TV box MBOX Android 2.3 from DX

Creo · December 24th, 2011, 06:17 AM

Hello Android TV box users.

I would like to introduce you Android 2.3.4 TV box from DX (SCU 102992) price - 84.80USD Free Shipping!

ARM Cortex A9/Media CPU/OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU/Dual-core Video DSP (Mali)
Amlogic 8726 / 900MHz
512MB DDR2 memory 2GB NAND flash

I bought it 25.11.2011 (black Friday price was 58USD).
And received after 2 weeks (Ukraine, Kiev) with Android 2.2 system, without Market, Flash and etc.

After some "conversations" with DX support and my friend on DX Yareg (he have the same box), i have Android 2.3.4 (with Market, Root and etc.) on this device.

This is my first post and i don't upload or post link for any (photos and etc.)

kgeorev · December 24th, 2011, 11:30 AM

Hello,
I have bought same player from DX black friday,
I am from Bulgaria,
do you know how to install cyrilic fonts, because subtitles are shown as chainise fonts?

insight3fl · December 24th, 2011, 01:20 PM

Hello, I have my alternative box finally with 2.3 factory installed. But having some problems with it. Waiting for my DX box to play around with it.

Thanks to NVV7777 and Yareg for their help. Enjoy and contribute!

gramilla · December 24th, 2011, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by insight3fl

Hello, I have my alternative box finally with 2.3 factory installed. But having some problems with it. Waiting for my DX box to play around with it.

Thanks to NVV7777 and Yareg for their help. Enjoy and contribute!

If you please can you make dump of you rom 2.3 ?

less · December 24th, 2011, 07:44 PM

hi nvv7777
great job by everyone here....

i have this issues where i cant touch the screen to continue..

you had posted this on dx thread

"i had exact same problem.
Solution:
1- restart to recovery mode
2. wipe data and cache
3. install update_gapp.zip

after this - restart, and long tap to Android, then - tap to skip button."

what do u mean by "long tap to Android" and "Tap to skip button"
What is the "tap" means? the "ok" button?

i was prompted to set ethernet and wireless. it rebooted and back to the "touch screen " page again...

less · December 24th, 2011, 07:58 PM

Merry xmas to all !!!!!

less · December 24th, 2011, 10:38 PM

in addition, how to we play the games stock remote?

just like this at 1:15

Android Media Player - YouTube

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by less

hi nvv7777
great job by everyone here....

Thank's.

Quote:

i have this issues where i cant touch the screen to continue..

what do u mean by "long tap to Android" and "Tap to skip button"
What is the "tap" means? the "ok" button?

i was prompted to set ethernet and wireless. it rebooted and back to the "touch screen " page again...

Long tap by mouse.

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by less

in addition, how to we play the games stock remote?

just like this at 1:15

Android Media Player - YouTube

May by this remote on DX: SKU 41809

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 03:50 AM

Photos of the player:

less · December 25th, 2011, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Thank's.

Long tap by mouse.

hi there,

got into the system.
But the Market lacks apps.... not even angry bird, slice the fruits etc..
No Apps for live streaming as well

Not sure what is the suppose of this player....lol...

less · December 25th, 2011, 07:53 AM

i had something similar to DX: SKU 41809

I doesnt create the mouse icon on the screen thus doesnt hover in the screen..

therefore, cant play games....

btw how to enhance the Market.... it is so pathetic with limited apps in there...

i tried, force stop, clear cache on Market and Google Framework....reboot and the market remains the same....limited apps

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by less

i had something similar to DX: SKU 41809

I doesnt create the mouse icon on the screen thus doesnt hover in the screen..

Need to add mouse png (or jpg or ...) file to the system, but I do not remember how to, please search in google for this problem.

Quote:

therefore, cant play games....
the market remains the same....limited apps

Market limited apps associated with: fingerprint options in build.prop. Need fix fix this problem. Yareg and me work for this. Install apps via Apps installer from SDCARD or USB downloaded with alternative market apps.

less · December 25th, 2011, 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Need to add mouse png (or jpg or ...) file to the system, but I do not remember how to, google it's problem.

