Hi
Regarding the Build version LMY 47 V.20170310.
2017 refers to year of release
03 refers to the month
10 refers to the day.
If you had bought the boxes in 2016 you had probably run and updated the boxes to most recent OS version.Now some updates such as the one for LibreELEC are in BETA and thus provided manually which you can get through the forum.
Apps can be updated via Google play store or DroidBOX market.
Regards
Hello, first post. I received my droidbox t8-s plus in Dec 2015. I usually used the libreelec side until we all had to go to kodi Krypton. I now use the Android side however since 17 it has been glitchy and no stream plays AC3/5.1. However Jarvis always played most streams well. It has been ages since an ota update. Will flashing and resetting as described above mean I will lose all my add ons on the android side for kodi i.e will I have to set my box up again from scratch or will it just update the librelec side to (finally) 17.6 ish???
Why does the Recovery menu not read any of the USB devices, and only the memory card ? (even when it gives the option to read from USB drive, and can detect the USB drive) ?
It can read USB memory sticks in Recovery but we can not guarantee that all makes/models will work. Any SD Card should work fine which is why we recommend it. We hope to have more information on a new LibreELEC update very soon.
Sure that is accurate ?, as far as I have known USB Storage devices appear all the same to a computer, they all use a generic USB Storage driver (program/software).
We have tried with a number of different USB memory sticks and some work and some dont. So for this reason we cannot guarantee that trying it with them will work and recommend a SD card which should not have any issues.
A quick update. We are just doing some final checks on LibreElec 8.2.5 (Kodi 17.6) and should have new betas for T8-S Plus v1, T8-S Plus v2, T8 Mini and T8 SE in the next day or two providing everything is working well.
On other Android devices that I have see, including a DroidBox T8-S (Android 4.4.2), at the top there is a thin statusbar which display items being downloaded, and Wifi status, and can be pulled down to show Status messages and Settings. Also at the bottom there are Button that allow navigaton (Back, Top, Recent, Volume+, Volume-)
These are not on last final firmware. (Is there a setting that needs to be adjusted ?. Else why are they not on this device also?). Else Can you include them on this and future firmwares? ??
This time the added question was:
Can you include them on this and future firmwares? ??
Are you sure the firmware is from the chip/processor manufacturer (amlogic), I ask as I would say it would be the box manufacturer, as the firmware has to control other devices that are present on the box, that may not be from amlogic.
I am new here. So I ask, how do you know this? (I have no idea how you would. I do understand firmware is not updates very much after release of a device).