[davidr]

Black fw online atPandigital » Downloads -- Pandigital Novel eReaders

 

[clockworx]

Hmmm, a .dat file? EDIT : Well, looks like 7zip opens it without issue. Maybe some kind of unix compression scheme like CPIO again?EDIT #2: And according to default.prop adb should be enabled so......

 

[bugeyed]

It's "Polaris_Update.dat" 53MB???

 

[clockworx]

And according to build.prop the black PDN is running.......Cupcake, aka Android 1.5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ro.build.id=CUPCAKEro.build.display.id=A.1.5.27 L.2.6.27.27 R.2.8.0 B.2.0.1ro.build.version.incremental=eng.ken.20100802.165226ro.build.version.sdk=3ro.build.version.release=1.5ro.build.date=Mon Aug 2 17:32:25 CST 2010

 

[Noah98]

[quote name='clockworx;47337]And according to build.prop the black PDN is running.......Cupcake' date=' aka Android 1.5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA[/QUOTE'] Is it really running 1.5?

 

[roebeet]

I can open it - here's what I see:

delta_user_remove.listkernel.binmd5sumsmodules.tgzroot.tgzsha1sumsturboboot.imgu-boot.binupdate.script

Holy carp!! The build.prop DOES say Cupcake! Joinks! Man, I'm glad my BJ's didn't have this thing on the shelves today.

 

[clockworx]

root.tgz has most of our typical stuff, including /system. it's sort of like ramdisk and system in 1. 7Zip should open it. (or any program that can do tgz, obviously)

 

[clockworx]

Hmmm....looks like this one has more video libraries built though, I wonder if video runs better on the black (for now).

 

[roebeet]

So let me get this straight - similar hardware(? Not even sure about that - could it be 128MB RAM?), older OS and possibly less functionality because of it (thinking about all those Chipads as an example), AND it's at least $50 more at BJ's that what I spent for my white PDN? No thank you.

 

[clockworx]

To be fair, many people won't care what Android version it runs. This looks like the end of the hacker rep, though, once all the white ones are gone.

 

[davidr]

do we know the black ones are going? or will they just have two models?

 

[davidr]

also curious.. how do you open and look at the dat file?

 

[clockworx]

Huh. There are new libs, including libagl, which seems to be for "Allegro GL", a hardware accelerated GL implementation. So some stuff might work better, despite being on 1.5 Now I'm wondering if it can be carried over somehow..

 

[geebekazoo]

also curious.. how do you open and look at the dat file?

Basically, it's a zip-file format. Just use your favorite tool.

 

[cpg716]

[quote name='roebeet;47352]So let me get this straight - similar hardware(? Not even sure about that - could it be 128MB RAM?)' date=' older OS and possibly less functionality because of it (thinking about all those Chipads as an example), AND it's at least $50 more at BJ's that what I spent for my white PDN? No thank you.[/QUOTE'] Well $159.99 but thats with the $19.99 GEL CASE.. So since its packaged together, you are getting 2 things for the price, so its not really $50 more for just the Black PDN.CPG

 

[roebeet]

Very true, and of course the white PDN deal was exactly that - not MSRP. But even if this thing does better video playback I'd still be hesitant to buy it over the white one.I'm wondering why they went with 1.5 on this one. The firmware updater is very different, so maybe they're using a completely different vendor for the software.

 

[clockworx]

So....the lib directory here has libagl, libsgl, and libcorecg, all of which (after brief googling) appear to be some sort of graphics acceleration libraries. None of these exist on ours, though it appears corecg wasn't really meant to be used after 1.6 anyways. (found a note from cyanogenmod development saying "keep corecg for backwards compatability with donut).We can try to push them to 2.0 and see what happens, but my guess is they tuned the efficiency up a bit, and, if rumors are to be believed, were able to drop the RAM from 256 to 128 to cut down on hardware costs.

 

[roebeet]

Yeah, the drop in RAM would be a major problem for me (if true) because that means you are basically stuck on 1.x. At least that's my understanding in regards to the hw specs for 2.x (needs 256MB RAM?). What's also interesting is that the Engadget article mentioned that the black Novel was 1.5 / 128MB RAM and I ripped them for that. Now it seems that it might have been an accurate statement, at least for the black Novel.

 

[Noah98]

[quote name='roebeet;47392]Yeah' date=' the drop in RAM would be a major problem for me (if true) because that means you are basically stuck on 1.x. At least that's my understanding in regards to the hw specs for 2.x (needs 256MB RAM?). What's also interesting is that the Engadget article mentioned that the black Novel was 1.5 / 128MB RAM and I ripped them for that. Now it seems that it might have been an accurate statement, at least for the black Novel.[/QUOTE'] I wonder if Engadget knew more about the device than we thought!

 

[firepong]

Was looking around the files and such and by the looks of it, they finally got a team to work on the Novel, calling it the Polaris Project, which goes with the file name of the update:# Polaris project wpa_supplication configctrl_interface=/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicantctrl_interface_group=wifiupdate_config=1ap_scan=1Look in bold. Not important data, but just wanted to point it out