MECOOL M8S PRO TV Box Amlogic 912 Android 7.1 3/16GB Dual WiFi Fast Lan BT4.1

[trebor]

Android 7.1 2GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU 64bit Mini PC

Gearbest

[trebor]

A couple Bucks Discount

3+16G coupon: GBM8SP3

Gearbest

[trebor]

Today we can have a look at the MECOOL M8S PRO TV Box - 3/16GB
Let me just Vent about this box, it has lots of Vent as you will see

MECOOL M8S PRO, Amlogic S912 CPU: Android 7.1.1 ARM Cortex-A53 Core: ARM Mali-T820MP3 RAM: 3/16GB RAM Type: DDR4 ROM: 16G
2.4 and 5GHZ WiFi: Bluetooth 4.1 HDMI Version: 2.0 Fast Lan.









Top View

Underside and Vents good to see.

WiFi Chip

Ram

eMMC


MECOOL M8S PRO TV Box - 3/16GB

[trebor]

A look around UI and System information and some Benchmarks
A couple of quirks
When adding apps to Home Screen Favorite, after a reset they remove themselves

The TV Centre App what ever that is (KODI) also not installed at present...Found
Found TV Centre In apps needs to be installed so all good Looking like Kodi 17.1

As I say Early days, Ui is fairly smart and snappy looks OK.

UI: Standard Mecool





Android 7








DRM





Ram and Storage truth






Memory Read and Write





Vellamo





CPU-Z







Antutu





A1 SDBench

GeekBench 4 Compute and CPU Scores





Full Details > http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/compute/670088





Full Details > http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/2584903

3DMARK



Bonsai Benchmark

OTA update thing

[trebor]

An update today has resolved the adding of Apps on the Home screen all fixed
Running Kodi 17.3rc as their TV Centre working fairly well with most of the Demos I tested
Netflix Ok and Plex as usual

Starting to get more of a feel for Android 7, more Secure, and new setup to get ones head around

[tamonegdje]

Does YOUTUBE apk works?

[trebor]

And I forgot to add Youtube plays fine

[norco53]

Is there an Android task bar at bottom? If so, can it be hidden and restored?

[trebor]

Upper Yes as seen
No lower task bar and may never be seen in Android 7 I have heard.

[clarkss12]

Thanks again, Trebor for this excellent review.

[dstaron]

Geekbuying sent me this advertising for this box. It is false advertising. You cannot get it for $49.99

[trebor]

Be Better posting in the Geekbuying support thread than here.

[trebor]

Thanks again, Trebor for this excellent review.

Thanks clarkss12 hope it enlightened you, to the workings.
Early days with Android 7

[dstaron]

Be Better posting in the Geekbuying support thread than here.

Sorry.

[eddiepropane]

Hi,

Thanks for the review and updates trebor.

I also have this box, it came last week from Gearbest - I like it but have some issues with mine:

1. Ethernet port is broken, it will get connection but it does not locate the lead properly and over time it works loose.
2. SD-card reader is set a bit too far back so I have to use a knife or something similar to lock it in place and release it - not that bad just a slightly annoying haha
3. Home screen issues as yourself - does not keep settings, in fact if I choose a new launcher it overrides it on start also.

Can I ask what version software you are now on trebor?

You mentioned an update received but I have yet to receive one since I have had the box through the OTA updater app, I am on OTA Version: 91220001.

Cheers, Bob.