Big downside of this way is that you get a box branded for some other manufacturer and that the remote might not work at all. With the S905 and S906 chipsets the good thing is that basically every box with the same amount of memory and same WiFi chip will be compatible for a firmware donation. You can also try a wipe and factory reset from the recovery console if you don't want to flash a firmware. Nothing beast a fresh firmware when it comes to removing ALL your user data. Best reason is if you want to sell your box after extensive use and including quite a few personal things on it. For all this a backup of what you need and a fresh firmware install can solve a lot of problems and give you some speed back too. And there are claims the some people got their box shipped with totally outdated firmware and no online update working. With most of these boxes already rooted and open to all sorts of attack people even ruin their Android system by the use of tuning tools designed for smartphones. Over time things can get slow or after some 'tuning' certain parts not longer respond as the should. As with Windows everything leaves stuff behind even if uninstalled correctly. Sometimes Android like to bloat up from all the things we installed. If all works fine you should not! It is always better to leave a well running system alone. I decided it is time to search for some updates somewhere. All player buttons olny pause the video or skip it by 15seconds. The most annyoing part howver was that the remote did not provide the stop function.

Plus Kodi would often take forever and a bit more to get through the menus and start things. Everything worked fine except that some programs I installed caused crashes at times with no reason I could find. Considering their release strategy and time stamping procedure the firmware was created sometime Feb- March 2016. It also seems I am one of the lucky guy who already had a quite recent firmware installed - from July 2016.

Turned out, at least for my box there is no real link it tries to access for the update, so it will always fail. Sadly the box always gives an error in regards to stack not being able to access the internet. With the thing running on Android 6.0.1 already I was not expecting monthly updates though. Having bought one of these X96 boxes last year I always wondered if or when there will be an update available.

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