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These days, more Android TV boxes are making it easier to update firmware by using FOTA – Firmware Over The Air. But sometimes that’s not an option.

If you only have an .img file, then an OTA firmware upgrade isn’t going to do you much good. Here’s how to install a new firmware image manually by using the Amlogic USB Burning Tool.

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Things to think about

There are a few things to think about when updating your firmware manually.

• This process is specifically for Amlogic devices. Each chipset manufacturer will have their own way of doing things. Be sure you’ve got an Amlogic-based device first.
• Never disconnect the power to your TV box while upgrading the firmware. This can “brick” the device and turn it into a really expensive paperweight.
• If your manufacturer provides a version of the Amlogic USB Burning Tool with the firmware download, then you should use that. They’ve tested it and made sure it works with that particular firmware upgrade.
• Always use the “Normal Erase” configuration option – unless you really know what you’re doing. If you choose to erase the MAC address, you could end up doing more harm than good.
• As is the case with any computer files, don’t go deleting things that you don’t absolutely know what they do. When in doubt….don’t.

Now that I’ve sufficiently scared you, let’s get started. 🙂

Believe it or not, the process is actually pretty easy.

If you need help finding your Android TV box firmware, you can check out our Android TV Box Firmware Guide here.

JUST GETTING STARTED?

Get up to speed quickly with my Getting Started with TV boxes resource page. Check it out here or using the image below!

Download the Amlogic USB Burning Tool

I’ve set up a file share for the Amlogic USB Burning Tool v2.0.6.2 here: USB_Burning_Tool_v2.0.6.2_build2

The file will work in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, but it will need Administrator permissions in order to run. You will be making changes to system files on another device, so Windows wants to make sure you know what you’re doing, after all.

Once you download that file, extract it into a temporary directory. Here, I’ve set it up in my Downloads directory in Windows 10 and created a sub-directory called “Amlogic.”

Once you’ve extracted the file, you’ll see a Setup.exe file which will contain the version number. For this example, this is version v2.0.6.2, but that will certainly change as new versions are released. If you don’t have the latest version, don’t worry. There’s an update feature in the application itself.

Connect your Android TV box to your PC

Before installing the USB burning tool, I like to make sure my Android TV box is connected to my PC and powered on. During the installation process, the program will install the drivers that your PC will need to have in order to communicate with the TV box.

The reason I connect the TV box at this step is from personal experience with an old Tronsmart Vega S89. The upgrade process kept failing because the drivers never installed. It turns out that all I had to do to fix the issue was keep the TV box connected and powered on during the installation process.

Lesson learned, so now it’s part of my routine.

Install the Amlogic USB Burning Tool on your PC

Installing the Amlogic USB Burning Tool is pretty straightforward on any Windows PC. The only minor hiccup I found was running across a “Windows protected your PC” message during the initial installation like the one below.

This may or may not happen to you, depending on your settings. I’ve installed this tool many times, and only received this warning on the very last installation while taking screenshots for this writeup. I’m not sure if this is because of a recent Windows update, but I wanted to include it here, just to be complete.

You can check the box that says “I understand the risk and want to run the app” to continue.

If you’ve installed anything on your PC before, this will look very familiar. You’re given the options of where you want to install the file…

And also if you want to create a Start Menu folder….

After selecting both options, you’re given a re-cap at the final step.

Click “Install” to start the process.

Driver Installation

Remember when I had you connect your TV box to your PC and turn it on?

Here’s where that becomes important.

Near the very end of the installation process, you’ll see a “Device Driver Installation Wizard” window pop-up, like the one below.

This is going to look at your system and make sure that you have the correct drivers installed. If you haven’t gone through this process before, you probably won’t have them. It’s not something Microsoft will install by default, after all.

Once the drivers have been installed, you’ll get one more screen which will tell you specifically which driver was installed.

You can click “Finish” on that window and on the “Completing the Amlogic USB Burning Tool Setup Wizard” window that follows.

After that, go ahead and turn off your TV box. We’ll need it to be off so we can reboot it into Recovery Mode in the next section.

Time to update firmware!

OK. Here’s where the magic happens. Believe it or not, if everything went smoothly up to this point, the hard part is already done.

Open the Amlogic USB Burning Tool application

You should see a screen that looks very much like the one above. Nothing should appear underneath the “Device” or “Status” headings. If your device does happen to appear, that’s a good thing, and it means you can skip the next few steps. Don’t count on it though. There’s almost no reason why it should show up at this point, since your TV box is powered down.

It is powered-down, right?

Re-boot your TV box into Recovery Mode

As I mentioned before, your TV box was only powered-up to make sure that the drivers installed correctly, but it needs to be in Recovery Mode for this next part to work.

