Running Android on the Nano PC T3

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The Nano PC T3 is an interesting device that runs Android 5.1.1 on top of a Linux kernel version 3.4.39. To start, let's take a look at the specifications of this device. The CPU is a Cortex A53 8-core processor running at 1.4 GHz, with 1 GB of RAM and only 850 MB of total memory available to us. Despite this, the OS has taken up most of the storage, leaving only 6 GB of space for our files.

Display

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The display on the Nano PC T3 is a 7-inch touchscreen with an Excel 1.2 VR 400 MP camera. However, it's worth noting that this device is not actually an Mally 400 MP GPU, but rather another company's product. The refresh rate of the display is only at 45 Hz, which means we won't be able to hit 60 Hz with our monitor.

Benchmarking

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To get a better idea of the performance of this device, let's run some benchmarks. First up, we have Quadrant Standard. This test has been around for a while and gives us an idea of what a decent score should look like. The result is quite impressive - 11,168 points! While this may not be as high as some more modern devices, it's still a respectable score.

Next up, we have the 2D benchmark. This test scores 30,453 on the same device that scored 24,000 last year. Despite the lower score, the result is still impressive considering the price of the device - only $60!

Finally, we have the 3D Mark Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark. Unfortunately, this test yields a much lower score - 3,217 points. This may seem low compared to some more powerful devices, but it's worth noting that 3D Mark is extremely GPU-intensive and the Mally 400 MP GPU in the Nano PC T3 simply can't keep up.

Performance Expectations

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Overall, these benchmarks give us an idea of what we can expect from this device. With native Android apps, games should run relatively smoothly - but some may still experience performance issues due to the limitations of the GPU and RAM. Emulators will likely be a mixed bag - some games will run well while others may struggle.

Personal Experience

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As someone who has been using these kinds of devices for years, I have to say that I enjoy the Nano PC T3. The OS is snappy, and the device responds quickly to inputs. While it's not as powerful as some other devices, it gets the job done. And with its 7-inch touchscreen and arcade cabinet potential, it's definitely a unique device.

Conclusion

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In conclusion, the Nano PC T3 is an interesting device that runs Android on top of a Linux kernel. With its impressive Quadrant Standard score and decent performance in native apps, it's clear that this device has some potential. However, it's also worth noting that the GPU and RAM limitations may cause issues with more demanding tasks - such as games or emulators.

There is, however, plenty to like about this device. The 7-inch touchscreen is a great size for a home entertainment system, and the device's potential for arcade cabinet use is a major plus. For those looking for a unique Android device at an affordable price point, the Nano PC T3 may be worth considering.

Links

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* [Specs](link to specs page)

* [Wiki Page](link to wiki page)

* [Friendly Arm Page](link to friendly arm page)

