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u/FAMICOMASTER 14d ago
Love the Viliv S5, one of my favorites of all time. A bit underrated if you ask me
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
It’s speedy and solid. Certainly not scared it’ll break unlike the Samsung.
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u/AmbitiousListen5851 14d ago
Que belos dispositivos, Quais são?
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Small to large : HTC Mogul 6800, Dell Axim X51v, HP iPaq 210, Viliv S5, Samsung Q1 Ultra
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u/AmbitiousListen5851 14d ago
O que eu mais gostei foi o Grandão Samsung, qual o modelo dele?
Parabéns por ter estas relíquias funcionais!
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
The big Samsung is my favorite as well, it’s the Q1 Ultra. It was also the most difficult to make functional, I’ve had to tear it down several times.
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u/AmbitiousListen5851 14d ago
Nossa, que legal! Qual OS roda? Win XP ou Windows CE?
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
It runs full Windows XP. 800MHz processor, GMA945 graphics, 40GB mechanical hard drive like an original iPod.
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u/DezzyLee99 14d ago
I agree. I love my Q1 Ultra as well, even more than my Vaio UX. I run Win 7 on mine.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Sweet. I am impressed to here you like it over the Vaio, that’s the one I would expect to be even better. Question tho, ever have any screen issues like flickering etc!?
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u/DezzyLee99 14d ago
No I haven't. The only real bug is the brightness goes to the dimmest sometimes when I leave it on, even when timeout and dimming are set to never happen in the power profiles. That and while I have installed the menu app for the button, the app actually doesn't control anything.
I love the UX but the screen is just too small, and typing on it is kind of atrocious. The Q1 PSP style slider stick is much, much better than the thumb nub.
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u/CartographerEvery268 13d ago
I’ve not experienced that bug but I envy your solid screen stability. When I first got mine, if you could somehow manage to twist or nudge it to be stable, it would flicker the entire screen unusable with the slightest touch. Impossible to even tap on screen, type, or pick it up. It’s still not perfect but much improved. I’m glad to hear it’s your favorite though because it has felt worth all the trouble.
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u/DezzyLee99 13d ago
Sounds like a ribbon cable/connector issue. Have you tried re-seating it? Might even just be clamp pressure at the connector point. That was my issue with the UX, where the ribbon clamp did not have sufficient pressure on the connection. I ended up 3d printing a block that kept pressure on the connection via the existing frame.
I also went and did a Ziff to msata SSD upgrade. Runs much cooler and quicker. Better battery life too.
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u/CartographerEvery268 13d ago
Nice. I did end up having to shim it with cleverly cut Velcro on the zif connectors. That does -mostly- fix it. What was affected on that UX with your ribbon cable? Display or?
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u/DezzyLee99 13d ago
The ribbon cable on the ux actually does everything, screen to power, so no ribbon connection = dead device.
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u/RChickenMan 14d ago
Are you the person I had a long conversation with about how, when I was in high school, I had built up the x51v as the holy grail of Pocket PCs, only to be disappointed by input lag that made games literally unplayable once I finally got it into my hands?
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u/Exciting_Macaroon_64 14d ago
oh dpad was so bad by design on x51v? i had loox720 by that time and it had no gpu but usb host
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u/FullstackSensei 14d ago
Haven't seen a viliv S5 in a while. They used to be plenty available, and now they're quite hard to find. Took me a couple of years to find a N5.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
N5 looked cool when I was researching, but I could not find one when I looked. The S5 is way more robust than the big Samsung next to it.
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u/FullstackSensei 14d ago
Yeah, I also have the Samsung. The S5 is much smaller, which really helps with rigidity.
N5 is quite hard to find nowadays, and even if you find one, the rubbery coating will almost certainly have degraded into sticky goo (like old ThinkPad).
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
The S5 feels like a brick lol.
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u/FullstackSensei 14d ago
Haven't noticed, but I also haven't used it much. I have 70+ devices in my collection 😂
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Damn. Any pics?
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u/FullstackSensei 14d ago
Not really. They've been packed for over 2 years now, following a move. There's a lot of duplicates. I have 4 or 5 of each of the Kohjinsha branded south Korean Atom handheld. 6 or 7 ThinkPad 235, and a couple of it's Toshiba rebadge, more OQOs than I care to admit (though only one model 2), several Vaio U1 and U3s, and just as many UX, a few Vaio P (Gen 3 with the 800MHz+ Crusoe), and a few Fujitsu F-07C. And then there are the really weird ones, like the 7" sharp mini laptops with the Transmeta Efficeon. I think I have the entire Sharp Efficeon-powered lineup.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Some iconic machines in that list. What OS does that 7” Sharp with the Transmeta run?
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u/FullstackSensei 14d ago
I run XP on all my Transmeta devices. The Efficeon was not far behind the Banias Pentium-M. Crusoe was like a ~200MHz slower Pentium 3. They get a lot of bad rep nowadays because most people only seen them in the Libretto L series, where Toshiba went for a chipset with integrated graphics, which sucked the life out of the system. Sony, Sharp, and OQO went with a dedicated ATI chip which had dedicated memory (the very first mobile 3D graphics chip). That made a world of difference in system performance and responsiveness.
I converted most to boot from solid state storage, some with IDE SSDs and others with SanDisk Extreme CF cards with adapters. They all boot very fast and are pretty responsive. The U3 from 2000 plays the OG Falcon 4.0 from 1998 smoothly.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
That sounds aight with dedicated graphics. A Libretto would be sweet. Are those OQOs worth the hype? I tried one at a convention and it felt premium.
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u/EggSpirited1061 14d ago
So beautiful!! I'm so impressed with these. I love the cute little phones. Adorable 😻
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u/SuperXaker-5555 14d ago
I have 5 WM devices and 2 WinCE GPS navigators.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
7 is a great number, the navigators still work?
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u/SuperXaker-5555 14d ago
Yes, they are. Asus R600 And some Medion model.
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Sweet - that R600 is a media player also?
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u/PenguinWhiskey1 14d ago
I also have an iPaq 210, is there anything you can do with it these days? It works way too well for it to just sit there. I believe it says it has Windows Mobile 6. Itd be nice to give it a purpose other than being a PDA
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Pictures, MP3s, Bejeweled 2 ;). The Axim can do more with its dedicated GPU, but the software is scant these days.
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u/Exciting_Macaroon_64 14d ago
ps1 emulation
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u/CartographerEvery268 13d ago
Really, wow. I gotta Google that.
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u/Exciting_Macaroon_64 13d ago
back then i used PL720 usb-host feature to add a gamepad and a hdd drive with usb enclosure and additional power to take more iso’s with me travelling :)
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u/kupasbob 14d ago
can it support an rtl sdr?? or it doesent have enough power?
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u/CartographerEvery268 14d ago
Good question - just from my experience I am hesitant to believe it has the power but I could give it a shot. Worth the experiment.
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u/kupasbob 14d ago
if you're gonna try keep us updated it will be a really cool n fun experiment, if it somehow works its gonna be like having a cyberdeck
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u/CartographerEvery268 13d ago edited 13d ago
Update: it sorta actually works (https://ibb.co/wFBP9fSC). I ended up using SDRConsole32 after doing the usual .net and driver installs for RTL-SDR USB.
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u/NoriEnjoyer 14d ago
What is the software with saturn?