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Brand new out of the package. Build 20200612-V004. I have a physical USB keyboard and mouse connected. Am on ethernet only so far. Root is enabled. Nova Launcher installed and made default.
1. The keyboard escape key seems to do nothing at all. On any other android device I have used (TV boxes, phones, etc) escape is the same a pressing the back button on the navbar. Other well known keystrokes including Alt+Tab for recents and Alt+Escape for home and CTRL+Escape for menu work fine. This is a real pain. I do note that the Escape key functions normally when I connect via TeamViewer.
2. Before buying this, I specifically contacted Minix and asked about auto-power on without having to press the power button. This is essential to me as we have lots of outages here. John wrote me "Yes, ... have an auto power-on option. ". I am not seeing this work at all. First, I see no option in the options. I have seen and configured the power button setting for shutdown but that seems to have no impact on this. Second, if I shut the box down clean using the power button or just pull the power cord, the system will simply NOT start up until I press the power button. I must be missing something.
3. The Samba settings seem odd in that (a) it will not let me change user id or password - just returns them to the default - tried both my own values and to leave blank, (b) no place to specify the root of the file system to export, (c) I cannot seem to locate any shared Samba despite its being enabled from my Win10 machine. I know the IP and can ping it fine. But I cannot "net view IP" and it certainly does not show up with other devices on the LAN in the Network Locations within Explorer. Also if I try to add the Neo U22 as a server within X-Plore on my phone and specify the IP it cannot connect. So this seems not working at all.
4. In the Screen Saver settings, I cannot seem to find anything to just disable the screen saver. Don't need it, don't want it. I find a setting to never put the device to sleep - thank goodness! I would have expected to see a "never" in the list of "when to start" choices or a switch to simply disable all this. Have not yet tested to see if it tries anything but will.
Obviously, I have a long way to go and not all is "bad" so far. It is great that TeamViewer Host works so well. And the device seems nicely made, not running hot, and very swift compared to my Neo X5 and Ugoos AM1.
So if any comments/tips/suggestions on the above are appreciated. Perhaps more will be added to this over time.
Thanks!
1. The keyboard escape key seems to do nothing at all. On any other android device I have used (TV boxes, phones, etc) escape is the same a pressing the back button on the navbar. Other well known keystrokes including Alt+Tab for recents and Alt+Escape for home and CTRL+Escape for menu work fine. This is a real pain. I do note that the Escape key functions normally when I connect via TeamViewer.
2. Before buying this, I specifically contacted Minix and asked about auto-power on without having to press the power button. This is essential to me as we have lots of outages here. John wrote me "Yes, ... have an auto power-on option. ". I am not seeing this work at all. First, I see no option in the options. I have seen and configured the power button setting for shutdown but that seems to have no impact on this. Second, if I shut the box down clean using the power button or just pull the power cord, the system will simply NOT start up until I press the power button. I must be missing something.
3. The Samba settings seem odd in that (a) it will not let me change user id or password - just returns them to the default - tried both my own values and to leave blank, (b) no place to specify the root of the file system to export, (c) I cannot seem to locate any shared Samba despite its being enabled from my Win10 machine. I know the IP and can ping it fine. But I cannot "net view IP" and it certainly does not show up with other devices on the LAN in the Network Locations within Explorer. Also if I try to add the Neo U22 as a server within X-Plore on my phone and specify the IP it cannot connect. So this seems not working at all.
4. In the Screen Saver settings, I cannot seem to find anything to just disable the screen saver. Don't need it, don't want it. I find a setting to never put the device to sleep - thank goodness! I would have expected to see a "never" in the list of "when to start" choices or a switch to simply disable all this. Have not yet tested to see if it tries anything but will.
Obviously, I have a long way to go and not all is "bad" so far. It is great that TeamViewer Host works so well. And the device seems nicely made, not running hot, and very swift compared to my Neo X5 and Ugoos AM1.
So if any comments/tips/suggestions on the above are appreciated. Perhaps more will be added to this over time.
Thanks!
