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enno99

Banjo String wrote: »

I consider myself fairly computer literate Graham, and its prob due to the nature of the pipos set up, but this is way off my capabilities.

I will suffer with manual turn on for now lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI4eSJrqWCY

have you looked into something like this ?

Cantona's Collars

Time to upgrade my MX,been looking at this one and I think it was recommended in a post here before.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Tronsmart-MXIII-Plus-2G-8G-Amlogic-S812-Quad-Core-2-0GHz-Android-TV-Box-4K-H/323423_32409348766.html

Banjo String

Lads, thanks for the heads up on the "wake on LAN" method, but i seem to be failing on one simple thing.

I hjave no way of "right clicking" on the network adapter option.

I have a wireless mouse app on my phone, (two actually) that just flat out stop working once I get to the device manager options.

Anyone any ideas?

Graham

Banjo String wrote: »

Lads, thanks for the heads up on the "wake on LAN" method, but i seem to be failing on one simple thing.

I hjave no way of "right clicking" on the network adapter option.

I have a wireless mouse app on my phone, (two actually) that just flat out stop working once I get to the device manager options.

Anyone any ideas?

USB mouse directly attached to the Pipo or touch directly on the Pipo touchscreen itself.

Banjo String

Graham wrote: »

USB mouse directly attached to the Pipo or touch directly on the Pipo touchscreen itself.

Yeah, gonna have to invest in a USB mouse.

Touching the screen doesn't give me right click function unfortunately

Invincible

zerks wrote: »

Time to upgrade my MX,been looking at this one and I think it was recommended in a post here before.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Tronsmart-MXIII-Plus-2G-8G-Amlogic-S812-Quad-Core-2-0GHz-Android-TV-Box-4K-H/323423_32409348766.html

That's available on the geek site too, same price I think but there was a discount code for $11 off, ZMOXZIBL entered during checkout process.

CantGetNoSleep

zerks wrote: »

Time to upgrade my MX,been looking at this one and I think it was recommended in a post here before.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Tronsmart-MXIII-Plus-2G-8G-Amlogic-S812-Quad-Core-2-0GHz-Android-TV-Box-4K-H/323423_32409348766.html

I'm using one of those, solid enough box, would recommend

Charlie19

Invincible wrote: »

That's available on the geek site too, same price I think but there was a discount code for $11 off, ZMOXZIBL entered during checkout process.

That code has expired. I signed up to geekbuy and they give you 5% off your first order, works out at $3.50 off.

So €61.20 delivered. Then whatever customs add.

BandMember

Customs are hitting these boxes a lot lately, I reckon you'd nearly be as well to pick one up off Adverts or Donedeal - no difference in price when you add in the customs charge plus the lovely €7 "holding charge" :rolleyes: by An Post....

Cantona's Collars

BandMember wrote: »

Customs are hitting these boxes a lot lately, I reckon you'd nearly be as well to pick one up off Adverts or Donedeal - no difference in price when you add in the customs charge plus the lovely €7 "holding charge" :rolleyes: by An Post....

€55 or €60 will get you one from Amazon,shipped from UK and some have wireless keyboard included.

crazygeryy

zerks wrote: »

€55 or €60 will get you one from Amazon,shipped from UK and some have wireless keyboard included.

I got the jbonest one on Amazon for 58 sterling with free keyboard.well worth the money and i must say the keyboard is a godsend as opposed to using the remote.
That works out at 81 ish euro.

masterboy123

I asked the seller to mark it as GIFT and then didnt have to worry about custom charges.

BandMember wrote: »

Customs are hitting these boxes a lot lately, I reckon you'd nearly be as well to pick one up off Adverts or Donedeal - no difference in price when you add in the customs charge plus the lovely €7 "holding charge" :rolleyes: by An Post....

Graham

masterboy123 wrote: »

I asked the seller to mark it as GIFT and then didnt have to worry about custom charges.

I'd guess it was more fluke that you didn't get hit.

Benzino

Hey all, after reading through the thread and decided I need a pipo x8 in my life Just to clarify, buying these from GeekBuying will mean it's shipped from China? There is a 20 euro difference between them and Amazon, but if they are based in China or some place like that, thinking it might be better to just get from Amazon in case there are any issues.

Thanks!

