Look at the new shinie I got over the weekend from a Generous Reader!
It’s a Trio 7″ tablet. Given the apps that come with it, it appears to be designed more-or-less exclusively for reading Facebook on wi-fi but I can sneakernet ebooks and movies to it and they’ll play. Unfortunately the movies are of no use to me so far because I haven’t figured out what’s wrong with the sound: I can get it to beep and boop if I want it to, but it won’t play sound with or without headphones and I don’t know what’s wrong. Downloaded a manual but it’s useless*.
So I don’t know if I can ever get it to play those newfangled talkie shows – I suppose I could send away for MP4s of Metropolis or Birth of a Nation and it would be okay – but it does open up that enormous file of ebooks I’ve had for ten years to actual use. And the battery life is excellent. I can charge it during the day, use it in the evening, and hardly use any house power at all.
I can also – and actually might – set up that wi-fi router I have stored in the powershed and use the tablet to surf in the evening with no more power use than needed by the modem and router. Pretty damned hollywood for a cedar rat.
Thank you! Also, if you know what I’m doing wrong with the sound, I’d appreciate a hint. But even without that, it’s useful. I’ve got a bunch of old ebooks I’ve wanted to re-read for years, but not at the cost of spending hours tied to the laptop.
Thank you!
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*Having written a good many operating manuals in my professional life, I am naturally critical of most manuals I encounter but this one is a masterpiece of uselessness. I’ve seen Jinglish translations that covered more ground, and were entertaining to boot. This one is basically advertisement for apps, it’s almost designed to be useless.
Sounds like there have been a lot of problems with those tablets from what I’m reading. According to the link, with the power off hold the volume + & power button down together and when the reset screen shows up select factory default.
http://www.fixya.com/support/t25353158-reset_trio_stealth_tablet_holded
You are a fan of the early silent pictures. Even though it was a talkie you might enjoy The Shape of Things to Come.
You will lose all the apps I put on it if you do as Dean says….. I dont remember testing the sound or using it so it may be bad, I dont know. I dont use sound on my other tablets and Kindles so it didnt occur to me to test it, sorry. You could easily use an external speaker with the headphone jack though, problem solved! Glad you are enjoying it. Yes, that manual is one very worthless item, the worst I have seen.
Just noticed I had misread about the sound….. headphone jack not working too (now that I read it correctly) possible problem is the sound on the app or player itself is turned down or off, not the volume on the unit itself, maybe try messing with the settings on the video player itself or downloading a different one?
Welcome to the Dark Side…
wyowanderer, methinks thou hast misspelt. “O”. Not “A”.
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Hey.
If you’re interested, there should be a couple of ways to connect a keyboard to the tablet. One is an OTG adapter, plugs into the tablet’s USB port and lets you connect a standard USB keyboard. (A very brief and incomplete Google says your tablet should work). OTG adapters are available from Amazon or Ebay for a couple of dollars. The other is a USB keyboard–not the cheapest option but usually smaller than a full size keyboard.