A few years ago, I bought my daughter an Ayaneo Next Lite, which is a low-end, but fairly well-made Windows handheld. She loves the device, and uses it a ton to play games, but it has a few issues that annoy me.
First, the machine is pretty darned slow for a device that was released in 2024, at least in the Ryzen 5 4500U version. I've used plenty of Ryzen 5 U-series APUs, and they're usually not particularly slow, so I'm going to chalk this up to thermal limitation. Additionally, the device's storage isn't fast at all.
Next, the joysticks go out of calibration quite a bit. The fix for this one is fairly straight-forward, but it's not well documented, since very few articles or docs on Ayaneo's site reference the Next Lite, at all. The fix is this:
Press the Select and the A button at the same time for 2 seconds. It vibrates, swirl the joysticks around a couple of times, push RB and throttle 3 times down at the same time and it vibrates again.
That gets the sticks back in service.
Ayaneo also doesn't have a good site, at all. Knowledge is hard to find, and drivers are stored in various places, and it isn't easy to figure out what goes to what.
Oh well, the device was cheap, and my daughter likes it, so I guess that it serves the purpose.
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