MrTasselhof, on 26 January 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:
I have had lots of experience with many chinese tablets...
The battery for this device is pretty strong... you can see in the internals pictures that is i HUGE in comparison to the device.
This device has the smallest most compact motherboard I have seen in a tablet and they used all of the extra space for the battery.
You have at least 4 hours, but I would say up to 6 or 8 depending on use.
Tasselhof
Actually, this is the first ever board what is made in a way it can be built into something else - like, a multimedia player for home. Based on the IR diode on the Advanced/Basic, we can easily snap on one, and it should be supported by def.
Also, an explanation of the board name:
Novo704FC_E3_V02_111219
Novo704FC
Board type and variant (Novo7 Board 04 Variant FC)
Also can be such:
Novo - main series name
70 - screen size (7.0")
4 - 4th member of Novo family (Advanced was 1st, Basic 2nd, Elf for 3rd and this is the 4th)
FC - Variant name, or MAYBE, FCC-allowed?
E3_V02
More sub-versioning. This marks that yours is the V2 version of the E3 subvariant
111219
Manufacturing date (2011.12.19)
And, if you check closely, even the exact date the board was printed is on it ;D (11:51)
The mic's placement is weird, but I'm glad they kept the reboot button there. That antennae can cause severe problems in WiFi reception (just a bulk head, not even a proper antennae), so I suggest taking it off, and adding a standard PSP flat antennae (same as used with the Herotab C8 mods). The chipset itself is pretty good (although I'd be a lot happier with a BroadCom BCM4329 or 4330), and mostly open source (except the firmware), it can be grabbed from
RealTek's site.
Also as I see they have used 4 * 256MB RAM chips (better speeds), a dual-NAND layout (2 * 4GB), the usual GT801 GoodWin touch controller (capable of 5 distinct fingers by def, can be expanded into 10 AFAIK, with some kernel modding), a FreeScale MMA7660 3Axis Orientation/Motion detector.
The other things, well... Apparently there is no separate controller for the HDMI, it uses the A10 standard output directly from the chip, so the HDMI output can be gained pretty easily, it's mostly based on the kernel (and a simple libhdmi part, but the source for that is out).
Soon I'll receive one so I can help more with mods, softwares, etc.
Began working on a tool what can easily create A10 flashable correct images, but so far I could only replace some of the tools from the released Lichee tools (the script conversion part, plus the bootfs/bootloader partition creation). Any help in it is welcome
EDIT:
Sorry, after checking the board numbering, I came to a conclusion I was wrong. The Advanced's board ID is the following:
Novo704FC_A1_SC3007
So, Novo704FC defines it's a Novo7 series board, the main board family name. Second part might be a simple ID code (A1 for Advanced, E3, maybe Elf? As the two are only slightly different, maybe the board is the same), then another sub-ID, and on-board printed is the date it was made.
I took my Pioneer Aurora apart (LY-F1), and it has a different board numbering scheme:
A710-MAINBOARD-V2.0.0
2011/11/08
It's a lot more clear (second revision .0.0 of the generic A710 board, with the MMA7660 sensor, 8GB NAND, 512MB RAM, RealTek RTL8188CUS wifi, etc etc) numbering, and totally different from Ainols, so it's no help :S
Also began setting up an AOSP/CM9 ICS device tree for the Aurora, Elf, Advanced 2 (just guessing the config), Advanced, and the LY-F1, with shared resources, etc. It will take some time, but worth it
This post has been edited by ainolmodder: 01 February 2012 - 12:04 PM
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