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody its ETA prime Mack here again yesterday I received a new single board computer this is the friendly armed nano PC t3 we got the board power supply USB adapter and a seven inch touchscreen let me go ahead and get these out of the packages and we'll see what we're working with here alright so here we are this is the friendly armed nano PC t3 it has a Samsung s5 p68 18 octa-core chip at 1.4 gigahertz it is a 64-bit chip but we're only running android 5.1.1 so it'll be running in 32-bit mode we have one gigabyte of RAM eight gigabytes of onboard emmc storage on the backside here we also have a full size SD card it's a little odd because all the new boards are using micro sd but I actually have a couple of these laying around that I haven't been able to use so I'm kind of glad I don't have to go and buy another SD card back on the front here here's our cpu our ram 2 samsung 512 chips there and 8 gigabytes of emmc storage also made by Samsung Gigabit Ethernet 2 USB 2.0 ports HDMI 1.4 3.5 millimeter audio jack out a power on switch it also has a microphone built-in and it utilizes a barrel jack for power it does have a micro USB over here a reset button this is the boot button actually the reset button is right here so it's not a bad looking board at all we have 30 GPIO pins over here our LCD connector DVP camera connection so this board is packed it has Wi-Fi 802 and N and Bluetooth 4.0 built-in also so here we have a Raspberry Pi 2 which is the same size as the one or the 3 the board is a bit longer and a little bit wider but with the extra power I'm not gonna worry about that over here we have a Hulk of a board this is the you do quad I haven't done much with this there's not much support with this board here and one of those smaller single board computers on the market the Raspberry Pi zero so it's right around the size of a Raspberry Pi two or three a little bit longer a little bit wider but with those eight cores if we get the performance I'm expecting out of this board the size is not going to matter to me much they do offer a build of Debian and Ubuntu core also I'm not sure if the core is like blue to mate for the Raspberry Pi or not but it comes pre-installed with Android 5.1.1 not rooted with the Play Store pretty cool let's check out that LCD screen now so here's the 7-inch display that they offer we have a capacitive touch seven-inch display I did test this and it looks really good for the price this was $29 our ribbon cable powers the unit and it sends the video in touch signal from the board itself so we don't need any external power on the LCD itself on the backside here we have a nice friendly arm logo and some mounting holes for the nano PC so let me go ahead and plug this LCD screen in we're gonna boot it up one time on the LCD screen then we're gonna actually take the nano PC hook it up to HDMI so I can record at a very high quality we're gonna run a few benchmarks just see how it performs out of the box so here's the seven inch LCD booting up I actually installed a few applications and I signed them with my Google account the display looks really good this camera's not going to do a justice the touch is very responsive for a twenty dollar seven inch screen now so we do have Wi-Fi Bluetooth everything built into this board it does run a Mallee 400 MP GPU if you guys are familiar with the newer Amazon fire tablet that's two dollars it has the same GPU the Mallee 400 NP and it handles a lot of emulators fairly well so what we're gonna do now is move over to the PC so I can get this thing hooked up through HDMI we're gonna run a few benchmarks and see how it performs all right so I have the Nano PC t3 booted up here it actually feels very snappy we're gonna go into the settings and just check out the about tablet area so we're running a OSP on nano pi3 they do make a nano pi3 but this is the nano pc t3 android 5.1.1 kernel version 3 point 4 point 39 let's tap this Android and see if we're really on lollipop and yes we are we're gonna open up a 264 or I 264 or whatever you want to call it it's made by friendly arm we only have one gigabyte of RAM total memory we can use is 850 megabytes and the available memory right now is 486 this does have 8 gigabytes of e MMC storage built in but the OS is taking the rest leaving us with only 6 gigabytes of storage the CPU is a cortex a53 8 cores at 1.4 gigahertz like I said it's a 64 bit but we're running in 32-bit mode because we're on Android lollipop the CPU usage looks pretty good if this is correct we're only at 8% 9% which is really cool for these single board computers a lot of the other ones that I've seen like banana pie and stuff like that are a little higher usage just standing still this is not rooted but there is a chance that if I'm able to root this we can overclock a little bit more we'll go to display now 1280 by 720 an excel 1.2 VR 400 MP this is actually odd because this is supposed to be a Mallee 400 MP I still think it is this just might be another company that makes the same GPU refresh rate is only at 45 Hertz so we're not gonna be able to hit sixty Hertz on our monitor with this that's kind of weird GPU version OpenGL