The challenge here is that each device is a little different how it boots into recovery mode. Here are the two most common ones:

Option 1: Toothpick Method

This is the most common, “old-school” method of booting into recovery mode. On the back of the device there is normally a small port labeled “Recovery.”

With the TV box powered down, find a long, thin, non-metal object. You want to make sure the pin or toothpick you use is non-conductive, just in case you touch an exposed wire or any other sensitive piece of hardware.

Insert the pin or toothpick into the port until you feel a button you can press. Don’t worry if this takes a little effort. It’s not supposed to be something that you “accidentally” press.

Once you find the button and press it, turn the TV box on while keeping the button depressed. This may take a bit of balance, so it’s helpful to have an extra set of hands for this process.

If everything goes correctly, you should see the device show up underneath the “Device” heading.

Option 2: Long-press the power button

Some devices, like the new MINIX NEO U1 dispense with the recovery button all together.

For these TV boxes, you can usually get to Recovery Mode by holding down the power button for 5-6 seconds.

Speaking as an end-user, this is a great improvement to the process.

Either way you choose, you should see the device appear with a “Connect Success” message, like in the image above.

Import Image

You’ll need to tell the Amlogic USB Burning Tool what image you want to use to upgrade your TV box.

I’ll say this again for emphasis: Be sure to only use an image that was designed for your particular device. Using wrong firmware can “brick” your TV box!

Click on the File menu in the upper left hand corner, and select Import Image.

Then you’ll need to navigate to the location you saved the .img file and select it. Here I created a sub-folder for the U1 in my Downloads folder on my PC.

Start

On the right hand side, you’ll see a large “Start” button with some options underneath. Select “Normal Erase” and click the Start button to begin the process.

The program will first check the file to make sure it hasn’t been corrupted someplace along the line. This process should take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the speed of your PC.

The status bar will change and give you a general idea of what file is being modified, as well as how long the entire process has taken so far.

Once the status bar turns green and reads 100%, the process is done! As you can see, the entire thing took just over two minutes on my PC, but your mileage may vary.

Enjoy!

That’s all there is to update firmware with a new image file using the Amlogic USB Burning Tool. The hardest part, in my experience, was getting my PC to recognize the TV box and install the correct drivers.

Just remember to keep your TV box connected and powered on during the installation process and you shouldn’t have any problems.

Have you used this tool to update your firmware? How did it go? Leave us a comment down below!

If you are thinking of make your mini PC used as server by install Ubuntu into it. Here’s my advice, buy MK808 instead of MK808B.

In order to install Ubuntu into your Mini PC, you need to install the image called Picuntu first. However official Picuntu site stated that MK808B is not officially supported yet. For me, I have tried to install Ubuntu into MK808B and I did it but internal wifi and bluetooth is not recognized. Here’s the photo shows the first time I installed Ubuntu into it.
This article is updated on 2013/6/16. So far, there is no article stated that MK808B’s internal wifi and bluetooth is worked with picuntu.
Anyway, I spend almost 28 hours to install picuntu. I hope my article will help your guys.

Preparation

Prepare the following things before you start.

1. Rooted Mini PC
2. OTG USB cable
3. Windows based PC
4. Ubuntu based PC ( You can use virtual box on your windows PC )
5. MicroSD card with at least 4GB size
6. Monitor for Mini PC
7. And patient, this is not simple as you thinks, so be patient please.

Creating linuxroot filesystem on MicroSD card

You need to download the following things from this link. The link (download.g8.net) provided by official miniand picuntu site is not available so I was using the link above.

picuntu-linuxroot-0.9-RC2.2.tgz

If you are done. Boot your ubuntu and insert your MicroSD card. After you MicroSD card is recognized, open terminal and type

Then, you will see the following output

Find the path of your MicroSD. In my case, the path of MicroSD card is /dev/sdg

Then run your terminal as root by type

Make sure your MicroSD card is not mounted by linux. If you are not sure, simply type

Then, substituting your MicroSD card name. Remember change /dev/sdg to your own path

You should see the following

It take almost 1 minutes to complete. After it completes, mount your MicroSD to directory /mnt/sdg

Then, move to the directory where you have download the picuntu-linuxroot-0.9-RC2.2.tgz and extract it to linuxroot filesystem (Your MicroSD card) by type

Note that there is nothing will shows on terminal, wait for it to be done. It takes almost 2 to 3 minutes.

Once you have complete, it should shows nothing. If there is something shows on your terminal like

It means the tgz file is broken, maybe you needs to find for another source to download it again. Check the file if it’s size is 180MB approximately.

