[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
As to EmbER V1. 0. 0 or 1. 0. 1 , well I have for now had to go back to using only MX Linux Helix 14.2 with Auxbox's excellent compile. Okay it seems from my tests that this MX Linux version still gives me the old usual system freezes when the box is left running idle, and indeed which EmbER has truly fully fixed. But I have had some significant problems with EmbER that worry me and are listed below. Problems #2 and #3 have sadly made it really essential to go back to using MX Linux builds. I wonder if cronnicory and/or Josh5 are around here, as I am sure these are problems for them, and they probably already know about them, but not heard from them here recently ??

1. With 1920 X 1080i graphics setting you get a frequent flicker of the screen about every 8 to 12 seconds though it appears to be not specifically dead regular. You can see this clearly if you run the full HD test video that a lot of us here use to confirm we are getting true full HD and not up-scaled 720. You can notice it on your home screen too quite often on the horizontal menu bar lines. This can be cured I have just discovered by switching to 1080p rather than 1080i . It does not happen though with ANY of the MX Linux builds including the latest Helix 14.2 compile from Auxbox.

2. I have found with flashing from the native Android firmware to the EmbER V1. 0. 1 Convert set of files, it so far always ends up bricking the ATV1220 boxes (not tried it on any other G02Ref boxes) !!! It is a solid bricking too, as it does then need the pin shorting method to recover the box and even then it also seems impossible to get it to flash into an MX Linux build as the flash process then ends up stuck at about 85% on the progress bar and it will then of course just not reboot. It then seems to need to go back to EmbER V1. 0. 0 install and even that fails too quite often, despite the pin shorting reset. Anyone here got any clues as to why this happens and maybe has a suggested cure ?? I think it is something to do with the repartitioning and formatting of the system NAND area that the EmbER Convert files apparently carry out, but this is only my probably wrong considered guesswork..

3. I have had two boxes back from friends of mine who I set up with EmbER V1. 0. 0 , who then donated and registered and tried to update to V1. 0. 1 DE BUT both then ended up with hard bricked boxes that required them to bring the boxes back to me to unbrick. They both needed the full pin shorting method and with both I could only get them back into EmbER 1. 0. 0 and then manually updated into V1. 0. 1. On one of my own boxes I have been totally unable to upgrade from V1 .0 .0 to V1. 0. 1 as it always says "server busy" after it successfully downloads the V1. 0. 1 DE update files. I have now manually updated it to V1. 0. 1 and that is running well on my EmbER installed ATV1200 box

4. The subtitle files refuse to download, but that is still okay and working fine with all the MX Linux builds including the latest Helix 14.2. This problem can be cured, as somebody else posted, by configuring the subtitles to be stored in a custom location rather than alongside the video file as per the default setting. I point mine to store on my 8GB SD card but have to occasionally keep those .srt files cleaned up every now and then, despite those subtitle files being each very small. Does anyone know where I can store them so they are automatically deleted with each reboot ?? Have tried the /root/kodi/ area including it's sub-folders, but they still do not sadly seem to get auto deleted on reboots.

5. EmbER seems a little slower overall than using MX Linux equivalent Helix 14.2 builds.

For those reasons I have now gone back to only using MX Linux builds, (now Helix 14.2), to flash onto the brand new ATV1200/1220 boxes over the top of the bloat ware default Android that they are supplied with. But I will also say positively that once you do manage to install it OK, and you are up and running in 1080p, (rather then 1080i), then EmbER V1. 0. 0 and V1. 0. 1 both run very well indeed and are very stable too. I will be glad when these bugs are fully sorted as EmbER holds a lot of good promise.

I hope this post can catch the attention of croniccory and Josh5 as I want their EmbER system to succeed. I fully support their fantastic hard work and when the OTA auto firmware update is sorted and works properly then I will be more than happy.

Cheers

Ray