Flash Firmware for Zidoo X9s Tv Box Doesn’t Work

Zidoo X9S is one of the kickoff Realtek RTD1295 based TV boxes coming to market, and information technology has some pretty special features similar running both Android 6.0 and OpenWrt simultaneously, HDMI input support for video recording and PiP, an external SATA interface, 4K media capabilities including HDMI 2.0a output, 4K 60 fps H.265 and VP9 & 4K 24 Hz H.264 video decoding, likewise as HDR and 3D support. You can observe the full
Zidoo X9S specification
in my previous post. The company has at present sent me an early review sample, and in the first part of the review you’ll post photos of the devices and accessories, and perform a teardown to find out more than virtually the electronics and thermal design. After on I’ll publish articles with benchmarks, video performance, and the complete review.

Zidoo X9S Unboxing

The box comes in a light greenish retail package showing some of the key features like 3D, 10-bit HEVC, Ultra Hard disk drive, HDMI two.0, HDR. etc…

The bottom of the package lists the specifications.

The devices comes with a SATA cablevision for 2.5″ “laptop” difficult drives or SSDs, a HDMI cable, a 12V/3A power supply that should exist skilful plenty to handle a SATA drive plus a USB 3.0 drive, an IR remote control with IR learning function, 2 large WiFi antennas, a guarantee card, and Zidoo X9S “elementary manual” in English.

The instance is made of aluminum blend, and the device feels of good quality. It’s also quite larger than most recent Android Television receiver boxes released to market

The forepart panel includes a VFD display and a window for the IR receiver, while one of the side features the SATA interface, one USB 3.0 port, and two USB 2.0 ports. The rear console comes with 2 WiFi antenna connector, a Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI input and output, AV (blended + sound stereo) jack, optical S/PDIF, a firmware recovery pinhole, a micro SD slot, the power jack, a mechanical on/off switch for ability.

Zidoo X9S Teardown

You’ll need to loosen the four screws on the bottom of the case in order to take out the metal bottom cover, which comes out very hands.

In that location’s no direct contact between the lath and metal embrace, but nosotros’ll notice a shield roofing the processor, memory and storage chips. [Update: The black part on height of the shield is “graphite nano thermo material” which helps with cooling]

The shield is soldered to the board, so I have not attempted to remove information technology, and the bottom of the board reveals the micro SD slot, Genesis Logic GL852G 4-port USB hub, and
Titan Micro TM1628
LED Controller found on the modest board used by the front panel brandish.

After removing three more than larger screws, I can access the top of the board named “GPT X9S_1295_V1.0”.

Again at that place’s a soldered shield on the superlative of main ICs, and then we can’t check out the SoC, RAM, and eMMC flash fries. Simply we’ll detect a battery for the RTC, Realtek RTL8821AU USB two.0 802.11ac and Bluetooth iv.0? scrap, and SG24002 10/100/1000M transformer for Gigabit Ethernet (GbE PHY and MAC are within RTD1295 chip). The serial console / UART header appears to be located betwixt the USB iii.0 and SATA ports. The latter should be a “true” SATA port since SATA is supported natively by
Realtek RTD1295 SoC.

I’d similar to thank Zidoo for sending an early sample for review, and resellers and distributors can
contact the company
to purchase in quantities. Zidoo X9S tin can also be pre-order for
$149 on GeekBuying, too as a
few shops on Aliexpress
for the same price.

[Update: Zidoo X9S review part ii is at present upwards @
Zidoo X9S Android Media Centre Review – Office ii: Android Firmware & OpenWrt (NAS Functions)]