Tronsmart TV Box Ara X5 in August with Cherry Trail Z8300 Windows 10

[geekbuying]

Hi! I just got my Ara X5 and there is something I'd like to share with you...

When I push the power button, the led goes on, but after one or two seconds, it's off again. Then when I try to push the power button for the second time, the device starts working as expected. What could be causing that behaviour?

Apart from that, the USB 3.0 doesn't work with my external hard drives. I guess it doesn't have power enough to operate the drives...

Thanks!

Press the power button for a while, and till the led light on, the device is power on.

and usb 3.0 port work well here, maybe like you said, power problem.

[Toni85]

Hi! I just got my Ara X5 and there is something I'd like to share with you...

When I push the power button, the led goes on, but after one or two seconds, it's off again. Then when I try to push the power button for the second time, the device starts working as expected. What could be causing that behaviour?

Apart from that, the USB 3.0 doesn't work with my external hard drives. I guess it doesn't have power enough to operate the drives...

Thanks!

[bluesmanuk]

Hello,

I'm back again with the BT.

It worked well fro 2 weeks after I have disabled the auto sleep.
But today, no BT working, nothing in control panel, so I looked in the device manager, and BT Radio said it got a pb so windows shut it ... I tried, disable, uninstall, update driver, restart; but nothing work !
When I enable it, it's ok for few seconds before going back to pb detected. I have no particular logs.

I hope I don't have a hardware pb ...

Anyone please ?

When you uninstalled, did you select the option to delete the driver too as it could be a corrupt driver that is trying to re-install.

[centrino77]

Hello,

I'm back again with the BT.

It worked well fro 2 weeks after I have disabled the auto sleep.
But today, no BT working, nothing in control panel, so I looked in the device manager, and BT Radio said it got a pb so windows shut it ... I tried, disable, uninstall, update driver, restart; but nothing work !
When I enable it, it's ok for few seconds before going back to pb detected. I have no particular logs.

I hope I don't have a hardware pb ...

Anyone please ?

[clarkss12]

Has anyone got the DTS-HD master audio working on this box? I tested by using my Avatar Bluray rip with the DTS-HD sound track, I thought it was playing as DTS-HD audio, but now I am not sure. My newer Denon recevier only shows DTS and Not DTS master audio, so now I am thinking it is only playing the DTS format and not the HD format.

The specs says it should play in the HD audio formats. I tested using Kodi 16 and also directly with VLC and looked at the codecs, but no HD audio.
here is the listed formats.

Video Supported	HD MPEG1/2/4,H.264, H.265,HD AVC/VC-1,RM/RMVB,Xvid/DivX3/4/5/6 ,RealVideo8/9/10
Audio Supported	MP3,WMA,AAC,WAV,OGG,AC3,DDP,True HD,DTS,DTS,HD,FLACAP
Picture Supported	JPEG,BMP,GIF,PNG,TIFF,etc.

[bluesmanuk]

Well I managed to get all the new drivers installed (31 according to Iobit).

Had to do it in 2 stages though.

Part way through the first installation things became stuck on installation of a Broadcom driver, so I cancelled and attempted to restart with the drivers that had been installed.

Windows sat there stating that it was restarting but never did and I had to hard power off the box.

It started back up without issues though and the second attempt had all the remaining drivers installed.

Iobit also takes a restore point and backs up existing drivers by default prior to installation, so always easy to go back if necessary.

I haven't yet noticed anything that I could define as an improvement but at the same time, I haven't found anything that degrades performance and functionality either.

[bluesmanuk]

IObit driver booster pro highlighted a slew of supposed new drivers today, so I'll attempt to install them and see if there are any useful changes.

You can download a free copy of driver booster pro if you are quick.

http://sharewareonsale.com/s/driver-booster-pro-iobit-sale

[trebor]

So it should work on your little box of tricks....Unless a driver is the missing key at present being Windows10 and all that

[clarkss12]

What I have done:
I just received my Teclast x98 pro Tablet. Teclast X98 Pro Tablet PC Intel X5 - Z8500 Quad Core 2.24GHz 9.7 inch QXGA IPS Screen Windows 10 + Android 5.0 64GB

Win10/android 5.1 etc...

So once setup I installed Plex Media Centre
I shared the media files on the tablet as mentioned above: as in y:\media
Set up new media type TV
Browsed with tablet to NAS in Plex found files, "y:" downloaded/synced to files to DB then did the meta data etc.
Played on Tablet from server fine

On my new Zidoo X6 using android Plex, I set Plex up to a manual setup to look at the Teclast X98 tablet Plex as apposed to the other Plex on laptop
that worked I now of two Plex servers.

Found the Media server found the files and played 100%
Working well
Cheers

Well done.e
Thanks

[trebor]

What I have done:
I just received my Teclast x98 pro Tablet. Teclast X98 Pro Tablet PC Intel X5 - Z8500 Quad Core 2.24GHz 9.7 inch QXGA IPS Screen Windows 10 + Android 5.0 64GB

Win10/android 5.1 etc...

So once setup I installed Plex Media Centre
I shared the media files on the tablet as mentioned above: as in y:\media
Set up new media type TV
Browsed with tablet to NAS in Plex found files, "y:" downloaded/synced to files to DB then did the meta data etc.
Played on Tablet from server fine

On my new Zidoo X6 using android Plex, I set Plex up to a manual setup to look at the Teclast X98 tablet Plex as apposed to the other Plex on laptop
that worked I now of two Plex servers.

Found the Media server found the files and played 100%
Working well
Cheers

[trebor]

As yet no, Box not here at present, when it does I will
As mentioned I do have it working on a win10 Laptop presently home vesion.

Dont know if you have tried this

Try sharing the folder that holds the media and not the root of the drive if not already.

my Y: drive = Y:\TV

So in Plex when adding and I browse it can see Y: that is all the DIR of the Shows

[clarkss12]

Trebor, have you tried using plex server on this box?

[trebor]

OK Understand fully the problem now,
Good video.

I use Plex Server on a PC as server with WIn10 with my WD Duo Nas(off sorts)
As it detects I guess its easy .
MS must have dabbled and the function you seek is hidden/disabled or oops they forgot.
Will watch with interest for the final out come.



Cheers

[clarkss12]

Made another video today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-IwkiPbHXk

[clarkss12]

This is what windows 10 should look like. Without that ability to see my NAS with the file explorer, some of my functions are severely limited.