I know there is a Japanese site (I think its Japanese) out there that someone posted a person taking apart the Archos 70IT SD Version .. is there anything out there showing the same thing but for the 250GB version ?
I'm interested in seeing how they did the HDD installation .. to see if it would be possible to replace the HDD with a Solid State Drive .. so in other words, take out my 250GB spinning crap and replace it with a 256GB Solid State .. that would be sweet .. if possible.
WoW .. 94 people have read this and not one response !!!
Here I thought people were geeks and knew all about these things !!!
Anyone open their device yet?
I am also quite interested in this idea. From what I read, they built a custom hard drive which was ridiculously expensive. I'd like to swap out the drive for performance/speed and heat and weight of the device.
Has nobody opened theirs up? I just got mine, so I'm not quite ready to void my warranty just to take a peak.
In the past with previous hard drive models, Archos prevented you from swapping out the hard drive for one of your own by linking the drive serial number with the unit it was installed in. Only Archos could change out the drive. As I said, that was the way they have done it in the past. I don't know if they are still doing that.
Bye.
No response to this eh! Well I voided the warranty on my 70IT-h and have dropped it, had it slide down my angled driveway, screen down, in the rain with never a problem but some minor scratches. But a few weeks ago I dropped it off, accidentally from the top of the basement stairs where it landed on concrete did the hard drive die. It still boots but I have no storage space at all.
So I've taken the thing apart and found the hard drive is just a Seagate Momentum Thin with what appears to be a SATA 3 connection.
I did some searching on the internet and found that someone had taken the HD model apart and had connected the drive to their computer. I remember when I replaced the drive in my old AV320 without problem since it was just simply storage in that product too.
Long story short rather than buy a new 250gb Seagate thin, I've instead bought a OCZ Agility 60Gb SSD. I get it early next week and I can't see any reason whatsoever why it won't work, in fact it should give me better access speed, increased battery life and make it lighter which hopefully means I'll stop dropping it.
I'll post the results afterwards and let the forum know how it goes. In case anyone else wants to do it.
awesome! thanks for the update.
I completely forgot about this thread. A few months ago I dropped mine and it fell on the side and broke the volume up button inward. I had to take it apart and solder the volume up and down and the power button back into place. Works great again. Since I was in there, I took a peek at the hard drive. I didn't have time to play around with it much at the time though.
Anyway, I noticed an SSD should fit in there without a problem. I just didn't have one lying around to test. So, yes, please let me know how it works!
There is a thread on archosfans.com where someone put a 1TB drive into his A70H.
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I've looked through the forum and can't find at least the HDMI question I have, so new post.
1) I purchased a HDMI cable to use with the TP as I would like to use it as a player for those things the Boxee Box can't handle yet (Hulu Plus, Netflix would be nice too if it does 5.1). When i hook it up to my TV I get a picture at 720p, but then it seems at though my tablet doesn't respond to any input. If I touch the back button I can get it to back, but I get the same behavior if I touch the middle of the screen too. It's almost like the calibration is messed up if I have it output to TV. I've turned it up to performance mode and same issue. If I unplug the cable I can use the TP again as before. We have 2 TPs and they both give the same issue, though one responds slightly better than the other.
2) A few weeks ago we were getting ready to leave, and in the mists of getting the kids buckled in the TP was left on top of the car. It fell and we didn't know where it was until we got a call later that night from the person who found it and was able to locate us. We thought he was being a good samaritan (who returns a $500 tablet, right?) until we later looked and discovered that he had tried to pry it open, probably to try to reseat the screen as it probably popped out from the impact. Right now only half the screen works, with the other half just a bunch of colored lines (though the touchscreen part still works perfectly...it takes a couple of tries to unlock it).
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew where I may get a new screen? ASUS just got back to me and I haven't contacted them yet, but I was hoping I could see what prices may be for a replacement before calling them and seeing what they would charge.
hi,
Thank you for looking at my question. I have a prime which is roughly 15 months old. rooted and running the new energy rom. I use this both for work and at home daily and I am totally happy with everything about it.
Over the past week or so I've noticed that it's hard to plug in the charger every evening and today when I plugged it in the display went dark. You can very faintly see the start up screen but no real lighting at all. I took a look at the charger and several of the cooper peices are bent over and you can see a bit of where on both sides from 15 months of use.
