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scrfta

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Hey guys. Got an old mxq box, it's very slow I'm not even sure of the specs!!

It's no good for kodi or streaming apps as it's way too slow. I even tried to install retroarch on it and turn it into an emulator console but even sonic the hedgehog was laggy as hell!!

Apart from a paperweight, doorstop, clay pidgeon etc does anyone have a suggestion of anything useful I could use this piece of chinese plastic junk for before I send it to recycle heaven. I prefer not to throw working items away if I can help it but I can't think of a single thing that it would be any good for.

Weird suggestions welcome (not too weird though!:laughing:)
 
formandvoid said:
Maybe good for levelling up a wonky table leg, like most of the cheap Android boxes lol.
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As this is the only suggestion I may have to use it for this!

I only bought it because I had a $25 amazon voucher and there was nothing on amazon.com I wanted.

Should have bought $25 worth of toilet paper. More useful. :LOL:
 
scrfta said:
As this is the only suggestion I may have to use it for this!

I only bought it because I had a $25 amazon voucher and there was nothing on amazon.com I wanted.

Should have bought $25 worth of toilet paper. More useful. :LOL:
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If you set it back to factory condition, will it not run an older version of kodi, like 16.1, I have came across some old Android boxes recently, they work ok with 16.1, as long as you dont put too many add ons on them.
 
grahamer67 said:
If you set it back to factory condition, will it not run an older version of kodi, like 16.1, I have came across some old Android boxes recently, they work ok with 16.1, as long as you dont put too many add ons on them.
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It possibly will but I just don't use kodi anymore. I find it pretty useless and slow these days compared to apps like cinema free etc. I hate the slow load up time for kodi, waiting 5-10 minutes for updates to complete before you can use it.

It may be about the only thing I could do with it though. Kodi is only really useful these days for VOD and there are dozens of apps that do exactly the same but much faster.
 
scrfta said:
It possibly will but I just don't use kodi anymore. I find it pretty useless and slow these days compared to apps like cinema free etc. I hate the slow load up time for kodi, waiting 5-10 minutes for updates to complete before you can use it.

It may be about the only thing I could do with it though. Kodi is only really useful these days for VOD and there are dozens of apps that do exactly the same but much faster.
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scrfta said:
It possibly will but I just don't use kodi anymore. I find it pretty useless and slow these days compared to apps like cinema free etc. I hate the slow load up time for kodi, waiting 5-10 minutes for updates to complete before you can use it.

It may be about the only thing I could do with it though. Kodi is only really useful these days for VOD and there are dozens of apps that do exactly the same but much faster.
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I havent used an android box in a long time, so I am not up to date with them, suppose its probaly too old and outdated now then, I fixed a few up late last summer, put 16.1 kodi on them and a few working add ons, plus Mobdro, six of them in total, put them on Gumtree for a tenner each and they were all away within 2 days, you could always try that.
 
Mine runs ok with kodi 16.1 plus live lounge app works fine m8, if that helps. PS don't put too many addons on kodi, about 6 should be fine.
 
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