R36S with EmuELEC be careful

I ordered a new R36S hoping to get the one with EmuELEC and guess what? I got it! I wanted this particular one to see if I could be able to make it work just like the one that runs ArkOS. Unfortunately, this device is way harder to customize. It’s got no working apps. It doesn’t give you the option to connect to WiFi. It doesn’t give you the option to install Theme Master or to download themes. It doesn’t give you the option to install Ports through Port Master. The only app that worked was a terminal window app but if the device can not get connected to the internet, I think the terminal app is useless unless someone has coding skills and you upload code to the card to run it on terminal.

You can play all the games that you can play on an R36S running ArkOS so if you just want it for playing games it will work great. You will have to clone the card with cloning software if you want to use a better micro SD card because I could not flash a new card with EmuELEC. You can’t run ArkOS on this device or I wasn’t able to install it.

I was able to clone the stock card using Linux and I loaded my own roms so what I’ll do is keep it and resell it once I set it up.

My recommendation is if you are going to order one at this time, get in touch with the seller and ask them to confirm if the one they are selling is running ArkOS if that’s what you are looking for. If you don’t care for the operating system and just want to play games, this one will work fine. You will just have a harder time customizing the OS.

**EDIT**

I was able to flash the K36 EmuELEC OS to a new card that worked fine after I swapped the .dtb files from the original card that came with the device.
I was able to connect the device to the internet connecting it with a ethernet to USB C adapter directly onto the router. So I might be able to scrape art directly to the device but I haven’t tried it yet.

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