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Is one of the first Amlogic S905X TV box to hit the market, with the new processor adding 4K VP9 hardware video decoding and HDR support compared to Amlogic S905 processor. I’ve already taken pictures of the device and torn it apart to check its hardware & thermal design in the, and in the second part, I’ll boot it up, check performance, features, and video playback capabilities. First Boot, Settings and First Impressions I plugged-in a USB hard drive into one USB port, but since the device only fetures two ports, I had to use a USB hub to connect two RF dongles for air mouse, and, as well as a USB keyboard to take screenshots.
I completed the hardware setup by connecting HDMI & Ethernet cables before starting the device by connected the provided power adapter. Click to Enlarge The first difference is that HDMI-CEC option is missing.
It’s not a feature I’d use in Android anyway, but the problem is that it seems enabled somehow, and if my AV receiver is turned on at the same time as MINI M8S II, I won’t be able to turn off my AV receiver, as the box will turn it back on as soon as I turn it off HDR support in the Display section is the second difference, and you can enable or disable it. It’s not something I could test however since my current 4K TV does not support high dynamic range. The final difference I noticed is that the Storage & reset menu will now show removable storage too. The screenshot above show my hard drive with four partition is correctly detected (USB3XXXX are volume names), and exFAT and NTFS partition mounted.
While the eMMC flash has 8GB capacity, the system takes some, and the internal storage partition is just 4.70 GB in size with 598MB used at the beginning of the review. HDMI output support a wide range of resolution and refresh rate, and my system was first automatically set to 4K SMPTE (24 Hz) despite my TV supporting 4K @ 60 Hz. I could manually change the output to that setting, but I’ve noticed the TV box does not always remembers the user-defined value, and a few times I saw video output set to 1080p60 after a reboot. I can access Android Marshmallow settings by clicking or selecting “More settings”, where you can access some extra options like Printing, Date & Time, Backup & Reset and so on. So I went to the “About MediaBox” to find out a bit more about the firmware, and “MINIM8S II” model number runs Android 6.0.1 on top of Linux 3.14.29. Please note that the firmware is NOT rooted.
I also quickly tested the included IR remote control, and the range is very good, as it works very well even 10 meters away. However, for most of the review I used NEO A2 air mouse as IR remote controls are completely useless outside of the launcher and Kodi in Android. The Google Play Store worked for most apps required for the review, except Antutu Video Tester, Vidonn Smart Band & Xiaomi Mi Fit (both require BLE support), BitTorrent and a few others from my list. Apps requiring GPS and/or phone/SMS support, such as Whatsapp, would not install either, but this is not really an issue. I had no troubles installing Riptide GP2 through Amazon Underground. Power handling is OK with power on working from the IR remote control, and power off from the remote control or Power icon on the status bar.
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There’s no standby/sleep mode, so I’ve measured power consumption with and without USB hard drive (HDD) in the two available power modes:. Power off – 1.2 watt. Idle – 2.2 watts.
Power off + HDD – 1.2 watt. Idle + HDD – 5.0 watts There are two good news here: USB power is turned off in powered off mode, and idle power consumption really low. The downside is that the system draws 1.2 watts in power off mode, while the best devices don’t draw anything noticeable by my power meter, or at least well below 1 watt. MINI M8S II does not overheat, and after Antutu 6.x, the maximum temperature on the top and bottom of the case was respectively 39°C and 45°C max, and after over 15 minutes playing Riptide GP2 this went up a little to 43°C and 56°C. I did not notice any throttling / slowdowns during game play. MINI M8S II feels responsive, and the firmware is stable, with the only small issues I had were the Windows appearing at each boot to tell me my USB drive was connected, and the box will automatically turn on my A/V receiver when I turn it off likely because of HDMI-CEC feature which can’t be disabled in the settings.
The mouse pointer is also rather small when 4K output is selected. OTA firmware update One of the first thing I did before checking out the settings and Google Play as described above was to check out for new firmware. So I went to the UPDATE&BACKUP app, to check for new firmware, and the system did get an update for 2016-07-04 to 2016-07-07, which is kind of unexpected for a low cost device. Click for Original Size All videos, except otherwise stated, were played over Fast Ethernet from a SAMBA share.
