Android - feedback for aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img

wappi

Hi all,
I wonder where to give feedback... I have played with this Android image a bit.

Positive

• Device boots fast
• Kodi is working

Negative

• no store
• some apps e.g. Spotify are not working properly (board connected to my Samsung TV 1080p and I can only see a small strip instead of full screen)
• Wifi dongles are not recognized

I would also prefer to have Android to boot to 'classic' theme.

Phrosty23

I am not a fan of the Android image. I am guessing that is more to do with the UX / GUI of Mbox. It's very dated looking. I would rather see a cleaner Material design.

I believe there was a reason the Google Play / app store is not allowed and that is more on Google's side than it is with the Android image.

I haven't tried Kodi yet, but I was about to sideload Plex and see how that goes.
I am using Ethernet over WiFi right now so I can't say if WiFi dongles are recognized or not, but Ethernet does seem to be functioning.

Antony

Hi, could you tell me where is the Android source code?
Thank you

invik

Hi,
Some feedback:

• is more stable HDMI-wise than Linux image. I plugged directly in HDMI on a PC monitor or through an HC amplifier works fine. I pluuged it to the same PC monitor through a HDMI->DVI adaptor and works great too.
• sideloading works. Chrome and Kodi launch but Google Play does not. I have maybe tried a wrong version. I will try another one later.
• Playback of 4K HEVC file in Kodi works great. The file was from a SMB share so network works fine too.
• HDMI audio pass-through does not seems to work perfectly as DTS-HDMA is not forwarded to the amplifier. But I do not know if it is a Kodi problem or a Potato problem.

FuzzyRoll

Starts up fine and as others commented, kodi works too.
Im missing the store, wanna use it to stream from my netflix account.

invik

From what I see, the device is not capable of DTS HDMA except for the core part.

13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE: Found 1 Lists of Devices
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE: Enumerated AUDIOTRACK devices:
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:     Device 1
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_deviceName      : AudioTrack
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_displayName     : android
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_displayNameExtra: audiotrack
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_HDMI
13:56:43.185 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_channels        : FL,FR,FC,LFE,SL,SR,BL,BR,BC,BLOC,BROC
13:56:43.186 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_sampleRates     : 32000,44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
13:56:43.186 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_S16LE,AE_FMT_FLOAT,AE_FMT_RAW,AE_FMT_RAW
13:56:43.186 T:18446744073292744992  NOTICE:         m_streamTypes     : STREAM_TYPE_AC3,STREAM_TYPE_**DTSHD_CORE**,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_1024,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_2048,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_512,STREAM_TYPE_EAC3

TitQuentin

Hi all !

I just bought this board and I was able to install android 7.1 and several apk.
Exemple : Nova Launcher, Opera, Bouygue TV (French television)

I'm looking forward to a way to put gapps and root!

Thank you for your work.

NB: A port of Retropie is planned for this board? Thank you

JR6P7

The download image for aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip is bad, were can find another download for the file?

TitQuentin

http://share.loverpi.com/board/libre-computer-project/libre-computer-board-aml-s905x-cc/image/android/aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip

loverpi

@invik, Are you referring passing through DTS HDMA?
@JR6P7, Does the file size match the server file size?

invik

Yes. but it works fine on LibreElec so maybe that this Android version of Kodi does not contain what is needed to decode DTS-HDMA

JR6P7

@loverpi, no the file size does not match.

loverpi

@JR6P7 Have you tried to download it again? Are you sure you didn't get a partial file? Plenty of people have no had an issue with it.

JR6P7

@loverpi, I tried from my desktop and server. Get the same error on both.

loverpi

@JR6P7 We downloaded it 3 times. What tool are you using to unzip? What is the hash of the file?

JR6P7

@loverpi, I can download the file also, but when i use winrar it tells me the file is corrupt. And windows explorer shows a ratio of 96% like 4% is missing. Just tried from another network and got the same error. Maybe the file doesn't like me. lol

loverpi

Try something other than WinRAR. There's no issue with the file. It is either the extraction tool or your network.

JR6P7

@loverpi , I did try another tool and I also tried an server on a different network. Still get the same error. I sent the link to someone else and they had the same issue. At this point it's no big deal. But thanks any way.

JR6P7

@loverpi, see the file size from another server that i just downloaded the file from, you still think the file is good?

loverpi

@JR6P7 Your decompression tool is obviously broken. Verify the file matches the sha512 signature and use another zip tool. The tool says the file is 807 petabytes when it's only suppose to be 8GB.

JR6P7

@loverpi, The file was download from the site and windows explorer was used to open the file. Like I said before I had someone try from there network and they got the same as before that the file was corrupt. Can new copy of the file be uploaded to the download site?

loverpi

@JR6P7, Use a different extraction tool and make sure you have sufficient disk space (8GB). Your tool says the file is 100 million times bigger than it is suppose to be. Plenty of people have downloaded it and had no problem extracting it and burning it.

JR6P7

@loverpi, I have tried many different tools and I have 1TB of free space. The three people that I sent the link to are having the issue that I'm having. I wont keep wasting your time. Again thanks for the help.

loverpi

$ unzip aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip 
Archive:  aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip
  inflating: aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img  
$ sha512sum aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip
6fae6bebabfb07dd539fe274fdb38ed726654a6c87fed3b91555aef5e406c28a21b7691f036163e1ad5a4b1cd7c0d7f005d3ca7b4a4006d0eb6ed81552276f12  aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip
$ sha512sum aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img
ba636de3f7d5a96d01f36dc6832d5d8833577f8dfc4e3ba6891c49ba8c54447a01544539c4c707119d43bc786543229c7a2b45102f9758545f707dda6e52da2b  aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img

@JR6P7, see above. If the SHA512sum matches, the zip is good.

JR6P7

@loverpi, what tools do you think i should use to download and unzip the file with?

loverpi

@JR6P7, check the sha512sum first. If it matches, you know the zip is good and you can move on to the next step of unzipping it.

JR6P7

@loverpi, I have and the file is bad. The file will unzip and show that it is 7,798,784kb and the file will not work after writing the imaging to the sdcard. And when you unzip the file is it the same size as what I put up top?

loverpi

@JR6P7, You have to be very specific. "I have and the file is bad." Which file is bad? Does the SHA512 not match up? What tool are you using to write to the SD card? What size and brand of SD card are you using? What happens when you power up the device? Answer each question as specifically as possible.

JR6P7

@loverpi, The aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1.img.zip. Yes they match. Win32DiskImager. New Scandisk ultra plus. Green screen, then it goes black.

loverpi

@JR6P7 What is the make an model of your monitor?

vic

Also not having much luck booting the android .img Im using etcher to write the image to 16gb micro sd card. All 3 lights on board light up.

Monitor is working fine with tinkerboard, raspberry pi 1 & 3 and orange pi.