Banjo String

Benzino wrote: »

Hey all, after reading through the thread and decided I need a pipo x8 in my life Just to clarify, buying these from GeekBuying will mean it's shipped from China? There is a 20 euro difference between them and Amazon, but if they are based in China or some place like that, thinking it might be better to just get from Amazon in case there are any issues.

Thanks!

This is my two cents.

I bought mine (64GB model) from a certain website based in China that we can't talk about here.

It cost me +/- 115€ , and in fairness its a lovely piece of kit, and I haven't even messed around with the android side of it, I've purely stuck with Windows desktop for no other reason than laziness I suppose.

However, a few weeks after using it the power adapter went wallop, resulting in me having to use the laptops charger temporary until one with the same voltage/ampage arrives from Amazon.

However, the website that can't be named, and I purchased from have quite simply ignored about 6 "tickets" I have sent them to ask what they intend to do about my broken charger.

Their "ticket" system is a form of dispute resolution, in which one must include their order number, symptom of problem, and videos or links of problem.
I uploaded a video of my pipo refusing to turn on with their chinese made charger , and booting immediately with the asus laptop charger, and they have never even acknowledged any of these tickets.

If its only twenty euro in the difference, buying from Amazon in the UK is a no brainer. Just my opinion.

Really really pissed off that we can't mention website...... I have plenty to say on any thread opened attempting to shill. :mad:

Benzino

Banjo String wrote: »

This is my two cents.

I bought mine (64GB model) from a certain website based in China that we can't talk about here.

It cost me +/- 115€ , and in fairness its a lovely piece of kit, and I haven't even messed around with the android side of it, I've purely stuck with Windows desktop for no other reason than laziness I suppose.

However, a few weeks after using it the power adapter went wallop, resulting in me having to use the laptops charger temporary until one with the same voltage/ampage arrives from Amazon.

However, the website that can't be named, and I purchased from have quite simply ignored about 6 "tickets" I have sent them to ask what they intend to do about my broken charger.

Their "ticket" system is a form of dispute resolution, in which one must include their order number, symptom of problem, and videos or links of problem.
I uploaded a video of my pipo refusing to turn on with their chinese made charger , and booting immediately with the asus laptop charger, and they have never even acknowledged any of these tickets.

If its only twenty euro in the difference, buying from Amazon in the UK is a no brainer. Just my opinion.

Really really pissed off that we can't mention website...... I have plenty to say on any thread opened attempting to shill. :mad:

Sorry to hear about your troubles! Thanks for the reply, that makes sense and goes along with my thinking as well, Amazon's customer service is worth the additional money in the end, cheers.

Looking forward to checking this out, I've used kodi before but I may be back in the near future looking for some tips via pm

CantGetNoSleep

Fully agree with the above - the issue with power supplies appears to impact a lot of these Chinese made products and returns to China are not an option. Gearbest are the worst of all for customer service in my opinion - they can be cheap but you will not have any resolution if something goes wrong.

Buy from Amazon, or alternatively I would buy the Dell Mini PC in Bargain Alerts, similar spec but more reliable hardware.

delph09

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Fully agree with the above - the issue with power supplies appears to impact a lot of these Chinese made products and returns to China are not an option. Gearbest are the worst of all for customer service in my opinion - they can be cheap but you will not have any resolution if something goes wrong.

Buy from Amazon, or alternatively I would buy the Dell Mini PC in Bargain Alerts, similar spec but more reliable hardware.

yes, i also agree with you, but i think many people will still go to choose cheap one from chinese store to see whether they are lucky one who get a perfect product without any problems.

dendof

Banjo String wrote: »

Yeah, gonna have to invest in a USB mouse.

Touching the screen doesn't give me right click function unfortunately

Have you tried touch screen and hold for a second? I think that gave me right click.

I too bought the Pipo but I have to say I'm not too impressed with it yet. Yeah it has windows/android (haven't been able to boot to android yet btw but that's surely just me).
A dedicate remote would have been great. I bought the Tronsmart air mouse report and find it doesn't work well at all.

