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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
New ember v4.0.0 update with jarvis 16.1 is now available

The new full release of EmbER 4 is now available for the dual core M6 boxes G02Ref and G18Ref as well as the S805 M12 quad core boxes too. Please note that there are no free public versions for the time being and may be some time before there is . EmbER V4.0.0 has the latest KODI Jarvis V16.1 and so far runs very nicely and seems to be very stable too.

So for those who do not already have EmbER installed on their boxes, to get the latest EmbER 4.0.0 installed with KODI Jarvis 16.1, then you need to first download and install the appropriate version for your box of the public EmbER V3.0.1 build, and then on the EmbER Downloads page donate at least the required amount to register your version ( >US$10 for M6 boxes and >US$25 for the S805 quad core M12 box) and then activate your EmbER firmware to upgrade to the full Donor Edition. Your box will be able to auto update OTA to V4,0.0, provided you enable the Auto Update feature in EmbER Settings first of course. You can also in EmbER settings easily manually update the firmware too..

IMPORTANT for those with MyGica ATV1200 and 1220 G02Ref boxes, then before installing EmbER over the default Android firmware, you MUST first install an earlier MX Linux KODI 14 build, available from the front page of this thread. Only then can you safely install EmbER firmware without bricking your box. This as I understand it is a problem with the factory configuration of these MyGica boxes and not an EmbER bug, though this may have a work around eventually with a public V4 release sometime in the future.

Note also that if you have been running one of the V4 nightly builds then you will have to manually install the new full release V4.0.0 update as the system will see your V4 nightly build as already running EmbER V4 and then report that there are no updates available. So to get around that simply go to the Manually upgrade/downgrade option and there you will see the full V4.0.0 available for OTA download and installation.

I have now tested this V4.0.0 full firmware update on a G02Ref ATV1220T box and on my S805 based MXQ M12 metal cased box, and both so far are running very well indeed with no problems with the OTA update either, well other than the manual update install needed for those currently running a V4 nightly build as mentioned above.

Well done to Josh and Cory at EmbER for yet another milestone EmbER Linux KODI build, great job and much appreciated by all here I am sure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
M12 S805 Android Revert Now Available on EmbER Downloads page

Yes as the title says Josh has now made available a good working revert to Android file set on the EmbER downloads page for the MXQ M12 metal cased box. Before some of you may have noticed it was the old M6 box Android revert files at this download location.

So for those with the small EmbER boot logo display problem then you can now back up your EmbER settings first on your M12 box, use this newly uploaded revert to Android set of files as per the readme.txt file, and once their box is back in the original Android firmware they can then set the display mode to 720p as per my earlier posting above, and reinstall EmbER with the proper full screen boot logo displays. Finally restore their new EmbER backup to have their box back as it was.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marjulak:
[Q&amp;A] [ROM][Linux/XBMC] Native Linux for Amlogic based Tv-Box's {08/24/2014}

I have an atv1200 and upgraded to EmbER 4, but with the refocus skin wich is not compatible yet thats why it was stuck on the refocus loading screen. Desperate as i was i tried to reset the box but now i think its bricked. I tried the unbricking methods, since its not the first time this happened but now the red light keeps blinking with the ac power connected. When i power the box via usb the red light is on without blinking but nothing happens when i reset with the boot sd card inserted. I am a little confused which restore files i have to use on the sd card, and could somebody share how to use the uart and atv1200? I found this one but i know has to be g02ref.

http://forum.androidgadget.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=174

Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met Tapatalk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
I now have a reliable unbricking system for the MyGica (Geniatech) ATV1200 and ATV1220 boxes, and although there is a bit of work involved the method works brilliantly though does also requiring shorting pins 6 & 7 on one of the chips (not pins 2 & 3 as originally indicated in earlier PCB pictures!) . I will post complete instructions very soon. Thanks to Josh for his help with this as with his amazing technical knowledge and my persistence we managed to crack this long time problem.

