yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
I find that the Backup add-on from the main KODI.org repository works brilliantly and have been using it since its early incarnation as XBMC Backup. Sure you have to give it a path for the backups and turn on the Add-ons and Profiles options in the settings too, as by default for some reason these are disabled. This also makes it easier to port backups to other KODI / XBMC systems with care of course because of possible incompatibility of some add-ons with different OS versions.

When you first flash your box to Linux KODI and go to System | Get Addons you will see that the KODI.org repository is already installed by default, so you can go to the Programs list of their add-ons to get the Backup add-on straight away, and of course configure it. Then you can restore a valid backup from your SD or USB stick or wherever externally you stored them before. Just be careful if restoring from an earlier non Helix backup as there may be some unforeseen problems with some add-ons though many folk do seem to get away with doing this anyway.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinaltapt:
Thanks for your help.

Hi Macfunk

Thanks for your help, you inspired me to fish my 520e out of the kitchen bin to have one more go at reviving it.

about 3 hours later I had a working ember 1.01 box and a severely bent ear off the wife when I finally sneaked up to bed.

In case anyone else comes across the thread looking to restore there box I found that I could boot with the bootable SD card as mentioned above but could not get it back to android it would either just boot loop doing a restore to android seeming to complete successfully each time, then rebooting and starting again if I took the boot card out at the end of a cycle it would boot to recovery screen and ask for a .img file. I tried all sorts of different combinations of .zip and .img files but eventually got it working using an android 4.2 recovery bootable sd card which, same as the android 4.1 recovery bootable sd card gave me the boot loop or recovery image screen but did now also give me a blue led instead of the solid red one I found from that point I was able to do an upgrade to ember 1.01 by the normal means of pressing the recovery button for 10 seconds during boot with the ember files on a freshly formatted non bootable SD card and bingo it finally sprung back into life and booted to ember 1.01.

Macfunk

Ember 1.01 is working beautifully on my 520e now, it really is very good I am especially impressed with the improvement in audio playback no clicking and popping on my AV receiver at all, and it just sounds a whole lot clearer than it ever used to under MX Linux also I can play some HD even 24bit 192Khz audio files and multi channel sacd to flac audio files smoothly they just would not play before without either stuttering or the clicking and popping starting between tracks and then getting uncontrollable noise over the next track.

I too have contributed to the dev team by purchasing the donate edition I think they have done a fantastic job here but I wont be rushing to update the software to the de edition now that I finally have this fab version of Ember 1.01 running especially as some people seem to be running into problems with the OTA update hanging at the end.

Thanks again.

for anyone else who finds themselves looking for the files and instructions to create a bootable SD card to unbrick a mygica 400/520/1200 box that will not go into recovery any more and has a solid red led and no video output. I found them at the mygica.com forum.

this board will not allow me to post links unfortunately but you can go to

Mygica.com, forum, Board index, MyGica Enjoy TV Box, MyGica ATV 1200 Dual Core Android OS Based Smart TV Box, Discussions, ATV 1200 stopped working.

pages 1,2 and 3 of the above thread have detailed instructions and also links to the files and utilities required to create both android 4.1 and 4.2 bootable recovery SD cards.

the 4.2 recovery worked for my 520e box.

Cheers There

Mick.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
hey guys is 1.0.1 safe to flash on the ATV520? I saw a few posts regarding upgrades to 1.0.1 and their boxes not booting anymore.

i.e.:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60415275&postcount=1216

honestly 1.0.0 is working fine (though I cannot update to donor edition over Ethernet, which is my only option as wifi doesn't work with the 520)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desdesevilla:
AML8726-M1 support

Do you have in mind supporting AML8726-M1?

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnu420:
hi ive just tried to instal this on a mx android g18ref box

put the files onto the sd card

plugged card into mx box,pressed and hold reset button,plugged power

lead in

then it will go into linux system recovery

i select apply update form ext

then select update from sd card,as so i do this i see no image file ???

it just ../

but when i check the sd card on pc the image file is there

anyone know what im doing wrong
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
You shouldn't have to manually update. It should update automatically. Hold down reset. Plug in power. Keep reset pushed in. Wait. It should update.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnu420:
ive done that but it just loads into the recovery menu

pressed and hold reset button for upto 1 min

the screen flickers then into recovery menu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kozmo2k4:
Try re-formatting the card and place a fresh copy of the files and try again. That is what I had to do. It worked, second time around.

Actually, after I released the "recovery hidden button", the screen stayed blank for about 15 seconds before the "Andy with progress bar" showed up!

Well worth the patience ....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Yes because the basic recovery screen only looks for .img files and not what you have on the SD card which is a .zip file. If you changed the name to .img you would see it but as the other poster said you should not go into the recovery screen as the update to Ember should work automatically booting off of the SD card (because you held in the recessed reset button when you powered the box up) and then installing Ember and finally rebooting.

