are you using sublauncher + opentitiles ?

Nicety, have you installed VST app from 7PO store?
There are a few App Stores in VST. At least there are more choices now.
Perhaps you would like to try out these apps.

Bro, I had the same problem with Opensubtitles yesterday night. This morning seems ok.

No yet, would be appreciated if you could share it here. What are the unique features and advantages?

Thank you bro, I would like to see if there are more apps there :-)

hi bro. want to ask regarding hypptv. since im unifi, how to get username and password?

Hi.
HiMedia Q5 II tips & trick (v. emmc, 1.0.5 firmware)

I. Flash support in the default android browser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTMRZcgrysQ

1. Find on internet AOSP-Browser-ChromeSync-Adobe-Flash-Installer.zip and download.
2. Instal latest flash player from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashpl..._player_ics.apk
3. Instal browser - unzip file on /sdcard and go to /sdcard/unziped_file_name/system/app and launch browser.apk (on firmware 1.0.5 do not need root)
4 Launch new Browser

This is oryginal native android browser.


II. Cleaning the default launcher

You will need:
1 Root device
2 Text editor
3 Terminal app from market
4 File explorer
5 Another launcher

What we do:
1 Perform root
2 Install the necessary applications
3 Install another launcher
4 Launch file explorer and go to /system
5 Copy file build.prop from /system to /mnt/sdcard
6 Edit build.prop file and find the line: ro.product.hilauncher.cls = com.android.launcher2.Launcher
put the # sign in front of it (it deactivates it - #ro.product.hilauncher.cls = com.android.launcher2.Launcher)
7 Save the file.
8 For root device unmount the /system - Launch terminal aplication and run commands:
su
mount -o rw, remount /system
9 Overwrite the original build.prop file - command:
cat /mnt/sdcard/build.prop > /system/build.prop
10 Make a reset of the device.

When you start device hold the home button and select the default launcher.

Sorry for the mistakes but my English is not good

Regards...

This post has been edited by browar: Jan 31 2014, 06:17 PM

if u r trying to run hypptv on q5ii, here's wat i know...

yr unifi came with the hypptv box, rite? if u have forgotten id/pw for the hypptv box, u can call unifi, they will give to u again.

but.... alto q5ii has hypptv app from playstore, the same id/pw will not work. i tried.

think it's because hypptv which is probably old tech, is not supported by the q5ii's chip.

Thank you bro for helping to response.

Apparently, HyppTV does not work on Himedia devices. My customer contacted Unify and reported the error code, unfortunately TM does not know what the error code mean.

Hi,

I bought q5ii from TS few weeks ago.
I am using wifi connection to my internet router.
The default 1.0.3 firmware has problem below:

1. sound quality is not good, too soft for some movies and TV series.
( I am using optical cable to my HiFi set)

2. Playback and sound from HiTV online source is lagging and suffer serious buffering problem, change to cable connection still the same.
The sound setting kept return to default volume whenever the unit was switch on the next time.

3. You tube can't playback, i think it's a bug
4. Airplay failed
5. XBMC playback from online source is lagging

After I updated to 1.0.4 via online update.
1. sound playback quality improved significantly. Sound level return to default volume problem still remain.
2. Playback and lagging from HiTV online source problem resolved. Very smooth no buffering anymore. Hurray!

but
3. Youtube problem remain
4. Airplay still failed.
5. XBMC problem remain.
6. Connect to smb share from my NAS kept failing, have to try few times.

Firmware online update is damn slow, 1% progress took 5 mins, and the entire firmware image is about 300M, I spent upto 5 hours for the update. I recommend to download and do the force update method. However, I do notice download speed from himedia site also slow, about 20kbps only. I am using 5Mbps line.

I find that picture playback quality from Realtek 1073DD based player is much better than this unit, especially on the color. Realtek chipset reproduce a much subtle and near to real life color, while this unit has tendency to output red color which is too bright. In term of the handling of contrast and brightness, Realtek chipset is way better, this unit will have odd color output if the image contrast is too high.

I have some questions:
1. what is the rom size for q5ii?
2. what is the ram size?
3. can we move all apps to SDCARD?
4. which SDCARD supported, full size or micro-SD?
5. How do we use the Himedia remote to learn the TV and AV remote control? I have way too many remote control to juggle around...


This post has been edited by goolias: Feb 3 2014, 11:33 PM

Hi Nicety,
My q6ii is doing fine, but I read from previous reply that we can prevent installation of unnecessary/unneeded add-ons.

