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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Upgrade Himedia Q3 HKTV edition firmware to 1.0.9 (Mango TV edition) and also install Google Play Store

Upgrade Firmware

1. Go to http://bbs.himedia.cn/thread-182100-1-1.html

2. Click the link http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6DW9Yi and enter the password "vie2"

3. Select the "Update_qulacore_Q3.zip"

4. Copy the "Update_qulacore_Q3.zip" to USB thumb drive and change the filename to “update.zip”

Before upgrade, the firmware is 1.0.6

5. Go to "System Upgrade"

6. Connect the USB thumb drive to the Himedia usb port and select "local upgrade"

7. Select "D"

8. Click "Yes"

9. The Himedia will reboot and upgrade the firmware, after the upgrade complete, you will the screen like the following:

10. The firmware is 1.0.9 after the upgrade

The application pre-load:

Install Google Play Store

1. Go to http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDxStY5#path=%252FHimedia%252FHD600A%2520GOOGLE%2526DTS and download the "googlePlay.zip"

2. Copy the "googlePlay.zip" to USB thumb drive and change the filename to “update.zip”

3. Go to "System Upgrade"

4. Connect the USB thumb drive to the Himedia usb port and select "local upgrade"

5. Select "D"

6. Click "Yes"

7. The Himedia will reboot and upgrade the system, after the upgrade complete, when you go to application manager, you will the "play store" and "google setting":

8. After you enter your google account, you will able to use the play store to install apps now.

Reference:

http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2168800&extra=&page=4

http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2186576&extra=&page=1

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Elementary OS - Not enough free disk space (on disk '/boot') for Software Update

When you run Software Updater, you receive the following error:

You will find that even you follow the instruction to empty your trash and remove temporary package of fome installations using 'sudo apt-get clean' also cannot fix the problem.

It is because there are so many old kernel have been installed.

When you run "uname -r", you will see the running kernal version (3.19.0-39-generic) and then, run the "dpkg --get-selections|grep linux-image", you will find there are many different version kernel..

Solution:
Remove the old kernal files by using the following command:
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.xx.x-xx-generic linux-image-extra-x.xx.x-xx-generic

Re-run the above command until you leave the current running kernel like the following:

Then, reboot the machine.

After logon the machine again, run the software updater, it will able to update now.

Reference:
http://david50.pixnet.net/blog/post/38158207-%5B%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98%5Dubuntu%E4%B8%AD%E6%B8%85%E9%99%A4-boot%E4%B8%AD%E4%B9%8B%E8%88%8A%E7%89%88kernel

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Open Live Writer 0.5.1.4 released - The label features back

The latest version of Open Live Writer

The label features back:

The Android 6.0 for Moto X (Gen 2) (XT1092) have been released in Hong Kong

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Upgrade PiPO W4 from Windows 10 (Build 10240) to Windows 10 TH2 (Build 10586) (1GB RAM, 16GB ROM)

Warning: Please backup all the data and setting before "upgrade" since this upgrade will format the whole drive and all data, setting and apps will done.

Just download the Windows 10 TH2 ISO and boot the W4 by using this new DVD or USB, and then select Windows 10 Home.

Since your device already activated before, no license key is required.

Then, just follow the installation to install the Windows.

After the installation complete, go to the Windows update to update to latest version

Update: You migh able to upgrade from Build 10240 to Build 10586 without format and reinstall the W4 since Microsoft release the patch to reduce the minimum local drive free size from 6GB to 2GB

微軟發佈Win10補丁：讓低容量設備「吃下」首個重大更新
http://www.hksilicon.com/kb/articles/967719