yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
Fair play, regarding ARC and CEC although that's gonna be more software dependant then it is hardware. In fact, I'd suspect those features would be handled by modules in the kernel (again, as always, I'm prepared to be corrected on that). Purely as a diagnostic step, I'd try flashing coreelec onto an SD card and seeing what your find there. I'd SSH\putty into it and "tail-f" the log files and see what's happening in real time. I suspect that the sound bar would be doing its job as expected and any issues that you personally are experiencing will be a quirk of Android. There are so many variables at play that I'd want to rule out the receiver part of the equation before tinkering with the transmitter. Another quick test to rule out quirks with the soundbar would be to chuck some media onto a USB drive and see that the TV is passing the data stream correctly to soundbar. Have you noticed the issues with any particular type of media? DTS stream, Dolby digital, etc etc etc?

(Although my gut feeling is always "what the hell is Android doing now? Lol).

I'm not a fan of ATV either, but simply for the fact that play-store has drastically reduced apps available for download\install.

I've got an air mouse too. One of the 15 quid jobbies with keyboard on the back. It's good enough for my Sony bravia (which is ATV, and can't be rooted so I'm stuck with it :( but it's primarily just used for Netflix anyway so not a massive setback). The best I experience I've had so far with Android was a Bluetooth full sized keyboard with trackpad but that's far bigger than the air mouse and isn't a 1 handed solution. Every review I've seen\read about the GT king device always mention how good the included air mouse is though so I'm prepared to be blown-away\wowed when I finally get to test one.

Why would anyone want to move to Manchester, you ask?

For the weather and the accents, of course. Oh, hang on, I've listed reasons to stay away. Ok I'm going to need A LOT more time to come up with a good reason :). The actual reason was because Mrs wanted to be closer to her daughter who'sv developed an incurable autoimmune disease. As it happens, it was the right decision as her health has taken a turn for the worst and she's been living with us since march. It's actually been easier with this "zero day human malware" that's been doing the rounds
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] drakulaboy:
don't go offtopic guys please, i really wait for [MENTION=5105831]Ricky Divjakovski[/MENTION] to share something
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
Oops. Sorry. Yeah. Didn't think.

Nathan, pm me if you wish, rather than clogging up the thread
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Copo Gold:
I made a donation three days ago, but you didn't send me the donation version. Does not answer my emails.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Kofola:
1. Ricky wrote few days ago, that he will publish donation version free for all

2. I recommend other tools, e.g. Simple Unpack & Repack Tool (here on XDA), CRB Kitchen (here on XDA), Android ROM Tool (ART_v1.9.0 on 4PDA), ....
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Copo Gold:
1 - Ricky said this in July, it's already September!

2 - Thanks for the recommendations.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Hi Guys, Donate version can now be found free on my website in the products page - http://rickydivjakovski.com/
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] sevsman:
You're a real gent :good:

Does it support 9 on this build?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Hi Guys,

Thread has been updated with 7.1.0 donate version released and free
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
1. I have a career(That i actually get paid to work) and i prioritise this more than the tools

2. Your free to use whatever you like, unpacking this firmware is extremely complex, so far im one of the only people who was able to do this.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] drakulaboy:
[MENTION=5105831]Ricky Divjakovski[/MENTION] can you please for the last thing add support to unpack/repack android 9? https://drive.google.com/file/d/18fzwMuXNP7g3eNVTznEbBGdnnGmGcOgv/view

https://daivietpda.com/2020/07/rom-atv9-android-9-0-cho-amlogic-s912/
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] sevsman:
I tested it this morning and the only part of android 9 it doesn't do is the kernel. The kernel isn't overly important anyway and having a kitchen that does everything else is simply awesome :good::highfive:
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] drakulaboy:
there is vendor partition too, odm (with SELinux permissions) and the tool aren't extracting them, anyway if Ricky won't do it, i'll stick to Ubuntu version of extractor
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] sevsman:
Is there an actual Linux kitchen that can do everything including repackage the ROM at the end?

If so, can I ask what it's called because I enjoy testing new stuff :svetius:
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] drakulaboy:
i'll send you the link in PM, cuz it's other forum
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
Hi can you pm me a link please, i noticed that the images (9.0) re pack with slightly smaller system, vendor & Recovery partitions and i am to understand this is related to selinux or have i got the wrong end of the stick? thanks
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Hi, as a business analyst i simply do not have the time to maintain this, not to mention i dont even have an android 9 device to test.

