[Miscellaneous Android Development] RayWalton:
There are no links and you cannot download nightly beta builds from the EmbER Downloads page as that page is purely for downloading and installing the last available public edition V3.0.1 So as likely you already have EmbER 3.0.1 on your box and I assume you have donated and activated your firmware to the full Donor Edition.

So you go to EmbER Settings on your KODI box and as long as you have an activated registered Ember Donor Edition firmware currently installed then go to the Update option. Once there make sure the Enable Beta/Nightly Builds option is enabled, and then click on Manually upgrade/downgrade firmware. You will then get a list of past and new builds available and that will include nightly builds as you had first enabled that option.

Select the latest Nightly build and let it download (takes about 6 minutes on most connections). Once finished downloading it will give you about 12 seconds to cancel and then it goes into auto install the new firmware. NOTE be patient and NEVER power off the box whilst the update is taking place. You will most likely get a blank black screen during the upgrade process so please wait. It should only take 2 or 3 minutes on most boxes but it may take longer so unless you have been sitting looking at a blank screen for say 10 minutes or more, then do not remove the power from your box. If you do you will likely brick the box of course as with all firmware updates on most devices.

So note that as I said above, AFAIK these nightly builds are only for registered EmbER users with Donor Edition firmware. Also note that any beta / nightly builds can of course be buggy and/or unstable although I can vouch for the M12 S805 latest nightly build which I have tested in depth and foudn it very stable and fast with no deal breaker bugs in it that I have found.

If you have not donated and activated your EmbER firmware then it is very easy to do from the EmbER Downloads page, the minimum donation is US$10 for unleashing the M6 boxes and US$25 for unleashing the quad core S805 boxes.

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Hi Wotzit. Yes but as I said there are numerous variant clones of those plastic cased MXQ S805 boxes so this may end up even precluding EmbER releasing any firmware for them as any build will only be compatible with the particular clone it was made for. As long as there are a known number of clones and there are no give away differences for identification, then I can see there being no release at all for those boxes. We shall have to wait and see how it all pans out.

As I said certainly the metal cased M12 boxes are only about US$20 more and are a far nicer box with a Fibre Optic Audio TosLink socket and inbuilt bluetooth for talking to BT keyboards/mouses etc though BT is not as yet implemented in EmbER. So sorry to say that as yet I cannot personally recommend those plastic cased S805 boxes (and yes I have one for testing which is still left with default Android as yet). I do though strongly give the thumbs up to the metal cased M12 S805 boxes which work superbly with EmbER.

Yes I gathered they had already brought one of the S905 boxes but the comment was aimed at those who had not yet done so and were undecided. Sure the Arnubox with licensed EmbER firmware is supposed to be excellent, so if you are happy to pay the price and prefer no bother having to install new EmbER firmware yourself like to an S805 box, then the Arnubox is a good choice. Else go S805 for now and wait till probably next year for the S905 EmbER builds you can install yourself.

Sure I know about the 4K but very few folk have those newer TVs yet and anyway unless it is a very large screen (65" or more) or you sit very close to a smaller screen, then I doubt you would notice the difference in picture resolution/quality to a normal Full 1080 res screen. I would only really want a 4K TV right now for the excellent LG Passive 3D which needs 2160 lines to be any good (you only see half of those lines in 3D so still get good 1080 line 3D). I must say I personally love the great picture and vibrance of Passive 3D screens and love good 3D content anyway when all properly set up.