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With the installation of flash, I was hoping to be able to watch games streamed from ESPN3. When clicking a link to watch a live stream, the player window opens, but it remains blank.
I tried this on the stock browser, and on Firefox mobile (fennec). Anyone else tried it?
My g-tablet:
Stock Tap'nTap with 1.01 update
LauncherPro
Rooted
ESPN on g-tablet
You may want to verify that your flash setup is working properly. I also have Tnt 1.01 + flash (folio apk), and ESPN3 live streams work fine for me. I'm watching Boston College vs. Texas A&M right now. The only difference is that my gtablet is not rooted.
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You may want to verify that your flash setup is working properly.
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How might I do this?
Does it involve editing the stagefright setting in the build.prop file? I seem to recall something about this.
What browser are you using?
It works for me in Dolphin HD on TNTLite 2.0 with the Flash fix.
Go to the adobe flash website (search in google for Adobe - Flash Player
Once the website page is loaded, if it's working properly, the flash logo will appear and it will tell you flash is installed successfully.
I'm using the stock browser that comes with the gtablet.
OK.
I edited the first line of where "stagefright" is listed, in the build.prop file. I changed it to "false". I rebooted and started the default browser. ESPN3 streaming is now working. I will also try it in Firefox.
I want to say that the quality of the streamed video is great!
Since I am a Linux user, flash video in general sucked. Mainly because Adobe refuses to make a Linux version that has hardware acceleration. I have resorted to booting an old WinXP HTPC that I have, when I need to watch a game on ESPN3. That picture was OK, with occasional hiccups. The video on the g-tablet is about the same. Since this is Linux based, I did not expect it.
Still haven't tried it on Firefox.
The video window still remains blank on Firefox Mobile. I guess it is a Firefox issue, not a g-tab or Android issue.
Does anyone know what the default browser is? I heard that it may be the Google Chrome browser. I installed Google Chrome on my Atom based netbook, but the video is horribly choppy. If I could install OpenOffice/LibreOffice on the tablet, the netbook would be history!
Hi all.
I purchased this device mostly to be used as a companion for when I stream to Justin.TV. This website uses both flash video and java at the same time. I want to monitor my video stream and the chat while I play. I know I could of got a netbook for this, but I would like the tablet for doing other things.
Some streams with lower quality work good for me, but my stream does not play. The stream will freeze, but I am able to hear the audio. My stream is in flash and is 720p, 3000kbps, H.264.
I tried some other 720p flash video and received the message "Video Not Optimized For Mobile Device". (Uh, yeah, that's why I bought a tablet and not a phone). Obviously this is because of the Android OS and not the hardware?
So I am half-happy because I can see the chat, but not the video. Is there anything I can do to help this? I am running TnT 2.2.0 with the flash player linked to in the thread.
If this can't be fixed for now, does anyone think it will be resolved in the future? Perhaps a better Flash apk that supports the Tegra better? Or would I be better with the new Viewsonic Viewpad?
Thanks
A lot of this is bleeding edge. We are using a phone OS that has been modded for tablets and not supported by Google (yet). And, the Tegra itself is relatively new and has had issues because of it.
In six months, I expect that a lot of these issues with be old news. But for now, it's a problem.
Which browser are using? Have you tried Dolphin HD and changed the User Agent to desktop?
For my stream I get the same results with the default browser and Dolphin HD, but for some reason with Dolphin HD I am forced to the mobile site every time. Even with user agent set to Desktop. So I can't try the HD flash video with Dolphin.
There is no mobile version of my stream.
Based on roebeet's post, I guess i'll stick it out and hope it gets better. I am already somewhat happy because I can run Ventrilo and see the chat at the same time. That's already more than my iPad can do.
Now if I can just get the USB keyboard working.
Thanks for the replies.
Has anyone tested the new flash to see how it works on our gtabs? also does anyone posses the skills to download the new flash, do the hex edit hack and then repackage the apk so that us less technical folk can use it?
i believe this is what you're looking for flash 10.2 hulu fix
Flash 10.2
i have problem with that either, but i wait for solution
ddarvish said:
Has anyone tested the new flash to see how it works on our gtabs? also does anyone posses the skills to download the new flash, do the hex edit hack and then repackage the apk so that us less technical folk can use it?
