GREED Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Gad damn it, I have just written my blog review on this and everyone has already played with it!!! I bought the Zenithink ZT180, with the keyboard case, £157 ebay. Perfect for what I want and needed it for, the resistive touch is not an issue. Battery power is somewhat though. ePad Review
AyatollahPies Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Gad damn it, I have just written my blog review on this and everyone has already played with it!!! I bought the Zenithink ZT180, with the keyboard case, £157 ebay. Perfect for what I want and needed it for, the resistive touch is not an issue. Battery power is somewhat though. ePad Review ha ha, you've saved me a job. The keyboard case is pretty nifty isn't it? There are some hacks that can be applied after gaining root access that help prolong battery life and increase wireless range. I'm yet to tinker with that but I'll let you know how it goes. (Unless you've already covered that in your blog, which I am just about to read)
GREED Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 ha ha, you've saved me a job. The keyboard case is pretty nifty isn't it? There are some hacks that can be applied after gaining root access that help prolong battery life and increase wireless range. I'm yet to tinker with that but I'll let you know how it goes. (Unless you've already covered that in your blog, which I am just about to read) I havn't Mr Pies, I would be VERY interested to know those hacks. The blog is a review of the thing from a user perspective.
GREED Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 PS I do apologies if DB has already done a review on this, I didn't see one on there before I posted mine!
LosOjos Posted January 11, 2011 Author Posted January 11, 2011 If you can root the pad I can highly recommend the SetCPU app, I'm using it on my Desire. You can set profiles up so that (for example) I have my Desire running at a little over the factory set speed when I'm using it, but when I switch the screen off it uses a maximum of half the processors speed. My battery life has been much better since I started using it. 1
browolf Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 we got one from maplin, it's a "scroll" by storageoptions think this is the one: http://www.maplin.co.uk/7inch-android-2.1-scroll-tablet-506956?c=froogle&u=506956&t=module it's pretty cool for local wireless intranet stuff (helpdesk, fog server) but the version of android it has doesn't support proxies and there's no upgrade.
GREED Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 If you can root the pad I can highly recommend the SetCPU app, I'm using it on my Desire. You can set profiles up so that (for example) I have my Desire running at a little over the factory set speed when I'm using it, but when I switch the screen off it uses a maximum of half the processors speed. My battery life has been much better since I started using it. Cheers Los0Jos, any other battery or wireless (or CPU/Memory improvement) hacks will be much appreciated. Sometimes the thing gets locked doing stuff and it takes a time to clear.
AyatollahPies Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Elonex are apparently working on getting Android 2.2 to work on it. This should work on any "branded" Zenithink ZT180. For those of you that didn't get yours from Elonex, it might be worth checking out their website as they have some firmware updates on the site. (I would advise caution of course) Another, interesting hack I read about at the weekend, was the ability to get some 3G modems to work on it.
GREED Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 I think it is Elonex that are selling them at Toys R Us, I originally got one from there, but it dodn't boot up. Took back. I think it is Android 2.2 that will support Flash, I am right in thinking...
CyberNerd Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 I think it is Android 2.2 that will support Flash, I am right in thinking... yes, but they still don't support proxies so think again before getting them for school 1
LosOjos Posted January 11, 2011 Author Posted January 11, 2011 yes, but they still don't support proxies so think again before getting them for school Are you sure about that? The only reason I say that is that I have recently installed CyanogenMOD on my Desire, and that has Proxy support. What I'm not sure of is whether CyanogenMOD is unique in having proxy, or whether it is available on Android now and HTC for whatever reason don't include it in their ROM's. If that's the case, then devices running Android stock ROMs could potentially have proxy support? Like I say, I've only used the Desire so I have no knowledge outside of that.
Chunky Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 I was under the impression that 2.1 didn't support proxies native,(without rooting & fiddling) but 2.2 did? (or that may have been just my device)
CyberNerd Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Are you sure about that? The only reason I say that is that I have recently installed CyanogenMOD on my Desire, and that has Proxy support. What I'm not sure of is whether CyanogenMOD is unique in having proxy, or whether it is available on Android now and HTC for whatever reason don't include it in their ROM's. If that's the case, then devices running Android stock ROMs could potentially have proxy support? Like I say, I've only used the Desire so I have no knowledge outside of that. I'm sure it is possible, and certainly CyanogenMOD does. but stock 2.2 doesn't for me, we have a number of (personal) android devices in school and I've yet to get them connected to the internet. on a plus note, the citrix receiver works nicely on android.
AyatollahPies Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Righty-ho! ZT-180 FAQ Wifi strength and power fix The FAQ contains links to pretty much everything you need to know. I've been having fun trying to get two 3G dongles to work tonight, but with no success so far. It can be done though. Slatedroid has a great forum too. 1
GREED Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 FAO all: The SetCUP app does not work on the ePad
Luke_T Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 After a fair bit of research I'm hoping to get a range of the archos internet tablets to play with 43, 70 & 101 ... not too expensive and from reviews and spec seem the best of the low cost bunch until the 3.0 ones get released.
AyatollahPies Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 I have upgraded my ePad to Froyo and can confirm that it does appear to have increased the battery life. It also fully turns the screen off in standby, rather than just dimming it. Still working on 3G functionality, but I believe the issue is with my Huawei modem and not the ePad.
GREED Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 I have upgraded my ePad to Froyo and can confirm that it does appear to have increased the battery life. It also fully turns the screen off in standby, rather than just dimming it. Still working on 3G functionality, but I believe the issue is with my Huawei modem and not the ePad. Have I missed a thread? Froyo? very interested!
AyatollahPies Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 Nope, I'm just having fun tinkering with my tablet. (Oh err Missus!) :-)
ict-lakelands Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 I have been looking at a couple of the cheap models on fleabay. Namely an 8" model for about £140. Anyone bought something similar?
LosOjos Posted January 26, 2011 Author Posted January 26, 2011 I have been looking at a couple of the cheap models on fleabay. Namely an 8" model for about £140. Anyone bought something similar? Start of this thread talks about them
GREED Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 I have been looking at a couple of the cheap models on fleabay. Namely an 8" model for about £140. Anyone bought something similar? Get 10.2 inch, worth it. See this thread, as well as this blog: http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/greed/592-epad-review-worthy-mention-battle-tablets.html
Cools Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Bur some of them RM tabs and Stick android on them.. it may take a wile to set up but.. you could have a dule boot ..
jpaterson Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 ^ How would you do that? Yeah, I've tried with a couple of the Froyo 2.2 (x86) builds. Got it on no probs, but couldn't get the touchscreen to work. Still struggling to get ubuntu/meego/*insert your flavour of linux here* to work with touchscreen on it
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