[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
Ah great to see you here Josh. :) And thanks for the DE update to EmbER 3 and Isengard 15.2

Just to say I also rebooted my box but a warm reboot from being stuck in the endless waiting to reboot message screen. That was fine and then went to the recovery screen through the Ember Settings option. Then looked in the Update from Cache option and there was an update.zip file. So selected that and it updated to EmbER 3 with Isengard 15.2. Chose the manual Reboot option and booted okay into Isengard and EmbER 3 no problem.

But it still initially came up again with the endless waiting to reboot icon which I closed with the Back button on the remote and all seems okay. Now this no longer happens with a reboot and if I go to the EmbER update screen and do a manual check for updates it says there are currently no updates available, so that has cleared itself it seems now :). I trust the cache area where the update was downloaded to has now been cleared too but not sure where I would look to check that, or was that eventually cleared on a subsequent reboot into EmbER3 ????

I am sure I have enough memory too as System Info on my ATV1200 box shows around 700MB free which is the normal figure I always see (give or take about 50 MB) whenever I have checked (and always maximum figure on a reboot of course). So I do not feel it can be a lack of available memory.

I will wait and see what a friend of mine experiences with the Auto update with his MyGica ATV1220 box (virtually the same motherboard as the ATV1200 box that I have) with EmbER 2.0.2 DE installed but he is not in this evening (that is my time in Thailand of course). But see you havetemporarily disabled the auto update for G02Ref boxes right now, but I will tell y ou how he got on. Maybe it is a MyGica box problem as I remember you said that you do not have one of those boxes to test to.

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On a positive note and as feedback for you Josh, I can confirm as you said that the EmbERMod skin is now fine with the horrid transparent windows now gone back to normal so nicely readable again, and the proper GUI sounds now working as they should, so have now been able to get rid of those horrid bursting bubbles GUI sounds :)

I have also checked that long standing display instability problem we had when in 1080i mode and have to report that this problem is still with us in EmbER 3. As you know it is a vertical sync like flicker every 12 seconds of so. Not a big problem as now I am back with 1080p mode where this never has happened.

On an unrelated note I do have one problem which strangely started about a week ago. When I boot up I end up with the Linux default 1970 date, which would indicate either no connection to my router or an incompatible old router and neither is true as my router is a fairly recent well respected DLink ADSL 2750E.

If I carry out a few more reboots (even warm ones) then the correct date and time finally get shown. Nothing has changed with the router other that I was trying a special supposedly anti geo blocking DNS address on the router which does not work and is slow anyway. So the next day (still last week) I removed that special DNS and reverted the router back to as it was with the auto Default DNS setting which it gets from my ISP.

This was with EmbER 2.0.2 and is as expected still there with EmbER 3. I suspect this may be some EmbER related problem, as if I try a new ATV1220 box with MX Linux Helix 14.2 then I do not get this 1970 date problem. This will wait though until we more urgently sort out this EmbER 3 auto update of course.

Enjoy your coffee Josh over there in Canada, whilst for me it is now 2:30 AM here in Thailand, so I am enjoying my nightcap drink. Catch you tomorrow as must sleep now. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