[M.O.J.O. General] V7RNR:
Hi All

I have started this thread in general just to chat and voice some opinions and get bits of feedback more than anything

so here's my little story, I picked up a mojo as I originally had fire sticks for my TVs in the bedroom and living room, and Emulators and games on my phone and tablet, and I picked up an 8bitdo SF30 Pro Controller for my phone/tablet, however I found I never really have time to myself while out and about to play retro games on my phone and tablet, I had looked at buying a shield tv so I could have everything on one device, but I didn't want to spend 150+ on one, so I sold the fire sticks in favour of a mojo, knowing I could put tv apps and games on, but i didn't know how restricted the old sw would be, but for the price of a fire stick, worth a look, then picked up 2 more (one for each tv as a result of bricking the first one, now before anyone jumps in, i quickly found out it is hard to brick a mojo with software, only a hardware issue is likely to brick it) but what was holding me back waas my own stubbornness, I refuse to join facebook, but I know there is a dedicated group on there, but again I found a ton of info on here and youtube, and secondly, I have a chromebook, not a windows machine, so connecting to a computer with male to male usb means making a trip.... i've had to load everything onto SD

too many apps weren't compatible with 4.2.2 so I needed to root and find a newer version, I tried remix 2 first, then lineage 13, then cm12 and 12.1, none are perfect

the mojo downstairs is on stock rom, as that runs all of my emulators just fine (that i'm aware of) and any extra tv apps that I can't put onto my smart tv (mobbox Cody and showdro etc ;) ) I only purchased this later after tinkering with the first one for a few days

Remix - used most of the internal storage with apps so maybe lineage needs trying as I can mount an SD as Internal, most emulators will run roms from the sd card, wifi doesn't seem to work when an SD is left in (will mounting an SD internally with Lineage mean no wifi?), and its a faff to keep taking it out given the placement of the slot next to the hdmi, so i've moved them onto a thumb drive instead and picked up a cheap 4 port usb to put a keyboard/mouse receiver in, i've put the controller dongle in the hub and i've not noticed too much lag, but I wanted the thumb drive in the usb3 port, and I can switch them if it means it works better, overall happy, upstairs isn't a smart tv so that mojo needed to have all the tv apps in addition to my emulators games and roms, still some apps can't be installed though, problem parsing the package, is this due to the app version itself? a couple of my GTAs sideloaded fine, but some refuse, even when i've looked for alternatives... I read Netflix can be an issue, I found if I downloaded a version that was near enough the same date as the rom, (a version from feb or oct 2016, can't remember which in the end) the app would simply take me to its own site to download the correct version

tried Lineage next, first time, made a right hash of it, i dunno how, firstly, I couldn't boot into recovery from Remix (TWRP 2820), factory reset sent it to a twrp bootloop, and thats where i thought i'd bricked it, and bought 2 more, figured out the keyboard alt-i-prt scr was only rebooting it, until I pressed escape after pressing those 3, before remix reappeared, suddenly twrp came on, so I wiped and flashed lineage

it was buggered everything forced close, but settings option gave me the extra restart options including restart into recovery, and i'd come across the thread on here showing the hidden internal hw buttons for power and restart,, so getting back to recovery was no battle at all

back to Remix, I spent a few hours reading through 2 different threads dedicated to CM12 and CM12.1, both seem affected with various minor flaws, audio drop outs, no chrome browser, I experienced this and also unstable bluetooth

the only thing i've been unsuccessful in is going back to stock, I don't think I did my initial back up properly, but given that i've left one stock anyway, I can do a back up again if I need to I guess,

sorry if my first post isn't that interesting, but do you all still use your mojo and what roms do you use, i've settled on Remix