Sound difficult !!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Market limited apps associated with: fingerprint options in build.prop. Need fix fix this problem. Yareg and me work for this. Install apps via Apps installer from SDCARD or USB downloaded with alternative market apps.

So i guess i have to install it this way...

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 10:13 AM

Sorry for my bad English

less · December 25th, 2011, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Sorry for my bad English

No worries. u have been a great help.

Btw, can install the honeycomb 3.1 on this player?

insight3fl · December 25th, 2011, 11:49 AM

can someone please give me detailed instructions for data dumping 2.3 image on my player. I have already gotten terminal emulator etc. but do not understand the commands.

Thanks

insight3fl · December 25th, 2011, 11:51 AM

I have rooted and installed titanium backup, but when I install root explorer it asks for superuser permission, I check yes and then the program forces close. Anyone get root explorer working properly?

Thanks

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Btw, can install the honeycomb 3.1 on this player?

A

, it would be super! Yareg - where are you?

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by insight3fl

can someone please give me detailed instructions for data dumping 2.3 image on my player. I have already gotten terminal emulator etc. but do not understand the commands.

Thanks

Run from Terminal app (all without ""):
1. "su" - command for root priv.
2. "cat /proc/mtd" and you have something like this:

#cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00040000 00020000 "000"
mtd1: 00500000 00020000 "111"
mtd2: 00280000 00020000 "222"
mtd3: 04380000 00020000 "333"
mtd4: 04380000 00020000 "444"
mtd5: 04ac0000 00020000 "555"
....

This is MTD blocs.

Then copy this block to the SDCARD:
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd0 of=/sdcard/000.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd1 of=/sdcard/111.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd2 of=/sdcard/222.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd3 of=/sdcard/333.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd4 of=/sdcard/444.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd5 of=/sdcard/555.img
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd6 of=/sdcard/666.img

Name of the block must be the same (for example: mtd0: "000" must be = /sdcard/"000".img)

Creo · December 25th, 2011, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by insight3fl

I have rooted and installed titanium backup, but when I install root explorer it asks for superuser permission, I check yes and then the program forces close. Anyone get root explorer working properly?

Thanks

Please install update_root.zip from Yareg!

insight3fl · December 25th, 2011, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Please install update_root.zip from Yareg!

I side loaded an updated version of root explorer and it works fine

Thanks,

less · December 25th, 2011, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

A

, it would be super! Yareg - where are you?

i tried doesnt pass the recovery and aborted

gramilla · December 26th, 2011, 12:10 AM

Plz help me install 2.3
When i install 2.3 android do not exit from recovery, after reboot it go to recovery again

insight3fl · December 26th, 2011, 06:20 AM

After much playing (lack of market requires download on tablet and then side load to player) I have my "cnet tech" 2.3 built in wireless box working pretty well. I have only one more tweak to see if Netflix player will work.

For those who complain that remote does not work with 2.3, mine works fine along side my wireless keyboard. I can use either one or both at the same time.

insight3fl · December 26th, 2011, 09:25 PM

Got netflix working.... sometimes and can confirm bluetooth dongle and bluetooth keyboards work.

I have also dumped my complete system blocks from this stock 2.3 player and now need information how I can load it in the DX player as I should have it tomorrow. Once I test it, I can release it for others.

Thanks for the help.

insight3fl · December 26th, 2011, 09:30 PM

Here are pictures of the circuit board of my player (from cnet tech assumed to be exactly like DX model but with stock 2.3 android) with built in wifi (it takes the space of one of the USB ports which I did not know when I ordered it) and one without wifi built in.

less · December 27th, 2011, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by insight3fl

Got netflix working.... sometimes and can confirm bluetooth dongle and bluetooth keyboards work.

I have also dumped my complete system blocks from this stock 2.3 player and now need information how I can load it in the DX player as I should have it tomorrow. Once I test it, I can release it for others.

Thanks for the help.

