if thisn is posted else where im sorry, but i searched for a good 30-45 mins with no results.
my question is this, is it possible to upgrade the hard drive in the g-tablet? read and noticed upgrading the ram was minor brain surgery, is it as difficult to upgrade the hd?
There is no HD in the Gtab the memory is 16 G of flash that is partitioned into several sections. There are several threads on upgrading it, but includes desoldering and resoldering surface mount flash chips.
I haven't taken mine apart yet, but there probably isn't enough space in there for a HDD either. Otherwise you could hard wire one to the USB port.
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Hi,
I have just bought a small hard dirve and was wondering how i could connect it to the xda II.
if you can find a sdio card which alow it
or if you use old wm2003 and got the backpack
and can find an cf card which alow it
then it can be don but in general i doubt it
himalya dont use a hd internaly at all
and 2.5" hd's use much more power then most pda's can provide without
external power
hard drive
hi,
I don't quite understand how to solder it in. Please help.
mohitrulz said:
hi,
I don't quite understand how to solder it in. Please help.
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Nobody does!
What part of: the device doesn't have an HDD don't you understand?
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you 99% surely cant solder a hd into it
the ram storage inside your himalya is flash and sdram which
are small chips a harddisk is much bigger and use much
more power and require a controller to opperate
If this is the wrong section I apologize. I just picked up the Archos 48 Internet tablet with the DVR station off of the Archos Store. I thought $299 was a good deal with the free dvr station.
First hand reviews. This is my second archos, i used to have the old school 160gb so i am familiar with its defaults and capabilities.
Battery Life - not a huge concern for me, its normally plugged in. But i got a good 5 hours of out of it with wifi on.
Hard drive - 500gb - perfect for the music/video collector
OS - 1.6 - Weird, just weird. It works, and I understand it, but there are some drawbacks, and maybe you folks can help.
1. I installed appslib and the amazon app store(works perfect). However, you can only install apps to the system space, not the hard drive. So there is a limit to having apps on there. Once i got the 3rd angry birds on it, it yelled at me and said no space available. There is 500gb????? Can if be used?
2. Can you put 2.2/froyo or 2.3/GB?
3. Rooting??? Can it be done? Maybe its too new?
Sync - Special usb cable. Looks like you have to use the micro usb that comes with it. If you use a different one, the files will not sort correctly. Sounds funny, but Putting it in hard drive mode is easier/quicker for me. When I used a standard one, the cover art would not list in the Cover's section when searching for music, however all the music is under the Hard Drive section and I could listen to it all and cover art showed. Not a big deal, just weird.
Browser - Works fine, I would like to install a different one, but I am having problems putting the Android App Market on there. Any ideas?
Firmware is the most updated one.
If anyone can help, or lend ideas, please let me know
Jon
From what I understand, the Archos 48 IT is sort of a rehash of the Archos 5 IT, which was a Gen 7 device. Any info you can find on the Archos 5 IT should apply. Check out ArchosFans and OpenAOS for more. This section is for Gen 8 devices, so I don't think anything you find here will be very helpful. Good luck!
I can help you a bit i had have the A5IT
1) You cant increase the internal storage (for apps) yet, but the guys from openaos maybe work on that at a costum rom
2) there are some 2.0/2.1 and maybe some 2.2 ports too but they are buggy from my last view i have sold my archos 5, bought a new one you should ask the guys from openaos
3) same answer as in 1) & 2)
Xda isnt for gen7, its for gen8 the best gen7 communitys are archoslounge,archos forum and for the hacking sections (most interesting for you ) openaos
Hi,
I've just acquired a 16GB WiFi only TPT, and my first thought was I'd stick a 3G modem in it, but I understand from the model number that its lacking the various antenna connectors to make this possible.
I'd still like to put the slot to use though. I've been looking at storage options, and I've seen a few different devices. One was an SSD (I gather that if anything was going to work it would ahve to be PATA, not mSATA, which is the same physical connector).
I've found various examples on eBay (sorry, can't post links, but a search for " ebay mini pcie PATA SSD " will give you a clue.
Another option I'd considered was a SD-card adapter, (again, can't link to it, but " ebay mini pcie sd card " should get you there).
There are 2 possible issues
1) physical space, I don't know what thickness of the 3g modules are, and whether either of the above would fit
2) drivers - although the SSDs in particular, should be pretty plain vanilla devices, whether there is support in the kernel for them remains to be seen.
Has anyone tried / considered something like this? Plan B is hunt around for a 3rd party 3G antenna set, but I haven't investigated this yet.
cheers,
Hugh
hughtc said:
Hi,
There are 2 possible issues
1) physical space, I don't know what thickness of the 3g modules are, and whether either of the above would fit
2) drivers - although the SSDs in particular, should be pretty plain vanilla devices, whether there is support in the kernel for them remains to be seen.
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I think the first one wount be an issue. the second should not be an issue, because most of these drivers should be in android. but i cant promise!
in any case you could create your own kernel with the driver inside.
i would give it a try, as long as its not too expensive.
Updated to 4.1.1 OTA a few weeks ago and have had "some" USB issues ever since. Have had this tablet since May of last year and have been able to read/write to thumb drives and camera cards without issue UNTIL the JB update from 4.0.4. Now, my thumb drives will not mount on the Tab and it took me 4 "factory resets" before it would see and mount an SDHC card. Had no problems mounting and using a wireless mouse.
I have 3 different thumb drives, multiple SDHC cards and 2 different USB to 30 pin adapters. All thumb drives and cards were recognized and working until the JB update. Samsung has no answer for this. Am currently "working around" by using multiple MicroSD cards in the slot (works properly) but it has become a bit of a pain swapping them in and out to do photo backups and secondary backups, plus I don't like having to deal with all the tiny cards and adapters in my cameras and secondary backups.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Over on another forum someone else had this issue and posted a link to take it back to 4.0.4. Said he solved his problems with that but I just haven't gotten up the nerve to try that just yet, just not into all the rooting and so forth.
I also have an issues with my USB om PC win 8 64 bit. I installed Kies bit stil my PC can''t connected with my Tablet.
Good afternoon!
Last time I was on the xda threads I learned how to install Linux Ubuntu Jaunty within the Webtop feature of my now ~5 year old Motorola Atrix. It was so sweet because it would launch on HDMI out to the TV while the touchscreen became the mouse & keyboard.
The only downsides were that
1. Had to carry around >= uHDMI adapter
2. Ubuntu was unstable
3. Weak CPU/GPU performance.
Now I am looking to do something similar with a more recent device so I can stream video from the web-browser. (The Motorola Atrix was just not powerful enough, unless SD and non-fullscreen, which a few years ago was still pretty awesome.)
I am comfortable with any hacking that may be necessary; rooting, flashing, developing, etc. Just want to know what's possible and what would work best.
Any ideas?
Thanks, guys!!!