ES 2.0 it does have gigabit ethernet built-in Wi-Fi and bluetooth so let's get on to some benchmarks now first up we're gonna run an oldie but a goodie this is quadrant standard and the only reason I run this on all of my units is because I have used this since it came out on the old first Motorola Droid that came to Verizon so I got a good idea of what a decent score should look like you I know this is probably hard for you guys to see but I will leave this in the description this is ten thousand one hundred and sixty eight not too bad if you look at these these are very old devices but it definitely scores higher than the HTC One X by a lot next up we'll do an two-two okay so he scored a 30 4530 I was actually expecting about a 24,000 that's not too bad this is a $60 board it's not a $800 phone so we need to remember that 3d was only 1449 UX 13 for 72 CPU at 1400 close to 1500 and RAM at close to 5,000 really not that bad for a $60 board some optimization with the kernel and the operating system itself we could probably yield more than this and finally we're going to run a 3d mark this will be ice storm unlimited so we scored a 3217 to put this in perspective for you the Nvidia shield TV console scores around 45,000 so yeah very low score for this board I was expecting a bit more at least a 6000 with this eight core CPU but 3dmark is really GPU intensive and after all this thing is running an older Mally 400 MP GPU overall I actually enjoy this board it's very snappy the OS seems very snappy now these were benchmarks and benchmarks our benchmarks so in my next few videos I'm gonna be going over some real-world performance like native Android apps games and we're definitely gonna hit up as many emulators as we can I have a good feeling that we're gonna be able to play Atari 800 all the way up to PlayStation 1 with no trouble at all we may even be able to hit some n64 but I'm not counting on really good performance in all of the games some games are gonna run really smooth and then we're gonna run into some problems with some others the board is pretty cool I do enjoy the 7-inch touchscreen I have a arcade cabinet that I've been wanting to build it's made out of PVC it'll take a nine inch or a seven inch screen so if I'm able to run FBA SNES some MAME games on here fairly well I will be using this to build that cabinet I really appreciate you guys watching there's a link in the description you can go check out all the specs on this I'll leave the wiki page and the friendly arm page if you guys could hit that like button subscribe I got a lot more coming and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody its ETA prime Mack here again yesterday I received a new single board computer this is the friendly armed nano PC t3 we got the board power supply USB adapter and a seven inch touchscreen let me go ahead and get these out of the packages and we'll see what we're working with here alright so here we are this is the friendly armed nano PC t3 it has a Samsung s5 p68 18 octa-core chip at 1.4 gigahertz it is a 64-bit chip but we're only running android 5.1.1 so it'll be running in 32-bit mode we have one gigabyte of RAM eight gigabytes of onboard emmc storage on the backside here we also have a full size SD card it's a little odd because all the new boards are using micro sd but I actually have a couple of these laying around that I haven't been able to use so I'm kind of glad I don't have to go and buy another SD card back on the front here here's our cpu our ram 2 samsung 512 chips there and 8 gigabytes of emmc storage also made by Samsung Gigabit Ethernet 2 USB 2.0 ports HDMI 1.4 3.5 millimeter audio jack out a power on switch it also has a microphone built-in and it utilizes a barrel jack for power it does have a micro USB over here a reset button this is the boot button actually the reset button is right here so it's not a bad looking board at all we have 30 GPIO pins over here our LCD connector DVP camera connection so this board is packed it has Wi-Fi 802 and N and Bluetooth 4.0 built-in also so here we have a Raspberry Pi 2 which is the same size as the one or the 3 the board is a bit longer and a little bit wider but with the extra power I'm not gonna worry about that over here we have a Hulk of a board this is the you do quad I haven't done much with this there's not much support with this board here and one of those smaller single board computers on the market the Raspberry Pi zero so it's right around the size of a Raspberry Pi two or three a little bit longer a little bit wider but with those eight cores if we get the performance I'm expecting out of this board the size is not going to matter to me much they do offer a build of Debian and Ubuntu core also I'm not sure if the core is like blue to mate for the Raspberry Pi or not but it comes pre-installed with Android 5.1.1 not rooted with the Play Store pretty cool let's check out that LCD screen now so here's the 7-inch display that they offer we have a capacitive touch seven-inch display I did test this and it looks really good for the price this was $29 our ribbon cable powers the unit and it sends the video in touch signal from the board itself so we don't need any external