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2010-05-31
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2010-06-01
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Hi Robbie,
Sounds like you are already finding the limits of the old 770.
1. I had a 770 and after trying every browser on 2007 I always settled back on Opera. 2008HE is a bit of fun to get going but was stable enough for me to use (although I seem to remember having audio problems). 2008HE would give you access to Tear (among others) which is a webkit based browser which should be pretty efficient on a 770. 2008HE would also give you access to a much larger range of s/w.
2. Flash also runs slowly on the N8x0 as well. In my view it is not worth using flash other than to annoy iphone users.
3. The hardware is still a limiting factor on playing videos. My recommendation would be to transcode videos to something like mpeg1 and play with the resolutions.
I do miss the solid cover on the 770 but I don't miss all the other weirdness such as the clock losing time, stability woes and lack of memory. I was running this kernel kernel-sdhc-48MHz-3.2006.49.tar.gz from fanoush (http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/) with a 2GB Kingston with great stability. Moving to an N810 gives a huge speed increase as well as a welcome stability improvement.
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2010-06-02
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2010-06-05
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2010-06-06
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If you do go down the 2008HE path I would highly recommend keeping a bootable version of 2007HE around as well as, if my memory serves me correctly, 2007HE was much more stable for day to day use.
$41 ... bargain
-J
I tested it out, and after realizing that A, the video player wouldn't play anything I tried(FLV videos from Youtube of several sorts), and B, the browser was not all that great, I then upgraded to 2007HE.
Now, after messing with -that-, I have to say I like the Minimo browser better then the older opera-based one, although the video player would -still- not play FLVs. I installed a number of things, although I couldn't get Mplayer to do much with these same FLVs.
Now, at this point I found my torx screwdriver set, promptly disassembled my N770, and did a SDHC-mod on the RSMMC slot. I now have an 8GB SDHC card, with the case removed, mounted inside my N770, and an unusable RSMMC slot.
I then looked about for a version of the Fanoush kernel which would support my new card, but dispite Fanoush's page saying that there is one availaible for 2007HE, I could only find them for 2006.
So I grabbed that, installed the latest version of 2006, and the Fanoush kernel... and it worked! My SDHC card was seen, and I could access files.
Which brings me to yesterday. I took my newly-installed n770, and installed a bunch of software on it, including Mplayer, flash 9 and Minimo(or trying to, anyway).
Which brings me to my main problems:
1. Minimo does not work at all. When I open the webbrowser, under the 'hidden' sub-menu, I see Mozilla, Opera and Webcore, Mozilla is selected. Changing the "change now" value simply results in a crash, and looking up the user-agent of my browser shows me to actually be running Opera.
2. Under Opera, Flash 9 runs slowly, and has no sound. The slow part is understandable, but the lack of sound is a problem. I;d be content with EITHER getting sound running in opera, or having it run in Minimo. I'm not picky.
3. Mplayer works very poorly in some cases:
h264 = "unsupported video codec"
avc1 @ 352X264, -nozoom with mp4a audio = Smooth video for about one second, then the video freezes. Audio plays fine. Pressing "menu" brings up the menu with a single different frame, but the menu is frozen and won't respond.
avc1 @640X360, -nozoom with mp4a audio = Black screen with good audio. Pressing pause brings up the menu, with a single frame behind it(whatever -should- have been there), and the app freezes same as before.
In a few cases, it seems to work fine:
mpg1, 224X176, 44KB/sec = perfect(to be expected, intended for a Rockboxed H320 with a lot less power, so...)
flv1, 320X240, -nozoom with mp3 audio = works fine!
Is there anything I can do to improve performance, or at least make it -display- the frames its decoding?
3. If upgrading to OS2007 will fix either of the above problems(I assume it might help with #1 at least, because of the default Minimo browser which worked the last time I used it), where can I find a Fanoush kernel for it?
Thanks,
-Robbie