Need a Custom ROM for your phone tablet or TVbox

[hijack]

If you've bought a device from china you'll want a custom ROM for it to get rid of the Chinese apps and Improve on the stock ROM.

A great place for sourcing supported devices is Freaktab Forum. They have a bundle of custom ROM's and nice extras to iron out any problems that people have found with a particular  device.

[Ripshod]

That's a great resource hijack. I mod Samsungs for a local shop so I generally stick with xda. But now I can do some clones too (I won't be telling the shop owner, he'll start peddling fakes for more profit) thumb up

[hijack]

Jun 6, 2015 16:17:23 GMT Ripshod said:

That's a great resource hijack. I mod Samsungs for a local shop so I generally stick with xda. But now I can do some clones too (I won't be telling the shop owner, he'll start peddling fakes for more profit) thumb up

Yeh they have quite a few clever people over there. XDA Is another of the forums i was looking at. It makes rooting and moding a breeze with you can cheery pick the mods you like from these forums.

This was how well supported the Cube X9 was. The list is even bigger now so ill have to take a look and see if i can update any Mods.

I got it rooted, flashed the 900supersport ROM, added TWRP , increased the app partition size from 2GB to 6GB (thats because MTK's only save apps to that partition and the rest is storage, although Android does allow you to store part of the apps files outside of the app partition), got a cool boot-up screen, and went to playstore for 'Vire Launcher' (free). Its a nice UI actually, give it a try, its easy to use and set up, has about 12 different styles of 'page transition' over half are 3D type, a load icon effects that impose themselves on most icon packs, a load of folder styles ect.
Most of the the UI's that have 3D need paying for but someone recommended 'Vire' saying it had some cool features and they weren't wrong.

Now I know you mod phones or tab's for a shop, i wonder i can make some extra cash down here doing something along those lines.
Ill P.M. you when i get up tomorrow, I you don't mind? 

[mart166]

Thanks for that.
I'll have a look and dabble when got more time, it's all a bit above my knowlage, but you only learn by experiments, got an old Acer tablet that refuses to be rooted despite my efforts, so shall go have a play with info provided.

MP

[DiscoDes]

I'd love to be able to update my Rokchip (RK 3188) based TV box but no matter what I try I cannot get one of 3 PC's to recognise it when plugged into the USB, I keep getting "unknown device" I uninstall/install the drivers but still get the same.

[phatfil]

Jun 8, 2015 15:21:28 GMT DiscoDes said:

I'd love to be able to update my Rokchip (RK 3188) based TV box but no matter what I try I cannot get one of 3 PC's to recognise it when plugged into the USB, I keep getting "unknown device" I uninstall/install the drivers but still get the same.

just guessing but as your gonna emulate serial coms over usb just install your tv box as a generic serial device..

google should be able to provide you with the flashing proceedure for any device.
www.cnx-software.com/2013/04/27/how-to-flash-firmware-to-rockchip-rk3188-hdmi-tv-sticks/

[mart166]

Jun 8, 2015 15:21:28 GMT DiscoDes said:

I'd love to be able to update my Rokchip (RK 3188) based TV box but no matter what I try I cannot get one of 3 PC's to recognise it when plugged into the USB, I keep getting "unknown device" I uninstall/install the drivers but still get the same.

Had same trouble with my Acer tablet, official drivers not designed for windows XP, advice to use developers mode did not work, in the end mounted it on PC as a camera, then could swap files on and off to hearts content.

MP

[hijack]

Jun 8, 2015 15:21:28 GMT DiscoDes said:

I'd love to be able to update my Rokchip (RK 3188) based TV box but no matter what I try I cannot get one of 3 PC's to recognise it when plugged into the USB, I keep getting "unknown device" I uninstall/install the drivers but still get the same.

Usually pluging these things into a windows PC requires a set of drivers on your PC before you can go any further. My PC needed the installation of a driver set before it would recognize my MTK device. The RK chips are well supported over there as well, but if like me you hadn't done that sort of thing before(i not even had Android b4), you will need to do some reading so you are sure what you need to do before attempting. YouTube was good as well, once you find out what tools to use, you can bet that someone has done a clip showing the actual process, which helps a lot to see the flash-software etc, in use.