Mi Box 3 choppy audio

by Trasid

I bought a Mi Box 3 on February 15, has been working well up until a couple of days ago. Suddenly the audio on all of the apps (netflix, youtube, etc) is intermittently (although regularly) choppy, sounds like trying to talk underwater.

I searched through some of the older threads however nothing really suggested any kind of solid solution to this. I tried changing the audio input and power cycled the device which did not fix it. The weird thing is that it was fine and then suddenly for no good reason, the audio issue appeared two days ago. I have not altered any settings or moved the device at all.

I checked to see if there was an update, and indeed there was. The small amount of information on the screen about the update was that it addressed something with youtube, it was ~420mb. After the update, I tried the apps again and still had the choppy audio. After about 10 minutes, I couldn't hear it any more.

Does anyone know what this is, and more importantly, how to fix it? Pretty frustrating.

Trasid

One thing I neglected to try was a different HDMI cable. The one that came with the box seems it is pretty poor quality. I tried a different one and so far, so good. Will see if that was the issue and report back.