[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Snot Here:
Anyone using one of these? There seem to be several similar models sold (at least in the USA) but it seems like everyone here is using either IPTV-only boxes, or boxes with DVB tuners.

The Cyberbox has a p231 board with an S905D SoC, 2GB RAM, & 16GB ROM, and it runs Android 7.1.2. The box comes with root access as a developer option, making it easy to mod (but also a bit dangerous). One slightly worrisome issue is that the Cyberbox doesn't seem to come with a reset button behind the composite A/V port or anywhere else, so there's no easy way to boot a recovery image if you brick it. It does seem possible to install a micro SD card and a reset switch if you're good at soldering tiny SMC components (which I'm not). Luckily I haven't bricked mine (so far).

I don't know much about the Leelbox Q5 but I've heard it's similar. I've seen threads here on the earlier Leelbox models (Q4 and less) but nothing on the Q5 yet :confused:

The MagicSee 300 also seems to be a very similar box, but it has a DVB tuner for FTA satellite and European/Australian OTA broadcasts instead of an ATSC tuner.

With respect to the iView Cyberbox specifically, I've done a little work fixing it up. Mostly minor stuff: improving the look of the launcher (a version of DroidLogic's MBoxLauncher), fixing iView's slightly screwed-up boot animation, installing TWRP recovery (got lucky; the S905X/S912 version 3.2.1 of TWRP works fine except that compression doesn't seem to work during backups) and Magisk (to get some control over root access).

I do have some questions for the more knowledgeable members about my Cyberbox:

My Cyberbox came with Chrome version 66. But try as I might, I couldn't update it! Play Store would download the latest version but it would fail to install. Every time. I ended up just deleting Chrome from /system/app entirely and installing it as a user app! So now I'm up to date, but does anyone have an idea why it wouldn't update normally like most system apps?

Play Store says the Firefox browser is incompatible with my Cyberbox. So I installed an old version (52, which I downloaded for my old pre-NEON Samsung Captivate Glide). Version 52 installed and seems to run fine, but why is the latest version incompatible? Doesn't the S905D support NEON instructions? Edit: AIDA64 says it does support NEON so that isn't what makes newer FF versions incompatible.

This third question isn't specific to the Cyberbox. I've seen lots of folks asking about this issue with their own boxes, so it's evidently a common feature of many of these TV boxes. The system always starts the Mbox Launcher, even if you install a different launcher and make it the default. I realize I could just replace /system/app/MboxLauncher/MboxLauncher.apk with my favorite launcher's .apk, but why do I have to? Why can't I just set my default launcher as I do on a phone? Clearly the MboxLauncher app must be hard-coded in the system somewhere, but where?

Wallpaper does not work at all on this box. The Mbox Launcher has a built-in background, but without wallpaper, any other launcher displays with a solid black background. But any attempt to set wallpaper either crashes or just doesn't do anything. There is a default wallpaper (/etc/default_wallpaper.png) but it never appears anywhere and can't be selected as the wallpaper either. Anyone have an idea why this might be?

Possibly related to the wallpaper issue, there's no status bar or navigation bar. Anywhere.