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THIS IS IMPORTANT AND URGENT PLEASE

I have several of my contacts and friends who I have helped set up EmbER V1.0.0 on their ATV1200/1220 boxes who have gladly donated their US$10, but alas when they have gone to enter the code and tried to update to the V 1.0.1 DE they end up with a box that will no longer boot ???? I have had to ask them to bring their boxes back to me to unbrick for them, and like;y and painfully it seems by having to short the two pins on the board as well !!!

My own Ember 1.0.0 ATV 1200 box downloads the V1.0.1 DE update but still after several weeks now shows the server busy after completing the download and goes no further but at least no bricking for me ???

So what do we do now ? I have to tell folk that I help with their boxes, NOT to do the DE update. By all means I suggest they make the US$10 donation and enter the code, and that will also remove the authentication error at boot. BUT for now I have to tell them no way try to let it do the auto update to the DE version.

Please croniccory or Josh5, can we have some advice on this DE update problem please as it is such a shame that this is not working as it was intended. I am seriously having to look at instead the option of using a straight forward non Ember version of Linux Helix 14.2 now. I really though want to use this new Ember system especially with its OTA update system when it is working properly. Just need an urgent update on what is happening please guys. As an ardent supporter of your work I want you to get as many well deserved US$10 donations as you rightfully can.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
I managed to find a mkv that ember seems to not be able to play without stuttering. this is on an ATV520 with ember 1.0.0. I'm playing the content hardwired off my NAS. my transfer is always 25+MB/sec so I don't think the transfer is the bottleneck.

if I view info while it's playing I see the cpu hitting over 95% on both cores on occasions.

here's the media info. is this just too big for ember kodi to handle an the ATV520?

[IMG="mediainfo"]http://s15.postimg.org/ow0o4tv6z/Capture.png[/IMG]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hovevhavatihim:
Bluetimes mx5

Hello, Is there any way for this rom to work on my Bluetimes mx5?

android isn't very good on this device and i would love to flash this one instead.

thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Yes this seems to be normal as have noticed this too on all boxes I have tried. So I get this too but it only happens if I power up my ATV1200/1220 box (running Ember V1.0.0) when there is no HDMI connection to my TV, either because the TV is off or the Home Theatre is off (and with no auto off mode pass-through though this I have now enabled) . So the box must be sensing a signal, or lack of one, from the external HDMI device confirming it is there and what res it is capable of, as HDMI is a two way connection system anyway.

This is probably a sensible safety measure as if a box is set up at 1080 res and it is connected to a TV only capable of say 720 res, then without this feature it would not display or give a corrupt unreadable display making it difficult or impossible to change resolution down to 720. To avoid this ensure you only power your box up after the TV (and Home Theatre AV receiver) are powered up and running. I know many folk leave their boxes powered on and internet connected at all times, with the advantage that the box will continually auto update the add-ons, and of course they use very little power anyway unlike your TV which uses a lot more than that. Once the box is booted it seems to stay at 1080 res even when you TV is then powered off.

Well that is my logical and seems rational view of it and answer, but if somebody has the actual definitive details please inform us.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnu420:
just an update

ive tried various things to try get ember loaded up on this box

rename the zip to img

formated card burned the ember files

and its still the same just boots up into linux system recovery

but one thing i cant fathom out

i installed ember on my mate mx droid box g18ref with no probs ???

anyway ive reverted back to android using ember files to revert

and now thats stuck in android recovery menu

so im thinking the nand chip is corrupted or knacked

not to worry il stick it in a box with all other stuff thats knacked
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Just a thought as I do not know whether you have tried it or not, but maybe you should try the two pins shorting hardware reset system to see if that clears the problem. Details of the pin shorting recovery method has been posted in many places on this and other forums and with photographs too, so I will not even try to repeat it here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnu420:
i did see summat about that,il try it..... nothing ventured,nothing gained
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnu420:
just an update

ive managed to get the latest ember on 1.0.0.1

after trying several methods of trying to boot of the sd card,shorting the

pins 7+8,booting of usb pen still wouldnt load ember on,then i noticed the lock was on the sd card unlock it,and it flashed straight away

what a numbskull i been :mad:,wish i knew/saw it earlier it would of save me hours

of faffing about

i think il leave it now for time being,i dont want to spend many hours of tryin

other images
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Good news Magnu420 Very pleased for you mate. A very very easy mistake to make and glad you posted it here as many of us would miss something as simple as that. Mind you I did not realise that the SD card had to be write enabled (i.e. lock off) to boot and flash the firmware into these boxes !! Never happened to me as I never normally lock the SD cards well not deliberately anyway.

