Mi Box problems

by NashGuy73

Anyone else finding their Mi Box to be super buggy? Four or five times now it's frozen or locked up in one way or another and the only way I could fix it was to unplug the power cord. Just now it did it after I had been watching shows in Plex for about an hour. The entire screen turned a lovely shade of blue. (Maybe Android TV is taking a page from Windows with its blue screen of death?) It sounded like it was still responding to key presses from the remote, although I couldn't see anything since the screen just stayed blue.

Any time I've gone to unplug the power cord when it craps out, the Mi Box feels really hot, so maybe the problem is due to overheating?

The other big flaw I see is that video shows a lot of jerkiness/judder. I've noticed this a lot on various shows in both Hulu and Plex (streaming via Plex channels), maybe other apps as well. I'm not sure if the Mi Box is dropping frames or if maybe the apps in question are requesting 24p versions of these shows but then outputting them at 60p. I have the box set to output at 1080p60. I did try setting it to 1080p24 but that only made the problem worse (despite the fact that my TV can natively display 24p material and I was streaming shows from Hulu that I know they offer in 24p).

I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing similar problems. Needless to say, I'll be returning this particular unit. Not sure if I'll bother replacing it with another or not.

Panther90

My box has been flawless. If you have any problems I would return it for a new unit.

DioCatt

Hearing it running really hot doesn't sound good. Had my running constantly all day and it's barely warm.

croatiansensation

Bought one for my mom. Worked for about a week and then all the sudden, it won't display anything. Light is on on the front and there is light coming from the toslink output, so I know it's on. The remote doesn't do anything and unplugging it and plugging it back in does nothing.

pawdog

I've had some DTS passthrough issues with Plex, Emby and Kodi and being unable to format a USB drive for internal storage. Those are my only problems.

Chjapa

I've got the jerkiness issue as well. Makes some stuff unwatchable.

ynitat

Hey, NashGuy73, did you ever get your Mi Box replaced?

Amcjr

Has anybody run into the unfortunately settings has stopped when trying to migrate data to a external storage