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Review Ravpower WifiDisk: Mobile wireless storage reader

Ok so I've been somewhat following Ravpower for a while since I really enjoy their 10,400 mah powerbank and saw on amazon that they have this new product called the WifiDisk out. In comparison, I've been looking at the Seagate Goflex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage too but it's a bit on the pricey end, and then somehow I came across the Ravpower WiFi Disk on Amazon and went ahead and bought it. It's actually not a wireless mobile external hard drive, but a wireless memory card/storage reader and battery charger. This can read SD cards, USB flash drives/ any storage device that takes 2.0 usb ports. Also you can even charge your phone or tablet too since it has a built in 2.0 USB port.
Pros:
- Creates its own network wireless point/hotspot so I can access my files from anywhere through my phone and tablet.
- Can enable DDNS to allow you to remotely access the device by a registered hostname. If set up (which comes with a cost if you choose to do this), you can access this drive on your tablet, phone, computer from anywhere where there's internet while leaving this device at home. However I think having this personally with you is a better option.
- Built in user interface which can be accessed through any mobile web browser and standard computer or laptop.
- This can be an instant bridge between my computer and portable devices. Once I load something onto the wifi disk with SD card from my computer for example, I can instantly see this on my portable device after refreshing.
- Wirelessly stream my videos and music and access files to my nexus 7.
- I can wirelessly connect this to 5 different devices where I can then stream 5 different videos at the same time. Friends have been very grateful during our road trip.
- I can still connect to my regular internet through this after setting it up.
- Can also be used as an external battery charger. Contains 3,000 mah battery.
- I have an external hard drive already and I can plug it into this, which gives my hard drive wireless access.
- Can have almost unlimited amount of storage space since there is no fixed amount, however you would have to carry a lot of SD cards and/or thumb drives if you want to carry your entire library to minimize bulk and weight.
- Having this device has expanded my storage from 8g on my nexus 7 to unlimited.
- Small, thin, and light to carry around. Really good size to be tucked away in a backpack, purse, duffel bag. Even a pocket.
- Cheaper alternative to more expensive wireless hard drives or cloud services.
Cons:
- Suggested app, "MobileFun", have some issues. I can't seem to transfer files from my wifi disk to my phone and errors sometimes pops up in some Asian language.... Luckily I can access the user control panel on the browser by putting in the wifi disk's ip address http://10.10.10.254/ into the url field.
- Takes a while for the network to show up on my phone and tablet. Might be standard though.
- Wish battery life was longer.
- Range radius is about 10-15 feet.
- Scratches easily and since it's white, I can see it getting dirty fast if you're not careful.
- Wish battery life was longer. 3000mah is not enough for long travels.
- No power gauge so I can't tell how much battery is left in this thing.
I wish the battery life could be longer but I guess 5 hours is ok too if you have a power source kind of close by - like if you're using it on a road trip. I can see some people may want more since this is a pretty useful device and can be used for a long time. The range of the WifiDisk could be better too but still impressive considering this is wireless. Friends and I had a caravan of 3 cars during our trip and the range was ok at times, but it did drop if a car drops 1-2 car lengths away from me The connection does get spotty. Great for media but not so much if you want to get work done because you can't directly work on your files on this device. You can only download it then work on it directly from your laptop or whatever, and then upload it again back onto the sd card or storage with this wifi disk.
Overall, great product for the price. I'm pretty happy with it.
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User interface same on all devices that have a web browser.
The blue light is actually a nice cool tone blue. Photo didn't pick it up well.

Green Ranger said:
Ok so I've been somewhat following Ravpower for a while since I really enjoy their 10,4000 mah powerbank and saw on amazon that they have this new product called the WifiDisk out.
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I just saw these on Amazon, one thing I wanted to be sure of. Am I reading right that this will act as a wifi file server, even when no internet is present? We are about to do a long car trip, and it would be good if I could load up one of these for the girls to watch movies on their Kindel Fires on the road.
Thanks

Pattond said:
I just saw these on Amazon, one thing I wanted to be sure of. Am I reading right that this will act as a wifi file server, even when no internet is present? We are about to do a long car trip, and it would be good if I could load up one of these for the girls to watch movies on their Kindel Fires on the road.
Thanks
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Yup. And it works great. If you go through the Wizard setup, you can make it so you connect to your home internet too. But it works without internet as well. It's its own network hotspot so all you have to do is connect to it from your device as if you're connecting to a new wifi network.

Can the USB port act as a Pass - Thru (when directly connected to the tablet, obviously) for High powered devices such as USB Ethernet Adapter
ie:
USB Ethernet --> RAVPOWER --> USB Cable --> Tablet

klau1 said:
Can the USB port act as a Pass - Thru (when directly connected to the tablet, obviously) for High powered devices such as USB Ethernet Adapter
ie:
USB Ethernet --> RAVPOWER --> USB Cable --> Tablet
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I'm not exactly sure.

Got mine and works well. When inserting any usb, it powers the USB which diminishes battery life when stored, so only plug the USB in when you need it otherwise its a pretty cool product.
I have an Anker 10k battery that I add to the mix and my WD 1tb. Yes it's clunky, but when sitting in my laptop bag, I can't see it, but works for hours and hours.

wifi vs. mobile data
A possible showstopper for me is that if I connect to it via wifi, then I lose my mobile data connection. I'd like to be able to use a mobile data app like google navigation while at the same time playing files from the rav wifidisk. If I can't keep both interfaces on, I may end up returning it to amazon. Too bad; it seems to be an amazing device.