I am sure many here who have these particular bricked boxes will find this very useful and will be good to have their boxes back working and with the latest EmbER firmware too. I just need the time to post the step by step guide here, but that hopefully should be within a day or two. I will also make the needed small files available on my public Dropbox for downloading.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Fix for MXQ M12 suspend mode bug

If anyone is interested I have a replacement remote.conf file for the MXQ M12 metal case boxes. This will cure the annoying hardware bug that means you cannot reboot your box from the remote power button if you went into suspend mode using that remote power button. This edited remote.conf file will give you the usual old 3 choice menu instead when you hit the remote red power button and by choosing Suspend from the 3 options it will put your box as it says into suspend mode. However now the remote power button will warm reboot the box as it should without the annoying need to power off/on reboot your box. This appears to not be an EmbER problem as I have noticed from testing that this same fault is also often there with the default Android OS as supplied with the virginal new boxes.

If you want this amended remote.conf file (ONLY FOR MXQ M12 metal cased boxes running EmbER) then get it here " https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17319514/M12 remote (fixed).zip " from my Dropbox public folder (it is very small file) unzip this file called "M12 remote (fixed).zip" and using file manager (with access to hidden files and deletions enabled as usual) add it to the folder /root/Configs/kodi/ and then reboot your box for it to take effect.

I hope Josh may be able to incorporate this into the next EmbER update V4.0.1 but I gather that is still some weeks away yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macfunk:
Ember reboot feature doesn't work on my ATV1200

Hi Folks

Hoping one of you guys or the ember dev team can help!

I have a Sumvision branded ATV1200 box which I've been using both the original MX Linux builds and the Ember public builds on for some time and thought it would be good to donate to receive the OTA update of v4.0.

One issue I've had since running the v3.0 build is that both the reboot from the shutdown menu and also the reboot to recovery feature in Ember settings doesn't seem to work. When I select reboot from the shutdown menu the screen goes black but doesn't complete the reboot (just seems to hang until I physically remove the power supply.)

Also if i select the reboot to recovery option in the ember settings menu nothing seems to happen either.

Having donated and gone through the OTA update process at the end of the download when it gets to the reboot cycle image, again nothing happens (it just sits on the scrolling image until I either cancel out of the reboot or pull the power)

Until i fix this rebooting issue I won't be able to complete the update to V4 which is quite frustrating!

Also tried re-installing v3.0 from scratch (spent a few hours on reverting to the original android firmware, clearing out all userdata in recovery, etc) then re-installed the original MX-Linux build, then Ember 3.0 but the issue is still there with the reboot function problem.

Everything else functions perfectly so there just seems to be a corruption or bug with the reboot on my box.

Has anyone else experienced this on an ATV1200 box or similar G02 ref unit?

Thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Kill two small bugs with one fix

See my post above #221 re the remote enabled suspend mode bug.

Well the great news is that it also clears the well known bug that when in the original remote enabled suspend was used then the system clock lost around an hour a day. That of course then required a full cold reboot to reset the clock to correct the time, which of course defeated the big benefit of the suspend hot quick reboot. Well using the edited remote,conf as above, and selecting Suspend from the three options, that gives you what is a normal suspend mode BUT now the clock no longer loses time. I have discovered this after some extensive testing.. This clock bug is NOT an EmbER bug at all as it appears to be the same even in Android so is likely a base box related bug.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macfunk:
Reboot Issue solved!

Finally managed to solve the rebooting problem myself after several different attempts. What eventually worked for me was digging up a copy of the original MyGiga MX 4.1 firmware from a Chinese website. I had been able to get to the android recovery screen (bridging pins & SD boot card method) but somehow ended up getting the box into a reboot cycle where it continually booted into recovery mode from power up. Eventually after trying all the usual techniques and original geniatech firmwares to no avail, I'd just about given up. Just goes to show that the old box is never dead till it's dead! Using the old MyGiga 4.1 files from a bootable SD I was finally able to get the box to boot normally (had to figure out how to change the language settings from Chinese to English which was fun). Next step was to re-install the original MX-Linux firmware and once I had this back the reboot commands were working properly again. Finally got Ember 4.0 working fully and I have to say it's breathed new life into my old ATV1200.

