[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] mushepea:
Poision 4.3 ROM is brilliant, i finally got it flashed, working perfectly, thank you

thank you to Ricky Divjakovski & Whiteak this ROM is amazing, so much better than the crapyy stock interface.

My box is Sunvell T95Z Plus TV Box 2GB RAM LPDDR3 & Wifi 6225 chip - I didn't know that until yesterday.

the correct stock rom for the 2/16 LPDDR3 Wifi 6225 ius here:

chinagadgetsreviews.com/download-latest-android-7-1-1-stock-firmware-for-t95z-plus-tv-box.html

v1016-EB-AGCF-LPDDR3-2G .rar

7.1.2.

and here;

mega.nz/file/mB4lBaAI#NKUQ6Cn3mGbyLmekGY5iNi35xDk1a20_zW_-bUuYuLo

ive had quite a trip for the last 10 days since my last post when i decided id had enough of the buggy sunvell software.

I recommend using Amlogic USB burner tool version 2.0.5.15-bld7 with world cup driver. It works far better than any of the other 5 or 6 i tried. (but really needs to be on windows 7).

It crashes fairly often half way through a flash in windows 10, but luckily i have my old win 7 pc and it ran perfectly and installed 100% every ROM i tried more or less.

i tried the latest USB burning tools 2.0.1, 2.0.9, 3.1.0 and they constantly had LOWPER errors (i now know LOWPER = low power), even with both mains PSU and USB power plugged into the box. so i seriously recommend somehow using 2.0.5.15-bld7 and find a win 7 PC somewhere, it will save you a lot of stress and time.

my T95z plus has a wifi chip called AP6255, this is mis-typed on some download links and sites i think as 6225? mine also is the LPDDR3 RAM type, which i didn't know. I still don''t know how you tell what type of RAM is in your box? I found out because a ROM flashed ok, just trial and error (mainly error i must say).

i tried to flash poison 4.3 on top the box because the sunvell software is so bad and unstable and freezes up all the time, launcher app stops working and when you get 2 error messages above each other you cant cancel them both so you have to remote power off or unplug it. so annoying i decided id try flash another rom on it, if it bricked due to my lack of practice probably for the better, it would've gone out of my window pretty soon anyway.

when i flashed the poison rom (lots of dead download links, but ill put a couple where i got it from below. but i did something wrong and it went dead. It was my fault, i didn't know that the TWRP image for my file is not the same as the ROM for my file. So i couldn't get into TWRP mode, only android download mode. so i figured id flash poison.zip from SD card in android recovery mode. That was a bad move, i know that now!

for anyone else who doesn't do this kind of thing more than once a decade let me tell you, the TWRP image for your device is a program that will work it via an interface and allow you to edit the memory on your device, it is nothing like the ROM image that you want to install on your device. the TWRP image goes on an SD card and is renamed to recovery.img and when you go to download mode it runs the TWRP image which allows you to install your ROM, poison 4.3 in this case..

anyway the T95Z was dead, nothing happened when i plugged it in to anything, the USB tool didnt recognise it, i thought it was bricked.

so i started messing around with the NAND memory chip, there are a couple of vids on youtube that describe this, but really its so easy to do.

my chip is a Parallel SLC NAND chip; FORESEE NCEMAD68-16G-000. I coudn't find a pinout sheet for it anywhere, so i plugged the box into USB with the Burner tool running and just started shorting pins out with a small screwdriver.

after a few seconds 'Connect Success' and i could attempt to flash another rom. on the board there's a small white arrow pointing to Pin 1 of the nand chip, the pins to short are about 6 & 7, or 7 & 8. its the side with all the surface mount components near by.

I was trying to flash the androidTV roms onto my device also, but the only one that got close was the LPDDR3 version which flashed ok, but wouldn't boot. None of the S912 androidTV roms worked on my device.

Once id found the correct stock ROM it flashed and worked straight away. Initially i was using Win 10 so i was getting too many errors on top of having the incorrect roms, as soon as i was using win 7 i had it done within an hour or 2.

i was relieved to get the stock firmware back working and thought it was better than a bricked device, but somehow i booted into TWRP mode one time by accident. so i knew there was a way to get the damn thing to flash poison.

eventually i realized that the twrp image and my rom aren't the same thing! it took an hour or 2 to find the information. if id known that to beginning with i would've saved myself a lot of sleep this week. Still during the corona shutdown it kept me entertained and i am pretty god at flashing roms onto TV boxes now.

now i have poison 4.3 installed. i must say it is bloody fantastic compared to the sunvell buggy thing ive been using for nearly 2 years. I seriously recommend to all who have a T95Z plus to install poison and see what that box is really capable of. its only been a day since i got it working, but i can tell its so much better already.

A massive thank you to Ricky Divjakovski & Whiteak at XDA, really great job you guys even though its 2 years old it is still great and my T95z plus lives on another few years for sure without the frustrating curser sticking or the lower menu not coming back up... sunvell why no updates?? you could've made a really great box there if you'd just bothered to get the software working properly.

poison 4.3 can be downloaded from here:

i used this file and the TWRP recovery.img to flash my device: mega.nz/folder/2AYzRAaQ#uYqjwqW6LnIT67f8vRdXbQ

its also here:

androidfilehost.com/?fid=1899786940962591516

I hope this helps some others who dont really know enough but like a challenge.

Right, im off to watch some football on my new Kodi install!