I may some time soon move back to supporting/building some samsung tools
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] KevMetal:
Look, I think everyone here has been very patient, supportive, understanding and respectful. The whole thing about your career and personal life and so on was never questioned. The whole respect the dev thing was followed to the T . However in my opinion your replies were very short, blunt, evasive and sometimes even a little passive aggressive . I quote the above to demonstrate that you led people on and motivated them to donate ? alluding to future versions & builds and expectations for android 9 yourself. As far as working for free ...I think many people donated and they were strung along a bit before getting the donate versions or support from you or even timely releases. So anyway it is natural that there would be some questions regarding support for 9 .I appreciate your paid version is up for free now .. kudos for that . I just think you could be a little more apologetic and friendly with the people who supported you . Also more forthcoming..As in you have haven't been able to make the tool work with 9 with the time you have available. Take care.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
I appreciate the people who donated, i really do, i will never forget these people, their gesture of kindness is unlike any other! however donations are not a stable income.

The level of my career i am at i would have seen myself here in 5 years, so the hard work and dedication has paid off, this quote was before i made the progress and still had little dribs and drabs of time i was planning on putting towards a new version of the tool, if someone really wants to unoack android 9, they will do the research and find out how, my tools basically do it already
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Hi Buddy,

Pretty sure its only the kernel stored in the kernel partition, the ramdisk is actually bundled with the firmware(will need to research to confirm)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] drakulaboy:
some files like init.amlogic.rc , init.amlogic.board.rc are in vendor partition in etc/init/hw folder
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
Props and respect given.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] coool_dud3:
good job bro.

im using windows 7 x64. im trying to unpack android 7.1, when i select system img program stops working error saying "customization tool stoped working".

i have attached the screenshot

log:

DEBUG INFO -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows name: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

x64 Architecture: True

PC Architecture: AMD64

Path of the program: D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Unpacking D:\SMART TV BOX\B760HS3_Firmware\system.img to level 3..

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : LEVEL 1 ---------------------------------------

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Splitting partitions from package..

[UNPACKER] : Unpacking upgrade package

[SHELL] : AmlImagePack -d "D:\SMART TV BOX\B760HS3_Firmware\system.img" "tmp\level1"

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : LEVEL 2 ---------------------------------------

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Attempting kernel unpack

[UNPACKER] : Unpacking kernel based partition

[SHELL] : unpackbootimg -i "tmp\level1\boot.PARTITION" -o "tmp\level2\boot"

[UNPACKER] : Rescursive delete "D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\tmp\level2\boot"

[UNPACKER] : [ERROR] : Failed to split kernel and ramdisk

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Rescursive delete "D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\tmp\level2\boot"

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : AMLUnpacker: FAILED - unpack of kernel

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Attempting recovery unpack

[UNPACKER] : Unpacking kernel based partition

[SHELL] : unpackbootimg -i "tmp\level1\recovery.PARTITION" -o "tmp\level2\recovery"

[UNPACKER] : Rescursive delete "D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\tmp\level2\recovery"

[UNPACKER] : [ERROR] : Failed to split kernel and ramdisk

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Rescursive delete "D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\tmp\level2\recovery"

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : AMLUnpacker: FAILED - unpack of recovery

[CUSTOMIZATION_TOOL] : Atempting system unpack

[UNPACKER] : Unpacking system partition

[UNPACKER] : Rescursive delete "D:\SMART TV BOX\AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate\tmp\level2\system"

[SHELL] : simg2img "tmp\level1\system.PARTITION" "tmp\level1\system.PARTITION.raw.img"

[SHELL] : python "bin\imgextractor.py" "tmp\level1\system.PARTITION.raw.img" "tmp\level2\system"

[UNPACKER] : [ERROR] : Failed to unpack system.PARTITION

[UNPACKER] : [ERROR] : Attempting old unpack method
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
Totally understand in life priorities change time is less available ect, appreciate the work you have done

you say your tool can unpack 9.0 currently? or do you mean with the right research someone could modify the tool to implement 9.0 unpacking?,

if the tool currently can unpack 9.0 can you share the procedure/workaround please?

and you also mentioned the possibility of releasing the source code, is this still something you would still consider if you're no longer maintaining/updating?

so someone with more knowledge than me can maybe continue development and its maybe wont become a dead tool :)

once again thanks :D
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] N'ayam Amarsh'e:
Hi, yes there's a linux kitchen that can be found here https://forum.atvxperience.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1776

It can unpack and pack all partitions and is stable as well.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] PHYSC-1:
Alright Ricky any idea of an eta on android 9 customization tool a guestimate if possible in weeks or months etc please
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] shinobisoft:
1) As a senior member, you should know that asking for eta's is frowned upon at XDA. 2) See Ricky's post on page 106
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] PHYSC-1:
Not sure why computer technicians get asked that same thing daily by customers about both software diag and hardware diag time frames? Took a look ok got it.