Anyway, thought it was worth posting this should anyone else run into the same issues on their ATV1200.

Cheers :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
NEW EmbER V4.0.1 Nightly Build now available

Hot news. For those with the metal cased MXQ M12 boxes with the S805 EmbER build then there has just been released a V4.0.1 Nightly Build for those who feel competent enough to try this new Beta build which has a raft of bug fixes according to Josh at EmbER . Please be aware that this is a Beta Build so could well have bugs so only for those who are wiling to test it out and please feed back your experience of it here too.

I have now installed it and the update went smoothly and all boots up okay and looks to be all working fine. I have also now removed the edited ntp.conf file some of us had to use to get the correct date and time at boot up and so far it works fine without that ntp temporary fix we used before, so this is fixed for sure it seems. Josh has apparently considerably reworked the power management so please test to check that the past related issues are fixed. Certainly I have removed my temporary fix remote.conf file too, and we are now back with the instant suspend mode when pressing the remote red power button. However from this instant suspend mode when trying to reboot from the remote then I still find it fails on first attempt every time, but now it always works on the second attempt unlike before. Now I will be also testing to see if the time loss is still occurring in this default suspend mode, so will report back on this issue tomorrow or Sunday after it has been in this instant suspend mode for many hours overnight.

Thanks to Josh and Corey for their continued work on this excellent S805 EmbER build.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hemps34:
Version 1. Helix Compiled 19-01-15

Heres what to do

Download this

1.Copy all files into SD card root directory

factory_update_param.aml

factory_update_param.ubt

bootloader.img

recovery.img

MX_LINUX-G02REF-update.zip

2.Insert SD card into the box, don't use USB disk.

3.Press and hold the upgrade button,then plug in power adapter.

4.Hold the button for about 10 seconds, then release.

5.There may be no display for upto 2 mins (DON'T POWER OFF!!!) then upgrading screen will appear.

6.After it's finished, the box will restart.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnniegtg:
EMBER

Logo is sick! Can't wait!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coley65:
Hi

I have the atv1200 with jan 2015 firmware on it I needed to have 2 dns adresses on it what I did was edited the resolv.conf file inserted the the dns saved it and using putty and typed

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

This worked well is this the correct way of doing this.

Also how to use a vpn with openvpn

would also like to thank cron for his work on this

kind regards coley
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beekaykay:
Root Password

Hi,

I am trying to install VPVicity in MX_linux-1.01r2-G18Ref_MX2Ref

It needs the open VPV installed and to do this requires the Sudo Password.

I'm guessing it is the root password.

I tried the ssh password (letmein) and that does not appear to work.

Does anyone know what this is for this build please?

Any hep would be appreciated.

Thanks

Brian.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DancesWithChickens:
As a TLBBv2 user, i just registered here to say thank you for the development of EmbER,

looking forward to testing it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnniegtg:
Looking forward to testing!

Free TV ain't cheap!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theINSKIP:
Reverting back...

Hi

I had a ATV1200 box a while back and followed your instructions here to remove the geniatech android side of things and have it boot straight to MX LINUX XBMC. I used it for a while then got a better box and sold that one to my mate.

He has asked to have a look at it as its gone 'a bit wrong' over time.

I remembered that there was a tool on this forum to revert the box back to the original settings, but i can't find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadygt:
Will it be possible to run something like retroarch with ember?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DancesWithChickens:
Feedback?

Do you guys want feedback/bug reports regarding Ember releases and if so - where?

All in the same release thread or sorted by platform?

Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azorian_ca:
ATV310B

Hi, first of thanks for the hard work.

Is the ATV310B ever going to be supported?

thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] croniccorey:
All stvmx models except dongle are supported, bcm WiFi is broken still cause we have not got to it yet. stvmc and stvm3 builds are coming soon aswell.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azorian_ca:
Thanks for the quick reply Corey. This box was a hand-me-down from my brother so I don't have a lot of info on it, however is says ATV310 on the bottom and has android installed on it, so I'm assuming the right version would be STVMX.

When copying the contents of EXTRACTME_EmbER-Amlogic-G02REF-convert_v1.0.0 to an SD card, plugging in the box and holding the update button for 10s it drops me to the android recovery menu, and shows the following messages:

Verifying update package...

E: failed to open /sdcard/update.img (no such file or directory)

E: signature verification failed

If I rename "EmbER-Amlogic-G02REF-update.zip" to "EmbER-Amlogic-G02REF-update.img" (probably a stupid idea anyway) and try to apply update it asserts with:

getprop("ro.build.product") == "g02ref" || getprop("ro.build.device") == "g02ref"

any pointers would we appreciated.

thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
Thanks Corey and josh. If I am currently on MX linux helix 14.1 on an atv520 would you recommend reverting to android 4.1 first and then doing the initial install ? Or is the update straight from MX linux safe enough? And if so should I be using something like fresh start before upgrading?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] croniccorey:
Just use the android to ember conversion, conversions should be used on all flash's unless ember is already running... MX Linux is not ember :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 04harley:
ember

loaded ember on last night from open elect,It went fine,wish i new open elect back up would work for ember ,I spent 3 hours configuring kodi back{dam}Anyway it's petty snappy everything seems to work pretty well,The only thing is my hard wired connection drops out every 10 seconds or so,not connected,connected,Wireless works fine,I like the wired connection for hd streaming,Any thoughts,wanted to try out ember before going for donor edition and make sure everything works,I really like the OS,thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haciusta:
xios m3?

Hi guys,

great work! will an XIOS M3 v1.0 image get released anytime?

cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
thanks Corey. one of the guys over on the kodi forums (forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=180446&pid=1972218#pid1972218) did the install using the 3rd link (the ember update) directly overtop his mx Linux helix and gotham installs and everything seemed to work. I would have thought that it be necessary (as you mention) to use the android to ember conversion if one is on something different (android, mx Linux)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] croniccorey:
The conversion is safe messure... I flash tested 20 or more boxs and had some bricks and logo issues on some depending apon firmware they came from, so we advised people to use Android to EmbER conversion as it wipes and repartitions nand for the new MTD introduced in EmbER builds.

Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red-i:
perfect i'll go that route then. i'll do the android to EmbER conversion over my existing mx Linux install then.

update:

installed flawlessly (I had to remove and re-add one addon so far). great work!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Doc:
Amlogic S802 M8

Any plans for a release for the Amlogic S802 M8?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilradom1910:
Hi Guys. Now I'm using 5.0.3 Codesnake Open Elec.

I wanted to try EMBER.

Which firmware Matricom I upload to my box (Generic EM-6 g18ref) before installing EMBER - 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2, 1.2.2 ??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnniegtg:
Just use the conversion file for ember. No need to put android on as it writes its own partition.

Free TV ain't cheap!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grand Total:
Problem installing EmbER on Geniatech ATV1200

I have a problem installing EmbER on my Geniatech ATV1200. If I attempt to install EmbER it appears to install OK, then reboots, but then attempts to install again ad infinitum.

I did break the cycle and then attempted to install from the recovery screen with the result shown in the photo attached. Even after that the box will not boot into EmbER. I did notice that the penguin's foot has an exclamation mark on it. I wonder what that means.

