[Guide] S922X-J (Ugoos AM6b+) CoreELEC installation and FAQs

General Guides & How-tos
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This is not written anywhere in the guide. So either the guide is not complete in this regard or you are mistaken.
@Astrotrain I am sorry to bother you once more but, since there’s conflicting information, I don’t know what’s the expected and correct behavior.

I created the USB flash following instructions, I placed the needed files (according to the guide and including dovi.ko) in its root. Then I followed instructions to install on Ugoos and it went well. Kodi is running. Now does the installation place the dovi.ko file in the right position or not?
And in case of emmc installation, where should it be?

Thanks, and thanks again for the guide. Apart from this little “problem” (mostly stemming from my ignorance), it was a godsend.

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The dovi.ko doesn’t go in the root of the installation usb/sd, I’ve already told you this. It goes in the root storage AFTER Coreelec has been installed. Manually placed in the storage folder of the already installed Coreelec. There’s many ways to reach this goal. I’ve put the dovi.ko in some usb drive, plugged it, went to Coreelec File Manager and simply copied it to Coreelec storage.

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You can put the dovi.ko in the /flash partition.

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Order of searching for the module

/storage/.config/dovi.ko
/flash/dovi.ko
/storage/dovi.ko

While /storage is the STORAGE partition and /flash the COREELEC partition of the boot media.

Checking if really loaded

journalctl -l | grep -i dovi
dmesg | grep -Ei "dovi|dv"

Of course the best test is to actually playing some DV content :rofl:

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That is not what the instruction says.

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When you under windows > smb
There is a place : //COREELEC/Configfiles/
its same as : /storage/.config/

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The instructions say to copy to the root of the flash drive, which is the same as /flash/

There are just three possible locations for dovi.ko and all should work equally well.

Also, the file is not copied anywhere by CE. It just loads it into memory if it finds it in any of those three locations.

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I’m now running ce on emmc, and I wanted to turn on blob 301.
error in log is

did not find amlogic image header magic! error exit

any thoughts?

by the way, maybe related? I can access the storage via smb, or at least I thought so. I cannot see all folder and not the files in that storage folder.and the folder I see have slightly different names :slight_smile: how is that possible? TV Shows vs tvshows… but in the download folder are my files. strange

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You can’t use blob301 on ugoos as the bootloader is encrypted.

smb folder structure is different. I access it via SFTP myself.

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thanks! that was fast! and explains the log

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This is how I interpreted the instructions and this is how it’s working in two different boxes of mine. Did you see the part where I wrote:

Ok? Good luck!

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If you don’t have it connected to a DV capable TV you won’t see the option as it’s not an option for you.

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This was the reason I had no DoVi options in CE. Selected :Enhanced format (Dolby Vision)", was previously “Enhanced Format”. Thank you very much.

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Why are you showing the incorrect setting in your screen capture?

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Do I have to update the ugoos device to the latest firmware from the ugoos website before installing coreelec?

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Try VS10 dev build.
With VS10 you will get a very high quality HDR → SDR conversion.

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Hi all. I’m stuck on this step “To prevent accidentally restarting into Android you will need to modify the available boot options to suppress that option from even showing. Navigate to /storage/.kodi/addons/[the skin folder you’re using]/xml/DialogButtonMenu.xml. Edit the file and set reboot to eMMC to ‘False’.”

Could someone explain how and where I do this? Is this via navigating on the file explorer of the device itself? Or via SSH? I’m really stuck

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I think you need to do it via SSH. I don’t think you can edit files like that, from within Kodi (I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure you can do it via SSH and that would be my preferred choice anyway).

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amazing thankyou! I’ve been staring at the device for like an hour trying to figure this out.

Are there any steps for noobs on how to do this? I’ve done the previous steps using SSH, so I’m now connected to the AM6B via Putty. But I don’t actually know how to do the steps where it’s saying to navigate to a certain folder and edit the file

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Hmmm…

You could do, via SSH:

cd /storage/.kodi/addons/[the skin folder you’re using]/xml/
nano DialogButtonMenu.xml

and edit the file using nano. CTRL+O saves the file, CTRL+X exits. Done.

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