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but on the atv1200's the pins need to be shorted for the boot cards to work.

Same here. Ember need to get themselves an ATV1200. They are available pretty cheaply second hand these days, and their product will never get wide acceptance while they ignore the ATV 1200.

I could not agree more. Now they are no longer made but the curretnly available equivalent model is the ATV1220T which I believe is basically the same box with the additions of a DVB-T board. This is no good here in Thailand anyway as we use the new DVB-T2 system and anyway drivers are not available with Linux builds and practically nobody wants to use bloat-ware Android these days and set top DVB -T2 boxes with PVR are available for little over £12 equivalent here.

I tried with two boxes to flash EmbER V2.0.2 public edition over the default Android firmware and both time the box bricked, one I fixed and the other I could not and in fact sent it back to China where they usually fix problem boxes for me as they deal direct with Geniatech and I do buy quite a few boxes over the year. I really want EmbER to be reliable and easy to flash and revert on these G02Ref Geniatech MyGica boxes which are probably the most popular brand of all.