Mibox3 Firmware Update
Albina Hickel
The box has a locked bootloader and no reset button which made it impossible to side-load any other kernels, it even refused to boot into update mode when issued to do so from adb. Thus booting a CE/EE/Armbian/Openwet/whatever drive was impossible.
This is the latest image I built last night, which is basically the CE side in my old HybridELEC1.2 image however now standalone (I stopped updating standalone CE image after the first HE image released in early May)
Important note: This image is only compatable with Xiaomi mibox3 (MDZ-16-AA), and it is only verified to work on board variant JP6. This is the only board in my hand so I can not guarantee the comp...
The USB_Burning_Tool image contains both GPL codes from CoreELEC and its upstream projects, and cloesd-source blobs extracted from Xiaomi stock firmware. It's only for the purpose of debugging the hardware so you can avoid soldering UART consoles. After you've successfully flash the firmware, fw_setenv and fw_printenv should be available for you for adjusting u-boot envs to boot other OS and pure open-source booting is then possible.
Because of the mixed codebase, you should NOT re-distribute the USB-Burning-Tool image, especially labelling it as a CoreELEC image, do not re-upload it anyware else to minimalize the misusage
Edit on 2022/05/01 CST: The USB Burning Tool image is available again but with almost all Xiaomi proprietary blobs removed, it is a result of heavy reverse-engineering. The only Xiaomi stuff existing in this image is their bootloader, which is, unfortunately, too time-consuming to work with.
The .tar image is used for upgrading your box without losing any data, use this if you've already configured your box and do not want to lose your configs. The .img.gz image should be flashed to a USB drive you would plug to mibox3 on which you've already runned enable_usb_boot.sh, you can then safely run installtointernal from your USB boot to get a emmc install just for the sake of being able to do it.
This is the last release where USB_Burning_Tool image is available. From now on, you need to modify the stock xiaomi image yourself if you want a USB_Burning_Tool image.
Important note: This image is only compatable with Xiaomi mibox3 (MDZ-16-AA), and it is only verified to work on board variant JP6. This is the only board on my hand so I can not guarantee the compability with variant JP1
Since the stock firmware does not support booting from usb, and shorting the pins will only put you into usb burning mode, the -Generic image should only be used if you've already modified the u-boot envs.
In normal sense if you're not a tinker like me who would solder cables to make UART debug console work, you should only use the USB_Burning_Tool image, this image is proven to work with USB_Burning_Tool_v2.0.8. To enter usb burning mode you need simply to
This may fail several times, you may keep the HDMI cable plugged in to check if the booting process is interrupted. The power adapter noise is also useful. Every time you fail and the box boots into Android, you need to unplug both the USB cable and the power cable to fully power if off
Known issue: The stock remote does not work, it is neither an IR nor a bluetooth remote, it utilizes a wierd protocol Xiaomi develops to act both as a remote and a microphone, and really only works with Xiaomi stuff. You can utilize any IR remote though, e.g. an IR remote your IPTV box bundles with, since the IR sensor works.
This has been happening since the latest update, worked fine on Oreo before that. On Nexus Player. No one has helped or answered my questions. I can't use the "in app" help because I can't even get that far. It's been weeks, and there has been ZERO HELP.
On android tv oreo (mibox3 int.), version 2.5.4 worked, but is incomplete: the console can not navigate through the sidebar (the last time worked fine on 2.5.1) and do not add network and cloud storage. Please correct.
Nvidia Shield TV experience 7 (with Android 8.0) makes Solid Explorer crash shortly after launch. You just see two panes that say "my files" and they never populate. Then the app crashes back to the home screen. There is no error message. You are not able to interact with the application after launch.
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