I just contacted Asus customer service and got the normal caveats you typically get when you attempt to return for repair anything by phone...it will take about a month, you need to pay for shipping, etc.
i checked this forum using keywords like "Damaged charger" and didn't come across anyone else that's had this problem. Is anyone familiar with this issue? There's no reason except the charger (and the possible short to the display I just caused plugging it in ) that I wouldn't be happy with this tablet for a few more years. I just don't want to put out, potentially, comparatively alot of money if the plug has been failing regularly for others too.
Anyone familiar with this problem? does anyone who's dealt w/ Asus care to guesstimate a cost?
Thank You for your help.
so my amaze has been out of commission for a solid four months and i now have a nexus 5, but today i tried something. I originally thought my amaze's screen ribbon was messed up (it also has a missing contact in the headphone jack the left one to be exact, and both speakers are shot -prior to demolition-), but as it turns out there is actually a short somewhere in the circuitry. I took the liberty of completely tearing apart the phone (literally the plastic band around the glass is destroyed now). so after I have a pile of phone guts i start to put back together what I can. basically I had the screen, circuit boards, and battery sitting in it's shell. I also cleaned off a little corrosion on some of the parts too. then I plug it into my computer and bam the screen comes on! I almost had a heart attack, I honestly didn't expect that, and what is more interesting is that I was able to everything fine until it came time to flashing a ruu to get it back to stock, it wouldn't do it. but I kid you not, after multiple failed ruu flash attempts and a re-lock of the boot-loader I push the power button (more of a squishie than a button now) it started booting up CM10 like it was the day it died on me four months ago! Then when it finished booting up, the touch screen started freaking out and thought that I was touching it everywhere (i'm so glad I always turn on show touches in dev options) then it died again, I guess the short became active again, but here is the weird part, when I had it plugged into my pc and it started glitching I would unplug it and it shorted my pc and made it do a self-save power-out. I just thought i would share this with you guys to see if you have had any hardware probs out of you'r amazes.
I'm sure plenty of people have them.
Screen bleed is the most famous.
Randomly shutting off is common too.
HTC has crappy power buttons on a lot of devices.
I got bit by all 3 of those (but my power button wasn't quite dead yet) before I got bit by the bug that our flash chip has. I was trying to use my phone as a USB drive and copied a ton of stuff over, the progress bar stopped moving and the phone didn't seem to be running right, so I rebooted. Somehow it bricked and now the charging light wouldn't even come on. Started from the unbrick tricks, but I was way worse off than what they are for and near as I could tell something had disappeared really early on in the bootchain process and it was unfixable without direct access to the eMMC to rewrite the whole image.
Later found out once I got a pantech burst (which has very similar hardware) to replace my amaze that the MMC chip we have can get confused and randomly swaps blocks of storage around. It's easiest to trigger if you have lots of writes pending and the operating system tries to deallocate a block (like trim on a SSD); sometimes the chip will de-allocate the wrong block. Mine happened to garble something really close to the beginning resulting in my brick.
Much later I got a broken phone off ebay to rip apart to see if I could get the many gigs of data I MOVED to my phone immediately before it died only to find it just had a dead battery...maybe. It was well used, but didn't look physically damaged. It turned on but the screen was just static, like an analog tv with no channel. Couldn't get it working, but on other phones it looks like this is what happens when the chip in the LCD dies.
Combined the two broken phones to make a working one and find that this board has something going on where the battery drains when the phone is shut off, thus explaining why the battery that came with it was completely toast. Maybe I screwed up the rebuild, but I don't know how.
tl;dr: Yes, I have had some hardware problems.
Yeah I had that power button issue ( the problem is it splits apart and gets corrosion in it and its awfully wobbly) I had had that problem with my galaxy Nexus's volume rocker too (I had it for development) , i split it open and scraped off the corrosion and closed it back up it didn't come apart after that either it was fine. I also had the reboots , random extreme power drain from 100% - 30% - then dead in minutes ( it was a rare occurrence though), the LCD short, bad charger connection, and like 1/2 inch of the touch sensor didn't work( it was just at the tip of the twrp slider too so I had to use clockwork). You know its ironic looking back before I got it I was looking at reviews and they all said it had that "unmatched build quality" and it ended up being one of the most hardware plagued phones of its time, quality was a key factor when I chose it, though I did slightly overuse it, i think it shouldn't have been so badly designed, I only had mine for just over 1 year of my 2 year contract and I didn't even get it from the contract, I broke my T-Mobile g2x after 6 months with it and got the amaze through insurance [which was BS since i paid monthly for it, had to send my broken phone to them (which I could have fixed for less), and pay the difference between its price and the price of the amaze. I ended up paying full price for the amaze and the monthly insurance bill, I would have been better off not getting the insurance because it limited me to only getting the amaze and the sensation "phones of equal or lessee value" ($250 more than the g2x), they screwed me over]. Even though its in pieces and will most likely never work again I will probably hold onto it forever because it was a great phone, even if it let me down a few times. I learned around 90% of everything I know about android developing and software developing in general from that phone and its really sentimental to me. Lolz all my broken and worthless stuff is sentimental to me, I think I'm may be a little bit of a hoarder but oh well.