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I think if it was possible to repackage it someone would have already done it. I have no exerience with hex editing and I was able to do it. Just use this hex editor http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm
Use root explorer to pull out the file libflashplayer.so and open it up with the hex editor and use the find to search for text string AND and change it to WIN. Then copy it back over to the original file location. If you need more help send me a pm.
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i believe this is what you're looking for flash 10.2 hulu fix
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This works just fine on my G-Tablet, running VEGAn-Tab Build, BETA 5.1.1. Thanks for posting.
In addition to ksc6000s post... find the "and" which comes before the flash version number. Then replace and with win and the android version number with the windows version number, this way you don't get an update to the latest flash dialogue. Some people put nines for numbers and have reported success. Or download the pre edited version floating around this post. Then make sure your browser settings are allowing plug ins and set to desktop. hope that gives some more detail also if you see loading for a while be patient it takes a bit to load in my experiences.
Works fine in portrait mode. A little jerky with lag in full screen landscape mode with 480 resolution. Dolpin set to Desktop mode. REMEMER TO UNINSTALL Flash 10.1 before installing 10.2 with Hulu fix.
Stock 3318 pack with 3.14 enhancement pack.
Installed. Seems slower than 10.1. But on the bright side, hulu hack works. It never did on 10.1
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Installed. Seems slower than 10.1. But on the bright side, hulu hack works. It never did on 10.1
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I agree about the slowness, but Hulu with 10.1 didn't work on Vegan 7. This one does. Now if we could only get general video support on Vegan 7...
Ill have to try this I've tried a few times to get hulu and no fix ever seemed to work.
Hulu works for me. Even tethered to my phone. May pause when tethered but only initially. No problems on home wifi. Fullscreen isn't quite fullscreen but if you choose the pop-out it fills the screen almost prefect. The on screen controls for the player are a bit difficult to use, but I can use them. The Hulu app works really well in portrait mode as a way to watch shows quickly. The about:debug part of the hack is critical.
i get no sound out of my flash videos, im on vegan 7. ive tried hulu and youtube, videos play fine but no sound
This worked on samsung galaxy tab Verizon with Klean v3. The trick is to enable flash plugin all the time in dolphin. I had mine set to on demand and when i changed it hulu worked. I also recommend choosing the pop out player when watching a movie. After you give it some time to load it runs really smooth
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i get no sound out of my flash videos, im on vegan 7. ive tried hulu and youtube, videos play fine but no sound
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+1 same issue same ROM
I'm on Vegan 7 and works fine for me other than working the controls is a pain (was like that before, not a 7 issue). Other flash players don't have that problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1037483
Try that .so file.
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i get no sound out of my flash videos, im on vegan 7. ive tried hulu and youtube, videos play fine but no sound
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+2 on this.
Hulu working!
Wrote up a guide on the Nook Color forums. Works great on the gf's G tablet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13010882&postcount=1
Does anyone else have problems with choppy video in Dolphin using Hulu? Is there a trick to get it to play smoother? Other videos play fine outside of the browser. I am running TnT Lite 4.4.0
No Sound...
I am also experiencing no sound irrespective of the source through the speakers. I can get sound through the headphones via music player though.
Update: I now have sound through the speakers but nothing from hulu....
Hi using my new infinity and am trying to get amazon instant video either through the website or app with no success. App is crashing and while it looks as if I can watch video in a scaled windows at times on the website, if I try to go full screen it doesnt work at all. Has anyone tried using this and/or found a way to get it to work if you have the same problem? I was wondering if it was a browser issue and tried the stock, chrome so far.
Works on stock browser and dolphin for me. I've tried to get the "app" working before on other devices but never with success.
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Got it working last night on the website with Dolphin HD. Kind of lagged when I was multi-tasking (running speed tests). But after closing open apps and restarting the browser, it was very smooth and clear.
Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
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Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2
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I have had more success with Dolphin lately although still buggy. when you expand to full screen you lose video until you pause and play again. Seems to work a little better now for some reason. Would be nice to have the app working.
frustratingly enough amazon saw fit to release the app for Ipad today while neglecting to release an android version. Terribly annoying because they've obviously had the app ready for android forever ago since it used by the kindle fire. Guess they want to force people to buy the kindle fire to get the app. Pretty stupid because they would make more money from the people getting prime to use the app than they would on the kindle fire sale.
Amazon streaming
New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
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New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
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Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
I've never been able to get it to consistently work with no sync issues in a browser. The sync loss is minor, but it's just noticeable enough to be annoying. It's a flash thing, I'm sure, rather than a specific browser thing. Some day I'll get around to trying earlier flash releases to see if any are better. I've experienced a similar sync issue with splashtop too.
