[ROM][AOSP][Full Android 6.0.1][v.1.3]

[zulu99]

Tested again all Chromecast functionality. All seem to work well.

My configuration:
The nexus player with last 1.3 full android firmware and last bootloader, i'm using the default cast receiver, as phone i have a galaxy S6

I can mirror the phone, cast youtube very well and i can cast Netflix.

To have Netflix cast from your phone to Nexus Player it is understood that you must have installed also the last Netflix app for Android TV. ( netflix is not like others apps, for cast you need also the tv version installed. Only cast receiver is not sufficient for netflix, unlike any other apps and this is valid also on stock firmware where you have already installed the TV version. just for info )
You can use also the normal Netflix app, that work well with bluetooth audio and more simple to navigate with a mouse / droidmote

 

[r3t3ch]

Casting works fine for me. I sideloaded the 1.17 x86 update from here. I also use this app(no xposed required) to hide the status bar for just the google cast app selected by the notification widget and hide the soft keys using a build.prop change so the entire screen is used while casting just like standard Android TV.

 

[sam.balia1012]

Twrp & usb-otg

Tested again all Chromecast functionality. All seem to work well.

My configuration:
The nexus player with last 1.3 full android firmware and last bootloader, i'm using the default cast receiver, as phone i have a galaxy S6

I can mirror the phone, cast youtube very well and i can cast Netflix.

To have Netflix cast from your phone to Nexus Player it is understood that you must have installed also the last Netflix app for Android TV. ( netflix is not like others apps, for cast you need also the tv version installed. Only cast receiver is not sufficient for netflix, unlike any other apps and this is valid also on stock firmware where you have already installed the TV version. just for info )
You can use also the normal Netflix app, that work well with bluetooth audio and more simple to navigate with a mouse / droidmote

I have an issue with TWRP and USB-otg that i thought i fixed, apparently it's back again:
-- I have a USB (32GB) attached to the NP which i use to back up my ROM, all of a sudden TWRP can only
see 15MB of the 32GB usb drive???? I figured it needs to be formatted (tried ex-FAT ext-4...) even tried 'use rm-rf instead of formatting'
no dice.....
btw i am using the latest TWRP .....any ideas?

 

[zulu99]

I have an issue with TWRP and USB-otg that i thought i fixed, apparently it's back again:
-- I have a USB (32GB) attached to the NP which i use to back up my ROM, all of a sudden TWRP can only
see 15MB of the 32GB usb drive???? I figured it needs to be formatted (tried ex-FAT ext-4...) even tried 'use rm-rf instead of formatting'
no dice.....
btw i am using the latest TWRP .....any ideas?

I don't know, but you can request info abaut TWRP directly in the TWRP thread
The recovery have nothing to do with this firmware.
Is something completly indipendent.

But if i remember well, i can see all my usb key without problems. I can suggest to remove completly the partition with clean command of diskpart, after you repartition it and format again.

Some time ago, i had a problem like your on a usb that i used as internal storage on android 6. The above procedure fixed my problems.

 

[sam.balia1012]

I don't know, but you can request info abaut TWRP directly in the TWRP thread
The recovery have nothing to do with this firmware.
Is something completly indipendent.

But if i remember well, i can see all my usb key without problems. I can suggest to remove completly the partition with clean command of diskpart, after you repartition it and format again.

Some time ago, i had a problem like your on a usb that i used as internal storage on android 6. The above procedure fixed my problems.

Thanks for the suggestion; what type of formatting did you use? FAT..ext-4...?

 

[zulu99]

Thanks for the suggestion; what type of formatting did you use? FAT..ext-4...?

Usually to use in TWRP recovery, i used FAT32

 

[gg7aph]

Issues with certain Apps

Hi Zulu,
Please let me echo the sentiments of many others and express my gratitude for your great work with Lollirock. Since upgrading to the Android 6.0 I've experienced issues with the below apps, which used to work fine with the previous version, based on Android 5.1.1:

• Puffin Browser - Installs fine but then refuses to open and tells me: "puffin is not installed normally. Please make sure the storage of your device is not full and re-install puffin again". Clearing space on the Nexus player fails to fix the issue.
• NBC Sports Extra - refuses to stream any video, live or recorded
• Comedy Central - video (especially commercials) will black out, while audio remains. Rebooting Nexus player seems to fix temporarily.

Thanks,

 

[zulu99]

Hi Zulu,
Please let me echo the sentiments of many others and express my gratitude for your great work with Lollirock. Since upgrading to the Android 6.0 I've experienced issues with the below apps, which used to work fine with the previous version, based on Android 5.1.1:

• Puffin Browser - Installs fine but then refuses to open and tells me: "puffin is not installed normally. Please make sure the storage of your device is not full and re-install puffin again". Clearing space on the Nexus player fails to fix the issue.
• NBC Sports Extra - refuses to stream any video, live or recorded
• Comedy Central - video (especially commercials) will black out, while audio remains. Rebooting Nexus player seems to fix temporarily.