I found a solution although I'm not sure how reliable it'll be.
The ravpower wifidisk has two wireless connections; one that accepts clients (LAN) and one where it acts as a client to another wireless network (WAN)
Fortunately it's cifs server listens on both.
I turned on wireless tethering on my phone. Then I connected from a laptop to it's LAN interface (WiFiSD-xxxx) and configured it's WAN/internet wireless connection to connect to the phone's tethering AP. I also ran the windows mobilefun to discover it's WiFiSD-xxxx ip address and connected via internet explorer. username admin; no password.
In there I discovered the IP address that the tethering AP had give it. If that dhcp assigned address doesn't stay put, I'll put in a static address.
Back on the phone, I ran cifsmanager to connect to the RAV, using the ip address the RAV requested from the tethering AP. Now I have both mobile and ravpower connections on the phone.

adamf663 said:
I found a solution although I'm not sure how reliable it'll be.
The ravpower wifidisk has two wireless connections; one that accepts clients (LAN) and one where it acts as a client to another wireless network (WAN)
Fortunately it's cifs server listens on both.
I turned on wireless tethering on my phone. Then I connected from a laptop to it's LAN interface (WiFiSD-xxxx) and configured it's WAN/internet wireless connection to connect to the phone's tethering AP. I also ran the windows mobilefun to discover it's WiFiSD-xxxx ip address and connected via internet explorer. username admin; no password.
In there I discovered the IP address that the tethering AP had give it. If that dhcp assigned address doesn't stay put, I'll put in a static address.
Back on the phone, I ran cifsmanager to connect to the RAV, using the ip address the RAV requested from the tethering AP. Now I have both mobile and ravpower connections on the phone.
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Do you know what settings you used for CIFSmanager ? I cant seem to get it to work on mine.
Here is a quick connectivity review I did :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41751832#post41751832

Hi Green Ranger,
Possible to transfer digital photographs directly from SD card to portable HDD, when both are mounted onto this device.
With only Android smartphone instead of computer / laptop?

Apologies for the late reply, but yes, if you use es explorer or solid explorer, you should be able to browse to your device and copy/paste images into there. I think you need a smartphone/PC to do the transfer, the wifidisk wont do it itself.

RavPower WD01 WIFI Hub With Wireless Bridge Mode

I ordered the RavPower WD01 battery-powered wireless hub with wireless bridge mode when it went on sale for 50% off on Amazon (it's still on sale and here's the link, if you're interested - http://www.amazon.com/RAVPower%C2%AE-RP-WD01-Wireless-WiFi-Disk-Li-Polymer/dp/B00AQUMZRA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362256659&sr=8-1&keywords=ravpower+wd01 ). I wanted the ability to use portable media that I already have with my note and had been contemplating purchasing this unit due to the awkward placement of the proprietary power port that you need to plug OTG cables into. The Ravpower hub solves this issue since it's wireless.
The vendor processed and shipped my order promptly; unfortunately, a snow storm in the Midwestern US delayed the shipping company by several days. I've now had the unit for several days and can only say one word, WOW. This device exceeds my expectations. It's well worth the investment and can be used not only with Android and IOS devices, but with PCs as well.
The WD01 Is a compact device that's slightly smaller than a deck of cards. It's shipped well-protected in a sturdy box with foam enclosures that surround and it.
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In addition to the WD01, the box contains a USB charging cable to charge the internal 3000 MAH battery and brief instructions. The battery on my unit was partially charged when I received it so I was able to set it up immediately. The WD01 has a slot for an SD card and a full-sizes USB port that can support flash drives and external hard drives (up to 2T).
The photo I've linked shows a flash drive and an SD card installed, but I have plugged my 2T hard drive and some smaller capacity hard drives into the unit and it could read all of them.
There is a free app that you can download and intall to setup the WD01, but as other reviewers have noted, you don't need it. What you need to do once you power on the device is wait for the WDO1's internal router to complete its power up, which can take a minute or so. Once the blue WIFI indicator light for the router stops blinking go to your note's WIFI settings and you should see a new network beginning with WIFI, click on connect. When prompted for a password, input the default, which is: 11111111. (That's eight 1s.) You can now use your Internet browser to set up your WD01 and I would recommend this method since you can configure more of the features than you can with the app. I also recommend using Dolphin HD or Firefox over the stock browser. Once your note has connected to the WD01 pull up your browser and input the default iP address of the WD01, which is 10.10.10.54 . You'll see the main login page.
The user name, which cannot be changed, is admin. The defaut password empty so just hit enter. This will launch a wizard that will take you through all the settings and allow you to set your own passwords for the device as well as change the default IP address for browser access to settings. You also set up the WD01's wireless bridge mode through the wizard. This feature will allow the WD01 to connect to your router so you can access the Internet via your router while connected to it. A word of warning, however, your mileage may vary with this feature depending on you router. Some routers now support WDS with strong WPA2 encryption, many don't. My router doesn't support WDS so I tested briefly putting my router into bridge repeater mode, but I also had to reduce my encryption down to WEP (with attendant speed reductions). It worked, but I quickly reverted my router back to its previous settings with WPA2 encryption. The wireless bridge feature isn't critical to me. However, when I next upgrade my router I'll make sure it supports WDS with WPA2 encryption. If you set up the wireless bridge mode, you can also configure dynamic dns on the WD01.
Once the wizard has taken you through all the settings, you'll see the main WD01 browser screen.
This allows easy navigation to make changes again to network settings.
You can even search attached media by name.
If you have a file manager that supports SMB, like ES File Explorer, you can use it to view and open files once connected to the WD01.
All files I tested, including audio books, MP3 and MP4 formats opened quickly and played flawlessly.
If you so desire, you can download the free AIRSTOR app to setup the device, but if you don't like bloatware, I recommend against it. The WD01 runs for about 5 hours on its internal battery. Up to 5 devices can connect to it at a time. The range on mine is about 25 feet before the signal gets too weak. I highly recommend this device. It's well worth the money.