I was going to use XBMC + bluecop's repository + asus mynet, but I've been having all kinds of errors adding shows to a library where they would be accessible to other devices.
I was able to get the fire apk working when I briefly had a Nook Tablet running a slightly modified version of gingerbread (see my sig). From what I've read, no one has gotten it working on ICS+. My brief attempt just resulted in crashes when i tried to play a vid. Boy I wish Amazon would get their app up to date and release it officially for Android in general. I'd much rather use the app again.
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Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
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Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
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Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
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UPDATE: Tried using Boat Browser with flash setting to "on demand" and still got the same message - Adobe not installed. Don't think it's so much the browser as it is that Adobe no longer supports newer Android OS devices. Found list of those tablets which will work with Amazon's Prime instant streaming and TF700 is not one.
Could there be a difference in streaming vs. buying or renting a video?
Thanks again for response/help - appreciate it.
With the new Fire HDs coming, one would hope we can get at least yank an updated apk from them that will work in the next couple of weeks.
Amazon has been on a roll, laying out apps for PS3, 360, and the iPad. Surely they're at least working on a broad release of the easiest one of all, Android, one of the first they had working. Surely. If you haven't used their support form to request an Android app for all tabs, please do so now.
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
Lancerator said:
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I posted the same question regarding Amazon Instant Video lag in browsers on the TF700. My video lags about 1/2 second. Enough to be annoying. I've tried the stock browser, Boat Browser, and ICS+ to no avail.
Ironically, I had no issues streaming Amazon's Instant Videos on the Prime I returned in order to get my Infinity.
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Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I'm currently streaming Super 8 using Dolphin Browser without a problem (performance mode).
Dave
well I went to performance mode on dolphin and it does do a bit better. Its to bad I had no problem with the prime.
Amazon Prime sucked on my Xoom. Over at the Motorola Xoom Forum, a very knowledgeable poster (gmanapps) posted the following explanation for the Xoom issues:
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Prior to ICS, flash had support for each individual CPU/GPU combo with specific video acceleration code for each type of CPU/GPU (OMAP, Snapdragon, Tegra, etc) which meant that flash could totally take advantage of the hardware.
When adobe ported flash to ICS they used the new ICS API. Under ICS all devices are only required to support the lowest encoding profile, but may support the higher bitrate encoding profiles.
Adobe decided that since only the lower bitrate profile was guaranteed to work with hardware acceleration accross all ICS device, to only send the lower bit rate profiles through the ICS hardware accelerated API. Everything else is done as software decoding inside of flash. So while the Xoom hardware is capable of accelerating/decoding the higher bitrate encoded data, flash no longer sends it to the GPU for decoding and tries to do it in software which is slow.
Amazon's content is encoded in one of 4 different mpeg encoding profiles. One of the profiles goes through hardware acceleration and works fine. But higher bitrate data profiles get stuck getting decoded in flash's software decoder and looks horrible.
Adobe could have provided a configuration option, test or other method to allow individuals to enable decoding of the other profiles in hardware....or at least try it and see if it worked on their device. On many devices it would work. But they chose not to go that route.
So unless you are running a high end quad core device, with a small screen, the software decoding of much of higher resolution flash content is going to be painful to watch.
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Out of curiousity I just tried it with Dolphin on my Galaxy S3 phone - HD video of Downton Abbey looked beautiful and had no synch issues at all. But a very small picture ...
Dave
Can someone who currently owns one give a summary on the product such as pros and cons?
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pjcanales said:
Can someone who currently owns one give a summary on the product such as pros and cons?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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I just ordered one today from ebay. I like the specs and I can't wait to get it and hook it up. I already run XBMC on a windows HTPC in my living room and LOVE it. The G Box Midnight has an "official" web page here: http://androidtvbox.us/ They have firmware updates in the downloads section.
Now, once I get the device, I will update this thread with my findings. If anyone else has one already, I would love to hear from you.
android review: http://www.totalhtpc.com/g-box-midnight-android-review/
My new G Box Midnight.
