WinCE - How to get download for Q5 & Q7

[ColdSun]

Ill try to test Opera Mobile, a comic reader of some sort, and Microsoft Reader next. Updates coming soon...

[Houndx]

If you're testing browsers, maybe try out Skyfire since it supports some flash content.

[lugusto]

ActiveSync 4.5 @ WinXP Home SP3 now recognizes my Smart Q7 because I've unistalled the english translation cab and installed this USB driver on my PC (found here)

[heron61]

For Coldsun and others who have been using a translated WinCE on the Q7 - how easy is this to use? I'm familiar with somewhat ideosyncratic devices like the Nokia n810, but I'm not a programmer and I don't know Chinese. Given the rumors that there may never be an English translation, is the current form of WinCE (once translated) actually usable enough to be practical?

[ColdSun]

The translated version is kind of buggy, causing all icons to look like recycle bin, and on my unit, it completely disables my wireless networking.

[Nation.A.List]

For those of you who may not qualify for the FREE WinCE add-on to your SmartQ 5 & 7 JT's shop has WinCE licence available to buy for $10
Link: http://www.jiongtang.com/shop/wince-...u9ep2jcfj3gif5

[Nation.A.List]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

LOL so I see! Very nice specs, if only that screen were an inch or two bigger! I may have to settle - or wait til someone builds my "dream device".

Last try. http://www.jiongtang.com/shop/apple-...892mltgine3qu0 for $390

I'm sure it's not an Apple despite the name in the link and at the top of the webpage.

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by Nation.A.List

Last try. http://www.jiongtang.com/shop/apple-...892mltgine3qu0 for $390

I'm sure it's not an Apple despite the name in the link and at the top of the webpage.

Wow, yeah, someone was really going for the Apple audience, weren't they? That's too funny. Hope they don't end up with a trademark case on their hands, though.

Actually, once I figured out that EU pays VAT and we don't, and therefore converting EU to US Dollars doesn't give you what you'll pay for the device, the Archos 9 ended up mostly in my price range. I can't get anything until tax time anyway and by that time the Archos will be released and there will have been time for people to try to break it and I can see if it's really what I want. I am, of course, keeping my eye on other devices as well, but right now I really like the looks/specs of the Archos. Battery life is not a deal killer for me, as long as I'm not tied to my desk chair and the device is still small enough to read in bed with, I'm good. The Archos may actually be overkill for what I want, but as my husband is so fond of invoking, I'm going on the "power tool rule". Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."!

[bjkel]

Hi, I bought a 4gb SDHC card but the Smartq7 won't boot up from it. Just ignores it and goes straight into the default operating system. The disk shows up there, though. The boot works fine on my 2gb SD card, but not on the SDHC. Would anyone have any ideas on how I could get it to boot up the dual menu with the SDHC card? Thanks.

[bjkel]

Originally Posted by bjkel

Hi, I bought a 4gb SDHC card but the Smartq7 won't boot up from it. Just ignores it and goes straight into the default operating system. The disk shows up there, though. The boot works fine on my 2gb SD card, but not on the SDHC. Would anyone have any ideas on how I could get it to boot up the dual menu with the SDHC card? Thanks.

No one has this problem? I've tried formatting it both with windows and the sd formatting tool. I even reflashed version 4 firmware using the 4gb SDHC card. But I still can't get the dual boot menu to boot up with it. So no suggestions to be had?

[Nation.A.List]

Originally Posted by bjkel

Hi, I bought a 4gb SDHC card but the Smartq7 won't boot up from it. Just ignores it and goes straight into the default operating system. The disk shows up there, though. The boot works fine on my 2gb SD card, but not on the SDHC. Would anyone have any ideas on how I could get it to boot up the dual menu with the SDHC card? Thanks.

Lets go back to the start. What software/files have you loaded onto the SD card?

[bjkel]

Originally Posted by Nation.A.List

Lets go back to the start. What software/files have you loaded onto the SD card?

WinCE boot files: Boot folder, LBE folder and licence.

[Nation.A.List]

Originally Posted by bjkel

WinCE boot files: Boot folder, LBE folder and licence.

Well that's correct and as long as you haven't altered the menu.lst file that lives in the boot folder it should work Grasping at straws here. When you say SD formatter do you mean http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahgd...DFormatter_rar or this http://www.filefactory.com/file/aha6...UpdateTool_rar ?

[bjkel]

Originally Posted by Nation.A.List

Well that's correct and as long as you haven't altered the menu.lst file that lives in the boot folder it should work Grasping at straws here. When you say SD formatter do you mean http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahgd...DFormatter_rar or this http://www.filefactory.com/file/aha6...UpdateTool_rar ?

I've actually used both in various combinations of trying to get the SDHC card to boot up. Maybe a fault in the SDHC card itself? I'm hesitant about getting another one if it doesn't work. But would like not to be confined to just a 2gb card for WinCE. Thanks for confirming that it should work with the SDHC card, though.

[serwei]

Originally Posted by Nation.A.List

For those of you who may not qualify for the FREE WinCE add-on to your SmartQ 5 & 7 JT's shop has WinCE licence available to buy for $10
Link: http://www.jiongtang.com/shop/wince-...u9ep2jcfj3gif5

hmm how do you qualify for the free winCE?