Author Topic: Measy X7 Android Media Player (Read 96886 times)

tatubias · « **Reply #120 on:** Dec 17, 2011 at 01:22 AM »

Running the Android on SD Card

You can run Android from SD card on the M1 reference board platform.

You will need to prepare the SD card as follow:

$ sudo fdisk /dev/<your sdcard,for example sdd>
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 1977 MB, 1977614336 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 957 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 30 60448+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdd2 31 957 1868832 83 Linux

Format the partitions using the following commands:

$ sudo mkfs.msdos /dev/sdd1
$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd2

Download a kernel the Android release from [http://openlinux.amlogic.com/download/linux/android/release/ here] and placed it in the FAT32 partition:

$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/fat32
$ sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/fat32
$ sudo cp uImage.android /mnt/fat32

Unpack the Android rootfs tarball prepared earlier onto the EXT2 partition:

$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/ext3
$ sudo mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt/ext3
$ sudo tar jxfv out/target/product/m1ref/rootfs.tar.bz2 --numeric-owner -C /mnt/ext3

And the final steps:

$ sync
$ sudo umount /mnt/fat32
$ sudo umount /mnt/ext3

Now you can take the SD card and insert into the M1 reference board, at the uboot command line prompt, issue the following command:

# setenv bootcmd 'mmc init;mmcinfo;fatload mmc 0:1 82000000 uImage.android;bootm 82000000;'
# setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/cardblksd2 rw rootfstype=ext3 init=/init mac=${ethaddr} rootwait'
# saveenv
# boot

Running the Android on Nand Flash

*Run Android on Nand Flash, after you burn the whole Android system.
At the uboot command line prompt, issue the following command:
# set bootargs console=ttyS0 mac=${ethaddr} mem=512M a9_clk=800M
# set bootcmd 'nand read ${loadaddr} 800000 400000;bootm'
# save
# boot

tatubias · « **Reply #121 on:** Dec 17, 2011 at 01:23 AM »

Make the custom update package

*To build the files, first select the target board configuration

$ cd ~/mydroid
$ . build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch

This will show you a list of available build configuration. You can select m1ref-eng as the build configuration for M1 reference platform

*Copy the custom files to rootfs

$ cd out/target/product/m1ref/
$ mkdir -p package/SYSTEM
$ cp ~/Gtalk.apk ./temp/SYSTEM/app/
$ ../../../../build/tools/releasetools/aml_update_packer package update.zip

You can use the update.zip to update your Android now.

How to generate SSH public key

Follow the steps below to generate your SSH public key on Linux.

amlogic@ubuntu:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
amlogic@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/.ssh
amlogic@ubuntu:~$ ls
id_rsa id_rsa.pub known_hosts

id_rsa.pub is your new public key

tatubias · « **Reply #122 on:** Dec 17, 2011 at 01:32 AM »

For getting a clearer view of the posts that i have done before you can access to amlogic wiki site:

http://openlinux.amlogic.com/wiki/index.php/Arm/Android

To have a better understanding of how to tweek your firmware you can watch the following videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_H4AlQaNa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqELLB1Kk8

The videos provided had a great explanation on how to develop your own generic andoird rom. if you want to play with measy rom you can read all the documents provided and watch the videos.

tatubias · « **Reply #123 on:** Dec 18, 2011 at 12:38 AM »

Some notes:

1 - the default player does play back Subtitles srt with a MKV movie.
a) you only need to copy the file into the same directory with the same name.
b) then open the movie. goto the menu,
c) click con ... ,
d) then click con T and enable the subtitles.
e) there you can change the size and color.

2 - When updating the firmware you do the steps as required and usb or SD is not read so device is not flashed and i gets only to the flash screen.

Standard Steps to flash the device
I placed the update.zip file in the SD card and started the device.
Then I clicked on firmware upgrade link.
The device got rebooted and stucked at recovey mode.

The error message is
Android system recovery <3e>
E: can't mount /dev/block/cardblksd1
(invalid argument)
E: Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip
and it keeps saying Can't mount /sdcard

Dont panic it only did not read the SD memory.

Some times does happends that. you only need a pendrive formated into fat32 and Then copy the update.zip file into the root directory. the plug it into the device. reboot it or select the otion to read the firmware from the usb.

Thats all the device will read the usb and flash the device as expected.

tatubias · « **Reply #124 on:** Dec 18, 2011 at 09:05 AM »

for thoes that does not have a wifi dongle on the device. not all dongles are compatible with the device it seams that Realtek ones are compatible.

i have a realtek RTL8191S and its detected by the device and works perfect.

