Craig smart tv hdmi adapter cvd601 - Android Stick & Console AllWinner based Computers

Hello everyone. I just started selling these at my job. I was wondering if anyone knows what is under the hood of this thing. Also if its common enough hardware, are there any roms on this forum that it will work with?
I'm most interested because there is no play store. This is an amazon app store device
Thanks for your help!

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http://www.craigelectronics.com/site/pdetails.php?id=420
for details
Processing Speed 1.5GHz
Operating System : Powered By Google Android 4.1
4 GB Built-in Flash Memory
Built-in 1GB DDR III RAM
Built-in WiFi (802.11b/g/n)
Support Video Format : MKV/AVI/RM/RMVB/FLV/WMV/MP4/MPG/VOB (Up to 1080p)
Support Audio Format : MP3/WMA/WAV
Support Photo Format : JPEG/BMP/GIF/PNG
Support e-Reader Format : PDF/PDF/DRM/TXT/EPUB/EPUB DRM/HTML/FB2
Supports 3D Gaming Accelerometer
Built-In Full Size USB Port for Input Device Connection
Support Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
HDMI Interface to connect to Any HDTV
Micro USB port for power Supply
Micro SD Card Slot (Supports Max. 32GB)
Supports Amazon App Store, Dropbox, Soc.io. Mall, Opera, Netflix, Browser, e-Book Reader, e-Mail, Photos, Maps, Video, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Music,Clock

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I finally have this craig CVD601 figured out 100%.
after days of playing and searching around here is all the info.
there are customs roms.
mainly the hardware is a tvdongle_8277-aihua figured this out by click on the model number multiple times (under setting about device. a few easter eggs like this in the android world)
uses a wondermedia wm8850 cpu
custom roms for many devices, the one i used on my craig is good for 200 other devices.
rom i used works great so far
WM8850_Universal_Uberoid_v1.0_JB_4.1.1_01MAR2013_[TechKnowForum.net]
http://www.techknow.me/forum/index.php?board=121.0
I am very happy with this device after finding this rom.

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Total nube. I was gonna pick up a minix G4 for tv streaming, but this was $10 !!
It was on clearance at Rideaid.
So, I quick googled on my phone and saw this post.
Based on that I bought two.
It automatically updated to Jelly bean, but what ROMs do y'all recommend to get this think cookin?
As it is it is not impressing me.
I really just want it to watch Game of Thrones and Walking Dead.
Many thanks and yes I searched and yes I watched that Noob video on registration.

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$10 really? I paid $70
from my other post.
rom i used works great so far
WM8850_Universal_Uberoid_v1.0_JB_4.1.1_01MAR2013_[TechKnowForum.net]
http://www.techknow.me/forum/index.php?board=121.0

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Yes. $10.
Sorry. I actually bought two for $10. Each. they were on Uber clearance at the rite-aid.
Can I run ubuntu on this?
I looked at those links and there was none.

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acem77 said:
$10 really? I paid $70
from my other post.
rom i used works great so far
WM8850_Universal_Uberoid_v1.0_JB_4.1.1_01MAR2013_[TechKnowForum.net]
http://www.techknow.me/forum/index.php?board=121.0
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Does HDMI-CEC work with this unit and rom combo?
I'm holding out trying to find a device that will integrate with my remote control and tv.

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DPI
Anybody figure out a way to change the DPI without being stuck in a boot loop? I'm having to completely re-install everything after attempting to change the DPI.

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Need drivers
Ok, so my unit is dead. It's flashing a green light and it won't start. If someone could dropbox a driver package for the device, it would totally make my day.

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CVD601 Rooted with GAPPS!
So I picked one of these things up on eBay cheap and decided to mess around with it. Out of the box it had ICS on it and was very unstable. Fortunately it began doing an OTA upgrade to Jelly Bean almost immediately after I got a WiFi connection. Unfortunately I was at my parents house and they have DSL with a top download speed of about 1.5Mbps so the whole JB image took like 4 hours to download. Once it finally downloaded I was able to apply the update and BAM, a CVD601 running JB 4.1.1. My initial enthusiasm was soon crushed when I realized there was no Google Play store however. Not being one to give up easily I began a week long quest to get GAPPS working properly on this device. I'm happy to say that after much trial and error I now have a CVD601 running JB which is rooted and has a fully functional Google Play App.
The Craig website which is linked in the top post now has a new 4.1 image that can be downloaded, it appears to contain GAPPS but I have not tried applying it for fear of destroying everything I have worked all week to accomplish. If someone would like to apply it, or has, and can report back on here whether or not GAPPS actually works that would be great. This image appears to be slightly older than the one that downloads OTA (from Taiwan) but if it has functional GAPPS it is probably the better choice.
As for rooting this device I was able to get version 1 of RootBurner for the WM8850 to work, the OTA image has su in /sbin so it must have been rooted at some point. RootBurner appears to do nothing when you boot the device with the SD card inserted but you should notice that the device does not boot properly but instead appears to be in a boot loop going from the JB logo to a seemingly blank black screen. I think this is because the boot files in RootBurner were made for a tablet rather than an HDMI device. If you let it go through the boot process a couple times and then power off, remove the SD card, and power back up your device should boot normally. If it worked you will see a Android is Updating message before the boot completes.
Feel free to post any questions and I will try to answer them as best I can.

