yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dartsma:
I have donated and got the donor edition ! Im only asking as some of the builds out there now require kodi v16 or v16.1 now . I also have beelink mini mx with the s905 chipset which I would love ember on even if its another donation guess ill have to wait n see if that chipset gets supported though!!

Thanks for the reply ray
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Russell_S:
Hi Ray, I did fix the remote button repeat timing before the v4 update. However I can't remember what I did. I'm sure it was only a setting in the remote.conf file.

I will have a look and report back.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] necu:
Hi!

I've managed to install the v2 of Ember on a Bluetimes MX5 (10Moons D6) box. Is a g02ref box.

The problem is that when it starts, it just outputs video over AV Component (the yellow RCA output) but can't output video over HDMI. The HDMI remote button does not change anything, but I can access over the lan, using Yatse (and ssh if it helps).

How can I change it?

Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Scoopsdcfc:
Hey guys,

Any word on when ember 4 will be available?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
All I do know is it is definitely coming and sooner rather than later. I know the Ember guys Josh and Cory are working hard to finalise EmbER 4 and to ensure it is as bug free as humanely possible. So the message is to be patient as it will be well worth the wait I am sure, and much better than releasing it too early with potential bugs instead of later with them ironed out.

The fact that Josh and Cory do not post on here much lately surely does indicate how busy they are working on getting EmbER4 as perfect as they can and as quickly as they can for all our benefit. Hope that helps a little but for those who want it now then not the ideal answer you wanted to hear, but as I say patience will be rewarded.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Dear friends, where i can download nightly version of rom?:confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
Sadly, you can't yet :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
give it upto 10minutes first boot on the g02, testers confirm it working on 10 moons g02ref but first boot was very slow
[Miscellaneous Android Development] VannMann:
Does fast forward and skip work with this build?

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] daddylicious:
Tried it on bluetimes mx5, waited for 45 minutes, still on boot-screen.

I will leave it on to see what it looks like in the morning, sinds you said it was slow att booting :silly:

greetz
[Miscellaneous Android Development] croniccorey:
I will look into it and ask tester what box there using
[Miscellaneous Android Development] shivup:
I confirm, fast forward skip doesn't work with this latest 0.11 build.. it works with old 0.10 .. I tried playing same movies and skip fast forward worked only in 0.10

Is there any easy fix ?

Will appreciate your help and thank you again for your great work
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nico1375:
Did you check your MTD first?

Because I did (I have one of these boxes) and partitions are mot in the same order...

For instance "bootloader" is not on mtd0 but mtd7 or mtd8 ( I can't remember...)

Let us know if you managed to make it work or if you just bricked it...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nico1375:
It might help...

root@android:/sdcard # cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00800000 00200000 "logo"

mtd1: 00800000 00200000 "aml_logo"

mtd2: 00800000 00200000 "recovery"

mtd3: 00800000 00200000 "boot"

mtd4: 20200000 00200000 "system"

mtd5: 21000000 00200000 "cache"

mtd6: 10000000 00200000 "backup"

mtd7: ac600000 00200000 "userdata"

mtd8: 00060000 00001000 "bootloader"

mtd9: 00008000 00001000 "ubootenv"
[Miscellaneous Android Development] awaldram:
PM sent with HD non playing example,

This is constant from first release to current.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lexi81:
jaybob build

Try this from Jaybob. I'm experiencing this up to v0.10 as well. Haven't tried v0.11 yet, since the jaybob build is more or less working. I did send a debuglog as well, Corey didn't find anything different. User P0ida from matricom forum experiences the same, jaybob build works corey's don't.

Also jaybob has a new build which brings the fixes inline. You could also try this one.