Good Job Sir !!!! Thanks for the effort !!!!!

anyway, any recommendation to buy the remote control that can play games e.g. angry bird etc.... the stock remote cant do it ...

szemo77 · December 27th, 2011, 09:39 AM

Look for "fly mouse"

r2arthur · December 27th, 2011, 07:51 PM

Are you guys playing big MKV files? Like 10gb 1080 files? How?

Creo · December 27th, 2011, 11:33 PM

Yes.

insight3fl · December 28th, 2011, 05:49 AM

When I dumped my files from my stock 2.3 player they showed the file extension (uboot.img) When I copied them to my windows folders I can not see the file extension (.img) for any of the files. Also when I zip package them with yareg zip sign package, they do not show .img file extension. Am I doing something wrong or will they flash just the same? In any event, I bricked my DX player trying to load my stock 2.3 img files after making update.zip. I also tried yareg recoveryfiles and I am now stuck on reboot recovery screen loop.

I am very new to this firmware process so sorry for silly questions.

insight3fl · December 28th, 2011, 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gramilla

Plz help me install 2.3
When i install 2.3 android do not exit from recovery, after reboot it go to recovery again

I have the same problem.. how did you fix it?

Thanks

r2arthur · December 28th, 2011, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Yes.

Could you please tell me how to do that? The only format my device recognizes is FAT32, which doesn't offer support to large files.

Creo · December 28th, 2011, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r2arthur

Could you please tell me how to do that? The only format my device recognizes is FAT32, which doesn't offer support to large files.

Player have android 2.3.4 firmware form DX and Market and root.
Today I testing player with: NTFS formated USB 2.0 HDD (Hitachi 160Gb) with 26,7 Gb
X-Men First class BD remux
codec: m2ts
quality: BDRemux
Video: 1920x1080 at 23.976 fps, MPEG-4 AVC, ~23296 kbps avg]
Audio#1: Russian: 48 kHz, DTS, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~768.00 kbps
Audio#2: Ukrainian: 48 kHz, AC3, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~384.00 kbps
Audio#3: English: 48 kHz/24-bit, DTS-HD MA 5.1, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~3967.00 kbps avg

Viev with standart player is OK!

r2arthur · December 28th, 2011, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creo

Player have android 2.3.4 firmware form DX and Market and root.
Today I testing player with: NTFS formated USB 2.0 HDD (Hitachi 160Gb) with 26,7 Gb
X-Men First class BD remux
codec: m2ts
quality: BDRemux
Video: 1920x1080 at 23.976 fps, MPEG-4 AVC, ~23296 kbps avg]
Audio#1: Russian: 48 kHz, DTS, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~768.00 kbps
Audio#2: Ukrainian: 48 kHz, AC3, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~384.00 kbps
Audio#3: English: 48 kHz/24-bit, DTS-HD MA 5.1, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~3967.00 kbps avg

Viev with standart player is OK!

Thanks a lot for the reply Creo.
I can't mount the HDD device in NTFS. I have the android version 2.3.1. My device is slightly different of yours (mine has an A8: 1080P Full HD Android 2.3 Network Media Player w/ 3 x USB/SD/HDMI/WiFi/LAN/YPbPr/AV-Out/Optical - Free Shipping - DealExtreme). Do you think I can flash my device with your firmwire with no problems?

Creo · December 28th, 2011, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r2arthur

Thanks a lot for the reply Creo.
I can't mount the HDD device in NTFS. I have the android version 2.3.1. My device is slightly different of yours (mine has an A8: 1080P Full HD Android 2.3 Network Media Player w/ 3 x USB/SD/HDMI/WiFi/LAN/YPbPr/AV-Out/Optical - Free Shipping - DealExtreme). Do you think I can flash my device with your firmwire with no problems?

No, your device have a Rockchip 2918, ARM Cortex A8, 1.2GHz !
My device - Amlogic AML8726-m 2 Cores: Cortex A9 + GPU Mali

r2arthur · December 28th, 2011, 10:09 AM

Guys, thank you very much for the help.