Steps to make wifi works:
0 - connect wifi dongle to the usb
1 - go to the android menu
2 - go to settings
3 - go to wifi network.
4 - enable wifi network.
5 - configure wifi network.

mrjohn · « **Reply #125 on:** Dec 19, 2011 at 04:25 PM »

Hi, What App to download that can display movies in a gallery format? The one where you are shown the cover art of the movie in a gallery? The default player only display the movie in a list like in a file browser.

Also for music player, what app is best? I want to have a playlist, or the ability to play music files continuously. I'm having trouble with the default music player as there is no option to add folder or files? How does it detect music files?

Tnx!

tatubias · « **Reply #126 on:** Dec 19, 2011 at 07:50 PM »

Quote from: mrjohn on Dec 19, 2011 at 04:25 PM

Hi, What App to download that can display movies in a gallery format? The one where you are shown the cover art of the movie in a gallery? The default player only display the movie in a list like in a file browser.

Also for music player, what app is best? I want to have a playlist, or the ability to play music files continuously. I'm having trouble with the default music player as there is no option to add folder or files? How does it detect music files?

Tnx!

About the app that shows the movies like in gallery format really dont know. i was not interested in this specific issue. but go to https://market.android.com/ there search the app and then tested let us know how good i is. then search it in Google adding apk after the name of the application and download.

About the music player you can use basically any other player like moboplayer; Meridian Media Player; winamp; and there are TONS of this kind of apps.

in the default player music is scanned into the devices.

mrjohn · « **Reply #127 on:** Dec 20, 2011 at 08:53 AM »

^^Music are finally being displayed. I think it just needed time to "load" the mp3s. I can now see the files in the music player. I'm still finding a video player though that displays in gallery format.

Question about the firmware, which firmware should I install (and are they the same)?

This one:
http://www.measy.com.cn/download/download.php?en=en&class1=13&class2=47

Or this one:
http://depositfiles.com/files/b2yvsbg9v

Also will updating firmware delete files in the Hard Disk? Should I unmount the hard disk first when updating or is it not necessary?

tatubias · « **Reply #128 on:** Dec 20, 2011 at 07:40 PM »

Quote from: mrjohn on Dec 20, 2011 at 08:53 AM

^^Music are finally being displayed. I think it just needed time to "load" the mp3s. I can now see the files in the music player. I'm still finding a video player though that displays in gallery format.

Question about the firmware, which firmware should I install (and are they the same)?

This one:
http://www.measy.com.cn/download/download.php?en=en&class1=13&class2=47

Or this one:
http://depositfiles.com/files/b2yvsbg9v

Also will updating firmware delete files in the Hard Disk? Should I unmount the hard disk first when updating or is it not necessary?

about the music appear listed i did realize the same you need to wait until is discovered.

this firmware is the second released by measy
http://www.measy.com.cn/download/download.php?en=en&class1=13&class2=47
it has a lots of improvements compared to the one that is installed by default.

this other http://depositfiles.com/files/b2yvsbg9v is a non official firmware released by measy, it does work ok. and brings with android market. and other little stuff. but i dont know which are the bigs changes. i think the next update of the firmware will be based on this firmware. you can test it and playit and let us know which are the differences.

mrjohn · « **Reply #129 on:** Dec 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM »

^i went ahead and installed the non-official version.
I tried to install the official version but after installation, the firmware version still displays 1.05... something (not sure about the exact number of the old version) but its not 1026.

Anyway, another question, is there a safe way to remove the usb stick like in windows? Or do we just plug it out immediately. Sometimes when I plug the usb out immediately, the system will hang occasionally throughout so I have to restart.

tatubias · « **Reply #130 on:** Dec 21, 2011 at 07:34 PM »

^i went ahead and installed the non-official version.
I tried to install the official version but after installation, the firmware version still displays 1.05... something (not sure about the exact number of the old version) but its not 1026.

1026 is a date: October 26. and the firmware changes are minimums by the moment you will not noticed unless you investigate a lot. go to settings --> about the phone (the last option) --> in the new screen you will see at the end the version of firmware that you have installed. (number of compilation.)

example for 1026 version: it says MASTER.eng.ricky.20111026.121812 check if the not oficial firmware says that is newer that that date. if not keep with 1026 version.

Anyway, another question, is there a safe way to remove the usb stick like in windows? Or do we just plug it out immediately. Sometimes when I plug the usb out immediately, the system will hang occasionally throughout so I have to restart.

by the moment i un plug it did not find any option to do that. there are some apps you will need to download and thest them that un mount usb.

please test them and let us know if they did work and provide the links.
Auto Mount Your SD Card
Mount /system (rw / ro)
Multi Mount SD-Card Lite
Mount Manager
Drive Mount

tatubias · « **Reply #131 on:** Dec 22, 2011 at 02:26 AM »

how to unbrick the device if does not boot as expected. if you install an application and this application make the player does not boot you can do the following so you can recover the system.