If you connect external usb devices, mouse, keyboard monitor it would run ok as a cheap PC.
Maybe I just need to give it more time but as I bought it mainly for Kodi and TV, now I'm sorry I didn't just buy a dedicated TV box.

rottie 11

I bought an mxq box the last day and nothing works on it. Anyone know why ?

daytob

maybe blank it and put stuff on it now? some of the stuff is dying

OldRio

Hi. Just a thank you to the regular posters on this site. I was in the market for an android box. Read a few reports on here and eventually splashed the cash on a M8S from amazon.
Great box and does what I want it to. Though I did my level best to brake it. Lost Kodi but thanks to Google and Youtube managed to put the latest Kodi release onto it and installed beast version. (Couldn't get blackbox version to work, but I think I know why)
If I can install things onto this device then no one should be worried.
Thanks again.

dahat

Good to see someome educate themselves on the workings of Kodi and Android boxes.

Well done and keep learning!

jonski

dahat wrote: »

Good to see someome educate themselves on the workings of Kodi and Android boxes.

Well done and keep learning!

Agreed , took me a while but once I got a box set up with just vanilla Kodi on it for the TV then I could start messing around with the one on my PC . It's by messing around and using youtube to learn that you end up getting more comfortable with it .

enno99

anyone interested inn the PIPO X8 might want to check out the PIPO store
seems they have a X9 version now
Also in the comments they are talking about a 4gb ram option soon

Thank you for your mail.
Win10 is licensed.
Android is a separate system.
Both system are English.
PIPO X9 64GB wis pre-order now, and it will be in stock on 28, September, we will arrange your shipment according to your order number when it is avaiable.
Sorry but it does not support 3G dongle.
It is equipped with FHD screen, while X8 comes with the HD screen.
When we got hte 4GB RAM model mini PC, we will release it on our website soon.

http://www.pipo-store.com/pipo-x9.html

rottie 11

Trying to watch the sports channels but they just won't work. I'd there a setting I can change or anything ?

BandMember

rottie 11 wrote: »

Trying to watch the sports channels on (named add on) tv but they just won't work. I'd there a setting I can change or anything ?

Aw man, why do people keep naming add ons in this thread? Can they please refrain from doing so or this thread will end being closed!

BandMember

dahat wrote: »

Good to see someome educate themselves on the workings of Kodi and Android boxes.

Well done and keep learning!

+1.

I wish that there was a lot more people out there with the same attitude as you!

jonski wrote: »

Agreed , took me a while but once I got a box set up with just vanilla Kodi on it for the TV then I could start messing around with the one on my PC . It's by messing around and using youtube to learn that you end up getting more comfortable with it .

We all start somewhere and messing around with it while checking out YouTube tutorials and Googling stuff is the best way to do it. Personally, I love the messing about and finding new stuff and new ways to do things!

rottie 11

BandMember wrote: »

Aw man, why do people keep naming add ons in this thread? Can they please refrain from doing so or this thread will end being closed!

Sorry first time posting here. Won't mention anything again

Banjo String

rottie 11 wrote: »

Sorry first time posting here. Won't mention anything again

You could also edit your post to delete the named add on.

Just a suggestion mind......

rottie 11

Banjo String wrote: »

You could also edit your post to delete the named add on.

Just a suggestion mind......

Done. Could someone pm me any suggestions please

Banjo String

rottie 11 wrote: »

Done. Could someone pm me any suggestions please

If its any consolation, I am having same trouble.

Benzino

enno99 wrote: »

anyone interested inn the PIPO X8 might want to check out the PIPO store
seems they have a X9 version now
Also in the comments they are talking about a 4gb ram option soon

Thank you for your mail.
Win10 is licensed.
Android is a separate system.
Both system are English.
PIPO X9 64GB wis pre-order now, and it will be in stock on 28, September, we will arrange your shipment according to your order number when it is avaiable.
Sorry but it does not support 3G dongle.
It is equipped with FHD screen, while X8 comes with the HD screen.
When we got hte 4GB RAM model mini PC, we will release it on our website soon.

http://www.pipo-store.com/pipo-x9.html

Hmm, and it's actually cheaper than the x8 on amazon too.

rottie 11

Banjo String wrote: »

If its any consolation, I am having same trouble.

With the same box?

Banjo String

rottie 11 wrote: »

With the same box?

No, but against most of my sources.

walshy_c

enno99 wrote: »

anyone interested inn the PIPO X8 might want to check out the PIPO store
seems they have a X9 version now
Also in the comments they are talking about a 4gb ram option soon

Thank you for your mail.
Win10 is licensed.
Android is a separate system.
Both system are English.
PIPO X9 64GB wis pre-order now, and it will be in stock on 28, September, we will arrange your shipment according to your order number when it is avaiable.
Sorry but it does not support 3G dongle.
It is equipped with FHD screen, while X8 comes with the HD screen.
When we got hte 4GB RAM model mini PC, we will release it on our website soon.

http://www.pipo-store.com/pipo-x9.html

Is the only difference between the X8 and the new X9 the bigger and better quality tablet screen?

