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Factor Fanatic Posts: | 51 |
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| Hey Rich, were all of those installed under "Programs" in the start menu? Mine only has "Windows Explorer" in there, so to find the games and such I have to go browsing through directories to find what I need to launch etc.
Of the accessories it comes with one LONG USB cable - probably 9 or 10 ft long. Again for 8 bucks it's not bad!  |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| My "Programs File" folder was empty....everything is under a partition called "appsbin" on my machine, except for the USB Activesync utility which was under "VDisk" partition. |
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Factor Fanatic Posts: | 51 |
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| Quote Rich Hawley - 2013-04-12 2:24 PM
My "Programs File" folder was empty....everything is under a partition called "appsbin" on my machine, except for the USB Activesync utility which was under "VDisk" partition.
Gotcha, thanks much! Just making sure I wasn't going blind...  |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
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| There are more of these available from the same seller:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/130900324117?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trks...
Needless to say, I picked up another one.  |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
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Factor Fanatic Posts: | 70 |
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| Too bad it doesn't offer international shipping. It seems like a nice little gadget to experiment with. |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| It is certainly a simple enough device. Here are a couple of pictures of the insides of it. You can see the battery, only 900mAh, but it lasts pretty well. And it would certainly be easy enough to increase the battery as there is plenty of room in the case for some expansion.
Also here is the motherboard. You can see the Samsung K9GAG08U0M 2gb NAND chip in the center next to the ARM A80 processor. Also an empty area where another memory chip could be installed.
I wonder why there isn't more storage available for use...perhaps the main NAND chip doesn't support partitioning as the developer set the thing up?
Anyways, the thing is actually pretty well designed and built in comparison to a lot of other cheapo Chinese things I've seen...  (battery.jpg) (motherboard.jpg)Attachments ----------------  battery.jpg (187KB - 0 downloads) motherboard.jpg (393KB - 0 downloads) |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
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| I had to swap out batteries between the two I have cuz the battery in the second one wouldn't hold a charge. The good battery seems to hold a good charge - maybe three hours of light use. |
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| You guys made me buy this! Curious, is it touchscreen? Seem resistive or capacitive? |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
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| It's touchscreen (gotta be - no other interface methods available ), but also definitely resistive. (It'd be pretty hard to make touch gestures on that tiny screen anyway.  ) Doesn't come with a stylus, though - you gotta provide your own.  |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 18 |
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| I purchased two of them, they are here and two more are on the way. I didn't see this thread, haven't logged in for a while but I saw them while browsing ebay for "Win CE PDA". I was Wtf? 8 bucks lol, I'm buying two. Lets see what ridiculous things I can do with them... I have used one of them the past few nights and all day today. My iPod touch 5G is having seizures and will be sent back to Apple soon so this is my replacement for now. Today my battery lasted about 2-3 hours with it having an 80% charge when I took it to work. It takes a little getting used to but turned out better built than I was expecting. I've been using a pen cap for a stylus. Any ideas for apps that will work on here? Any ways to update the OS? I'd love to get a paint app working. It wont sync with activesync for me..
(edit again lol got activesync working with it on my Win 2000 thinkpad.
I Really want to upgrade the battery..
I forgot to ask if anyone can figure out how to exit the mainmenu app. The only way is to reboot?
Edited by brainxtractor 2013-05-17 9:42 PM
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 18 |
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| Quote Rich Hawley - 2013-04-10 9:09 PM
Sure is a lot of incompatibility however running external software....most all of the CE MP3 players I installed don't work. The one native with the device is fine, I was just experimenting...
Also I tried to install the CE6 drivers for my wifi stick using a mini USB to full-size USB adapter...didn't get anywhere.... 
I installed TCPMP 0.72RC1 for Mp3s. It is working great. |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| To exit the mainmenu program, the easiest way is to simply reset or power down. You can however run a CE task manager program and close it down that way. You would have to use the mainmenu explorer interface to access the task manager program file. But all that file searching and crappola...I'd rather just turn the darn thing off and back on again...
TCPMP is okay...but some of the MP3s I have with DRM encoding or high bit rates doesn't seem to want to play well with it.
Actually I need to find search the registry and find the controls to manually turn off the back light. I'm sure that would extend the MP3 playing time substantially. |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 18 |
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| Theres probably a better mp3 player, Im a noob so I just went with this one. I will search more, cool little device. Wonder what happened to these things and why they seemed to come out of nowhere. |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 18 |
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| Minus the controls, I got this running. Snes9xJ4u
I wish I had controls.
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