Skylanders swap force wii iso ntsc mario. If you have completes, type the following command

and wait for the sync to complete, then eject MicroSD and we are done with Ubuntu. Hope you are still able to stay patient as you have only complete 1/3 steps.

Installing the modified recovery image into MK808B on Windows

Boot your windows PC.

Downloads the PicuntuKernelInstaller4.zip from the link above and extract it and run RKAndroidTool.exe.

The tool will launch and you will see it looks like this.

Connect your MK808B to monitor and OTG USB cable to PC ( Note that don’t mess up with power slot and OTG slot, both of them are USB but two different use)

Once you MK808B is boot, click settings.

Next, click USB and check connected to PC

Once, you have check it, your windows PC may indicate “New Hardware Found”. Ignore it.

Next, go to Developer Settings and uncheck USB debugging.

Next, go to Storage and click on the 3 dotted colon in the upper right, then click USB computer connection.

If Mass Storage is not checked, check it and make sure the Tool indicate “Found RKAndroid Mass Storage USB”.

If Mass Storage is checked but “Found RKAndroid Mass Storage USB” is not showing, tried check regardless of what options on there and check back Mass Storage. The message should showing.

Based on what picuntu homepage said, There are two ways to boot MK808B into bootloader mode. For myself, I failed on the first method but success on the second method.

1. Root your MK808B and simply click the button Flash Mode on the tool.
2. Open your ADB terminal on windows PC and type adb reboot bootloader

If you don’t understand what is root and adb terminal. Do some google search with the keywords of “how to root android” and “how to setup adb for android”

If you are using windows 8, make sure that you disable signature enforcement before you install the MK808B device into your PC.

For myself, I success on the second method so I will only explain the second method. Make sure you have already installed android-sdk on your PC.

As we are going to use adb, so please check USB debugging on Developer Settings.

MK808B will indicated as unknown devices, so what we are going to do next is to install the device. There are 3 things we need to edit. Before we do any modifying, we need to know your vendor ID and process ID. Turn on your Device Manager and open your MK808B device properties. Then click Details and you will see something like following.

In my own case, vendor ID is 2207 and process ID is 0000.

(1) Modify adb_usb.ini

Open your command prompt as administrator. Then, go to .android directory by type

Remember change USER_NAME to your own username. Next, type

2207 is your vendor ID. Change it to your own vendor ID. Well, I guess it should be same.

(2) Modify android_winusb.inf [Google.NTx86]

android_winusb.inf should locate at android-sdks/extras/google/usb_driver. If google/usb_driver is not found. Install it by open your SDK Manager and go to Extras and check Google USB Driver. Install the package if it is not installed yet.

If you are not able to download and install the package, it might be the problems of permissions. Open your SDK Manager by administrator.

Open android_winusb.inf and find the keywords [Google.NTx86]

Add the following lines below it.

Remember change your PID (Process ID) and VID (Vendor ID) to your own.

(3) Modify android_winusb.inf [Google.NTamd64]

On android_winusb.inf, it needs to add the same things as above but this time, it is under [Google.NTamd64].

After finished modifiy, update your device and set the path to android-sdks/extras/google/usb_driver , it should start update the device. If you are using windows8 and the following error is occurs.

It means you have not done with disable signature enforcement. I wouldn’t explain about it as it will make my article longer. Do your own searching on Google.

Once your have installed the ADB driver into your PC. Turn on your command prompt and go to android-sdk/platform-tools.

Rom Flash Tool.exe Mk808b

Check if your MK808B is connected to your PC by type

It should shows something like following

Rom Flash Tool Mk808b

Next, ( make sure that your MK808B is already rooted ) boot your MK808B into bootloader mode by type following command

Your MK808B’s monitor will turn black and the Tool will now indicate Found RKAndroid Loader Rock USB . Then, click the button Flash ROM on Tool and it should take approximately 5 seconds to flash.

Your MK808B will then reboot.

Well, you have complete all the task on above. It means you have complete 2/3 steps. Stay on as there is one last step.

Boot your MK808B into Ubuntu

Insert the linuxroot MicroSD card ( prepared on 1st step) into your MK808B

Next, same things as above, open your adb terminal and type the following command

Then, you should see the familiar linux screen. Login as user root with password 12qwaszx.

You can change root password by following command

Next, go to picuntu folder by

Finally, run picuntu-da-server.sh by type

It should start with a blue screen and carry out a series of configuration. I wouldn’t go far from here anymore. You will find out that there is not option for MK808B but MK808. I have tried to configure it but failed as it doesn’t recognize the internal wifi device. You can solved this problems by insert a external wifi dongle for it I guess. But I never tried it before. Good luck.

Thank you for reading

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