Ducks Take Off 2160p a 243 Mbps.mkv (4K H.264 @ 30 fps; 243 Mbps; no audio) – HDD: Not perfectly smooth. tara-no9-vp9.webm (4K VP9 YouTube video) – OK. The.Curvature.of.Earth.4K.60FPS-YT-UceRgEyfSsc.VP9.3840×2160.OPUS.160K.webm (4K VP9 @ 60 fps + opus audio) – OK most of the time, except for 5 seconds period with severe artifacts. Sintek-4k.iso & amat.iso Blu-Ray ISOs could both play just fine, as well as two MPEG2 1080i videos. 10-bit H.264 is a normally an issue, but Kodi 16.1 here handle it by software decode, and the 720p video was fine (with very high CPU usage on all 4 cores), but the 1080p video was not always smooth or artifact-free. Maybe that’s something Amlogic S912 will be able to handle with its 8 cores.
My TV does not support 3D videos, but it’s still interesting to check whether videos can be decoded anyway. My A/V receiver is however capable of detecting 3D content (shows 3D icon) for MVC video as I demonstrated with:. bbbsunflower1080p60fpsstereoabl.mp4 (1080p Over/Under) – OK. bbbsunflower2160p60fpsstereoabl.mp4 (2160p Over/Under) – Audio only, stays in UI. TurboFilm-DreamWorkstrailerVO3D.mp4 (1080p SBS) – OK.
3D -full-MVC.mkv (Full-frame packed MVC 3D MKV) – 2D only, 3D icon not shown on Onkyo receiver. ISO-full3D -sample.iso (Full-frame packed MVC 3D ISO) – 2D only, 3D icon not shown on Onkyo receiver Finally I played various VOB/IFO, MKV, AVI, MP4, XViD/DViX, and MKV videos from my library and all could play fine, with the only issue occurring when using DTS or Dolby HDMI audio pass-through with audio cuts in some, but not all, videos. Beside Kodi, I’ve also run benchmark, with MINI M8S II getting a decent 909 points, while the best devices get a little over 1,000 points. All videos could be played, with 3 videos not playing smoothly. Click to Enlarge In case you wonder about YouTube, it only works up to 1080p.
4K YouTube video playback requires “Android TV” platforms. Download links to video samples used in this review can be found in the. Network Performance I normally test both WiFi and Ethernet in my reviews, but I broke the WiFi antenna during the, and could not properly re-solder it. So I only get a “fair signal” strength (about 2 bars out of 4), and throughput of around 1MB/s while using WiFi. This is quite poor, but likely due to the antenna issue.
Other people also reported poor WiFi performance with earlier firmware, but firmware 2016-07-19 – used for this review – allegedly. Note that only 2.4 GHz WiFI is supported by this device, not 5.0 GHz. I’ve tested Fast Ethernet by transferring a 278MB file between a SAMBA share and the internal storage, and performance averaged 5.9MB/s placing it in the middle of the pack of devices limited to 10/100M Ethernet. Throughput in MB/s Miscellaneous Tests Bluetooth I could pair “MINIM8S II” to my smartphone in order to transfer some pictures over Bluetooth. However, the TV box could not find Xiaomi Mi Band 2 Bluetooth 4.0 LE activity tracker (not install any BLE app through Google Play), while the system could detect my “SH09” Bluetooth headset pairing would not work, and I had to skip Sixaxis PS3 Bluetooth game controller test since the firmware is not rooted. Storage We’ve already seen that a was recognized in the upper part of this review with NTFS and exFAT file systems supported, and after adding a micro SD card, I could also confirm FAT32 is supported, but Android 6.0 permissions do not seem to allow write access to external storage.
Read and Write Speed in MB/s Gaming Candy Crush Saga was a little sluggish the very first few seconds, but then it could play the game with air mouse, and without any noticeable slowdowns. I switch to the wireless gamepad to play Beach Buggy Racing which was smooth at all time, even after settings Graphics settings to the “highest resolution”. Riptide GP2 was fairly smooth with the default settings, but once I switched to “highest resolution” settings, the frame rate went down a bit, and while it was still playable, I did not find as quite as enjoyable. It’s pretty typical for Amlogic S905 platforms though, and the good news is that the performance was constant over the 15 to 20 minutes I played the game. MINI M8S II Benchmarks So is Amlogic S905X processor clocked at up to 1.5GHz (like in the specs), or up to 2.0 GHz (like in marketing materials for TV boxes)?
