How to permanently activate the green man on TVPad1
Disclaimer: If you decide to install or use the custom TVPad1 firmware mentioned below, then you are doing so at your own risk. You agree that no one other than yourself will be liable for any damages or loss of data that may be incurred as a result of installing this firmware.
Now that we got the legal stuff out of the way, there are three methods to enable the little green man icon on your TVPad1 devices.
=== The Dead Easy Way ===
Download this file. Unzip it on a USB stick and insert it in your TVPad1 device. That's it This will give you root access as well. You can telnet to port 23 or FTP to port 21 using username root and password tvpad. Also unlike the custom firmware option below, this method does not require a network connection to be available.
=== Custom Firmware ===
This is the custom firmware version 3.27 which enables the green man on TVPad1 even when the TVPad authentication servers are down. You will then be able to run apps again on your TVPad1. This firmware will also give you root access. It can be found here. Root username is root and the password is password (yes I know, very original). You can telnet to port 23 or FTP to port 21 for access. This firmware is only recommended for those people with a TVPad1 (M121 / M121S) where the green man won't turn on anymore, thus making you unable to run any apps. If the little green man is on, then there is no need to install this firmware. Keep in mind that (unlike with TVPad2/3) you will have to re-install your apps again after the firmware upgrade. Of course this will not help with the live stream and VOD apps if they are down (not the purpose of this custom firmware), but at least you will then be able to use the Phanto and TMP apps on your TVPad1 device.
Once you install this firmware, you can install and run this app to downgrade the firmware version back to 3.26.
=== For The Hackers ===
For technical people (hackers) only:
For those with a rooted TVPad unit, here you can find the individual fix for the green man issue.
Simply copy id to /home/config and run loginforce. I normally first kill the original login process though (e.g. killall login) to prevent it from somehow turning the green man off again. The loginforce binary is a modified /home/program/login binary. In the custom firmware I simply replaced it.
Now that we got the legal stuff out of the way, there are three methods to enable the little green man icon on your TVPad1 devices.
=== The Dead Easy Way ===
Download this file. Unzip it on a USB stick and insert it in your TVPad1 device. That's it This will give you root access as well. You can telnet to port 23 or FTP to port 21 using username root and password tvpad. Also unlike the custom firmware option below, this method does not require a network connection to be available.
=== Custom Firmware ===
This is the custom firmware version 3.27 which enables the green man on TVPad1 even when the TVPad authentication servers are down. You will then be able to run apps again on your TVPad1. This firmware will also give you root access. It can be found here. Root username is root and the password is password (yes I know, very original). You can telnet to port 23 or FTP to port 21 for access. This firmware is only recommended for those people with a TVPad1 (M121 / M121S) where the green man won't turn on anymore, thus making you unable to run any apps. If the little green man is on, then there is no need to install this firmware. Keep in mind that (unlike with TVPad2/3) you will have to re-install your apps again after the firmware upgrade. Of course this will not help with the live stream and VOD apps if they are down (not the purpose of this custom firmware), but at least you will then be able to use the Phanto and TMP apps on your TVPad1 device.
Once you install this firmware, you can install and run this app to downgrade the firmware version back to 3.26.
=== For The Hackers ===
For technical people (hackers) only:
For those with a rooted TVPad unit, here you can find the individual fix for the green man issue.
Simply copy id to /home/config and run loginforce. I normally first kill the original login process though (e.g. killall login) to prevent it from somehow turning the green man off again. The loginforce binary is a modified /home/program/login binary. In the custom firmware I simply replaced it.
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Comments
The filename seems to imply for M121S model. Does this firmware work for M121 as well?
Some people have also installed the 3.26 firmware successfully on their M120, but that has a different hardware to the M121/M121S models, so not something I would recommend.
thanks
Where can I download the latest apps for tvpad1 please ?
I found it.. All working great ..
MANY THANKS
I doubt it, but if your Model ID still says M120, then rename the firmware file name to match the Model ID.
And as I mentioned at the beginning, I would not recommend it for M120. Still, if you succeed then let others know.
As mentioned by tvpad121, the upgrade did not succeed. Did you get a message saying that the upgrade succeeded ? Otherwise provide more details of what messages you got when you tried the upgrade.
Yes, I try again this morning to upgraded w/o changing the < S > in M121S (since my pad1 is M121) and my version is 3.27 now (downgraded to 3.26 using provided app) and green man is on, installed all apps for pad1 but none working if not using good dns. Also apps will not load sometime and I have to power off and on for apps to load again.
anyway thanks again for all your hard work getting green man back online.
Yeah I see that as well now ( http://www.tvpadfans.cn/thread-39756-1-1.html ). Then I do not remember the exact reason why some of the people on the clubtvpad forum used the M121 firmware on their M120 units.
Now even if you send the firmware to me or I download it for that matter, there is no way for me to test it beforehand since I do not own a M120 unit. Maybe someone who has a rooted M120 can test if the fix works on the M120 as well. I'm pretty certain it will work though. Anyway, it's not like you have anything to lose right ? Just close your eyes and perform the upgrade using the M121 firmware
TVPad recognized the file in the USB drive, but immediately threw this error:
"Upgrade failed! - Check server version failed!"
I am sure I downloaded the zip file correctly and extracted to the root of a clean USB stick. In this case, what I have done wrong? Do I need to modify anything in the .tar file before the upgrade procedure?
The TVPad's firmware is v3.26, but was not connected to internet during the upgrade attempt. Does this upgrade process needs active internet connect while doing so?
This time, the upgrade progress bar sticked around a little bit longer, (looks like the OS was verifying
some info), but ultimately the same 'Upgrade failed' message was thrown.
Would somebody who have successfully upgraded to v3.27 recently advise on how you get the upgrade to work? Also, what was the DNS setting while do so, and whether you need to connected to specific VPN server at the time.
I am sure I am doing the upgrade correctly, but maybe there is 1 or 2 minor detail missing on my part.
Sorry to bother you guys, but I appreciate all the help.