Still cant get netflix to work on q5ii. Hulu is working just fine. Anyone can share yr experience.

Bro, which DNS are you using? What is the error message shown on your screen? If you have test account just pm me all the detail, let me help you to test.

P/S: ask for test account from the reseller before subscript. Some reseller not really know how to operate in Android or given the wrong DNS.

This post has been edited by nicety: Dec 1 2013, 03:08 PM

Hello Bro, i believe you bought the China version of Q5II, this is for China market does not come with Google Play because China banned Google. As per Himedia info, China version cannot flash with Oversea firmware. But you can try your self to flash with English firmware version. The firmware could be download from the link I shared at the beginning of this thread.

D drive or E drive just drive letter representative, goto file manager to check if you thumbdrive is D drive. sda, sdb is the android technical drive path where drive D actually link to it.

Would be appreciated if you could share where you bought your Q5II such that other buyer would not encounter the problem as you have. Please do not get me wrong, we are always encourage sharing of information such that all will benefit from it.

Actually not true. I have personally tested flashing from the China version to english version and back to china version. All the firmware is from Himedia website. And there is google play on both firmware version. I am talking for 1.0.3

Great, that is good sharing bro :-)

My thumbdrive is D, verified using File Explorer.

The issue is after putting the "update_dualcore_Q5_en.zip" into my thumbdrive root, and clicking on D during System upgrade, it just shows "No upgrade package". But I am still on 1.0.2, wondering why I cannot trigger the firmware upgrade, tried the safety pin also cannot.

Thanks a lot Nicety and Lighter for your comments, yes my set is from China. I thought all Q5II are from China? You mean there are Msian Himedia?

There is no Malaysian version firmware, either China or English(Himedia call it oversea version).

Since Lighther tested 103 and able to switch between China and English, why not you upgrade you China version firmware to 103 first then only switch to English version 103. That mean two step upgrade.

No need to do that. You can straight flash it to either China or English version.

If you are currently on English firmware, you need to rename your Chinese firmware zip file name exactly as "update_dualcore_Q5_en.zip". This will allow you to flash it.

Vice versa if you are currently on Chinese firmware. You will need to rename you English firmware to "update_dualcore_Q5.zip" This will allow you to cross flash between diff type.

Keep in mind I have only tested this for the 1.0.3 version. I have no idea what will happen if you flash between diff version.

As usual, I am not responsible if anyone brick their device. I just telling my own experience.

Very smart by rename the file to bypass the hardware checking :-)

@rerear, pls try the above and revert if it works.

Thanks will try and revert... How to check current firmware is Chinese or English?

1) Can I know got what alternative download for q5 II firmware?

Because I plan to download from official website.the download speed is super slow even with UNIFI!

Should I update since there is a november version while mine i think is october?


2) AND... which version of XBMC to download for it? Cos mine always crash and black screen~ @@

OR should I use mx player as external player for its stability? Can I watch sportdevils with it as well?

3) Another thing is subtitle issue. If i'm using mx player this means there is no subtitle?

THANKS in advance for any tips~~~

For download, try to use a download program that can do multiple mirror download. For the china firmware, 1 link only support about 20-30kbps as far as i can see. But combine of 4 stream at once I got about 100+ kbps easy on my 1Mbps line. Maybe more for you since you are unifi.

For english firmware speed its not a problem, as far as i can see.

Nicety, Lighter,

That trick of renaming the update file between English ("_en") and Chinese (without "_en") worked like a charm, how did you guys know? Apparently my original firmware must have been Chinese, hence after removing the "_en" I could click on "D" and upgrade from there!

After upgrading to 1.0.3, there is Google Playstore indeed, and I installed MX Player and the ARM V7 codec. However when try to install the downloaded XBMC apk below, I am unable to fire it up; the error says "Unfortunately, XBMC has stopped". Need help again.

xbmc-frodo-12.1-xaf-teg2-touch-20130503-8d75a5c004.apk

This post has been edited by rerear: Dec 1 2013, 11:35 PM

Bro, don't choose the xaf, download from http://xbmc.org/download/

Pls find below my answer :

1). You may follow method share from Lighter.

2). Download R12.2 from the link http://xbmc.org/download/. The stability of the xBMC is independent of MX player. Sportdevils is in the xBMC addon.

3). MX Player has the option to choose subtitle and customize the subtitle. I do not really understand ur question, what do you mean no subtitle?

Where to place the playercorefactory.xml file? Can't find the \userdata folder.

Unhide the folder using ES File Explorer

Still can't find after ES explorer "Show hidden files" set to ON. Any other things I am missing?

edit (found ans): it's this path /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/


This post has been edited by rerear: Dec 2 2013, 12:21 PM

Good.
Which player core are you using btw?

But now seems cannot fire up any movies in XBMC after copying the .xml file there... Using MX player free version, with the "ARMv7" codec....something wrong with my MX player installation you think?

Actually I pasted the xml file in this directory:

/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/

This post has been edited by rerear: Dec 2 2013, 12:01 PM