Hey Folks,
i finally got my first android tv. It is a refurbished TCL 50EP662. Hoever when i start it up on the botom left of the screen it flashes some system informations which i cant get rid off :(
https://gyazo.com/9634b4232978368825925ae4d194410c
Also it seems like i can somehow access some Factory Menu / Setting.
I have searched the internet but could not find any usefull informations On how to disable this output (left picture) I tryed to find a manual on how to do a hard factory reset. Holding the one button the tc has while connecting it to the power the tv starts into some kind of recovery mode but then says "no method selected" or something and then boots up normaly. A normal factory data reset did not help.
Does anyone have an idea what to do?
Thank you & kind regards
Joschi
I keep seeing a lot of misinformation being thrown around about these devices, their performance, and the SoC (Amlogic S905Y2). This SoC is found in the ADT-3 Android TV reference / dev box and so unsurprisingly in the TiVo Stream 4K, almost certainly in the Xiaomi Mi Stick 4K, and presumably in the Google Chromecast Ultra 2 (aka Sabrina aka Nest Cast aka whatever). So let's clear up some things.
The S905Y2 and S905X2 are identical except that the "X" supports Ethernet. That's it. For the purpose of comparison, they are the same SoC. They are 2nd generation 12nm chips that utilize DDR4 RAM. They support Bluetooth 5.0. They support 4K60, decode/encode h.265 HEVC, support HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and USB 3.0 (sometimes in the form of USB-C).
All of these devices are faster than the Mi Box S, which uses the 28nm S905X and DDR3. This isn't even worth arguing about.
With a slightly higher clock speed, these devices are (most likely) marginally faster than the MediaTek MT8695 found in Amazon Fire Stick 4K, but take the edge with more RAM (2GB vs the 1.5GB found in the Fire Stick 4K).
Yes, both the 2015/2017 (Tegra X1) and 2019 (Tegra X1+) Nvidia Shields are faster. I would argue, however, that given the difference in price (using the $50 TiVo unit as a reference point, since the others aren't out, yet), comparing these dongles to the Shield is silly. I would hope that spending 2-4x the cost would give you better performance. And that's before we get into the argument about how dumb the cheaper, 32-bit tube version of the Shield is (my point of view being that the Shield Pro is the only one worth buying).
Which brings me to my last group of points:
I am defining "you" as the vast majority of users, even those who think they're somehow special because they know what Plex and Kodi are. I have a single $40 AC router, a $100 laptop acting as my Plex Server (no transcoding), and all 4 of my modern devices - TCL TV with Roku Ultra built-in, Mi Box (not S), Amazon Fire Stick 4K, and TiVo Stream 4K - can stream 20GB+ 4K files over my wireless network without issue. If you can't do this, your network sucks and you should spend your money on upgrading it instead of a $50 streaming stick if you have to choose between the two.
Now, are you somehow special? Do you need more because you do more with your streaming device, like gaming? Great! I'm not suggesting that these are good enough for everyone on the planet and that's what the Shield is there for. If this is you, why are you even looking at these dongles and sticks?
Bring on the downvotes.