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Uuhh this post was a mistake... My bad, I done messed up
Here are pictures from after I tore it apart to get it working and it booting up after it was dismembered (after it booted it was fine, It would pick up touch from the messed up side but at the same time it went crazy and picked up "touches" everywhere, even when I wasn't touching it so everything almost worked but then died again) sorry the last one blurred I was riding in a car
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So after my daily workout (watching "Breaking Bad" on the tablet) I managed to let my trusty 201 slip from my hands while taking it off the thin little ledge on my exercise bike console.
BAM, landed right on its corner on the bike's steel support bar.
Now it appears to be functional - except for the small point that the screen don't come on anymore.
Since I cleverly just put a "pattern" lock on it before maiming the poor thing, I can't get it unlocked reliably, but when I press the screenshot button on the keyboard it makes the shutter-click sound.
And I am getting notification bleeps when new mail comes in.
But I'm blind.
I have taken some steps in the past to open it, I did the Wifi antenna thing and tried to get the GPS working (bahahaha what a waste of time THAT was!)... and I've repaired a number of other phones and crap... so I'm not unskilled in this arena.
And I'm sort of optimistically hoping it's just a loose cable or something. There's only the smallest dent in the casing in the corner. No cracks in the screen or anything.
But has anyone gone down this road and maybe has some pointers as to what to look out for? Is there a backlight module that might have popped and just needs replacing?
I'm very sad, this little guy has been my stalwart companion for many, many moons...
Thanks for any input.
R
rprussell said:
So after my daily workout (watching "Breaking Bad" on the tablet) I managed to let my trusty 201 slip from my hands while taking it off the thin little ledge on my exercise bike console.
BAM, landed right on its corner on the bike's steel support bar.
Now it appears to be functional - except for the small point that the screen don't come on anymore.
Since I cleverly just put a "pattern" lock on it before maiming the poor thing, I can't get it unlocked reliably, but when I press the screenshot button on the keyboard it makes the shutter-click sound.
And I am getting notification bleeps when new mail comes in.
But I'm blind.
I have taken some steps in the past to open it, I did the Wifi antenna thing and tried to get the GPS working (bahahaha what a waste of time THAT was!)... and I've repaired a number of other phones and crap... so I'm not unskilled in this arena.
And I'm sort of optimistically hoping it's just a loose cable or something. There's only the smallest dent in the casing in the corner. No cracks in the screen or anything.
But has anyone gone down this road and maybe has some pointers as to what to look out for? Is there a backlight module that might have popped and just needs replacing?
I'm very sad, this little guy has been my stalwart companion for many, many moons...
Thanks for any input.
R
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I have read some similar stories in the past and some times it has just been a cable that has dislodged inside.. Obviously this can vary but I would first try plugging in a hdmi cable to your TV and making sure that the graphics chip is still working.
I'd imagine it would be and your next step would be to open it up and start unplugging and replugging everything you can.
flumpster said:
I have read some similar stories in the past and some times it has just been a cable that has dislodged inside.. Obviously this can vary but I would first try plugging in a hdmi cable to your TV and making sure that the graphics chip is still working.
I'd imagine it would be and your next step would be to open it up and start unplugging and replugging everything you can.
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Aha! The hdmi cable. Hadn't occurred to me.
I love this forum.
(Also been using androwook for quite some time, with Data2SD... big fan - very smooth. would hate to lose and/or have to reinstall from scratch though!)
flumpster said:
I have read some similar stories in the past and some times it has just been a cable that has dislodged inside.. Obviously this can vary but I would first try plugging in a hdmi cable to your TV and making sure that the graphics chip is still working.
I'd imagine it would be and your next step would be to open it up and start unplugging and replugging everything you can.
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Well - this was a fantastic suggestion, since the HDMI gave me a perfect picture and the thing is (as thought) fully functional.