Alright, I got my G Box Midnight in the mail yesterday. It came loaded with the newest version of firmware that is on the androidtvbox.us web site. Just in case, I downloaded the latest ROOTED verson and followed the steps to load that version on it. (I like to start from scratch anyways) Once that was loaded and rebooted, the first thing I did was reinstall XBMC for android RC2 (latest revision) then connected it to my network via the wifi. I loaded a couple of add ons for XBMC and tested out "icefilms". It was very choppy. and the voice did not sync with the video. I turned on the eth port and re-tested... same results.
I loaded a few movies onto a thumb drive and ran them through XBMC... same performance... very choppy video and the sound was out of sync. Why would this be? It is from a local usb drive. I loaded the movies into the media center that comes preloaded with the box, and the video played rather smooth. not 100% but close to 98%.
I installed setcpu and checked the CPU settings of the stock kernel. It only allows up to 1Ghz max. So I set it to 1Ghz max and 7 hundred something min and set the governer to "performance". It did not make any difference in the performance of XBMC. It is still very choppy no matter what I do to "up the performance" of the box.
I installed HBO Go from the play store and signed into my account. It is a little slugish to get going, and once I selected a movie to stream, the video was ok, (watchable) but the sound was a little off. (not as bad as XBMC though)
Click here to see a short video I took of the HBO Go performance.
So, from what I found, the box works pretty well when playing video files from usb via the media center app that comes with the box, but XBMC still needs a lot of work to stream movies/videos from the web as well as through a usb drive. I hope they work the bugs out of XBMC for Android soon. Like I said in my previous post, I have XBMC (ver 11.0) running on a HTPC (windows 7) in my living room and it works awesome.
All in all, I give this box a 6.5 out of 10. Once they work the bugs out of XBMC it will be a lot better.
[Update]
Upon reading through the XBMC and XDA forums about the G Box Midnight, I ended up downloading the XBMC v.12 Alpha 6 Pivos apk and sideloaded it. Now, there is no issue with playing all media files from USB drive... and the only issue I have had so far with the icefilms add-on is it gives me a script error when trying to open any media file. Other add-ons seem to work almost flawless. Now if they could only combine the 2 versions of XBMC into 1 working version... this little box would be perfect. (XBMC RC2 for Android is very choppy, but the add-ons seem to work... and the Alpha 6 for Pivos works very well, except for the script errors with the add-ons)
If you have the same issue I have with XBMC, and want to try the alpha 6 version... here is the download link: XBMC v.12 Alpha 6 Pivos
[edit] 1/14/2013
gbox just came out with a new rom here for the version 2.1 and 2.2 boxes. (I have the 2.2 version) that new rom mixed with XBMC RC3 and this box is now running at 99% perfect. I'm still getting some script errors with add-ons (icefilms) but I don't think that is the box or XBMC. (a lot of other add-ons work just fine) I would LOVE to see someone build a kernel for this box, maybe just to streamline it a bit and give us a little tweaking of the cpu... but that is for another post.
2VULGAR said:
Alright, I got my G Box Midnight in the mail yesterday. It came loaded with the newest version of firmware that is on the androidtvbox.us web site. Just in case, I downloaded the latest ROOTED verson and followed the steps to load that version on it. (I like to start from scratch anyways) Once that was loaded and rebooted, the first thing I did was reinstall XBMC for android RC2 (latest revision) then connected it to my network via the wifi. I loaded a couple of add ons for XBMC and tested out "icefilms". It was very choppy. and the voice did not sync with the video. I turned on the eth port and re-tested... same results.
I loaded a few movies onto a thumb drive and ran them through XBMC... same performance... very choppy video and the sound was out of sync. Why would this be? It is from a local usb drive. I loaded the movies into the media center that comes preloaded with the box, and the video played rather smooth. not 100% but close to 98%.
I installed setcpu and checked the CPU settings of the stock kernel. It only allows up to 1Ghz max. So I set it to 1Ghz max and 7 hundred something min and set the governer to "performance". It did not make any difference in the performance of XBMC. It is still very choppy no matter what I do to "up the performance" of the box.
I installed HBO Go from the play store and signed into my account. It is a little slugish to get going, and once I selected a movie to stream, the video was ok, (watchable) but the sound was a little off. (not as bad as XBMC though)
Click here to see a short video I took of the HBO Go performance.
So, from what I found, the box works pretty well when playing video files from usb via the media center app that comes with the box, but XBMC still needs a lot of work to stream movies/videos from the web as well as through a usb drive. I hope they work the bugs out of XBMC for Android soon. Like I said in my previous post, I have XBMC (ver 11.0) running on a HTPC (windows 7) in my living room and it works awesome.