I'm not able to test both because of a busy schedule. So i think I'm going to try the jaybob build. (Thanks for your work Corey, no offense)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] beergut100:
Black Bars on 1080

Hi

I have the problem of black bars at the edge of the screen whenever I try to set to set to TVs native settings (1080p 60Hz). Changing the resolution from 1080p to 1080i just causes this problem on the left instead of right side. Changing to 50Hz does not fix it either. The only thing that works is setting it to 720p. Overscan does not work; the black bar stays the same size and the picture just starts getting cut off. this is on v0.11, so I will try other builds.

edit: this seems to happen on all builds, including Jaybob's. I can now rectify it by switching to 60Hz, for some reason, but obviously this is not ideal. Having said that, keep up the good work, it's a massive improvement to the android version :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daddylicious:
Hi,

stayed on bootloader, but i flashed it back to android without any problem.

It should be the same box as a 10moons d6.

Further i asked 2 weeks ago if there was any support for the go2ref and it was up-coming.

so no didn't check MTD this time :rolleyes: and just tried it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nico1375:
How did you flash it back to android? Did you make a system dump first, or you have a flashable image?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daddylicious:
unscrewed top of box, shortcircuit chip so that it would startup from sdcard.

just put original firmware in root from sdcard and it will install android again.

Found a tut on a spanish android forum and google trans late helped a lot :D .

if you need the link, just let me know, i'll search for it
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nico1375:
with plesure, indeed...

probably useful at some point :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daddylicious:
not able to post links, so you've got PM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
The unbricking process also explained in AndroidGadget forums

http://forum.androidgadget.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=161
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dhead666:
Anyone seen these ?

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/3294

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/3295

I hope the first PR will make Tvheadend pvr client finally usable, currently it looks like both video and audio (radio) streams from Tvheadend client doesn't pass to the VPU and are processed in software only so both basically stutter.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mitnits:
Posting my g02ref MTD layout - any chances of getting it supported?

So I have a g02ref box, looking just the one in the picture, but sadly it's (taken under android) MTD layout is this:

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00800000 00200000 "bootloader"

mtd1: 00400000 00400000 "ubootenv"

mtd2: 00800000 00400000 "logo"

mtd3: 00800000 00400000 "aml_logo"

mtd4: 00800000 00400000 "recovery"

mtd5: 00800000 00400000 "boot"

mtd6: 40400000 00400000 "system"

mtd7: 20000000 00400000 "cache"

mtd8: 10000000 00400000 "backup"

mtd9: 18c800000 00400000 "userdata"

Any changes of getting that variation working? Seems like there's quite a variety of different g02ref layouts floating around....

btw my f18ref layout (taken while running j1nx buld) is

mtd0: 00400000 00100000 "bootloader"

mtd1: 00400000 00200000 "ubootenv"

mtd2: 01000000 00200000 "aml_logo"

mtd3: 01000000 00200000 "recovery"

mtd4: 01400000 00200000 "boot"

mtd5: 20000000 00200000 "system"

mtd6: 0c000000 00200000 "cache"

mtd7: 20000000 00200000 "userdata"

mtd8: afc00000 00200000 "NFTL_Part"

this, too, is different from the layout specified in OP, which says

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00400000 00200000 "ubootenv" or "bootloader"

*mtd1: 00800000 00200000 "logo"

*mtd2: 00800000 00200000 "aml_logo"

mtd3: 00800000 00200000 "recovery"

*mtd4: 00800000 00200000 "boot"

*mtd5: 40400000 00200000 "system"

mtd6: 20000000 00200000 "cache"

mtd7: 10000000 00200000 "backup"

*mtd8: 18c800000 00200000 "userdata"

and my g18ref box runs j1nx build just fine.....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] shlomicthailand:
How come you install J1nx build (for M3) on g18ref - which as far as i know is M6 ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nico1375:
Is there a way to adapt it to install on Bluetimes MX5 ?