Follow the steps it should work.

1 - Turn off the player
2 - In the back it is a reset button press it don't release until i say
3 - Turn on the device
4 - It will take you to the Flash firmware screen
5 - Release reset button
6 - Use the remote control select set default factory settings or re flash with the firmware.
7 - Will restart the device as new

mrjohn · « **Reply #132 on:** Dec 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM »

Quote

1026 is a date: October 26. and the firmware changes are minimums by the moment you will not noticed unless you investigate a lot. go to settings --> about the phone (the last option) --> in the new screen you will see at the end the version of firmware that you have installed. (number of compilation.)

example for 1026 version: it says MASTER.eng.ricky.20111026.121812 check if the not oficial firmware says that is newer that that date. if not keep with 1026 version.

I see, I thought the firmware version can be seen in the "Firmware" menu on the top left. Anyway the unofficial update renamed the "Firmware" menu to "System Updates".

tatubias · « **Reply #133 on:** Dec 22, 2011 at 07:26 PM »

Last night measy sent the his firmware dont know if tithe same that terminator did sent me.

V.1110
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jt14e6

tatubias · « **Reply #134 on:** Dec 22, 2011 at 07:48 PM »

i have just installed the firmware that i have posted upper v 1110.

in the firmware version says

MASTER.eng.ricky.20111110.173009

don't remember this data on the other firmware that i have all ready posted. but may be the same.

tatubias · « **Reply #135 on:** Dec 22, 2011 at 09:25 PM »

i was going to post a totorial explaining how to change your boot animation. but finaly i got an app that do that an other insteresting things too.

note: The player should be rooted.

(Requires a Rooted Device + NAND Unlocked Device!)-*******************************

FEATURES:
+Root(SU) File Browser/File Management
++Zip file creation/extract
++Bulk Email Files
++Bulk Copy/Move/Delete Files
++Image previews
++APK File Viewer/Extraction
++Bunch of other Stuff

+bootanimation.zip Editor (Change all values of the desc.txt to change Width/Height/Frames Per Second/Comment out certain Parts/etc..
+Preview/DL Over a 200 Boot Animations!
+Import Boot Animations you've placed on root of /sdcard/
+Preview/DL Over 200 Fonts!
+App Backup+Data to SDCard
+App Mgmt Remove System/Data apps from phone.
+App Mgmt Cache/Data Clear
+Text Editor to modify ASCII Files!(Build.prop etc)
+AD Block Support
+Build.prop Editor
+SQLite3 Database Viewer

*************************
root tools system utilities absolute font boot animations fonts ad block adblock backup clear cache uninstall apps file browser bootanimations bootanimation boot animation text editor app killer logcat scripts removal install copy move delete management

Download link:
Absolute_System_Root_Tools_v1.8.4.apk (1.68 MB)Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

tatubias · « **Reply #136 on:** Dec 23, 2011 at 12:52 AM »

Quote from: tatubias on Dec 22, 2011 at 07:48 PM

i have just installed the firmware that i have posted upper v 1110.

in the firmware version says

MASTER.eng.ricky.20111110.173009

don't remember this data on the other firmware that i have all ready posted. but may be the same.

It seams that is the same posted by terminator before

yajkram24 · « **Reply #137 on:** Dec 23, 2011 at 09:47 PM »

Got my measy x7. First question can I reformat my internal hdd using the players? 2nd question is there is no display when using ordinary av cable but hdmi working great. Thanks.

tatubias · « **Reply #138 on:** Dec 23, 2011 at 11:24 PM »

Quote from: yajkram24 on Dec 23, 2011 at 09:47 PM

Got my measy x7. First question can I reformat my internal hdd using the players? 2nd question is there is no display when using ordinary av cable but hdmi working great. Thanks.

1 - you don't need to re format the hd you can use the old one that you have. the player does not bring a format hd option so you willl need to do that on your pc.

2 - the remote controller has a button to change the out put from HDMI to AV. hdmi is the default. it is the one that is located on right of the play pause button.

keep posting with your findings so we can learn more aboút the player. also is very recomended to upgrade the firmware.

yajkram24 · « **Reply #139 on:** Dec 25, 2011 at 09:17 AM »

@tatubias

thank you for fast reply... btw can i use the available wifi dongle at CDR king? much cheaper for me.

toys4geeks · « **Reply #140 on:** Dec 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM »

Quote from: yajkram24 on Dec 25, 2011 at 09:17 AM

btw can i use the available wifi dongle at CDR king? much cheaper for me.

