Hey guys, I'd appreciate your input on this idea.
I have a G1 that was run over by a car. The screen is, of course, completely broken, but the rest of the hardware works properly (charges, adb, etc.).
I also have an old Asus S5n laptop with an awesomely thin lcd display, but with a fried video card.
I have relatively no experience with laptop or phone internals, so here is my question:
How plausible would it be to build a G1-powered tablet using the provided hardware along with a touch panel kit and perhaps a modified android kernel?
getting the Asus screen to display the output of the G1 phone will be a miracle and if it is done...ur probable half way there.
good luck with that
Soo... the only ways I can think about going about doing this is getting a proper LVDS driver for the laptop display (quite possible but expensive [$200+]) and then getting the video output from the G1. I'm not sure that's possible but I remember seeing someone somewhere doing that... could be wrong (hopefully).
Even if you were able to do all of that, you would be lacking input as the touchscreen wouldn't really be augment-able.
Either way, good luck with your project1
Has anyone tried to switch nook screen out with the new Pixel Qi? It seems to have the best of LCD and e-ink. I'm trying to get info to verify that will be compatable on system. The dealer needs I/O along with other screen specs. Got any ideas, beeing able to turn off backlight should give a big boost to battery life.
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First of all, think of the ramifications for artists. Obviously there are tons of drawing apps out there, but imagine being able to use your 10" tablet as a drawing device. Obviously most tablets are not pressure sensitive, but, being able to use it as an input device would be sweeeeeeet.
Anyhow, point is, where would one begin to look into finding/making a driver to enable the A500 to be used as an input device (or output for that matter) on a windows PC?
Thoughts on the same subject line:
Use for drawing tablet
Output from pc to tablet to hdmi
throughput from pc to wireless nic for pc lacking/broken network card
Secondary display
external speakers (for pc's with broken/missing speakers)....
I don't think this or any of the capacitive touch tablets are very good for drawing. They are just not precise enough. Resistive touch is way better for drawing.
whatsitsnamenow said:
I don't think this or any of the capacitive touch tablets are very good for drawing. They are just not precise enough. Resistive touch is way better for drawing.
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This. I have a Nokia N900 phone with resistive screen and, well, I can use almost anything to draw with it. Compared to A500 it's also very, very precise. On A500 I'd need to buy a specialized stylus that works on capacitative screens, and it'd still be imprecise due to the large block of rubber at the end.
While it may sound tempting to be able to use the A500 for such I'd still much rather recommend you to just buy a proper drawing canvas and be done with it.
Hi, long time lurker, but I finally had to create an account because I'm flat out stuck.
I'm trying to fix Nook Color for a neighbour, the screen was cracked so she bought a new and I installed it. It works... "kind of." The touchscreen doesn't work. So, I figured why not try to install CM7.2 on it, maybe it has a driver the emmc (I think that what you call it) doesn't have since the screen might be newer. I don't know, it's the only thing I can think of, I tripled checked all the connections from the screen to the board.
Now the NC never boots of the uSD. The uSD looks great, image applied and packages ready, but after the boot up I get the Nook Setup screen (image attached) and then when I look on the uSD there are additional files (image attached) the NC put on there.
I've create the bootable uSD with the follwing images.
TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img
1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer.img
8gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0.img
All three images were tried with both the following commands and on 2 different 8gigs uSD's (PNY/SanDisk), one USB uSD reader and one those uSD in a SD card adapters.
sudo dd if=/Users/x/Downloads/TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
sudo dd if=/Users/x/Downloads/TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img of=/dev/disk2
I'm about to give up, but thought someone here might have another suggestion I can try.
Thanks!
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Hi, long time lurker, but I finally had to create an account because I'm flat out stuck.
I'm trying to fix Nook Color for a neighbour, the screen was cracked so she bought a new and I installed it. It works... "kind of." The touchscreen doesn't work. So, I figured why not try to install CM7.2 on it, maybe it has a driver the emmc (I think that what you call it) doesn't have since the screen might be newer. I don't know, it's the only thing I can think of, I tripled checked all the connections from the screen to the board.
