Thread: Pandigital Novel firmware updates
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Old 03-04-2011, 10:32 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by jlg432 View Post
Look here for the right PDN firmware along with instructions.

http://www.slatedroid.com/index.php?...s-and-patches/
Thanks. I had seen it before, but wasn't comfortable going outside of the Pandigital site. But the PD site really didn't explain what to do - not in a comprehensive, step by step way like this post on SlateDroid. And certainly not enough info for a newbie to eReaders and especially to Android.

I don't think this is going to work out for me though. I followed the instructions but got nowhere.
I put the SD card into the PC.
DL'd the update.dat to the SD card.
Put the card into the powered-down PDN, then pressed the Power and Volume + at the same time. Now I've seen when this works, and have done it before. But in this instance I spent 45 minutes trying and trying to get it to load. The best that would happen is that I'd see the start of the load, the white text at the top would flash while at the same moment the blue text at the bottom would flash something along with only about half an inch of the "status" bar. Then it would all disappear just as quickly. Once or twice I thought that maybe that was all I was to expect (because that was all I'd see time after time) and so I turned it on -- but it looked no different than it ever has. At this point in the process the instructions say I should have the Android Platform OS/UI.

So I couldn't continue to the step that includes the AppInstaller as a result. As I said, I suppose it is best I leave well enough alone. I will have to deal with watching Mp4 movies with audio slightly out of sync, and viewing (but unable to read) some of my PDF books in the tiniest print ever (unlike standard PDF documents, the font adjustment hasn't changed these types of books at all...i.e. color books with pictures and text combined). The instructions on SLATEDROID are clear enough, but the bottom line is that the piece that I'm responsible for - the part that is supposed to occur on my end, just...isn't.

Anyway, again, thanks for the help. I had been a successful LAN Administrator, and provided PC support for years -- and while I hadn't done it for about 4 years, I'm not a complete dunce when it comes to this sort of thing. But I think this forum is more for the advanced eReader and Android users/developers.

I do appreciate your patience and help.
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