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Do you guys still suggest buying it? I like that it can be used for DVB-T as well and it's pretty cheap at geekbuying.
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I picked up a MXQ Pro 4K model from Am@zon for $30. The add-ons included were all banned from this forum, so I uninstalled the version of Kodi that came with it and did a fresh install of 16.1. The box lasted about 24 hours before it started locking up. I guess it's true... you get what you pay for!
These are like e-cigs in a way. There are so many 'clones' you never know what you're going to get. The one I received was not even the one I ordered! Close, but from a different supplier. The packaging said OTTTV Box, but the unit had leelbox branding. The updates don't work. The version of Android installed lists an email address in China. nuf said?
So, it's back to my Raspberry Pi 3. (bulletproof)
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I think if you look at the posts above it has been pointed out that the S905 versions of KODI were probably custom for the S905 SOC. You may be better off uninstalling the newest version of KODI, digging into the android folders on the box and finding/re-installing the version of KODI it came with if it was a custom build. You can still get rid of the offending plug-ins... Just a thought. Best of Luck!
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2016-05-06, 05:28
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-06, 05:28 by Ned Scott.)
As far as I know, the only issue with some S905 hardware out there was on the firmware side of things. Kodi v16.1 should run well on the hardware, so long as the firmware has the latest fixes from Amlogic. The only exception to this is audio passthrough, but
SPMC (wiki) has some v16-based work arounds for that.
However, I am not 100% sure on that. There are multiple revisions to S905 and a technically newer processor called S905X, or something like that. Some issues could possibly be specific to a revision, IIRC.
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2016-06-26, 18:16
(This post was last modified: 2016-06-26, 19:23 by silvanet.)
I've been using the MX-Pro S905 boxes for a while with almost no problems except for minor things with fairly easy workarounds. The very first thing I do with them is uninstall all the BS bloatware and the pre-installed Kodi (they're always outdated anyway). A clean Jarvis install works great. The ONLY complaint I have is the Android 5.1 write permission block to external SD or USB storage. I've been looking for a way to backup my settings out of the box. I can back them up to local. I've then tried to move or copy to external, but no success at all. Anybody know how I can do this? Setting the xbmc backup storage path to external drive gives message like "your selected storage may not be writable, do you want to continue?" If I back up to local then try to use something like ES Browser to copy or move to external drive, I get errors with either attempt.
Wow, sorry, I quickly found that ES can easily set shared location on LAN. That made me think of trying to set the backup path in xbmc backup to SMB, and voila - it worked. So, the backing up to external storage is actually pretty easily solved as well.
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(2016-06-26, 18:16)silvanet Wrote: I've been using the MX-Pro S905 boxes for a while with almost no problems except for minor things with fairly easy workarounds. The very first thing I do with them is uninstall all the BS bloatware and the pre-installed Kodi (they're always outdated anyway). A clean Jarvis install works great. The ONLY complaint I have is the Android 5.1 write permission block to external SD or USB storage. I've been looking for a way to backup my settings out of the box. I can back them up to local. I've then tried to move or copy to external, but no success at all. Anybody know how I can do this? Setting the xbmc backup storage path to external drive gives message like "your selected storage may not be writable, do you want to continue?" If I back up to local then try to use something like ES Browser to copy or move to external drive, I get errors with either attempt.
Wow, sorry, I quickly found that ES can easily set shared location on LAN. That made me think of trying to set the backup path in xbmc backup to SMB, and voila - it worked. So, the backing up to external storage is actually pretty easily solved as well.
ES can write to external storage because it was properly compiled with changes in Android > 5.1 so it knows how to ask for permissions to use external storage. KODI is not properly made to ask permissions for Android > 5.1 and can't write to external storage. The "fix" that used to work for kitkat by modifying permissions.xml does not work on Android 5.1. So this is something that needs to be adressed in KODI.
And the "issue of storage" is not solved easily - it is solved for YOUR CASE but in essence, KODI does not work with new android permissions. I am making plugin that needs to write to USB flash disk where I have the data (pictures) and beacuse of this, I can't. Works well under windows.....
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tell us exactly what needs changing and it will get done.
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2016-06-28, 23:17
(This post was last modified: 2016-06-28, 23:23 by User 325245.)
Well, I'm not the developer of Kodi.... but anyone with google shouldn't have a problem to find this info, especially if he is developng for Android....
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34382...-is-denied
https://developer.android.com/training/p...sting.html
I need to go back to the one that came with it.