CPU-Z agrees with the latter as the maximum frequency is reported to be 2.02 GHz just like in Amlogic S905 processors. Click to Enlarge The board is p212 (useful if you want to try alternative firmware), the frame buffer resolution is set to 1920×1080, and there’s 1775MB total RAM for the system out of the 2GB RAM installed.
However, Antutu 6.1.4 score at 33,330 is slightly lower than on Amlogic S905 based devices (36,000 to 39,000 points) which looks more consistent with a lower CPU frequency For example is 38,032 points. Let’s double checked the results with Vellamo 3.x.
M8S II got 1,491, 910 and 1,855 for respectively Multicore, Metal and Browser benchmarks, while MINIX NEO U1 achieved 1,586, 1,235 and 2,157 points. If we compared it to a cheaper model like with 1,572, 763, and 2,002 the difference is not as clear, but performance of Amlogic S905 does seem higher than Amlogic S905X in most cases. We also have to take into account that all devices I tested with Amlogic S905 were based on Android 5.1, while MINI M8S II is running Android 6.0.1, which should be a little faster than Android Lollipop. Click to Enlarge 3D graphics performance does not seem to be affected as much as Amlogic S905 TV boxes would normally get around 4,300 points in 3DMark ICE Storm Extreme, while Amlogic S905X based M8S II got a similar 4,183 points.
Conclusion MINI M8S II TV Box has a good performance/features to price ratio, a responsive Android 6.0 firmware, decent video playback in Kodi for 10-bit and 8-bit H.265, H.264, and VP9 videos up to 4K @ 60 fps, but there are still a few firmware issues such HDMI audio pass-throguh, Bluetooth issue, read-only USB storage, etc. HDMI output support a wide range of resolution and refresh rate, and my system was first automatically set to 4K SMPTE (24 Hz) despite my TV supporting 4K @ 60 Hz Android Marshmallow (and possibly Lollipop) can optimize display for either the resolution or refresh rate. It looks like on the M8S II firmware, resolution is the default one. On LG TVs (and other TVs that support 4096×2160), it may default to 4K SMPTE (24Hz) because it has a higher resolution than UHD (3840×2160). YouTube 4K has nothing to do with Widevine DRM Level 1. It is something that Google decides and for now only true Android TV devices will stream 4K 60fps (nVIDIA Shield and upcoming Xiaomi Mi box).
@Marcel: I also didn’t have any problem playing 10-bit HEVC files. In fact, almost all the HDR10 samples that I checked played back fine with HDR output on the default Movie player, Kodi and SPMC.
That said, there seems to be something wrong with the Rec. I haven’t yet looked into it. Well i received mine last week, haven’t plugged it in yet as i bought it by mistake, i’ll probably only use it to test linux / libreelec on s905x. Looks very much like every average low cost box. OTA is indeed a nice surprise especially for a no brand box or is “mini mx” a brand? But i’m really not sure how hard they’ll work on fixing things, probably not very.
The thing that can be noticed is the overall price of those android tv boxes going down a notch (allwinner, amlogic only): – you can find “4k h265 10bit/8G-1G/wifi 2.4/eth 100M/No Bluetooth”, h3/s905 boxes around 20$ – “4k h265 10bit vp9 hdr/8G-2G/wifi 2.4/eth 100M/Bluetooth”, s905x at 35$ and some half breeds: – “4k h265 10bit/8G-1G/wifi 2.4/eth Gigabit/Bluetooth”, s905 mxq boxes around 35$, too bad that one doesn’t have 5GHz wifi that would have been a very nice deal. Above that 35$ price you should really only expect full featured 2.4-5G wifi, gigabit, bluetooth, 8G-2G boxes. You may find rockchip boxes with similar prices, specs and performances but i don’t have any as linux support is not there yet. The only thing i can tell is that nas+kodi greatly benefits from gigabit, especially if you have a large library. Wifi 5GHz is only good if you’re having troubles with 2.4Ghz in a crowded environment, don’t expect better performances as those flex antennas don’t really give any kind of decent performances if you’re not 10cm away from your router. @cnxsoft yes 1.2w box turned off is really bad, have you tested the power adapter alone, i had some surprises with those cheap power supplies.