Now the NC never boots of the uSD. The uSD looks great, image applied and packages ready, but after the boot up I get the Nook Setup screen (image attached) and then when I look on the uSD there are additional files (image attached) the NC put on there.
I've create the bootable uSD with the follwing images.
TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img
1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer.img
8gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0.img
All three images were tried with both the following commands and on 2 different 8gigs uSD's (PNY/SanDisk), one USB uSD reader and one those uSD in a SD card adapters.
sudo dd if=/Users/x/Downloads/TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
sudo dd if=/Users/x/Downloads/TWRP_2.3.0.2-encore-sdimg.img of=/dev/disk2
I'm about to give up, but thought someone here might have another suggestion I can try.
Thanks!
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The screen has two components, the lcd display and the the touch matrix (digitizer). Did you replace both?
And sometimes getting an SD to boot can be difficult. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9. Are you sure you are dding to the correct disk partition? Needs to be the whole device.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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The screen has two components, the lcd display and the the touch matrix (digitizer). Did you replace both?
And sometimes getting an SD to boot can be difficult. See my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A9. Are you sure you are dding to the correct disk partition? Needs to be the whole device.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Hey leapinlar, I honestly don't know. It was one assembled screen unit, I've attached an image, the one on the left is the original and the the right side is the replacement, can you tell from the image if the digitizer is included? Thanks!
rorius said:
Hey leapinlar, I honestly don't know. It was one assembled screen unit, I've attached an image, the one on the left is the original and the the right side is the replacement, can you tell from the image if the digitizer is included? Thanks!
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I've not actually take one apart, so I don't know. You might search for a Nook Color tear down on the web. Seems to me I saw one years ago.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
That is a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. That start-up screen will say "Thank you for choosing NOOK Tablet™. We are sure you will love it! Please take a moment to set up your device." for the tablet, and "Thank you for choosing NOOK Color™. We are sure you will love it! Please take a moment to set up your device." for the Nook Color. Look at the text on the back of device under the speaker, and you will see model number BNTV250 or BNTV250a for the tablet, and BNRV200 or BNRV200a for the Nook Color.
Thanks GMPOWER, you are correct, it is a NT and the screen is suppose to be for a NT too. I've found this out from the neighbor after your post. I've attached images of both and it seems that they are the same? I keep hearing about to check if it has a digitizer, but I don't know how or where to look for this...
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That is a Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color. That start-up screen will say "Thank you for choosing NOOK Tablet™. We are sure you will love it! Please take a moment to set up your device." for the tablet, and "Thank you for choosing NOOK Color™. We are sure you will love it! Please take a moment to set up your device." for the Nook Color. Look at the text on the back of device under the speaker, and you will see model number BNTV250 or BNTV250a for the tablet, and BNRV200 or BNRV200a for the Nook Color.
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Thanks GMPOWER, you are correct, it is a NT and the screen is suppose to be for a NT too. I've found this out from the neighbor after your post. I've attached images of both and it seems that they are the same? I keep hearing about to check if it has a digitizer, but I don't know how or where to look for this...
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You don't show the front of it, but usually on devices the digitizer is between the glass and the lcd panel. Is it one unit with glass and lcd panel?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Yes, both are one unit.
leapinlar said:
You don't show the front of it, but usually on devices the digitizer is between the glass and the lcd panel. Is it one unit with glass and lcd panel?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Jump back to the first post. You say it's kind of working. Even though you have installed the completely wrong CWM and ROM for It?
Did the neighbor run CM10 prior to the screen breaking. In that case the multi-touch firmware may have been installed. Make a bootable CM10 card for the correct devices and try again.
