iPlay 80 mini Pro – Wi-Fi issues, battery drain, and what happened after troubleshooting
I recently bought an ALLDOCUBE iPlay 80 mini Pro, and overall I actually like the tablet a lot. The size is great for reading manga, watching YouTube, and using Spotify, especially in bed.
However, I ran into a few issues shortly after getting it.
First, I noticed unusually high battery drain while the tablet was mostly idle. After a full charge, the battery dropped much faster than expected, and Spotify showed a very high percentage of the battery usage even though its reported background usage time was less than a minute.
I force-stopped Spotify, but the battery still continued to drain fairly quickly.
I then rebooted the tablet and tested it overnight in airplane mode. After about 6.5 hours, the battery only dropped by around 2%, which seemed completely reasonable.
After that, normal standby behavior also improved significantly, so I started to suspect that some process or service had temporarily gotten stuck.
Then I started having Wi-Fi problems.
Twice, while using Spotify or YouTube, the tablet suddenly lost internet access. The Wi-Fi icon still showed that it was connected to my router, but Android displayed the exclamation mark indicating “no internet connection.”
At the same time, my phone connected to the same Wi-Fi network was working normally.
Rebooting the tablet did not fix it the first time. Disconnecting from the Wi-Fi network and reconnecting fixed the problem immediately.
Because it happened more than once, I contacted the seller. They initially offered a replacement, and later agreed to a return/refund when I explained that I was worried the replacement might have the same Wi-Fi issue.
Before returning it, I tried resetting the tablet’s Wi-Fi/mobile/Bluetooth network settings and reconnecting to my network from scratch.
Interestingly, since doing that, the Wi-Fi has been completely stable so far.
The battery life is still not amazing, especially during standby, but it seems usable if I charge it daily.
The seller has kindly given me about a month to decide whether to return it, so for now I’m continuing to use it and watching for another Wi-Fi failure.
At this point I’m honestly torn. I really like the tablet and would prefer to keep it if the Wi-Fi problem is genuinely fixed.
Has anyone else with the iPlay 80 mini Pro experienced the same “Wi-Fi connected but no internet” problem?
If so, did resetting the network settings permanently fix it, or did the issue eventually come back?