I also had some cases where unplugging the hdmi cable would drop “turned off” power draw by half. And well it’s obvious that those boxes don’t really turn off in android but go to some sleep mode, so maybe it’s another side effect of a botched firmware. It’s also kind of funny to see how hdmi cec is still a mess, i particularly like how every tv brand renamed it as their own “thing”. out of topic @Marcel you can’t seriously want to watch youtube 4k videos, seeing how poor are their 1080p h264 or vp9 encodings, their 4k will have to be as pixelated as some old mpeg1 VCD. Well i also suspect (or maybe it’s public knowledge) that they use different encoding profiles (bitrates) for “vip youtubers/channels” but well i’m not anxious to watch 4k videos from any regular uploader.
I was able to load the tanix TX 5 (not pro) firmware on to the mini M8S II ( with amlogic usb burning tool) as they have the same wifi chipset. As far as playback goes, i was having problems with green screen on 10 bit hevc files with the m8s II firmware but with this firmware ther is an added option in kodi playback setting (amcodec) besides media codec. Using this amcodec, hevc 10 bit plays perfectly.
This firmware also comes rooted.!!!!!!!yay. I was able to change the cpu governor from hotplug to performance. The language issue is unfortunately still present in this firmware too. But CEC works.
Use this link to download the correct TX5 firmware (not TX 5 pro) and usb burning tool. There are many videos on the net which show you how to flash using Amlogic usb burning tools. Dude I am not responsible if you brick your device. Follow the procedure correctly and you should be ok. After disabling the CEC feature on my LG 42″ TV the language issue plaguing this firmware also disappeared. Using the advancedsettings.xml i am now able to stream high bitrate 10 bit hevc from my NAS.
They play correctly now. Will keep updating as i continue to use this firmware. Till the time a Libreelec version for this SOC is released. : use this link to download the correct TX5 firmware (not TX 5 pro) and usb burning tool.
There are many videos on the net which show you how to flash using Amlogic usb burning tools. Dude I am not responsible if you brick your device.
Follow the procedure correctly and you should be ok. After disabling the CEC feature on my LG 42″ TV the language issue plaguing this firmware also disappeared. Using the advancedsettings.xml i am now able to stream high bitrate 10 bit hevc from my NAS.
They play correctly now. Will keep updating as i continue to use this firmware. Till the time a Libreelec version for this SOC is released. What best settings with advancedsettings.xml? I have had trouble using acestream and watch movies using my samba share. If it helps I up dated my older Mini m8s using the in built update backup app.
Trial and error revealed I did not need to rename the firmware zip file I got off freaktab.com, version 03. File needs to be on a sdcard. Internal storage need plenty of free space. Once done firmware downloaded new update but once finished and rebooted all installed aps wipped and no Google play! By chance found doing a factory restall from firmware options, rebooted and Google play now installed and firmware ver 03! Then I just updated apps and installed apps from Google play.
Several days in all working fine, kodi, YouTube, Filmon, iPlayer, Riptide GP2 and Beach Buggy. Hope it helps with newer box, I used no USB cables or other firmware tools. In backup update tool, click select and it scans for zip files, hence no need to rename file. Probably a HDMI handshake issue.
What you could try is, connect your box to the projector and manually set the resolution on the box to say 480p or 720p @50hz. Once it displays correctly on the projector then connect the box to the tv and check. Also while cionnecting the box to the TV unplug all the other hdmi sources(if any). The other thing which people have tried is unplugging both devices from their respective electrical sockets for 30 minutes or so and then plugging them back again.
Hope it helps, Cheers. Hello guys, finally the box arrived, it took almost a month despite the “express” shipping. I’ve updated the mini m8s II to the last firmware, the one of the 3rd september, and the update went smooth, no issues as some of you reported, with bootloop.
Concerning the problem with the 10 bit HDR x265 file with Kodi: yes, the screen went green and no audio. I was able to play the same file with mxplayer (adding the codec for dts and ac3), the audio was in 2.0 instead of 5.1 and the video didn’t look as good as it should be. The audio was also connected via SPdif to my logitech z906. How do you suggest to solve these problems? Hello, I bought this TVbox, but a few months ago, during a firmware update, the TVbox keep starting, so I have to put the factory definitions to work again, but than when I look for updates the system says that I have the last version, strange because I already have made at list 3 updates. I put this situation to the seller and they send me this file to manually update (1867137 Mini M8S II Smart TV Box Amlogic S905X sd card rom.zip) but I try many ways and I did do it.