It was interesting trying to judge where to tap on the tablet to hit certain things on the screen, though.
This is actually quite a load off, since worst case I can get a new screen from ebay.
Thanks again, flumpster - I am much relieved, and you are a god among men!
rprussell said:
Well - this was a fantastic suggestion, since the HDMI gave me a perfect picture and the thing is (as thought) fully functional.
It was interesting trying to judge where to tap on the tablet to hit certain things on the screen, though.
This is actually quite a load off, since worst case I can get a new screen from ebay.
Thanks again, flumpster - I am much relieved, and you are a god among men!
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Here you go mate. I knew I had seen it before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLcxI2JddQ#t=411
This is for the original transformer but they should be nearly the same.
flumpster said:
Here you go mate. I knew I had seen it before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLcxI2JddQ#t=411
This is for the original transformer but they should be nearly the same.
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Nice!
I have my fingers crossed.
So do my kids, who are going into "Minecraft PE" withdrawal at the moment.
Well, after popping the case, I've disconnected and reconnected everything available - no change in behavior.
I'll try unsticking the LCD and see what else is in there, but it's looking like a more aggressive repair will be in order.
V.sad
PS there's also this vid I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJs_OI8joA
Arright. Here's my logic. Tell me where I'm wrong.
The video works - the HDMI proved that.
The tablet works - ditto.
Being able to touch and use the tablet shows me that the digitizer is ok, too.
I've reseated all the connectors, but I still can't get a picture.
Therefore, it's the LCD that's gone bad.
Therefore I should order a new LCD.
Right?
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Arright. Here's my logic. Tell me where I'm wrong.
The video works - the HDMI proved that.
The tablet works - ditto.
Being able to touch and use the tablet shows me that the digitizer is ok, too.
I've reseated all the connectors, but I still can't get a picture.
Therefore, it's the LCD that's gone bad.
Therefore I should order a new LCD.
Right?
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Hmmm.. Sounds logical but it could be the power going to the screen or something else that connects the screen. Or does the power etc control the digitizer also ?
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Hmmm.. Sounds logical but it could be the power going to the screen or something else that connects the screen. Or does the power etc control the digitizer also ?
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Well, there's one (and only one) ribbon cable feeding the LCD - and two going to the digitizer.
News, though - I pulled out the battery and found another ribbon cable tucked underneath to reseat.
After that, I put it back in and hooked up the LCD - and it came up!!
Sort of, anyway. It lit up enough to show me the spiderweb of cracks all along the bottom edge.
(I think I found my problem.)
Now off to eBay to shop for a replacement... I hope I didn't munge up anything else in there while I was mucking around!
rprussell said:
Well, there's one (and only one) ribbon cable feeding the LCD - and two going to the digitizer.
News, though - I pulled out the battery and found another ribbon cable tucked underneath to reseat.
After that, I put it back in and hooked up the LCD - and it came up!!
Sort of, anyway. It lit up enough to show me the spiderweb of cracks all along the bottom edge.
(I think I found my problem.)
Now off to eBay to shop for a replacement... I hope I didn't munge up anything else in there while I was mucking around!
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See if someone is selling a bricked Tf201 of TF300 that you can get the screen out of.
Hi Members,
I am an idiot and as a result am looking for some input from you folks
The story goes like this:
My wife and I are sitting in our bathtub, browsing stuff on our mobile phones. I accidentally dunk the tip of my phone (Essential PH1) including phone case and the credit cards in the case a little bit in the water. So I remove the case and cards to dry and drop the phone in the water to have my hands free. Somehow, out of some idiocracy, I assumed that the phone is fully waterproof. Well, as you are probably aware, it is not. "Funny" enough, the phone kept working while I was in the tub. When I got out of the tub I went on to charge it (it gave feedback that it started charging) and went to bed.
Coming back the next day, the phone is completely dead, most likely due to water damage. The phone itself is not such a huge loss. I personally loved it, but paid ~$300 for it, so its not the end of the world. However, the complete first year of my son's life in picture and video was on that phone and I am devastated by the thought to have lost that. I am hesitant to use a recovery company because besides the pictures of my son there is also, ahem, pictures *cough* of my wife. For the same reason I had disabled backup to cloud....
Now, my naive thought process is that the internal storage of the phone should be some kind of chip and - in my naive mind - shouldn't it be somehow viable to get that thing and solder it to some sort of raspberri-pi-or-whatever-board to access the data if the storage chip survived? Is there people with experience on such issues and have helpful suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Max