Now enjoy your box and EmbER 1.0.1
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazelbag:
Hi guys, I have loaded ember on my mx2 and have an USB air mouse/remote but if I boot up the device with the dongle plugged in I dont have sound, all the buttons on the remote does not work. I tried changing the audio output but it is greyed out so I can't change it. Any advice please guys?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazelbag:
I have paid for and received my donor serial key but it does not work when I enter it in system settings under update and click on doner edition nothing happens, can someone PLZ help

---------- Post added at 08:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:04 PM ----------

Anyone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
resolution stuck at 720p with ember 1.0.1

hey guys/devs,

I installed ember 1.0.1 on a friend's ATV520. I can't change the resolution, so I'm stuck at 720p. on my unit at home (ATV520 running ember 1.0.0) I'm at 1080p.

on this unit, I've tried deleting guisettings.xml but no go, still can't change resolution.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boricuaPR:
PUTTY Kill / stop KODI to copu GUI settings

hey all.

Trying to use a backup guisettings but I have to first stop/kill kodi. I tried some commands a couple days ago but had no luck.

Can anyone help me?

What command will work on EMBER when in PUTTY to stop/kill kodi... copy my GUIsetting and then start KODI again.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie_mtl:
Try this:

[root@EmbER ~]# /etc/init.d/S95kodi stop

Regards

Charlie
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boricuaPR:
Thank you

Charlie. Thank you very much. That worked.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystyan28:
Hi guys,

Thank you for your hard work, I installed the EmbER-Amlogic-G02REF-convert_v1.0.1 for Mygica atv 520E, I have next problem the subtitle files refuse to download.... how can I solve this inconvenience?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
This is a known bug with EmbER.

There is a simple fix for this (not mine but someone usefully posted this in another forum) and that is to alter where the downloaded subtitle files are stored. Very easy to do as follows:-

Go to Sytem|Settings|Video|Subtitles and about 75% down the options list change the option "Subtitle storage location" from the default "Next to video" to "Custom Location". Then in the box immediately below you will need to define where you want to store them. I recommend you store them externally to an SD Card or USB stick that is permanently plugged into your box. You can, if you prefer, get them stored internally to say the /root/.kodi area but then they will all build up there and start slowly eating into your box's valuable internal memory resources, although the subtitle files individually are all pretty small. Of course you must then finally click on the on-screen OK button to exit and for the changes to be saved before retuning to your home screen. You will now find your subtitles will be working normally again. :)

I occasionally, using File Manager then, just delete all the .srt or .ssa subtitle files that have built up on my SD Card where I personally opted to store them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystyan28:
Thanks @ RayWalton for the tip, now working very well :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olivier1928:
EMBER TRY

Hi guys i have download ember to try on my amlogic m6 box installed fine but im stuck to the setup wizard as the remote or mouse don't show up any help will be appreciated thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cassanov99:
Sidewinder 4 image

Hallo,

Is there a image foor the xtreamer sidewinder 4?

Greatings Sjaak
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DancesWithChickens:
Is there still development for EmbER?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hungqdinh:
Question about chaning MAC address for linux mx

how do i change the MAC address of ember box ? please help

thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hungqdinh:
Ember Stuck at loading screen

ember stuck at loading screen . oekase hepl
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baruchin:
I installed emBER as soon it was available for TLBB, but there were some bugs (unable to download subtitles among them) that made it unusable for me. This was over a month ago. Being TLBB pretty much a dead company, we're left with emBER as the only solution for upgrading Kodi on our boxes. Here is my question: Is emBER still being developed? For the last months devs were very active, but all of a sudden, development seems like it halted. I haven't seen any new update in more than a month. Any news about future development?

Thanks in advance for any answers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Subtitle problem easily fixed and been documented in quite a few forum threads. It is fixed by changing where the subtitles are stored from Next to the Video to a Custom Location. I specify my SD card as the custom location and every now and then I just clear them off of the SD card; they are very small files anyway. You make this config change in the System|Settings|video|Subtitles screen and remember to select the on-screen OK button to save your changes and not just hit the back button on the remote..

Other bug of screen flicker every 8 or 10 seconds or so when in 1080i res is easily fixed by changing to 1080p (and don;t forget to recalibrate your display screen after this change).

Yes I wonder what is happening with Ember as croniccorey and Josh5 have been very quiet lately. Be so good to hear from them but I suspect they are working hard on some important fixes especially with the on-line upgrade system that is currently broke. We have to be patient but for now I am using MX Linux KODI Helix 14.2 which doesn't have those bugs, runs a faster, but alas still has the old freezes when in idle problem that EmbER fixed so you need to ensure that you run a CPU active screensaver to avoid those freezes.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazelbag:
I have ember on my MX2 but when watching something, be it from a HDD or a stream, it seems like the display freezes then resumes and the same with the audio. Is anyone else experiencing this?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie_mtl:
Hi,

Try this.

