Player Review – RAmos T11 Pro Pt.2
Hello again. As promised, here is part two of the RAmos T11 Pro review – Of Two Faces, This Is The Other. This is where I indulge you on the second OS this dual-booting player states it can run – the Android OS (or lack there of).
Of Two Faces, This Is The Other
To remind you quickly on what the RAmos T11 Pro is – It’s a 5-inch resistive touchscreen player that is powered by Novatek’s 1080 chip. It supports 720 as well as 1080p video playback, and has an HDMI output. The T11 Pro is also said to be a dual-booting device, allowing the user to use the RAmos PMP OS, as well as Android – however, it does not have WIFI. Make of that what you will.
Anxious to see Android on the little player, I set about getting the Android boot file onto an SD card and booting up the player with it in, waiting for that Android logo to pop up. Low and behold, an image of a the toy Android logo amongst nature came up. Joy! Naturally. It’s a nice picture.. After some time, the Android loading display came on, nothing out of the norm here, yet. Once Android successfully booted up and was running, I soon discovered that it, in fact, was not running – not running in the sense that the touchscreen did not work. I had a nice Android desktop display, but it was behind a looking glass and I could not get to it.
The Other Face Again
After several attempts and help from colleagues and friends, it was evident that there were a few more steps to take in order to get Android running smoothly on the T11 Pro. First, I had to re-flash the player with RAmos’ latest firmware upgrade – v0.3.5 – which would of helped everything move along better. Once I’d done that, I needed to upload the latest Android boot file onto the micro SD card, insert it into the unpowered player, then boot it up with the SD + new Android boot file. The start ups were the same. First Tarzan Android toy, then Android loading display with it’s underscore flashing, then..Android loading display with it’s underscore flashing..then…Android loading display with it’s underscore flashing…then… Well, you get the picture. Android simply did not load up.
So?
So, unfortunately, and it’s sad to say, the RAmos T11 Pro does not seem to be the dual-boot up PMP player it (we) so desperately wanted to be. However, it may be that the test unit we had was void of the appropriate drivers that would then make Android run like Forest (Gump). We have little doubt though, that the fanalised T11 Pro would be able to run Android fine. For our particular unit, as a PMP with a PMP OS, it works great, and I would use it most any-day, however, as a dual-booting player that boasts the ability of running an Android OS, I’m sorry to say, but you’re just not a two-faced kind of guy, and maybe life really is like a box of chocolates after all.
Categories: PMP Review, Ramos