Image not attached because of forum rules. Image URL is h t t p ://i.imgur.com/LyTr6HB.jpg
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dopeysd619:
mxq and mxii support

are you planning on making this for mxq or mxiii i just installed on mx box g18ref and it brought tears to my eyes... it works so fast
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] croniccorey:
Thanks for the feedback, yes builds of EmbER will be made for 802/805/812, however they will remain exclusive to Armada for time being.

Thanks for using EmbER
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dopeysd619:
Cool thank you looking forward to those...in the future
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmitry.o.ivanov:
1080i for component video out

How to set the screen resolution to 1080i component video?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oidka:
Hi!

Can i use this somehow on my Ainol Elf2 tablet?

We had a bootable linux image a few years ago, but it could not do 1080p videos. (src: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/38070-ubuntu-1210-quantal-armhf-for-elf-ii/ )

It was running linux from sdcard without touching android on the device.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azorian_ca:
Hi Corey,

just realized what you meant, so the "ro.build.product" for ATV310 is "stvm3" so I'll just have to wait for for the image to be available.

One easy thing to help avoid confusion would be to print "ro.build.product" in "updater-script" before the the assert.

thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] croniccorey:
Thanks for feedback, I will have a look into this.. Would you be interested in testing Fix's since u can recreate issue? If yes pm me

I suspect issue is due to sample rate
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
Have just PM'd you croniccorey.

Interesting re sampling rate for pass-through digital streams. I was wondering if it was somehow the switching code data was somehow corrupt or different to what the Denon device expects from the media box ?? The coding and scripting of this is way beyond me, so I am very happy for this to be in your capable hands. As I said once the Denon is manually forced switched over to using digital surround sound then it works 100% with the XBMC/KODI media box.

Wonder if there are any others here who get this same problem using an HDMI connected AV receiver ?? Cannot believe it is only me and my friends using this same Denon unit.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinaltapt:
EmbER G02ref Convert V1.0.0 flash failed can anyone help?

I have tried to flash update a Mygica ATV520E from the MX_Linux 1.01 G02REF image that I had previously installed and was working Okay, to EmBER -Amlogic-G02REF-convert_V1.0.0 image.

Unfortunately the update seems to have failed part way through and now I am unable to get back into recovery mode.

On the first update attempt I saw the MX Linux tux logo with a green progress bar followed by the EmbER Logo screen after a few minuets the ember logo screen shifted to the top two thirds of the screen and split horizontally into 3 overlapping images and stayed like that for over an hour before I decided to cycle the power.

now each time I boot I get the EmbER Logo (Flaming asteroid on a grey background with EMB|ER in large white graphics underneath, a sponsored by Theatre in a box logo in the top left which disappears after a few seconds then the EMB|ER graphics under the flaming asteroid go black then one by one go white then white with a black outline then black, white and white with a black outline again then the whole image shifts to the top two thirds of the screen and splits into three overlapping images (or sometimes goes blank) and that is as far as it ever gets.

I have tried re-downloading the image files, reformatting my SDCard and ensuring all that it has on it are the contents of the extracted zip in the root with nothing else. I have tried the convert, update and revert to android images and also an SDCard with just the recovery.img file from the original convert image that I used but cant get any further than the EmBER Logo at boot and the box wont go into any kind of flash or recovery mode using the toothpick reset at power on for 10 seconds.

Does anyone have any suggestions How this box might be revived or does it seem to have shuffled off its mortal coil?

Many Thanks

Spinaltapt.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RayWalton:
More Feedback on EMBER

Just wanted to confirm after now about a weeks testing I have found both the G02Ref and G18Ref new EMBER builds have both cured the old long standing freeze up problem when the boxes were running idle. Excellent news, so no longer do you need to run a cpu activity promoting screen saver to stop those freezes, well done to the XDA team on that, good one:)

All else is also running very well indeed on the boxes I have tested ATV1200, ATV1220 and Generic MX2. Still to test on ATV520 but, other than the old Broadcom WiFi compatibility issue, I do not foresee any problems with that.