The VCC in the USB port is wired to the positive contact in the DC port, all +5V on the board are wired together (which is a dangerous design choice as you can fry, say, your expensive external drive you happen to plug on the box, if the power supply is broken).
So connecting the box to a USB power supply with a USB A to A cable will certainly power the box up, and that’s also how the box is normally powered when you use USB Burning Tool to burn an image.
I’d suggest using a better 5V power supply for the sake of your safety and your data if you don’t want to risk frying all things connected on the box altogether when the bundled power supply breaks. I use a 5V 5A power supply from a Cisco switch, and its quality is way much better than the stock power supply
Many thanks for posting this.
As it is not really CE related I will respond on the other forum if I have issues when I get round to trying to flash.
Thanks again
Yes. Crashes on both Android and CE. I tried your advise but still crash. I tried many things and same problem. I believe it’s some hardware problem like faulty ram. It’s not hang up or freeze. The screen just went white noise and then white noise sound on my speaker too.
I would not want to try another HK1 box anymore. Once beaten twice shy.
Will consider Ugoos x4 Pro next.
Will try to capture a video and post here when I free.
That is correct. I powered in such a way my H96 max X3 for almost 3 months, with no problem.
Finally I discovered that my power adapter was perfect and responsible was the power connector of the TVbox !!! Just resoldered 3 contacts (of the power connector at the motherboad) and everything is perfect as new !!! This seems to be a very common problem (solder points of power connector) to the “family” of HK1 Box (S905X3), H96 max X3, Vontar X3 etc. As the new S905X4 seem to have the same motherbord with HK1 Box (S905X3), please be aware of this if suddenly you have sudden reboots or no power at all…
I just discover that my faulty HK1 Box will power on by itself. Every time i turn off the power, the box will turn off but it turn back on by itself a few seconds later. This happens with both USB power or the power supply from manufacturer. Maybe that is why it’s causing it to crash randomly. Anyone have any idea what might be causing it?
One more thing. I am tried to install some games to try see if it would crash the system but I cannot install big filesize app. It say not enough memory but my box is 64gb and it’s barely 5% storage used.
On the drain, this happens when it is connected via Lan, and turn off wifi in the settings. So it stops turning off. But it’s worth turning on the slider in the network settings, everything becomes normal"
Just place a USB fan under it. You can buy one or make it yourself (i.e. using a fan from an old Tower PC or buing one etc). It will lower the temperature by 10-15 degrees Celcius !
**62 degrees is not too much. Only if you see something like 75+ you should worry. Anyway a USB fan under it will help. Only problem that the USB ports still have power after sleep/OFF state !! So in order not to turn 24/7 you need to either connect the USB fan to the USB port of your TV, or use a USB hub with switches etc.
I am not really concerned, gotten used to these devices running outrageously hot.
Came from the old school when 130 degrees F, was considered the trigger point for degradation of the diodes, triacs, etc… I would have thought with these temps, these boxes would have disintegrated.
I run these boxes 24/7 since they draw little energy. This little device is running my Tvheadend DVR server AND Emby server.
Still waiting for my Ugoos X4 to arrive, so I can test the temp on that device. I would imagine that the temps will be similar.
Edit: Not sure where the temp info is taken from, but I really don’t believe that 95 degree reading. The box does NOT feel that hot. I don’t have a temp reading gun to test.
I try to update the firmware with Amlogic USB burn tool but it could not detect my HK1 box. I try different version of the burn tool and non seems to work. Need help
I am using USB burning tool version… 3.2.0.
Make sure you use the USB 2 port on your box, because that is the OTG port. Also, use a USB 2 port on your Windows PC.
When you installed the burning tool, it added the drivers to your PC.
Open the burning tool and load the “img” file.
Click the “Start” button.
Depress the “reset” button using a round toothpick (cut off the sharp
point), you can hear it and feel it when it is depressed.
Continue to keep the “reset” button depressed as you connect your
USB male to male USB cable into the USB 2 port on your box.
Your box should connect, the remove the toothpick.
If this fails, try a differ USB2 port on your PC or try a different PC.
