A BRICKED Q7 XT-Q7-V11 DATED 2014/07/10 WITH RK3188 & KITKAT

[harryh38]

Bought this cheap priced tv box on ebay to play with and it did what it said on the box xbmc, films, shows worked alright.The only thing I wanted to change was the kitkat block of the sd card memory to store or except transfers from the small internal storage.
My options to alter were ; Root and alter permissions with an app. or use ES3 file explorer to rewrite .
As an optimist I tried the root and app. The usb connection worked. The app down loaded all seemed well until I went to load when I lost the lot, left with a near dead brick. The power connects red light on (but wont turn blue) and the usb still connects and sees the rock chip.
I have tried the reset button and power on off several times to no avail.
I have tried Rookchip-batch tool in an attempt to reflash an OS. but it fails to recognise the Q7.
Have I any chance of repair or is it dead?
If there is a way Iv not found it and any help or guidance to web sites would be appreciated.
It become a bit of a challenge.
(an aside)
Whats the best droid box that is for sale?
Harry
very new to Andriod, a pc veteran.

 

[ChrisM]

The (new version) of the M8 is the best - https://droidbox.co.uk/droidbox-m8-amlogic-s802.html

Re your PC not recognizing the Q7, have you installed the drivers? If so, can you let me know which ones they were/where they came from please? You can softbrick these devices, where a firmware flash will fix it, but if you have driver problems, it can obviously appear to be a no hope case. I'm assuming you are holding in the reset button when attaching the Q7 to your PC and then supplying power to it?

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Re being new to Android, we all start from little or no knowledge originally! I started in MS-DOS 4 days on big devices, and hung onto Windows Mobile with phones for as long as I could - until all the developers had eloped to Android...