If this works for you let me know the model of CDR king, need one also.

btw tatubias is from argentina so he'll have no idea of CDR king.

yajkram24 · « **Reply #141 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 01:48 AM »

Oh I'm so sorry. I didn't know. Ok wik by the cheapest one and try it. Will confirm ASAP if the wifi dongle from cdr king work. Thanks!

Btw any member here from rizal own x7?

tatubias · « **Reply #142 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 08:04 AM »

buy any wifi dongle with the chipset realtek RTL8191S. it should work

you can buy online with free shipping in. deal extreme or focal price.

Examples:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/802-11g-b-300mbps-usb-wireless-network-adapter-dongle-23347
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/tooploo-300mbps-802-11b-g-n-2-4ghz-usb-2-0-wifi-wlan-wireless-network-adapter-black-80874

note: i did not test them. but they has the same chipset.

tatubias · « **Reply #143 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 08:12 AM »

as i posted before i had some issues that the device that was not reading very well the ntfs partition.

by the moment what i did to fix it. was to connect the Hd to my pc, or you can do it though the BLUE usb connector.

then when is detected by the pc you can run chkdsk <drive> /f and fix or correct the issues on the devices.

then reboot the mediaplayer and you should be able to see all files as expected.

mrjohn · « **Reply #144 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 08:40 AM »

Quote

as i posted before i had some issues that the device that was not reading very well the ntfs partition.

by the moment what i did to fix it. was to connect the Hd to my pc, or you can do it though the BLUE usb connector.

then when is detected by the pc you can run chkdsk <drive> /f and fix or correct the issues on the devices.

then reboot the mediaplayer and you should be able to see all files as expected.

1. I'm also having issues with my internal HD not being read. Though I am not sure if its NTFS or FAT32, but everytime I boot the player, it doesn't read the HD. I still have to do several restarts until it reads. It's kinda frustrating. I tried to plug the disk in my PC, but it gave several errors during boot that's why I can't determine if its NTFS or FAT.

What is the BLUE usb connector?

2. Anynway to revert to the old firmware? The recent one (the unofficial one) doesn't show the "Update" button anymore.

Stagea · « **Reply #145 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 09:49 AM »

Blue USB ports usually denote USB 3.0.

natosan · « **Reply #146 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 01:00 PM »

is the difference in CPU between X5 and X7 significant as far as future proofing is concerned. X7 uses the 1G Cortex A9 processor while X5 uses a 750mHz CPU i think. although the latter can handle 3D while the former cannot.

yajkram24 · « **Reply #147 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 04:47 PM »

just got a wireless usb network adapter. do i have to download the and install the driver to able to use it? is this plug and play to our measy x7? coz nothing happen when i plug it.

tatubias · « **Reply #148 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 07:47 PM »

Quote from: mrjohn on Dec 26, 2011 at 08:40 AM

1. I'm also having issues with my internal HD not being read. Though I am not sure if its NTFS or FAT32, but everytime I boot the player, it doesn't read the HD. I still have to do several restarts until it reads. It's kinda frustrating. I tried to plug the disk in my PC, but it gave several errors during boot that's why I can't determine if its NTFS or FAT.

What is the BLUE usb connector?

2. Anynway to revert to the old firmware? The recent one (the unofficial one) doesn't show the "Update" button anymore.

1 - The devices reads FAT32 and NTFS partitions so you should not have any issue to read it. you can try fix the HD partition running the chkdsk command on your pc.

The blue connector is the one that the X7 device has on the side and it is an usb. plug the x7 to the pc and check which is the drive letter of the harddrive and run chkdsk command.

EXAMPLE:
D:\Documents and Settings\dirienzv>chkdsk f: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

1952604359 KB total disk space.
374462004 KB in 23888 files.
7856 KB in 1248 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
232095 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
1577902404 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
488151089 total allocation units on disk.
394475601 allocation units available on disk.

2 - i have installed the 1110v firmware and i can see the FW upgrade ICON to update the device.

if you dont find it and you want to downgrade it. you can turn off the device. press the RESET button located in the back (keep pressed until i say). start the player. you will see a update screen. un press the reset button. now you can re install the new firmware.

tatubias · « **Reply #149 on:** Dec 26, 2011 at 07:50 PM »

Quote from: natosan on Dec 26, 2011 at 01:00 PM

is the difference in CPU between X5 and X7 significant as far as future proofing is concerned. X7 uses the 1G Cortex A9 processor while X5 uses a 750mHz CPU i think. although the latter can handle 3D while the former cannot.

If you want a complete mediaplayer solution by x5 i has greats options. and also you can use andoird. if you want to play arround and have a mediaplayer you can buy x7.

x7 cpu is scaled to 600mhz you will need to up scale to 800. but it does never reaches 1ghz as is published. (unless they release a new version of the firmwre that unlock the power to 1ghz.