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Ive already taken pictures of the device and torn it apart to check its hardware thermal design in the first part of the review, and in the second part, Ill 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 MINIX NEO A2 Lite air mouse, and Tronsmart Mars G0. 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. Booting takes around 4. Amlogic based Android TV boxes. Click for Original Size. A few seconds later, the system showed me a USB drive connected. Its not to know my drive is working, but since it happened every single time I booted the TV box this was more annoying than useful. 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S II, I wont be able to turn off my AV receiver, as the box will turn it back on as soon as I turn it offHDR support in the Display section is the second difference, and you can enable or disable it. Its not something I could test however since my current 4. K 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 ex. FAT and NTFS partition mounted. While the e. MMC flash has 8. GB capacity, the system takes some, and the internal storage partition is just 4. GB in size with 5. MB 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 4. K SMPTE 2. 4 Hz despite my TV supporting 4. K 6. 0 Hz. I could manually change the output to that setting, but Ive noticed the TV box does not always remembers the user defined value, and a few times I saw video output set to 1. 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 Media. Box to find out a bit more about the firmware, and MINIM8. S II model number runs Android 6. Linux 3. 1. 4. 2. 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 1. 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, Bit. Torrent and a few others from my list. Apps requiring GPS andor phoneSMS 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. Theres no standbysleep mode, so  Ive measured power consumption with and without USB hard drive HDD in the two available power modes Power off 1. Idle 2. 2 watts. Power off HDD 1. 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. MINI M8. S II does not overheat, and after Antutu 6. C and 4. 5C max, and after over 1. Riptide GP2 this went up a little to 4. C and 5. 6C. I did not notice any throttling slowdowns during game play. MINI M8. S 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 AV receiver when I turn it off likely because of HDMI CEC feature which cant be disabled in the settings. The mouse pointer is also rather small when 4. K 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 2. Click to Enlarge. I went ahead with the tiny 1. MB download, before clicking on Update now to reboot and complete the firmware update. Click to Enlarge. But it did not work, and failed with error. So I decided to disconnect my USB hard drive, reboot the system, and re try the update and it went smoothly. So remember remove external storage USB andor micro SD card before upgrading the firmware to avoid this issue. However, some people mentioned they had manually installed 2. I went to UPDATE BACKUP app again, and it found another larger 2. Click to Enlarge. I check again for a third firmware update before carry on with the review, but that was it. Audio Video Playback in Kodi 1. Kodi 1. 6. 1 or a fork is pre installed on the device, and the manufacturer also included several piracy add ons. Click for Original Size. All videos, except otherwise stated, were played over Fast Ethernet from a SAMBA share. Ive first played some videos found in Linaro media samples, as well as Elecard H. H. 2. 64 codec MP4 container Big Buck Bunny 4. OKMPEG2 codec MPG container   4. OKMPEG4 codec, AVI container 4. OKVC1 codec WMV 1. OKReal Media RMVB, 7. Mbps OK software decodeWeb. M VP8 4. 80p7. OK ff vp. H. MPEG TS container  OKWhile all videos played, please note that automatic refresh rate does not work even after enabling it both Kodi and Android settings HDMI self adaptation. The next step was to play some videos with various bitrates HDD USB hard drive EDHD. H. 2. 64 1. 0 Mbps OKbigbuckbunny1. H. 2. 64 1. 2 Mbps OKh. Mbps OKhddvddemo1. Mbps1. 08. 0pVC1. Mbps Stays in UI, but audio plays. Jellyfish 1. 20 Mbps. Mbps video without audio HDD OKI also tested stereo audio downmixing PCM 2. Kodi and MX PlayerMovie. Player app using my TVs speakers, and HDMI pass through in Kodi using Onkyo TX NR6. Audio Codec in Video. PCM 2. 0 OutputKodi 1. PCM 2. 0 OutputMovie. Player or MX PlayerHDMI Pass throughKodi 1. AC3 Dolby Digital 5. Audio OK but video not smooth. No audio. Audio OK DD 5. E AC 3 Dolby Digital 5. OKNo audio. OKDolby Digital 7. OKNo audio. No audio. True. HD 5. 1. OKNo audio. No audio. True. HD 7.