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Opening Ameo

Hello everyone
Has anyone managed to do this?
I have bent and snapped my USB socket and I want to try to fix it.
I have looked at Asukals web site but I cannot find the bit where he takes apart an ameo!
Anyone able to help?

That's because it's just pictures of PCB/HDs. No actual shots of how it all comes apart and fits together, sadly.

I hope someone gets the service manual
I know it's just a matter of time before I tear my X7500 apart, since I've torn apart and repaired my XDAII and Universal multiple times. I can almost take the Universal apart in my sleep. What made this all possible, though was having access to the factory service manual on this site. So I hope someone will be able to post one for Athena.

When you manage to open it, could you please see if you could replace the MD with a CFII card and if it would work?

eaglesteve said:
When you manage to open it, could you please see if you could replace the MD with a CFII card and if it would work?
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Apparently not eaglesteve. I recall reading about this in the upgrade section of the Athena...yep just found it:
Originally Posted by lbarouf
Hitachi isn't the problem... the problem is the darn CE-ATA interface I didn't notice. Intel is heading the new standard, and the founding member? Hitachi. So far, no other drives then Hitachi's 3K8. Well, they have 2/4/6/8 Gb in sizes, nothing else. 10Gb was suppose to exist, but never saw light. Tough luck for now. Until 20Gb transflash sees light, no expansion.
Something must give sooner or later, but if it's too far down the road, we'll all probably be upgrading our devices to the next best thing.....Mobile Chameleon - WM + VistaXP + Dual Core Monahan CPU's for Mobile devices with a NVidia GoForce 10000 GPU and 100GB HDD & 4GB RAM!! ROFL.
When? Prototype in about 12 months time..ha ha.

Hello,
have you saw this pictures ?
http://amd.co.at/anti/?pocket/pics/Ameo/intern_pics/

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htc shift upgrade

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It sounds like the bearings in the fan are struggling.
I think you need to open the unit up, and either replace the fan, or attempt to clean and lubricate it.

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The disassembly guide is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387892 but it looks like the pictures are all dead links now, which isn't very helpful.

Wrong place

RAM 2 Gb is a great upgrade for SHIFT
Hi guys,
it is now a long time we use the HTC SHIFT.
Did you know there is an upgrade possible for the RAM ?
This make faster response and very smooth computer.
You can diassembly the computer and change the Micro DIMM.
Let me know if interested, i still have one brand new RAM available.
That's all folks ! Thanks to any ROM maker, it is great for geeks :good:
http://slideshare.net/reporter

reporter-rdm said:
Hi guys,
it is now a long time we use the HTC SHIFT.
Did you know there is an upgrade possible for the RAM ?
This make faster response and very smooth computer.
You can diassembly the computer and change the Micro DIMM.
Let me know if interested, i still have one brand new RAM available.
That's all folks ! Thanks to any ROM maker, it is great for geeks :good:
http://slideshare.net/reporter
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It is well known how Shift RAM can be upgraded.
The posted link gives me no idea for new solutions.
Could you please post a short summary HERE to give further readers
the possibility to see what it's about, even if Link should be dead?
OR do you just aim to sell some microDimm?
If so- which capacity and price?

B-44 said:
It is well known how Shift RAM can be upgraded.
The posted link gives me no idea for new solutions.
Could you please post a short summary HERE to give further readers
the possibility to see what it's about, even if Link should be dead?
OR do you just aim to sell some microDimm?
If so- which capacity and price?
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The micro DIMM is 2 Gb and fits ok with SHIFT.
It cost around 117 or 189 euro on ebay. I can sell it 99 euro.
May be i can get several but one is for sure available. RAM prices are raising-up actually !
exemple here
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/2GB-RAM-Micr...-HTC-SHIFT-X9500-Micro-DIMM-NEW-/120814611202
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/2GB-DDR2-533...erComponents_MemoryRAM_JN&hash=item58a52f7a58

You're d**n right! Up till last week you could get em on eBay for ~70,-Euro shipping included, and over night prices rose to the amount you've posted.

New SD Card after update

Well.. after yelling at tech support people for I don't know how long, they made sure my latest replacement had the new firmware update.
The Bad News First.... it is no better. It crashes, but now it seems that sometimes it catches itself first and throws itself out onto the home screen. What happens then is, that you can't enter an app (including things like the market and people). I just loads and kicks right back onto the home screen before booting. To get this to stop you have to reboot. So instead of crashing now, it essentially forces you to reboot the phone to use it. Fantastic stuff Dell.
The Even Worse.... None of the other 4 phones I had ever had any error pertaining "directly" to the memory card (though I still think the memory card is causing all of this). The phone now 2 has given me the non-compatable card error, and the first time was at the very first initial boot up of the phone. Bravo Dell.
So Im sick of worrying about the warranty. By the time this gets fixed the phone is going to be so out of date, most of the apps won't play on it anyhow. What they are doing is criminal, but there is nothing that is getting done unless a bunch of you jump on the class action table with me.
But anyhow.. to my real question. I am done with this mess and am going to swap a new card in. The phone came with NoDo, but when it booted it updated with the security patch. What is going to happen when I swap cards after an update? And if so what can or should I do? Any help is appreciated... thanks in advance.