power on the LCD itself on the backside here we have a nice friendly arm logo and some mounting holes for the nano PC so let me go ahead and plug this LCD screen in we're gonna boot it up one time on the LCD screen then we're gonna actually take the nano PC hook it up to HDMI so I can record at a very high quality we're gonna run a few benchmarks just see how it performs out of the box so here's the seven inch LCD booting up I actually installed a few applications and I signed them with my Google account the display looks really good this camera's not going to do a justice the touch is very responsive for a twenty dollar seven inch screen now so we do have Wi-Fi Bluetooth everything built into this board it does run a Mallee 400 MP GPU if you guys are familiar with the newer Amazon fire tablet that's two dollars it has the same GPU the Mallee 400 NP and it handles a lot of emulators fairly well so what we're gonna do now is move over to the PC so I can get this thing hooked up through HDMI we're gonna run a few benchmarks and see how it performs all right so I have the Nano PC t3 booted up here it actually feels very snappy we're gonna go into the settings and just check out the about tablet area so we're running a OSP on nano pi3 they do make a nano pi3 but this is the nano pc t3 android 5.1.1 kernel version 3 point 4 point 39 let's tap this Android and see if we're really on lollipop and yes we are we're gonna open up a 264 or I 264 or whatever you want to call it it's made by friendly arm we only have one gigabyte of RAM total memory we can use is 850 megabytes and the available memory right now is 486 this does have 8 gigabytes of e MMC storage built in but the OS is taking the rest leaving us with only 6 gigabytes of storage the CPU is a cortex a53 8 cores at 1.4 gigahertz like I said it's a 64 bit but we're running in 32-bit mode because we're on Android lollipop the CPU usage looks pretty good if this is correct we're only at 8% 9% which is really cool for these single board computers a lot of the other ones that I've seen like banana pie and stuff like that are a little higher usage just standing still this is not rooted but there is a chance that if I'm able to root this we can overclock a little bit more we'll go to display now 1280 by 720 an excel 1.2 VR 400 MP this is actually odd because this is supposed to be a Mallee 400 MP I still think it is this just might be another company that makes the same GPU refresh rate is only at 45 Hertz so we're not gonna be able to hit sixty Hertz on our monitor with this that's kind of weird GPU version OpenGL ES 2.0 it does have gigabit ethernet built-in Wi-Fi and bluetooth so let's get on to some benchmarks now first up we're gonna run an oldie but a goodie this is quadrant standard and the only reason I run this on all of my units is because I have used this since it came out on the old first Motorola Droid that came to Verizon so I got a good idea of what a decent score should look like you I know this is probably hard for you guys to see but I will leave this in the description this is ten thousand one hundred and sixty eight not too bad if you look at these these are very old devices but it definitely scores higher than the HTC One X by a lot next up we'll do an two-two okay so he scored a 30 4530 I was actually expecting about a 24,000 that's not too bad this is a $60 board it's not a $800 phone so we need to remember that 3d was only 1449 UX 13 for 72 CPU at 1400 close to 1500 and RAM at close to 5,000 really not that bad for a $60 board some optimization with the kernel and the operating system itself we could probably yield more than this and finally we're going to run a 3d mark this will be ice storm unlimited so we scored a 3217 to put this in perspective for you the Nvidia shield TV console scores around 45,000 so yeah very low score for this board I was expecting a bit more at least a 6000 with this eight core CPU but 3dmark is really GPU intensive and after all this thing is running an older Mally 400 MP GPU overall I actually enjoy this board it's very snappy the OS seems very snappy now these were benchmarks and benchmarks our benchmarks so in my next few videos I'm gonna be going over some real-world performance like native Android apps games and we're definitely gonna hit up as many emulators as we can I have a good feeling that we're gonna be able to play Atari 800 all the way up to PlayStation 1 with no trouble at all we may even be able to hit some n64 but I'm not counting on really good performance in all of the games some games are gonna run really smooth and then we're gonna run into some problems with some others the board is pretty cool I do enjoy the 7-inch touchscreen I have a arcade cabinet that I've been wanting to build it's made out of PVC it'll take a nine inch or a seven inch screen so if I'm able to run FBA SNES some MAME games on here fairly well I will be using this to build that cabinet I really appreciate you guys watching there's a link in the description you can go check out all the specs on this I'll leave the wiki page and the friendly arm page if you guys could hit that like button subscribe I got a lot more coming and like always thanks for watching\n"