We have good news, there is a new firmware for Zidoo X1 TV Box (v1.0.17 release). At the end of July we presented a ZIDOO X1 review (firmware version v1.0.14) today announce a new firmware. This is what we wrote, ZIDOO team provides a steady supply updates to their devices. If someone has not yet decided or are planning to buy, ZIDOO X1 is available on Geekbuying at a price of $ 59.99.
For those who have not yet had an opportunity to look at the ZIDOO X1 remind its specification:
- Operating System: Android KitKat 4.4.2
- Chipset: Allwinner H3
- CPU: ARM Quad-core A7 up to 1.5 GHz
- GPU: Octa-Core Mali-400mp GPU
- Memory: 1GB DDR3
- Internal Storage: 8GB NAND (up to 16GB)
- Connectivity: 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n, Ethernet LAN 10/100Mbps
- Material & Color: Plastic in silver
- Audio/Video Output: HDMI
- Audio: AAC-LC/HEAAC/HE-AAC v2,AC3,AMR-NB,DTS,MP3,OGG,RA_COOK,WMA,WMA,LPCM/PCM/ADPCM,FLA
- Video: RM/RMVB, MPEG, MKV, AVI, MP4,MOV,FLV, H.263,H.264,H.265,VC-1,DivX, Xvid, TS,RealVideo,VP6,VP8 up to 4K support
- Interfaces: 1x HDMI (1.4 4K*2K resolution), 1x AV Standard (AV output resolution) 2x USB 2.0 host port, 1x RJ45 Ethernet, 1x Micro SD card reader (Support 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB)
- Dimensions: 12.6 x 11.8 x 3.6 cm
New firmware v1.0.17 (h3_v1.0.17) can be downloaded here. The next week the new firmware will be available for download via OTA online. What we find in the new firmware v1.0.17 update list:
Kodi
1.Fixed not enough smoothly problem of network video, such as Youtube online video
2.Fixed not enough smoothly problem of some video that are in samba and other network storage disk
3.Enhanced support for VC1 video format
4.Solved black screen problem for large resolution(>480p) WMV3 format video
5.Improved video rendering efficiency, and other bugs
System
1.The navigation bar is hidden by default
2.Fixed incompletely close problem of HDMI CEC
3.Fixed didn’t boot due to DRM under some circumstances
4.Fixed IR Remote Contorller doesn’t work under some circumstances
APK
1.Added application market for appsgo
2.System apk is full-screen
Warning:If you install other version of kodi, you should uninstall the kodi first, Otherwise you will not update the latest version of Kodi.For video more smoothly,you should open ZDCodec.
You can download the new firmware (OTA ZIP file) from here . How to upgrade firmware for ZIDOO X1, here.
IMG(Please download this file then unzip it): http://apidl.zidoo.tv/zidoo_x1/zidoo_x1_v1.0.17.zip
There is some risk for flashing your BOX, Please be quite careful to make it.(It will clean out user data entirely, please be cautious to do it.)
How to Flash : http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?threads/how-to-flash-the-zidoo-x1-firmware.398/
Source: Zidoo forums
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