Replacing the sd card requires a hard reset and you will be back at the OS version you were before you did the reset. The procedure to replace the card is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12188811&postcount=53
Only thing I would say is try and use a Sandisk Class 2 card, they seem to have the best compability.

Cool..that's what I am trying to figure out now... I see some on amazon listed as Class 2, but apparantly even though they are listed as that, they send what ever they have.

efjay said:
Only thing I would say is try and use a Sandisk Class 2 card, they seem to have the best compability.
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This. All reports seem to support this statement (as well as my personal experience).

missionsparta said:
Cool..that's what I am trying to figure out now... I see some on amazon listed as Class 2, but apparantly even though they are listed as that, they send what ever they have.
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I tried the amazon route and I am going to try Microcenter, they have one listed and even though its more expensive I can buy it knowing exactly what I'm getting.

efjay said:
I tried the amazon route and I am going to try Microcenter, they have one listed and even though its more expensive I can buy it knowing exactly what I'm getting.
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I wound up spending a bit more to be sure I had a genuine SanDisk Class 2 as well.
I notice in your sig you are still getting lockups - what card are you currently using?

raremage said:
I wound up spending a bit more to be sure I had a genuine SanDisk Class 2 as well.
I notice in your sig you are still getting lockups - what card are you currently using?
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Currenty have a Transcend class 2, got the Sandisk and will try my luck with it later.

Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha

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Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha
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You don't mention where your location is....but where ever you are, don't move near me. You are the holder of the worst phone karma there is.
No offense meant...hope none is taken.

missionsparta said:
Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha
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My brother's phone has a layer of dust particles under the screen, probably covering like 75% of the screen real estate. He doesn't want to go through the hassle with calling Dell and getting a replacement sent out so we're probably going to go to the Microsoft Store where we purchased the phones and see if they will do a swap. I've heard they're very helpful in that regard.
They really need to do some quality control on this - the dust issue is pretty terrible and I would have thought it would have been fixed by now. We've had the phones since November/December and I thought the dust issue was a one off flaw.

Once I get a unit with no dust, Im pulling the card. The error THE STOCK CARD keeps giving me is that there is an issue with the memory card. It then tells me to "either remove the storage card or replace it with a new compliant one". And the sticker may said void under it, but no where on it right now does it say void.
So if they have a problem, I took a picture with the camera and the phone SPECIFICALLY states to "REMOVE THE CARD". There problem now... I don't care what they say anymore. They had their chance to fix it... the product is telling me to do it.... and I don't see "Void" anywhere. Took pictures and covered my tracks. Time to get this going myself.

[Q] Is there a way to back up my SD card?

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Loriski said:
Okay new here hope this is the right place.
I bought a N2a card on amazon and it works fine. Now I would like to get another nook color for my daughter but hate to spend more money on another ready made card for her's with CM7 on it. Maybe it's my SD card? ( Adata 8 gig not sure maybe doing it wrong.) If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to.
Thanks, Lori..
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Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......

Loriski said:
Okay new here hope this is the right place.
I bought a N2a card on amazon and it works fine. Now I would like to get another nook color for my daughter but hate to spend more money on another ready made card for her's with CM7 on it. Maybe it's my SD card? ( Adata 8 gig not sure maybe doing it wrong.) If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to.
Thanks, Lori..
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You're not ripping anyone off. You purchased the N2A card. Now it's yours, you can do with it as you wish. You're not burning it to sell to someone else. Hey, maybe you want a backup of your card in case the one you have messes up.
You can either use WinImage to back up the whole card and burn the image onto the new one.
Or if you have a mac or linux box, you can use the "dd" command to do essentially the same thing.
-Racks

patruns said:
Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......
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Who Pissed in your coffee this morning???

Loriski said:
If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to. /QUOTE]
Someone has said they "CLONE" the uSD.
I've never done it b4 so can't tell you for sure whether it works or not.
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You're not ripping anyone off. You purchased the N2A card. Now it's yours, you can do with it as you wish. You're not burning it to sell to someone else.
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You folks are not reading her post. She wants to clone it to use on another Nook Color. That is called piracy. In fact, it is prohibited here in the forums....