Thanks,

Thanks for you apprezation.

As general advice for android 6, i suggest to grant apps permissions also manually if necessary, test the app in internal storage because some apps not support the expanded internal storage, and don't forget that this is an x86 device so some app can be compatible only with arm devices. ( despite houdini )

For Puffin Browser i see an error:
01-13 20:53:12.530 4352 4352 E linker : /data/app/com.cloudmosa.puffinFree-1/lib/x86/libpuffin.so: has text relocations
The error come from inside the app, i can't correct nothing in the firmware about errors like this. mainly are apps errors, only the developer can correct.


NBC Sports Extra work on stock firmware ? I can't test it.

I don't see firmware related problems for now. But thanks for your test. Only testing apps we can found problems.

 

[gg7aph]

For Puffin Browser i see an error:
01-13 20:53:12.530 4352 4352 E linker : /data/app/com.cloudmosa.puffinFree-1/lib/x86/libpuffin.so: has text relocations
The error come from inside the app, i can't correct nothing in the firmware about errors like this. mainly are apps errors, only the developer can correct.

Hi Zulu
Thanks for the reply. Can you explain how you got the above error from Puffin Browser? I already have a dialogue open with their Technical Support and will pass along the details. Incidentally, I did manually check the permissions as you suggested. I noticed it is installing with no permissions, not even to storage. Despite changing this manually the app still fails to open.

Thanks

gg7aph

 

[zulu99]

Hi Zulu
Thanks for the reply. Can you explain how you got the above error from Puffin Browser? I already have a dialogue open with their Technical Support and will pass along the details. Incidentally, I did manually check the permissions as you suggested. I noticed it is installing with no permissions, not even to storage. Despite changing this manually the app still fails to open.

Thanks

gg7aph

yes i know about permissions and is strange. for this reason i think an app problem apart the specific lib error. but the lib error can cause the previous behaviour on permissions. In others words, the app crash before can request permissions. If you attach the message error that the app show, the developer can understand.

However i read the log in standard way. With logcat
adb shell
logcat

or to filter something:
logcat | grep "what you want filter"

to write the logcat to a file after the error:

logcat > /sdcard/yourfile.txt
CTRL + C to exit

 

[vilator]

Puffin Browser I know was working before the new update. I was using puffin because I couldn't get Flash Player working in any browser (did anybody?). I just reinstalled this older one and it works fine, they probably messed something up in the update.
http://www.apk4fun.com/apk/79946/

Also kinda random note but zulu99 I figured out why my keyboard wasn't working and netflix was messing up before. In your youtube video you use Fulscrn Free so I was using that and the note on their page is when you go full screen you lose keyboard and back buttons. Started using All in One gestures, just adds a button to to toggle forced immersive mode.

 

[SkOrPn]

@zulu99, may I ask a question please, or maybe put in a request please?

Would it be too difficult for you to enable this attached App for us guys with slightly older TV's please? Its called "Overscan Calibrator" or "Overscan Launcher" and it is what CM12.1 and CM13 uses for their fugu builds, and so far its the only app that has worked flawless for me. Thus it would be super highly appreciated on a ROM intended for the Nexus Player, which will no doubt be connected to many many older TVs. If not, that's OK to.

I spent two days now trying to figure out how to get this app to launch but just installing it does not work with an error "Unable to start". It actually started the very first time I tried it, but the second time it failed and has failed ever since. Not sure why. Many other people in the forums are using this app on the Nexus Player with no problems at all

Please, maybe for next build buddy :good: lol

 

[zulu99]

@zulu99, may I ask a question please, or maybe put in a request please?

Would it be too difficult for you to enable this attached App for us guys with slightly older TV's please? Its called "Overscan Calibrator" or "Overscan Launcher" and it is what CM12.1 and CM13 uses for their fugu builds, and so far its the only app that has worked flawless for me. Thus it would be super highly appreciated on a ROM intended for the Nexus Player, which will no doubt be connected to many many older TVs. If not, that's OK to.

I spent two days now trying to figure out how to get this app to launch but just installing it does not work with an error "Unable to start". It actually started the very first time I tried it, but the second time it failed and has failed ever since. Not sure why. Many other people in the forums are using this app on the Nexus Player with no problems at all

Please, maybe for next build buddy :good: lol

I will test it, but you can find a good app from google play for this.
One that i know is Screen Shift https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sagar.screenshift2
You can create custom settings and start at boot.

