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I discovered something really interesting today. I find that when trying to load new software my success rate is low, I'll try to flash the box maybe five times before I get success, or so I thought.
It turns out that when I power the box up while holding the reset switch for 10 seconds or so, my TV shows no video for about 8 seconds and then gets video, but is blank. All the instructions say wait for a couple of minutes while the screen is blank, but my screen stays blank forever which I took to be a failure to flash. What I discovered is that if I power the TV off and back on again then XBMC is on the screen, the box was flashed successfully, but my TV did not show anything.
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Hey Guys,
I think I bricked the device, all help would be appreciated. I have the Geniatech atv310B (M3). I was flashing with the XDA developers gotham build. I copied all of the files to the SD card and placed it into my receiver. Then, I hit the reset button and plugged it into the power. However, My hand slipped and I accidentally let go of the reset button. Thinking that I had not not started the flash process correctly, I took it off power to do it again(I SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT). Now, it won't turn on. It has not responded to some of the solutions of using a bootable SD card or placing certain files on the SD card and rebooting it while holding the reset button.
Does anyone have any possible solutions?
Thank you.
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Thank you. I saw your post, but i don't understand exactly what you did. How did you copy the uboot to the sd card? Just drag and drop or did you write the image another way?
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My first observation is he is trying to flash a Gotham build to an M3 box. I understood that only Frodo 12.0 was available for those single core boxes. I am assuming Linux here of course. That may also be part or all of the problem too.
While on this subject does anyone know if a Linux Gotham build will ever be available for M3 boxes? I have a few friends still with those M3s though Frosi works well on them.
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Hey AuXBoX any word if will see the new 14.0 come to a linux build come out soon? Thanks in advance.
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AuXBoX,
Thanks, looks promising. However, where can I get these files:
factory_update_param.aml
factory_update_param.ubt
spi_MX.bin
uboot_MX.bin
uImage_recovery
uboot_MX.cmd
dd.exe
I have most of them except the final two.
Thanks
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Thank you, post results soon.
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AuXBoX,
No response at all. I have no lights on or anything at all. Any other ideas?
Thanks