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Heiligkuh said:
So I picked one of these things up on eBay cheap and decided to mess around with it. Out of the box it had ICS on it and was very unstable. Fortunately it began doing an OTA upgrade to Jelly Bean almost immediately after I got a WiFi connection. Unfortunately I was at my parents house and they have DSL with a top download speed of about 1.5Mbps so the whole JB image took like 4 hours to download. Once it finally downloaded I was able to apply the update and BAM, a CVD601 running JB 4.1.1. My initial enthusiasm was soon crushed when I realized there was no Google Play store however. Not being one to give up easily I began a week long quest to get GAPPS working properly on this device. I'm happy to say that after much trial and error I now have a CVD601 running JB which is rooted and has a fully functional Google Play App.
The Craig website which is linked in the top post now has a new 4.1 image that can be downloaded, it appears to contain GAPPS but I have not tried applying it for fear of destroying everything I have worked all week to accomplish. If someone would like to apply it, or has, and can report back on here whether or not GAPPS actually works that would be great. This image appears to be slightly older than the one that downloads OTA (from Taiwan) but if it has functional GAPPS it is probably the better choice.
As for rooting this device I was able to get version 1 of RootBurner for the WM8850 to work, the OTA image has su in /sbin so it must have been rooted at some point. RootBurner appears to do nothing when you boot the device with the SD card inserted but you should notice that the device does not boot properly but instead appears to be in a boot loop going from the JB logo to a seemingly blank black screen. I think this is because the boot files in RootBurner were made for a tablet rather than an HDMI device. If you let it go through the boot process a couple times and then power off, remove the SD card, and power back up your device should boot normally. If it worked you will see a Android is Updating message before the boot completes.
Feel free to post any questions and I will try to answer them as best I can.
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Hey there, just got the device myself the other day. I'm going to try your method as the Uberoid ROM wont boot for me no matter what I seem to do and Uberizer doesnt work because for the life of me I can't get the Developer Options to show no matter how many times I click the build number!
---------- Post added at 11:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ----------
Okay so just tried RootBurner with no luck. No matter what I do this thing will not boot from the SD Card. Any ideas?

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acem77 said:
I finally have this craig CVD601 figured out 100%.
after days of playing and searching around here is all the info.
there are customs roms.
mainly the hardware is a tvdongle_8277-aihua figured this out by click on the model number multiple times (under setting about device. a few easter eggs like this in the android world)
uses a wondermedia wm8850 cpu
custom roms for many devices, the one i used on my craig is good for 200 other devices.
rom i used works great so far
WM8850_Universal_Uberoid_v1.0_JB_4.1.1_01MAR2013_[TechKnowForum.net]
http://www.techknow.me/forum/index.php?board=121.0
I am very happy with this device after finding this rom.
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When doing this method did you open TVDongle_8277-AiHua.fwc in Notepad and remove everything and replace it with
Code:
#--BEGIN OF FILE
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!--????FMaker????,????????-->
<!--This file is generated by FMaker, don't modify it manually.-->
<!--???:?? SimenXie Tel-6786.-->
<product>
<editor>Last edited by RubbitXiao on 2012-10-08 12:04:26</editor>
<modules>
<DDR_TYPE name="??????" />
<BOOTDEV name="NAND" />
<TOUCH name="FT5406_AS1220" />
<KEY_PAD name="??" />
<VIBRATE name="??" />
<SENSOR name="??" />
<CODEC name="??" />
<SPEAKER name="??" />
<BATTERY name="??" />
</modules>
<ext>
<cmd>setenv wmt.camera.param 1:12:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0</cmd>
<cmd>setenv wmt.io.touch 1:SSD253X_pyd7a1ctphole1:9:480:800:4:0:1:1:1:1</cmd>
<cmd>setenv wmt.io.ts.2dcal 23775 492 206136 -155 24362 1259 25156</cmd>
</ext>
<auto />
</product>
#--END OF FILE
Or did you append that code to the rest of the code? I'm a lil lost in this root/flashing method.
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Have you tried Uberoid 2.0 on it yet? http://www.techknow.me/forum/index.php?topic=5356.0

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Okay so I just added the lines from that file I didn't see in it already...
My next question is has anybody tried hooking up a webcam to one of these and got it working as the system's camera?

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So I ran into a problem, I think... On Uberoid 2.0 my 16Gb microSD card only shows up as 80Mb's or somewhere around that size.

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drivers with a improperly flashed unit
Will someone on here please share their Windows drivers for this device? I'm doing everything I can to fix my device so it will boot. I loaded the wrong firmware and now the device will not boot with the accurate fwc. Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm stumped.

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Anybody find a way to reset the the display resolution? I let my friend use it who has a tube flat panel tv with a hdmi port and I had it set to the largest and he said it was way to big on his tv so he changed it back and then it was all pixelated.