How do we do that? Is it possible we uninstall any existing or installed add-ons that we don't want?

Please also remind me does firmware update that make YouTube app works available or is it still 1.0.4?

Himedia web site is too slow, you can download the firmware directly from my skydrive, this is our value added service. Less than 20 mins to download the 300MB firmware.

Pls find below my answer :

1). Please correct me if I wrong. The ROM technology has been replaced by Flash technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory . Q5II flash memory size is 4GB, but only 1 quarter is partitioned to store the firmware, the rest used for application and data.

2). As mentioned in the thread the DDR RAM is 1GB.

3). Goto Settings -> default storage equipment -> Select the external drive letter. Please ensure the device is detectable when the next reboot.

4). Normal full size SD card.

5). Pls refer to the Q5II FAQ #Q2

Regarding the XBMC lagging, please refer to Q5II FAQ #Q7. Regarding the AirPlay, please PM me the detail. I will help you to rectify the Airplay issue.




Info to share with XBMC users :
I received the below tip from one of my customer last weekend, just updated in FAQ #Q7. If you experience XBMC lagging due to intermittent network issues or long network tied up, pls read the below link :

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-T...the_video_cache

I have tested 1Channel with the setting "<cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>". XBMC cache the video into local memory (Flash memory). If your network is not so bad, you can start watching after cache 5%. If your network is really bad, then you need to wait for some time for caching before start watching. Again, I would like to clarify that not all streaming site are the same performance, if you found superb site with best performance, then you could start watching without caching. P/S : Pls use native XBMC player for streaming.

Dear customers, the file advancedsettings.xml is ready in skydrive, just download and paste into the folder "/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/" then restart your XBMC.

For forumer active in this thread, please feel free to PM me I will grant you access to my skydrive as our appreciation to you.

This post has been edited by nicety: Feb 4 2014, 02:24 AM

New here and New owner of q Q5 ii

trouble i am having is , when i open up Chrome and I goto a website like Cnn.com or even youtube
when i try open up a video to watch , i cant see the video it seems to be running in the background (behind the tab that is currently opened up

any ideas why and possible fixes
I am stuck as to why this is happening

thank you

Shawn

I could not find the way to prevent installation of the addon, but you can prevent the auto update as below link step #5.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on_manager

To disable or uninstall the addon, just refer to the below video.


Sure, I will publish in this thread as soon as Himedia fixed the Youtube. At the moment Himedia engineers are balik kampung due to CNY festival.

This post has been edited by nicety: Feb 4 2014, 02:27 AM

Thanks nicety. As always, very quick response. Thumb ups!

Hi nicety. After going through the reviews, I found fast forward/rewind option is missing on the remote.

Is there any time-search function from the remote or how it can be done?

hi seller,

newbie here , i'm interested with Himedia Q-ii series.. may I ask,

1. What about the "DTS/AC3" sound codec, does the Q5ii & Q10-ii able to decode it? (I Read about the Audio format...mp3, aac...etc, but it did not specify that audio codec), or is it this one ?
----> DTS-HDMA and TRUEHD 7.1 PassThrough Support

(I read your other topic Q6ii it does built in with that codec ---> Audio codec : DTS, DOBY DIGITAL(AC3), DOLBY DIGITAL PLUS, AAC)


2. I saw taobao selling this model at RMB 599.00 (about RM 328) excluding shipping/postage cost to M'sia. Your're selling at RM340 which is very attractive offer. How do you that ? (Same for others models such as: Q10ii RMB1599, here you selling RM480 ...wow ...)
* just to be sure that am i looking at the genuine one...need to know before buying stuff.

3. I might be wrong, Q5ii also built in with eMMC , right ?
[answer] found at : https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3047700&hl=#


Thanks in advanced..

DTS and AC3 works with my Sony decoder. My decoder doesn't have HDMI pass thru, so I use optical cable connect from Q5II to the decoder.
DTS and AC3 requires HDMI or optical cable to work, normal RCA cable unable to handle the amount of data flow requires by these audio format.
My decoder unable to do 7.1, so I am unable to answer that. Anyone can help?

I dun think got time search. Alternatively, you can try dragging the timeline when you pause the video playback.
There is a timeline bar appear at the bottom screen, you can use the right button at remote control try forward or backward.
Not very convenient i know, but that's my finding with Himedia remote control so far.

Youtube playback still have bug with current firmware version.