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iru786 said:
Hi Guys...
My MXIII just died on me. Was running XBMC and suddenly it just died. Now it just wont power up. I thought my be its a power adapter so tried connecting Q7 that i had and that works fine.

So any ideas what it can be? Just bought it at end of September....
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Is there any LEDs indicating that it has power?
 
Q7 is the older models of media box but uses the same power adapter.
 
iru786 said:
Q7 is the older models of media box but uses the same power adapter.
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Ok, can you plug it into a pc with the USB OTG cable and power supply into a plug to see if it powers up?
 
Arietans said:
Send it back to AVSupply methinks
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I'd wait for AvSupply to reply first and see if there is anything else i could try.

I am very curious to find out why it just died without any apparent reason.
 
iru786 said:
I'd wait for AvSupply to reply first and see if there is anything else i could try.

I am very curious to find out why it just died without any apparent reason.
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With electronics there very often aren't easy explanations - it's not mechanical that you might hear something failing before it does. Thunderstorms, brownouts, blackouts, spikes and surges, etc. can all cause trouble with electronics. Brownouts and spikes happen way more often than you realise.
 
Arietans said:
With electronics there very often aren't easy explanations - it's not mechanical that you might hear something failing before it does. Thunderstorms, brownouts, blackouts, spikes and surges, etc. can all cause trouble with electronics. Brownouts and spikes happen way more often than you realise.
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Yes i agree and to minimize the risk of it, I have connected all my device to surge protector adapters. Other devices connected to that particular surge protector are working fine except this.
 
iru786 said:
Yes i agree and to minimize the risk of it, I have connected all my device to surge protector adapters. Other devices connected to that particular surge protector are working fine except this.
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Surge protectors don't do anything for brownouts, blackouts or marginal surges or spikes. If you want proper protection, buy a true online UPS for a couple of grand.

How a device reacts to fluctuations in power depends on what it's up to at the time of the fluctuation. Like I said, it's electronic and the rulebook doesn't cover every scenario. One day you turn it on and it fails, that happens, as for the reason, it's very seldom possible to pinpoint that. There are just too many variables.

Even when lightning hits, very seldom do all your appliances give up the ghost. Why do some survive and others not? I'm sure there's a logical explanation in every situation, but it's not worth trying to figure out unless it's a known fault.

All that said, it's not necessarily a power source issue, it could just be a bad unit - that also happens. You can buy the best hardware there is and still have it fail. Heck, I've bought stuff that's been factory tested, yet won't power on out of the box. Not trivialising your situation - it's frustrating to have something cool pack up on you, just saying that I doubt anyone here can tell you why it stopped working.
 
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I'll ask here and see if I get a response. Got the universal scraper plugin, but it's not scraping any of my movies. Where do I go to manually scrape my movies for cover art, info etc.
 
Have you tried through the web interface? There might be an option to do it from there (right click menu etc.)
 
I'm not with you mate. Is it not possible from within xbmc? Ie automatically scanning your folders?
 
Mine does it automatically. You need to set the folder type when you add your media.
 
Okay, this is a long-shot:
I've had issues with intermittent video playback since I got my DroidTV MXIII 2GB. Happily watching a movie when suddenly, the playback pauses as if the <Pause> button was pressed on the remote. When I press <Play> one of two things happens (a) The playback continues but the audio is garbled or (b) the movie just resumes normally.

This was getting quite annoying, so I started collecting the Trace Logs every time it occurred and started looking for a pattern. Lo-and-behold, I notices that every episode of sudden-freeze-syndrome started with this and cascaded down from there:

[ 12-13 17:09:42.765 2495: 2495 E/memtrack ]
Couldn't load memtrack module (No such file or directory)

Immediately followed by:
[ 12-13 17:09:42.765 2495: 2495 E/android.os.Debug ]
failed to load memtrack module: -2

Shortly after which this happens:
[ 12-13 17:09:43.635 133: 274 E/BufferQueue ]
[org.xbmc.xbmc/org.xbmc.xbmc.Main] dequeueBuffer: BufferQueue has been abandoned!

[ 12-13 17:09:43.635 1766: 1786 E/[EGL-ERROR] ]
void __egl_platform_dequeue_buffer(egl_surface*):1693: failed to dequeue buffer from native window 0x6932a980; err = -19, buf = 0x0,max_allowed_dequeued_buffers 3

I did some googling on this but couldn't find anything meaningful.

Anyone got any suggestions as to what might be going on and how to fix it?
 
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Gosh. Well done on trouble shooting thus far.
Maybe try a different firmware/rom and see if it fixes it.
 
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