Skyworth Binge Android TV box

Bought this Skyworth Leap S1 from HIFI Corp on the 15th of this month along with a Sony 1000W Soundbar. I very quickly discovered that the Skyworth says Dolby on the box but delivers no such thing. Using the SPDIF (Optical connection) the Codec transmitted by the Leap S1 is mere LPCM and the Netflix App offers STEREO only (no 5.1 surround sound).

I am sadly disappointed with this device. The menus have all great looking settings for Optical out etc... but it delivers only LPCM (no surround). I've tested the cable with other devices (I have an old LG Blu Ray player that offers Netflix with 5.1 Surround over SPDIF) and they give brilliant Dolby Surround and/or DTS. Using the same files, the Skyworth still only sends LPCM via the optical out.

I tried calling Skyworth (useless to say the least) -- the switchboard transferred my countless times and later started ignoring my incoming calls because there was no technical support or assistance.

SKYWORTH IS A PIECE OF ****!
 
Leap S1 just arrived. So excited.
 

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snugam said:
Bought this Skyworth Leap S1 from HIFI Corp on the 15th of this month along with a Sony 1000W Soundbar. I very quickly discovered that the Skyworth says Dolby on the box but delivers no such thing. Using the SPDIF (Optical connection) the Codec transmitted by the Leap S1 is mere LPCM and the Netflix App offers STEREO only (no 5.1 surround sound).

I am sadly disappointed with this device. The menus have all great looking settings for Optical out etc... but it delivers only LPCM (no surround). I've tested the cable with other devices (I have an old LG Blu Ray player that offers Netflix with 5.1 Surround over SPDIF) and they give brilliant Dolby Surround and/or DTS. Using the same files, the Skyworth still only sends LPCM via the optical out.

I tried calling Skyworth (useless to say the least) -- the switchboard transferred my countless times and later started ignoring my incoming calls because there was no technical support or assistance.

SKYWORTH IS A PIECE OF ****!
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DTS settings are always tricky. Could you mail us your current settings?

We don't currently offer phone support, so please mail us on [email protected].
 
FiestaST said:
Lemme know your thoughts please & UI smoothness.

I am considering upgrading my OG unit.
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So far much more snappier than my old Skyworth Binge and supports Netflix. Other than that, I haven’t noticed anything much different other than much more ports on the unit as well as an on/off switch. UI wise you won’t notice a difference.

I did encounter an issue connecting to my wifi network. Seems like the unit has issues on mesh routers using Fast Roaming so I could only connect by disabling that. The old Binge unit had no issues with that.
 
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Received a bunch of emails from Skyworth saying that they are out of office till Jan 6 2020 :D
 
@Skyworth Digital Support I recently bought the Leap S1 and it works well for streaming. I can read NTFS External HDD on USB port but cannot WRITE to it. There is no dialogue that appears to grant permissions to apps and it appears the FILE service is not there. Will this be fixed going forward?

I really bought this box over the MI BOX since it had extra USB port that I can use both air mouse and ext drive.
 
shikarssj said:
@Skyworth Digital Support I recently bought the Leap S1 and it works well for streaming. I can read NTFS External HDD on USB port but cannot WRITE to it. There is no dialogue that appears to grant permissions to apps and it appears the FILE service is not there. Will this be fixed going forward?

I really bought this box over the MI BOX since it had extra USB port that I can use both air mouse and ext drive.
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Write for NTFS is not a directly supported function, but we will check with the software team if the next update can include it or not.
 
shikarssj said:
@Skyworth Digital Support I recently bought the Leap S1 and it works well for streaming. I can read NTFS External HDD on USB port but cannot WRITE to it. There is no dialogue that appears to grant permissions to apps and it appears the FILE service is not there. Will this be fixed going forward?

I really bought this box over the MI BOX since it had extra USB port that I can use both air mouse and ext drive.
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Probably the same reason why Mac's cant write to NTFS, its owned by Microsoft and they will need a license to enable write permissions.

Why not try exFAT.
 
Skyworth Digital Support said:
Write for NTFS is not a directly supported function, but we will check with the software team if the next update can include it or not.
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Please see if it can be done. I read online that the "FILE" or "Documents" Google app/service needs to be exposed and allow user to set WRITE permissions for external storage. ( https://www.lonelycatgames.com/docs/xplore/known-problems/write-external-storage )

As a workaround I am using the drive as part of device storage but had to move all my existing data (~500GB) into the drive via LAN which is terribly slow since you need to have free drives to duplicate your data first before sending it out.

Thanks for the reply and to it feels great having local support for a product like this. Great work!
 
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shikarssj said:
Please see if it can be done. I read online that the "FILE" or "Documents" Google app/service needs to be exposed and allow user to set WRITE permissions for external storage. ( https://www.lonelycatgames.com/docs/xplore/known-problems/write-external-storage )

As a workaround I am using the drive as part of device storage but had to move all my existing data (~500GB) into the drive via LAN which is terribly slow since you need to have free drives to duplicate your data first before sending it out.

Thanks for the reply and to it feels great having local support for a product like this. Great work!
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NTFS is not officially supported for write access, however, the issue is not related to that.

We checked now exFAT write support is there on the base system, but the apps aren't getting the prompt to enable permissions. Often this is required for some 3rd party certifications, but I need to confirm with the team why this was done.

If we are free to do so, the request has been made to enable this for the next update.
 
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