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Hi,
i installed xbmc 13.1 on android tvbox energy sistem: http://www.energysistem.com/en/products/...d_tv_boxr/ (android 4.03)

After the end of the preparing for the firts run, xbmc close.
in the log i found the error:

14:46:05 T:1694392 ERROR: CSettings: error loading settings definition from special://xbmc/system/settings/settings.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file

and i noted that during the fist run, the file is created and after deleted...
Thanks in advance for your help.

This is the full log:
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Starting XBMC (13.1 Git:20140604-84725b0). Platform: ARM Android 32-bit
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Using Debug XBMC x32 build, compiled Jun 4 2014 by GCC 4.8.0 for ARM Android 32-bit API level 14
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Running on Android 32-bit API level 15 (Android, 2.6.34 armv7l)
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Host CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l), 0 cores available
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Product: c03ref, Device: c03ref, Board: c03ref - Manufacturer: MBX, Brand: MBX, Model: Android Smart TV Box, Hardware: amlogic
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: ARM Features: Neon enabled
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache/apk/assets
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache/apk/assets
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/temp
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: The executable running is: /system/bin/app_process
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Local hostname: localhost
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: Log File is located: /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: load settings...
14:46:05 T:1694392 DEBUG: static int CAndroidFeatures::GetVersion(): android.os.Build.VERSION 15
14:46:05 T:1694392 NOTICE: aml_present, rtn(13)
14:46:05 T:1694392 ERROR: CSettings: error loading settings definition from special://xbmc/system/settings/settings.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file
14:46:05 T:1694392 FATAL: Unable to load settings definitions

Aren't you running out of space on /data ?

hi,
this is the output of a df command via adb:

Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 179M 32K 179M 4096
/mnt/asec 179M 0K 179M 4096
/mnt/obb 179M 0K 179M 4096
/system 383M 289M 93M 4096
/data 511M 445M 65M 4096
/cache 63M 12M 51M 4096
/mnt/sda1 886G 363G 523G 4096
/mnt/sdcard 2G 492M 2G 4096
/mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied

what's the minimun required free space on /data partition for xbmc?
Thanks

XBMC takes ~50M on /data

thanks Koying,
i have removed some app to free space and then xbmc has started, it asked for root permission (i don't know why) and , finally, the home screen appeared.
I noted that after some minutes the /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache folder was empty and the /data partition has new free space.
Now every time i open xbmc the "preparing for first run" is executed again.

There is something wrong. Is some process clearing your cache automatically?

Seems that /system/bin/installd process delete the xbmc files as soon after the app has started.
It uses the 100% of the cpu for some time after xbmc start and stops to work after xbmc's files are deleted

So what's the solution here? How do I get it running again?

Cheers,
Thomy800

I suspect that for some reason, when the free space on /data partition in my tvbox is too low, a backgroud process deletes the folder content in /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache, therefore i tried to install xbmc in /sdcard. (to do this i used the "pm -s install" command via adb).
All seemed to work fine, but now the problem is that after some heavy work of the app (es. use of a scraper or play of a movie) all my preferences and the content of the folder in /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/ is deleted.
Next i will try to put that data on an external usb card (may be there is a problem with my internal memory)

Thx for the update. Let me know if you got it working

Hi,

Have you been able to solve this?, I also have the same machine (Energy Android TV, an Amlogic AML8726-M1 based tv box with 512MB of ram) and I've tried with several versions of XBMC and the machine's firmware to no avail, the contents of the folder /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/ vanish, even with XBMC running (I have an active FTP server on the box and have checked it).

I thought that it may be a space problem on the internal sd card, so what I did was to move all the userdata and other folders to the external SD Card, using advancedsettings.xml :

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://home/</from>
<to>/sdcard/external_sdcard/xbmc/home/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
<videoextensions>
<remove>.rar</remove>
<remove>.zip</remove>
</videoextensions>
</advancedsettings>

The data gets moved, but all the data on the internal SD card is still deleted (not the one on the external SD card though), and I have to remove the folder /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/ manually and start fresh again.

I don't believe that this is a problem with XBMC but if it can be fixed it would be great, because otherwise the machine is almost useless for me.

Best regards.

Hi,
I finally found a working configuration for my tvbox.
I created 2 partitions on an external SD, the first fat16 and the second ext2.
To put XBMC files to that external SD, i swapped the internal and external SD modifying vold.fstab file in /system/etc.
Then i installed xbmc and prior to open it i have used link2sd to move and to link files in the /data folder to the ext2 partition of the external SD.
Now XBMC works well.

Hi,

Can you share the vold.fstab file's content.?. Yesterday I did some tests, one of them was to rename installd, when I did it the data in the SDCARD wasn't deleted, but XBMC lost its configuration anyway and I had to start from scratch.

Wouldn't it be posible to just format the external SD card using ext2fs filesystem and use it with Link2SD (I'll try later).

Thank you.

Hi,
in my case, leaving the userdata folder in the internal SD causes that they are deleted when i played a video, for this reason i mounted the the fat16 partition of the External SD as /sdcard and the internal as /sdcard/internal_sdcard.
I will post my vold.fstab file as soon as possible.
Regards