My new T8 was received today. Unfortunately ive had a few problems. My internet connections fine and Im currently streaming a film. My problem is downloading the video add ons package. Ive tried tens of times with freezes from between 1%-39% at best. Is this a common problem. Is there a link issue. I was thinking try again in the morning as the rest of the box seems fine. I reset the factory settings but the download still wont work. After one of the freezes I left it for an hour but it didn't progress. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Dan
New User T8 droid wizard download freeze
- Thread starter Ds1hickey
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Hi dan. I had this problem the other day at a friends installing his new box. Got 3or4% downloading the wizard and froze. He is on Virgin 100mb wireless up stairs room. I then unpluged took it downstairs and plugged the Ethernet cable in and wizard was done in a flash. ;-) the next day after coming to the conclusion the wireless signal just wasn't up to speed we purchased some mains Ethernet adapters £25 T link from Argos and no more problems since ;-)
Regards Justin.
Have you been clearing XBMC's data before each Wizard run? If not, please check the procedure here - http://www.droidboxforums.com/threads/resetting-xbmc-to-a-just-installed-state.27/ and try that. I'm not sure right now what could be causing this. If you'd had the device for a while, I could see a full up storage system from causing an error like this. If clearing XBMC's data doesn't help, can you e-mail us please - [email protected] with the info mentioned here - http://www.droidboxforums.com/threads/what-to-include-if-you-need-to-e-mail-us.364/ and ask us to guide you through a factory reset.
Try do it over the LAN?? maybe run some sort of diagnostic tool on the unit. not sure which one but something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dms.pastor.diagnostictools&hl=en just to see if there is fault onboard. I did have same problem but after format it fixed the issue.
We could find a customer with a T8, ask them to run the Wizard, and then compress and transfer the new files into the XBMC data folder. If I had a T8 myself, I'd do it straight away. Hoping to sort one soon. In the mean time, perhaps post a new thread in this area asking for fellow T8 users to assist. Happy to guide anyone through the steps if needed.
Weird. Could maybe be related to strange filenames? Possibly some of the files were in use at the time, and a clean ZIP structure couldn't be built? You could try Force Stopping XBMC first (Android Settings>Apps>XBMC>Force Stop) or just rebooting (assuming you don't have XBMC autostart) and ZIPping again.