Truth of Clone and Original Amiko Alien
AMiko Alien 8900 all which are coming at low price, the boxes are not clone..... They are coming from original factory only.
But............
In China one factory makes the hardware of this box.... Than they send it to America and Europe to authorized sellers. Authorized seller enters the Serial number of box in Spark Portal to verify the selling channel of the box, if the serial number is not entered in spark system, they will not authorize the user to use the spark portal.
The box which people getting from the sources other than authorized distributors are not clones but their serial number is not entered in Spark portal. The authorized distributors reserve the right to sell this box but if you buy from others it is a big loss for them.
When they got to know that lot of Alien 8900 sold directly from factory to the users without permission, they sent one update to block the bootloader, the update was only applied on the boxes which were not registered on SPARK portal by the dealers.
So, the hardware is same but their is an issue of software using rights if you buy without proper channel.
So the people who bought from local sources requested to run their boxes only upto Spark 1.2.58SE, your box will be saved.
Or you can download the Patch Alpha version of the software. Offical 1.2.60 and 1.2.61 software would kill the boxes which are bought from the source other than authorized dealers.