TitianGerm

Has anybody ever heard of this box ? Its on the Amazon Lighting Deal at the minute.

daytob

would this one not be better?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haehne-RK3188-Android-1-8GHz-Bluetooth/dp/B00VQ53N8E/ref=pd_sim_23_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BXQ4Z9X0M96B6VFABTJ&dpID=41B39owfInL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_

BandMember

daytob wrote: »

would this one not be better?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haehne-RK3188-Android-1-8GHz-Bluetooth/dp/B00VQ53N8E/ref=pd_sim_23_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BXQ4Z9X0M96B6VFABTJ&dpID=41B39owfInL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_

I thought that those ones were regarded as obsolete at this stage?

To be honest, both boxes look pretty poor and I wouldn't go near either of them as I reckon you will have nothing but problems....

TitianGerm

daytob wrote: »

would this one not be better?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haehne-RK3188-Android-1-8GHz-Bluetooth/dp/B00VQ53N8E/ref=pd_sim_23_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BXQ4Z9X0M96B6VFABTJ&dpID=41B39owfInL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_

I just spotted that other one earlier and thought it might be a good second box. Just going to pick up a JBonnet that you mentioned earlier Daytob after my Pipo X8 payment failed so I didn't get that one after.

enno99

walshy_c wrote: »

Is the only difference between the X8 and the new X9 the bigger and better quality tablet screen?

I think so yes
I myself would prefer a larger screen and if they stick 2Gb ram more on it that will be better
Also windows 10 is installed so no upgrading messing around with firmware etc

enno99

@ Banjo String I sent you a PM

Banjo String

enno99 wrote: »

@ Banjo String I sent you a PM

Sorry enno, was out with the youngest, and then collected the eldest at school.

Got that Pm cheers.

Benzino

So I pulled the trigger and ordered the Pipo X8 with the Mele f10 air mouse thanks to all the good feedback on both of these here, so thank you guys!

Looking forward to getting it now. I've messed around with Kodi before (that seo micheal fella is a great help), and know a couple apps on android which I use on my phone, but if there is some super secret app I'm missing out would appreciate a pm or email

Anyway, thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, been thinking about getting a box for some time now

daytob

Super secret apps. ha ha, no one shares with me

Charlie19

Ordered the MXIII from Geekbuying and asked if they'd mark the item as a gift or reduce the price.

This was the response:

Hi Charlie,
Thank you so much for your email .As the shipping method you selected is Registered Airmail .
in order to avoid the higher tax ,we have declared it as "gift " and value $20 . is it ok for you ?
Your package is being processed.Once the package was shipped,you will receive an email with the tracking number.
If you have any question ,please feel free to contact us .
Have a nice day
Best wishes
Dora

masterboy123

This worked out well for me.

I didnt have to pay any other postal/duty charges.

Charlie19 wrote: »

Ordered the MXIII from Geekbuying and asked if they'd mark the item as a gift or reduce the price.

This was the response:

Banjo String

Benzino wrote: »

So I pulled the trigger and ordered the Pipo X8 with the Mele f10 air mouse thanks to all the good feedback on both of these here, so thank you guys!

Looking forward to getting it now. I've messed around with Kodi before (that seo micheal fella is a great help), and know a couple apps on android which I use on my phone, but if there is some super secret app I'm missing out would appreciate a pm or email

Anyway, thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, been thinking about getting a box for some time now

Pm sent

enno99

Benzino wrote: »

So I pulled the trigger and ordered the Pipo X8 with the Mele f10 air mouse thanks to all the good feedback on both of these here, so thank you guys!

Looking forward to getting it now. I've messed around with Kodi before (that seo micheal fella is a great help), and know a couple apps on android which I use on my phone, but if there is some super secret app I'm missing out would appreciate a pm or email

Anyway, thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, been thinking about getting a box for some time now

PM sent

Benzino

Banjo String wrote: »

Pm sent

enno99 wrote: »

PM sent

You are both legends, thanks very much! Really appreciate it!

P.S.