Mi TV STICK Revival

by trulio_fr

With january 2021 firmware update, i could revive mi mi TV stick unusable since previous update.

First, i will reveal that the way i revived it confirmed my suspissions : the previous firmware had bad thermal management or was pushing the hardware out of thermal bound.

First difficulty was to update with thermal issue.

To bypass this issue:

  1. i removed the cover to expose the heatsink (like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPR-LJpE4w )
  2. i cooled the device by putting to contact with heatsink a freeze block
  3. After successfull boot, i reset the device
  4. i made first confuguration in order to allow update
  5. after reboot, i made the update

Now my device is working reliably

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TheLemonyOrange

Bravo, I love the engineuity

LemonWAG1

I'm honestly too disappointed by this device. Bought it for christmas for my mom, even a normal netflix video/chromecast/youtube, nothing works. The stick freezes everytime.

Besides that, well done on your end haha

FarBrilliant8644

Hello I have a mitv stick, only the light turns on, but I do not have an image, and I even tried to hard reset it via remote, but it did not work. Help me please

theoirawan

how long it takes on installing system update? in my case, it has been 1 hour stuck on installing update