Can someone help me? Best regards, thanks for you time. Hi I have a top model of 2012 Lcd Philips 32PFL9604 and have a similar problem as Mike. When i’m seeing some movie or game, or make any settings or navegate in the box, the image in the screen turn green or pink with the image behind with no colour. It’s like a filter.
I stop the image, switch hdmi port to another and back to the first one and the image became normal. Then, after sometime the problem came again. I turned off the HDMI-CEC on the box and Easylink-HDMI on the TV. I don’t know where is HDMI-CEC settings on the TV. My cable is a HDMI Audioquest Pearl 1mt. I don’t know what to do more I turn down the screen resolution but did’t solve it. The box updates firmware automatically or we have to do it manual?
Is there a button or application in the box to update firmware? How can i update by OTA and where is the button? Thank you for your help.
@Poetatoman Thank you so much my friend Finally I did it. The problem was, when I was doing the configurations the kodi sistem falling down and so many times I got a message something like “Sorry, but the kodi media process is down”. Then the sistem get back to the Home Menu and I did lost all my configurations.
I realise that have to exit kodi to record the changes, but it sometimes take too long and the sistem went down. I only just have to eliminate the green image like a filter that I got sometimes. Many thanks again By the way, yesterday I installed Kodi No Limits build from Echo Wizard. It’s gorgeous, you don’t have to worry about settings, it does it by itself. So far, I love it, lots of great addons and beautiful loooking. For people having restricted profile issue with their TV box.
I think the first step is to try the instructions @ Edit a restricted profile Open your device’s Settings app Settings. Under “Device,” tap Users and then Add user or profile. Tap Restricted profile. The profile opens with a list. To pick which listed apps, features, and settings the profile can see and use, tap the On/Off switches and Settings Settings.
The changes are immediate. If you switch off a listed app, the profile loses all content associated with that app. If you switch a listed app back on after switching it off, the lost app content isn’t restored. Delete a restricted profile Open your device’s Settings app Settings.
Under “Device,” tap Users and then Add user or profile. Tap Restricted profile. Next to the profile, tap the Trash Trash.
If you can’t do any of that, maybe one solution is to enter recovery mode (keep pressing recovery pinhole/button, apply power, and two to three seconds later release the recovery button). You should enter in a menu allowing you to reset to factory settings. If this fails again, try to re-install the firmware with. Here are the problems that I have faced till now, and that others are facing as well, just wanted to know if these have been solved for mini m8s II 1. Google Cast does not work, hence unable to use Localcast, tried to d/l the Google cast apk from apkmirror, but that did not help 2. When switching HDMI inputs the box powers off.
This happens even when the HDMI CEC option is off. Rii 8 + bluetooth keyboard does not work. It pairs with the box on bluetooth, but does not work. None of the smartphone remotes work including kore & yahtse, again the Redmi note 3 pairs with the box on blue tooth, but nothing happens when the remotes are used. I am on the latest firmware as in that there are no OTA updates available. I would like to know if these problems have been solved, and if using a custom firmware can help solve these issues Thanks.
Here is the link to the rom i used: this video will show you how to find and install new firmware/ ROM for your Android TV box. I take no responsibility for any damage caused to anywhere these equipment whilst following the instructions in this video. Have lots of experience with these Android TV computers I imported a hundred of them from China sold them all and now offer support on them. MXQ OTT TV BOX dual core with Android 4.4 KitKat installed is one of the boxes I repair in this video.
There is a wifi problem that I watched a few people having on YouTube videos with Android boxes this is Solutions that problem not the same solution that everyone is passing around with messing around in the route of the operating system. I came upon this Wi-Fi problem with A TV box I search hard for solution on YouTube but could not find one this is a new solution to the Wi-Fi problem at least it's not the same solution as everyone else. You can use this process on almost any TV box Android and it will solve any software issues you may have. This guy made a video of the exact problem that I am solving here: This is the link to download the ROM that finally fixed my mxq TV box: The firmware for most all TV boxes can be found at: This is a link to fix Wi-Fi problem on your TV box. It didn't work for me. But it may work for you: Link to usb burning tool: Link to openelec rom.