Here is a link to a ready-made sd image for the Tablet. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT FOR THE COLOR! http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/
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If you are looking at the front of the screen with the “n” button facing down, the ribbon on the right of the screen is the touch screen digitizer. All Nook Tablets came with the FocalTech FTx06 digitizer, and most Nook Color’s came with the Cypress Semiconductor TMA340 digitizer. Starting with the Nook Color 1.3 firmware, driver support for the FocalTech FTx06 was implemented. A number of blue dot Nook Color’s come with the same FocalTech digitizer as the Nook Tablet. A Cypress Semiconductor touch screen driver is included in the Nook Tablet kernel source code, but I don’t believe fully implemented.
I attached the following pics of the Nook Color, and Nook Tablet digitizer semiconductors chip. The Nook Color digitizer is the one with 8CTMA340-48LQI-01 CYP644895 PHI written on the chip, and the Nook Tablet digitizer is the one with FT5406EE8 ERE344D K01 written on the chip. If the digitizer in your neighbor’s device is the Cypress chip, it will most likely never work without some work to implement the correct driver into the kernel. She will need to try to return digitizer that she purchased, and get the correct one. Tell her to ask the seller next time before she purchases to verify that it has the correct FocalTech digitizer. If the digitizer is the correct FocalTech digitizer, and all connections are correct, then she should return the faulty one, and get another one that works.
GMPOWER, I think you got it! The one the neighbor was sent it a CYP512226. Last question, if she was to exchange it can it be for any FTxxxxxxx or is there a specific series to ask for? Thanks for the help.
GMPOWER said:
If you are looking at the front of the screen with the “n” button facing down, the ribbon on the right of the screen is the touch screen digitizer. All Nook Tablets came with the FocalTech FTx06 digitizer, and most Nook Color’s came with the Cypress Semiconductor TMA340 digitizer. Starting with the Nook Color 1.3 firmware, driver support for the FocalTech FTx06 was implemented. A number of blue dot Nook Color’s come with the same FocalTech digitizer as the Nook Tablet. A Cypress Semiconductor touch screen driver is included in the Nook Tablet kernel source code, but I don’t believe fully implemented.
I attached the following pics of the Nook Color, and Nook Tablet digitizer semiconductors chip. The Nook Color digitizer is the one with 8CTMA340-48LQI-01 CYP644895 PHI written on the chip, and the Nook Tablet digitizer is the one with FT5406EE8 ERE344D K01 written on the chip. If the digitizer in your neighbor’s device is the Cypress chip, it will most likely never work without some work to implement the correct driver into the kernel. She will need to try to return digitizer that she purchased, and get the correct one. Tell her to ask the seller next time before she purchases to verify that it has the correct FocalTech digitizer. If the digitizer is the correct FocalTech digitizer, and all connections are correct, then she should return the faulty one, and get another one that works.
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She will need to get the Nook digitizer using the FT5406EE8 chip. The driver in the source code is specifically written for that one.
The FT5x06 series of digitizers consists of three different chips, FT5206GE1, FT5306DE4, and FT5406EE8. The FT5206GE1 chip is designed for touch panels sized 2.8” – 3.8”, FT5306DE4 is designed for touch panels sized 4.3” – 7”, and the FT5406EE8 is designed for touch panels sized 7” – 8.9”.
Anyone else notice the screen's on more recent Nook Simple Touch readers seem to be whiter? Looks very nice. Thought people might be interested to know. I bought it from ebay as a "faulty" item but managed to get it to work.
The one that seems to have a whiter screen has serial number starting with 3030, whereas the NST Glowlight has 3024 and the first NST i bought has 3023 (getting rid of two and keeping one).
Took some photos, but they didn't fully capture the whiter surface, it's more noticeable in real life especially between the old and new NST. I'm curious as to whether it would be a physical change to the eink display or some sort of pre-set calibration setting.
My first NST seemed to have a somewhat greyish screen, whereas the Glowlight has a slightly whiter screen, while the NST with the more recent serial number seems to be even whiter than the Glowlight, which i thought was impressive.
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(in order: glowlight, newer NST, old NST)