Smart Q7 Tablet

[bluelife]

as I known,q7 support the SD/SDHC card,Maximum capacity is 16G.

[bjkel]

Originally Posted by geneven

I'm new here, but an N800/N810 user.

What bothers me about the Q7 is the battery. As I understand it, the battery is not user-accessible. This means that in a few years, it will not be usable, right?

And I have often crashed my N800 or N810. My solution: remove the battery, replace it and reboot! With the Q7 I will have to wait till the battery runs out of power to get it to reboot that way?

I just press the reset button on the bottom to reboot it.

Yeah the battery isn't user-accessible. I saw some unscrewing of it on jtblog. I'm not too concerned though, I've never had to replace a battery of my other gadgets yet that are user accessible, though I did get a spare extended one for my Axim as the battery life wasn't good on the normal size.

[ColdSun]

Originally Posted by bluelife

as I known,q7 support the SD/SDHC card,Maximum capacity is 16G.

It actually supports 32GB, as I have one and it works. The problem is, you can't install anything on it with SDHC and must use a normal SD card to do it. Some people have reported success with SDHC, but it seems its intermittant.

[rogue_ronin]

Originally Posted by ColdSun

It actually supports 32GB, as I have one and it works. The problem is, you can't install anything on it with SDHC and must use a normal SD card to do it. Some people have reported success with SDHC, but it seems its intermittant.

So you're using a 32GB SD, or a 32GB SDHC?

I'm going to buy one soon; I'm hoping to merge the onboard flash with the SD Card, and just leave it in there permanently. I'd like to know what's the best thing to do...

m a r

[rogue_ronin]

If anyone has flashed Mer on, what do you think? It's pretty crash-prone (no slight to the Mer project, it's still a baby.)

But Jaunty is there, underneath... When Mer crashes, it drops to console (excellent) but doesn't recognize my USB keyboard (not excellent.)

Anyone know what to add via apt-get to get the keyboard working at the prompt?

Thanks,

m a r

[ColdSun]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

So you're using a 32GB SD, or a 32GB SDHC?

I'm going to buy one soon; I'm hoping to merge the onboard flash with the SD Card, and just leave it in there permanently. I'd like to know what's the best thing to do...

m a r

I'm actually using 3 different cards. I've got a 32GB SDHC for music and pictures, and two 2GB SD cards for eBooks and Comics. The Comix comic viewer seems to have problems with the SDHC card in. I can't run GDebi Package Installer at all with the SDHC (SD Card Init Failure). This seems to be a problem expressed frequently on the chinese forums (I used google translate to figure it out).

[rogue_ronin]

Think it's the card reader firmware?

I'm surprised that at this date, there might still be trouble with the format.

Oh, and I think that there's some sort of kludge with the way that they used gdebi and the SD card reader -- they're linking to a compressed file on the SD card, which is, to my mind, just an ugly way to do it. But I understand why -- there's just 1 GB onboard, and they wanted to be able to add apps.

And they surely didn't want to give away 32 GB cards!

If it's not the firmware in the reader, then I suspect it will be solved. I'll certainly give it a try, (with an 8 GB SDHC card, first, so that if it doesn't work... )

m a r

ps: any idea what to add for single-user mode USB keyboard? I'm running Mer right now, and I need to work at the command-line, but no keyboard makes that pretty hard...

[bluelife]

today smart Q5 firmware v3.0 is published.
link:http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/suppo...06/12-419.html
they made some change so that it's easy for user who are not familiar with linux to use.
Q7 version may delay some day to public.
sorry for my poor english.

[bluelife]

here is Q7 firmware V3.0
http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/suppo...06/12-419.html

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by bluelife

here is Q7 firmware V3.0
http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/suppo...06/12-419.html

Here's the same page after Googl translated it:
http://translate.google.com/translat...bb=1&ie=GB2312

[celtica96]

Originally Posted by ColdSun

It actually supports 32GB, as I have one and it works. The problem is, you can't install anything on it with SDHC and must use a normal SD card to do it. Some people have reported success with SDHC, but it seems its intermittant.

I saw your discussion of this earlier. It sounds like SD and SDHC cards need to be tested individually.

When I installed a MicroCenter IPSG 16GB SDHC Class 6 Card ($30+shipping), I had no trouble with installing Flite using GDebi.

I've tested it over a couple of days and there are no intermittent problems.

Do you think it's because your card is 32GB?

It may be how the card is formatted as well. You could try a full format (FAT32) instead of Quick Format in Windows or you could use GParted.

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People who want more than 2GB on an SD card (not SDHC) can try the TOP RAM 4 GB Mini SD Card via its adapter. I was able to partitition this card (GParted) and used it to boot Mer on the Q7.

However, customers at Amazon have reported long-term problems. I originally purchased the TOP RAM 1.5 years ago for a Dell Axim x30 and have not had any problems since then. My usage may be different in that I don't pull the card in and out very often.

[dra_phantom]

Hey Guys,

New firmware is available according to jiongtang

http://www.jiongtang.com/blog/html/s...r-smartq5.html at the bottom of the post

http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/files/SmartQ7-v3.0.rar

i guess you have to convert it to english my smart q7 has not arrived so i can't test you guys test and see, and let us know how it performs

[wonderboy]

The links above lead to the Q5 firmware info. Here is the link for the translated Q7 firmware update:

http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

Here is the translated info (translation is spotty):

Changes and new features
• Bluetooth dial-up wizard to increase functionality and simplify the Bluetooth dial-up steps
• An increase of the Bluetooth dial-up equipment for the network card or USB auto-detection feature
• CDMA network to increase the dial-up options
• Increase finger keyboard and automatic / manual switching functions of the pop-up keyboard
• Increase in online video browser can not find access to tips and video tips
• An increase of off-line RSS reader
• English interface to support an increase of
• Improve the system start-up speed
• Power management interface to increase the use of the distinction between the different settings of
• WLAN connectivity simplifies the steps to automatically prompted to enter password
• To optimize the wireless network connection status indicates that an increase of the interface is to start WiFi setup tips
• Amendment to the MPD / Sonata in dealing with non-standard Chinese ID3 Tags when the issue will be garbled
• Amended when looking at e-book click the touch screen but still the problem of entering hibernation
• Amended after the system hang may occur on the screen blur the issue of
• Close the browser's address bar, complete function, so as not to affect entry address
• Sonata will be built as a music player, in addition to built-in player audacious
• In addition to the mouse pointer (by modifying the configuration files can be resumed)


I preordered a Q7 Wednesday for delivery after June 25 when they get some more in stock. They are using DHL for shipping now for $10 more (came in at 251.80 with shipping to Louisiana and the 4.95 paypal service charge).

[gerraldo]

Originally Posted by bluelife

here is Q7 firmware V3.0
http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/suppo...06/12-419.html

And here is the right page with Google translation: KLICK

(FW Update + SD Update Tool)

[gerraldo]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

So you're using a 32GB SD, or a 32GB SDHC?

There are only SD cards up to 4GB, above that it's just SDHC.

BTW: From my Asus eeePC and several posts in different Netbook forums I've had very good results with Transcend SD and SDHC cards. They are very reliable, fast and compatible and not too pricey.