Reflashing Ubisurfer?

To hell with it. I'm gonna phone them tomorrow.

I copied over what Rich sent me, including importing the registry file. Then, when I rebooted the device later, I got an inaccessible desktop with the icons labeled "My Device\0" and "Recycle Bin\0," both of which open and close immediately when tapped. I thought, Wonderful, now I have two UbiSurfer bricks. Not knowing what else to do, I tried opening the Control Panel (which did open from the Start Menu) and opened the Storage Manager. I tried dismounting and then remounting the flash drive, but that had no effect. In desperation, I tried dismounting and then formatting the flash drive, and - whew - I got back the barebones desktop that came up after the original crash. I'm now adding files manually to bring it as close to the original version as I can.

Maybe Mark will have better results than we have had...what we really need is a factory firmware image and directions on how to flash it.

BTW, my sister bought 3 of these units and hers are a little different than mine was. The model number ended with a D and didn't include a internal radio, otherwise identical.

I'm thinking of just giving up right now. I have a dissertation to write at the moment, so I haven't got the time. I would like something notebook-like and cheap that I can use with CE6 on it, something on the same architecture to play with. Any suggestions?

The 10" CE 6 netbooks are almost identical in appearance, though a little larger. A few of these are still popping up on eBay from time to time.

There were 5 of them for sale this past few days from some guy just 100 miles from me...they were all brand new, 8850 cpus, and they all sold for $51-$66 in auctions.

I bid on one, but really didn't want one again as I had the Wabook Sky and didn't need another...and I was outbid anyways...so no loss.

But they sure were a lot easier to type on!

OK, phoned Datawind. The number's disconnected.

Would it be possible to manually replace the OS on the Ubisurfer with another copy? I know it keeps replaced system files on the flash, so that should be possible, right? Or should I just sack it off and try to get hold of another one, a better and faster one, maybe with a higher screen resolution?

Newer is always better...

OK. Any particular model you'd recommend? The radio isn't necessary, all I want is the standard OS, maybe USB and SD, and WiFi Just something I can muck about with the system on and maybe even use a little.

CEGeek...you're the man with all the toys...what is the most powerful CE device you have, and the most useable with a decent size keyboard?

I'd say the TinyBook T706 wins in that department, but it's only a 7-inch netbook. I was interested in those 10-inch netbooks too, but got too busy to bid on any of them.

There's a lot of 5 UbiSurfer 9s on eBay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271187340557&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_126wt_913

The one on the upper left has the desktop image that showed up on mine after the crash.

That image is one of two that was on mine as well...

The TinyBook looks perfect actually. I'll try and get one when I next have money Thank you.

Hmm, here's something I was wondering about... is it possible to get Embedded Compact 7 on one of those things?

Only if someone can build a flashable ROM image compatible with its processor.