FYI - It is on sale at Newegg.com for $40 from a third party. I think a number of similar units will come on the market shortly. However, I picked up one of these.
PS If you need warranty service, newegg is insisting on having the original box.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1HD0HM8076

For anyone who wants to look at the full user manual, here's a link. http://www.ravpower.com/downloads#RP-WD01 My unit shipped with updated firmare, but this page has a link to the new firmware version. This product readily serves a replacement for OTG cables.

mke1973 said:
For anyone who wants to look at the full user manual, here's a link. http://www.ravpower.com/downloads#RP-WD01 My unit shipped with updated firmare, but this page has a link to the new firmware version. This product readily serves a replacement for OTG cables.
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Thanks for the link! Waiting for mine.

Anyone found a UK seller for the rav power?
Thanks
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kharmafish said:
Anyone found a UK seller for the rav power?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app
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You if you email the guys at their website, they can arrange shipping to you. I got mine in australia in about 8 working days.
Here is a connectivity review I did :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41751832#post41751832

[AINOL WINDOWS 8.1 MINI PC] [My REVIEW]

Hi guys & girls here's my review on the Ainol Windows 8.1 Mini pc.
Iv had this little beauty a wile now & im very pleased with it, Great overall quality a really nice looking Mini pc.
Windows 8.1 mini pc Mod Edit: Selling site link removed.
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Windows is activated (Not a trial)
The Ainol windows 8.1 mini pc has an modern looking aluminum case witch doubles a great heatsink (No modding required) and measures 15cm x 10.5cm x 1.4cm and weighs about 12 ounces.
The device looks & feels like its of high end quality and is very well made "That well made i cant open it up as of yet" but as soon as i find a way into it i will upload some photos of the guts. This rely feels like a premium device.
The front of the device has a small power button two full sized usb ports & a star shaped power indecator light,On the rear of the device we have a mini USB 3 port,a micro SD card slot,Mini HDMI output port,a 3.5mm head phone jack port & a 5v DC power port.
In brief
Ainol Windows 8.1 Mini PC TV Box uses a 64 bit Intel Bay Trail-T Z3735D quad core CPU, pre-installed with Windows 8.1 operating system, with 2GB DDR3L RAM and 32GB Emmc ROM, supports Bluetooth 4.0 and wifi. It comes with a USB 3.0 interface and two standard USB 2.0 interfaces. This Mini PC is also a power bank with a 7000mAh battery and can charge for other mobile devices.
Setup
The first thing i did when i got the ainol was to create a backup recovery to a USB stick using this guide for the pipo (Thanks go to Bob for putting this guide together)
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?22092-First-thing-you-should-do-with-the-Pipo-X7
I then let windows do its thing & update everything after several restarts more updates & 3 hours latter i was ready for the next step.
One thing I will say is for some reason the windows updating processing screen is in Chinese:face
Thanks to Trebor there's a fix to get rid of the Chinese writing at the start up ect
Control Panel
Language
Advanced settings
Change override
Apply language settings to welcome screen system account and new user accounts
Window that opens
Welcome Screen and new user accounts
Tick Welcome screen and system accounts and New User
OK
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Then i made a system image backup by following the above guide guide (step3)
I also midified the boot.wim using this guide so my recovery was in english
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?22176-English-Language-Recovery-USB-Disk
After i had done all the above it was time to start playing,When it was fully charged to 100% i upplugged the power lead & iv played some films from a external HD powered by the ainol for just over 6.5 hours now & the battery is at 19%.The ainol is not even warm & I mean no heat at all thats using no external power surply just the built in battery.
Also iv just Installed kodi this runs great (IMO kodi runs better on windows than android)Easy to install & does what it should.
Below screen shot shows CPU temps after almost 3.5 hours of using kodi web streaming
Wifi speed test
Pc wifi download speed test 12 feet from router
Ainol wifi download speed test 12 feet from router
As you can see the download speed seams to drop on the Ainol more or less straight way I don't no whats coursing this maybe some interference from some other devices I have running.
Quick facts
Boot time is 12 seconds
shut down is 3 seconds
logitech c270 webcam works
64GB micro SD works
128GB usb Stick works
Samsung 1TB un powered HD works fine using just the ainol battery
I use an app on my android phone called unified remote to controll my ainol its very simply to use it has mouse & keybored input i highly recomend trying it
https://www.unifiedremote.com/
Ainol Mini PC TV Box specifications:
OS: Windows 8.1
CPU: Intel Baytrail Z3735D quad core, X86
GPU: Intel HD Graphics
RAM: 2GB DDR3L
ROM: 32GB eMMC
Card Extended: Yes, support TF card up to 128GB
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0
WiFi: 802.11b/g/n
G-sensor: 3-axis G-sensor
USB: USB 3.0 and USB 2.0
HDMI: Micro HDMI 1.4
OTG: Supports exfat, NTFS, Fat32 USB - OTG devices
Battery: 7000mAh, can be used as a power bank
Power: DC input 5V, 2500mAh; output 800mAh max
Earphone Interface: 3.5mm
Language: English,Chinese etc.
Video: up to 1080P, AVI, 3GP, MP4, MKV, MOV, MPG, VOB
Audio Formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, AAC, APE, MP2, AMR etc
Image Formats: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF
Ports
1 x USB 3.0 (Micro)
2 x USB 2.0
1 x Earphone jack
1 x Micro HDMI Port
1 x TF Card Slot
1 x DC Port
What's in the package
1 x Ainol mini TV Box
1 x Charger Adaptor
1 x HDMI Cable
1 x Manuel
1 x Warranty Card
Unboxing Video
Sorry about the quality I was in a rush to try this baby out + im not a big fan of unboxing video's but I no some are so here it is.
View My Video
I got mine from Mod Edit: Selling site link removed.

