How to manually upgrade firmware for Tronsmart T1000

Download firmware and flash tool from here or from here. The archive contains 2 firmware versions: T1000 11281 firmware & T1000 11283 firmware, also the flash tool ActionsMPUpdate_v1.14. The current version of EZCast firmware is 11468.

Please note, usually you don’t need to use upgrade firmware manually, because Tronsmart T1000 supports OTA upgrade, Tronsmart will push the newest firmware to your device via OTA technology. This instruction is just used when you can’t get upgrade from OTA, and we also release this upgrade method and firmware to the developers, and hope we can see some custom roms or new features coming soon.

Upgrade instructions

Step 1 You should prepare your Tronsmart T1000 and one micro usb cable, (the one you always used to charge your smartphone, please don’t use the usb cable included in the package), and you also need tweezers (or thumb pin)

Step 2 Open the case of Tronsmart T1000.

Step 3 Short Flash Pin. One hand shorts the pin 5 and pin 6 as shown on the picture below, then another hand puts the usb plug into the PC.

Step 4 The computer will popup message window and ask you to install driver for Actions USB Device. Notice:there’s no need to short pins any more if you get this message.

Choose “install from a list of specific locations” and then you get this window:

Now you should click Browser button and go to find the usb drivers, the drivers is in the download file, after you download the upgradetool file, decompress it, and you will find a floder called “adfu_driver”, choose this folder, and then click Next. If you met the following menu, just click” continue anyway”

Step 5 After you successfully install the drivers, you  can go to flash the firmware, Go to the “upgradetool” folder, and run ActionsMPUpdate.exe.you will see this window

Click the “Firmware” button and select firmware file you just downloaded ( the firmware should be in .bin formate). After load the firmware, click Download and wait for the  process to complete.

If you see this text, it means you have flashed it successfully.

via blog.geekbuying.com