All in all, I give this box a 6.5 out of 10. Once they work the bugs out of XBMC it will be a lot better.
[Update]
Upon reading through the XBMC and XDA forums about the G Box Midnight, I ended up downloading the XBMC v.12 Alpha 6 Pivos apk and sideloaded it. Now, there is no issue with playing all media files from USB drive... and the only issue I have had so far with the icefilms add-on is it gives me a script error when trying to open any media file. Other add-ons seem to work almost flawless. Now if they could only combine the 2 versions of XBMC into 1 working version... this little box would be perfect. (XBMC RC2 for Android is very choppy, but the add-ons seem to work... and the Alpha 6 for Pivos works very well, except for the script errors with the add-ons)
If you have the same issue I have with XBMC, and want to try the alpha 6 version... here is the download link: XBMC v.12 Alpha 6 Pivos
[edit] 1/14/2013
gbox just came out with a new rom here for the version 2.1 and 2.2 boxes. (I have the 2.2 version) that new rom mixed with XBMC RC3 and this box is now running at 99% perfect. I'm still getting some script errors with add-ons (icefilms) but I don't think that is the box or XBMC. (a lot of other add-ons work just fine) I would LOVE to see someone build a kernel for this box, maybe just to streamline it a bit and give us a little tweaking of the cpu... but that is for another post.
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what about navi-x?
have you tried that add-on?
Why didnt you read the forum ?
The best working stable release is 12-04-12.
XBMC 12a6 is pretty out-dated. Best results come from the XBMC RC2 mattburris build.
Most add-on delays/problems are related to an outdated librtmp.so and can be replaced by the latest version.
And if you are going for max perfomance XBMC only solution, install the update from Static over a clean 12-04-12.
Last but not least, kernel tweaking does not make sence on the box as it does not run on the full 1.5 Ghz related to the lack of a good heatsink/fan. Im not saying that it isnt welcome, but the problems are mostly related to really bad firmware and the very young releases of XBMC for Android.
Most plugins work on the barebone release, incl. navi,ice,1ch,xot
Have fun
g-box midnight
I bought one to use as a media center for my friends and I. I use a 1tb seagate external and it holds all of the movies and show I wish to play. XBMC has played just about every file I have thrown at it pretty flawlessly
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Why didnt you read the forum ?
The best working stable release is 12-04-12.
XBMC 12a6 is pretty out-dated. Best results come from the XBMC RC2 mattburris build.
Most add-on delays/problems are related to an outdated librtmp.so and can be replaced by the latest version.
And if you are going for max perfomance XBMC only solution, install the update from Static over a clean 12-04-12.
Last but not least, kernel tweaking does not make sence on the box as it does not run on the full 1.5 Ghz related to the lack of a good heatsink/fan. Im not saying that it isnt welcome, but the problems are mostly related to really bad firmware and the very young releases of XBMC for Android.
Most plugins work on the barebone release, incl. navi,ice,1ch,xot
Have fun
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MnCC,
When I started my post, there were very limited posts about this specific device in the forums, and in those limited posts, people were asking for owners to chime in with their 2 cents.
My g-box came with the 12-04-12 firmware version and with XBMC R2 loaded and it performed very poorly. Once the latest release of firmware and RC3 came out, only then did it start to run as I expected. The only reason I backrev'd to XMBC 12a6 was because other users posted in the XBMC forums that this was a lot smoother then RC2.
I am planning on using my g-box for other android apps, like hbo to go and max to go... so installing the xbmc-barebone-android-v0-1a-ultra-slim-ultra-fast firmware/rom is not an option for me, but others might go for it. Thank you for posting that link.
G-Box
Guys, is this device worth buying? What are the pros and cons of it?
Can't find external hard disk in XBMC -Help please!
Hi guys,
I installed the latest version of xbmc on my G-Box midnight with the croniccorey firmware release. It all installed fine, but when I go to add my hard drive through 'add files' it doesn't have any external storage option. Another thread said to 'add from zip file' but no matter what I go into, I can find the 'SDA1' option.
I'm stuck, all help will be much appreciated!!!
-mcphersonlachy
Link to Root Tutorial?
I have Just Purchased the Mx2 From Amazon and was curious if it was possible to Boot load a rooted loader in order to Use the Sixaxis Controller app from google play Emulation and my flat screen would make the G Box A much better purchase then it already is