[Android Stick & Console Computers General] werttrewis:
Hallo everybody!

Some days ago my HI802 wich is a rebrand of gk802 android dongle arrived with dhl.

I order with aliexpress.com for $ 99,-

The HI802 has

- SoC – Freescale i.MX6Q Quad Core Cortex A9 Processor with Vivante quad GC2000 GPU,

· System Memory – 1GB RAM

· Storage – 8GB NAND Flash Memory (on a exchangeable micro SD card)

- micro SD card slot for card up to 32 mb

· Video Output – HDMI

· Connectivity – Built-in Wifi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth

· USB – USB Host + USB OTG

The Hi802 was delivered together with an 2000 ma wallplug, and a proprietary! usb to micro-usb cable.

After unpacking the dongle and connecting it to the supplied charger with supplied usb to micro-usb cable, connecting it to my tv with a hdmi-cable, and plugging in the Mele F10 airmouse dongle into the HI802's usp-port the Hi802 booted up, so i thought erything would be ok.

Unfortunatly the airmouse was not recogniced and i couln't see any mouse-pointer on my tv.

So i tried some normal wired usb-mice, but also with the same effect, also no keyboard worked with the HI802.

After a lot of emailing with the dealer (kimdecent) and searching a lot of other places on the internet, i finally got my HI802 to work with mice and keyboards and also my Mele F10 flymouse:

The usb to micro usb-cable that was deliverd with my device is a proprietary one and non-standard.

After replacing the cable with a standard-cable, all wireless mice and keyboards worked.

Also chargers that can deliver 2000 ma or more work with that device.

The firmware can be updated very easy:

1. Copy all image-files to the external sd-card.

2. Insert the end of a paper-clip into a little whole besides the micro-usb, and then connect the stick to the power-supply.

3. The stick will then boot into recovery-mode and with a connected mouse or keyboard you can select 'update all system files' from menu.

4. Update needs a few minutes

5. Select 'reboot'

I updated the firmware to a rooted version: rc2V1.65.3 without any problems.

The wireless connection of the stick is quite good.

I connected to my router which is about 30 feet away and have 2/3 signal strengh and can download with about 20 - 25 mb/sec and is sufficient to watch most movies.

I already downloaded a lot of Apps, nearly everything works fine, a lot of apps can be moved to internal SD card to save free space.

Also XMBC works like a charme, I watch a lot of videos and movies over wireless NAS.

Some issues i still have:

The HI802 doesn't work with active (powered) usb-hubs, nothing connected to these hubs works, so you should use passive hubs only.

Using an external sd-card with the HI802: The external sd-card seems to get mounted read only with wrong rights, so you can' use it with your apps (i tried to use Backup and Restore to backup).

You have to mount it with r/w-rights in root-explorer manually ( that's the /mnt/external_sd/ folder)

When i connect usb-sticks or harddrives over a passive hub, FAT32-formatted media can be mounted, but the HI 802 can't read from those media, althought the files show up with root-explorer. (I will ty to fix this issue with root explorer in the next days!)

I also couldn't get the HI802 to work with NTFS, also apps that normally mount NTFS-sticks (chainfires stickmount) on other devices without any problems did not work. (maybe also munted r/o ?)

Did anybody of you also have the same problems?