Would be very much appreciated :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Why ?!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
1 month ago posted...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
I think the relevant part being when it arrives :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
And no rss news about 30 days...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] the.mixtape:
Kodi consumes bandwidth when idle (EmbER on ATV1200)

Dear community,

I encountered an akward issue with EmBer om the ATV1200: My Kodi takes away availaible internet bandwith, although it is seemingly idle. Logs are attached to this post.

Problem: When I turn on Kodi, my available internet download speed drops drastically.

Setup:

EmbER on ATV1200. Kodi Version: 15.2~2b39d15. EmberDev Version: EmbER 3.0.1~1abcbec. Same observations on EmbER 3.0.0.

I measured the speed on a LAN-connected desktop on the same local network. I had similar results when measuring speed on a notebook connected via wifi.

I recently got a new cable router (Compal CH7466CE, FW Version 4.50.18.16). Cable Provider is Vodafone Germany.

Network shares are stored on a WD My Book Live.

The problem is reproducable and even happens after a factory reset: A few minutes afer adding SMB shares and rebooting, the available download speed drops drastically. At that time I am not streaming or watching anything. It doesn't matter whether I am connected via LAN or WIFI. I once measured speeds dropping from 25 Mbp to 0.8 Mbps! Apart from that the Box works fine.

Things I tried so far:

Disabling UPnP where available

Enabling UPnP on my router

Running Kodi on Windows: No issues here

Maybe one of you has an idea about what is going on here. I already posted my issue on the Kodi forums*. Although the community there was very obliging, they could not help me here.

Yours,

the.mixtape

*h**p://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=275242&pid=2341511#pid2341511
[Miscellaneous Android Development] azm.azman82:
Anyone know how to find a firmware for mxq pro+?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
I don't think there are any MXQ builds available yet.

In fact (other than the LibreELEC-Odroid_C2 builds) I don't think there's any S905 builds yet for any non-android FW.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dartsma:
There are openelec builds and libreelec builds for s905
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
Well there is but they are only available via the Arnubox with a special licensed EmbER installed.

Simple answer is why bother when the MXQ M12 lovely metal cased S805 box is available with full EmbER support and it works very well indeed, so I see no rush or need right now to worry about S905 boxes to be honest. This M12 S805 box is widely available and very inexpensive too (about US$55 including shipping) and with EmbER installed it truly rocks, especially with the latest. Nice thing is so far not seen any clones of this particular box either so no problem with rogue boxes that will not install new firmware. So it seems that you can so far safely buy a metal cased MXQ M12 box and know it will be compatible withthe latest EmbER firmware version specifically written for it.

The plastic cased MXQ S805 boxes apparently have many clone variants all looking pretty much the same but are completely different inside, so compatibility issues with firmware builds is thus a major problem. They are very very cheap so it seems you get what you pay for here. This is why you still see no EmbER build released for these plastic cased MXQ S805 boxes as yet, and maybe because of this annoying poor cloning problem we may not see a build at all as there would then be a serious risk of folk bricking boxes trying to innocently install to a box that is unrecognisably incompatible from the outside. I know this is currently a nightmare for Josh and Cory at EmbER as they have already seen 3 different variants of these boxes (and there are likely more too) that outwardly look pretty much the same :(

So for now I see no point in getting an S905 box and anyway IMHO all that extra power is only really needed for Android and I really dislike the kludgy Android interface and its waste of resources. I may consider an S905 box next year when hopefully EmbER builds will be available for it publicly.

Until then I will not concern myself with S905 boxes as I can carry on greatly enjoying my S805 MXQ M12 metal cased box with EmbER 4 Nightly build running on it very well indeed, with only a few minor bugs which do not really detract from it's great performance and use.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
GOOD NEWS NEW NIGHTLY BUILDS FOR M6 BOXES NOW AVAILABLE :)

You should now see EmbER V4 nightly builds available for the supported M6 boxes so G02Ref, G18Ref, CMX and TLBB versions available and these are now using of course KODI V16 Jarvis. So as long as you are a registered Donor Edition user you can test the new nightly builds for yourself but of course at your own risk. Main thing is that folk should report any bugs that they may find here together with their box type and the nightly build version they are using.

