{"id":775,"date":"2016-08-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.co.uk\/blogs\/t8-mini-and-imxqpro-ota-updates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:19:05","slug":"t8-mini-and-imxqpro-ota-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/t8-mini-and-imxqpro-ota-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"T8 Mini and iMXQpro OTA Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today DroidBOX are happy to announce OTA Updates for both our DroidBOX\u00ae T8 Mini and iMXQpro models<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2038\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/blog-post-image-12-300x238.png\" alt=\"DroidBOX\u00ae T8 Mini\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>First we&#8217;ll cover the T8 Mini changes to be found in this new firmware. Once installed, you will find that both DBMC (now updated to 16.3.0 with the TDB Maintenance tool add-on built in) and the Remotr applications are ready to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dbx_media_cenre_logo_dark-300x157.png\" alt=\"DroidBOX\u00ae Media Centre based on Jarvis\" class=\"wp-image-1269\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about the Maintenance tool at <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/dbmc-16-3-0-with-tdb-maintenance-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/dbmc-16-3-0-with-tdb-maintenance-tools\/<\/a><\/span> or watch the video below. DBMC&#8217;s compatibility with librtmp streams has been improved, as well as a memory leak that is now plugged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you missed our post on using Remotr to play your PC&#8217;s games on your living room TV, you can catch up with it here &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/droidbox-and-remotr-announce-integration-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/droidbox-and-remotr-announce-integration-partnership\/<\/a><\/span> , where you will also find two further videos covering what it does, how to install it, and a demonstration of it in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Openelec_logo_transp_270x1351.png\" alt=\"OpenELEC\" class=\"wp-image-2356\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve also updated OpenELEC; a cleanup of the interface in places, tweaks have been applied to a few functions, and a bug found in some situations when the resolution was switched has been squished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, if you previously had difficulty accessing Android&#8217;s Recovery menu then this latest OTA update should resolve that for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1841\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/main_21-1-300x236.png\" alt=\"DroidBOX\u00ae iMXQpro\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\"><br>Secondly, we have a similar update for our iMXQpro model, see above for greater detail, but you will also find Android&#8217;s DBMC has been bumped to 16.3.0 with the same TDB Maintenance Tool add-on included, and the same librtmp stream compatibility and memory optimization is in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.droix.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DroidBOXOTA.png\" alt=\"DroidBOX\u00ae OTA Updater Updates\" class=\"wp-image-1585\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How To Update<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For both models, power up your device and then bring up the list of all installed applications (don&#8217;t forget to ensure you&#8217;re in Android if you own a T8 Mini!) and start the OTA Updater app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should see a notification about this new update being available, if not click the bottom entry to force a re-check.&nbsp;You can now click the download button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the firmware downloads, you can close the initial pop up window, as the progress bar is more reliable in the main screen. Once the download has completed, you&#8217;ll be asked&nbsp;if you want to install it (click the Install button). Please watch the screen carefully as you may see a request similar to the one below. You need to click the Grant button for the device to proceed with installing the update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OTAsupersu-300x213.png\" alt=\"OTA SuperSU Request\" class=\"wp-image-2360\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now leave your device alone as it&nbsp;installs the update and boots up for the first time.&nbsp;After it loads, and you can see the launcher&#8217;s homescreen once more, check the box is connected to the internet, and then wait for 10 minutes. PLEASE DO <strong>NOT<\/strong> REBOOT OR POWER OFF until 10 minutes has passed. You can now start using the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today DroidBOX are happy to announce OTA Updates for both our DroidBOX\u00ae T8 Mini and iMXQpro models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,38,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-android-tv-box","8":"tag-firmware","9":"tag-update"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327127,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/327127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}