tv but what good will it do anyways other than a over pricey netflicks n check your emails. Im ashamed of yahoo. Leaving such a nice tv just sit like a worthless tv n not invest into the market and sit back n wait for devs to come up with ideas rather than being a go getter... why????
[General Questions and Answers] Burstaholic:
If anyone's still interested, some security researchers totally found a way in: https://blog.avast.com/2015/11/11/the-anatomy-of-an-iot-hack/

Whether this will remain useful depends on how extensive Vizio's patch is. Hopefully they just fixed HTTPS certificate verification and you can still run shell commands.
[General Questions and Answers] DudeOfAwesome:
I just tried to enter $(reboot) in the SSID field (per the article you linked) and that seems to have failed.

It looks like Vizio has disabled execution of shell commands in an update.
[General Questions and Answers] fastvan67:
I have the Vizio 701i-A3. It has whats called Yahoo apps. The apps themselves look to me like smartphone apps. I then found this site Yahoo Connected TV. Would love to be able to install XBMC/Kodi on this thing. According to the site, people can create their own apps and post them. Then log into the settings on the TV and install the app to the TV using Yahoo Apps.
[General Questions and Answers] DudeOfAwesome:
That's correct. The TV uses HTML5 technology to run the apps. It looks like it is somewhat similar to writing a browser extension.

As for porting Kodi to work on the TV, I would say that is unlikely, as Kodi is written in mostly C++, which would have to be rewritten as Javascript for the TV. If someone were to find a way to get shell access on the TV, then there is a chance you could run an Ubuntu build of Kodi.