I just recently bought the same ainol mini windows 8.1 pc with the air mouse which works great. can you please explain whether you are getting audio out of the hdmi cable?
I am getting no audio at all from the hdmi cable and drivers etc are upto date according to the device manager with no yellow exclamation mark. I would really hate to plug in an av cable.
I really look forward to your experience with audio out via the hdmi cable. Please note all basics such as turn off mute, check tv/amplifier volume is up etc are all correct.

stealthdragonb said:
I just recently bought the same ainol mini windows 8.1 pc with the air mouse which works great. can you please explain whether you are getting audio out of the hdmi cable?
I am getting no audio at all from the hdmi cable and drivers etc are upto date according to the device manager with no yellow exclamation mark. I would really hate to plug in an av cable.
I really look forward to your experience with audio out via the hdmi cable. Please note all basics such as turn off mute, check tv/amplifier volume is up etc are all correct.
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Hello there.
My Aniol did not come with a air mouse
The audio works fine for me with just using the HDMI lead I had to change nothing in the settings it worked fine out the box.
I have seen this on another intel tv box you may need to open Control Panel and go to the sound settings and change the default to the other output device.
Blinkone

blinkone said:
Hello there.
My Aniol did not come with a air mouse
The audi works fine for me with just using the HDMI lead I had to change nothing in the settings it worked fine out the box.
I have seen this on another intel tv box you may need to open Control Panel and go to the sound settings and change the default to the other output device.
Blinkone
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I had to pay an extra $20 or so for the air mouse. What is really upsetting is that I have tried a number of things to get audio via hdmi out but nothing is working. There is also no other option in the control panel to change the default which is on the headphone jack which gives out sound.
I have tried installing drivers, restarting the mini pc with hdmi already plugged in etc etc but nothing is working. Do you have any other suggestions?

stealthdragonb said:
I had to pay an extra $20 or so for the air mouse. What is really upsetting is that I have tried a number of things to get audio via hdmi out but nothing is working. There is also no other option in the control panel to change the default which is on the headphone jack which gives out sound.
I have tried installing drivers, restarting the mini pc with hdmi already plugged in etc etc but nothing is working. Do you have any other suggestions?
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Iv lost sound now a few times I go to control panel/hardware & sound/sound
Play back tab
Select HDTV
Set as default
Apply
Also have you done the windows update mine took over 3 hours to insltall all the updates when I first got it

Windows update did begin yesterday although I might have shut down before everything installed. I will need to double check this.
As for the sound option in control panel, I do not get HDTV to show up at all. All I get is the first option in written in chinese

I can confirm after the update, everything is now working by selecting the tv under sounds in control panel.
Thanks heaps!
now if there was some way of just getting rid of this chinese text which appears when booting or installing certain stuff. I have changed language etc and cleared cache.

stealthdragonb said:
I can confirm after the update, everything is now working by selecting the tv under sounds in control panel.
Thanks heaps!
now if there was some way of just getting rid of this chinese text which appears when booting or installing certain stuff. I have changed language etc and cleared cache.
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Glad you got the sound sorted anyway
heres a driver pack good to keep by you side
http://drp.su/
Yes you can get rid of the Chinese text
Thanks to Trebor from freaktab there's a fix for this
Control Panel
Language
Advanced settings
Change override
Apply language settings to welcome screen system account and new user accounts
Window that opens
Welcome Screen and new user accounts
Tick Welcome screen and system accounts and New User
OK
Works perfect no more Chinese

Hi,
could you test the usb3 performance at the port and file transfer over wifi?
Would like to use it as a media pc connected to my tv and as a kind of media server with a external usb3 drive.