Or just with a command from terminal emulator:
su
wm overscan 0,0,0,100


where 0,0,0,100 can be customized with your real overscan size
wm reset if you want restore the original overscan

 

[needoZ]

Noticed something. I have a 720p TV which displays 1080p but it looks "off". I used Screen Shift to set the resolution to 1280x720. Which it did, but the TV still registered the Nexus Player as being 1080p despite rebooting the device and turning on and off the TV. Any way to force the Nexus Player to output 720p?

 

[SkOrPn]

Noticed something. I have a 720p TV which displays 1080p but it looks "off". I used Screen Shift to set the resolution to 1280x720. Which it did, but the TV still registered the Nexus Player as being 1080p despite rebooting the device and turning on and off the TV. Any way to force the Nexus Player to output 720p?

Why would that even matter much? Modern TVs, even 720p ones do a really good job of down converting 1080p as it is. I have a 720p TV thats been using a 1080p source for 7 years with nothing wrong with it what so ever. Its the other way around that is the problem and gets video not looking its best, lol.

Unless your trying to save on streaming bandwidth or something.

 

[needoZ]

Got it. Thank you!

 

[SkOrPn]

Got it. Thank you!

By the way, I think in the Youtube app (once you launch a video), and both Plex and Kodi you can set the device output to 720p no problem, but you can't set the NP's UI (a.k.a Desktop, menu's etc) to 720p, as far as I know (I have not found that settings). I think Google (or Asus) just figured that all TV's do proper downconversion so it wouldnt matter much. However, if you use Netflix I have no clue how to drop its resolution to 720p. But for the user interface if it is converted onto your TV screen just fine, then don't worry about it, it won't harm anything.

However, you might be able to force 720p output by using "wm " in a terminal window. Search for adb shell wm commands or something like that and you might find some info on using the terminal to set 720p output, but I never tried it :good:

Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...to-use-adb-shell-wm-to-simulate-other-devices

 

[abo_mara7]

@zulu99 Currently I'm using Stickmount app to be able to access my 2TB HDD from Kodi. Would your kernel relieve me from doing unmount/mount each time I want to use my HDD (I keep it plugged all the time)? If yes, can I use the kernel only on the stock firmware?

 

[chibluboy]

CIFS Manager / Network Mount Full Android 6.0.1 v1.3

I can confirm that both skype and hangout versions linked by @zulu99 work as intended. great work.

Am trying to mount my NAS folder in NexusPlayer using CIFSManager. Purpose is to backup apps/data and schedule these as activities. But CIFSmanager isnt able to mount this propoerly,either a blank folder or a file being created with foldername....any ideas?

If you are still trying to mount a network drive, refer to my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60208481&postcount=536 , This was originally written for Lollirock and the steps work as well with AOSP Full Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on Nexus Player.

I am not using a NAS but I am using a Netgear R7000 Router with a USB 3.0 3TB drive and have successfully mounted several folders to my Nexus Player /DATA directory. I currently have a torrents folder mounted and I use MX Player as my current player. MX Player see's all new video torrent downloads without any problems. I am currently trying to configure Linux Deploy / Plex Server to do the same thing. That is still a work in progress..... I also use my network mount to store game ROMS and my emulator reads off of the mount with no proplem.

---------- Post added at 04:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:43 AM ----------

I know no one will know this one, but before I undo all my work and rollback to lollipop I thought I'd ask.

One of the things I use the nexus for is to run plex server, since they only make an android version of the client and not the server I use "linux deploy" to run a vm of debian jesse and run plex on that. A little out their but it worked.

So I decide to give marshmellow a try, backup the vm and config file install mm, reinstall linux deploy copy vm over import config, start vm and bam life is good debian running, plex running all is well

That is until I try and mount the network shares that hold my media files, then it all goes south. I've tried moving up (strech, sid version of debian) I've started from scratch with a new vm and no matter I still get VV so anyone know how/why marshmellow would/could f-with cifs in a debain vm?

mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Have you had any luck and gotten further with this? I have been working on the same thing - see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64862083&postcount=399 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60208481&postcount=536 (This last link I created when I was still using lollirock - I'm now on the latest Marshmallow).

 

[scottfree1]

Sorry, I ended up going back to lolirock, I re-installed marsh from scratch and got it working with the original boot.img (I wasn't able to boot with it first time and had used chainfire's to get it booting) Aaaannnddd.... still no cifs..

Here are my confirmed working fstab entries, the 1st mounts my qnap media library to /media/CifsQ the second mounts the plex metadata dir. on to my qnap which gets to be gb's and quickly swamps the nexus, but it's useful since it mounts a dir with spaces (which plex LOVES) but they are pain to mount..

//192.168.1.60/Multimedia /media/CifsQ cifs username=admin,password=password,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0
//192.168.1.60/Multimedia/Metadata /root/LibraryQ/Application\040Support/Plex\040Media\040Server/Metadata cifs username=admin,password=password,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0