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Fun with Craig
I bought one of these (for a lot more than $10, sadly) and have been playing with it for the past few weeks.
I bought it to play video files and stream Youtube. I plugged it into a USB hub and it plays a bunch of formats that my Samsung home theatre doesn't like, but the wifi is unreliable and it can't read my 2 TB hard drive (it's FAT32, not NTFS), though it reads USB memory sticks OK.
I am past the store's return date, so I'm going to play with it and hack it as much as possible.
It came with JB 4.1.1 installed, no Google Play access, just Amazon.
It was not rooted and there is no developer options. (See below.)
I tried the image from the Craig web site and it's the same.
Clicking three times on the device info where it says Craig CVD 601 does switch to tvdongle_8277-aihua, as acem777 says.
I managed to root it with RootBurner, as per Heiligkuh's post. I used RootBurner_v0.1_MaPan on an SD card and it booted and rooted in a few seconds. I pulled the card and it rebooted into JB 4.1.1 with Superuser in the apps list. Hooray! Now I can run the techknow toolkit.
And I have the original Craig ROM so I can always go back to square one.
The TVDongle_8277-AiHua.fwc file from the Craig ROM is identical to the Uberoid version except it includes a name in the "<product>" and it turns off "developer options":
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!--本文件由FMaker自动生成，手动修改需谨慎。-->
<!--This file is generated by FMaker, don't modify it manually.-->
<!--Created by aksenxu on 2012-08-16 16:06:19.-->
<product model="CVD601" manufacture="Aihua">
<editor>Last edited by heng on 2012-12-25 15:15:09</editor>
<modules>
<DDR_TYPE name="参考板载信息" />
<BOOTDEV name="NAND" />
<TOUCH name="无" />
<KEY_PAD name="默认" />
<VIBRATE name="无" />
<SENSOR name="无" />
<CODEC name="HW DAC-板上没有声卡" />
<SPEAKER name="默认" />
<BATTERY name="无" />
<MODEM name="无" />
</modules>
<ext>
<cmd>+setenv wmt.td.param 1</cmd>
<cmd>+setenv wmt.display.param 8:0:0:1280:720:60</cmd>
<cmd>+setenv wmt.display.dual 1</cmd>
<cmd>+setenv wmt.pmc.param 1:0:0</cmd>
<cmd>+setenv wmt.audio.i2s hwdac</cmd>
<cmd>setenv wmt.display.chargeanim 0</cmd>
<cmd>setenv wmt.camera.i2c_gpio</cmd>
<cmd>setenv wmt.camera.param 2:12:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.drv.remove gsensor_kxte9_md,wmt_battery_md</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.usbcamera.probe 1</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.audio.hardware MONOMIX=[0,0],USBMIC=[1],AMPCTRL=[0,0,0,0],HSMICCTRL=[0,0,0,0]</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.launcher2.power_reboot true</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.launcher2.power_off true</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.poweroff_to_hdmi true</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.shutdown_to_wifi true</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.mouse.sbutton 4</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.f7f8 volume</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.ui.settings_remove ethernet,3g,gps,pppoe,battery,brightness,airmode,camera,developer_options</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.product.model CVD601</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.wizard.hdmi 1</cmd>
<cmd>setprop allow.system.3rdapk 1</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.rmtctrl.enable 0</cmd>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.disable_video_thumbnail true</cmd>
<cmd>setprop wmt.HLS.support 0</cmd>
<cmd>cp -v wmtAirShow/MyAirShow.apk ${instenv_fs_data}/app/</cmd>
<cmd>cp -v wmtAirShow/MyAirShow.apk ${instenv_fs_system}/.restore/data_app/</cmd>
</ext>
<auto>
<cmd>setprop ro.wmt.product aihua-cvd601</cmd>
</auto>
</product>
I'm going to try the Uberoid ROM and if that fails I will reinstall the Craig ROM after I manually edit the file to allow developer options. Manual edit? Oh no! I've voided the warranty!

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Fun Toy So Far
I got one on clearance at rite aid for $25, but they're gone from there now.
I added a powered usb hub and connected usb mouse, keyboard and memory stick. They're all working. With a TV, they make a very small pc setup.
I rooted it via method posted above, RootBurner_v0.1_MapPan.zip .
Then I pulled Play Store from my rooted phone, an LG LS970, and installed it on the stick using adb. I also installed any apks I found that seemed necessary.
At first Play Store didn't really work -- it threw errors and died -- but then it updated and it has worked since.
I'd like to find a recovery for it.
I'm also going to try hooking up a USB camera. I have my doubts about whether that will work, but it'll be cool if it does.

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eyesquash said:
I'm also going to try hooking up a USB camera. I have my doubts about whether that will work, but it'll be cool if it does.
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No luck with Uberoid. I get an error part way through the install, but as I said, I have the Craig img file so I started over and rooted it again.
I'd like to figure out how to get bluetooth working. I have a $2 BT dongle and it would be nice to have it recognized when I plug it in to the hub.

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Update
I got Google Play installed and working, thanks for mentioning it, eyesquash!
I have an Amazon account so I can download apps from there, as well.
I have a 32Gig SDHC card which gives me lots of room for junk.
More expensive than Chromecast, but fewer limitations.
Cheaper than Apple TV, but more fun to tinker with.