There is also a new nightly build for the MXQ M12 S805 metal cased boxes too which superseded the earlier one released last month. I have already installed that OTA and it went very smoothly. No real differences I noticed though but I understand only minor background bug fixes. This S805 build works very well indeed with a few very minor bugs that really do not detract from using this build at all.

Josh has also mentioned that EmbER 4 should be out of beta, at least for the M12 boxes, by the end of next week. So more good news and all should show it has been well worth the wait. He is extremely busy getting it all finished off ready for release so unable to post here himself right now, so he sends his apologies for that. So my posting this announcement here on his behalf purely as a messenger will hopefully be a great help to him as you will appreciate. But he does read this forum regularly for your input, especially as to any bugs discovered.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
I have had no major (or minor) issues with my plastic cased MXQ which is currently running Jarvis 16.1 on a LibreElec build perfectly. I would prefer, but am still waiting for, the Ember equivalent which seems a while off yet.

I agree that 4K capable boxes are only really necessary if you own a 4K TV, but I presume that azm.azman82was asking for suggestions because they've already bought one. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Where is link?

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Why i cant download nightly version? Can you explain?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Thanks, but i have only downgrade firmwares.

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In the list of possible firmwares

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
Strange. You definitely enabled the Nightly builds option (the last one on the list) ?? If not then you would only get the available release versions downgrade list you show there.

I can see you must have EmbER 3.0.1 already installed and assume you are with an activated firmware Donor Edition. So I must ask you what box do you have Tumypka2019 ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
I think i have m6 g18ref

https://youtu.be/aWpmfT_faS0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
@ RayWalton - I'll keep an eye on this development, it would be nice to have EmBER running on the MXQ.

Sadly, in reality, the cost of the full rom is actually more than I'm paying for the boxes so I guess I'll end up having to stick with the free LibreElec alternative (even if an MXQ build does eventually surface) :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
But it is still not a lot of money for an OTA future firmware updates and the nice package EmbER truly is. Those plastic MXQ boxes are actually a little more than the full ROM Donor Edition normally sells for as they are about US$30 to US$35 with standard crap Android and if much cheaper it is likely to be a very poor clone. But anyway there is no full ROM from EmbER for them and may indeed not be at all.

So personally I would sell that plastic cased MXQ , or keep it as a spare, and get yourself an MXQ M12 metal cased S805 box and install the latest fully supported EmbER. IMHO it will be well worth it and a much better made and featured box too with so far no known nasty clones to bugger things up.

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Thanks for thorough information. Yes from the video you sent then AFAIC it should work and show the new nightly build. I have not got a G18Ref box here now myself so cannot test it. Has anyone else yet successfully installed the new nightly build for a G18ref supported box ???

Other than that then Josh or Cory will need to pop in and explain a reason why you cannot see this new nightly build I was informed about ???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Today i manually downgrade firmware to 3.0.0.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Nightly 3.0.1 is available, but no signs of 4.0.0

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After that i am upgrade firmware to 3.0.1, and still no signs of nightly versions. Looks like firmware is not published on server
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
Yeah AU$38, probably about the same as US$25 :D

Thanks for the advice. I personally wouldn't pay any more for these boxes than necessary. They are superseded in the blink of an eye.

Unless these ones stop performing the way they currently do, a metal case doesn't entice me and I'll stick with them until the S905s get a bit more support :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
Maybe somebody know another way to play bd3d.iso files in 3d mode?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
Great news Tumypka2019 :)

You should not have had to go back to V3.0.0 first though to achieve that availability of the new nightly build. How strange ??? Josh or Cory are you there as this is surely a small but relevant OTA upgrade bug you would have been unaware of unless it is maybe a corrupt V3.0.1 install that Tumypka unknowingly had. Anyone else here had this problem in getting the new nightly build form V3.0.1 and if so what box are you using ??

