iMX6 Android TV Box not booting after firmware upgrade

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Jason

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Aug 11, 2014
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Hi,

I have recently installed xbmchub on my box and it worked fine. A couple of hours later I was watching a movie and the box freezed during buffering. Turned the box off and on but noticed that wi-fi was not working. It always says ' Turning wi-fi on...' but does not find any wireless access points. My wireless access point works fine with other devices. Then I have tested with an ethernet cable and the internet works without problems. Trying to solve the wi-fi issue, I have done some research and tried the following but to no avail:

1. Did a factory reset from Settings
2. Deleted the wpa_supplicant file and rebooted
3. Finally decided to upgrade the firmware via flash drive as described here http://www.droidboxforums.com/threads/firmware-upgrade-instructions-for-imx6-devices.31/ . I have managed to wipe the cache partition and do a wipe data/factory reset but when it came to update the firmware the installation was aborted (see photo). I have rebooted the system and the box started switching on (blue light) but nothing comes on screen. A photo of the original firmware that came with the box before doing the upgrade is attached. I hope I have chosen the right firmware to do the upgrade.

I have also tried the blind firmware method as explained here http://www.droidboxforums.com/threads/problem-with-my-imx6-droidbox.55/#post-69 several times . I have tried upgrading the firmware again as in no. 3 above but to no avail. The box switched on but I am getting nothing on screen. I guess I have bricked my Android TV Box :-( .

Any help will be greatly appreciated!


Regards
Jason
 

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Jason, try again with a blind firmware flash (I've had to do this after testing someone else's firmware recently), but this time, use the April firmware. If you return to the http://www.droidboxforums.com/threads/firmware-upgrade-instructions-for-imx6-devices.31/ thread, you'll see I've edited the first post to use the April firmware from now on (we're not taking down the May firmware, just recommending the April one as a first port of call).
If you have the thread open in a tab already, and F5-ing doesn't update it, try Ctrl+F5.
 
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Jason

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Hi Admin,

I have tried the blind method update again with the April firmware and it worked! Before posting my thread I was trying it only with my pendrive instead of an sd card. It seems that the blind method only works with an sd card. Thanks for helping me reviving my box! :)

Regards
Jason
 
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