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[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] sevsman:
Because technicians get paid and Devs on here are NOT a private service! When people ask me that in XDA ROM groups, I ignore them and when they ask it in my TG groups, I give them a warn.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Tool will no longer be receiving updates, if you would like to pay me to build a tool to unpack 9.0 be my guest
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] elliwigy:
of course you mean donation lol since asking for money to develop something isnt exactly allowed on xda lol. just sayin, i know what you mean
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
NSFW (and sent with a huge grin whilst typing)

Ricky, I thought you might like to add this image to your repertoire, perhaps even to your avatar\signature maybe?

https://images.app.goo.gl/vcrx9Wv8VReDfEVH6

---------- Post added at 11:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:56 AM ----------

I've been pondering whilst washing up the dishes and I got to thinking :-

How easy would it be for another coder to "pick up the mantle"? Is the source code even still available or was it lost in the "great hardware failure of 2019-20"?

If available would Ricky be happy to share?

If lost, how difficult would it be to reverse-engineer the code by decompiling the binaries?

How much\many donations would need to be offered for you to consider sharing\assisting? I'm sure I could scrape up enough to donate a coffee or a pint of fosters towards this and suspect there might be a lot of people also willing to contribute to bring development back to life, for this project. I for one, would gladly deny a Christmas present to a child, in favour of donating to you. Heck, I might even go without butter on my toast, for a week or two.

I've found your work very useful before for my s912 2\16 device and also for my Mrs' s905x2 4\32 box.

Although I've not needed to touch anything ROM related for nearly a year, I am sure I will again in the future.

Am I being too presumptuous in my questions?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Luckily everything was recovered from the hardware failure, the possibillities with a great IT team are endless :)

Love the picture haha!

Its not so much about the money, its more about the time consumption, if i were to dedicate the same amount of time to an organisation willing to pay i would kill it.

I know AMLogic had been looking intomy work, so hopefully they can provide a solution!

I do have the source code, its close to 300mb of raw source, if i remember correctly only a few binaries had been pre-compiled due to no source code available, however the main ones are all in source code format.

Also if i remember correctly, source is in python, C, C++, C# and java, all the languages are used to their full potentil and it would be extremely hard for someone to pick up on the program due to the way i code(modular), meaning every function or method is a seperate class.

Heres just a small snippet of how i reverse engineered the AMLogic packing method, as you can see its quite complex, alot of the functionallity i added to the tool had no standard libraries in C# to achieve what needed to be done, the C# driven code is about 15,000 lines of code, the C code is about 10000-12000, the C++ is about 6000 and the python about an additional 3000-4000
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
I was saying this in the context of a joke haha, to pay for the right person to build something like this tool a company would pay between $20,000 - $50,000, theres no way in the world the community could raise that much money for a project like this :D

never the less, coding this was a great experience, really taught me to organise my code and i met a lot of nice people along the way :)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] elliwigy:
haha yea i kno, my reply was meant more as a joke also.. and i feel ya on that one lol. didnt believe companies paid as much as they do until i started security research n repprted a few things to samsung lol. cant imagine somethin real crazy
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] AlvaroCarvalho:
Hello Ricky Divjakovski,

How are you?

I'm trying to use your software to modify one of our firmwares, but everytime that I try to unpack de .img file into the customization tool, i'm receiving an error messages such like,

" Failed to unpack the kernel.

Operation will still continue however modifications involving the kernel will not be enabled."

This message appers with recovery too.

There is something that I doing wrong? Or something that I can do to solve this issue?

Thanks and Kind Regards,

Alvaro Carvalho
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] budkhuu:
Hello? Helpme

I need customize H96Nokeys.img file need. Please give me url.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Thiagobtv2020:
O meu customization tools v6.0.0 não está abrindo lvl 2 e 3 no Win 10 64 bits
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] jy95:
Hello, thanks for your work. I cannot see any available links for this tool.