[root@EmbER ~]# vi /etc/init.d/S40network

Then insert ifconfig just before ifup:

...
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting network..."
ifconfig eth0 hw ether C4:4E:AC:04:27:9D
/sbin/ifup -a
...

Best regards.

Charlie
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dartsma:
embER atv1200 brick

Donated this morning got my serial number ! but you cant update from v1.0 using ethernet and broadcom wifi isnt supported so i had to flash the v1.01 upgrade file which has resulted in a brick ! im not even able to get into recovery by shorting the pins !! anyone any ideas ??

Amstrad
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lamista:
HD audio

HI, I just flashed ember onto my gbox mx2, and I must say I like it, I setup everything and all seems to be good, but I did notice when I enabled passthruough audio there were no options for TRU or HD DTS receivers, I did have these options on my previous kodi build, is it or will it be supported? just curious.

Thanks for the great work, very snappy and clean version of kodi.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boricuaPR:
Ember for other devices like MXQ ?

Just wondering if there are plans to build Ember for other devices like the all black MXQ. This seems to now be a very popular upgrade to the MX.

Glad to see version 2 is out. Cant wait to try.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kgonla@gmail.com:
Download links ember 2.0 and 2.0.1 ?

Hello

I can't find the download links for the new version announced on ember-dev.com. Where can I find them?

Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baruchin:
Where can we download 2.0.1.? Clicking on download links only shows firmware 1.0.1.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skurvish:
Openelec 5.95.2

Any plans to upgrade ember for this openelec version?

tia.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noz_Mac:
Updated to v2 today and I am impressed. So far everything working as it should. Only issue was that it wiped all addons but luckily I had a backup done.

Using on an MX clone box. Good work ????
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hungqdinh:
Hello

just sent the post through email . is it 1 point each email address ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
I'm on 1.0.1 with atv520 on Ethernet but ota update says server not available
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skurvish:
What version of Kodi is in the 2.x release? If not 15 is there a roadmap as to when 15 will be included?

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinaltapt:
USB DAC on Ember / ATV 520?

Hello

I am really happy with ember 1.01 on my ATV520. I think Ember is really great and I have donated, but I have a slight niggle with music playback through my receiver at the beginning of most tracks there is a slight stutter in playback this only started after upgrading my receiver, my old Denon AVR 1912 didn't have the problem but my new Cambridge Audio Azur 651r does.

I have spoken to CA about the problem and they say it is a known issue with HDMI clock synchronisation and basically nothing they can do about it. So I am now considering purchasing a USB DAC for listening to stereo music to solve the problem.

Just wandering if anyone is using a USB DAC and can confirm the setup works. Do you get audio output though both the hdmi and usb simultaneously without having to switch any settings in Kodi (I would be using usb audio output for stereo music and HDMI audio output for 5.1 sound on films with 2 different inputs assigned for the audio on the Receiver to switch between the 2).

I am looking at getting a reasonable quality DAC but without spending too much, and have seen some DAC's based on the Sabre ES9018 chip at reasonable prices one of the manufacturer web sites also says that no drivers are required for Linux but I am not sure that would also apply to stripped down Linux versions which I assume Ember is.

The Units that I am considering are described In the links below.

hifimediy.com/9018-dac

hifimediy.com/9018D-dac

amazon.co.uk/ES9018-Optical-Coaxial-Asynchronous-384kHz-Silver/dp/B00SIOVNS8

I Would be really interested to here if anyone else has had any experience of running Ember with a USB DAC or any opinions about weather the above DAC's or any other DAC's are likely or unlikely to work.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DancesWithChickens:
Follow them on Twitter.

There, they announced that EmbER 3.0 (currently Alpha) will contain Isengard.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skurvish:
Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richdashmore:
atv 520 v2 donor update

Hi guys, has anybody been able to install the donor edition on the atv 520 device, if so please advise how you were able to do this,I have entered the serial provided after the donation was made but if I select the download button, nothing happens,I am aware of certain issues around the wireless support so can only download via the network cable in the unit. If anybody has been able to apply the update please let me know what steps you followed to do this so that I can try replicate.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rusnak666:
cant revert from ember to android atv520E

Hi,

please how can i revert from ember to android? Im using atv520e, downloaded revert to whatever files and followed all steps, but im getting this message: assert failed: getprpop("ro.product.device") == "stvmx" II getprpop("ro.product.device") == "stvmx" Installation aborted

Please can you help how to revert? Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawhide85:
[MENTION=3484100]croniccorey[/MENTION]- I did a search without any luck. Just wondering if your Rom is compatible with the Minix Neo X8-H Plus? Thanks

Edit : Here's a link to the stock FW including the PC USB tool.

http://www.minixforum.com/index.php?threads/2456/

NEO X8-H PLUS stock firmware