The thing is: My device is good to read NTFS.
When I tried to mount the HDD in NTFS, I probably tried the usb port "device". This port can't read HDDs, afaik. I had to plug the hdd in the other usb, and then it worked very well.
I'm sorry for bothing you guys with this dumb question

insight3fl · December 28th, 2011, 12:50 PM

UPDATE:

I tried several things.. not sure which worked best, but I ran an update.zip I got from the manufacturer of my stock player that was based on their previous version 2.2. It did get me back to the standard recovery screen. I then tried to reboot, but it stayed with this screen. I tried to then run that update again from standard recovery screen and it would not load with the "build.prop" id error. Then I next ran my 2.3 update.zip from the standard recovery screen that I posted last week that I got from the manufacturer and it worked perfectly and updated to stock 2.3!

I did have some additional problem when I ran Yareg update google apps zip. For some reason it lost the market app and I was unable to sign into any of the other google services. Always said it could not make "data" connection even though wifi was working fine with browser etc.

I may try to reinstall my 2.3 zip and see what happens.

Thanks to all for their work and sharing.

insight3fl · December 28th, 2011, 01:46 PM

For some reason on my DX box with the 2.3 firmware, I am not able to get Google to communicate "with servers" to add my google account or create a new one.

Anyone else have this problem and how to fix?

Thanks

emilionel · December 28th, 2011, 02:31 PM

Hi guys. How did u manage to get android 2.3 on this device? i got the same SKU 102992 from the black friday and it came with 2.2.1 preinstalled. Thanks

Creo · December 28th, 2011, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by insight3fl

For some reason on my DX box with the 2.3 firmware, I am not able to get Google to communicate "with servers" to add my google account or create a new one.

Anyone else have this problem and how to fix?

Thanks

I had the same problem.
Solution (for me): remove wifi usb dongle and connect to the internet through Ethernet, after this Add Acount and OK with communicate "with server".
Then connect wifi again - and all Google app work OK.

Creo · December 28th, 2011, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emilionel

Hi guys. How did u manage to get android 2.3 on this device? i got the same SKU 102992 from the black friday and it came with 2.2.1 preinstalled. Thanks

Read from this page: Firmware upgrade? [Update: Download Link here] ? DealExteme Forum

insight3fl · December 29th, 2011, 06:50 AM

Here is a list of all the programs I have loaded and are working so far:

Netflix
Pandora
Tune In Radio
Estrong File Explorer
Root Explorer
Printershare
titanium backup
advanced task killer pro
Facebook
EQ Equalizer
Documents to go
Adobe Flash 10.3

insight3fl · December 30th, 2011, 06:40 AM

It is very slow the last two days on this board... no more experimenting? Both of my boxes are working great including Netflix via wifi. It can be a little bit with ghost, but mostly very clear in HD

Creo · December 30th, 2011, 06:55 AM

Happy New Year!!! I am return to this tread may be

3.01.2012!!!

insight3fl · December 30th, 2011, 01:31 PM

AFter running root zip and getting root access, my clock does not retain the time or date after reboot no matter if I leave setting for Network set time or manual.

Anyone else have this problem? fix?

Thanks

UPDATE

I have reflashed and removed root and time works fine. I find no need to have root access now as I have sideloaded all programs I need for good function of the player. I will not be modifying anyfiles on it at this time unless someone comes up with changes to the build.prop file to allow more market access.

Happy New year and send me PM if you have any questions about how my player is working. I am very happy with the stock 2.3 firmware. The remote works pretty good on most programs except netflix. I can not get it to move anything other than to use the search function.

rockrider81 · January 25th, 2012, 04:20 AM

Hi
Someone knows if Ramos W6HD firmware IceCream Sandwich (android 4.0) works on mbox 2.1 ? Ramos have similar specs (Cortex A9/Mali, IR control).

freddy59175 · January 25th, 2012, 04:52 AM

hi guys , have you got any screen of video of these box running ?

Creo · January 25th, 2012, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rockrider81

Hi
Someone knows if Ramos W6HD firmware IceCream Sandwich (android 4.0) works on mbox 2.1 ? Ramos have similar specs (Cortex A9/Mali, IR control).

From Russian forum for Ramos - very dabby, many options not working properly eg. microphone and etc. Not recomended for install on Ramos.