For reference sake, upgrading to Android 7.1 is discussed quite thoroughly in the threads below. There are references and links to firmware that people have successfully installed on various S905x devices:
I want to upgrade a couple of s905x devices to Android 7 firmware to enable them to run CE -ng without any potential issues that have reported on this forum.
I have Tanix TX5 Pro and Beelink Mini MXIII II, both on factory Android 6 firmwares.
Is there a guide out there on how to do that?
Edit: my boxes manufacturers don’t provide factory firmwares updated to Android 7 for those two models.
I want to avoid issues associated with the original Android 6 firmwares and CE -ng installs.
I know ho…
Hello,
So time ago there was announcement about NG builds for S905X devices.
I’m using something like:
but it’s not possible to boot CoreELEC NG.
From this thread:
it looks like there is multiple users who cannot boot theirs devices with 1 GB RAM and Android 6. Devs mentioned that there might be a solution.
Anyone managed to run NG on 1GB Android 6 S905X? Or knows a solution? Thanks!
[ Support for using an amlogic-ng build on GXL(S905X/S905D/S905W) devices is new and is currently only available in the nightly builds as of the 20200716 build. ]
To help people decide if they want to try using the amlogic-ng(4.9 kernel) build with their GXL(S905X/S905D/S905W) based device instead of the older amlogic(3.14 kernel) builds. I have created a list of devices that according to people that have tested the newer amlogic-ng build on these devices have found that it has worked good enou…