marcleinen said:
Hi,
could you test the usb3 performance at the port and file transfer over wifi?
Would like to use it as a media pc connected to my tv and as a kind of media server with a external usb3 drive.
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Hi
Quick tests USB 3 port file transfer from USB 3 stick =11.5 MB/s With this lead
I think this would be better, The above lead was only a cheap one.
Wifi file transfer from my pc to the Ainol =3.2MB/s

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Hi all,
I just ordered one after reading your review.
I lost my big desktop about a year ago and have relied on my new Dell XPS 12 2 in 1. Its a nice laptop (or notebook, whatever they call these things today).
I had everything on my desktop, I really used it as a file server.
I was trying to save up money to get another large desktop with a lot of bays to hold all my hard drives and I wanted a PC that had at least 8 SATA version 3.0 ports built into the motherboard. My dead PC had 6 SATA version 1.0.
As of today, I still had the internal hard drives installed in the cage, that was inside the case.
It ran on 2 128GB SSD's setup as RAID 0 and 2 2TB HDD setup as RAID 1.
The SSD drives were setup as the System Drive, this thing booted in seconds, very fast.
The HDD drives were setup as my Data Drive, not as fast but well protected since they were mirrored using RAID 1.
The only thing that broke was the motherboard.
Oh, it had 8 or 16 GB of RAM (probably 8GB, my memory is shaky), running 64bit Windows 8.1 on a Quad Core CPU.
It wasn't the fast gaming machine, but it was good enough for me.
I had attached 2 24 inch monitors that had both HDMI and WVGA ports. The monitors were from HP and are able to be positioned in either Landscape (typical setting) and Portrait mode.
I don't know why I just didn't buy a new motherboard, maybe because it was about 6 years old.
Anyway, in the meantime, I found a backup of my DATA drives and purchased a 3TB HDD which I connected to my Asus RT-AC68U router that comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports, So the 3TB HDD is connected to one of the ports and the other port has my Dymo label printer. My other printers are wireless.
So that is my current setup and its OK the way its working but I niss having my desktop and miss using the large monitors. (I know I could hookup one monitor to the laptop, but I keep the laptop in another room.
But I do want access to the real DATA drives, that backup I used was old and some stuff is missing.
So tonight I purchased 2 different kinds of NAS devices. One cheapo ($60) which has 4 USB ports and one Ethernet port. Its supposed to allow the drives to be seen on the network.
The other NAS device is 4 drive capable housing by Buffalo, also pretty cheap ($189).
I guess I have to wait to see if either of these two work for me.
Then i came across your mention of this AINOL mini PC.
When searching for the NAS stuff, I thought I could just get a PC on a stick and attach some of the drives to it and make then shareable. A poor man's NAS system.
But when I saw this AINOL is was the only thing I found that came with USB 3.0 ports, all the others only had USB 2.0 ports (very old out of the gate).
The last thing I noticed is that this sucker is portable and battery operated! Wow, the possibilities! And able to recharge my smartphone!
It has the right amount of ports to be very useful.
Now to end this, how fast is this thing anyway.
Is it an Intel Atom chip? If it is those are deadly slow for real work, but using it as a file server maybe not so bad?
How is it to really use?
Will I be totally disappointed? I do recognize it will never be as fast as what I had, but if its as good as my laptop (this Dell XPS 12 2 in 1, which comes with an Intel i7 chip 64bit).
I am going to come back here when it arrives to follow your instructions on how to make an emergency recover image and an of the other suggestions you listed here.
And yes, I have plenty of Bluetooth keyboards with mouse combos.
I'm not sure what else I should plan on having or doing before it arrives.
Thank you!
Rob
P.S. I ordered it before I noticed your 10 percent coupon, oh well!

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Hi all,
I just ordered one after reading your review.
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Well welcome to the Ainol club..I don't think you will be disappointed with the speed at all im very happy with mine I just love the fact its portable has a built in battery that will last for at least 5 or 6 hours & has a 10 second boot up time..

I got one as well, but the problem which I found the hard way is that, it appear I can't boot any USB media, linux or Win7/8. So it just locked to the half-chinese Win 8 w/ Bing that's already on the drive. It's just slightly better than a door stop at this point. If somebody found a way to get around that it would be great.

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I got one as well, but the problem which I found the hard way is that, it appear I can't boot any USB media, linux or Win7/8. So it just locked to the half-chinese Win 8 w/ Bing that's already on the drive. It's just slightly better than a door stop at this point. If somebody found a way to get around that it would be great.
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Just change the language settings to english.
Looks like there are a few drivers which have been installed in chinese, these may be able to be reinstalled in english.
Its fully functional win8.1, it probably has a locked bootloader like the surface so probably tough boot off anything other than the stock OS.
"win 8.1 with bing" is no different from standard win 8.1, but its free for OEMs.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2158...1-with-bing-for-low-cost-pcs-and-tablets.html

Hi it tells you in the first post how to get rid of the Chinese & its very simple to do too

can anyone confirm the usb 3 performance. Result posted by blinkone doesnt seems to be like a usb 3 speed
darn... nvm... just found out that Z3735F doesnt have usb 3 ((

Hi, I just received mine but it does not work. It simply starts the booting process, but it never gets to actually load Windows and make the whole thing usable. It just shows a black screen after the EFI loading screen and it doesn't get past that. Has anyone any idea about what to do in these cases? I tried resetting the PC without luck; enabling or disabling fast boot and secure boot (they were disabled by default, by the way) did not work.

blinkone said:
Hi it tells you in the first post how to get rid of the Chinese & its very simple to do too
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Sure, it's simple to do if you read and understand Chinese. Try doing it when you're staring at a jumble of Chinese characters. I just finished the setup of my Ainol completely in Chinese -- what a frustrating process that was! I wish I'd taken a crash course in Mandarin first.