Mod time:
So, this post was brought to my attention, and is a very interesting one. At the surface, this act looks as if it is a warez post, but a little background makes me think otherwise (perhaps putting it in a grey area).
The n2a card, is actually little more than CM7 preinstalled on a new(?) SD card. Because CM7 is an open and free project, I do not feel that cloning a purchased card is actually stealing anything... indeed, the same result can be achieved with the user putting CM7 on the card the same way as n2a does it. Additionally, places advised that you really paying for the card, with the convince of having cm7 already on it.
For now, I am leaving this, but will note that tis is pending further review and discussion, and things may change...

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Mod time:
So, this post was brought to my attention, and is a very interesting one. At the surface, this act looks as if it is a warez post, but a little background makes me think otherwise (perhaps putting it in a grey area).
The n2a card, is actually little more than CM7 preinstalled on a new(?) SD card. Because CM7 is an open and free project, I do not feel that cloning a purchased card is actually stealing anything... indeed, the same result can be achieved with the user putting CM7 on the card the same way as n2a does it. Additionally, places advised that you really paying for the card, with the convince of having cm7 already on it.
For now, I am leaving this, but will note that tis is pending further review and discussion, and things may change...
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Well put Madcat! How the heck are ya, forum moderator now huh? Awesomeness. Hope all is well!

Hey hey! Yep, I am now a NC mod (among other forums)...
Anyway, as is it, I am leaving the thread as is. Leaving personal feelings aside, there is nothing wrong right now. Keep it clean guys, and all is good..
racks11479 said:
Well put Madcat! How the heck are ya, forum moderator now huh? Awesomeness. Hope all is well!
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I don't think that would be piracy any more than making your own card. N2A doesn't do anything special to their cards. You buy the service off putting Android on the card, that's it. N2A owns nothing on that card.
That being said, it still would probably be easier to follow the directions in this forum and make a new card.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

patruns said:
Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......
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Okay let me set you straight I had a adata card and tried to make one and I failed maybe it was the card brand??????? So no I was not lazy.
Anyways I bought one that the guy said was paying for his time to put the free software on the card that was a sandisk brand. He said he does not own the software. So if this card does fail and or I want to use the free software on another nook I don't see a problem as I paid for the guys time already. Now if I'm wrong I'm sorry.
Thanks for your time,
Lori..

SCrid2000 said:
I don't think that would be piracy any more than making your own card. N2A doesn't do anything special to their cards. You buy the service off putting Android on the card, that's it. N2A owns nothing on that card.
That being said, it still would probably be easier to follow the directions in this forum and make a new card.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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Thanks for your post. I wish it was easy I failed so I bought one. Maybe the card brand bad? I think I will try a sandisk card and maybe I will get it figured out.
Thanks,
Lori..

Delete please.

Ok, I admit I over-reacted in my original post. I've always felt the selling of the N2A card was a bit of a ripoff of all the hard work put into CM7 by the developers, especially since there was never mention of any proceeds going back to support the developers. $34.99 for an 8GB card, $49.99 for a 16GB card and $79.99 for a 32GB card ...... really? Then to see someone buy one card and then simply want to clone it to use in another NC (her daughter's if I recall correctly) just did not seem right. But, I defer to the moderators......

patruns said:
Ok, I admit I over-reacted in my original post. I've always felt the selling of the N2A card was a bit of a ripoff of all the hard work put into CM7 by the developers, especially since there was never mention of any proceeds going back to support the developers. $34.99 for an 8GB card, $49.99 for a 16GB card and $79.99 for a 32GB card ...... really? Then to see someone buy one card and then simply want to clone it to use in another NC (her daughter's if I recall correctly) just did not seem right. But, I defer to the moderators......
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Hi Again,
I agree with you totally on the money being sent to the people that developed the software. I don't have a issue with that part. ( I still don't know why they give it away for free?) If the CM7 people sold the card I would have bought from them. This is not my fault that the N2A ripped those people off. I just felt I didn't want to send N2a anymore money for something I already bought and if software is Free didn't think that was wrong. I was not going to do this to make money like them. I just need a backup for use in another one or maybe in case this one messes up somehow. I tried making my own at first but with blue dots and other items I got so confused what to do and didn't want to mess my new refurb CN up. Maybe after my chemo treatment effects subside I will feel better and can try again with a sandisk card this time. I would also like the moderators to just please delete all these posts.
Thanks
Lori

