Introducing Shanling M8T - New Flagship Portable Android Player with Tubes

Mar 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM Post #436 of 541
Yep I have mine on the charger as well while I’m out for the time being.

Editing my post bc of the new stupid head fi rule.

DAP is no longer frozen at 100% but the battery screen as shown below will flash on and off every few seconds. Better than it was before I suppose.
Update: Software team confirmed the cause of this and it will be fixed with the next firmware update.
 
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Mar 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM Post #437 of 541
The Battery charging should be fixed with the current firmware update.

So far two charges and no issues. Will continue to test/monitor! Also very excited, you guys resolved the public wifi login issue.
 
Mar 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM Post #438 of 541
The line out is now locked in high gain mode. This causes an unlistenable crackling sound when using the DAP with an amp. Is there a way to override this? The way the LO worked before allowed me to adjust it to a low gain. HELP!

Edit:
Also, the charging issue showed up with new update. I can live with that, but the LO issue is another matter.
 
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Mar 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM Post #439 of 541
The line out is now locked in high gain mode. This causes an unlistenable crackling sound when using the DAP with an amp. Is there a way to override this? The way the LO worked before allowed me to adjust it to a low gain. HELP!

Edit:
Also, the charging issue showed up with new update. I can live with that, but the LO issue is another matter.
Line-Out is fixed line level voltage.

If your amplifier has issue with that, please use standard output and adjust volume to lower level.

Please what charging issue you faced?
 
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Mar 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM Post #442 of 541
Mar 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM Post #443 of 541
The charging issue is the device being stuck with screen lit (red dial) and I have to soft reset to fix.

Ok, thank you for feedback.
Is there Roon support? Can I control the M8T with Roon? Let’s say from an ipad or phone running the roon control app

You can run Roon app on M8T and use it as end point that way. It will act the same was as any other Roon Ready device.
Only limitation is that Roon will be upsampling everything to 192 kHz, but that's limitation on the side of Roon Android app.
 
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Mar 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM Post #444 of 541
Received my unit 4 days ago.
It sounds amazing, this is my first Android DAP, coming from the M1S.

There are some annoying bugs which ruin the flagship experience.

Changing media source messes up the audio playback, example playing music on telegram and switching to YouTube video makes the audio freeze up every second. Like it keeps getting stuck and plays, have to restart to fix it.

Experienced the 2x playback many times, happens in a similar situation, while changing audio source app.

Booting into recovery mode results in black screen.. does it not have one? Fastboot work fine.

Can't change the default launcher, I know xiaomi uses a similar approach for gesture navigation (baked into the launcher) and it'll switch back to button navigation if you change launchers, that would be fine as well for the M8T.

Geatures are resulting accidental clicks on the screen when trying to close an app or minimizing the music player.

Can't find the app pinning option, that'd be very good addition.
 
Mar 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM Post #445 of 541
Changing media source messes up the audio playback, example playing music on telegram and switching to YouTube video makes the audio freeze up every second. Like it keeps getting stuck and plays, have to restart to fix it.

Experienced the 2x playback many times, happens in a similar situation, while changing audio source app.

Booting into recovery mode results in black screen.. does it not have one? Fastboot work fine.

Can't change the default launcher, I know xiaomi uses a similar approach for gesture navigation (baked into the launcher) and it'll switch back to button navigation if you change launchers, that would be fine as well for the M8T.

Geatures are resulting accidental clicks on the screen when trying to close an app or minimizing the music player.

Can't find the app pinning option, that'd be very good addition.
Switching apps - Due to the way our AGLO system is built for bit-perfect output and locks onto the audio stream from the app, it can sometimes have issue when switching apps. It's best to stop playback, close the app and then only start the new playback.

Recovery Mode - We are aware of this issue and should have a new firmware this week fixing it.

Default launcher - locked by our software team, as they insist this is needed to keep the unique DAP settings functioning.

App Pinning - It was removed from the system due to issues with unpinning. We hope to add it back in the future.
 
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Mar 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM Post #447 of 541
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Mar 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM Post #448 of 541
@Shanling I did a factory reset and now my M8T displays a black screen when I boot it up. I’m unable to get into recovery mode because that results in a black screen as well. Could you please assist?
 
Mar 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM Post #449 of 541
@Shanling I did a factory reset and now my M8T displays a black screen when I boot it up. I’m unable to get into recovery mode because that results in a black screen as well. Could you please assist?
Please contact your seller for replacement unit.
 
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Mar 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM Post #450 of 541
For all M8T users, please do not update to Firmware V1.25!

If you already updated, DO NOT do factory reset, as it might cause issues with the system booting.

If you already updated to firmware V1.25, please do manual downgrade to older firmware V1.13, available at https://en.shanling.com/article-M8Tv113.html
 
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