Hi everyone, I also purchased this mini PC. I'm curious if it's possible to install linux on this box? It the BIOS similar to that of a PC? Could I plug an external drive into the USB 3.0, and then install Ubuntu or something like that on it? I was thinking of using this as a little mini server.

[new]R-BOX RK3229 Android 5.1.1, 2/8GB 4K,1000M LAN BT4.0 WiFi HDMI

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First 2GB/8 RK3229 Media Player
R-BOX Android 5.1.1 RK3229 2G/8G
Silver or Black
Android 5.1.1
RK3229, quad core Cortex-A7 Up to 1.5GHz
2GB DDRIII , 8GB EMMC
TF CARD Support 1~32GB
802.11 b/g/n, RTL8723, 10/100 BaseT, Bluetooth 4.0
HDD File System FAT16 / FAT32 / NTFS
Support Widevine Level 1, DRM PlayReady,Verimatrix, built in Trustzone,
HDCP 2.2/1.4, Support 4K 10-bit H.265/H.264/VP9 video playback and display
1*HDMI 1.4b with CEC, 1*Micro SD Card (TF) ,3*USB HOST 2High speed USB 2.0,support USB DISK and USB HDD
1*SPDIF, 1*RJ45, 1*Digital display tube; Digital display tube
1*Power input, Power 5V/2A
What's in the box
1 x TV box
1 x IR remote
1 x HDMI cable
1 x Power adapter (A right AC Adapter will be sent as your shipping country)
1 x User manual
Geekbuying

Looks like a great option for the price, given the 2Gb of RAM.

Kind of Old School with the RED DIsplay, I had a watch like that eons ago and it does look groovy.:good:

Geekbuying list 2GB of RAM in the specs however the Kodi System Info screen shows a max of 1GB. Makes me wonder if it'll really be 2GB.
Edit: looks like it will actually be 2GB
http://freaktab.com/forum/advertise...-rk3229tv-box-2g-8g-34-99?p=576530#post576530

There has been an update.
The Unit is 2/8 Gb confirmed.
Images supplied for KODi was a stock from the 1/8gb version.
10/100 lan.
3 USB ports as seen why they said 4 who knows

Hi anyone know where i can get firmware for this as the one i have just keeps rebooting after 5 mins

R-BOX Android 5.1.1 RK3229 Update
Well further on this little media player is turning out OK,
There is an OTA update that appears to take forever to complete and will do a few resets and weird stuff until its fully downloaded.
Then applying the update it does a few more resets, not to sure why but after it all said and done the box is stable and working well, it's no speed demon but will make a fairly good media streamer.
Keep on forcing the update until its complete I found.
A few Images of what's going
No Red Clock due to the colour of Bezel on front but looks pretty good
Whats in the box
What Ports etc we have
A bit of a look inside
Wifi and Ethe net performace
Look at the GUI
A few basic performance test for those that like numbers.
Full Geekbench report http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/6916087

Does anyone know if this box is better than the 1st Amazon fire Tv on performance? Thanks

cenbit said:
Does anyone know if this box is better than the 1st Amazon fire Tv on performance? Thanks
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I'd say it's a bit worse than the FTV gen 1. It's usable, though, and it is prerooted and has the play store installed.
I was able to install Amazon Underground and then the Prime Video app.
The real issue I'm having is with reboots. In Kodi, library updates consistently trigger a reboot but eventually complete. Very annoying, though. If you add a USB device with it plugged in, it will often decide it wants to restart - so swapping keyboards in and out is not advised.
Audio over HDMI is pretty bad compared to the FTV. I have it purportedly set to bitstream, but that doesn't look to be working. There's an SPDIF out that I'll try - I have a couple of cheap (but more expensive than the r-box!) d/a converters. There's also an a/v out that I'm going to look into just pulling audio with.
So, what do I mean by pretty bad: I run HDMI into an Oppo 103 player, then feed the analog outs from that to a multichannel integrated amp that drives a set of Thiel full range speakers and a sub.
The system will output 5.1 audio in bitstream mode, which has lots of dropouts and when it's not dropping out, it often sounds like people are speaking from inside a toilet.
Mixing down to 2 channel sounds just about as bad.
I'm trying to get the update now, but it's really ticking me off. The wifi on the unit isn't very good so I feed it from an ethernet handoff - which works for everything EXCEPT the stupid update app.
The only route I know of to get the system to treat wired ethernet as if it were wifi requires that I be able to run Xposed, and running Xposed requires flashing from recovery.
The stock recovery is promising, in that it supports an update from ADB, but it's not coming up as an ADB device.
I will try getting the Xposed installer on an SD card - that may be readable in recovery but there was no option for it when I rebooted into recovery without an SD card in the system.
I'd be much happier if I could find a firmware for this pup online - shipping a device with root active and a recovery is great, but with no visible option to recover in a pinch I'm a little concerned. (Of course, the recovery partition may be a viable source for a recovery as well.)