Loriski said:
Hi Again,
I agree with you totally on the money being sent to the people that developed the software. I don't have a issue with that part. ( I still don't know why they give it away for free?) If the CM7 people sold the card I would have bought from them. This is not my fault that the N2A ripped those people off. I just felt I didn't want to send N2a anymore money for something I already bought and if software is Free didn't think that was wrong. I was not going to do this to make money like them. I just need a backup for use in another one or maybe in case this one messes up somehow. I tried making my own at first but with blue dots and other items I got so confused what to do and didn't want to mess my new refurb CN up. Maybe after my chemo treatment effects subside I will feel better and can try again with a sandisk card this time. I would also like the moderators to just please delete all these posts.
Thanks
Lori
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I think any number of people have tried with the instructions here and failed to make a usable card. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because of the plethora of conflicting instructions. Maybe it's the links to outdated software, or dead links. Maybe it's just the "simply do this, then this, then download this that may not work with your OS, so you might have to do this, then be sure to hold the buttons down just this length of time," and so on, but I tried twice and gave up.
So, I bought an N2A card, inserted it, and my NC booted up immediately and it all worked. That's certainly worth something. I now have the fairly nifty Android tablet running Jelly Bean that I had hoped to have almost a year ago, and despaired of every successfully setting up. I don't think the payment to N2A was out of line, considering the time I had spent trying to do the same thing.
I'm not sure I'd pay them for a second card, if the first one died and I had a backup.

[Q] Is it worth it?

Hey guys, I'm wondering whether any of you are curious about the nexus 7 as I am. I want to buy one of these but don't know how google are selling such a high end device for a low price of $200. Does anyone feel there will be any hidden facts about it? It seems too good to be true.

Jonnyn93 said:
Hey guys, I'm wondering whether any of you are curious about the nexus 7 as I am. I want to buy one of these but don't know how google are selling such a high end device for a low price of $200. Does anyone feel there will be any hidden facts about it? It seems too good to be true.
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You have to buy the other three cores separately for $150 extra.
More seriously, you seem like a patient guy, so wait three weeks and the user reviews will pop up all over the place.
Right now, the most worrisome observation seems to be the lack of sd card, and this.

they cut the cost down by taking out the rear camera, sd slot, and MHL/HDMI out.
sd slot can be fixed with root and an OTG cable, but if your fine with losing the other two, then yes it's worth it for the price.
i preorderd a 16GB one and even though i'm really upset at the lack of MHL/HDMI, i'm just gonna have to deal with it.

thebobp said:
You have to buy the other three cores separately for $150 extra.
More seriously, you seem like a patient guy, so wait three weeks and the user reviews will pop up all over the place.
Right now, the most worrisome observation seems to be the lack of sd card,
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Those who have used Nexus devices in the past, they probably knew there will be no SD card (Besides if you go with the 16gb model, you should have plenty!). I am yet to read any post which warrants a need for expandable memory.
and this.
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I suspect a lemon (GOOG will replace the device). AnandTech of all reviewers would have caught this if really happening

hashibahoohaa said:
Those who have used Nexus devices in the past, they probably knew there will be no SD card
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Knowing it doesn't make the sting any better. In either case, that is something to watch out for.
hashibahoohaa said:
(Besides if you go with the 16gb model, you should have plenty!). I am yet to read any post which warrants a need for expandable memory.
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It varies depending on usage, of course, but here's mine.

Yes, 16gb should be enough for me. And also I agree that the issue with screen flicker will be fixed if that certain model isn't a fluke. I am really excited to see this device if it's as good as claimed. I'll order mine now then. Hope everyone else enjoys theirs.

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Knowing it doesn't make the sting any better. In either case, that is something to watch out for.
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I think its pure FUD. Having a pure Google experience on a GOOG branded device is *huge* - really no use of nit picking on small "good to have" items none of which are a real deal breakers (I for one really don't think expandable memory is an issue at all, HDMI may be). Being early adopters of anything GOOG strives to achieve is the real deal - GOOG leads from the front the open handset alliance, having a device running an open source software while collaborating with so many device partners is huge - As Linus pointed out, we will be in an amazing state of the world 4-5 years down the line with Android and hopefully we would have cleaned up all the stubborn device partners.
It varies depending on usage, of course, but here's mine.
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Been there, done that, I have so many unused micro SD lying around. Mostly use expandable storage as a backup solution, mirroring what I need from a neatly maintained catalogue on which ever device I need (unless you want to lug around your complete collection, 75% of which you will never listen - or for that matter will have ever the time to listen.

hashibahoohaa said:
I think its pure FUD.
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You mean fear, uncertainty and doubt that you'll run out of space? Like I constantly get close to doing? Yeah, got that.
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(unless you want to lug around your complete collection, 75% of which you will never listen - or for that matter will have ever the time to listen.
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This is true, but the problem is: you don't know which is the 75% beforehand!
You sound like you have a very large collection, that requires multiple sd cards to even fit in. I don't need quite that much. But the fact remains that 16GB is still not enough for all the 1GB games, music, and videos.

Here is a review: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/
Looks like its worth it. Just pre-ordered my 16GB

neok44 said:
they cut the cost down by taking out the rear camera, sd slot, and MHL/HDMI out.
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Omitting the sd slot was not a cost related decision, at least not directly.

Cubanluke88 said:
Omitting the sd slot was not a cost related decision, at least not directly.
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probably true. stupid decision regardless.