IQ Just got my Pocketbook IQ!!! Slide me not working

[hiaig]

This is what you need to do to fully utilize the Android:

1. Tap on "Applications", this takes you to a new screen with all of the installed applications
2. If you have AndExplorer, you have 2.0.2 firmware and you should update your firmware to 2.0.3
3. If you have IOFileManager, then you already have 2.0.3 firmware.
4. Tap on Settings to set up you wifi
5. Tap on SlideMe (SAM) and search and download Launcher Pro
6. Hit the home button and make Launcher Pro your default launcher
7. You are set.

If you cannot go to the next screen by tapping on the "Applications" icon, I would reflash the firmware.

1. Press and hold the power button until "Power Off" appears, tap it to power the device off.
2. put the firmware in the root off the SD card.
3. Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Up button until you see an android/box with a progress bar.

To be safe, I always flash 2.0.2 first (http://www.mediafire.com/?vcvchc6jjhdkqba)
then flash 2.0.3

Cheers

[slowpoke]

Thanks, Hiaig.

I have copied your advice and will try to implement it this afternoon. Fingers crossed.

[slowpoke]

Originally Posted by hiaig

This is what you need to do to fully utilize the Android:

1. Tap on "Applications", this takes you to a new screen with all of the installed applications
2. If you have AndExplorer, you have 2.0.2 firmware and you should update your firmware to 2.0.3
3. If you have IOFileManager, then you already have 2.0.3 firmware.
4. Tap on Settings to set up you wifi
5. Tap on SlideMe (SAM) and search and download Launcher Pro
6. Hit the home button and make Launcher Pro your default launcher
7. You are set.

If you cannot go to the next screen by tapping on the "Applications" icon, I would reflash the firmware.

1. Press and hold the power button until "Power Off" appears, tap it to power the device off.
2. put the firmware in the root off the SD card.
3. Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Up button until you see an android/box with a progress bar.

To be safe, I always flash 2.0.2 first (http://www.mediafire.com/?vcvchc6jjhdkqba)
then flash 2.0.3

Cheers

Oh dear! The first time I get to "Applications" is on the bluish screen I described earlier (that comes up after unlocking). The applications icon cannot be opened. The menu button gives me a small section at the bottom of the bluish screen with five icons. No application but "settings". Tapping settings gives me Applications. Tapping this gives "Manage applications" (= no third party apps) and running services. This screen also shows "Pocketbook Widget" which I cannot open.

So I must try your second set of suggestions. But I don't know how to "put the firmware in the root off the SD card" - so far as I can see, I cannot do any operation except those pitiful ones I described. Is there something I can do through a computer?


, after going through the process I described earlier, tapping "Settings".

[hiaig]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

Oh dear! The first time I get to "Applications" is on the bluish screen I described earlier (that comes up after unlocking). The applications icon cannot be opened. The menu button gives me a small section at the bottom of the bluish screen with five icons. No application but "settings". Tapping settings gives me Applications. Tapping this gives "Manage applications" (= no third party apps) and running services. This screen also shows "Pocketbook Widget" which I cannot open.

So I must try your second set of suggestions. But I don't know how to "put the firmware in the root off the SD card" - so far as I can see, I cannot do any operation except those pitiful ones I described. Is there something I can do through a computer?


, after going through the process I described earlier, tapping "Settings".

use your computer to download firmware 2.0.2 and copy it over to the sdcard.

then go through the steps of flashing the firmware.

Cheers

[slowpoke]

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I kept bashing the "Applications" icon on the bluish screen and it opened! Now I can see all the widgets, including OI File Manager and SAM 4.0. But when I tap SAM it gives me "Sorry! The application SlideMe etc has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Then I must tap "Force close" to go back to the widget screen.

What to try now? I feel I am closer.

If I must download 2.0.2 I can't find it, just 2.0.3 updates for downloading. And then I don't know how to "go through the steps of flashing the firmware"!

I feel like a total idiot!

[hiaig]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I kept bashing the "Applications" icon on the bluish screen and it opened! Now I can see all the widgets, including OI File Manager and SAM 4.0. But when I tap SAM it gives me "Sorry! The application SlideMe etc has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Then I must tap "Force close" to go back to the widget screen.

What to try now? I feel I am closer.

If I must download 2.0.2 I can't find it, just 2.0.3 updates for downloading. And then I don't know how to "go through the steps of flashing the firmware"!

I feel like a total idiot!

2.0.2 can be found in the mediafire link that is next to the firmware in my post above (post 16).

Cheers

[slowpoke]

Hi Hiaig.

Don't let go of my hand! I got what seems to be 2.0.2. On the SD card I now have 2.0.3 unzipped and 2.0.2 zipped. What do I do now?

[hiaig]

Flashing 2.0.2:

copy the file and only this file to your SD card:

pocket.IQ.firmware 2.0.2_041210_NA_PB701SWUPDATE.zip

1. Press and hold the power button until the power off screen comes on.
2. Press power off.
3. Press AND hold BOTH the power button and the volume up button until a screen with the box, yello arrow and android logo comes on
4. Let go of the buttons.
5. IQ will reboot afterward.
6. Go through the set up steps on the screen.

Now you are ready to flash version 2.0.3:

Delete the 2.0.2 firmware from your SD card, copy this file to the SD Card:

userupdate091210_common_PB701SWUPDATE.zip

Follow the steps outlined in version 2.0.2.

Cheers

[slowpoke]

Good morning.

Copied the 2.0.2 onto the SD card, deleted 2.0.3. Put the card in and started up, with power button and volume+ both pressed. No change: "Thank you", etc., seven letters, lady bugs. I suspect that I must delete or remove the 2.0.3 from the PB first but don't know how.

[hiaig]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

Good morning.

Copied the 2.0.2 onto the SD card, deleted 2.0.3. Put the card in and started up, with power button and volume+ both pressed. No change: "Thank you", etc., seven letters, lady bugs. I suspect that I must delete or remove the 2.0.3 from the PB first but don't know how.

did you press and HOLD until that screen, with the box, arrow and android logo, shows up and THEN let go?

Was there a progress bar showing that the firmware was being flashed?

If you did that and the IQ reboot then firmware 2.0.2 has been flashed.

Cheers

[slowpoke]

I pressed and held for some time: "Thank you",etc screen, then the seven letters and then the power off screen. I then released the two buttons.

I wonder if the Book is reading the SD card. In the Settings, the SD card is shown with total and available space 0.00MB. Internal memory is shown a 38.13 MB, which surprises me.

[hiaig]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

I pressed and held for some time: "Thank you",etc screen, then the seven letters and then the power off screen. I then released the two buttons.

I wonder if the Book is reading the SD card. In the Settings, the SD card is shown with total and available space 0.00MB. Internal memory is shown a 38.13 MB, which surprises me.

that could be the problem. You did format you SD card FAT32 and not NTFS right?

Remember you need to turn off the IQ first before you can reflash. That means holding the power button until you see the "silent mode/ ariplane mode / power off" screen AND touch the power off to turn the unit off.

[slowpoke]

I didn't do anything to the SD card except install the 2.0.2 firmware. In settings I see the item "format (erase) the SD card" but nothing happens when I tap this.

[hiaig]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

I didn't do anything to the SD card except install the 2.0.2 firmware. In settings I see the item "format (erase) the SD card" but nothing happens when I tap this.

if you have a card reader for your computer, can you tell me what file do you have in your SD card right now?

[slowpoke]

It has the address I copied from you: pocket.IQ.firmware etc. The card is FAT.