R-BOX Android 5.1.1 RK3229 Update
Update June 16th
This is after OTA update has been installed
Has been mentioned and also noted here the unit can reset while streaming over ethernet (few hours) does not appear to do so over Wifi,
The Ota Update can and will do a few resets I found using ethernet.
At a guess using WIFI this may not happen. ?
The Kodi Installed is bloated, suggest SPMC or ZDMC

firmware update
There was another OTA update today.
I just used wifi only to update went 100% no reset.
I can see they have added an Off icon to the Task Bar and some improvements in Kodi

Firmware update R-box
Can be found at blog.geekbuying
SD-Update
PC Upgrade

Firmware update R-box
Can be found at blog.geekbuying
SD-Update
PC Upgrade

thanks for posting the link. Now if only the adb flash process worked. Getting the thing to power on with the USB active is a challenge, and I have yet to get the usb component recognized after booting it into recovery and issuing the write image from adb command.
The recovery doesn't seem to know that it might want to look at the sd card.
the computer tools for a recovery are in Chinese and without the USB device being seen in the recovery, I'm not optimistic they'll work.
There may be a way to create a bootable SD card, I'd give it more of a try but my laptop can't read my card reader, has to wait until I get to a better system.
http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12...d-from-an-sd-card-on-rockchip-rk3288-devices/
looks as if in conjunction with the .IMG file in the "PC Upgrade" the create-sdcard scripts may work.

Driver Assist 4.4 rk 322*
User DriverAssist 4.4 to support RK322* chipset
USB 1 appears to be the OTG port,
Run Rockchip batch tool
Load firmware
Plug USB A to A in USB1 push reset and then power on button.
Detects and click upgrade.
Done
New Image in, about 12 minutes to set up Android
Same version as latest update 20160615.104202 test keys
Still appears a quirk while streaming of ethernet, Wifi Ok ?

o-I-c said:
User DriverAssist 4.4 to support RK322* chipset
USB 1 appears to be the OTG port,
Run Rockchip batch tool
Load firmware
Plug USB A to A in USB1 push reset and then power on button.
Detects and click upgrade.
Done
New Image in, about 12 minutes to set up Android
Same version as latest update 20160615.104202 test keys
Still appears a quirk while streaming of ethernet, Wifi Ok ?
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2 issues:
- on my windows box, win764 bit, the ADB driver never heats up. I do get the r-box class device, but no ADB
- the batch tool crashes once I load the upgrade image. I'll try again after using usb 1 to connect to, and possibly it will be happier if the device is attached? The ini file isn't loading, and the display is all in Chinese as a result.
The good news is the SD card tool shows the box could be booted from an SD card at least in theory. Unfortunately, basing the card on the sdboot_3288 files and the rk3229 upgrade results in a hang - but the device did attempt to boot from the sdcard, so an sdboot for the rk3229 card is worth a run.
I continue to have the crash after loading the .img file and the no ADB drivers when I spun up an old XP virtual machine. I don't have physical hardware that runs a 32 bit OS in the house.
I will try finding an older release of the tool - one version of the tool can't even try installing an ADB driver, one release does, so perhaps the batch tool is similarly of varying quality from release to release.

Using win10 64bit here,
You could try running as administrator,
I have seen usb ports go silly when drivers are loaded for some devices
Check to see if you have any unknown devices in your device manager,
Uninstall then refresh may pickup driver ok.

Success!
V 1.8 of the batch tool worked great for me to flash the system image, dialogs
were in English and the file was read.
https://androidmtk.com/download-rockchip-batch-tool
On the geekbuying site, they call out a specific release of the driver installer - it works, and as far as I could see, the one in the bundle with the 1.7 tool did not work.
Unfortunately, the Xposed framework doesn't support this box well - you install it, and it boots, but it looks as if the launcher doesn't work properly afterwards. So getting the OTA over the wired network won't work for now.
The first couple of times Kodi tries indexing my library, the box locks up and restarts, but I suspect it'll eventually complete as it did the first time I set it up.
I'll do more audio testing this week.
The rebooting mystery is solved, for me, at least. The CPU was sitting at 96 degrees during a reindex.
I flipped the box upside down and blew in through the vent. The CPU cooled off.
I pulled it open, pulled off the heatsink and the thick pad of adhesive holding it in place, and replaced that with CPU compound. I've tied the sink back in place for the time being, and I'm seeing temps of 93 c. A slight improvement.
I think thermal management for this system is going to be a real issue, fortunately, simply turning the box so that the LED light is upside down will help quite a bit.
I have a bunch of small aluminum sinks and once this test run is over will probably slap those in as well, but I'm also going to look for a cpu throttling utility on the play store as I don't have a USB fan free at the moment.

thermal management of the r-box
After chasing temperature as a root cause for a bit, I find that there is one particular music folder the app cannot parse.
I tested the files in that folder, and it looks as if they were corrupted when they were copied in. I think that rather than CPU overheating was the root cause of the restarts. I did feel better having redone the heatsink. Since the case is plastic, if you have one of these and want to keep using it, you might want to drill a few holes in the "top" and lave the box placed vertical with the vents open on both sides - that was what gave me the best CPU temps.
For me, the audio is still terrible. Frequent brief dropouts passing bitstream over HDMI.
I will probably get a firetv stick for the second set, or a used gen 1 firetv box, and ditch this - but for 35 dollars, not a terrible learning experience.