Can you provide it ? Thanks
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
Hi Ricky's tool has issues editing ROMs newer than android 8, the failed to unpack can be ignored just modifications to kernel and recovery won't be possible, but the issue comes with repacking, seems to not like repacking the partitions in newer ROMs
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
The download is now moved to his website in the Original Post :)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] shava_mng:
How can I make certain application run on startup? For example youtube?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] x96media:
Hi everyone. Is the server down? I can not access anymore to ricks website ..
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Kofola:
@x96media : Look for alternatives! They exist (xda,4pda,...)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] qianzhi1:
Hi Ricky,

I am trying to download your latest tool, unfortunately your website is not working. Is there any way you can send me a link for the amlogig tool 7.1.? Thanks
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] bobpiesz:
If anyone needs the donate version now that the original website domain expired, I've put backups up on some file hosts just to be safe:

⚠ I HAVE UPLOADED THE ZIP I DOWNLOADED DIRECTLY VIA RICKY'S SITE VIA GOOGLE CACHE. HIS SITE PROVIDED THE MEGA LINK, AND I DOWNLOADED DIRECTLY VIA THAT. I DO NOT OWN THIS SOFTWARE, I DID NOT VERIFY THIS SOFTWARE, ETC ⚠

Ricky's Website Project Downloads Page Via Google Cache:

Products – RD Engineering

tiny.cc

Mega URL for a backup I re-uploaded:

File folder on MEGA

mega.nz

Mega URL on the Google cached page from Ricky's site:

34.09 MB file on MEGA

mega.nz

Google Drive:

AMLogicTools_V7.1.0_Donate.zip

drive.google.com

gofile.io Link:

Gofile - Free Unlimited File Sharing and Storage

Gofile is a free, secure file sharing and storage platform. With unlimited bandwidth and storage, you can easily store and share files of any type without any limits. Our advanced features, such as CDN support and password protection, make Gofile the ideal choice for individuals and businesses...

gofile.io

Direct Link via Gofile.io:

Gofile - File sharing platform, anonymous and free

Gofile is a free and anonymous file-sharing platform. You can store and share data of all types. There is no limit and everything is free.

srv-store1.gofile.io

Also attatched to this post as well
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
brilliant was just thinking to upload the latest but sorted now :)

EDIT: His Website Is Back Online
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] qianzhi1:
Thanks, but these files have a virus and don't work.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
I can confirm the original down loaded from Ricky's website works, i cant speak of the reuploads as not tried them, this tool wont work with android 8 and 9 unpacking to level 2 and beyond you will need other tools for that
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] maziizam:
I have got broken tv box Vontar X3 S905X3. It has broken EMMC. How can I run this Tv box from sd card without EMMC?

In terminal putty serial:

LOOP:21;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD?:20000;USB:8;

It run from SD card recovery with AMLogic Burn Card Maker and froze when it try load firmware to EMMC.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
I think your only option is to run coreelec or lebreelec from an SD Card, I'm not aware of a way to run android from the SD card :)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] TheAzther:
Anyone got any reference on g02_d8ref? I own an old 8 inch tablet that runs on a aml8726-MX SoC but I only found a russian equivalent that was officially updated to 4.2 but that's it. Im trying to get it to work on at least 5.0 but ive been unable to extract the kernel and ramdisk by any means, seems like the boot.img is not a conventional one. Can anyone help me?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Márcio siriano:
poderia me mandar essa versao nova?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Márcio siriano:
poderia me mandar essa nova versao?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Tech0308:
Hi, I can't seem to access the links?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
Hi all, after a few medical issues and pc issues i now almot have my new build up and running, all thats left is a decently priced GPU, i may consider makig a return to amlogic!
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] michael.santos:
It can be found in the new backup server: https://devdb.xda-developers.com/2/6/9/2/5/
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] beta.0:
Glad to hear this! Let me know if you need a tester. I'm struggling to rebuild an Android Q upgrade package right now myself. What a pain to work with, even under nix based OS.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] ztcs:
please show this link
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] gtsnet30:
https://xdaforums.com/t/08-03-2019-...onate-version-available.3786991/post-84681703
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Sedhadi:
Hi

Link is broken.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Ricky Divjakovski:
A new version will come out soon, these will be branded AMLogic tools X and will support both android 9 and 10 with donate features.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] gbox23:
Take my money!!!!!!!!!!
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] beta.0:
Great news. You rock man!
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] g000n:
Thanks
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] kevingamble:
sold./... let us know when
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] alexinc:
May it be possible with your tools to unbrick an mi box s device? Since last update i'm stuck in a boot loop and downgrading image with amlogic usb burning tools doesn't work anymore, as it seems kind of locked with password.bin file lately!? I would like to try writing boot.img, recovery.img or whatever it takes from latest OTA update.zip (the one that failed installing correctly) to boot into recovery again and install OTA update.zip once more... Any help much appreciated!

Thanks i.a.!
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] bossy007:
while trying to unpack it shows kernal can't be unpacked and during repacking it shows failed to repack system and vendor default will be repacked. Please anyone help
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
try this password.bin and install the oreo image thats about, using usb burning tool
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] aidanmacgregor:
not support android 9+ currently :)
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] alexinc:
Thanks, already revived my box now. ;-)