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Xiaomi TV Box – Cracked APK to Stream TV Shows

Date:  Jan 6, 2015

1.  Some times ago, Chinese regulators decided to stop all the Chinese content providers to offer APK / Apps that can be run on TV Box or TV Set.

2.  The Chinese regulators allows TV Shows or Movies to be streamed over a Web Browser.  The Chinese regulators allows APK / Apps to be run on Smartphones or Touch Pad.  For some reasons, they said running the APK / Apps on the TV Media Box / Android Box / Xiaomi TV Box or directly onto the TV itself is “illegal”.  It requires another licensing for these APK / Apps.  Because these shows are now showing on big screen TV, it must follow the TV regulations.  Hence, it requires another TV type of licenses.  How strange.  But if you look carefully, the Chinese regulators are targeted at a handful of APK / Apps only.  How strange.  i.e.

    – Youku

    – Tudou

    – Sohu

    – PPTV

    – iQiYi

3.  So, since then, there are a lot of APK / Apps were instructed to offer a patch or update automatically.  Means, when you run the APK / Apps, it will force you to download the new updates or new version.  And these new version apps will check if you are running the APK / Apps on a big screen TV or TV Media Box or not.  If you are?  Sorry, you cannot stream the TV Shows or Movies. 

4.  But we love those APK / Apps.  The reason is, those Apps / APK works seamlessly with the remote control so that you can navigate and find shows to watch.  It is so simple and elegant.

5.  And we love the Chinese hackers.  They can reverse engineer something and break all these restrictions.  Hence they come up with the cracked versions of APK / Apps.  For example, the PPTV app new update will check against the current version.  If your version is old version, then, force you to download the latest update directly from the PPTV server and pop you the “Cannot Stream TV program message”.  These hackers done some poking here and there, they simply change the version in a single file to 9.9.9, so that every time, the file is always the latest APK.  So, no need to force you to fetch the download.

6.  Ah yes, even Xiaomi TV, Le TV as well as Wasu 华数TV all changed their contents.  No longer they have those fantastic “pirated” shows.  All of them have to conform to the new regulations.  All shows must have copy rights.  And so on.

7.  So, to continue enjoy these TV Media Box, i.e. Xiaomi MiBox, or 10moons YunOS TV Box.  My recommendation still the same.  Install Shafa App Store (沙发管家).

http://www.shafa.com/market

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8.  From Shafa App Store, you can find all the cracked version of these famous TV contents in one single App.  It is called 电视必备2.0 (Must have for TV version 2.0).  It is located usually at the Recommendation Page.

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9.  This is the logo.

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10.  Click Download.

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11.  So, after you download it, run the App.  It will pop up a screen of Apps for you to choose to download and install.  So, this is a collection of Apps that is very commonly installed on the TV Media Box, Android Box or Xiaomi Box.

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12.  Simply select the cracked App that you wish to install.  And that’s it!

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13.  Shafa App did a very good job in providing all these Apps.  

14.  But if you wish to watch Live TV shows.  There is another App you need to install.  It is called Cloud TV.

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15.  You can download the APK from here.  http://www.cloudtv.bz/articles/detail/23/

16.  Under the FREE CHANNELS section, it has a lot of TV Shows.  So, now you no need to buy subscriptions also can watch a lot TV shows.  What you do is once you like the Channel, and it is fast, you can press the menu button to Bookmark the channel.  This is the App I used to cut the cord (Cable TV). 

17.  Look at all the channels… (some of these are paid channels).  The speed of the channels are pretty good.  Some channels are SD and most are HD.  These are a collection of Live TV Streaming.  And a lot of International Channels are there.  They even have RTM TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV, 八度空间 from Malaysia.

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83 comments

  1. Thank you Sir! Do you know the latest prices for CloudTV as intends for paid content! many thanks again for the informative resources…

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  7. Yes you can. Xiaomi is a Android box. So, you can install any APK you like. But try install Shafa App store as all the App they recommended in Shafa are all remote control friendly.

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  9. I sent you a message earlier but it seems it did not go. I subscribed to CloudTv for one year. But i cannot open any of the subscribed channel. It tries to open but, the connection speed keep on 0(zero), it means, the channels do not open. Amazingly, the Free Channels, i can open every single one and watch them. Any idea of my issue!

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  10. Hi there, is there any way to change the language to english instead of chinese 😀 haha!
    many thanks 😛

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  12. Saw this their website. Hope it helps.

    安装后如果只能看免费频道，无法看付费频道，

    请在软件内【菜单】-设置里-【选择解码】，三种解码。

    找到硬件支持的解码方式才能看付费频道，优先试试硬解码+，

    然后才是软解码或硬解码。

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  16. I think TVAPP is not supported on xiamomi. Tried and doesnt work.
    If u have android tv like minix it works. Tried. 🙂

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  23. Download the App Store Shafa.Com, there are many Apps (all in Chinese) that support Korean drama. But all in Chinese subtitle. If you do want to see Korean shows in English subs, then, Hulu is one option, but you need to pay monthly.

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  24. I think not worth to pay. There are many Apps will have the TVB shows on it almost after the show is shown. There are also many LiveTV Apps that will stream live TVB show if you don't like to watch few hours later.

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  25. TVapp.so is really good. But I have it on my iPad not Xiaomi. If you installed it on Xiaomi, it will tell you the device is not supported. There is no way to work around it.

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  26. There is, but I don't recommend it. Because it involves “rooting” your xiaomi mibox. And there is always a lot of works and a lot of mysterious thing happen to your xiaomi box after you root your device. Unless you are a developer, or have skills in computer programming, etc etc… I don't really recommend it.

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  27. Hi, i am new and got a xiaomi tv box, may i know how can i install the shafa apk into in?…thanks very much

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  35. 1. go to Shafa.com to download the APK
    2. Copy onto a USB
    3. Go to Mi Box setting to make sure you allow third party APK to be installed.
    4. install.

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  36. My new Mi box has the cloudTV installled but seems to have difficulty connecting to any of the channels. However I am able to watch movies and dramas without problem. Only TV channels. Is there anything I need to do like VPN to link to the channels?

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  37. Can share how to locate the cursor on xiaomi box? Very difficult to navigate without cursor/pointer esp selecting specific episode of a drama ��

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  38. First of all , first for sharing the apk installation guide. However, when I started to play Youku it said it's for China only and not for my region. Is there any fix for that ?

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  39. After I install all thise youku n tudou in my android phone, it said that i'm not allowed to watch them bcoz i'm outside china mainland. Any idea how to solve this?

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  45. Possible to link Xiaomi TV to StarHub tvanywhere? I have StarHub subscription, so Will like to watch the program on my Xiaomi TV also.

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  48. Hi, I tried to install Google Play Store on my Xiaomi TV 2 but it always gives me a message “Check your connection and try again”. I could use Youtube and other streaming apps but not this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  49. Hi, I instal cloud TV 2 days ago…can watch astro but now all astro apps gone…even NTV7 & 八度空间 gone…others r same? Means need to subscript only can watch?

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