How are you finding the new nightly build assuming you have now manually OTA upgraded to it ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
I missunderstand. My english is very low. I am on 3.0.1, no nightly firmwares available
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
Would have to disagree as my old ATV1200 box I have had for over two years now and still working perfectly, so I would not call that outdated in a blink of an eye. Sure there are newer boxes now though still that ATV1200 runs all the latest firmware and KODI really well, so hardly superseded Wotzit and have many folk I deal with still happily using the ATV1200 and ATV1220T boxes and now shortly with EmbER and Jarvis too.

So come on now US$50 is not a lot to pay for a S805 box which should be perfectly serviceable for two or more years at least yet and still be usable after that I would guess. I would not want to wait until next year to simply get an S905 box with EmbER to feed a 4K display that I have not got nor is there really any 4K media to stream on them either as yet (yes I know about upscaling for what it is worth and still claim you would not notice the difference in most TV viewing environments unless possibly with huge mega expensive 65" and greater displays).

So the S805 M12 metal cased box with EmbER should be fine for several years yet until the marginal benefits of the S905 can be realised and put to any good use. Appreciate you have already brought that cheap plastic S805 box Wotzit (as I have done so too for testing), so as I said if you can sell it and get most of your money back then personally I would do so and get yourself the M12 metal cased box that supports the latest EmbER firmware and then enjoy, for the next year or two at least, a great stable and fast set up with auto updating firmware :)

The advice was purely just a suggesting to try and help Wotzit to which for what it is worth you are most welcome. At least enjoy what you have got for now and use any feedback here purely as food for thought.

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Whoops, no it was my bad as I did not look at your latest screen shot well enough. So not your English at all my friend. I should have seen it was only the old V3.0.1 Nightly build back in March that was listed on your screen. Duh, put it down to a senior senile moment on my part hmm :rolleyes:

Not having a working one of those M6 boxes to hand I cannot check the new nightly build availability for these boxes right now. So I repeat my question, has anyone else here managed to update their M6 box to V4 Nightly build and if so what model and type is your box ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DancesWithChickens:
Possible bug:

When taking a second screenshot, EmbER freezes.

To elaborate:

I've mapped "5" on the remote to take screenshots to the "Backups" folder, since it is also easily accessible via PC.

When i take one screenshot, it works. As soon as i take a second one, EmbER freezes.

Tested on the last 3 firmwares.

Could be due to my TLBBv2's hardware limitations, so maybe others could test this on their boxes.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wotzit:
[MENTION=5755021]RayWalton[/MENTION] - Ha ha I'm not arguing with you Ray, $50 of course would not be much to pay overall, if the FW was going to be available for the cheaper boxes. :good:

My point was, since you stated that the firmware would, most probably, not be available for them that, economically, the cheaper (more disposable) option is a valid alternative while waiting for the next wave of "must have" models to arrive.

I also am a fan of the Ember ROM, just not to the point of buying specific, more expensive hardware, in order to support the software. All of these boxes offer very similar, identical in many cases, potential capabilities and it simply isn't true to say "the more you pay, the better you'll get" in this case.

Most people will acknowledge valid points to both sides of this particular difference of opinion, and I guess we should be careful not to drag this EmBER FW thread any more off-topic than we already have.

With that in mind I propose we 'agree to differ' on our views of the more suitable hardware available and continue to agree that EmBER is a powerful, professional and affordable ROM for the boxes that are presently supported :highfive:

BTW Birthday drinks will definately prevent me from any coherent writing for a while so - happy days people ! :victory:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tumypka2019:
My problem is fixed. Today nightly firmware is available

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But bd3d.iso still only 2d mode played
[Miscellaneous Android Development] robikonobi:
Just installed new nightly, but noticed that it is running kodi 16.0 as opposed to 16.1. Anyone know if and when we are migrating to the latest?