[Android Stick & Console RockChip based Computers] Barkuti:
Wellp, after my recent tinkerings with the H96 Max V56 TV box all I can say about it is… that it is a humongous piece of sh1te LoL! :ROFLMAO:

Jokes aside, its stock software is mainly the culprit. It uses a launcher called “MediaBox launcher” which, besides being botchy and too limited with regards to its desktop configuration, sits atop an Android system worthy of Pepe Gotera y Otilio, chapuzas a domicilio (Pepe Leak and Otilio, botched jobs home delivered). I took many photographs of the system running on my TV while tinkering with it: lots if not all installed applications come with all sorts of permissions :oops:🤯:ROFLMAO: activated, the underlying Android settings menu is FAR from being properly displayed (many unreachable or hard to reach items due to scroll issues), search bar sitting atop in a botched way…

You can take a peek at the photographs I took of it here: H96 Max V56 TV Box @ gifyu - Barkuti.

The main problems of the box were that, although I could use adb commands from my smartphone via IP connection and install Magisk and other applications on it, overall the stuff didn't work. Magisk apparently patched the boot partition and it worked, providing root access to applications, although it complained about “competing su binary” (Abnormal State - "su" binary not from Magisk has been detected). However, I found a bug in the device concerning USB keyboard input devices, it is described here: X96 TV box issue – how to fix it when Enter key interprets as “q”? @ NoviSign. The bug is caused by an error in the file “/system/usr/keylayot/Generic.kl”, which belongs to the system partition; but I couldn't fix it, because every time I tried to save it (tried three file explorers) I got some sort of error: Total Commander reported some weird error related to missing root privileges (?), Root Explorer failed to edit the file (system partition in read only mode and no way to change it to read/write), and Solid Explorer couldn't save the file reporting that the system partition was read only (I also tried pushing the file with adb, but this failed too). Shockingly, though, I could delete “Generic.kl” (LoL can't edit but can delete it), completely losing the ability to input from my USB keyboard afterwards…

Also, certain applications did not run properly; like for example Total Commander due to missing main top menu.

The integration of third party launchers with the stock Android system resulted botchy and a waste of time.

I emailed the company a few days ago (Sep 19th 2023) with a reprimand telling them, besides the long report:

“…

The bug which I am reporting is described in the following webpage:

https://www.novisign.com/blog/tech/x96-tv-box-issue-how-to-fix-it-when-enter-key-interprets-as-q/

The date of this article is rather old (March 28, 2018), so how is it

possible that you have did not yet become aware of this problem? The

article is 5 years and half old!!! Five years and half! How many TV

boxes with this problem have you shipped? Oh my god!

…”

They did not answered me. 👎

Therefore, and all in all, my evaluation of the TV box (and its company) is as follows:

The meme is also in chinese, so they won't miss it just in case they end up seeing it.

What a bunch of clowns; shame on them. 😒