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I have just received a Tanix X4 and I am happy to share any files or information from it if it would be helpful to the development team. Equally, if there is testing I can help with please feel free to contact me.
Bruceda
Out of interest, have you booted/partially booted CE on this device?
Is it rooted?
I also bought a Tanix X4… but haven’t had the time to test it … try to install CE via SD card soon.
Anyone who did it succssfully ? Which dtb used ??
Using a Tanix TX3mini via SD Card at the moment… exept Netflix 1080 everything is good, so I have the X4 for future demands…
You can select rooted or not in the Android settings.
Well i have a Tanix X4, and ye the default android fw is rooted.
I will try coreelec on it as soon as i finish with the vim4.
well i tested and is working with the dtb sc2_s905x4_4g.dtb, tested with wifi i did not try ethernet.
Here is a small video i did.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1989ZkZglP5EwNirGFAOPbpXFqdIU28Ii/view?usp=share_link
Will the microSD card booted as default? Do you know if there a button inside the SPDIF port? (used to boot from microSD in the Tanix TX3)
no the box will not boot the sdcard as default, you need press the reset inside the “spdif?” port.
once you do it then it will always be in that mode as "“default” 
I can confirm that the Tanix X4 is working via SD-card and toothpick method.
Just tested the Box for 25 minutes and everything worked fine like on my TX3 mini.
Shutdown, reboot, playback, connecting to my samba server… everything worked.
I took the same dtb as superceleron.
I am only using Ethernet so I can say, that Ethernet also is working without problems.
The next couple of days I gonna test reboot to internal Android and how it is doing when switching off WIFI on Android… (heard that some people had problems with disabled WIFI and Ehternet)
Does Bluetooth, VFD etc. work?
If yes what vfd.conf file was used?
Reason for questions now is that I have one on order and would like to be prepared. 
No to both.
I don’t use bluetooth so hadn’t checked that until now but it says “No Bluetooth adapter found” once you enable it.
For the VFD I have tried heaps of the config files but couldn’t find one that worked. Happy to customise a conf file if someone can point me in the right direction for determining the right parameters to use.
I think we need the following information…
This is only an example from a vfc.conf file !!!
vfd_gpio_clk=‘0,65,0’
vfd_gpio_dat=‘0,64,0’
vfd_gpio_stb=‘1,10,0’
vfd_chars=‘4,3,2,1,0’
vfd_dot_bits=‘0,1,2,3,4,5,6’
vfd_display_type=‘0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00’
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I’ve been using Corelec on the X4 for a few weeks now and I have noticed that the SPDIF output doesn’t work - I’ve tried all sound devices in the settings, but no luck. It works properly in the stock Android though. Any idea what needs to be configured to make SPDIF work?
BTW I took a shot of the board if anyone’s interested.
My 4GB/32GB Tanix X4 has finally arrived from China from Banggood. All the online reviews I’ve seen of the box suggest it’s got Gigabit Ethernet. However when I booted up for the first time in Android, my Unifi Switch reports 10/100Mbs only, not Gigabit.
If I use the same cable and switch port in a Gigabit Ethernet USB3 adaptor plugged into the X4 I get Gigabit flagged so it’s not the cable or switch port - at least not obviously so.
Are there multiple versions of the Tanix X4? Are the reviews wrong?
I’ll try to boot up into CoreElec when I get some time later this week. The Tanix looks a much neater and cleaner box than the S905X4 X96 I have (the gaudy LED lighting ring on the X96 is not something I particularly value in a media player)
Do you have an link to the version you bought?
Afters doing some research on the Internet it appears there is a Tanix X4 with gigabit LAN and an unbranded X4 that looks the same but without the Tanix logo on it, which has 10/100 LAN.
Buyers beware of knock-offs…
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