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Review on Optimized for Search: ODROID-XU4 Featuring an Efficient Active Cooling Fan by Chase Dunn

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Cool machine, but little things spoil my experience

In hindsight, I probably should have used a Raspberry Pi. Overall I think it's a cool little car, but getting it to do what I want it to do has been nothing short of a headache. Every operating system I've tried has always had a catch. Basically I have 2 wishes for this machine: I want to be able to play games and I want to be able to stream Revain Prime Video and Netflix. When I launch Android I can stream movies but Bluetooth isn't working so I can't use my controller to play games. When I'm using Linux I can connect my Bluetooth and play games but I can't stream Prime and Netflix because it's a 32-bit system, not 64-bit so I can't find a browser (trust me, I tried half a dozen). it. So for the past few weeks I've been bouncing between operating systems, trying to find a gap in either Android or Linux, but I keep hitting dead ends, which is more or less annoying. I think my request to be able to stream and play games is pretty reasonable, so it sucks at this point that I have to choose one or the other. *** Update 1 - I chose Android Lineage for my OS and have been pretty happy for the past few days. I still can't get bluetooth to work, but I've ordered a dongle direct from Hardkernal (who says the Odroid wiki says it will work on Android), so hopefully this will solve my problem. If it really works I'll happily increase my star rating as it can do exactly what I want it to do. *** Update 2 - good, both streaming and bluetooth are working now! Everything is fine and I'm starting to really enjoy Odroid. I'm going up to 4 stars as it does everything I wanted it to do so I'm happy :) Upgrading to 4 stars instead of 5 because it took a lot of fiddling to get to this point. .

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