Ok thanks for firmware ive now managed to flash it and get box working again. One question though what version of kodi do i install on this device? I just tried updating with arm version but it wouldn't install? Trying to update to latest version of kodi?

Miracast not working on Nougat

I have enable Miracast on build.prop, for it to appear on the cast menu, it adds the option, I am able to find my TV, but when I connect to it, I receive a Force Close on the settings app, and the TV appears as black, or an static image of my phone homescreen, opening the settings app again would force close another time.. Is there any workaround for it?

I can confirm this. Miracast is not working on 7.0 (NPD90G).

UP

Really?

Thanks for the heads up. I had to root my 5X just to enable it (to change build.prop). And haven't allowed any updates since. I'd love to try Nougat, but not if it just cripples things I use.
I also had to root to enable apps to be able to access USB flash drives. Anyone know if Google resolved this in Nougat?

erik777 said:
Thanks for the heads up. I had to root my 5X just to enable it (to change build.prop). And haven't allowed any updates since. I'd love to try Nougat, but not if it just cripples things I use.
I also had to root to enable apps to be able to access USB flash drives. Anyone know if Google resolved this in Nougat?
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My EStrong File Explorer can access a USB flash drive (thumb type) without root on N. I haven't tried any other apps, though. However, otg, for that app, has always been available so that may not help with your issue.
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I have Nougat installed and I try to connect to my microsoft wireless display adapter v2. I find it in the cast menu, but if I hit connect, the display adapter says connecting on the TV, but it is never successful.
Though I have to mention, that my adapter is pretty new and I never tried with Android 6, maybe it didn't work there either.
Greetings,
liebero
P.S: Did anyone successfully connect the microsoft wireless display adapter v2 with Android 6? Then I try switching back.

I'm on Android 7.0 NBD90W and the persist.debug.wfd.enable=1 fix doesn't work anymore. I've tried it on 2 LG smart TVs already.

I can confirm that Miracast to Microsoft display adaptor works on marshmallow. I have upgraded to nougat and it didn't work so I downgraded to marshmallow and plan to stay on marshmallow till I get a new phone. Probably going to go with a windows phone or an unlocked LG/Samsung. Seems Google no longer cares to offer Miracast so I'm hoping some of the other phone manufactures will include it.

Yes Mirracast is not working on Nougart but does work on Marshmellow

I can confirm that Miracast DOES NOT work on Nougat. This is so frustrating. I had to downgrade to Marshmallow Miracast is flawless on M. I have tried every ROM under the sun with the same results. Miracast FAILS to display with Nexus 6 and Nougat.

mblender1969 said:
I can confirm that Miracast DOES NOT work on Nougat. This is so frustrating. I had to downgrade to Marshmallow Miracast is flawless on M. I have tried every ROM under the sun with the same results. Miracast FAILS to display with Nexus 6 and Nougat.
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I had to buy a Chromecast because of this "bug" on Nougat, btw now I'm going to go back to Marshmallow on my 6P, since my 5X already died in a bootloop.

Hey there,
is this an Nexus 5X problem only? I'm using a OnePlus 3T with Android 7.0 and had also trouble connecting to my Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter plugged into my car radio. It always tried to connect while showing "Connecting..." but then just stopped. Somehow I managed to establish the connection, the problem is I don't know how.
I tried multiple things:
- Connecting from while Airplane Mode ist active
- Connecting while being connected via Bluetooth
- Switching to 2,4GHz WiFi only
None of those settings seemed to work so I switched them all back.
The day it finally worked I did the following:
- I was in the car with a friend who helped me out with trying to connect the device. About 30 connection tries after with multiple different settings (see above) were unsuccessful.
- I've been at his place about 2 hours, doing nothing special on the phone.
- When I got in the car afterwards, my OnePlus 3T could not find the wireless display adapter.
- After I stopped the engine (which does NOT turn off/reset the adapter) the phone could find the Miracast stick and the connection worked.
The last time the connection was successful before this point (I had to reset my device for rooting purposes) the connection always worked, after it was established the first time.

Yes, confirmed. Miracast is not working on Nougat. On Marshmallow it's working just fine.

Confirm, miracast wont work on Android 7. But also got weird acting. Its casting itself to neighbors TVs without me turning cast on. That is loose of privacy And security, i also seen the content What my neighbors whatching on theirs YouTube TV. How to fix issue, do anyone face same problem?

Its working on LineageOS, but yes doesn't work on nougart

Fixed mine just now. In addition to the previous build prop fix, remove the pound from sdm.debug.downscale_external=1

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Fixed mine just now. In addition to the previous build prop fix, remove the pound from sdm.debug.downscale_external=1
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I don't have this line commented... I added it but it doesn't work anyway.

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I don't have this line commented... I added it but it doesn't work anyway.
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Same result for me. Works fine on lineage. I'm preferring stock lollipop with some nice launcher, wallpapers and modes to enhance performance. Everything just works